27 Notable alumni of
Fluminense Federal University
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Fluminense Federal University is 1177th in the world, 42nd in Latin America, and 12th in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from Fluminense Federal University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Marielle Franco
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- Graduated with master's degree in public administration
- Occupations
- politicianwomen's rights activistsociologistparliamentary aidehuman rights activist
- Biography
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Marielle Franco was a Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist, socialist and human rights activist. Franco served as a city councillor of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro for the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) from January 2017 until her assassination.
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João Havelange
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- lawyerpoliticianswimmerwater polo player
- Biography
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Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid "João" de Havelange was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, and athlete who served as the seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. His tenure as president is the second longest in FIFA's history, behind only that of Jules Rimet. He received the title of Honorary President when leaving office, but resigned in April 2013. He was preceded by Stanley Rous and was succeeded by Sepp Blatter. João Havelange served as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1963 to 2011. He was the longest-serving active member upon his resignation. In July 2012, a Swiss prosecutor's report revealed that, during his tenure on FIFA's Executive Committee, he and his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira took more than 41 million Swiss francs (£21m) in bribes in connection with the award of World Cup marketing rights.
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Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli was a Brazilian politician who served as Federal Deputy from 1951 to 1967 and President of the Chamber of Deputies (speaker of the house) from 1958 to 1965. During his term as speaker of the house, he served twice as interim president of Brazil for a few weeks, first in 1961, after the resignation of Jânio Quadros (as vice-president João Goulart was outside the country), and again in 1964, after Goulart, who had then succeeded him as president, was deposed in the military coup d'état of that year.
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Wilson José Witzel
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
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Wilson José Witzel is a Brazilian politician and lawyer who was the 63rd Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro. A member of the Social Christian Party, Witzel is a former federal judge and is an ex-marine. On 28 October 2018, he was elected Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro with a four-year term beginning in January 2019, replacing Luiz Fernando Pezão, until his impeachment in April 2021.
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Marcelo Freixo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo is a Brazilian politician and teacher. He had served as a federal deputy for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), and was formerly chairman of the Defence of Human Rights and Citizenship Commission on the Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly.
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Regina Casé
- Occupations
- television presenteractor
- Biography
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Regina Maria Loureiro Barreto Casé OMC is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter.
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Levy Fidelix
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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José Levy Fidelix da Cruz was a Brazilian conservative politician, businessman, and journalist. He was the founder of the Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (PRTB) and ran for president of Brazil in the elections of 2010 and 2014. He was particularly known in Brazil for his promise of building a bullet train system connecting São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (the aerotrem) and for his controversial declarations about homosexuals during a political debate in 2014. Also known for being a perennial candidate, he ran for several political posts but never won one. Fidelix died on 23 April 2021 due to COVID-19 complications.
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Conceição Evaristo
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- linguistwriterpoet
- Biography
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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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Alessandro Molon
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Alessandro Lucciola Molon is a Brazilian teacher and politician, member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and former Leader of the Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies. He was the rapporteur to Brazil's Bill of Rights for the Internet (Marco Civil da Internet), ensuring net neutrality, privacy protection and freedom of expression online.
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Celso Pitta
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Celso Roberto Pitta do Nascimento was a Brazilian economist and politician. He had a Bachelor in Economics by Fluminense Federal University, master in Economics by University of Leeds and specialist in Advanced Administration by Harvard University.
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Andrew Parsons
- Occupations
- sports officialjournalist
- Biography
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Andrew George William Parsons is a Brazilian sports administrator and journalist. He is the current president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). In 2018, Parsons became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Chico Alencar
- Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Francisco Rodrigues de Alencar Filho, known as Chico Alencar, is a Brazilian politician, historian, and writer, affiliated with the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL).
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Roberto DaMatta
- Occupations
- journalistanthropologistwriter
- 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
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- international forum participantdiplomat
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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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Rodrigo Neves
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rodrigo Neves Barreto is a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He was the mayor of Niterói from 2013 to 2020, currently serving as the executive secretary for the city. He was also a city councilor in Niterói from 1998 to 2007, state deputy in Rio de Janeiro, and state secretary of Social Assistance.
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Doc Comparato
- Occupations
- screenwriter
- Biography
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Luís Filipe Loureiro Comparato, known as Doc Comparato, is a Brazilian writer of miniseries, television series and Brazilian cinema.
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Ricardo Galvão
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- 1966-1969 graduated with electrical engineer
- Occupations
- engineerphysicist
- Biography
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Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão is a prominent Brazilian physicist and engineer, formerly the Director-General of the National Institute for Space Research. He is a full Professor of the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Institute of Physics and councilman of the European Physical Society. Galvão has occupied major positions within the Brazilian Physics community such as the presidency of the Brazilian Physical Society (2013–2016) and the directorship of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (2004–2011).
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Tizuka Yamasaki
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- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Tizuka Yamasaki is a Brazilian film director.
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Talíria Petrone
- Occupations
- professorpolitician
- Biography
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Talíria Petrone Soares is a Brazilian politician. She has spent her political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as federal deputy representative since 2019.
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Graças Foster
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
- Occupations
- businesspersonchemical engineerinternational forum participant
- 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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Marco Lucchesi
- Occupations
- Esperantistuniversity teacherwriterpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Marco Americo Lucchesi is a Brazilain poet, writer, historian, essayist, translator and Esperantist, member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras since 2011. He is also full professor of Languages at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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Renata Souza
- Occupations
- 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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Socorro Acioli
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- 2010-2014 graduated with doctorate in literature
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Socorro Acioli was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1975. She is a journalist, has a master's degree in Brazilian literature and is currently following a PhD. in Literary Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. She started her career in 2001 and since then has published books of various genres, such as biographies Frei Tito and Rachel de Queiroz (2003), children’s short stories and youth novels. In 2006, she was selected to take part in a workshop called ‘How to tell a tale’, conducted by the Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel García Márquez at the San Antonio de Los Banõs International Film and Television School, Cuba. The author was selected by García Márquez himself based on the synopsis of the novel A cabeça do santo/The Head of the Saint, which was published in the UK in 2014 and in the US in 2016. In 2007, she was a visiting researcher at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. She has also given lectures in several countries such as Portugal, Bolivia and Cape Verde. Mrs. Accioli is also a translator, essayist and literary theory teacher.
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Jurema Werneck
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- 1981-1986 graduated with undergraduate education in medicine
- Occupations
- physicianwriterhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Jurema Werneck is the Brazilian director for Amnesty International in Brazil. She is a black feminist, physician, author, and doctor in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is also a board member of the Global Fund for Women. Her works include, "Estelizacao de mulheres um desafio para a bioetica?", "Saúde da população negra", "O Livro Da Saude Das Mulheres Negras", and "Black Women's Health: Our Steps Come Away".
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Tarcísio Motta
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Tarcísio Motta de Carvalho, is a Brazilian teacher and politician, who is affiliated with the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL). He is currently a federal deputy from the state of Rio de Janeiro, elected with around 160,000 votes. He had previously been a councilman in the city of Rio de Janeiro for two terms.
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Angelo Segrillo
- Enrolled in Fluminense Federal University
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Angelo de Oliveira Segrillo is a Brazilian historian specialized in Russia and in comparative studies of Russia, the West and Brazil. He holds a B.A. from Missouri State University, a master's degree from the Pushkin Institute (Moscow, Russia) and a doctorate from Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil). He is an associate professor of history at the University of São Paulo.
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Marcelo Moraes Caetano
- Occupations
- writerpianistuniversity teachermusicianscreenwriter
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Marcelo Caetano Moraes is a writer, professor and pianist from Brazil., critic, journalist.
