100 Notable alumni of
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is 266th in the world, 7th in Latin America, and 2nd in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Oscar Niemeyer
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- politicianarchitectwriterdesigneruniversity teacher
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Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈoskaʁ ni.eˈmajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Clarice Lispector
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- journalistpainterscreenwriterwritertranslator
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Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the pogroms committed during the Russian Civil War.
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Enéas Carneiro
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- politicianphysicianmilitary personnelphysicistmathematician
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Enéas Ferreira Carneiro was a Brazilian polymath, cardiologist, physicist, mathematician, professor, writer, military serviceman and politician. He represented the state of São Paulo in the National Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the National Congress) and ran for presidency three times. He was founder and leader of the nationalist and conservative Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA), which was usually seen as being far-right.
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Jorge Amado
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- poetnovelistpoliticianwriterjournalist
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Jorge Amado was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 7 times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
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João Dionísio Amoêdo
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- engineerpolitician
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João Dionisio Filgueira Barreto Amoêdo, also known as João Amoêdo, is a Brazilian banker, engineer and businessman. He is one of the founders of the New Party (NOVO), which he presided from September 2015 to July 2017, and was its candidate in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election.
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Eduardo Bolsonaro
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- politicianescrivão de políciaadvocate
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Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer. He is the third child of Jair Bolsonaro, the 38th president of Brazil. Since March 2022 he has been affiliated with the Liberal Party.
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Candido Portinari
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- politicianpainterdraftsperson
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Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
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Sabrina Sato
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- television presenteractorcomediantelevision actormodel
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Sabrina Sato Rahal is a Brazilian television presenter. She was a contestant on Big Brother Brasil 3 (2003) and a hostess on comedy program Pânico na TV from 2004 until 2013. From 2014 to 2019, she has her own show on Record TV.
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Henrique Meirelles
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- politicianeconomist
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Henrique de Campos Meirelles is a Brazilian manager and former Minister of Finance and an executive of the Brazilian and the international financial sectors and former president of Central Bank of Brazil (Portuguese: Banco Central do Brasil) where he remained in office from 2003 to 2011. He chairs J&F's board of directors, company that owns Banco Original, JBS and Vigor, among others. He is also a member of the board of directors of Azul Brazilian Airlines.
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Fátima Bernardes
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- journalistnews presenter
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Fátima Gomes Bernardes is a Brazilian journalist and TV host. She joined Rede Globo in 1987 as the host of RJTV, the regional news from Rio de Janeiro, and became widely known in 1989 when she hosted Jornal da Globo, the late night news program. She also hosted Fantástico, Jornal Hoje, and Jornal Nacional, where she was the news anchor from 1998 to 2011.
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Simone Tebet
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- politician
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Simone Nassar Tebet is a Brazilian academic, lawyer, and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Planning and Budget since 5 January 2023. She previously was Senator for Mato Grosso do Sul from 2015 to 2023, Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2011 to 2014, and mayor of Três Lagoas from 2005 to 2010.
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Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega
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- writerscreenwriterlawyer
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Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega is a Brazilian comedian, television host, scriptwriter, producer, executive director, actor, writer and lawyer, son of fellow comedian Manuel de Nóbrega. He was a scriptwriter for comedy shows on TV Paulista, TV Rio and RecordTV. He wrote dozens of programs, including Família Trapo and A Praça da Alegria, and was also the writer for Os Trapalhões. Since 1987, he presents the humor show A Praça é Nossa, on SBT.
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Elke Maravilha
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- television personalityactorlibrarian
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Elke Maravilha was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality. She lived in Brazil from her early childhood until her death.
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Viviane Araújo
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied physical education
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Viviane dos Santos Araújo is a Brazilian photographic model, actress and reality television personality.
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Carlos Lacerda
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- politicianjournalistlawyer
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Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.
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Mateus Solano
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Mateus Solano Schenker Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian actor.
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Augusto Boal
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- politicianplaywrightdirectorwritertheatrical director
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Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.
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Roberto Burle Marx
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- landscape architect
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Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is credited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. His work had a great influence on tropical garden design in the 20th century. Water gardens were a popular theme in his work. He was deftly able to transfer traditional artistic expressions such as graphic design, tapestry and folk art into his landscape designs. He also designed fabrics, jewellery and stage sets.
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Marco Aurélio Mello
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- judge
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Marco Aurélio Mendes de Farias Mello is a Brazilian former justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, appointed to the position by his cousin, former President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello.
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Carlos Chagas
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- entomologistphysicianacademicbacteriologist
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Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Most well known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, and named the former Trypanosoma cruzi to honour his friend Oswaldo Cruz.
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Ronaldo Caiado
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- politicianphysician
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Ronaldo Ramos Caiado is a Brazilian politician. An orthopedic physician trained at the School of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro, he comes from a family landowners and politicians from Goiás. He is the grandson of Antonio Ramos Caiado, an oligarch who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1909 to 1921 and a senator from 1921 to 1930. Caiado served as chairman of the União Democrática Ruralista in the late eighties (1986-1989), an organization that aims to defend the interests of landowners.
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Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1851-1856 graduated with medicine
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- politicianphysicianmilitary personnelphysician writerjournalist
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Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes Cavalcanti was a Brazilian doctor, politician, military officer, and influential figure in the early Spiritist movement in Brazil. He is often referred to as the "Kardec of Brazil" due to his significant contributions to the dissemination and establishment of Spiritism in the country.
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Ivan Lins
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- film score composercomposerrecord producerjazz musicianpianist
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Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music (MPB) and jazz for over fifty years. His first hit, "Madalena", was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. "Love Dance", a hit in 1989, is one of the most recorded songs in contemporary music.
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Isabella Santoni
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Isabella Ribeiro Santoni is a Brazilian actress. She became nationally known as Karina, the main role of the 22nd season of Malhação.
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Geraldo Vandré
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- songwriterlawyerwritercomposerpoet
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Geraldo Vandré is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.
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Artur Ávila
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- university teachermathematicianresearcherresearch fellow
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Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one). He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.
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Rogério Skylab
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- record producerclassical guitaristwritercomposerpoet
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Rogério Tolomei Teixeira, known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, author, record producer, actor and one-time television presenter. Describing himself as a "corpse within MPB", his unique musical style which granted him a passionate cult following is characterized by minimalism, repetition and eclecticism, and his writings are permeated by grotesque, shocking and offensive imagery; acerbic allusions to popular culture; metafictional devices; absurdist scenarios; pessimism; profanity; nihilism; and scatological and black comedy – although he denies that his work is purposefully humorous.
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherlawyerphilosopher
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of Western philosophy and classical social theory, and is developed across fields in legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics. In natural philosophy he is known for The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time. In social theory he is known for Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory. In legal theory he was associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement, which helped disrupt the methodological consensus in American law schools. His political activity helped the transition to democracy in Brazil in the aftermath of the military regime, and culminated with his appointment as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs in 2007 and again in 2015. His work is seen to offer a vision of humanity and a program to empower individuals and change institutions.
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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
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- writerhistorianliterary criticjournalist
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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a Brazilian historian, writer, journalist and sociologist. His greatest achievement was Raízes do Brasil (English Roots of Brazil), a landmark of Brazilian sociology, in which he developed the groundbreaking concept of the "cordial man" as the fundamental Brazilian identity. His son, Chico Buarque de Holanda is an accomplished singer-songwriter and novelist and his daughter Miúcha was also a famous singer. Buarque de Holanda was also a member of the Academia Paulista de Letras.
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Miguel Arraes
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- lawyerpolitician
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Miguel Arraes de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Recife, State Deputy, Federal Deputy and three times Governor of Pernambuco.
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Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1956-1960 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- 1971-1975 graduated with doctorate in economics
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- statisticianeconomistuniversity teacherpoliticiananalyst
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Maria da Conceição Tavares was a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She was a full professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her students included the former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and José Serra, candidate to president of Brazil in several ocasions. Tavares was affiliated with the Workers' Party, and she was a Federal Deputy representing the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1995 and 1999. Left-wing focused, she was the author of several books on Brazil's economic development as well as numerous journal articles.
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Lucio Costa
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- urban plannerarchitect
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Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa /ˈkɒstə/ was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.
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Nathalia Timberg
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Nathalia Timberg is a Brazilian actress. She is celebrated as one of the best and most well known Brazilian actresses of cinema, theater and television.
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Osvaldo Aranha
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1916 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Oswaldo Euclides de Souza Aranha was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas.
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Cissa Guimarães
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied chemistry
- Occupations
- writeractortelevision actor
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Beatriz Gentil Pinheiro "Cissa" Guimarães is a Brazilian television presenter and actress.
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Carlos Brito
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- businesspersonmanager
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Carlos Alves de Brito is a Brazilian businessman who is CEO of Belron, and was CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 to 2021.
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Emílio Santiago
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- recording artistsingerguitarist
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Emílio Vitalino Santiago, known as Emílio Santiago, was a Brazilian singer.
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Conceição Evaristo
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Graduated with licentiate in Bachelor of Letters
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpoetlinguist
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Maria da Conceição Evaristo de Brito is a Brazilian writer. Her work is marked by her life experiences as an Afro-Brazilian woman, which she calls escrevivência—a portmanteau of escrita (writing) and vivência (life experience). She was born into a humble family and is the second oldest of nine siblings, being the first in her household to earn a university degree. She helped her mother and aunt with washing clothes and deliveries, while studying.
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Joaquim Levy
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- politicianbankereconomist
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Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy is a Brazilian economist and Brazil's former Finance Minister. Levy took office on January 1, 2015, during the presidential inauguration of Dilma Rousseff's second term. He also was president of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES).
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Eurico Miranda
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- lawyerpolitician
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Eurico Ângelo de Oliveira Miranda was a Brazilian politician and sporting director. He was president of Vasco da Gama from 2014 until 17 January 2018. He was previously president of Vasco da Gama between 2001 and 2008, having also previously worked in Vasco da Gama administration. He succeeded Antônio Soares Calçada in December 2000, and was reelected in December 2003 and December 2006. He was replaced by Roberto Dinamite in June 2008, however he returns to the presidency of Vasco da Gama in December 2014. He was also a federal deputy and known by his political approach characterised by Euriquism.
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Ana Maria Machado
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- journalistpainterwriterchildren's writernovelist
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Ana Maria Machado is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". She also won the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2012.
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Ary Barroso
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- journalistactorfilm score composercomposerpianist
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Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso ONM was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career.
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Oswaldo Cruz
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- bacteriologistphysicianmicrobiologist
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Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
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Celso Furtado
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- politiciandiplomateconomist
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Celso Monteiro Furtado was a Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world. He is viewed, along with Raúl Prebisch, as one of the main formulators of economic structuralism, an economics school that is largely identified with CEPAL, which achieved prominence in Latin America and other developing regions during the 1960s and 1970s and sought to stimulate economic development through governmental intervention, largely inspired on the views of John Maynard Keynes. As a politician, Furtado was appointed Minister of Planning (Goulart government) and Minister of Culture (Sarney government).
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André Esteves
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- computer scientistbanker
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André Santos Esteves is a Brazilian billionaire businessman. Among Brazilian billionaires, Esteves is ranked sixth with a net worth of US$5.4 billion, according to Forbes, as of July 2024. He is senior partner and chairman at BTG Pactual, the biggest investment bank in Latin America. As a philanthropist he is a board member of Conservation International, Inteli and Council on Foreign Relations.
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Heleno de Freitas
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- association football player
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Heleno de Freitas was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward.
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Marcelo Gleiser
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied in 1982
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- astrophysicistastronomerphysicistjournalist
- Biography
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Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian-American physicist and astronomer. He is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.
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Moreira Franco
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Wellington Moreira Franco is a Brazilian politician who served as the 54th Governor of Rio de Janeiro from 1987 to 1991 and Minister of Mines and Energy in 2018. He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).
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Anísio Teixeira
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- educatorwriter
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Anísio Spínola Teixeira was a Brazilian educator, jurist, and writer. Teixeira was one of the reformers of Brazilian education of the early 20th century, being an advocate of progressive education in the country. He was one of the co-founders of the University of the Federal District, in 1935, and of the University of Brasília in 1960.
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Mario Lago
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- politicianmusiciansingerpoetstage actor
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Mário Lago OMC was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, broadcaster, composer and actor.
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Adhemar da Silva
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- actorathletics competitor
- Biography
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Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a Brazilian triple jumper. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four world records, the last being 16.56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games. In his early career he also competed in the long jump, placing fourth at the 1951 Pan American Games. He broke world records in triple jump on five occasions during his illustrious career. To date, he remains the only track and field athlete from South America to have won two Olympic gold medals.
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João Saldanha
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- association football playerjournalistassociation football manager
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João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a Brazilian journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Nicknamed João Sem Medo (Fearless João) by Nelson Rodrigues, Saldanha played for Botafogo. He then started a career in journalism and became one of Brazil's most prolific sports columnists. He often criticised players, managers and teams, and was a member of then-illegal Brazilian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Brasileiro – PCB).
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Ilan Goldfajn
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Ilan Goldfajn is a Brazilian economist, former governor of the Central Bank of Brazil and former director of the International Monetary Fund's Western Hemisphere Department. In December 2022, he became president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Victor Meirelles
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- painter
- Biography
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Victor Meirelles de Lima was a Brazilian painter and teacher who is best known for his works relating to his nation's culture and history. From humble origins, his talent was soon recognized, being admitted as a student at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He specialized in the genre of history painting, and upon winning the Academy's Foreign Travel Award, he spent several years training in Europe. There he painted his best-known work, Primeira Missa no Brasil. Returning to Brazil, he became one of emperor Pedro II's favorite painters, joining the monarch's patronage program and aligning himself with his proposal to renew the image of Brazil through the creation of visual symbols of its history.
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Larissa França
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- beach volleyball playervolleyball player
- Biography
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Larissa França Maestrini is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She is the all-time leader of beach volleyball titles, with 57 FIVB career gold medals, including the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships with Juliana Felisberta and the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Talita Antunes.
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Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
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- politicianphysician writerjournalistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was a Brazilian novelist, medical doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance A Moreninha. He is considered the first Brazilian novelist.
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Benjamin Constant
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- politicianmathematicianengineermilitary personnel
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Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães was a Brazilian military officer and political thinker. Primarily a positivist, influenced heavily by Auguste Comte, he was the founder of the positivist movement in Brazil (Sociedade Positivista do Brasil, Brazilian Positivist Society), and later this led to his republican views. He left the Brazilian Positivist Society because of internal disagreements, but remained an ardent pupil of Comte until the end of his life.
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Francisco Dornelles
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- politicianeconomistlawyer
- Biography
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Francisco Dornelles was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician. He was the lieutenant governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2015 to 2019 and was the interim Governor during March and October 2016 following the illness of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. He represented Rio de Janeiro in the Federal Senate from 2007 to 2015, until he resigned from the post to take office as lieutenant governor. Previously, he served as a deputy from Rio de Janeiro and several positions in presidents José Sarney and Fernando Henrique Cardoso's cabinets from 1987 to 2007. He was a member of the Progressistas.
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Josué de Castro
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiangeographeropinion journalistwriter
- Biography
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Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.
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Arthur Virgílio Neto
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Virgilio do Carmo Ribeiro Neto better known as Arthur Virgilio or Arthur Neto, is a Brazilian politician and lawyer, career diplomat, member and one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Since 2013, he serves as the mayor of his hometown Manaus, being re-elected for the office in 2016. Prior, Virgílio Neto already served as mayor of Manaus from 1989 to 1992.
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Nelson Barbosa
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- politiciancivil servantresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho is a Brazilian economist and professor of economics. From 21 December 2015 to 12 May 2016, he was Brazil's Minister of Finance.
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Dilian Francisca Toro
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Dilian Francisca Toro Torres is a Colombian physician and politician, she served as Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2013. She was investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia on charges of money laundering, and remained under preventive detention from 25 July 2012 to 1 August 2013 at the Police Centre for Higher Studies (Cespo) in Bogotá. She currently serves as Governor of Valle del Cauca Department.
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Tomás Bulat
- Occupations
- columnisteconomistjournalistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tomás Ariel Bulat was an Argentine economist, journalist, writer, and professor. He was known for his report on channel A24. He wrote some books about the economy. Some of those books are La economía de tu vida, "Estamos Como Somos" and la Economía descubierta. Bulat was born in Buenos Aires.
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João Pimenta da Veiga Filho
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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João Pimenta da Veiga Filho is a former communications minister of Brazil.
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Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa, also known as Índio da Costa, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. On June 30, 2010, it was announced that da Costa had been chosen as the vice presidential running mate by leading presidential candidate José Serra of the PSDB party.
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Henrique Eduardo Alves
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Henrique Eduardo Lyra Alves is a Brazilian politician. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, he was the President of the Chamber of Deputies (Speaker) of Brazil from 2013 to 2015. His father was Aluízio Alves.
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Mário Henrique Simonsen
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- engineerbankereconomist
- Biography
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Mário Henrique Simonsen was a Brazilian economist, who served as Brazil's finance minister from 1974 to 1979.
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Marcelo Madureira
- Occupations
- engineeractorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Marcelo Madureira is the stage name of Marcelo Barreto Garmatter, a Brazilian comedian. He was part of the troupe that developed and presented between 1992 and 2010, the comedy show "Casseta & Planeta Urgente" at Rede Globo. Along with another group member, Hubert, he writes the Coluna do Agamenon to the newspaper "O Globo." He was professor of mathematics of an old Brazilian education program, MOBRAL and is a graduate in Production Engineering at the School of Engineering at UFRJ, having worked as an engineer in the Planning Department of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). Madureira is a black belt in judo and has been married for 25 years to the psychoanalyst Claudia, with whom he had three children.
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Elon Lages Lima
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied in 1952-1954
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Elon Lages Lima was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil.
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Roberto DaMatta
- Occupations
- anthropologistjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Roberto DaMatta is a Brazilian anthropologist. He is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. DaMatta graduated in history at the Fluminense Federal University and received his PhD from Harvard University.
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Mauro Vieira
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira is a Brazilian diplomat serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil since 1 January 2023 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Vieira occupied the same office between 2015 and 2016 during President Dilma Rousseff's second term.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1989-1992 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting neurons in human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and the thickness and number of cortical folds.
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Marcello Alencar
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiancomputer scientistlawyer
- Biography
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Marcello Nunes de Alencar was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. Alencar served as the Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 until 1999, as well as two tenures as Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1983 to 1986 and 1989 to 1993.
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Sidarta Ribeiro
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- 1994-1994 graduated with master's degree in biophysics
- Occupations
- neuroscientistbiologist
- Biography
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Sidarta Tollendal Gomes Ribeiro is a Brazilian neuroscientist, writer, science communicator, and deputy director of the Brain Institute at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), which he joined in 2008 as full professor.
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Ismael Nery
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- painterarchitect
- Biography
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Ismael Nery was a Brazilian artist. His iconic work is Autorretrato, 1927 (Autorretrato Rio/Paris), a surrealist painting commonly compared to the Green Violinist of Marc Chagall and now in São Paulo Museum of Art.
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Lygia Pape
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1980 graduated with master's degree in aesthetics
- Occupations
- artistdraftspersonsculptorgraphic artistinstallation artist
- Biography
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Lygia Pape was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, she was an important artist in the expansion of contemporary art in Brazil and pushed geometric art to include aspects of interaction and to engage with ethical and political themes.
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Dante de Oliveira
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Dante Martins de Oliveira was a Brazilian politician who was the governor of Mato Grosso state and the mayor of Mato Grosso's capital, Cuiabá, for three terms. He was also a federal deputy who became the Minister of Agrarian Development under president José Sarney from 1986 to 1987. He is well known for his work with the Diretas Já movement, which fought for the direct election of presidents in Brazil. As a federal deputy, he became most well known for proposing a constitutional amendment that would have mandated for direct presidential elections, the Dante de Oliveira Amendment.
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Carlos Minc
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- economistuniversity teacherpoliticiangeographerenvironmentalist
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Carlos Minc Baumfeld is a Brazilian geographer, professor, environmentalist, politician and Minister of Environment in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term as president of Brazil.
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Pedro Ludovico
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- politician
- Biography
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Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, better known as Pedro Ludovico was the founder of Goiânia, Brazil, and one of the most important figures in the history of the state of Goiás.
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Oliveira Viana
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- politicianjournalisthistorianjuristprofessor
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Francisco José de Oliveira Viana was a Brazilian professor, jurist, historian, sociologist, and an imortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He has been described as a conservative political theorist.
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Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
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- writerarchitectcaricaturistpainterpoet
- Biography
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Manuel José de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor, considered to be one of the first Brazilian editorial cartoonists ever. He is the patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Saturnino Braga
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Roberto Saturnino Braga was a Brazilian engineer and politician. A member of several political parties, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1967 and from April to August 1968, was a senator from 1975 to 1986 and from 1999 to 2007, and served as mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1986 to 1989.
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Humberto Teixeira
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- composerpoetpoliticianlawyerwriter
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Humberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Teixeira was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, musician, and composer, mostly known for his partnership with musician Luiz Gonzaga. Together, they wrote one of the most important songs of their era, Asa Branca, in 1947. Teixeira is recognized as a specialist in baião as well as "master of costumes and popular North-Eastern trends."
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Adriana Behar
- Occupations
- beach volleyball player
- Biography
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Adriana Brandão Behar is a Brazilian former volleyball player of Jewish descent. She was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Roberto Gurgel
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Roberto Monteiro Gurgel Santos is a former Prosecutor General of the Republic.
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Anita Prestes
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- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.
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Evandro Lins e Silva
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- judgejournalistlawyer
- Biography
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Evandro Cavalcanti Lins e Silva was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, writer and politician. He was Prosecutor General of the Republic, Chief of Staff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Justice of the Supreme Federal Court.
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Moreira Alves
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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José Carlos Moreira Alves was a Brazilian academic and magistrate. He served as Prosecutor General of the Republic from 1972 to 1975 and was a Minister of the Supreme Federal Court from 1975 to 2003.
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Graças Foster
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Graduated with master's degree in nuclear engineering
- Occupations
- businesspersonchemical engineer
- Biography
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Maria das Graças Foster, commonly known as Graça Foster, is a Brazilian business executive and chemical engineer. She was the CEO of Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, which is located in Rio de Janeiro. She was the first woman in the world to head a major oil-and-gas company. In April 2012, she was listed on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2014, she was recognized as the 16th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. She was ranked by Fortune in 2013 as "the Most Powerful Woman in Business" (outside the U.S.) for the second year in a row.
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Edgar Roquette-Pinto
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- physician writerjournalistanthropologistessayistteacher
- Biography
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Edgar Roquette-Pinto was a Brazilian writer, ethnologist, anthropologist and physician. He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and is regarded as the father of radio broadcasting in Brazil.
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Benedito Gonçalves
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Benedito Gonçalves is a Brazilian magistrate, currently a minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He was also a minister of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the 2021-2023 biennium, as well as corregidor-general of the Electoral Justice.
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Affonso Eduardo Reidy
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- painterurban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Affonso Eduardo Reidy was a Brazilian architect. He was the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Reidy entered the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro at age 17. He apprenticed with the French urban planner Alfred Agache (1875-1959) during his studies. Reidy graduated and became an architect in 1930. Lúcio Costa appointed him as a teaching assistant to the architect Gregori Warchavchik (1896-1972) at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in the same year.
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Marcio Braga
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- association football playerpolitician
- Biography
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Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga, usually known as Marcio Braga was president of Flamengo until the end of the 2009 season. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Márcio Braga was previously president of the club from 1977 to 1981, 1986 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1992. In 2009, Braga left Flamengo's presidency due to medical issues and after being suspended by the Court of Sporting Justice (TJD), he was replaced by Delair Dumbrosck.
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José Gomes Temporão
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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José Gomes Temporão is a Brazilian public health physician and politician, formerly of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, who later joined the Brazilian Socialist Party. He was Brazilian Minister of Health from 2007 to 2010, during the second term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration.
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San Tiago Dantas
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- politicianlawyerjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Francisco Clementino San Tiago Dantas was a journalist, lawyer, teacher and congressman, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the presidency of João Goulart. He is considered one of the forerunners of the "Independent Foreign Policy", which sought to diversify Brazil's international relations and refused automatic alignments with any country or bloc. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro.
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Paulo Egydio Martins
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- entrepreneurpoliticiancivil engineer
- Biography
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Paulo Egydio Martins was a Brazilian businessman and politician affiliated with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was governor of the state of São Paulo between 1975 and 1979 during Brazil's military dictatorship.
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Babá
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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João Batista Oliveira de Araujo, also known as Babá, is a Brazilian politician. He is a former member of the Workers' Party, and a founding member of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), in which he is affiliated to Socialist Workers' Current tendency.
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Oswaldo Goeldi
- Occupations
- xylographer
- Biography
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Oswaldo Goeldi was a Brazilian artist and renowned engraver. He was the son of Swiss naturalist Émil Goeldi.
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Zuenir Ventura
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Zuenir Carlos Ventura is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is a columnist for the newspaper O Globo, and for Época magazine. He won the Jabuti Prize in 1995 in the "reportage" category for the book Cidade Partida. In 2009, his book 1968 - O que Fizemos de Nós won the third place at the same category of the prize. In 1989, he and his team of journalists from Jornal do Brasil won the Esso Journalism Award for their reportage on Chico Mendes' murder investigation.
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Jacob Palis
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1962 graduated with bachelor's degree in engineering
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Jacob Palis Jr. is a Brazilian mathematician and professor. Palis' research interests are mainly dynamical systems and differential equations. Some themes are global stability and hyperbolicity, bifurcations, attractors and chaotic systems.
