100 Notable alumni of
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is 284th 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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Clarice Lispector
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- painterjournalisttranslatorscreenwriterwriter
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Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works explore a variety of narrative styles with themes of intimacy and introspection, and have subsequently been internationally acclaimed. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
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Enéas Carneiro
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- mathematiciantranslatorpoliticianphysicianteacher
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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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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 Brazilian presidential election of 2018.
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Jorge Amado
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- writerjournalistpoetnovelistpolitician
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Jorge Leal Amado de Faria 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. 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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Eduardo Bolsonaro
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- international forum participantpoliticianpolice officer
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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.
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Henrique Meirelles
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- economistinternational forum participantpolitician
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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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Mateus Solano
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- television actorfilm actoractor
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Mateus Solano Schenker Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian actor.
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Carlos Lacerda
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- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
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Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.
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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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Augusto Boal
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- theatrical directorscientistpoliticianplaywrightdirector
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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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Carlos Chagas
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- bacteriologistentomologistphysicianacademicbiologist
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Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro.
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Ivan Lins
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- record producerjazz musicianpianistsongwritersinger
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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 thirty 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 musical history.
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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. 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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Geraldo Vandré
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- writercomposerpoetrecording artistguitarist
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Geraldo Vandré is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.
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Artur Ávila
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- mathematicianresearch fellowuniversity teacher
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Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian and naturalized French 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 an 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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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
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- journalistwriterhistorianliterary critic
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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a Brazilian historian, writer, journalist and sociologist. His greatest achievement was Raízes do Brasil, 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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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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- philosophereconomistpoliticianuniversity teacherlawyer
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher, jurist and politician. His work is in the tradition of classical social theory and pragmatism, and is developed across many fields including 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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Anita Leocádia Prestes
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- historianuniversity teacher
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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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Carlos Brito
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- international forum participantbusinesspersonmanager
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Carlos Alves de Brito is a Brazilian businessman who was CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 to 2021.
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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 French-Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.
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Joaquim Levy
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- bankerpoliticianinternational forum participanteconomist
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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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Rogério Skylab
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- writercomposerpoetrecording artistjazz musician
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Rogério Tolomei Teixeira, better known by his stage name Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, poet, essayist, record producer, actor and former 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 lyrics are permeated by acerbic allusions to popular culture, metafictional devices, pessimism, scatology, nihilism and black comedy (he has, however, always denied that his songs have humorous purposes). Some of his most recognizable compositions are "Matador de Passarinho" (which brought him into nationwide fame in the underground scene), "Motosserra", "Dedo, Língua, Cu e Boceta", "Eu Chupo o Meu Pau", "Fátima Bernardes Experiência" and "Chico Xavier & Roberto Carlos" (the latter two being notable for having been censored from their original releases).
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Emílio Santiago
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- guitaristrecording artistsinger
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Emílio Vitalino Santiago, known as Emílio Santiago, was a Brazilian singer.
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Nathalia Timberg
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- stage actorfilm 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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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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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 since 1 January 2023. A member of the Federal Senate for Mato Grosso do Sul since 2015, she was previously mayor of Três Lagoas from 2005 to 2010. She is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, of which she was the leader in the Senate from 2018 to 2019.
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Moreira Franco
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- international forum participantsociologistpolitician
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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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Osvaldo Aranha
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1916 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
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- lawyerpoliticiandiplomat
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Oswaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas.
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Ary Barroso
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- pianistsongwriterjournalistactorfilm score composer
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Ary de Resende Barroso 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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Celso Furtado
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- economistpoliticiandiplomat
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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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Marcelo Gleiser
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied in 1982
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- journalistastrophysicistastronomerphysicist
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Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College and was the 2019 recipient of the Templeton Prize.
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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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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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André Esteves
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- international forum participantbankercomputer scientist
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André Santos Esteves is a Brazilian billionaire businessman. Among Brazilian billionaires, Esteves is ranked 6th with a net worth of R$20.75 billion, according to Forbes business magazine. He currently serves as senior partner and chairman at BTG Pactual, the biggest investment bank in Latin America, and also as board member of Conservation International. In 2015, he was arrested by the Brazilian Federal Police in the context of the anti-corruption Operation Car Wash, and remained in prison for around three weeks; in December 2018, Esteves was acquitted of corruption charges. At a meeting on April 29, 2022, the shareholders of the bank reappointed Esteves as board chairman.
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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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Conceição Evaristo
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Graduated with licentiate
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- poetwriterlinguist
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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 9 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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Mario Lago
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- writerpoetsingerpoliticianmusician
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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
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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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Antonio Tabet
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- actorscreenwriter
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Antonio Pedro Tabet is an advertising, scriptwriter and Brazilian comedian. Tabet is one of the creators of the channel Porta dos Fundos. He was vice president of communication at Clube de Regatas do Flamengo between 2015 and 2017. Currently, he is among the stars of Borges Importadora.
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Larissa França
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- beach volleyball playervolleyball player
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Larissa França Maestrini is a beach volleyball player from Brazil. 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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Oswaldo Cruz
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- philanthropistmicrobiologistbotanistphysician
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Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better known as Oswaldo Cruz, was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
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João Saldanha
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- association football managerassociation football playerjournalist
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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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Benjamin Constant
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- military personnelpoliticianmathematicianengineer
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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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Arthur Virgílio Neto
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- lawyerpoliticiandiplomat
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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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Ilan Goldfajn
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- economistinternational forum participantpolitician
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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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Nelson Barbosa
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- researcherinternational forum participanteconomistcivil servantpolitician
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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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Josué de Castro
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- writernutritionistdiplomatfaculty memberphysician
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Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, expert on nutrition, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.
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Francisco Dornelles
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- economistlawyerpolitician
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Francisco Dornelles is a Brazilian lawyer, economist and politician. He was the vice governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2015 to 2019 and was the interim Governor during March and October 2016 after 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 vice 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 is a member of the Progressistas.
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João Pimenta da Veiga Filho
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- 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
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- lawyerwriterpolitician
- 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
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- 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.
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Marcelo Madureira
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- engineeractor
- 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
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- mathematician
- 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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Dilian Francisca Toro
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- 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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Mário Henrique Simonsen
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- economistengineerbanker
- 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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Marcello Alencar
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- lawyerpolitician
- 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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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 of neurons of human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and thickness and number of cortical folds.
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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
- installation artistsculptorgraphic artistfilmmakerpainter
- 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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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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Carlos Minc
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- geographerenvironmentalisteconomistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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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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Roberto Gurgel
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Roberto Monteiro Gurgel Santos is a former Prosecutor General of the Republic.
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Oliveira Viana
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticianjournalisthistorianjurist
- Biography
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Francisco José de Oliveira Viana was a Brazilian professor, jurist, historian, sociologist, and an imortal of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
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Humberto Teixeira
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- writercomposerpoetpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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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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Evandro Lins e Silva
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- lawyerjudgejournalist
- 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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Paulo Rabello de Castro
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- economist
- Biography
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Paulo Rabello de Castro is a Brazilian economist, incumbent president of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). He was also the president of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). For both offices, Rabello was appointed by president Michel Temer.
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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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Adriana Behar
- Occupations
- beach volleyball player
- Biography
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Adriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation.
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Edgar Roquette-Pinto
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- essayistteacherethnologistphysician writerjournalist
- 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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Mauro Vieira
- Occupations
- diplomatinternational forum participant
- 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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Graças Foster
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Graduated with master's degree in nuclear engineering
- Occupations
- international forum participantchemical engineerbusinessperson
- 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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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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Marcio Braga
- Occupations
- 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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Zuenir Ventura
- Occupations
- 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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San Tiago Dantas
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- journalistdiplomatpoliticianlawyer
- 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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Luiz Alberto Figueiredo
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- diplomatinternational forum participantministerpoliticianlawyer
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Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado is a diplomat who is currently serving as the Brazilian Ambassador for Climate Change since February 2023. He was the former Minister of External Relations, having succeeded Antonio Patriota and was succeeded by Mauro Vieira. Figueiredo took office as foreign minister on August 28, 2013., and left office on December 31, 2014.
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Jacob Palis
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- In 1962 graduated with bachelor's degree in engineering
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- mathematician
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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.
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Manuel de Abreu
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- radiologistscientistphysicianpoet
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Manuel Dias de Abreu was a Brazilian physician and scientist, the inventor of abreugraphy, a rapid radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian physicians, side by side with Carlos Chagas, Vital Brazil and Oswaldo Cruz.
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Artur Timóteo da Costa
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- sculptorscenographerdrawertheatre designerpainter
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Arthur Timótheo da Costa was an Afro-Brazilian painter and designer.
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Ronald de Carvalho
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- poetwriter
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Ronald de Carvalho was a Brazilian poet, writer, politician and diplomat from Rio de Janeiro. A street in Rio is named after him.
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Artur da Távola
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- music criticwritermusicologistessayistradio personality
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Paulo Alberto Moretzsohn Monteiro de Barros, better known by the pseudonym Artur da Távola, was a Brazilian politician, Senator, journalist, and writer.
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Carlos Chagas Filho
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- neuroscientistuniversity teacherphysicianbiologist
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Carlos Chagas Filho was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes. He was also an important scientific leader, being one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and was also a president for 16 years of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1965–1967).
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Alexander Kellner
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- paleontologistuniversity teacher
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Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner is a Brazilian geologist and paleontologist who is a leading expert in the field of studying pterosaurs. His research has focused mainly on fossil reptiles from the Cretaceous Period, including extinct dinosaurs and crocodylomorphs.
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Leopoldo Nachbin
- Enrolled in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Studied in 1939-1943
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Leopoldo Nachbin was a Jewish-Brazilian mathematician who dealt with topology, and harmonic analysis.
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Carlos Lessa
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa, better known simply as Carlos Lessa was a Brazilian economist and professor.
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João Paulo Cuenca
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- journalistwriter
- Biography
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João Paulo Cuenca is a Brazilian writer.
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Victor Nunes Leal
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- judge
- Biography
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Victor Nunes Leal was a Brazilian jurist, Minister of the Supreme Federal Court and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
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Duília de Mello
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- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Duília de Mello is a Brazilian astronomer. She is currently full professor at the Catholic University of America and collaborates with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research is mainly on galaxies.
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Aldo Parisot
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- music teachercellist
- Biography
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Aldo Simoes Parisot was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and then went on to serve as a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty years (1958 to 2018), the longest-serving member of that school's faculty ever.
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Tatiana Salem Levy
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- writernovelist
- Biography
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Tatiana Salem Levy is a Brazilian writer and translator.
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Renata Souza
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- politician
- Biography
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Renata da Silva Souza is a Brazilian politician. In 2018, Souza was elected a state deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro.
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Israel Klabin
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- politician
- Biography
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Israel Klabin is a Brazilian civil engineer, mathematician, environmentalist and politician. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He served as the second Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 15 March 1979 to 3 June 1980. He was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.
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João Paulo dos Reis Veloso
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- economist
- Biography
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João Paulo dos Reis Veloso was a Brazilian economist and politician who served as Minister of Planning between 1969 and 1979, and also as President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research.
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Armando Falcão
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Armando Ribeiro Falcão was a Brazilian politician. Falcão was born in Fortaleza. He graduated from Federal University Of Rio de Janeiro Faculty Of Law. From 1974 to 1979, he served as Brazil's Justice Minister under former President Ernesto Geisel.
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Anna Bella Geiger
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- sculptorphotographerprintmakerteacherpainter
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Anna Bella Geiger, is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry, and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, and her work, characterized by the use of different media, is held by galleries and private collections in the US, China, Brazil and Europe.
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Vira Vovk
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- writertranslatorliterary scholar
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Vira Ostapivna Selianska (Ukrainian: Ві́ра Оста́півна Селя́нська, pen name Vira Vovk (Ukrainian: Ві́ра Вовк; 2 January 1926 – 16 July 2022) was a Ukrainian writer, critic and translator. She wrote in Ukrainian, German and Portuguese.
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José Bonifácio Lafayette de Andrada
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- lawyerpolitician
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Jose Bonifacio Lafayette de Andrada was a Brazilian lawyer and politician signing the "Manifesto dos Mineiros", constituent state in 1935 and a member of the National Constituent Assembly of 1946, Congressman eight federal mandates and President of the Chamber of Deputies (1968–1970).
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Ângela Guadagnin
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Ângela Moraes Guadagnin is a Brazilian politician and physician. She was the mayor of São José dos Campos from 1993 to 1996, a federal deputy for the State of São Paulo from 1999 to 2006 (two four-year terms), and is currently a city councilwoman in São José dos Campos.
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Silas Rondeau
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- politician
- Biography
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Silas Rondeau is a Brazilian politician, and a member of Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. He formerly served as Minister of Mines and Energy in Brazil President Lula's cabinet.
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Jorge Antunes
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- composeruniversity teacher
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Jorge de Freitas Antunes is a Brazilian composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. Jorge Antunes is an Avant-garde composer, who is known as the man who pioneered electronic music in Brazil.
