People on Brazil's street signs

Getúlio Vargas

329 Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was a Brazilian military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Due...

Mary, mother of Jesus

165 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Ruy Barbosa

150 Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira, also known as Rui Barbosa, was a Brazilian politician, writer, jurist, philologist, journalist and diplomat.

Alberto Santos-Dumont

147 Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air...

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias

146 Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "the Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. Like his father and uncles, Caxias...

Tiradentes

140 Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from...

Floriano Peixoto

131 Floriano Vieira Peixoto was a Brazilian military officer and politician. A veteran of the Paraguayan War and several other conflicts in Brazil, he served as the president of Brazil from 1891 to 1894,...

Paul the Apostle

129 Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century AD. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is...

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

125 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was a Brazilian military officer and politician who served as the 26th president of Brazil, the first leader of the Brazilian military dictatorship following the...

Saint Joseph

117 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco

109 José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, Baron of Rio Branco was a Brazilian statesman, diplomat, geographer, historian, politician and professor, considered to be the "Patron of Brazilian diplomacy"....

Deodoro da Fonseca

93 Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military...

Tancredo Neves

93 Tancredo de Almeida Neves was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He served as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 1953 to 1954, President of the Council of Ministers from...

Francis of Assisi

93 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of...

Anthony of Padua

92 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

Jesus

91 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Mário Covas

88 Mário Covas Almeida Júnior was a Brazilian politician.                                             

João Pessoa (politician)

78 João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque was a Brazilian politician and lawyer who served as the governor of Paraíba between 1928 and 1930.

Pedro II of Brazil

76 Dom Pedro II, known as "the Magnanimous", was the second and final emperor of the Empire of Brazil. He reigned from 1831 until his deposition in the military coup of 1889, presiding over the longest...

Benjamin Constant

76 Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.

Juscelino Kubitschek

75 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, also known by his initials JK, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. Kubitschek's government plan, dubbed "50...

John the Apostle

74 John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament....

Castro Alves

74 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...

Saint Peter

73 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears...

Catherine of Alexandria

68 Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According...

Saint Sebastian

68 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

John F. Kennedy

64 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years,...

Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

60 Dona Isabel, known as "the Redemptress", was the Princess Imperial of Brazil and heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil. She served as regent of the empire on three occasions and...

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

60 José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire.

Bandeirantes

56 Bandeirantes were frontiersmen and explorers in colonial Brazil who, from the early 16th century, participated in inland expeditions to find precious metals and enslave indigenous peoples. They...

Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval

53 Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval was a Brazilian military officer, monarchist and politician. A member of the Imperial Army at the age of fifteen, he climbed all the posts of the military...

Quintino Bocaiuva

52 Quintino Antônio Ferreira de Sousa Bocaiuva was a Brazilian politician and writer. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil between 1889 and 1891. He was also President of the State of...

Joseph of Anchieta

51 José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first...

Cândido Rondon

51 Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon was a Brazilian military officer most famous for his telegraph commission and exploration of Mato Grosso and the western Amazon basin, as well as his lifelong...

Oswaldo Cruz

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

Prudente de Morais

46 Prudente José de Morais Barros 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...

Campos Sales

44 Manoel Ferraz de Campos Sales was a Brazilian lawyer, coffee farmer, and politician who served as the fourth president of Brazil.

Eurico Gaspar Dutra

43 Eurico Gaspar Dutra was a Brazilian military leader and politician who served as the president of Brazil from 1946 to 1951. He was the first president of the Fourth Brazilian Republic, which followed...

Our Lady of Fátima

43 Our Lady of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The three...

Pope John XXIII

42 Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

Ayrton Senna

42 Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1994. Senna won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with McLaren, and—at the time of his...

Júlio de Castilhos

41 Júlio Prates de Castilhos was a Brazilian journalist and politician, having been elected Patriarch of Rio Grande do Sul.

Francisco Manuel Barroso, Baron of Amazonas

39 Francisco Manuel Barroso, Baron of Amazonas was a Portuguese-born Brazilian admiral. He was the commander who led the Imperial Navy to victory in the Battle of Riachuelo during the Paraguayan War.

Olavo Bilac

39 Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac, known simply as Olavo Bilac, was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of...

Antônio Carlos Gomes

39 Antônio Carlos Gomes was a Brazilian composer notable for being the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe. He was the only non-European who was successful as an opera composer in...

Rita of Cascia

39 Rita of Cascia, OSA, was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun. After Rita's husband died, she joined a small community of nuns, who later became Augustinians, where she was known both for practicing...

Afonso Pena

38 Afonso Augusto Moreira 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...

Siqueira Campos (político)

37 José Wilson Siqueira Campos, mais conhecido como Siqueira Campos, foi um político brasileiro. Foi o primeiro governador do estado do Tocantins, já tendo exercido o cargo em quatro mandatos distintos....

Artur da Costa e Silva

37 Artur da Costa e Silva was a Brazilian Army Marshal and the second president of the Brazilian military government that came to power after the 1964 coup d'état. He reached the rank of Marshal of the...

Benedict the Moor

37 Benedict the Moor, also known as Benedict of Palermo, Benedict the Black, or Benedict the African, was a Afro-Sicilian Franciscan friar. He was born to enslaved Africans in San Fratello, Sicily and...

Gonçalves Dias

36 Antônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "Indianism", he...

Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho

36 Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho was a Brazilian lawyer, political leader and influential figure in the separation of the Brazilian Air Force from the Army.

Machado de Assis

35 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely...

Michael (archangel)

34 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Monteiro Lobato

32 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 but he had been previously a prolific...

Benedict of Nursia

32 Benedict of Nursia, often known as Saint Benedict, was a Christian monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old...

Joaquim Marques Lisboa, Marquis of Tamandaré

31 Admiral Joaquim Marques Lisboa, Marquis of Tamandaré was a Brazilian admiral of the Imperial Navy of Brazil. He dedicated his life to the Brazilian Navy, including a life-long membership in Brazil's...

Benedito Valadares

31 Benedito Valadares Ribeiro foi um jornalista e político brasileiro.                                 

Pedro I of Brazil

31 Dom Pedro I, known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" or "the Soldier King" in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in...

Anita Garibaldi

30 Anita Garibaldi was a Brazilian republican revolutionary naturalized Italian. She was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Their partnership epitomized the spirit...

Washington Luís

30 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...

Euclides da Cunha

30 Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões, a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government...

John the Baptist

29 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy,...

Christopher Columbus

29 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Nilo Peçanha

28 Nilo Procópio Peçanha was a Brazilian politician who served as the seventh president of Brazil. He was governor of Rio de Janeiro (1903–1906), then elected the fifth vice president of Brazil in 1906....

Saldanha Marinho

28 Joaquim Saldanha Marinho foi um advogado, jornalista, sociólogo e político brasileiro. Como jornalista, usou o pseudônimo Ganganelli.

Pope Pius XII

27 Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.

José de Alencar

26 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...

Vincent of Saragossa

26 Vincent of Saragossa, the Protomartyr of Spain, was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa. He is the patron saint of Lisbon, Algarve, and Valencia. His feast day is 22 January in the Catholic Church,...

Pedro Álvares Cabral

26 Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil. He was the first human in history to ever be on four...

Rodrigues Alves

25 Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves was a Brazilian politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Brazil, from 1902 to 1906. Alves was elected in 1902, becoming the third consecutive...

Nereu Ramos

25 Nereu de Oliveira Ramos was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He briefly served as interim president of Brazil in the aftermath of the political crisis which culminated in the suicide of President...

Antônio da Silva Jardim

25 Antônio da Silva Jardim was a Brazilian lawyer and journalist. He was a political activist in the abolitionist and republican movements, particularly in Rio de Janeiro state.

Artur Bernardes

25 Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th president of Brazil from 1922 to 1926. Bernades' presidency was marked by the crisis of the First Brazilian...

Oswaldo Aranha

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

Bento Gonçalves da Silva

24 Bento Gonçalves da Silva was a Brazilian army officer, politician and rebel leader of the Riograndense Republic. He was the first President of the Riograndense Republic and, by all accounts, one of...

José do Patrocínio

24 José Carlos do Patrocínio was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist. He was among the most well-known proponents of the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and known as "Tigre...

Saint George

24 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek...

Guaraní people

24 The Guarani are a group of culturally-related Indigenous peoples of South America. They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani language. The traditional range of the...

Vincent de Paul

24 Vincent de Paul, CM was an Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.

Princess Leopoldina of Brazil

23 Leopoldina, Princess Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a Brazilian-born princess and a member of the Brazilian imperial family. She was the younger daughter of Emperor Pedro II and Empress...

Marcílio Dias

23 Marcílio Dias foi um marinheiro da Armada Imperial Brasileira, considerado herói da Batalha Naval do Riachuelo durante a Guerra da Tríplice Aliança.

Ulysses Guimarães

23 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...

Rose of Lima

22 Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the...

Humberto de Campos (journalist)

22 Humberto de Campos Veras was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer.                         

Joaquim Nabuco

21 Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian statesman, diplomat, a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country, historian, jurist, journalist, and one of the founders of...

Fernão Dias

21 Fernão Dias Pais Leme (1608–1681) was a Paulista bandeirante. He was known as the Emerald Hunter and was one of the most prominent bandeirantes together with António Raposo Tavares.

John Bosco

21 John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of...

José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco

20 José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, was a Brazilian politician, monarchist, diplomat, teacher and journalist. Rio Branco was born in Salvador, in what was then the Captaincy of...

Maurício Cardoso

19 Joaquim Maurício Cardoso foi um advogado, professor universitário e político brasileiro, tendo sido interventor federal no estado do Rio Grande do Sul durante o Estado Novo, e ministro da Justiça e...

Charles Borromeo

19 Charles Borromeo was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560.

José Joaquim de Andrade Neves, Baron of Triunfo

19 José Joaquim de Andrade Neves, Baron of Triunfo was a Brazilian general who was known for his service in the Paraguayan War.

Pinheiro Machado (politician)

19 José Gomes Pinheiro Machado was a Brazilian republican politician. He fought for the establishment of the Republic in Brazil and for its consolidation.

Jude Thaddeus the Apostle

19 Jude the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is generally identified as Thaddeus and is also variously called Judas Thaddaeus, Jude Thaddaeus, Jude of...

Mark the Evangelist

18 Mark the Evangelist, also known as John Mark or Saint Mark, was a Libyan who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern scholars agree that the Gospel of Mark is...

Matthew the Apostle

18 Matthew the Apostle was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also known as...

Henrique Dias

17 Henrique Dias was a Portuguese soldier and militia leader born in the colony of Brazil. There is no consensus among historians whether he was born free or captive.

Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá

17 Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá, was a Brazilian entrepreneur, industrialist, banker and politician. Born to a family of small estancieiros (ranchers), Sousa became one of the world's...

Borges de Medeiros

17 Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros was a Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician. He served as Chief Judge and was appointed as the President of Rio Grande do Sul for a total of 25 years, during the...

Bernardo Sayão (político)

17 Bernardo Sayão Carvalho Araújo foi um engenheiro agrônomo do Ministério da Agricultura e político brasileiro.

Saint Christopher

17 Saint Christopher is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius, or alternatively under...

Clare of Assisi

17 Chiara Offreduccio, known as Clare of Assisi, is an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.

Pope Paul VI

17 Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican...

Allan Kardec

16 Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, known by the pen name of Allan Kardec, was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the...

António Raposo Tavares

16 António Raposo Tavares (1598–1658), known as the Elder, was a Portuguese bandeirante who explored mainland eastern South America and claimed it for Portugal, extending the territory of the colony...

Aloysius Gonzaga

16 Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious...

António Vieira

15 António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal.

Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil

15 Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, diplomat, writer and poet. He founded the Liberator Party and was a supporter of republicanism. He served as Governor of Rio...

Casimiro de Abreu

15 Casimiro José Marques de Abreu was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. He is famous for the poem "Meus oito anos".

Antônio Carlos Magalhães

15 Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães, commonly known as Antônio Carlos Magalhães or by his initials ACM, was a Brazilian physician, businessman, and politician, who served three times as both senator...

Vasco da Gama

15 Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman. His discovery of the first direct maritime route between Europe and India via the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean from...

Assis Chateaubriand

15 Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, also nicknamed Chatô, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was founder and director of the prominent media conglomerate...

Adhemar de Barros

15 Adhemar Pereira de Barros was the mayor of São Paulo (1957–1961), and twice elected Governor of São Paulo.

José Antônio Flores da Cunha

15 José Antônio Flores da Cunha foi um advogado, general e político brasileiro, tendo sido interventor federal e, posteriormente, presidente eleito do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, bem como senador pelo...

Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist

15 Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived...

Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros

14 Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros was a Brazilian soldier, combatant in the Uruguayan Campaign and in the Paraguayan War. Mariz e Barros was the son of chief of squad Joaquim José Inácio, the viscount...

Manuel da Nóbrega

14 Manuel da Nóbrega, SJ was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and the first provincial of the Society of Jesus in colonial Brazil. Together with José de Anchieta, he was very influential in the early history...

Olegário Maciel

14 Olegário Dias Maciel foi um engenheiro e político brasileiro. Foi um dos líderes da Revolução de 1930 que conduziu Getúlio Vargas ao poder no Brasil.

Joachim

14 Joachim was, according to Christian Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part...

John II of Portugal

14 John II, called the Perfect Prince, was King of Portugal from 1481 until his death in 1495, and also for a brief time in 1477. He is known for reestablishing the power of the Portuguese monarchy,...

Saint Lawrence

14 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Coelho Neto

14 Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto was a Brazilian writer and politician. He founded and occupied the second chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, from 1897 until his death in 1934. He was also the...

Jorge Lacerda

14 Jorge Lacerda foi um político brasileiro. Foi governador de Santa Catarina, de 1956 a 1958.         

Mascarenhas de Morais

14 João Batista Mascarenhas de Morais was a Brazilian army officer and commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the Second World War. He was ranked Field Marshal and was the last active...

Helena, mother of Constantine I

14 Flavia Julia Helena, also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was a Greek Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great as well as a...

Frei Caneca

14 Frei Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo, born Joaquim da Silva Rabelo, commonly known as Frei Caneca, was a Brazilian religious leader, politician, and journalist. He was involved in multiple revolts in...

Tomé de Sousa

14 Tomé de Sousa (1503–1579) was the first governor-general of the Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1549 until 1553. He was a nobleman and soldier born in Rates, Póvoa de Varzim. Sousa was born a noble...

Gomes Carneiro

14 Antônio Ernesto Gomes Carneiro was a Brazilian army officer and veteran of the Paraguayan War. Antônio Ernesto Gomes Carneiro fought on the side of the Republican government in the Federalist...

Fernando Ferrari

14 Fernando Ferrari foi um economista e político brasileiro. Atuou no Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB) e no Movimento Trabalhista Renovador (MTR).

Pedro Américo

13 Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo was a Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, art theorist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor, but is best remembered as one of the most important...

Filipe Camarão

13 D. Antônio Filipe Camarão was an Indigenous soldier from the Potiguara tribe near the Rio Grande do Norte area of the Portuguese colony of Brazil. His original tribal name was Poti, which means...

Roberto Silveira

13 Roberto Teixeira da Silveira foi um político brasileiro.                                           

Saint Cajetan

13 Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene, known in English as Saint Cajetan, was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, co-founder of the Theatines. He is recognised as a saint in the Catholic Church,...

Eduardo Gomes

13 Marshal of the Air Eduardo Gomes was a Brazilian politician and military figure from Petrópolis.   

Andrew the Apostle

13 Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.

Abilon de Sousa Naves

13 Abilon de Souza Naves foi um político brasileiro.                                                   

Erico Verissimo

13 Érico Lopes Veríssimo was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.   

Louis Pasteur

12 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Gaspar da Silveira Martins

12 Gaspar da Silveira Martins foi um magistrado e político brasileiro.                                 

Mem de Sá

12 Mem de Sá was a Governor-General of the Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1557 to 1572. He was born in Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal, around 1500, the year of discovery of Brazil by a naval fleet...

Epitácio Pessoa

12 Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist who served as the 11th president of Brazil between 1919 and 1922, when Rodrigues Alves was unable to take office due to...

Graciliano Ramos

12 Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He is known worldwide for his portrayal of the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian...

Agamenon Magalhães

12 Agamenon Sérgio de Godoy Magalhães foi um promotor de direito, geógrafo, professor e político brasileiro; deputado estadual (1918), federal, governador de estado e ministro.

Saint Nicholas

12 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Alberto Torres

12 Alberto Torres may refer to:Alberto Torres (politician) (1865–1917), Brazilian politician and social thinker Alberto Torres (athlete) (1934–1999), Dominican Republic sprinter Alberto Torres...

Amaral Peixoto

12 Ernâni do Amaral Peixoto foi um militar e político brasileiro.                                     

Diogo Feijó

12 Diogo Antônio Feijó was a Brazilian politician and Catholic priest. He was the regent of the Empire of Brazil from October 1835 to September 1837. Aside from members of the Imperial family, he was...

Augustine of Hippo

12 Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Roman Africa. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius from Thagaste in Numidia Cirtensis,. His writings deeply influenced the development...

Carlos Sampaio Garrido

12 Carlos de Almeida Afonseca Sampaio Garrido was a Portuguese diplomat credited with saving the lives of approximately 1,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary while serving as Portugal's ambassador in...

Saint Dominic

12 Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his...

Luke the Evangelist

12 Luke the Evangelist was one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke...

Venâncio de Oliveira Aires

12 Venâncio de Oliveira Aires foi um jornalista brasileiro e precursor das ideias republicanas e abolicionistas. Com Moreira da Silva, fundou o primeiro jornal de Itapetininga, O Município (1873).

Hermes da Fonseca

12 Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was a Brazilian field marshal and politician who served as the eighth president of Brazil between 1910 and 1914. He was a nephew of marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, the first...

Emílio Garrastazu Médici

12 Emílio Garrastazu Médici was a Brazilian military leader and dictator who was the 28th president of Brazil from 1969 to 1974. His authoritarian rule marked the apex of the Brazilian military regime.

Bartolomeu de Gusmão

11 Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a Catholic priest and naturalist born in colonial Brazil, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to...

John VI of Portugal

11 Dom John VI, known as "the Clement", was King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825, and after the recognition of Brazil's independence, titular Emperor of...

Francisco Glicério

11 Francisco Glicério de Cerqueira Leite foi um comerciante, professor, advogado, jornalista e político brasileiro. Destacou-se como republicano no fim do século XIX, sendo admitido como a Encarnação do...

Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada (IV)

11 Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada foi um político brasileiro, prefeito de Belo Horizonte, presidente da Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil, senador da República, presidente da Assembleia Nacional...

Saint Barbara

11 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.

José da Silva Lisboa, Viscount of Cairu

11 José da Silva Lisboa, first Baron and Viscount of Cairu, was a Brazilian economist, historian, jurist, publicist and politician, active at the time of the Independence of Brazil and credited for the...

Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo

11 Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo was a Brazilian journalist and politician. He was active in the freemasonry movement in Brazil. He was one of the leaders of the more liberal and democrat faction during the...

Gabriel

11 In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel or even Cebrail (Djebraïl) in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the...

Ary Barroso

11 Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of...

Melvin Jones (Lions Club)

11 Melvin Jones was the founder and secretary-treasurer of Lions Clubs International.                 

Amador Bueno

11 Amador Bueno was a landowner and colonial administrator of the Captaincy of São Vicente. Became an important figure in history when he was acclaimed king of the Paulistas in 1641, an event that...

João Goulart

10 João Belchior Marques Goulart, commonly known as Jango, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th president of Brazil from 1961 until a military coup d'état deposed him in 1964. He was...

Fagundes Varela

10 Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela was a Brazilian Romantic poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. He is patron of the 11th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

José Vicente Faria Lima

10 José Vicente de Faria Lima was a Brazilian military engineer and later politician.                 

Jerônymo Monteiro

10 Jerônymo Monteiro, de nome completo Jerônymo Barbosa Monteiro, foi um jornalista e um dos primeiros escritores brasileiros de ficção científica.

Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay

10 Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay, was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the...

Lauro Müller

10 Lauro Severiano Müller was a Brazilian politician, diplomat, and military engineer. Responsible for the transition of Santa Catarina from a province to a state, he is also recognised as one of those...

Bernardino de Campos (politician)

10 Bernardino José de Campos Júnior was a Brazilian politician. He was governor of São Paulo from 23 August 1892 to 15 April 1896 and 3 July 1902 to 1 May 1904.

João Ramalho

10 João Ramalho (1493–1582) was a Portuguese explorer and adventurer known as the first bandeirante. He lived much of his life among Tupiniquim natives in Brazil after he arrived there around 1510. He...

Armando de Sales Oliveira

10 Armando de Sales Oliveira was a Brazilian politician and governor of São Paulo. He was born in São Paulo on 24 December 1887. He was a candidate for the planned election of 1938, though it was never...

Saint Roch

10 Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the...

Jorge Amado

10 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...

Manuel Buarque de Macedo

9 Manuel Buarque de Macedo foi um engenheiro, jornalista, político, estadista, orador e polemista brasileiro.

Líbero Badaró

9 Giovanni Battista Líbero Badaró was an Italian-born Brazilian medical doctor, botanist, journalist and politician.

Miguel Couto

9 Miguel Couto was a Brazilian educationist, politician and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was one of Brazil's most prominent exponents of eugenics.

Pedro de Toledo

9 Pedro de Toledo may refer to:                                                                       

Manuel de Cerqueira Daltro Filho

9 Manuel de Cerqueira Daltro Filho foi um militar brasileiro, tendo governado os estados de São Paulo e Rio Grande do Sul por períodos breves, na condição de interventor federal.

André Vidal de Negreiros

9 André Vidal de Negreiros was a Portuguese colonial governor and military man born in the then colony of Brazil, known mainly for being one of the leaders of the Insurrection of Pernambuco, also known...

Maria Quitéria

9 Maria Quitéria de Jesus was a Brazilian soldier and national heroine. She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–24 dressed as a man. She was promoted to cadet and lieutenant and later...

Anthony the Great

9 Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as Anthony of Padua, by various epithets: Anthony of...

Caramuru

9 Caramuru was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact with the native Tupinambá population in modern-day Brazil...

Xingu peoples

9 The Xingu are an indigenous people of Brazil living near the Xingu River. They are the Aweti, Kalapalo, Kamaiurá, Kayapó, Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá, Suyá, Trumai, Wauja and the Yawalapiti...

João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotegipe

9 João Maurício Vanderlei or Wanderley, Baron of Cotegipe, was a Brazilian magistrate and politician of the Conservative Party.

Magalhães Pinto

9 José de Magalhães Pinto was a Brazilian politician and banker.                                     

Teófilo Ottoni

9 Teófilo Benedito Ottoni foi um jornalista, comerciante, político e empresário brasileiro que serviu como deputado provincial por Minas Gerais, deputado geral e senador do Império do Brasil de 1864 a...

Xavante

9 The Xavante are an indigenous people, comprising about 30,000 individuals within the territory of eastern Mato Grosso state in Brazil. They speak the Xavante language, part of the Jê language family.

Frédéric Ozanam

9 Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam was a French Catholic literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of...

José Francisco Bias Fortes

9 José Francisco Bias Fortes foi um político brasileiro. Foi deputado constituinte em 1934 e 1946, prefeito de Barbacena, entre 1937 e 1945, ministro da Justiça no Governo Eurico Dutra, e governador de...

Joaquim Murtinho

9 Joaquim Duarte Murtinho Nobre foi um médico e político brasileiro liberal. Murtinho foi Ministro da Indústria e Comércio (1899–1902) no governo Prudente de Morais e também Ministro da Fazenda...

Guaycuru peoples

9 Guaycuru or Guaykuru is a generic term for several ethnic groups indigenous to the Gran Chaco region of South America, who speak related Guaicuruan languages. At the time of first contact with...

Pedro Lessa

9 Pedro Augusto Carneiro Lessa foi um jurista, magistrado, político e professor brasileiro.           

Cecilia of Rome

9 Cecilia of Rome, also spelled Cecelia, was a Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...

Nelson Hungria

9 Nelson Hungria Hoffbauer foi um dos mais importantes penalistas brasileiros, com diversas obras publicadas ao longo da vida. Foi desembargador do Tribunal de Justiça do antigo Distrito Federal,...

Petrônio Portella

9 Petrônio Portella Nunes foi um advogado e político brasileiro de atuação destacada como fiador da distensão política empreendida pelos presidentes Ernesto Geisel e João Figueiredo. Era tido como a...

Graça Aranha

9 José Pereira da Graça Aranha was a Brazilian writer and diplomat, considered to be a forerunner of the Modernism in Brazil. He was also one of the organizers of the Brazilian Modern Art Week of 1922.

Pope John Paul I

9 Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, giving rise to the...

João Guimarães Rosa

8 João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat.               

Vinicius de Moraes

8 Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, better known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed "O Poetinha", was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwright. With his...

Delfim Moreira

8 Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro was a Brazilian politician who served as the tenth president of Brazil.

Chico Mendes

8 Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist who fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest and advocated for the...

Carlos de Campos

8 Carlos de Campos was a Brazilian politician, and president of the state of São Paulo for several months in 1924.

Gonçalo de Amarante

8 Gundisalvus of Amarante, OP was a Portuguese Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers. He joined the order as a hermit after his return from a long pilgrimage that took him to both Rome and...

David Canabarro

8 David José Martins, known as David Canabarro, was a Brazilian general.                             

José de San Martín

8 José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's...

Altino Arantes

8 Altino Arantes Marques (1876–1965) was a President of São Paulo. He was born in Batatais and graduated from the Law School of São Paulo in 1895. He was a member of the Republican Party of São Paulo....

Cruz e Sousa

8 João da Cruz e Sousa, also referred to simply as Cruz e Sousa, was a Brazilian poet and journalist, famous for being one of the first Brazilian Symbolist poets. A descendant of African slaves, he has...

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus

8 Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, C.I.I.C., was a Catholic immigrant from Austria-Hungary to Brazil who became the foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate...

Rocha Pombo

8 José Francisco da Rocha Pombo (1857–1933) was a Brazilian journalist, professor, poet, lawyer, and historian. He born in Morretes, the son of Manuel Francisco Pombo and Angélica da Rocha. He studied...

Conselheiro Antônio Prado

8 Antônio da Silva Prado foi um advogado, político, estadista, agricultor, empresário e banqueiro brasileiro. Esteve diretamente envolvido na elaboração da Lei dos Sexagenários e da Lei Áurea.

Bezerra de Menezes

8 Adolfo Bezerra de Menezes Cavalcanti, mais conhecido como Bezerra de Menezes, foi um médico, militar, escritor, jornalista, político, filantropo, filósofo e expoente da Doutrina Espírita. Recebeu a...

Borba Gato

8 Manuel de Borba Gato was a bandeirante in the Captaincy of São Vicente. He began his career with his father-in-law Fernão Dias Pais. When he died in 1718 he held the office of Juiz ordinário of the...

Padre Cícero

8 Cícero Romão Batista also known as "Padre Cícero", was a Brazilian Catholic priest who became a spiritual leader to the people of Northeastern Brazil.

Júlio Prestes

8 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...

Ephigenia of Ethiopia

8 Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia, also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, is a Western folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend as a virgin converted to Christianity and then...

Luís de Camões

8 Luís Vaz de Camões, sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of...

Jones dos Santos Neves

7 Jones dos Santos Neves foi um político brasileiro.                                                 

Saint Amaro

7 According to Catholic tradition, Saint Amaro or Amarus the Pilgrim was an abbot and sailor who it was claimed sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to an earthly paradise. There are two historical figures...

João Fernandes Vieira

7 João Fernandes Vieira, nascido Francisco de Ornelas, foi um militar e senhor de engenho português, um dos principais líderes nas lutas pela expulsão dos holandeses de Pernambuco.

Evaristo da Veiga

7 Evaristo Ferreira da Veiga e Barros was a Brazilian poet, journalist, politician, and bookseller. Veiga founded one of the first Brazilian newspapers, A Aurora Fluminense, in 1827, during the reign...

João Ribeiro (escritor)

7 João Batista Ribeiro de Andrade Fernandes, mais conhecido como João Ribeiro, foi um jornalista, crítico literário, filólogo, historiador, pintor e tradutor brasileiro. Foi um membro da Academia...

Lima Barreto

7 Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure in Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of...

Régis Bittencourt

7 Edmundo Régis Bittencourt foi um engenheiro civil brasileiro, empreiteiro e ex-presidente do Departamento Nacional de Estradas de Rodagem.

Gaspar da Madre de Deus

7 Gaspar Teixeira de Azevedo, melhor conhecido como Frei Gaspar da Madre de Deus, foi um religioso da Ordem de São Bento e historiador brasileiro.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

7 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Pedro de Araújo Lima, Marquis of Olinda

7 Pedro de Araújo Lima, Marquis of Olinda was a politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. His long political career spanned the reigns of John VI, Pedro I and Pedro II. He was also one of the...

Alexandrino Faria de Alencar

7 Alexandrino Faria de Alencar foi um almirante e político brasileiro, senador durante a República Velha. Casou com Amália Murray Simões e Santos e teve duas filhas e um filho, o ministro Armando de...

Paulo de Frontin

7 André Gustavo Paulo de Frontin, foi um político e engenheiro brasileiro de origem francesa. Recebeu o título nobiliárquico de Conde de Frontin pela Santa Sé.

Robert F. Kennedy

7 Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to...

Júlio Afrânio Peixoto

7 Júlio Afrânio Peixoto was a Brazilian physician, writer, politician, historian, university president, and pioneering eugenicist. He held many public offices, including Brazilian congressional...

Lúcio Meira

7 Lúcio Martins Meira ou simplesmente Lúcio Meira foi um militar, engenheiro, político e administrador brasileiro.

Felipe Schmidt

7 Felipe Schmidt foi um político brasileiro.                                                         

Venceslau Brás

7 Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth president of Brazil between 1914 and 1918, during the First Brazilian Republic. Brás was born in Brasópolis,...

Candido Portinari

7 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.

Ramiro Barcelos

7 Ramiro Fortes de Barcellos foi um político, escritor, jornalista e médico brasileiro.               

Saint Lucy

7 Lucia of Syracuse, also called Santa Lucia and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic,...

Irineu Bornhausen

7 Irineu Bornhausen foi um político brasileiro. Foi vereador e prefeito de Itajaí. Foi governador de Santa Catarina, de 31 de janeiro de 1951 a 31 de janeiro de 1956. Foi eleito deputado federal por...

Francisco Alves (singer)

7 Francisco de Morais Alves, better known as Francisco Alves, Chico Alves or Chico Viola, was a Brazilian singer, one of the most popular in the first half of the 20th century, and considered by many...

Agnes of Rome

7 Agnes of Rome was a Roman Christian adolescent who was executed for her faith in the 4th century. She is venerated as a virgin martyr and as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Church...

Lopes Trovão

7 José Lopes da Silva Trovão, better known as Lopes Trovão, was a Brazilian physician, journalist, and politician.

Guilherme de Almeida

7 Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida was a Brazilian poet, lawyer, journalist, film critic, essayist and translator. He helped popularize the Japanese poem style, haiku, in Brazil.

Augusto dos Anjos

7 Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered the forerunners of Modernism in Brazil.

Augusto Teixeira de Freitas

7 Augusto Teixeira de Freitas (1816–1883) was a prominent Brazilian jurist whose prolific writings inspired all South American private law codifications.

Alberto Pasqualini

7 Alberto Pasqualini foi advogado, intelectual e político brasileiro, reconhecido como o principal formulador doutrinário do trabalhismo no Brasil. Atuou como senador da República pelo Rio Grande do...

Guglielmo Marconi

7 Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess, was an Italian radio-frequency engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system....

Clóvis Beviláqua

7 Clóvis Beviláqua was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará, Ceará, in 1859. Beviláqua was professor of civil and comparative law in Recife. As the author of the...

Delmiro Augusto da Cruz Gouveia

7 Delmiro Augusto da Cruz Gouveia, better known as Delmiro Gouveia, was a Brazilian industrialist and entrepreneur.

Jerome

7 Jerome, also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

Bernard of Clairvaux

7 Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian...

Antônio Moreira César

7 Antônio Moreira César was a Brazilian military officer and governor. He fought on the side of the government forces in the Naval Revolts, the Federalist Revolution and the War of Canudos, and served...

Manuel de Sousa Martins

7 Manuel de Sousa Martins, primeiro barão e visconde com grandeza de Parnaíba, foi um militar e político brasileiro.

Martin Luther

7 Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs...

Aluizio Santos

6 Aluizio De Souza Santos, é deputado estadual eleito pelo estado do Maranhão, é filiado ao Partido Liberal (PL).

Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro

6 Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro, better known as Senator Vergueiro, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian coffee farmer and politician and slave trader. He was a pioneer in the implementation of a free...

Vicente de Carvalho

6 Vicente Augusto de Carvalho foi um poeta, jornalista, magistrado e político brasileiro. Alcunhado "poeta do mar", é tido como um dos principais autores do parnasianismo no Brasil. Ocupou a cadeira 29...

Rangel Pestana

6 Francisco Rangel Pestana foi um jornalista, político e jurista brasileiro. Foi um importante político, tendo participação importante no Partido Republicano e na imprensa, sendo um dos fundadores do...

Leonel Brizola

6 Leonel de Moura Brizola was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two...

Francis Xavier

6 Francis Xavier, venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary. He co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian...

Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque

6 Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque foi um agricultor, advogado e político brasileiro. Eleito o quarto presidente do estado de São Paulo, governou de 1898 até 1900. Filho do coronel Manuel Prestes de...

Count Francesco Matarazzo

6 Francesco Antonio Maria Matarazzo, Count Matarazzo was an Italian-born Brazilian industrialist and businessman who created a large business in South America, particularly in Brazil.

Antônio Álvares da Silva

6 Antônio Álvares da Silva, o Frei Orlando, foi um religioso e militar brasileiro, que participou da Segunda Guerra Mundial, tendo servido como capitão capelão do Exército Brasileiro. Frei Orlando é...

Aristides Lobo

6 Aristides da Silveira Lobo foi um jurista, político e jornalista republicano e abolicionista brasileiro, ao tempo do Império.

Luís Gama

6 Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama was a Brazilian lawyer, abolitionist, orator, journalist and writer, and the Patron of the abolition of slavery in Brazil.

Frei Galvão

6 Anthony of St. Ann Galvão, more commonly known as Frei Galvão, was a Brazilian friar of the Franciscan Order.

Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão

6 Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão was a Brazilian politician, journalist, inventor and aeronaut.

Bernardino de Sousa Monteiro

6 Bernardino de Sousa Monteiro was a Brazilian politician. He was representative on Espírito Santo's State Chamber and on the Brazilian Federal Chamber, Senator of the State of Espírito Santo and,...

Martim Afonso de Sousa

6 Martim Afonso de Sousa was a Portuguese fidalgo, explorer and colonial administrator.               

António Ribeiro

6 António Ribeiro may refer to:António Ribeiro (cardinal) (1928–1998), Portuguese cardinal António Ribeiro, Portuguese-Canadian soccer player António Ribeiro, Portuguese footballer António Ribeiro...

Pope Leo XIII

6 Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX, and John Paul II.

Carlos Chagas

6 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...

Pandiá Calógeras

6 João Pandiá Calógeras foi um engenheiro, geólogo, historiador e político brasileiro.               

Israel Pinheiro

6 Israel Pinheiro da Silva was a Brazilian politician and engineer.                                   

Emílio de Meneses

6 Emílio Nunes Correia de Meneses foi um jornalista e poeta parnasiano brasileiro, imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras e mestre dos sonetos satíricos. Para Glauco Mattoso, o poeta paranaense é o...

José Plácido de Castro

6 José Plácido de Castro was a Brazilian soldier, surveyor, rubber producer and politician who led the armed revolt during the Acre War of 1902–3, when the Republic of Acre broke away from Bolivia. He...

Newton Prado

6 Newton Prado Lux foi um locutor, escritor e ator brasileiro de rádio, cinema e televisão.           

Catulo da Paixão Cearense

6 Catulo da Paixão Cearense, o Poeta do Sertão, foi um poeta, teatrólogo, músico e compositor brasileiro. É considerado um dos maiores compositores da história da canção popular brasileira. A data de...

Antônio de Sousa Neto

6 General Antônio de Sousa Neto was a Brazilian military leader of the Riograndense Republic during the Ragamuffin War. On 20 September 1836, Neto declared the independence of the Riograndense Republic.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

6 Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time.

Pedro Parigot de Souza

6 Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza foi um engenheiro civil e político brasileiro.                       

Carvalho Pinto

6 Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto foi um político brasileiro e 44.º governador do estado de São Paulo.

Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto

6 Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, Viscount of Ouro Preto was a Brazilian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil.

Benedito Leite (político)

6 Benedito Pereira Leite foi um político, magistrado e jornalista brasileiro.                         

Ignatius of Loyola

6 Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and...

João Ribeiro de Barros

6 João Ribeiro de Barros was the first aviator of the three Americas to make an air crossing from Europe to America, on April 28, 1927, crossing the Atlantic Ocean with the Savoia-Marchetti S.55...

Paulo Freire

6 Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and Marxist philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he...

Vitorino de Brito Freire

6 Vitorino de Brito Freire was a Brazilian politician and congressman.                               

José Sarney

6 José Sarney de Araújo Costa is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and writer who served as the 31st president of Brazil from 1985 to 1990. He briefly served as the 20th vice president of Brazil for a...

Saint Monica

5 Monica, also written as Monnica, was an early North African Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on...

Francisco Otaviano

5 Francisco Otaviano de Almeida Rosa was a Brazilian poet, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. He is famous for translating into Portuguese works by famous writers such as Horace, Catullus,...

Heitor Teixeira Penteado

5 Heitor Teixeira Penteado foi um advogado e político brasileiro. Foi vice-presidente de São Paulo na gestão Júlio Prestes e substituía esse quando foi deposto em 24 de outubro de 1930, pela Revolução...

Saldanha da Gama

5 Luís Filipe de Saldanha da Gama was an admiral of the Brazilian Navy. He led the Revolta da Armada against the First Brazilian Republic alongside Custódio José de Melo and was killed by government...

Francisco Sá

5 Francisco Sá foi um engenheiro, jornalista e político brasileiro.                                   

Julio Cesar

5 Julio César and Júlio César are the terms for Julius Caesar in Spanish and Portuguese languages respectively. They may also refer to:Julio César Salas Municipality, Venezuela

Joaquim Rodrigues Torres, Viscount of Itaboraí

5 Joaquim José Rodrigues Torres, the Viscount of Itaboraí was a Brazilian politician and monarchist during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889). He was the country's Prime Minister from 1868...

Viscount of Pelotas

5 The title of Viscount of Pelotas was a Brazilian noble title granted by emperor Pedro I of Brazil to Patrício José Correia da Câmara by decree dated 12 October 1826.

Gago Coutinho

5 Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC, generally known simply as Gago Coutinho, was a Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviator. An aviation pioneer, Gago Coutinho...

Joaquim José Inácio, Viscount of Inhaúma

5 Joaquim José Inácio, Viscount of Inhaúma, was a naval officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. He was born in the Kingdom of Portugal, and his family moved to Brazil two years...

Marquis of Pombal (title)

5 Count of Oeiras was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, dated July 15, 1759, by King Joseph I of Portugal, and granted to Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Chief Minister of...

Demétrio Nunes Ribeiro

5 Demétrio Nunes Ribeiro foi um educador, engenheiro, jornalista e político brasileiro, o primeiro ministro da Agricultura da República do Brasil.

José Antônio Pimenta Bueno, Marquis of São Vicente

5 José Antônio Pimenta Bueno, Marquis of São Vicente, was a Brazilian magistrate, diplomat and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Brazil from 1870 to 1871.

Cesário Alvim

5 José Cesário de Faria Alvim was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, landowner, and politician who became a prominent figure in the final decades of the Empire of Brazil and the early years of the First...

Celso Ramos

5 Celso Ramos foi um industrial e político brasileiro.                                               

Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre

5 Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre, nicknamed "the Gloved Centaur", was a Brazilian army officer, politician and abolitionist. Born into a wealthy family of military background, Manuel...

Alcindo Guanabara

5 Alcindo Guanabara was a Brazilian journalist and politician.                                       

Afonso Cláudio (politician)

5 Afonso Cláudio de Freitas Rosa, or simply Afonso Cláudio, as he was better known by the people, was, for a brief time, the first president of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. He was inaugurated...

Antônio de Sena Madureira

5 Antônio de Sena Madureira (1841–1889) was a lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Brazilian Army who fought in the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) and ended up becoming a prisoner of war of the Paraguayan...

Nestor Gomes

5 Nestor Gomes was a Brazilian politician. He was state representative in Espírito Santo's Chamber of Representatives, president (governor) of Espírito Santo, and Senator of Espírito Santo in the...

Álvares de Azevedo

5 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...

Luiz Henrique da Silveira

5 Luiz Henrique da Silveira was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He represented Santa Catarina in the Federal Senate from 2011 to 2015. He was governor of Santa Catarina from 2003 to 2006 and 2007 to...

José Guimarães

5 José Guimarães foi um estudante brasileiro, integrante do Colégio Marina Cintra, morto com um tiro na cabeça no dia 3 de outubro 1968, aos 20 anos, durante o episódio conhecido como Batalha da Maria...

Manuel Pestana Filho

5 Manuel Pestana Filho was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Anápolis, Brazil.

Lauro Sodré

5 Lauro Nina Sodré e Silva foi militar, político e líder republicano brasileiro.                     

Gabriel Passos

5 Gabriel de Resende Passos foi um advogado, jornalista e político brasileiro. No ramo da política, elegeu-se deputado federal quatro vezes, foi secretário do Interior e Justiça, Procurador-Geral da...

Benedito Calixto

5 Benedito Calixto de Jesus was a Brazilian painter. His works usually depicted figures from Brazil and Brazilian culture, including a famous portrait of the bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho in 1923,...

Saturnino de Brito

5 Francisco Rodrigues Saturnino de Brito is considered the pioneer of sanitary engineering and environmental engineering in Brazil. He was a hydraulics and sanitation engineer and professor at Federal...

Sílvio Romero

5 Sílvio Vasconcelos da Silveira Ramos Romero was a Brazilian "Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor, journalist, historian and politician.

Fernando Pessoa

5 Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th...

Nilo Coelho

5 Nilo de Sousa Coelho GCIH foi um industrial, médico e político brasileiro.                         

Francisco Barreto

5 Francisco Barreto was a Portuguese soldier and explorer. An officer in Morocco during his early life, Barreto sailed to Portuguese India and was eventually appointed viceroy of the colony. After his...

Gastão Vidigal

5 Gastão Vidigal foi um advogado, banqueiro e político brasileiro. Foi casado com Maria Amélia Bueno com quem teve seis filhos, Sílvio de Bueno Vidigal, Luís Eulálio de Bueno Vidigal, Álvaro Augusto de...

Alvarenga Peixoto

5 Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto (1744–1793) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste Fenício.

Aparicio Saravia

5 Aparicio Saravia da Rosa was a Uruguayan politician and military leader. He was a member of the Uruguayan National Party and was a revolutionary leader against the Uruguayan government.

Martin Luther King Jr.

5 Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil...

Ana Néri

5 Ana Justina Ferreira Néri was a Brazilian nurse, considered the first in her country. She is best known for her volunteer work with the Triple Alliance during the Paraguayan War.

Bento Munhoz da Rocha

5 Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto foi um engenheiro, professor, escritor, sociólogo e político brasileiro. 

Saint Anne

5 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Leoberto Leal

5 Leoberto Laus Leal foi um advogado e político brasileiro.                                           

Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz

4 Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ, more commonly known as Father Cruz was a Portuguese Catholic priest. Revered in Portugal for his apostolic fervor and charity, he visited prisons and hospitals in...

Cândido Mendes de Almeida

4 Cândido Mendes de Almeida was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist and politician.                       

Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior

4 Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior, titled Count of Afonso Celso by the Holy See, better known as Afonso Celso, was a teacher, poet, historian and Brazilian politician. He is one of the founders...

Woodrow Wilson

4 Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the...

Peter of Alcántara

4 Peter of Alcántara, OFM was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was canonized in 1669.                   

Clement of Rome

4 Clement of Rome, also known as Pope Clement I, was the Bishop of Rome in the late first century. He is considered to be the first of the Apostolic Fathers of the Church.

Joana Angélica

4 Sister Joana Angélica de Jesus, registered as Joanna Angelica de Jesus was a Brazilian Conceptionist nun, belonging to the Reformed Order of Our Lady of Conception, and martyr of the Brazilian...

Joaquim Cavalcanti

4 Cardinal Dom Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro from 1897 to 1930. He was made a cardinal in 1905,...

Duarte Costa

4 Duarte Costa pode referir-se a:                                                                     

Júlio de Mesquita

4 Júlio César Ferreira de Mesquita foi um advogado, politico e jornalista brasileiro, proprietário do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo.

José Francisco Lopes

4 José Francisco Lopes, o Guia Lopes foi o herói do Exército Brasileiro na Guerra do Paraguai que guiou as tropas brasileiras durante a Retirada da Laguna.

Corifeu de Azevedo Marques

4 Corifeu de Azevedo Marques foi um jornalista brasileiro da primeira metade do século XX, e importante militante e dirigente do PCB. Nos anos 1930, Corifeu foi eleito para o Bureau Político do PCB...

Eustáquio van Lieshout

4 Eustáquio van Lieshout, SSCC was a Dutch Catholic missionary priest in Brazil from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Otávio Rocha

4 Otávio Francisco da Rocha foi um militar, engenheiro, educador, político e jornalista brasileiro, prefeito de Porto Alegre de 1924 a 1928.

Amerigo Vespucci

4 Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom America is named.

Pedro Nolasco

4 Pedro Nolasco may refer to:Pedro Nolasco Vergara Albano (1800–1967), Chilean deputy, governor, and farmer Pedro Nolasco Gandarillas (1839–1891), Chilean politician Pedro Nolasco da Silva (1842–1912),...

Juracy Magalhães

4 Juracy Montenegro Magalhães GCC • GCIH was a Brazilian military officer and politician. During his career, Magalhães was the state governor of Bahia twice: between 1931—1937 and 1959—1963 (elected);...

Augusto Rodrigues

4 Augusto Rodrigues foi um artista plástico e arte-educador brasileiro. Foi pintor, desenhista, gravador, ilustrador, caricaturista e fotógrafo.

Landulfo Alves

4 Landulfo Alves de Almeida foi um político brasileiro.                                               

Martins Fontes

4 José Martins Fontes foi um médico, poeta e tradutor brasileiro.                                     

Carmen Miranda

4 Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, known professionally as Carmen Miranda, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian singer, dancer, and actress. Nicknamed "the Brazilian Bombshell," she was known for her...

Alfredo Nasser

4 Alfredo Nasser foi um advogado, jornalista, professor e político brasileiro.                       

Erasmo de Carvalho Braga

4 Erasmo de Carvalho Braga was a Brazilian Protestant evangelical leader.                             

Eça de Queiroz

4 José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London...

Tobias Barreto

4 Tobias Barreto de Meneses was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and literary critic. He is famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry. He is patron...

João Caetano

4 João Caetano dos Santos foi importante ator e encenador brasileiro.                                 

Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar

4 Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar foi um político brasileiro.                                             

Raphael (archangel)

4 Raphael is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BC. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of...

Alziro Zarur

4 Alziro Abrahão Elias David Zarur foi um jornalista, radialista, poeta e escritor, fundador e primeiro presidente da Legião da Boa Vontade.

Cassiano Ricardo

4 Cassiano Ricardo was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet.                             

Jorge Tibiriçá

4 Jorge Tibiriçá Piratininga was a Brazilian politician who served as president (governor) of São Paulo.

Francisco Prestes Maia

4 Francisco Prestes Maia was a Brazilian architect, civil engineer, urban planner, and professor, who served three terms as mayor of the city of São Paulo.

João Mendes (director)

4 João Mendes was a Portuguese film director. He directed 33 films between 1944 and 1982.             

José de Melo Carvalho Muniz Freire

4 José Melo de Carvalho Muniz Freire was a Brazilian politician. He was the 10th president (governor) of the state of Espirito Santo, from 1892 to 1896, and again from 1900 to 1904.

Antônio Paulino Limpo de Abreu, Viscount of Abaeté

4 Antônio Paulino Limpo de Abreu, Viscount of Abaeté was a Portuguese-born Brazilian magistrate, diplomat and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Brazil from 1858 to 1859.

Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná

4 Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná was a Brazilian politician, diplomat, judge and monarchist. Paraná was born to a noble family in São Carlos do Jacuí, in what was then the captaincy...

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

4 Manuel Rodrigues Coelho was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón.

Carlos de Morais Camisão

4 Carlos de Morais Camisão was a Brazilian colonel of the Paraguayan War. He was one of the leaders of the retreat from Laguna, with Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay. He took command of the Brazilian force...

Carmela Dutra

4 Carmela Leite Dutra, também conhecida como Santinha, foi a primeira-dama do país de 31 de janeiro de 1946 até a sua morte, durante o governo de seu marido, o marechal Eurico Gaspar Dutra, 16.º...

Paulo Setúbal

4 Paulo de Oliveira Leite Setúbal was a Brazilian writer, lawyer, journalist, essayist and poet.     

Adoniran Barbosa

4 Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato, was a noted Brazilian São Paulo style samba singer and composer.

Francisco de Paula

4 São Francisco de Paula foi um eremita, fundador da Ordem dos Mínimos e santo da Igreja Católica.   

Daniele Comboni

4 Daniele Comboni, MCCJ was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Central Africa from 1877 until his death in 1881. He worked in the missions in Africa and was the founder of...

Francisco Sales

4 Francisco de Sales Duarte Azevedo, mais conhecido como Francisco Sales, foi um técnico agrícola e político brasileiro, outrora deputado federal por Rondônia.

Raul Veiga

4 Raul de Moraes Veiga foi um engenheiro civil e político brasileiro.                                 

Eufrásia Teixeira Leite

4 Eufrásia Teixeira Leite was a Brazilian aristocrat, heiress, financial investor and philanthropist. She left in testament a fortune that could buy 1850 kg of gold, at the prices of the time, having...

Elijah

4 Elijah or Elias was a prophet and miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.

Napoleão Laureano

4 Napoleão Rodrigues Laureano was a Brazilian cancer specialist. Napoleão Laureano Hospital in João Pessoa, Paraiba is named for him.

Xavier da Silveira

4 Joaquim Xavier da Silveira foi um poeta, jornalista, advogado e líder abolicionista brasileiro.     

Lobo da Costa

4 Francisco Lobo da Costa foi um poeta, jornalista e teatrólogo brasileiro.                           

José Gaspar de Afonseca e Silva

4 Dom José Gaspar de Afonseca e Silva foi um sacerdote católico brasileiro; décimo quarto bispo e segundo arcebispo de São Paulo.

Marquis of Valença

4 Marquis of Valença was a Portuguese title of nobility granted by royal decree of King Afonso V of Portugal, dated from October 11, 1451, to Dom Afonso of Braganza (1400–1460), who already was 4th...

Zumbi

4 Zumbi, also known as Zumbi dos Palmares, was a Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last...

Manuel Antônio de Almeida

4 Manuel Antônio de Almeida was a Brazilian satirical writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memoirs of a Police Sergeant, written under the pen name Um Brasileiro. He is the patron of...

Marie Curie

4 Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for...

John the Evangelist

4 John the Evangelist is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter,...

Manoel Borba

4 Manoel Antônio Pereira Borba foi um advogado e político brasileiro.                                 

Jânio Quadros

4 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...

Pope John Paul II

4 Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as...

Hercílio Luz

4 Hercílio Pedro da Luz was a Brazilian politician who was the Governor of Santa Catarina.           

Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva

4 Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva foi um bandeirante paulista. Com doze anos, passou a acompanhar o pai, também chamado Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva nas expedições no interior da capitania de São Vicente,...

Manuel Vieira

4 Manuel Vieira foi um escritor, educador, sacerdote católico e político brasileiro. É considerado um dos principais religiosos da Paraíba, em razão de suas ações como clérigo, tendo também atuado nas...

Fernando Correia da Costa

4 Fernando Corrêa da Costa foi um médico e político brasileiro, tendo ocupado o cargo de senador e de governador de Mato Grosso por dois mandatos.

Ferdinand Magellan

4 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he discovered the Strait of Magellan,...

Ribeiro Júnior

4 Alfredo Augusto Ribeiro Júnior foi um militar e político brasileiro, e o principal líder da Comuna de Manaus.

Francisco Nunes da Rosa

4 Francisco Nunes da Rosa was a Portuguese Catholic priest, short story writer and journalist.       

João Manuel de Lima e Silva

4 João Manuel de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military officer and revolutionary leader, being the first general of the Riograndense Republic.

Mário Quintana

4 Mário de Miranda Quintana was a Brazilian writer and translator.                                   

Gregório de Matos

4 Gregório de Matos e Guerra was a famous Portuguese Baroque poet from Colonial Brazil. He has been described as "founder of Brazilian literature." Although he wrote many lyrical and religious poems,...

Tim Maia

4 Sebastião "Tim" Rodrigues Maia was a Brazilian musician, songwriter, and businessman known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. Maia contributed to Brazilian music...

António Marques

4 António dos Anjos Marques foi um actor e dobrador português.                                       

Carlos Lacerda

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

João Lopes Soares

4 João Lopes Soares OA, conhecido como João Soares, foi um professor, político e pedagogo que, entre outras funções, foi deputado, governador civil e Ministro das Colónias durante a Primeira República...

Mário de Andrade

4 Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian...

João de Souza Mendes

4 João de Souza Mendes Júnior was a seven-time Brazilian chess champion and physician. Prior to emergence of Henrique Mecking, he was Brazil's most accomplished chess player.

Capistrano de Abreu

4 João Capistrano Honório de Abreu was a Brazilian historian. His works are characterized by a rigorous investigation of the sources and a critical view of the historical process. João Capistrano de...

Cláudio Manuel da Costa

4 Cláudio Manuel da Costa was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of Neoclassicism in Brazil. He wrote under the pen name Glauceste Satúrnio, and his most famous work is the...

Antônio Lemos

4 Antônio José de Lemos foi um político brasileiro com base eleitoral no estado do Pará e intendente de Belém entre 1897 e 1911. Um dos sócio-fundados do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Pará em...

Padre Roma

4 José Inácio Ribeiro de Abreu e Lima, conhecido como Padre Roma, foi um religioso e revolucionário brasileiro. Um dos líderes da Revolução Pernambucana, foi preso e condenado à morte.

Henrique Pereira de Lucena

4 Henrique Pereira de Lucena, primeiro e único Barão de Lucena, foi um político e magistrado brasileiro. Começou sua carreira como delegado no Recife. Durante 50 anos foi uma pessoa pública, trabalhou...

Manoel Braga

4 Manoel Braga was a Brazilian sports shooter. He competed at the 1932, 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

Emílio Mallet

4 Émile Louis Mallet, mais conhecido como Marechal Emílio Mallet, o Barão de Itapevi, foi um militar brasileiro nascido na França. Homem de grande porte físico, com 2,01 metros de altura e 120 Kg de...

Vicente Celestino

4 Antônio Vicente Filipe Celestino was a Brazilian singer, composer and actor of Italian descent.     

João Pereira (swimmer)

4 João Pedro Thomaz Pereira was an Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who participated at one Summer Olympics for his native country. He was born in São Paulo.

José Carvalho

4 José Carvalho is a Brazilian screenwriter, script doctor and dramaturgy professor. He has written scripts for the big and small screens since the early 90s. Some of his most well-known works include...

António Ferreira (poet)

4 António Ferreira was a Portuguese poet and the foremost representative of the classical school, founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work, Castro, is the first tragedy in...

Antonino Freire

4 Antonino Freire da Silva foi um engenheiro civil funcionário público e político brasileiro que foi governador do Piauí.

Thomas Edison

4 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which...

Juarez Távora (general)

4 Juarez do Nascimento Fernandes Távora was a Brazilian general and politician active during the Brazilian Revolution of 1930 that put an end to the oligarchic First Brazilian Republic by deposing the...

Teotônio Vilela

4 Teotônio Brandão Vilela foi um empresário e político brasileiro. Dentro de duas décadas foi deputado estadual, vice-governador e senador, reeleito para este último no pleito seguinte. Pai de Teotônio...

Francisco da Costa Gomes

4 Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE GOA was a Portuguese military officer and politician who was the president of Portugal from 1974 to 1976. Earlier on, he had been deployed to Angola as part of the...

Quiteria

4 St. Quiteria was a fifth-century saint and virgin martyr about whom little is certain except her name, the date, place, and cause of her death, and existence of her cult. She is listed under the date...

Café Filho

4 João Fernandes Campos Café Filho was a Brazilian politician who served as the 18th president of Brazil, taking office upon the suicide of President Getúlio Vargas. He was the first Protestant to...

Marquis of Abrantes

3 Marquess of Abrantes was a Portuguese title of nobility, granted by a decree issued by King John V of Portugal on 24 June 1718, to Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Menezes, 3rd Marquess of Fontes and 7th...

Antônio Rafael Pinto Bandeira

3 Antônio Rafael Pinto Bandeira was an Afro-Brazilian painter and art professor. Bandeira is noted for his contributions to regional art education and his depictions of Brazilian landscapes and society.

Nelson Mandela

3 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and...

Barata Ribeiro

3 Cândido Barata Ribeiro foi um médico, político e escritor brasileiro, defensor do abolicionismo e do republicanismo. Embora não fosse formado em direito, foi nomeado ministro do Supremo Tribunal...

Joaquim Xavier Guimarães Natal

3 Joaquim Xavier Guimarães Natal foi um advogado, magistrado e ex-político brasileiro que serviu como membro da Junta governativa goianense de 1889, deputado constituinte em 1891 e ministro do Supremo...

Simón Bolívar

3 Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,...

Roberto Freire (psychiatrist)

3 Roberto Freire was a medical psychiatrist and Brazilian writer. He created somatherapy, also referred to as SOMA, an anarchist therapy based on the then radical new ideas of Wilhelm Reich, as well as...

Sinhô Pereira

3 Sebastião Pereira e Silva mais conhecido como Sinhô Pereira foi um cangaceiro brasileiro.           

Celso Garcia

3 Afonso Celso Garcia da Luz foi um jornalista, advogado e político brasileiro.                       

Teodoro Fernandes Sampaio

3 Teodoro Fernandes Sampaio was a Brazilian polymath and public intellectual who worked as an engineer, geographer, politician, and historian.

José Mendes dos Reis

3 José Mendes dos Reis OTE • ComC • ComA • GOA • ComSE foi um oficial do Exército Português e político, que se destacou como comandante da guarnição de Lisboa durante os acontecimentos revolucionários...

Gomes Freire de Andrade

3 Gomes Freire de Andrade, ComC was a field marshal and officer of the Portuguese army. Towards the end of his military career, he commanded a Portuguese legion in the French army and participated in...

Leocadia

3 Saint Leocadia is a Spanish saint. She is thought to have suffered martyrdom and died on December 9, ca. 304, in the Diocletianic Persecution.

Augusto de Lima

3 Antônio Augusto de Lima was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará.

Feliciano Sodré

3 Feliciano Pires de Abreu Sodré foi um engenheiro, militar e político brasileiro.                   

Lindolfo Collor

3 Lindolf Leopold Boeckel Collor, known as Lindolfo Collor was a Brazilian journalist and politician. 

Estácio Coimbra

3 Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra was a Brazilian lawyer and politician.                               

João Alberto

3 João Alberto Lins de Barros was a Brazilian politician in the early 20th century. He was appointed by Getúlio Vargas provisional governor in place of the elected governor of São Paulo. Elite...

Renato Azeredo

3 Renato Mário de Avelar Azeredo foi um político brasileiro do estado de Minas Gerais. Filho de José Santos de Azeredo Coutinho e de Eponina de Avelar de Azeredo. Casado com Rute Brandão de Azeredo e...

Manuel Inácio Carvalho de Mendonça

3 Manuel Inácio Carvalho de Mendonça foi magistrado, civilista notável e professor concursado da antiga Faculdade Livre de Direito do Rio de Janeiro de 1910 até falecer. Com o seu óbito, a família doou...

Gomes Jardim

3 José Gomes de Vasconcelos Jardim foi um fazendeiro, maçom, médico-prático e militar brasileiro. Foi Presidente da República Rio-Grandense durante a Guerra dos Farrapos.

Barrio Coronel Borges (Santiago del Estero)

3 El Barrio Coronel Borges debe su nombre se debe a que en este sector está el aeropuerto dependiente de la Dirección Provincial de Aviación Civil, en la ciudad capital de Santiago del Estero...

Juan Bautista Cabral

3 Juan Bautista Cabral was an Argentine soldier, of Zambo origin, of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers who died in the Battle of San Lorenzo, while he was aiding then Colonel Don José de San Martín,...

Weimar Torres

3 Weimar Gonçalves Torres, mais conhecido como Weimar Torres, foi um advogado, jornalista e político brasileiro, outrora deputado federal por Mato Grosso.

António de Oliveira Salazar

3 António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Portugal's President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the...

José Antônio Saraiva

3 José Antônio Saraiva, also known as Counsellor Saraiva, was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and lawyer during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889). He held the position of President of the...

José Gervasio Artigas

3 José Gervasio Artigas Arnal was a soldier and statesman who is regarded as a national hero in Uruguay and the father of Uruguayan nationhood.

Carlos Lindenberg

3 Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg foi advogado e político brasileiro, tendo conquistado participação significativa como articulador do cenário político do Estado do Espírito Santo nas décadas de...

Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho

3 Christiano Dias Lopes Filho foi um político brasileiro, serviu como 36.° governador do Espírito Santo entre 1967 e 1971.

Antônio Francisco de Paula de Holanda Cavalcanti de Albuquerque

3 Antônio Francisco de Paula de Holanda Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, o Visconde de Albuquerque, foi um militar, senhor de engenho e político brasileiro.

Paul of the Cross

3 Paul of the Cross, CP was an Italian Catholic mystic, and founder of the Passionists.               

João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira

3 João Alfredo Correa de Oliveira was a Brazilian politician, abolitionist and monarchist.           

Antônio João Ribeiro

3 Antônio João Ribeiro was a Brazilian lieutenant who served in the Paraguayan War and was notable for his sacrifice in the Battle for Colônia Militar dos Dourados.

Winston Churchill

3 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from...

Peixoto Gomide

3 Francisco de Assis Peixoto Gomide Júnior foi um advogado, professor e político brasileiro.         

José Lourenço Gomes da Silva

3 José Lourenço Gomes da Silva, mais conhecido como beato José Lourenço, foi o líder da comunidade Caldeirão de Santa Cruz do Deserto, localizada na zona rural do Crato (Ceará).

Plínio Arlindo de Nês

3 Plínio Arlindo de Nês foi um empresário e político brasileiro.                                     

Inácio Francisco Silveira da Mota

3 Ignacio Francisco Silveira da Mota, barão com grandeza de Vila Franca foi um jurista, político, empresário, fazendeiro e senhor de engenho brasileiro.

Antônio Bento (abolicionista)

3 Antônio Bento de Souza e Castro foi promotor público, juiz e abolicionista brasileiro.             

Alberto Mendes Júnior

3 Alberto Mendes Júnior mais conhecido como Tenente Mendes, foi um oficial da Força Pública do estado de São Paulo durante a Ditadura Militar no Brasil. É considerado herói e patrono da Polícia...

Federico García Lorca

3 Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of...

Lucas Nogueira Garcez

3 Lucas Nogueira Garcez foi um engenheiro e político brasileiro. Recebeu o prêmio de Eminente Engenheiro do Ano em 1968. Foi governador do estado de São Paulo entre 1951 e 1955.

Álvaro Alvim

3 Álvaro Freire de Villalba Alvim was a Brazilian physician, pioneer in radiology and radiotherapy. He studied in France with Pierre and Marie Curie and performed the first radiograph in Brazil, which...

Abílio César Borges

3 Abílio César Borges, primeiro e único barão de Macaúbas, foi um médico, educador e pedagogista brasileiro.

Sólon de Lucena

3 Sólon Barbosa de Lucena foi um fazendeiro e político brasileiro.                                   

Júlio de Castilho

3 Júlio de Castilho, segundo visconde de Castilho, foi um jornalista, poeta, escritor e político português, filho do escritor António Feliciano de Castilho. Distinguiu-se como olisipógrafo, publicando...

Ivo Silveira

3 Ivo Silveira foi um advogado e político brasileiro.                                                 

Manuel Bautista Pérez

3 Manuel Bautista Perez was a Spanish-born merchant and multi-millionaire active in Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. Though Spanish, Manuel called himself Portuguese because Spanish New...

Agostinho Gomes

3 Agostinho F. Gomes foi um professor e escritor português.                                           

Silviano Brandão

3 Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão was a Brazilian politician who was elected Vice President of Brazil, but died before taking office.

José Barbosa

3 José Barbosa may refer to:José Barbosa, Puerto Rican pole vaulter José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader José Luíz Barbosa, Brazilian middle-distance runner

Leonardo Villas-Bôas

3 Leonardo Vilas-boas foi um indigenista brasileiro, o mais jovem dos irmãos Villas-Bôas.             

Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado

3 Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado de Oliveira was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer. He didn't take part of the Week of Modern Art (1922) in São Paulo, but even though wrote a great...

Joaquim Pires de Carvalho e Albuquerque

3 Joaquim Pires de Carvalho e Albuquerque, primeiro barão e único visconde com grandeza de Pirajá,, muito conhecido no interior baiano por coronel Santinho, foi um nobre, senhor de engenho da Bahia e...

Antônio Geremário Teles Dantas

3 Antônio Geremário Teles Dantas foi um político, jornalista, advogado e escritor brasileiro.         

Cesário Motta

3 Cesário Nazianzeno de Azevedo Motta Magalhães Júnior foi um médico e político brasileiro.           

Ernesto Simões Filho

3 Ernesto Simões da Silva Freitas Filho, mais conhecido como Simões Filho, foi um político, jornalista e empresário brasileiro, foi ministro da Educação e fundador do jornal "A Tarde". Em sua homenagem...

Alphonsus Liguori

3 Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the...

Paulo Barreto Menezes

3 Paulo Barreto Menezes was a Brazilian civil engineer and politician. He served as the governor of the state of Sergipe from 1971 to 1975.

Bartholomew the Apostle

3 Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John.

Domingos Ferreira

3 Domingos Ferreira foi um mestre violeiro (luthier) português, radicado em Vila Rica, cidade na qual estabeleceu, na freguesia do Padre Faria, uma oficina de construção de violas de mão portuguesas,...

Princess Francisca of Brazil

3 Dona Francisca was a princess of the Empire of Brazil, who became Princess of Joinville upon marrying François d’Orléans, son of the French king Louis Philippe I. The couple had three children....

Bernardo Guimarães

3 Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. He also introduced to Brazilian poetry the verso...

Caio Prado Júnior

3 Caio da Silva Prado Júnior was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer, philosopher and politician. His works inaugurated a new historiographic tradition in Brazil, identified with Marxism, which...

Olegário Mariano

3 Olegário Mariano Carneiro da Cunha was a Brazilian poet, politician, and diplomat. He was a cousin of the poet Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968).

Alberto de Oliveira

3 Antônio Mariano de Oliveira was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor. He is better known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira.

Alfredo Maia

3 Alfredo Eugênio de Almeida Maia foi um engenheiro civil e político brasileiro.                     

José Antônio da Silva

3 José Antonio da Silva foi um pintor brasileiro.                                                     

João de Barros

3 João de Barros, nicknamed the "Portuguese Livy", is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia, a history of the Portuguese in India, Asia, and southeast Africa.

Duarte Coelho

3 Duarte Coelho Pereira was a nobleman, military leader, and colonial administrator in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He was the first Donatario of the captaincy of Pernambuco and founder of Olinda.

Djalma Dutra

3 Djalma Soares Dutra foi um militar e revolucionário brasileiro. Cursou a Escola Militar do Realengo possivelmente na mesma turma que Luís Carlos Prestes, Siqueira Campos e Eduardo Gomes. Participou...

Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira

3 Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, was a Brazilian landowner, lawyer, journalist, diplomat and politician. He was governor of the provinces of Ceará (1864–65) and Maranhão (1865–66) and served as Prime...

José Ignácio Teixeira

3 Capitão José Ignácio Teixeira foi um dos fundadores do município brasileiro do estado de São Paulo, Monte Alegre do Sul, onde foi abastado fazendeiro produtor de café.

Rubens de Falco

3 Rubens de Falco da Costa was a Brazilian actor best known for his work in telenovelas, specifically his portrayal as a slave owner in the 1976 telenovela Escrava Isaura and the 1986 telenovela Sinhá...

João Antônio da Silveira

3 João Antônio da Silveira foi um militar brasileiro.                                                 

Leônidas de Castro Melo

3 Leônidas de Castro Melo foi um professor, médico e político brasileiro. Governou o Piauí por dez anos sob a ditadura de Getúlio Vargas. Redemocratizado o país, fundou o PSD no estado, representando...

Sérgio Cardoso

3 Sérgio da Fonseca Mattos Cardoso foi um ator brasileiro. Foi o protagonista de todas as telenovelas em que atuou.

Francisca Júlia da Silva

3 Francisca Julia César da Silva Münster foi uma poetisa brasileira. Nasceu em Xiririca, depois Eldorado Paulista, hoje Eldorado.

Philomena

3 Philomena, also known as Saint Philomena or Philomena of Rome was a Greek virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on 24–25 May 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb...

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

3 John Maurice of Nassau, called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch Brazil, was Count and Prince of Nassau-Siegen. He served as Herrenmeister of the Order of Saint John from...

António Rodrigues

3 António Rodrigues was a Portuguese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

João Francisco Lisboa

3 João Francisco Lisboa foi um político, historiador, jornalista e escritor brasileiro, a quem a Academia Brasileira de Letras conferiu o patronato da cadeira 18.

Antônio Carlos de Arruda Botelho

3 Antonio Carlos de Arruda Botelho, primeiro e único barão, visconde e conde do Pinhal,, foi um político e empresário brasileiro.

Miguel Sutil

3 Miguel Sutil de Oliveira foi um bandeirante paulista, sorocabano, do século XVIII, filho de Sebastião Sutil de Oliveira e Maria Fernandes. Descobriu, em 1722, as minas de ouro à beira do córrego da...

Alfredo Nunes

3 Alfredo Alberto Leal Nunes foi um advogado, odontólogo, desportista e político brasileiro, outrora vice-presidente da Confederação Brasileira de Futebol.

Luís José Pereira de Carvalho

3 Luiz José Pereira de Carvalho, Barão com Grandeza de Sepé foi um militar brasileiro.               

Alberto Maranhão

3 Alberto Frederico de Albuquerque Maranhão foi um político brasileiro, tendo sido por duas vezes governador do Rio Grande do Norte de 1900 a 1904 e 1908 a 1914, além de dois mandatos como deputado...

Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos

3 Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, was a Portuguese 12th-century noble knight, son of Martim Moniz and Teresa Afonso.

Manuel José de Siqueira Mendes

3 Manuel José de Siqueira Mendes foi um sacerdote católico e político brasileiro. Filho de Francisco José de Siqueira Mendes e Maria do Carmo Brito Mendes.

João Bernardo Vieira

3 João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician and military officer who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005...

João Cordeiro

3 João Cordeiro foi um empresário e político brasileiro.                                             

Carlos Pellegrini

3 Carlos Enrique José Pellegrini Bevans was Vice President of Argentina and became President of Argentina from August 6, 1890 to October 12, 1892, upon Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.

Anita Malfatti

3 Anita Catarina Malfatti is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in São Paulo, in 1917–1918, was controversial at...

Hipólito da Costa

3 Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça was a Brazilian journalist and diplomat considered to be the "father of Brazilian press".

Jules Verne

3 Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.                                   

António Martins (sport shooter, born 1892)

3 António Martins was a Portuguese sports shooter. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the discus throw at the 1924 Summer Olympics. His son of the...

Júlio Ribeiro

3 Júlio César Ribeiro Vaughan was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, philologist, journalist and grammarian. He is famous for his controversial romance A Carne and for designing the flag of the State of...

Ramos de Azevedo

3 Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo was a Brazilian architect, known for designing various buildings and landmarks in São Paulo, such as the Teatro Municipal, the Mercado Municipal, and the...

Noel Rosa

3 Noel de Medeiros Rosa was a Brazilian singer-songwriter. One of the greatest names in Brazilian popular music, Noel gave a new twist to samba, combining its Afro-Brazilian roots with a more urban,...

José Clemente Pereira

3 José Clemente Pereira, known as José Pequeno, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian magistrate and politician who fought in the Peninsular War and of high relevance to the Empire of Brazil, in addition to...

Basílio da Gama

3 José Basílio da Gama was a colonial Brazilian poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai. He wrote under the pen name Termindo Sipílio.

Domingos Vieira

3 Domingos Vieira, nasceu em data indeterminada, e faleceu, provavelmente em 1678, ano em que foi substituído na pintura régia por Bento Coelho da Silveira. É igualmente conhecido como «Vieira, o...

Vitorino José Carneiro Monteiro, Baron of São Borja

3 Vitorino José Carneiro Monteiro, Baron of São Borja was a Brazilian lieutenant general of the Paraguayan War. He was one of the primary commanders at the Battle of Tuyutí and had an extensive career...

Edmundo Navarro de Andrade

3 Edmundo Navarro de Andrade foi um político e engenheiro agrônomo brasileiro. Ele era afilhado de Dona Veridiana da Silva Prado, a qual o criou e o educou.

Adolfo Caminha

3 Adolfo Ferreira Caminha was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel Bom-Crioulo, which deals with race and homosexuality.

Domingos Fernandes Calabar

3 Domingos Fernandes Calabar was a Portuguese soldier, smuggler, and plantation owner during the time of the intrusion into Brazil by people connected with the Dutch Republic. He first fought for...

Francisco de Paula Sousa e Melo

3 Francisco de Paula Sousa e Melo foi um agricultor, nobre e político brasileiro.                     

Joaquim Machado

3 Joaquim Machado was a Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder. He died in February 2015 at the age of 91.

Antônio Carneiro Leão

3 Antônio Carneiro Leão foi um educador, professor, e escritor brasileiro, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras.

José Joaquim Almeida

3 José Joaquim Almeida, was a Portuguese-born American privateer who fought in the Anglo-American War of 1812 and the Argentine War of Independence.

João Fernandes (explorer)

3 João Fernandes was a Portuguese explorer of the 15th century. He was perhaps the earliest of modern explorers in the upland of West Africa, and a pioneer of the European slave and gold trade of...

João Barbosa Rodrigues

3 João Barbosa Rodrigues was considered one of Brazil's greatest botanists, known especially for his work on orchids and palms. For nearly two decades he was director of the Botanic Garden of Rio de...

Johann Baptist Reus

3 Johann Baptist Reus or João Batista Reus was a Jesuit priest and a German-Brazilian religious leader.

José Veríssimo

3 José Veríssimo Dias de Matos was a writer, educator, journalist, literary critic, and founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

São José de Ribamar

3 Sao José de Ribamar is a Brazilian municipality in the Maranhão state. 179,028 was its estimated population in 2020. It is part of the São Luís Island together with São Luís, Raposa, and Paço do...

Isabel Moctezuma

3 Doña Isabel Moctezuma was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. She was the consort of Atlixcatzin, a tlacateccatl, and of the Aztec emperors Cuitlahuac and Cuauhtemoc and as such the last...

Antonio Moreira

3 Antonio Moreira was a Spanish sports shooter. He competed in seven events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Félix Pacheco

3 José Félix Alves Pacheco foi um jornalista, político, poeta e tradutor brasileiro que serviu como Ministro das Relações Exteriores do Brasil durante o Governo Artur Bernardes, entre 1922 e 1926.

Serafim de Freitas

3 Franciscus Serafim de Freitas was a Portuguese jurist and canon lawyer.                             

Manoel José da Silva Bastos

3 Manoel José da Silva Bastos é um escritor brasileiro, autor de peças teatrias. Foi um dos fundadores do Gabinete de Leitura, em 15 de agosto de 1846 – depois transformado na Biblioteca Rio-Grandense,...

José Vieira Alvernaz

3 Dom José Vieira Alvernaz was a Portuguese prelate, Bishop of Cochin, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Patriarch of the East Indies and one of the prominent figures of the Portuguese presence in India...

Manuel de Abreu

3 Manuel Dias de Abreu was a Brazilian physician and scientist, the inventor of abreugraphy, a rapid radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis. He is considered one of the most important...

José Lins do Rego

3 José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English-speaking...

Martins Pena

3 Luís Carlos Martins Pena was a Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "comedy of manners", winning the epithet of "the Brazilian Molière".

Pope Sylvester I

3 Pope Sylvester I was the bishop of Rome from 31 January 314 until his death on 31 December 335. He filled the See of Rome at an important era in the history of the Western Church, though very little...

Junqueira Freire

3 Luís José Junqueira Freire was a Brazilian poet and Benedictine monk, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement and author of Inspirações do Claustro. He is the patron of the 25th chair of the...

Augusto Calheiros

3 Augusto Calheiros foi um cantor e compositor brasileiro.                                           

Juvenal Lamartine de Faria

3 Juvenal Lamartine de Faria foi um advogado, jornalista, magistrado e político brasileiro.           

Augusto Pestana (politician)

3 Augusto Pestana was a Brazilian engineer and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Pestana moved in the late 1880s to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where he would become a specialist...

Tomás Pompeu de Sousa Brasil

3 Tómas Pompeu de Sousa Brasil, o Senador Pompeu, foi um professor, jornalista, escritor, político e maçom brasileiro.

Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo

3 Lieutenant-Colonel Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo was a Portuguese Army officer and colonial administrator. He served in the office of governador das armas of the province of Bahia, and led Portuguese...

Luiz Cláudio Pereira

3 Luiz Cláudio Pereira was a Brazilian paralympic athlete who competed mainly in category THW4 throwing events.

Amaro Soares Bittencourt

3 Amaro Soares Bittencourt (1885–1963) was a diplomat, a military and civil engineer and a general officer of the Brazilian Army, who attained the Brazilian Army rank of General of Division or in its...

Dulce de Souza Lopes Pontes

3 Dulce de Souza Lopes Pontes, SMIC, widely known as Irmã Dulce and also as Saint Dulce of the Poor, was a Brazilian Missionary Sister of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God. The Missionary...

Henrique Dumont

3 Henrique Honoré Dumont was a Brazilian engineer and coffee farmer, and the father of Alberto Santos-Dumont. A son of French immigrants, he is considered one of the three Coffee Kings of his time,...

Cora Coralina

3 Cora Coralina is the pseudonym of the Brazilian writer and poet Ana Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas. She is considered one of the most important Brazilian writers, Her first book was published in...

Adolfo Gordo

3 Adolfo Afonso da Silva Gordo, mais conhecido como Adolfo Gordo, foi um advogado e político brasileiro, elaborador da polêmica lei Adolfo Gordo. Foi governador do estado do Rio Grande do Norte entre...

Francisco Xavier da Silva

3 Francisco Xavier da Silva, mais conhecido como Xavier da Silva, foi um advogado, magistrado e político brasileiro. Foi governador do Paraná em quatro ocasiões e também senador pelo mesmo estado.

Domingos Olímpio

3 Domingos Olímpio Braga Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright, famous for his Naturalist novel Luzia-Homem.

Virgílio Távora

3 Virgílio de Morais Fernandes Távora foi um militar e político brasileiro. Sobrinho de Juarez Távora, fez carreira política no Ceará.

Emílio Ribas

3 Emílio Marcondes Ribas foi um médico sanitarista brasileiro. Trabalhou no combate a epidemias e endemias, tendo criado o Instituto Butantan, entre outros órgãos públicos de saúde pública.

Francisco Expedito Lopes

3 Dom Francisco Expedito Lopes foi um bispo católico brasileiro.                                     

Carlos Barbosa-Lima

3 Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Barbosa Lima was a Brazilian classical and jazz guitarist. He spent most of his professional life as a resident in the United States, devoting much of his time as a recitalist...

Gertrude the Great

3 Gertrude the Great or Gertrude of Helfta was a German Benedictine nun and mystic who was a member of the Monastery of Helfta. While herself a Benedictine, she had strong ties to the Cistercian Order;...

Alceu Amoroso Lima

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

Teresa de Lisieux

3 Teresa de Lisieux, O.C.D., nascida Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin e universalmente conhecida como Santa Teresinha do Menino Jesus e da Santa Face, foi uma freira carmelita descalça francesa. É...

Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies

3 Dona Teresa Cristina, popularly known as “the Mother of the Brazilians”, was Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro II, a position she held from her marriage in 1843 until the abolition...

Milton Campos

3 Milton Soares Campos foi um político, professor, jornalista e advogado brasileiro. Foi governador de Minas Gerais, deputado federal, senador, vereador e ministro da Justiça.

Francisco Braga

3 Antônio Francisco Braga was a Brazilian music composer. Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886, he founded the Sociedade de Concertos...

Hermes

3 Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and...

Pedro Ludovico

3 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.

Aliomar Baleeiro

3 Aliomar de Andrade Baleeiro GCIH foi um jornalista, advogado, professor, jurisconsulto e político brasileiro. Foi deputado federal pela Bahia e pela Guanabara, além de ministro do Supremo Tribunal...

Francisco de Paula Bicalho

3 Francisco de Paula Bicalho foi engenheiro responsável por algumas das obras empreendidas por Pereira Passos. Foi diretor técnico da Comissão Fiscal e Administrativa das Obras do Porto do Rio de...

João Teixeira Albernaz I

3 João Teixeira Albernaz I also referred to as João Teixeira Albernaz, the Elder, to distinguish him from his grandson, was the most prolific Portuguese cartographer of the seventeenth century. His...

Antônio Basílio Ribeiro Dantas

3 Antônio Basílio Ribeiro Dantas foi um político brasileiro.                                         

Gilberto Mestrinho

3 Gilberto Mestrinho de Medeiros Raposo was a Brazilian politician. Mestrinho served as the Governor of the state of Amazonas on three separate occasions. His first term as Governor was from 1959 until...

Jardel Filho

3 Jardel Filho was a Brazilian film and television actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1949 and 1982.

Victor Meirelles

3 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...

Raimundo Nina Rodrigues

3 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues was a Brazilian coroner, psychiatrist, teacher, writer, anthropologist and ethnologist. A notable eugenicist, he was also a dietologist, tropicalist, sexologist, hygienist,...

Aquiles Lisboa

3 Aquiles de Faria Lisboa foi um médico, político e cientista brasileiro.                             

Francisco de Paula Ney

3 Francisco de Paula Ney was a Brazilian poet and journalist. A pre-eminent figure of the bohemian Rio de Janeiro of the Belle Époque, he was a friend of Coelho Neto, Aluísio Azevedo and Olavo Bilac....

José Maurício (Portuguese composer)

3 José Maurício was a Portuguese composer mainly known for his prolific production of sacred music.   

Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo

3 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...

Rachel de Queiroz

3 Rachel de Queiroz was a Brazilian author, translator and journalist.                               

Elis Regina

3 Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known professionally as Elis Regina, was a Brazilian singer of Bossa nova, MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano.

Eurípedes de Aguiar

3 Eurípides Clementino de Aguiar foi um médico, jornalista, poeta e político brasileiro eleito governador do Piauí em 1916.

Damião de Bozzano

3 Damião de Bozzano OFMCap, born as Pio Giannotti, was an Italian religious priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served as a missionary in Brazil for over six decades. Giannotti entered the...

Manoel Pereira

3 Manoel Pereira, O.P. (1625–1688) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (1675–1680).

Leandro Maciel

3 Leandro Maynard Maciel, filho do político e militante, Leandro Ribeiro de Siqueira Maciel e Ana Maynard Maciel, foi engenheiro e político brasileiro. Marido de Marina de Albuquerque Maciel, sucessora...

João V de Portugal

3 João V, apelidado de “o Magnânimo” e “o Rei-Sol Português”, foi Rei de Portugal e Algarves de 1706 até à sua morte. Foi o segundo filho do rei Pedro II e da sua segunda esposa, a rainha Maria Sofia...

Cacilda Becker

3 Cacilda Becker Iaconis was a Brazilian actress.                                                     

Luís Antônio Barbosa

3 Luís Antônio Barbosa foi um político brasileiro.                                                   

Benjamin Steinbruch

3 Benjamin Steinbruch é um administrador, Investidor, banqueiro e empresário brasileiro, de origem judaica.

Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos

3 Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos was a Brazilian politician, journalist, judge and law expert of the Imperial era.

Teixeira de Pascoaes

3 Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos, better known by his pen name Teixeira de Pascoaes, was a Portuguese poet. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Pixinguinha

3 Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho, better known as Pixinguinha, was a Brazilian composer, arranger, flutist, and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. He worked with Brazilian popular music and developed...

Hilário Maximiniano Antunes Gurjão

3 Hilário Maximiniano Antunes Gurjão was a Brazilian Brigadier General Brazilian army and Hero of the Paraguayan War. He was known as the first General born in the state of Pará and participated in the...

John of Damascus

3 John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise...

Gustavo Teixeira

3 Gustavo de Paula Teixeira foi um poeta brasileiro, de tendências literárias entre o Parnasianismo e Simbolismo, peculiares as primeiras décadas do Século XX.

José Rodrigues

3 José Rodrigues de Carvalho was a Portuguese painter.                                               

Chico Xavier

3 Chico Xavier or Francisco Cândido Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido, was a popular Brazilian philanthropist and spiritist medium. During a period of 60 years, he wrote over 490 books and...

João da Silva Feijó

3 João da Silva Barbosa or João da Silva Feijó,, was a naturalist, mineralogist and Portuguese soldier, born in Brazil.

Estácio de Sá

3 Estácio de Sá was a Portuguese soldier and officer. Sá travelled to the colony of Brazil on the orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de...

Dionísio Cerqueira (militar)

3 Dionísio Evangelista de Castro Cerqueira foi um herói da Guerra do Paraguai, General de Brigada, Deputado Federal, Ministro de Estado e engenheiro militar brasileiro.

Geraldo Pereira (musician)

3 Geraldo Theodoro Pereira, known as Geraldo Pereira, was a Brazilian singer and samba composer. He was a major figure in the development of samba in Rio de Janeiro.

Antônio Coelho Rodrigues

3 Antônio Coelho Rodrigues foi um advogado, professor, jurista, escritor, legislador e político brasileiro.

Miguel Pereira Forjaz, 10th Count of Feira

3 D. Miguel Pereira Forjaz Coutinho, 10th Count of Feira was a Portuguese general and War Secretary in the Peninsular War.

Roberto Marinho

3 Roberto Pisani Marinho was a Brazilian businessman and tycoon who was the founder and owner of media conglomerate Grupo Globo from 1925 to 2003, and during this period expanded the company from...

Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain

3 Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain was an Infante of Spain and the youngest son of Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma. He was the brother of Ferdinand VII and the uncle and father-in-law...

José Valle

3 José Valle Román was an Argentine professional football player and coach.                           

José Vieira Couto de Magalhães

3 José Vieira Couto de Magalhães was a Brazilian politician, military officer, writer and folklorist. 

Mário Andreazza

3 Mario David Andreazza GCIH foi um militar e político brasileiro. Foi ministro dos Transportes durante o Regime Militar nos governos Costa e Silva e Médici, tendo sido responsável por inúmeras obras...

Cecília Meireles

3 Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the...

Francisco de Almeida

3 Dom Francisco de Almeida, was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the...

Francisca Maria de Jesus

3 Francisca Maria de Jesus foi a viscondessa consorte de Jequitinhonha.