100 Notable alumni of
University of Sao Paulo
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The University of Sao Paulo is 124th in the world, 4th in Latin America, and 1st in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Sao Paulo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Michel Temer
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- politicianpoetlawyer
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Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 1 January 2019. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president of Brazil since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial.
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Sócrates
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- association football playerphysician
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Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, simply known as Sócrates [ˈsɔkɾat͡ʃis], was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates". Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, Sócrates became the "symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters". In 1983, he was named South American Footballer of the Year. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time.
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Enrolled in the University of Sao Paulo
- Studied in 1952
- Occupations
- politicianwriterdiplomatsociologist
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso GCB GCTE GCoIISE GColIH GColL GCM RE DMN CYC OMRI, also known by his initials FHC ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˌɛfjaɡaˈse] ), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003. He was the first Brazilian president to be reelected for a subsequent term. An accomplished scholar of dependency theory noted for his research on slavery and political theory, Cardoso has earned many honors including the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation (2000) and the Kluge Prize from the US Library of Congress (2012).
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Fernando Haddad
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- politicianeconomistlawyer
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Fernando Haddad is a Brazilian scholar, lawyer and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Finance since 1 January 2023. He was previously the mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017 and the Brazilian minister of education from 2005 to 2012.
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Chico Buarque
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- recording artistjazz musiciansingernovelistwriter
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Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known simply as Chico Buarque ( Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃiku buˈaʁki]), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, and cultural reflections on Brazil.
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Rita Lee
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- writerchildren's writercomposerguitaristpianist
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Rita Lee Jones was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, presenter, actress, writer, and activist. Known as the "Queen of Brazilian Rock," she sold more than 55 million records, making her the most successful female artist by record sales in Brazil and the fourth overall, behind Tonico & Tinoco, Roberto Carlos, and Nelson Gonçalves. She built a career that started with rock but over the years flirted with various genres, such as psychedelia during the Tropicália era, pop rock, disco, new wave, pop, bossa nova, and electronic, creating a pioneering hybrid between international and national genres.
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Sebastião Salgado
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- photographerphotojournalistpainter
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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
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Alexandre de Moraes
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
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Alexandre de Moraes is a Brazilian jurist, former politician, former president of the Superior Electoral Court and currently justice of the Supreme Federal Court. Moraes was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Michel Temer in 2017 when serving as Minister of Justice and Public Security. Previously, Moraes had acted as Secretary for Public Security in the State of São Paulo and had been a member of the Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office.
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Monteiro Lobato
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- non-fiction writerjournalistnovelistscience fiction writerchildren's writer
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José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (Yellow Woodpecker Farm) but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic. He also founded one of Brazil's first publishing houses (Companhia Editora Nacional) and was a supporter of nationalism.
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Jânio Quadros
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- lawyerpolitician
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Jânio da Silva Quadros was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd president of Brazil from 31 January to 25 August 1961, when he resigned from office. He also served as the 24th and 36th mayor of São Paulo, and the 18th governor of the state of São Paulo. Quadros was known for his populist style of government and eccentric behavior.
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Guilherme Boulos
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- writerpoliticianteacher
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Guilherme Castro Boulos is a Brazilian politician, activist and writer. He is a member of the National Coordination of Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST). Boulos joined the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) in 2018, and was PSOL's candidate for the presidency of Brazil in the 2018 general election.
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Leandro Karnal
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- writerlecturerhistorianteacher
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Leandro Karnal is a Brazilian television personality and former university professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas until 2019. Karnal has publications on the subject of History, focusing on the History of the Americas and the History of Religion. He was born in São Leopoldo, and became known in Brazil for his work on popularizing philosophy for the masses; he lectures around the country. In 2020, he became co-host of CNN Tonight, a nightly commentary program at CNN Brasil.
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Bruno Covas
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- politicianeconomistlawyer
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Bruno Covas Lopes was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician who was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and served as the mayor of São Paulo from 2018 until his death in 2021.
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Luciano Huck
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- entrepreneurjournalisttelevision presenter
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Luciano Grostein Huck is a Brazilian TV host and entrepreneur. From 2000 to 2021, he hosted the TV show Caldeirão do Huck, aired every Saturday on Brazilian network TV Globo, and also broadcast to 114 countries, via Globo International. In september 2021, Huck left his saturday show to host Domingão com Huck (former Domingão do Faustão) on Sundays.
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William Bonner
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- writerjournalistnews presenter
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William Bonemer Júnior, known professionally as William Bonner, is a Brazilian newscaster, publicist and journalist. He is the current editor-in-chief and anchorman of Jornal Nacional, the most-watched Brazilian news program, aired by TV Globo.
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Fernando Meirelles
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-directing the film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films, which received international critical acclaim. For his work in the film, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz. He also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramago's novel Blindness, and the 2011 film 360. In 2019, Meirelles directed The Two Popes for Netflix.
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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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Paulo Maluf
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- civil engineerpoliticianengineerbusinessperson
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Paulo Salim Maluf is a Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including those of State Governor of São Paulo, Mayor of the City of São Paulo, Congressman and Presidential candidate. His political base is founded on populism and the provision of major public works.
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José Antonio Dias Toffoli
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- lawyerjudge
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José Antonio Dias Toffoli is a Brazilian lawyer who has been a member of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil since 2009, nominated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Toffoli was the president of the Supreme Federal Court for the 2018–20 term.
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José de Alencar
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- politicianjournalistliterary criticlawyerwriter
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José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo. He was patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Maria Fernanda Cândido
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- modelactortelevision actor
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Maria Fernanda Cândido is a Brazilian actress, television presenter, and former model.
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Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves
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- poetwriter
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Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the Condorist movement, he wrote classics such as Espumas Flutuantes and Hinos do Equador, which elevated him to the position of greatest among his contemporaries, as well as verses from poems such as "Os Escravos" and "A Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso", in addition to the play Gonzaga, which earned him epithets such as "O Poeta dos Escravos" (The Poet of the Slaves) and "republican poet" by Machado de Assis, or descriptions of being "a national poet, if not more, nationalist, social, human and humanitarian poet", in the words of Joaquim Nabuco, of being "the greatest Brazilian poet, lyric and epic", in the words of Afrânio Peixoto, or even of being the "walking apostle of Condorism" and "a volcanic talent, the most enraptured of all Brazilian poets", in the words of José Marques da Cruz. He was part of the romantic movement, being part of what scholars call the "third romantic generation" in Brazil.
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Rodrigo Faro
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- showmanactortelevision actor
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Rodrigo Alcazar Faro is a Brazilian television presenter, actor and singer.
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José Serra
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- writerpoliticianeconomist
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José Serra Chirico is a Brazilian politician who has served as a Congressman, Senator, Minister of Planning, Minister of Health, Mayor of São Paulo, Governor of São Paulo state, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.
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Matheus Nachtergaele
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- screenwritertelevision actorfilm directoractor
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Matheus Nachtergaele OMC is a Brazilian actor, director, and screenwriter. He has starred in numerous Brazilian films, best known for his appearances in the 1997 film Four Days in September and the 2002 film City of God, and is considered one of the most versatile Brazilian actors of his generation.
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Ulysses Guimarães
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- writerpoliticianlawyer
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Ulysses Silveira Guimarães was a Brazilian politician and lawyer who played an important role in opposing the military dictatorship in Brazil and in the fight to restore democracy in the country. He died in a helicopter accident by the shore near Angra dos Reis, in the south of Rio de Janeiro state.
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Mário Covas
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineer
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Mário Covas Almeida Júnior was a Brazilian politician.
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Darcy Ribeiro
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- sociologistnovelistpoliticianwriteranthropologist
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Darcy Ribeiro was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician. His ideas have influenced several scholars of Brazilian and Latin American studies. As Minister of Education of Brazil he carried out profound reforms which led him to be invited to participate in university reforms in Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Uruguay after leaving Brazil due to the 1964 coup d'état.
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Antônio Drauzio Varella
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- science communicatorwriterjournalistoncologist
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Antônio Drauzio Varella is a Brazilian physician, educator, scientist and medical science popularizer in the press and TV, as well as best-selling author. In addition to medicine, Varella is a public commentator on issues such as prison conditions, social welfare, government, literature and his professed atheism and skepticism, and has frequently debunked pseudoscientific medical claims.
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Oswald de Andrade
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- writerpamphleteerplaywrightnon-fiction writernovelist
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José Oswald de Souza Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo.
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Eliane Giardini
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- television actorstage actorfilm directoractor
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Eliane Teresinha Giardini is a Brazilian actress. Although she had little career success until the age of forty, she is now considered one of Brazil's foremost actresses.
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Nilo Peçanha
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- lawyerpolitician
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Nilo Procópio Peçanha was a Brazilian politician who served as seventh president of Brazil. He was governor of Rio de Janeiro (1903–1906), then elected the fifth vice president of Brazil in 1906. He assumed the presidency in 1909 following the death of President Afonso Pena and served until 1910.
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Washington Luís
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- politicianhistorianlawyer
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Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa was a Brazilian politician who served as the 13th president of Brazil. Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926, Washington Luís belonged to the Republican Party of São Paulo (PRP) and served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic.
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César Lattes
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- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes, also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.
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Luiz Felipe Pondé
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- writerphilosopher
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Luiz Felipe de Cerqueira e Silva Pondé is a Brazilian writer and professor of philosophy.
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Lygia Fagundes Telles
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- short story writerwriternovelistlawyer
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Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles, also known as "the lady of Brazilian literature" and "the greatest Brazilian writer" while alive, was a Brazilian novelist and writer, considered by academics, critics and readers to be one of the most important and notable Brazilian writers in the 20th century and the history of Brazilian literature. In addition to being a lawyer, Lygia was widely represented in postmodernism, and her works portrayed classic and universal themes such as death, love, fear and madness, as well as fantasy.
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Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
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- politician
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Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, PC was a Brazilian politician who first served as president of the Province of São Paulo in 1887, then as Treasury minister in the 1890s. Rodrigues Alves was elected the fifth president of Brazil in 1902 and served until 1906.
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Walcyr Carrasco
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- screenwriterwriterplaywrighttelevision writer
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Walcyr Rodrigues Carrasco is a Brazilian author, film writer and television writer.
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Abraham Weintraub
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- teachereconomist
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Abraham Bragança de Vasconcellos Weintraub is a Brazilian economist and investment banker who served as Brazil's Minister of Education under Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2020. He served as the Executive Director for the World Bank from the 15th district from 2020 to 2022, when he resigned his post in order to run in the 2022 São Paulo gubernatorial election.
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Manuel Bandeira
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- journalistliterary criticpoetwritertranslator
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Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose.
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Sandra Annenberg
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- journalisttelevision presenteractortelevision actornews presenter
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Sandra Annenberg is a Brazilian newscaster. Since 1982, Sandra has worked for Globo TV, the largest commercial TV network in Brazil, with over 150 million Portuguese speaking viewers in more than 130 countries.
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Olavo Bilac
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- writerpoetjournalistlinguist
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Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac, known simply as Olavo Bilac ( Portuguese pronunciation: [oˈlavu biˈlak(i)]), was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad". He was elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" in 1907 by the magazine Fon-Fon. He wrote the lyrics of the Brazilian Flag Anthem.
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Arnaldo Antunes
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- guitaristsingerpoetcomposerwriter
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Arnaldo Antunes is a Brazilian musician, writer, and composer. He was a member of the rock band Titãs, which he co-founded in 1982 and left ten years later. After 1992, he embarked on a solo career. He has published poetry and had his first book published in 1983. He has worked with Marisa Monte, Tribalistas, and Carlinhos Brown.
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Vladimir Herzog
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- university teacherpoliticianphilosopherjournalistplaywright
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Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado (a usual Croatian abbreviation for the name Vladimir) by his family and friends, was a Brazilian journalist, university professor and playwright of Croatian-Jewish origin and born in today's Croatia. He also developed a taste for photography, because of his film projects.
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Paulo Ricardo
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- record producersongwriterpianistactorcomposer
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Paulo Ricardo Oliveira Nery de Medeiros, better known as Paulo Ricardo, is a Brazilian rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer and occasional actor.
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Gilberto Kassab
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- engineerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Gilberto Kassab is a Brazilian politician and former mayor of São Paulo. His term ended in 2012. A civil engineer and economist, one of the most famous Brazilians of Lebanese descent, Kassab took over from José Serra, after Serra decided to run for governor of São Paulo.
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Natália do Vale
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Natália do Vale is a Brazilian actress. She appeared in leading roles in several television programs, including Olho no Olho, Água Viva and Women in Love.
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José Celso de Mello Filho
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- judge
- Biography
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José Celso de Mello Filho, is a Brazilian jurist, former member of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil. He was nominated by President José Sarney in 1989.
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Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales
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- politicianfarmerlawyer
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Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles was a Brazilian lawyer, coffee farmer, and politician who served as the fourth president of Brazil. He was born in the city of Campinas, São Paulo. He graduated as a lawyer from the Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco, São Paulo, in 1863. He served as a provincial deputy three times, general deputy once, and also as minister of justice (1889–1891), senator and governor of São Paulo (1896–1897). The pinnacle of his political career was his election as president of Brazil, an office he held between 1898 and 1902. Austere financial reforms were adopted during his tenure under Minister of Finance Joaquim Murtinho (7 December 1848 – 19 February 1911).
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Júlio Prestes
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque was a Brazilian poet, lawyer and politician. He was the last elected President of Brazil of the period known as the Old Republic, but never took office because the government was overthrown in the Revolution of 1930. Prestes was the only politician to be elected President of Brazil and then impeded from taking office. He was also the last person born in São Paulo to be elected president until the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018.
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Marcos Caruso
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- screenwriterwritertelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Marcos Vianna Caruso is a Brazilian actor, screenwriter, playwright, and stage director.
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Prudente de Morais
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Prudente José de Morais Barros, often referred to as Prudente de Morais, was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the third president of Brazil from 1894 to 1898. Morais was elected in 1894, being the first civilian president of the country, the first to be elected by direct popular ballot under the permanent provisions of Brazil's 1891 Constitution, and the first to serve his term in its entirety. Before his presidency he served as president (governor) of the state of São Paulo and president of the Senate from 1891 to 1894. He was also president of the Constituent Congress that drafted and enacted Brazil's 1891 Constitution.
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Dan Stulbach
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Dan Filip Stulbach is a Brazilian actor, television presenter, director and artistic director.
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Marco Antonio Villa
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- university teacherhistorianYouTubersociologist
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Marco Antonio Villa is a Brazilian historian and author of several books. He writes and comments on his personal blog "Marco Antonio Villa's Blog", where he writes on many subjects, including history, economics and politics. Villa is an outspoken critic of the Workers' Party of Brazil, which he blames for the current economic crisis and poor economic growth of the country. He currently participates in the TV program Jornal da Cultura running on TV Cultura commenting on current news topics. He is a frequent commentator on current controversies in Brazil, particularly the Petrobras Scandal and Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato).
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Zélia Cardoso de Mello
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- economist
- Biography
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Zélia Maria Cardoso de Mello served as Brazil's Minister of Economy from 1990 to 1991 under Fernando Collor de Mello. She was later married to Brazilian comedian Chico Anysio, with whom she has two children, Rodrigo and Victoria. The couple divorced in 1998.
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Afonso Pena
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- politicianbankerlawyerprofessor
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Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, often referred to as Afonso Pena, was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, and politician who served as the sixth president of Brazil, from 1906 until his death in 1909. Pena was elected in 1906, the chosen successor of president Rodrigues Alves. Pena was the first politician from Minas Gerais to win the presidency, ending the series of politicians from São Paulo who had held the presidency since 1894. Before his presidency, he served as the 4th vice president of Brazil, under Rodrigues Alves (1903–1906) after the death of Silviano Brandão. Pena was a monarchist. He was the only member of Emperor Pedro II's cabinet to become president of Brazil and the first Brazilian president to die in office.
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Álvares de Azevedo
- Enrolled in the University of Sao Paulo
- In 1847 graduated with bachelor's degree in law
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- poetessayistshort story writerwriterplaywright
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Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo, affectionately called "Maneco" by his close friends, relatives and admirers, was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist, considered to be one of the major exponents of Ultra-Romanticism and Gothic literature in Brazil. His works tend to play heavily with opposite notions, such as love and death, platonism and sarcasm, sentimentalism and pessimism, among others, and have a strong influence of Musset, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Goethe and – above all – Byron.
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Venceslau Brás
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes was a Brazilian politician who served as ninth president of Brazil between 1914 and 1918, during the First Brazilian Republic. Brás was born in Brasópolis (formerly São Caetano da Vargem Grande), Minas Gerais State. He became governor of that state in 1909, and in 1910 he was elected vice-president under Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca. As the sixth vice president of Brazil, he also served as the President of the Senate. He was elected president in 1914 and served until 1918. His government declared war on the Central Powers in October 1917 during World War I. He was the longest-lived Brazilian president, reaching 98 years of age.
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Laerte
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- writercartoonistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Laerte Coutinho, known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter, known for creating comic strips such as Piratas do Tietê (Pirates of the Tietê River).
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Janaina Paschoal
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Janaina Conceição Paschoal is a Brazilian jurist and politician. She is a member of the Progressistas (PP) since 2024, having been elected state representative of the State of São Paulo by the Social Liberal Party (PSL) from 2019 to 2023. She is also a lawyer and a law professor at the University of São Paulo.
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Robert Menasse
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- writertranslatorliterary scholaressayist
- Biography
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Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer.
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Marcelo Rossi
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- musicianfilm actorsingerCatholic priesttelevision actor
- Biography
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Marcelo Mendonça Rossi is a Brazilian Catholic priest known for his novel approaches to ministering to the faithful. He is also a writer and a singer, and he uses music intensely in his Masses. He has recorded music CDs, hosts radio and TV programs, and has appeared as an actor in two movies with religious themes. All of these endeavors have been big hits in the media, but Father Rossi donates all the proceeds to Catholic charities and his own parish.
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Nereu Ramos
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nereu de Oliveira Ramos was a Brazilian political figure. He briefly served as interim president of Brazil in the aftermath of the political crisis which culminated in the suicide of President Getúlio Vargas and the impeachment of Deputy Carlos Luz and President Café Filho.
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva
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- screenwriterwriterjournalistdramaturge
- Biography
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva is a Brazilian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and journalist born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the son of Rubens Paiva, who was murdered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. The impact of his father's disappearance on his family's life, especially on his mother, Eunice Paiva, is portrayed in his autobiography Ainda estou aqui (2015) which was adapted to film in 2024.
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Zilda Arns
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- pediatricianactivist
- Biography
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Zilda Arns Neumann was a Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker.
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Antonio Palocci
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Antonio Palocci Filho is a Brazilian physician and politician, and formerly Chief of Staff of Brazil under President Dilma Rousseff. He was the finance minister of the Brazilian federal government from 1 January 2003 to 27 March 2006, when he resigned in the wake of reports of conduct unbecoming of his office during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He resigned as chief of staff on 7 June 2011.
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Miguel Nicolelis
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- neurologistphysicianbiologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis, is a Brazilian scientist, physician and Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience at Duke University, best known for his pioneering work surrounding brain-computer interface (also known as "brain-machine interface") technology.
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Florestan Fernandes
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- politiciansociologistwriteranthropologistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Florestan Fernandes was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice.
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Paulo Miklos
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- mandolinistsongwritersaxophonistactorbanjoist
- Biography
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Paulo Roberto de Souza Miklos is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, musician and actor. He is best known for his tenure with the band Titãs, in which he was a vocalist, guitarist and occasional saxophonist, keyboardist and harmonica player from its inception in 1982 until 2016, when he left it to focus on personal projects.
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Maria do Rosário
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maria do Rosário Nunes is a Brazilian teacher and politician. She graduated in pedagogy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and took a postgraduate degree at the University of São Paulo. From 2011 to 2014, she served as the Secretary for Human Rights under the Rousseff administration. With the exception of her three-year tenure as Human Rights Secretary, she has been a congresswoman since 2003, representing the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul as a member of the Worker's Party (Brazil).
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Jandira Martini
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- actortelevision writerscreenwriterstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jandira Lúcia Lalia Martini was a Brazilian actress and author of theatre and screenplays. Martini was born on 10 June 1945, and died from lung cancer on 29 January 2024, at the age of 78.
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Guido Mantega
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomistsociologist
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Guido Mantega is an Italian-born Brazilian economist and politician. Mantega served as Minister of Finance from 2006 to 2015 under the presidencies of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. His tenure as Minister of Finance, which spanned over eight years in office, was the longest in Brazilian history.
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Delfim Moreira
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro was a Brazilian politician who served as tenth president of Brazil.
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Márcio Thomaz Bastos
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Márcio Thomaz Bastos was a Brazilian jurist who served as the Minister of Justice of Brazil from 2003 to 2007.
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Aloizio Mercadante
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- politicianministereconomist
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Aloizio Mercadante Oliva is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the Chief of Staff of Brazil between 2014 and 2015. He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice-chairman of the party between 1991 and 1999, then state senator from São Paulo between 2003 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil, and in 2012 he became Minister of Education, due to Fernando Haddad's departure to run for mayor of São Paulo.
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Marilena de Souza Chauí
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- writeruniversity teacherphilosopher
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Marilena de Souza Chaui is a Brazilian philosopher and Professor of Modern Philosophy in the University of São Paulo. She is a scholar of Baruch Spinoza and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chaui is one of the founding members of Workers' Party and an assiduous critic of the capitalist model.
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Aloysio Nunes
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- lawyerpolitician
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Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. A member of PSDB, Nunes was a senator from São Paulo from 2011 to 2017, and was Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018.
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Bertrand de Orléans e Bragança
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- lawyerwriter
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Bertrand of Orléans-Braganza is the head of the Vassouras branch of the House of Orléans-Braganza and one of two claimants to the defunct Brazilian throne. He succeeded his brother Luiz of Orléans-Braganza to the claim on 15 July 2022. The Vassouras branch claims the throne in opposition to the Petrópolis branch of the Orléans-Braganzas, headed by Pedro Carlos Orléans-Braganza. Although Bertrand and Pedro Carlos respectively were and are great-grandchildren of Princess Isabel (daughter of Emperor D. Pedro II), of the House of Braganza, they disputed leadership over the Brazilian Imperial Family due to a dynastic dispute concerning their fathers, who were cousins.
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Amyr Klink
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- economistexplorerwritersailornavigator
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Amyr Klink is a Brazilian explorer, sailor and writer. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 88 days between 1998 and 1999.
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Caco Ciocler
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- actortelevision actor
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Carlos Alberto "Caco" Ciocler is a Brazilian actor and director.
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Hilda Hilst
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- writernovelistpoet
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Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. Hilst greatly revered the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and the influence of their styles—like stream of consciousness and fractured reality—is evident in her own work.
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Niède Guidon
- Enrolled in the University of Sao Paulo
- In 1959 graduated with bachelor's degree in natural history
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- anthropologistarchaeologistprehistorian
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Niède Guidon is a Brazilian archaeologist known for her work in pre-historic archeology of South American civilizations and her efforts to secure the conservation of the World Heritage Site Serra da Capivara National Park.
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José Maria Marin
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- politicianassociation football playerlawyer
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José Maria Marin is a Brazilian politician and former sports administrator who was the President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Portuguese: Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, CBF) from March 2012 until April 2015. He had previously served as vice-governor and governor of São Paulo state and is a former football player.
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Ruth Cardoso
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- sociologistuniversity teacherpoliticianwriteranthropologist
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Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso GCIH was a Brazilian anthropologist and a member of the faculty of philosophy, letters and human sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She was the wife of 34th president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and First Lady of her country between 1995 and 2003. She too was a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of São Paulo.
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Pedro Bandeira
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- novelistchildren's writerpoetjournalist
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Pedro Bandeira de Luna Filho is a Brazilian award-winning and best-selling children's novelist and poet, best known as the author of the Os Karas hexalogy of mystery novels which comprise A Droga da Obediência (1984), Pântano de Sangue (1987), Anjo da Morte (1988), A Droga do Amor (1994), Droga de Americana! (2001) and A Droga da Amizade (2014).
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José Linhares
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- politicianmagistratelawyerjudge
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José Linhares was a Brazilian lawyer who briefly served as the interim president of Brazil in the final months of the Estado Novo. As President of the Supreme Federal Court, he was called by the Armed Forces to take over the Presidency following the ousting of Getúlio Vargas in 1945, to the inauguration of Eurico Gaspar Dutra, in 1946, which marked the beginning of what is known today as the Fourth Brazilian Republic.
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Miguel Reale
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- poetpoliticianlawyerwriterphilosopher
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Miguel Reale was a Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic, politician and poet known as one of the most important jurists of Brazil. He was one of the leaders of Integralism in Brazil and an ideologue of the Brazilian Integralist Action.
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Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
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- politicianwriterhistorianjournalistphilosopher
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Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira was a Brazilian intellectual and traditionalist Catholic activist, best known for the foundation of the Tradition, Family and Property organization.
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Paulo Autran
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Paulo Paquet Autran was a Brazilian film and theater actor. His accomplishments during his life earned him the nickname, "Lord of the Stage."
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Hélio Bicudo
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- politician
- Biography
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Hélio Pereira Bicudo was a Brazilian jurist and politician.
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Regina Volpato
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- journalist
- Biography
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Regina Paula Volpato Rennó, best known as Regina Volpato, is a Brazilian journalist, writer and television presenter.
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Rodolfo Valente
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- actormime artistclownstage actortelevision actor
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Rodolfo Arrabale Valente is a Brazilian actor best known for playing Rafael in the Netflix series 3%.
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Walter Moreira Sales
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- entrepreneurbankerdiplomat
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Walter Moreira Salles, also Walther Moreira Salles, was a Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist, considered as one of the founders of the modern Brazilian banking industry.
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Rosi Campos
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Rosângela "Rosi" Martins Campos is a Brazilian actress.
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Paulo Machado de Carvalho
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- lawyerbusinessperson
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Paulo Machado de Carvalho, was a Brazilian businessman, journalist and football chairman.
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Inezita Barroso
- Enrolled in the University of Sao Paulo
- Graduated with library science
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- folkloristsinger-songwritermusic arrangerteacherguitarist
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Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima Barroso was a Brazilian sertanejo singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter, librarian, folklorist and teacher.
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Michael Löwy
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- sociologistresearch fellowuniversity teacherpoliticianphilosopher
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Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994.
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Miguel Reale Júnior
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- civil servant
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Miguel Reale Júnior is a Brazilian jurist, politician, professor and lawyer. He was professor of Criminal Law at University of São Paulo (USP) and Minister of Justice in the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Reale is son of the also jurist Miguel Reale and gained notoriety in 2015 when he proposed, along with jurists Hélio Bicudo and Janaína Paschoal, an impeachment request against president Dilma Rousseff.
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Yara Amaral
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- stage actoractor
- Biography
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Yara da Silva Amaral was a Brazilian actress.
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Sérgio Britto
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- composersingersongwriter
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Sérgio Britto ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛʁʒju ˈbɾitu], born Sérgio de Britto Álvares Affonso(September 18, 1959) is a Brazilian musician, best known as a member of the rock band Titãs, for which he contributes with lead vocals, keyboards and, more recently, the bass guitar. He has also released three solo albums.
