Notable Alumni of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro [Sorted List]

1. Benedito Gonçalves

1954-. (aged 72)

judge

Benedito Gonçalves is a Brazilian magistrate, currently a minister of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). He was also a minister of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) for the 2021-2023 biennium, as well as corregidor-general of the Electoral Justice.

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2. Edgar Roquette-Pinto

1884-1954 (aged 70)

anthropologist essayist teacher ethnologist physician writer

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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3. Marcio Braga

1936-. (aged 90)

association football player politician

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...

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4. Affonso Eduardo Reidy

1909-1964 (aged 55)

painter urban planner architect

Affonso Eduardo Reidy was a Brazilian architect. He was the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Reidy entered the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro at age 17. He apprenticed with the French urban planner Alfred Agache (1875-1959) during his studies. Reidy graduated and became an architect in 1930. Lúcio Costa appointed him as...

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5. Esther Dweck

1977-. (aged 49)

writer researcher professor politician

Esther Dweck is a Brazilian economist, professor and writer. As of 2022, she is a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In December 2022, she was nominated the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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6. San Tiago Dantas

1911-1964 (aged 53)

lawyer journalist diplomat politician

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...

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7. Beto Sicupira

1948-. (aged 78)

entrepreneur

Carlos Alberto Sicupira is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, a partner in 3G Capital, which owns or has major stakes in Burger King, H.J. Heinz Company, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Lojas Americanas. He lives in Switzerland.

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8. Roberto Gurgel

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer

Roberto Monteiro Gurgel Santos is a Brazilian lawyer and a former Prosecutor General of the Republic.

9. Anita Prestes

1936-. (aged 90)

historian university teacher

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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10. Dante de Oliveira

1952-2006 (aged 54)

politician civil engineer

Dante Martins de Oliveira was a Brazilian politician who was the governor of Mato Grosso state and the mayor of Mato Grosso's capital, Cuiabá, for three terms. He was also a federal deputy who became the Minister of Agrarian Development under president José Sarney from 1986 to 1987. He is well known for his work with the Diretas Já movement,...

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11. Pedro Ludovico Teixeira

1891-1979 (aged 88)

politician

Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, better known as Pedro Ludovico was the founder of Goiânia, Brazil, and one of the most important figures in the history of the state of Goiás.

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12. Carlos Minc

1951-. (aged 75)

university teacher politician geographer environmentalist economist

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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13. Oliveira Viana

1883-1951 (aged 68)

jurist professor sociologist politician journalist

Francisco José de Oliveira Viana was a Brazilian professor, jurist, historian, sociologist, and an imortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He has been described as a conservative political theorist.

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14. Saturnino Braga

1931-2024 (aged 93)

engineer politician

Roberto Saturnino Braga was a Brazilian engineer and politician. A member of several political parties, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1967 and from April to August 1968, was a senator from 1975 to 1986 and from 1999 to 2007, and served as mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1986 to 1989.

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15. Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre

1806-1879 (aged 73)

art historian journalist teacher diplomat politician

Manuel José de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, was a Brazilian Romantic writer, painter, architect, diplomat and professor, considered to be one of the first Brazilian editorial cartoonists ever. He is the patron of the 32nd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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16. Humberto Teixeira

1915-1979 (aged 64)

politician lawyer writer composer poet

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 a "master of costumes and popular North-Eastern trends."

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17. Alceu Amoroso Lima

1893-1983 (aged 90)

literary critic writer teacher religious politician

Alceu Amoroso Lima, also known under the pen name Tristão de Athayde, was a Brazilian essayist, literary critic, journalist, and activist.

18. Moreira Alves

1933-2023 (aged 90)

judge

José Carlos Moreira Alves was a Brazilian Roman Law scholar and magistrate. He served as Prosecutor General of the Republic from 1972 to 1975 and was a Minister of the Supreme Federal Court from 1975 to 2003.

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19. Evandro Lins e Silva

1912-2002 (aged 90)

lawyer judge journalist

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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20. Adriana Behar

1969-. (aged 57)

beach volleyball player

Adriana Brandão Behar is a Brazilian former volleyball player of Jewish descent. She was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2010.

21. Osvaldo Aranha

1894-1960 (aged 66)

diplomat lawyer politician

Oswaldo Euclides de Souza Aranha was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas.

22. Sidarta Ribeiro

1971-. (aged 55)

neuroscientist biologist

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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23. Lygia Pape

1927-2004 (aged 77)

draftsperson sculptor graphic artist installation artist filmmaker

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...

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24. Ismael Nery

1900-1934 (aged 34)

painter architect

Ismael Nery was a Brazilian artist. His iconic work is Autorretrato, 1927 (Autorretrato Rio/Paris), a surrealist painting commonly compared to the Green Violinist of Marc Chagall and now in São Paulo Museum of Art.

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25. Tomás Bulat

1964-2015 (aged 51)

economist journalist university teacher columnist

Tomás Ariel Bulat was an Argentine economist, journalist, writer, and professor. He was known for his report on channel A24. He wrote some books about the economy. Some of those books are La economía de tu vida, "Estamos Como Somos" and la Economía descubierta. Bulat was born in Buenos Aires.

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26. João Pimenta da Veiga Filho

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

João Pimenta da Veiga Filho is a former communications minister of Brazil.

27. Antônio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa

1970-. (aged 56)

lawyer writer politician

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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28. Mário Henrique Simonsen

1935-1997 (aged 62)

banker economist engineer

Mário Henrique Simonsen was a Brazilian economist, who served as Brazil's finance minister from 1974 to 1979.

29. Marcelo Madureira

1958-. (aged 68)

actor screenwriter engineer

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...

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30. Henrique Eduardo Alves

1948-. (aged 78)

politician

Henrique Eduardo Lyra Alves is a Brazilian politician. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, he was the President of the Chamber of Deputies (Speaker) of Brazil from 2013 to 2015. His father was Aluízio Alves.

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31. Elon Lages Lima

1929-2017 (aged 88)

mathematician university teacher

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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32. Marcello Alencar

1925-2014 (aged 89)

computer scientist lawyer university teacher politician

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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33. Suzana Herculano-Houzel

1972-. (aged 54)

neuroscientist

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting neurons in human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and the thickness and number of cortical folds.

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34. Joaquim Manuel de Macedo

1820-1882 (aged 62)

physician writer journalist university teacher writer science fiction writer

Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was a Brazilian novelist, medical doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance A Moreninha. He is considered the first Brazilian novelist.

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35. Larissa França

1982-. (aged 44)

beach volleyball player volleyball player

Larissa França Maestrini is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She is the all-time leader of beach volleyball titles, with 57 FIVB career gold medals, including the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships with Juliana Felisberta and the 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with Talita Antunes.

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36. Francisco Dornelles

1935-2023 (aged 88)

economist lawyer politician

Francisco Dornelles was a Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician. He was the lieutenant governor of Rio de Janeiro from 2015 to 2019 and was the interim Governor during March and October 2016 following the illness of governor Luiz Fernando Pezão. He represented Rio de Janeiro in the Federal Senate from 2007 to 2015, until he resigned from the post to...

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37. Josué de Castro

1908-1973 (aged 65)

opinion journalist writer academic nutritionist diplomat

Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.

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38. Arthur Virgílio Neto

1945-. (aged 81)

diplomat lawyer politician

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...

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39. Dilian Francisca Toro

1959-. (aged 67)

politician physician

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...

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40. Nelson Barbosa

1969-. (aged 57)

civil servant researcher economist politician

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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41. Mario Lago

1878-1950 (aged 72)

diplomat politician

Mário Lago OMC was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, radio broadcaster, composer and actor.

42. João Saldanha

1917-1990 (aged 73)

association football coach association football player journalist

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...

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43. Benjamin Constant

1767-1830 (aged 63)

diarist scientist politician writer philosopher

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...

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44. Victor Meirelles

1832-1903 (aged 71)

painter

Victor Meirelles de Lima was a Brazilian painter and teacher who is best known for his works relating to his nation's culture and history. From humble origins, his talent was soon recognized, being admitted as a student at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He specialized in the genre of history painting, and upon winning the Academy's Foreign Travel Award,...

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45. Carlos Brito

1960-. (aged 66)

businessperson manager

Carlos Alves de Brito is a Brazilian businessman who is CEO of Belron, and was CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 to 2021.

46. Eurico Miranda

1944-2019 (aged 75)

lawyer politician

Eurico Ângelo de Oliveira Miranda was a Brazilian politician, jurist and sporting director. He was best known for having been president of CR Vasco da Gama for two periods, from 2001 to 2008 and 2014 to 2018. Before that, he was sporting director and vice-president of the club between 1986 and 2000. He was also a federal deputy for Rio...

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47. Oswaldo Cruz

1872-1917 (aged 45)

physician microbiologist bacteriologist

Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

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48. André Esteves

1968-. (aged 58)

computer scientist banker

André Santos Esteves is a Brazilian billionaire businessman. Among Brazilian billionaires, Esteves is ranked sixth with a net worth of US$6.9 billion, according to Forbes, as of March 2025. He is senior partner and chairman at BTG Pactual, the biggest investment bank in Latin America. He is a board member of Conservation International, Inteli and Council on Foreign Relations.

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49. Ary Barroso

1903-1964 (aged 61)

actor film score composer composer pianist songwriter

Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso ONM was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career.

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50. Ana Maria Machado

1941-. (aged 85)

painter writer children's writer novelist scholar

Ana Maria Machado is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". She also won the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2012.

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51. Celso Furtado

1920-2004 (aged 84)

diplomat economist politician

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...

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52. Heleno de Freitas

1920-1959 (aged 39)

association football player

Heleno de Freitas was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward.

53. Joaquim Levy

1961-. (aged 65)

banker economist politician

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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54. Anísio Teixeira

1900-1971 (aged 71)

educator writer

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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55. Adhemar da Silva

1927-2001 (aged 74)

actor athletics competitor

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a Brazilian triple jumper. He won two Olympic gold medals and set five 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...

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56. Antonio Tabet

1974-. (aged 52)

screenwriter blogger Internet celebrity actor television writer

Antonio Pedro Tabet is an advertising, scriptwriter and Brazilian comedian. Tabet is one of the creators of the channel Porta dos Fundos, and is the creator of the now defunct website Kibe Loco. 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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57. Lucio Costa

1902-1998 (aged 96)

urban planner architect

Lúcio Marçal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner, best known for his plan for Brasília.

58. Emílio Santiago

1946-2013 (aged 67)

singer guitarist recording artist

Emílio Vitalino Santiago, known as Emílio Santiago, was a Brazilian singer.

59. Marco Aurélio Mello

1946-. (aged 80)

judge

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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60. Carlos Chagas

1879-1934 (aged 55)

academic scientific collector bacteriologist entomologist physician

Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis, he also discovered the causative fungi of the pneumocystis pneumonia. He described the two pathogens in 1909, while he was working at the Oswaldo...

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61. Ivan Lins

1945-. (aged 81)

film score composer composer record producer jazz musician pianist

Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music (MPB) and jazz for over fifty years. His first hit, "Madalena", was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. "Love Dance", a hit in 1989, is one of the most recorded songs in contemporary music.

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62. Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes

1831-1900 (aged 69)

physician writer journalist philanthropist writer novelist

Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes Cavalcanti was a Brazilian doctor, politician, military officer, and influential figure in the early Spiritist movement in Brazil. He is often referred to as the "Kardec of Brazil" due to his significant contributions to the dissemination and establishment of Spiritism in the country.

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63. Rogério Skylab

1958-. (aged 68)

classical guitarist writer composer poet recording artist

Rogério Tolomei Teixeira, known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, author, blogger, record producer, actor and short-lived television presenter. Describing himself as a "corpse within MPB", his unique musical style which granted him a passionate cult following is characterized by minimalism, repetition and eclecticism, and his writings are permeated by grotesque, shocking and offensive imagery;...

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64. Artur Ávila

1979-. (aged 47)

mathematician researcher research fellow university teacher

Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one)....

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65. Geraldo Vandré

1935-. (aged 91)

lawyer writer composer poet recording artist

Geraldo Vandré is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.

66. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

1902-1982 (aged 80)

literary critic writer sociologist politician journalist

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a Brazilian historian, writer, journalist and sociologist. One of his main works, Raízes do Brasil, is widely regarded as a landmark in Brazilian social sciences. In the book, he develops the concept of the cordial man.

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67. Isabella Santoni

1995-. (aged 31)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

Isabella Ribeiro Santoni is a Brazilian actress. She became nationally known as Karina, the main role of the 22nd season of Malhação.

68. Roberto Mangabeira Unger

1947-. (aged 79)

politician university teacher lawyer philosopher economist

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of Western philosophy and classical social theory, and is developed across fields in legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics. In natural philosophy he is known for The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time. In social theory he...

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69. Maria da Conceição Tavares

1930-2024 (aged 94)

university teacher politician analyst statistician economist

Maria da Conceição Tavares was a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She was a full professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her students included the former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and José Serra, candidate to president of Brazil on several occasions. Tavares was affiliated with the...

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70. Nathalia Timberg

1929-. (aged 97)

television actor stage actor actor film actor

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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71. Cissa Guimarães

1957-. (aged 69)

actor television actor writer

Beatriz Gentil Pinheiro "Cissa" Guimarães is a Brazilian television presenter and actress.

72. Roberto Burle Marx

1909-1994 (aged 85)

landscape architect

Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is credited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. His work had a great influence...

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73. Candido Portinari

1903-1962 (aged 59)

painter draftsperson politician

Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.

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74. Sabrina Sato

1981-. (aged 45)

comedian television actor model film actor television presenter

Sabrina Sato Rahal is a Brazilian television presenter. She was a contestant on Big Brother Brasil 3 (2003) and a hostess on the comedy program Pânico na TV from 2004 until 2013. From 2014 to 2019, she had her own show on RecordTV.

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75. Henrique Meirelles

1945-. (aged 81)

politician economist

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,...

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76. Fátima Bernardes

1962-. (aged 64)

journalist news presenter

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...

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77. Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega

1936-. (aged 90)

screenwriter television presenter lawyer writer actor

Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega is a Brazilian comedian, television host, scriptwriter, producer, executive director, actor, writer and lawyer, son of fellow comedian Manuel de Nóbrega. He was a scriptwriter for comedy shows on TV Paulista, TV Rio and RecordTV. He wrote dozens of programs, including Família Trapo and A Praça da Alegria, and was also the writer for Os Trapalhões....

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78. Elke Maravilha

1945-2016 (aged 71)

actor librarian television personality

Elke Maravilha was a German-Brazilian actress, model and television personality. She lived in Brazil from her early childhood until her death.

79. Viviane Araújo

1975-. (aged 51)

model actor

Viviane dos Santos Araújo is a Brazilian photographic model, actress and reality television personality.

80. Jorge Lafond

1952-2003 (aged 51)

female impersonator actor

Jorge Luiz Souza Lima, better known as Jorge Lafond, was a Brazilian actor, comedian, dancer, and drag queen. His main and most well known drag persona was that of Vera Verão.

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81. Carlos Lacerda

1914-1977 (aged 63)

lawyer politician journalist

Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.

82. Mateus Solano

1981-. (aged 45)

film actor actor television actor

Mateus Solano Schenker Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian actor.

83. Augusto Boal

1931-2009 (aged 78)

playwright director writer theatrical director scientist

Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre, a theatrical form originally used in 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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84. Ronaldo Caiado

1949-. (aged 77)

physician orthopedist traumatologist politician

Ronaldo Ramos Caiado is a Brazilian politician. An orthopedic physician trained at the School of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro, he comes from a family landowners and politicians from Goiás. He is the grandson of Antonio Ramos Caiado, an oligarch who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1909 to 1921 and a senator from...

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85. Oscar Niemeyer

1907-2012 (aged 105)

architect writer designer university teacher urban planner

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known as Oscar Niemeyer ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈoskaʁ ni.eˈmajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration...

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86. Enéas Carneiro

1938-2007 (aged 69)

military personnel physicist mathematician author translator

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...

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87. Jorge Amado

1912-2001 (aged 89)

novelist politician writer journalist poet

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least...

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88. Eduardo Bolsonaro

1984-. (aged 42)

advocate politician escrivão de polícia

Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer. He is the third child of Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil. Since March 2022 he has been affiliated with the Liberal Party. Between 18 March and 20 July 2025, he was on leave from his position as Member of the Chamber of Deputies, residing in the...

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89. Clarice Lispector

1920-1977 (aged 57)

painter screenwriter writer translator novelist

Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the pogroms committed during the Russian Civil...

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90. Miguel Arraes

1916-2005 (aged 89)

lawyer politician

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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91. Mauro Vieira

1951-. (aged 75)

diplomat

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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92. Roberto DaMatta

1936-. (aged 90)

writer anthropologist journalist

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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93. Graças Foster

1953-. (aged 73)

chief officer chemical engineer businessperson

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...

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94. José Gomes Temporão

1951-. (aged 75)

politician physician

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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95. Ilan Goldfajn

1966-. (aged 60)

politician economist

Ilan Goldfajn is an Israeli-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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96. Conceição Evaristo

1946-. (aged 80)

writer poet linguist university teacher

Maria da Conceição Evaristo de Brito is a Brazilian writer. Her work is marked by her life experiences as an Afro-Brazilian woman, which she calls escrevivência—a portmanteau of escrita (writing) and vivência (life experience). She was born into a humble family and is the second oldest of nine siblings, being the first in her household to earn a university degree....

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97. Marcelo Gleiser

1959-. (aged 67)

astrophysicist astronomer physicist journalist

Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian-American physicist and astronomer. He is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.

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98. Moreira Franco

1944-. (aged 82)

politician sociologist

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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99. João Dionísio Amoêdo

1962-. (aged 64)

engineer politician

João Dionisio Filgueira Barreto Amoêdo, also known as João Amoêdo, is a Brazilian banker, engineer and businessman. He is one of the founders of the New Party (NOVO), which he presided from September 2015 to July 2017, and was its candidate in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election.

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100. Simone Tebet

1970-. (aged 56)

politician

Simone Nassar Tebet is a Brazilian academic, lawyer, and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Planning and Budget since 5 January 2023. She previously was Senator for Mato Grosso do Sul from 2015 to 2023, Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2011 to 2014, and mayor of Três Lagoas from 2005 to 2010, becoming the first...

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