39 Notable alumni of
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul is 1060th in the world, 37th in Latin America, and 11th in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Manuela d'Ávila
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- activistpoliticianwriterjournalist
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Manuela Pinto Vieira d'Ávila is a Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, a member of the Communist Party of Brazil since 2001.
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Daniela Escobar
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Daniela Escobar Duncan is a Brazilian actress, television presenter and voice actress.
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Patrícia Poeta
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- writernews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Patrícia Poeta Pfingstag is a Brazilian newscaster and journalist.
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Rafinha Bastos
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- humoristjournalistactor
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Rafael Bastos Hocsman, better known as Rafinha Bastos or simply Rafi Bastos is a Brazilian comedian, actor, journalist and television personality.
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Osmar Terra
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- politicianphysician
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Osmar Gasparini Terra is a Brazilian politician and physician, affiliated to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), current Minister of Citizenship and former Minister of Social and Agrarian Development.
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Antônio Abujamra
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- actortheatrical directorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Antônio Abujamra was a Brazilian theatre and television director and actor. Having majored in journalism and philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in 1957, he started a career as a theatre critic while he directed and acted in his own plays at the university theatre. Professionally, he made his debut as a theatre director in 1961, and as an actor in 1987, acting in both theatre and television. In 1989, he gained national fame for his role as Ravengar in Rede Globo's telenovela Que Rei Sou Eu?, which became his best known role. In that same year, Abujamra won the Best Actor award at the Gramado Film Festival for his role in the film Festa. From 2000 onward, he was the presenter on TV Cultura's interview program Provocações. His son André Abujamra is a score composer, while his niece Clarisse Abujamra, is also an actress.
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Leona Cavalli
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Alleyona Canedo da Silva, known professionally as Leona Cavalli, is a Brazilian actress and stage director.
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José Maria Eymael
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- lawyerpolitician
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José Maria Eymael is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, businessman, and founder of the Democracia Cristã (DC), known in English as the Christian Democracy.
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Martha Medeiros
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- journalistwriter
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Martha Medeiros is a Brazilian writer and journalist. She works as columnist of the Zero Hora and O Globo newspapers.
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Marcia Tiburi
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- university teacherwriternovelistphilosopher
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Márcia Angelita Tiburi is a Brazilian plastic artist, professor of philosophy, literary critic, and writer. Her main areas of research are ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of knowledge.
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Ana Amélia Lemos
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- journalistpolitician
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Ana Amélia Lemos is a Brazilian journalist and politician. She worked as a columnist and commentator for RBS in Distrito Federal, before applying the Senator by the Rio Grande do Sul, elected in the General Election 2010. She was the running mate of PSDB presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin in the 2018 election.
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Luciana Genro
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- lawyerpolitician
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Luciana Krebs Genro is a Brazilian politician, state deputy and one of the founders of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL). In 2014, she was the PSOL nominee for President of Brazil. She came in 4th place, receiving more than 1.6 million votes nationally. She is the daughter of Tarso Genro, a Workers' Party (PT) politician and former governor of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Pedro Simon
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- lawyerpolitician
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Pedro Jorge Simon is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and professor. He represented Rio Grande do Sul in the Federal Senate for over 30 years. Prior to that, he served as the governor of Rio Grande do Sul from 1987 to 1990. Simon also served as Minister of Agriculture from 1985 to 1986. He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement and an important historical figure of the movement towards redemocratization in Brazil.
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Lya Luft
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- translatorpoetnovelistwriterjournalist
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Lya Fett Luft was a Brazilian writer and a prolific translator, working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations.
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Ingra Lyberato
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- actortelevision actor
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Ingra de Souza Liberato is a Brazilian actress. From 2016 she began to sing as Ingra Lyberato.
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João Pedro Stédile
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- economist
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João Pedro Stédile is a Brazilian political Activist and Economist, advocating for land reform in Brazil, being a member of the collective for coordination of the Landless Workers' Movement or MST. MST is a political movement for redistribution of land to end the high concentration of land ownership in Brazil derived from the prevalence of latifundia in the colonial period and the rural flight during the dictatorship period.
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Eliane Brum
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- novelistdocumentary filmmakerfilm directorwriterjournalist
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Eliane Brum is a Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. In 2019, she was long-listed for a National Book Award.
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José Fogaça
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- lawyerpolitician
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José Alberto Fogaça de Medeiros is a Brazilian politician who has been the mayor of Porto Alegre, Brazil, a state deputy, federal deputy and senator.
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Juliana Brizola
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- lawyerpolitician
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Juliana Daudt Brizola is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. She was a councilwoman in the city of Porto Alegre from 2009 to 2011 and later became a state deputy in the state of Rio Grande do Sul from 2011 to 2023. She is currently affiliated with the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), which she has been affiliated with since she was 18 years old. She is the granddaughter of Leonel Brizola, as well as the sister of fellow politicians Brizola Neto and Leonel Brizola Neto, being the twin sister of the latter.
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Ibsen Pinheiro
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- politicianjournalistlawyer
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Ibsen Pinheiro was a Brazilian journalist politician who served as a Deputy and as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He was president of the chamber during the impeachment of Fernando Collor de Mello.
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José Paulo Bisol
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- politician
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José Paulo Bisol was a Brazilian politician and judge. Bisol most notably served as the vice presidential running mate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, in the 1989 presidential election. Bisol was originally set to serve as Lula's running mate in the 1994 presidential election, but was replaced by Aloizio Mercadante. Bisol was famous for being an opponent of corruption, and was said to have had a "Mr. Clean" image that was damaged by accusations surrounding his career as a judge during the 1994 campaign.
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Luiz Carlos Prates
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- radio personalitywriterjournalistpsychologist
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Luiz Carlos Prates is a Brazilian journalist, psychologist, and radio sport announcer.
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Any Ortiz
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- lawyerpolitician
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Any Machado Ortiz is a Brazilian politician and lawyer.
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Carlos Nejar
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- writernovelistpoet
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Luis Carlos Verzoni Nejar, better known as Carlos Nejar, is a Brazilian poet, author, translator and critic, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. One of the most important poets of its generation, Nejar, also called "o poeta do pampa brasileiro", is distinguished for his use of an extensive vocabulary, alliteration, and pandeism. His first book, Sélesis, was published in 1960.
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Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer
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- businessperson
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Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer is a Brazilian business man that is the Chief executive of EB Capital, a Brazilian private equity firm focused on investing in companies that address Brazilian structural gaps. He was chairman and president of Grupo RBS and owner of the business conglomerate RBS, one of the largest multimedia communications companies in Brazil. Eduardo was also chairman of e.Bricks Digital and shareholder of e.Bricks Ventures, a venture capital and private equity company with operations in Brazil and abroad.
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Carlos Simon
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- journalistassociation football referee
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Carlos Eugênio Simon is a Brazilian ex-FIFA football referee. He is also a journalist and he works for Fox Sports Brasil since 2012. Simon has been an international referee since 1998 and his first international game was between Ecuador and Peru. He was a referee in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2006 FIFA World Cup, and 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Ana Lucia Araujo
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
- Studied in 1997
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- historianwriter
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Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.
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Frank Jorge
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- writerpoetclassical guitaristguitarist
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Jorge Otávio Pinto Pouey de Oliveira, better known by his stage name Frank Jorge, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, poet, chronicler and professor, famous for his work with pioneering Rio Grande do Sul rock bands Os Cascavelletes and Graforreia Xilarmônica.
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Tarciana Medeiros
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- bank tellerofficial
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Tarciana Paula Gomes Medeiros is an Afro-Brazilian economist and business executive. In January 2023 she was appointed as CEO of Banco do Brasil (BB), the second-largest bank in Brazil and Latin America, which is controlled by the Brazilian government. In 2023 she was considered by Forbes magazine to be the 24th most-powerful woman in the world.
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Jeferson Tenório
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
- Graduated with doctorate in literary theory
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- writerplaywrightprose writerteacher
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Jeferson Tenorio is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and now lives in Porto Alegre. He obtained a PhD in Literary Theory from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS). His stage texts and short stories have been translated into English and Spanish.
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Paulo de Tarso Vieira Sanseverino
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- juristjudge
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Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino was a Brazilian jurist, magistrate, and academic. He served as a Minister (Justice) of the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil, the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional questions of federal law, from his appointment by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2010 until his death in office in April 2023.
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João Inácio Müller
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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João Inácio Müller, O.F.M. is a Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.
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Leomar Antônio Brustolin
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Leomar Antônio Brustolin is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Santa Maria since 2021. He was auxiliary bishop of Porto Alegre from 2015 to 2021.
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Roberto Francisco Ferrería Paz
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Roberto Francisco Ferrería Paz is a Uruguayan Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.
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Remídio José Bohn
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Remídio José Bohn was a Roman Catholic bishop.
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Licínio Azevedo
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
- In 1975 studied communication studies
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- screenwriterfilmmakerfilm directorwriterjournalist
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Licínio Silveira Azevedo is a Brazilian–Mozambican journalist, film producer, screenwriter, and film director of award-winning documentaries and feature films.
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Clóvis Frainer
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Clóvis Frainer OFMCap was a Roman Catholic archbishop.
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Filipe Matzembacher
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- writerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Filipe Matzembacher is a Brazilian film director and writer.
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Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
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Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche OCD was a Brazilian auxiliary bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001).
