This article lists people who have been featured on the postage stamp

Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...

s of Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, including the dates of their stamp appearances. Occasionally a stamp will commemorate a person and not include his/her portrait; in which case the list indicates what is shown on the stamp.

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• Casimiro de Abreu
  Casimiro de Abreu
  Casimiro José Marques de Abreu was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement...
  
  , poet (1989)
• Afonso I
  Afonso I of Portugal
  Afonso I or Dom Afonso Henriques , more commonly known as Afonso Henriques , nicknamed "the Conqueror" , "the Founder" or "the Great" by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali and Ibn-Arrik by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal...
  
  , Portuguese king (1940)
• Akihito
  Akihito
  is the current , the 125th emperor of his line according to Japan's traditional order of succession. He acceded to the throne in 1989.-Name:In Japan, the emperor is never referred to by his given name, but rather is referred to as "His Imperial Majesty the Emperor" which may be shortened to . In...
  
  , Japanese emperor (1967)
• Albert I
  Albert I of Belgium
  Albert I reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 until 1934.-Early life:Born Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad in Brussels, he was the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen...
  
  , Belgian king (1920)
• Luís de Albuquerque de Melo Pereira e Cáceres, colonial governor (1952) article in Portuguese
• Aleijadinho
  Aleijadinho
  Aleijadinho was a Colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil....
  
  , sculptor (sculpture shown 1964)
• Pedro Aleixo
  Pedro Aleixo
  Pedro Aleixo served as President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1937 and as Vice-President of Brazil from March 15, 1967 to October 14, 1969....
  
  , politician (2001)
• José de Alencar
  José de Alencar
  José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani...
  
  , novelist (1965)
• Benedetto Aloisi Masella
  Benedetto Aloisi Masella
  Benedetto Aloisi Masella was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Discipline of the Sacraments from 1954 to 1968, and as Chamberlain of the Roman Church from 1958 until his death...
  
  , Italian cardinal (1955)
• Rodrigues Alves
  Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
  Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, PC was a Brazilian politician who first served as governor of the State of São Paulo in 1887, and as Treasury minister in the 1890s. Rodrigues Alves was elected president of Brazil in 1902 and served until 1906....
  
   (1917)
• Álvaro Alvim, radiologist (1963) article in Portuguese
• Jorge Amado
  Jorge Amado
  Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
  
  , novelist (2002)
• Ubaldino do Amaral, statesman and abolitionist (1943) article in Portuguese
• Pedro Américo
  Pedro Américo
  Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo was one of the most important academic painters of Brazil. He was also a writer and a teacher....
  
  , painter (1943, 3 paintings shown 1993)
• José Américo de Almeida
  José Américo de Almeida
  José Américo de Almeida was a Brazilian writer, a politician, a lawyer and a teacher.- Bibliography :* Reflexões de um Cabra, 1922* A Paraíba e seus Problemas, 1923* A Bagaceira, 1928...
  
  , writer (1987)
• Alceu Amoroso Lima
  Alceu Amoroso Lima
  Alceu Amoroso Lima was a writer, journalist and activist from Brazil. He adopted the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde in 1919 and wrote under that name. In 1928 he converted to Catholicism and eventually became head of Catholic Action in Brazil...
  
  , writer and critic (1993)
• José de Anchieta
  José de Anchieta
  José de Anchieta was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the 1st century after its discovery on April 22, 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of...
  
  , missionary and writer (1934, 1941, 1980, 1997, 2007)
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
  
   Danish author (2005)
• Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada, statesman (1945) article in Portuguese
• José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, statesman (1909, 1959, 1963, 1988, 2008)
• Mário de Andrade
  Mário de Andrade
  Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
  
  , poet (1993)
• Anthony of Padua
  Anthony of Padua
  Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, O.F.M., was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. Though he died in Padua, Italy, he was born to a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, which is where he was raised...
  
  , Portuguese saint (1995)
• Osvaldo Aranha, statesman (1931, 1994)
• Fernando de Azevedo, writer and educator (1994) article in Portuguese

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• Robert Baden-Powell, British general, founder of scouting (1957, 2007)
• Manuel Bandeira
  Manuel Bandeira
  Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...
  
  , poet (1986)
• Adoniran Barbosa
  Adoniran Barbosa
  Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato , was a famous Brazilian traditional samba singer and composer.-Early years:...
  
  , singer and composer (1994)
• Ruy Barbosa
  Ruy Barbosa
  Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician.Born in Salvador da Bahia, he was a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague"...
  
  , politician and writer (1925, 1949, 1956, 1960, 1999)
• Alexandre José Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, journalist and politician (2001) article in Portuguese
• Lima Barreto
  Lima Barreto
  Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure on the Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of the first years of the República Velha in Brazil.-Life:Lima Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro in...
  
  , writer (1981)
• Tobias Barreto, poet and philosopher (1989)
• João Ribeiro de Barros
  João Ribeiro de Barros
  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 hydroplane Jahú. On his flight, he had the company of three others: João Negrão , Newton Braga and Vasco...
  
  , aviator (only his airplane shown 1929)
• Ary Barroso
  Ary Barroso
  Ary Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV...
  
  , songwriter (2003)
• Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva
  Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva
  Commodore Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva directed the Brazilian fleet while the Marquis of Tamandaré was absent during the Battle of Riachuelo in the War of the Triple Alliance....
  
  , admiral (1954, 1965, 2008)
• Manuel Bastos Tigre, poet (1982) article in Portuguese
• Baudouin, Belgian king (1965)
• Paschal Baylon
  Paschal Baylon
  Saint Paschal Baylon was a Spanish friar and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations.-Life:...
  
  , Spanish friar and saint (1955)
• Luis Batlle Berres
  Luis Batlle Berres
  Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres was a Uruguayan political figure.-Background:Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party...
  
  , Uruguayan president (1948)
• Benedict XVI
  Pope Benedict XVI
  Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
  
  , pope (2007)
• Rodolpho Bernardelli, sculptor (1952) article in Portuguese
• Artur Bernardes, president (1967)
• Clóvis Beviláqua
  Clóvis Beviláqua
  Clóvis Beviláqua was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará Clóvis Beviláqua (1859–1944) was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará Clóvis Beviláqua (1859–1944) was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará...
  
  , jurist (2001)
• Olavo Bilac
  Olavo Bilac
  Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"...
  
  , poet (1967, 1988)
• Hermann Blumenau
  Hermann Blumenau
  Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau was a Brazilian pharmacist who founded the city of Blumenau, situated in the Itajaí-Açu river valley in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil....
  
  , emigrant (1969)
• Baron da Bocaina, public official (1956) article in Portuguese
• Quintino Bocaiuva
  Quintino Bocaiúva
  Quintino Bocaiúva was a politician and writer from Brazil.-References:...
  
  , writer and politician (1962)
• Simón Bolívar
  Simón Bolívar
  Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...
  
  , Venezuela hero of independence (1983)
• José Bonifacio, statesman (1909, 1959, 1963, 1988, 2008)
• Borges de Medeiros
  Borges de Medeiros
  Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros was a Brazilian lawyer and politician, and the President of Rio Grande do Sul for 25 years, during the period of Brazilian history known as the República Velha....
  
  , politician (1963) article in Portuguese
• Irineu Bornhausen, politician (1996) article in Portuguese
• Don Bosco
  John Bosco
  John Bosco , was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century, who put into practice the convictions of his religion, dedicating his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth and employing teaching methods...
  
  , Italian priest and saint (1983)
• Francisco Braga
  Antônio Francisco Braga
  Antônio Francisco Braga was a Brazilian music composer.Antônio Francisco Braga studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886 he founded the Sociedade de Concertos Populares. As the Brazilian Republic was declared in 1889, his composition Hino à bandeira was adopted as the...
  
  , composer (1968)
• Rubem Braga
  Rubem Braga
  Rubem Braga was a notable Brazilian writer of short stories. He was born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim city, state of Espírito Santo, on January 12, 1913....
  
  , journalist and short story writer (1995)
• Louis Braille
  Louis Braille
  Louis Braille was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired...
  
  , French inventor of braille (2009)
• Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes
  Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes
  Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes was a Brazilian politician. Brás was born in Brasópolis , Minas Gerais State. He became governor of that state in 1909, and in 1910 he was elected vice-president under Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca. He was elected president in 1914 and served until 1918. He declared war...
  
  , president (1919, 1968)
• Vital Brazil
  Vital Brazil
  Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, known as Vital Brazil was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and immunologist, internationally renowned for the discovery of the polyvalent anti-ophidic serum used to treat bites of venomous snakes of the Crotalus, Bothrops and Elaps genera. He went on...
  
  , physician and toxicologist (1965)
• Louis Breguet
  Louis-François-Clement Breguet
  Louis Francois Clement Breguet , was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy...
  
  , French physicist (1983)
• Amador Bueno
  Amador Bueno
  Amador Bueno was born around 1572 in the city of São Paulo, Captaincy of São Vicente which is now the State of São Paulo in Brazil. He was born to Bartholomeu Bueno da Ribeira, a Spanish settler from Seville and Maria Pires, from São Paulo, daughter of Salvador Pires and Mécia Fernandes...
  
  , "king of São Paulo" (1941)
• Maria Bueno
  Maria Bueno
  Maria Esther Andion Bueno is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. During her 11-year career , she won 19 Major titles ....
  
  , tennis player (1960)
• Júlio Bueno Brandão, politician (1958) article in Portuguese

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• Pedro Álvares Cabral
  Pedro Álvares Cabral
  Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese noble, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. While details of Cabral's early life are sketchy, it...
  
  , navigator and explorer (1900, 1968, 1984)
• João Caetano, actor (1951, 1963) article in Portuguese
• Joaquim Caetano da Silva, diplomat (1958) article in Portuguese
• Francisco Caldas Júnior, journalist (1968) article in Portuguese
• Pandiá Calógeras, politician (1970) article in Portuguese
• Hélder Câmara
  Hélder Câmara
  Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife.He was known as the 'Bishop of Corum' and took a clear position with the urban poor....
  
  , archbishop (2009)
• Luís da Câmara Cascudo
  Luís da Câmara Cascudo
  Luís da Câmara Cascudo was a Brazilian anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer....
  
  , anthropologist and folklorist (1998)
• Antônio Filipe Camarão
  António Filipe Camarão
  António Filipe Camarão was a Native American from the tribe of the Potiguar near the Rio Grande do Norte area of Brazil. His original tribal name was Poti, which means prawn...
  
  , soldier (1954)
• Bernardino de Campos
  Bernardino de Campos
  Bernardino de Campos is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2003 was 11,064 and the area is 244.63 km². The elevation is 695 m....
  
  , statesman (1942)
• Milton Campos, politician (2000) article in Portuguese
• Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles, president (1906, 1967, 1991)
• David Canabarro, revolutionary leader (1945)
• Gustavo Capanema, politician (2000) article in Portuguese
• Barão de Capanema, engineer and naturalist (1952) article in Portuguese
• João Capistrano de Abreu
  Capistrano de Abreu
  João Capistrano 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....
  
  , historian (1953, 2003)
• Madalena Caramuru, first literate Brazilian woman (2001) article in Portuguese
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  Fernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
  
  , president (2003)
• Licínio Cardoso, practitioner of homoeopathy (1952) article in Portuguese
• Carl XVI Gustaf
  Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
  Carl XVI Gustaf is the reigning King of Sweden since 15 September 1973, succeeding his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf because his father had predeceased him...
  
  , Swedish king (1984)
• Carlos I
  Carlos I of Portugal
  -Assassination:On 1 February 1908 the royal family returned from the palace of Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. They travelled by train to Barreiro and, from there, they took a steamer to cross the Tagus River and disembarked at Cais do Sodré in central Lisbon. On their way to the royal palace, the open...
  
  , Portuguese king (1908)
• Antonio Carlos
  Antônio Carlos Zago
  Antônio Carlos Zago, widely known as "Antônio Carlos" or "A.C.Zago", is a former Brazilian footballer and current coach.-Club career:...
  
  , soccer player (1931)
• José Carlos
  J. Carlos
  José Carlos de Brito e Cunha, known as J. Carlos, was a cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer. J...
  
  , illustrator (1996) (illustration shown 1996)
• António Óscar Carmona, Portuguese president (1940)
• Eleazar de Carvalho
  Eleazar de Carvalho
  Eleazar de Carvalho was a Brazilian conductor and composer.-Biography:De Carvalho's parents were Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho and Dalila Mendonça...
  
  , conductor (2001)
• Carlos Castelo Branco, journalist (1994) article in Portuguese
• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
  Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
  Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was a Brazilian military leader and politician.He was President of Brazil, as a military dictator, after the 1964 coup d'etat...
  
  , president (1968, 1972)
• José Plácido de Castro, revolutionary leader (1973, 2002, 2008) article in Portuguese
• Antônio de Castro Alves
  Castro Alves
  Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his Abolitionist and Republican poems...
  
  , poet (1947, 1997)
• Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
  Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
  Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo , known as Di Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian painter who sought to produce a form of Brazilian art free of any noticeable European influences...
  
  , painter (painting shown1997)
• Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
  Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
  Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti was the first Cardinal to be born in Latin America and the first cardinal from any South American diocese Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (January 17, 1850, Cimbres, Pernambuco, Brazil – April 18, 1930, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)...
  
  , cardinal (1950)
• Duke of Caxias, military leader and politician (1935, 1939, 1944, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1971, 1980, 2003, 2008)
• Dorival Caymmi
  Dorival Caymmi
  Dorival Caymmi was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933...
  
  , songwriter (sheet music shown1994)
• Cazuza
  Cazuza
  Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
  
  , rock star (1991)
• Vicente Celestino, tenor (1994) article in Portuguese
• Marcellin Champagnat
  Marcellin Champagnat
  Saint Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat was born in Rozet, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne , France...
  
  , French priest and saint (1954, 1956)
• Camille Chamoun
  Camille Chamoun
  Camille Nimr Chamoun was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War ....
  
  , Lebanese president (1954)
• Assis Chateaubriand, media mogul (1992)
• Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
  , British prime minister (1965)
• Clare of Assisi
  Clare of Assisi
  Clare of Assisi , born Chiara Offreduccio, is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi...
  
  , Italian nun and saint (1994)
• Grover Cleveland
  Grover Cleveland
  Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
  
  , US president (1939)
• Coelho Neto
  Coelho Neto
  Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto was a Brazilian writer and politician...
  
  , writer and politician (1964)
• Lindolfo Collor, journalist and politician (1990) article in Portuguese
• Christopher Columbus
  Christopher Columbus
  Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
  
  , Genoese navigator (1984, 1992)
• Auguste Comte
  Auguste Comte
  Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte , better known as Auguste Comte , was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism...
  
  , French philosopher (1957)
• Benjamin Constant
  Benjamin Constant
  Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born French nobleman, thinker, writer and politician.-Biography:...
  
  , French politician and thinker (1906, 1939, 1954)
• Nicolaus Copernicus
  Nicolaus Copernicus
  Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
  
  , Polish astronomer (1973)
• Cora Coralina
  Cora Coralina
  Cora Coralina was a Brazilian writer and poetess. She was born August 20, 1889, and died in the city of Goiânia on April 10, 1985. She published her first book after her husband died in 1965...
  
  , writer (1989)
• Inocêncio Serzedelo Correia, politician (1978) article in Portuguese
• Leôncio Correia (1865–1950), poet (1965) article in Portuguese
• Manuel Francisco Correia, politician (1978) article in Portuguese
• Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo, settler and rancher (1966) article in Portuguese
• Afrânio da Costa
  Afrânio da Costa
  Afrânio Antônio da Costa was a Brazilian sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro....
  
  , Olympic medalist (1992)
• Lucio Costa
  Lúcio Costa
  Lucio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner.-Career:Costa was born in Toulon, France.Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England and in Montreux until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the School of Fine Art in Rio de Janeiro...
  
  , architect (2002)
• Artur da Costa e Silva
  Artur da Costa e Silva
  Artur da Costa e Silva was a Brazilian Army General, the second President of Brazil during the military regime set up by the 1964 coup d'état; he was born only a month before the coup that overthrow Dom Pedro II. He was married to Iolanda Barbosa Costa e Silva, the daughter of a soldier...
  
  , president (1972)
• Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima
  Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima
  Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima was the foremost Brazilian entomologist of his time, and his still-consulted works continue to assure his place in the history of science as the "Father" of Brazilian entomology.-Life:...
  
  , entomologist (1966)
• Vasco Fernandes Coutinho
  Vasco Coutinho
  Vasco Fernandes Coutinho was the founder of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo.He was born in Portugal. He was later amongst the first 12 volunteers from Portugal to come to the newly discovered land which came to be known as Brazil...
  
  , colonist (1935)
• Francisco Craveiro Lopes
  Francisco Craveiro Lopes
  Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes da Silva de Tovero , 6th Viscount de Molenos-Craveiro, GCTE, ComC, GCA, , was a Portuguese politician and military man...
  
  , Portuguese president (1957)
• Luís Cruls, Belgian astronomer (1992)
• Oswaldo Cruz
  Oswaldo Cruz
  Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better known as Oswaldo Cruz |São Paulo]] state, Brazil – February 11, 1917, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state) was a Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.He also occupied the 5th chair of...
  
  , physician (1950, 1954, 1972, 2000)
• João da Cruz e Sousa
  João da Cruz e Sousa
  João da Cruz e Sousa was a symbolist poet from Santa Catarina, Brazil. A son of freed slaves, he was one of the great Afro-Brazilian writers. He published his first poem in 1877...
  
  , poet (1998)
• Euclides da Cunha
  Euclides da Cunha
  Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões , a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos...
  
  , writer (1966)

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• Frei Damião, beatified Italian-Brazilian friar (1998) article in Portuguese
• Joseph Damien
  Father Damien
  Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. , born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order...
  
  , Belgian missionary and saint (1952, 1989–92)
• Rubén Darío
  Rubén Darío
  Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
  
  , Nicaraguan poet (1966)
• Jean-Baptiste Debret
  Jean-Baptiste Debret
  Jean-Baptiste Debret was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the people of Brazil.-Biography:...
  
  , French painter (1968)
• Orville A. Derby
  Orville Adalbert Derby
  Orville Adalbert Derby was an American geologist who worked in Brazil.-Education:Derby studied geology at the Cornell University, obtaining his degree in 1873...
  
  , American geologist (1951)
• Henrique Dias
  Henrique Dias
  Henrique Dias was a soldier and militia leader born in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He was born to freed slave parents. There is no consensus among historians whether he was born free or captive. He led freed slaves with distinction against Dutch forces, and played important roles in the First...
  
  , soldier (1954, 1962)
• Fernão Dias Paes, bandeirante (1974) article in Portuguese
• Marília de Dirceu
  Marília de Dirceu
  Marília de Dirceu is a poetry book written by Luso-Brazilian Neoclassic poet Tomás Antônio Gonzaga. It is divided in three parts — all of them published in different years...
  
  , fictional character (1967)
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...
  
  , poet (1995, 2002)
• Irmã Dulce
  Irmã Dulce
  The Blessed Irmã Dulce, S.M.I.C., was a Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister who was the founder of the Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce also known as the Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce. Her work with the poor population in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, has made her a candidate for sainthood in...
  
   (Sister Dulce), nun and candidate for sainthood (1993)
• Eurico Gaspar Dutra
  Eurico Gaspar Dutra
  Eurico Gaspar Dutra , was a Brazilian marshal, politician and president of Brazil from 1946–1951.He was born in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, and like many other Brazilians, was from Azorean-Portuguese origin...
  
  , president (1947, 1948)

E

• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (1995)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
  , US president (1960)
• Elizabeth II, British queen (1968)
• Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, Spanish priest and saint (2002)

F

• Fabiola
  Queen Fabiola of Belgium
  Queen Fabiola of Belgium is the widow of King Baudouin of Belgium. She was Queen consort of the Belgians for 33 years...
  
  , Belgian queen (1965)
• Diogo Antônio Feijó, priest and statesman (1952) article in Portuguese
• Baltasar Fernandes, early settler (1954) article in Portuguese
• João Fernandes Vieira, soldier and colonial governor (1954) article in Portuguese
• Oscar Lorenzo Fernández
  Oscar Lorenzo Fernández
  Oscar Lorenzo Fernández was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent.-Life:...
  
  , composer (1997)
• Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
  Adhemar da Silva
  Adhemar Ferreira da Silva is a former Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four world records in athletics, the last being 16.56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games.He was born in São Paulo, in a poor family, and began competing in the triple jump...
  
  , athlete (2002)
• Jackson de Figueiredo, philosopher and essayist (1991) article in Portuguese
• João Figueiredo, president (1984)
• Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo
  Pedro Américo
  Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo was one of the most important academic painters of Brazil. He was also a writer and a teacher....
  
  , painter (1943, 3 paintings shown 1993)
• Hércules Florence
  Hércules Florence
  Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre , using the matrix negative/positive, still in use...
  
   French-born painter and inventor (1992)
• Nísia Floresta
  Nísia Floresta
  Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, pseudony of Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto, was a Brazilian educator, writer, poet and feminist....
  
  , writer and feminist (1954)
• Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca
  Deodoro da Fonseca
  Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca became the first president of the Republic of Brazil after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and proclaimed the Republic in 1889, disestablishing the Empire of Brazil.- Biography :...
  
  , president (1906, 1939)
• Hermes da Fonseca, president (1913, 1955)
• Polidoro da Fonseca, general (1952) article in Portuguese
• Cândido Fontoura, pharmacist and businessman (1985)
• Tasso Fragoso
  Augusto Tasso Fragoso
  Augusto Tasso Fragoso was the head of the government of Brazil in 1930, between the overthrow of President Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa and the oath of Getúlio Vargas.-References:*...
  
  , president (1969)
• Francis of Assisi
  Francis of Assisi
  Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...
  
  , Italian friar and saint (1976, 1982)
• Itamar Franco
  Itamar Franco
  Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician and the President of Brazil from December 29, 1992, to January 1, 1995. During his long political career, Franco was also a Senator, Mayor, Ambassador, Governor and Vice President...
  
  , president (1995)
• Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
  
  , sociologist (2000)
• Paulo de Frontin, engineer and politician (1960) article in Portuguese

G

• Frei Galvão, friar and saint (1998)
• José Basílio da Gama
  Basílio da Gama
  José Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...
  
  , poet (1991)
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Leader of India's
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
   Independence Movement (1969)
• Anita Garibaldi
  Anita Garibaldi
  Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro di Garibaldi, best known as Anita Garibaldi, was the Brazilian wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi...
  
  , heroine of independence (1967, 1971)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
  Giuseppe Garibaldi
  Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...
  
  , Italian soldier and politician (2007)
• Emílio Garrastazu Médici
  Emílio Garrastazu Médici
  Emílio Garrastazu Médici, was a Brazilian military leader and politician. His rightist rule from 1969 to 1974, marked the apex of military governments in Brazil.-Early life:...
  
  , president (1972)
• Charles de Gaulle
  Charles de Gaulle
  Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
  
  , French president (1964)
• Ernesto Geisel
  Ernesto Geisel
  Ernesto Beckmann Geisel, was a Brazilian military leader and politician of German descent who was President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979.-Early life and family:...
  
  , president (1978)
• Gibran Khalil Gibran
  Khalil Gibran
  Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...
  
  , Lebanese-American writer and artist (2009)
• Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos, politician (1954) article in Portuguese
• Antonio Carlos Gomes
  Antônio Carlos Gomes
  Antônio Carlos Gomes was the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe.-Life:He was born in Campinas, Brazil, son of Maestro Manuel José Gomes and Fabiana Maria Jaguari Cardoso....
  
  , composer (1936, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1996)
• Eduardo Gomes
  Eduardo Gomes
  Air Marshal Eduardo Gomes was a Brazilian politician and military figure. He was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil....
  
  , military officer and politician (1982)
• Antônio Ernesto Gomes Carneiro, soldier (1944, 1946) article in Portuguese
• Joaquim Eugênio Gomes da Silva (1956-1909), pioneer and rancher (1957) article in Portuguese
• Bento Gonçalves da Silva
  Bento Gonçalves da Silva
  General Bento Gonçalves da Silva, , was a Tatter Revolutionary leader and President of the Piratini Republic ....
  
  , revolutionary leader (1935)
• Antônio Gonçalves Dias, poet (1965, 1973)
• Ademar Gonzaga, film producer and director (1990) article in Portuguese
• Chiquinha Gonzaga
  Chiquinha Gonzaga
  Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor....
  
  , composer (1977)
• Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
  Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
  Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto , as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia...
  
  , Portuguese poet (1994)
• Gabriel González Videla
  Gabriel González Videla
  Gabriel González Videla was a Chilean politician. He was a deputy and senator in the Chilean Congress and was President of Chile from 1946 to 1952...
  
  , Chilean president (1947)
• Grande Otelo
  Grande Otelo
  Grande Otelo is the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata...
  
  , actor, singer and comedian (1998)
• Giovanni Gronchi
  Giovanni Gronchi
  Giovanni Gronchi was a Christian Democratic Italian politician who became the third President of the Italian Republic in 1955, after Luigi Einaudi...
  
  , Italian president (1958)
• Ulysses Guimarães, politician (1993) article in Portuguese
• João Guimarães Rosa
  João Guimarães Rosa
  João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, considered by many to be one of the greatest Brazilian novelists born in the 20th century. His best-known work is the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas...
  
  , novelist (2008)
• Alexandre de Gusmão
  Alexandre de Gusmão
  ----Alexandre de Gusmão is regarded as one of the pioneers of Brazilian Diplomacy, chiefly for his role in negotiating the Treaty of Madrid in 1750 , when Portugal and Spain were attempting to delimit their territorial possessions in South America and Asia...
  
  , diplomat (1954, 1995)
• Bartolomeu de Gusmão
  Bartolomeu de Gusmão
  Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão , was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design....
  
  , priest and inventor (1930, 1944, 1985)

H

• Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (1961)
• Paul P. Harris
  Paul P. Harris
  Paul Percy Harris was a Chicago, Illinois, attorney best known for founding Rotary International in 1905, a service organization that currently has well over one million members worldwide.-Biography:...
  
  , American service club founder (1968)
• Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince and patron of exploration (1994)
• Rowland Hill
  Rowland Hill (postal reformer)
  Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters...
  
  , postal reformer (1938, 1990)
• Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann
  Samuel Hahnemann
  Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, known for creating an alternative form of medicine called homeopathy.- Early life :Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen, Saxony near Dresden...
  
  , German physician (1954)
• Horácio Hora, painter (1953) article in Portuguese

I

• Isabel
  Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
  Dona Isabel , nicknamed "the Redemptress", was the heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil, bearing the title of Princess Imperial....
  
  , princess and regent (1946, 1996)
• Isabella I
  Isabella I of Castile
  Isabella I was Queen of Castile and León. She and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon brought stability to both kingdoms that became the basis for the unification of Spain. Later the two laid the foundations for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor...
  
  , Castilian queen (1952)

J

• Jean
  Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
  Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg ruled Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000. He is the father of the current ruler, Grand Duke Henri, and the son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma...
  
  , Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1965)
• Viscount of Jequitinhonha, lawyer and abolitionist (1995) article in Portuguese
• Clementina de Jesus
  Clementina de Jesus
  Clementina de Jesus was born on February 7, 1901, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She worked as a maid for more than 20 years until she was discovered in 1963 by the composer Hermínio Bello de Carvalho. She is considered queen of the Samba style Partido alto and represents the musical...
  
  , singer (1998)
• Joana Angélica, nun and martyr of Independence (1967) article in Portuguese
• Joel
  Book of Joel
  The Book of Joel is part of the Hebrew Bible. Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve; the distinction 'minor' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the "Major Prophets".-Content:After...
  
  , Hebrew prophet (1958)
• João III
  John III of Portugal
  John III , nicknamed o Piedoso , was the fifteenth King of Portugal and the Algarves. He was the son of King Manuel I and Maria of Aragon, the third daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile...
  
  , Portuguese king (1932)
• João VI
  John VI of Portugal
  John VI John VI John VI (full name: João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael; (13 May 1767 – 10 March 1826) was King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (later changed to just King of Portugal and the Algarves, after Brazil was recognized...
  
  , Portuguese king (1958, 1959, 2008)
• John XXIII
  Pope John XXIII
  -Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
  
  , pope (1964)
• John Paul II
  Pope John Paul II
  Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...
  
  , pope (1980, 1991, 1997, 2005)
• Joséphine-Charlotte
  Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium
  Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as spouse of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg...
  
  , Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1965)

K

• Allan Kardec
  Allan Kardec
  Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail . He is known today as the systematizer of Spiritism for which he laid the foundation with the five books of the Spiritist Codification.-Early life:Rivail was born in Lyon in 1804...
  
  , French spiritist (1957, 1969, 2004)
• Helen Keller
  Helen Keller
  Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
  
  , American activist (1980)
• John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
  , US president (1964)
• Juscelino Kubitshek, president (1956, 1986, 2002)
• Gustavo Kuerten
  Gustavo Kuerten
  Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000...
  
  , tennis player (2001)

L

• Gustavo de Lacerda, journalist (2008) article in Portuguese
• Henrique Lage, industrialist (1982) article in Portuguese
• Francisco "Chico" Landi
  Chico Landi
  Francisco Sacco Landi , better known as Chico, was a racing driver from São Paulo, Brazil. He participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 16, 1951...
  
  , race car driver (2000)
• Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
  Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
  Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Baron de Langsdorff was a Prussian aristocrat, politician and naturalist. He lived in Russia and was better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovitch...
  
  , Russian naturalist and explorer (1992)
• Alejandro Agustín Lanusse
  Alejandro Agustín Lanusse
  Alejandro Agustín Lanusse Gelly was the 38th president of the Argentine Republic between March 22, 1971 and May 25, 1973, during the penultimate military dictatorship.- Career :...
  
  , Argentine president (1972)
• Otto Lara Resende, writer (1994) article in Portuguese
• Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
  Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle or John Baptist de La Salle was a priest, educational reformer, and founder of Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools...
  
  , French priest and educator (1951)
• Le Corbusier
  Le Corbusier
  Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
  
  , Swiss architect (2009)
• Michel Leiris
  Michel Leiris
  Julien Michel Leiris was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer.-Biography:...
  
  , French writer (1998)
• Leopoldina
  Maria Leopoldina of Austria
  Maria Leopoldina of Austria was an archduchess of Austria, Empress consort of Brazil and queen consort of Portugal....
  
  , empress 91962)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
  
  , French anthropologist (2009)
• José Lins do Rego
  José Lins do Rego
  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 world...
  
  , novelist (2001)
• Clarice Lispector
  Clarice Lispector
  Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
  
  , writer (1998)
• Rita Lobato
  Rita Lobato
  Rita Lobato Velho Lopes was the first woman to practice medicine in Brazil. She received her degree in 1887 from a school in Bahia. Her initial enrollment caused debate with some arguing women had brains too small to understand medicine and others saying a female doctor could never find a husband...
  
  , physician (1967)
• Aristides Lobo, journalist and abolitionist (1906) article in Portuguese
• Adolfo López Mateos
  Adolfo López Mateos
  Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964...
  
  , Mexican president (1960)
• Heinrich Lübke
  Heinrich Lübke
  Karl Heinrich Lübke was President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1959 to 1969.-Biography:...
  
  , West German president (1964)
• Washington Luís, president (1968)
• Auguste and Louis Lumière
  Auguste and Louis Lumière
  The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean , were among the earliest filmmakers in history...
  
  , French motion pictures pioneers (1995)
• Peter Lund
  Peter Wilhelm Lund
  Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist and who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil...
  
  , Danish paleontologist (2010)
• Martin Luther
  Martin Luther
  Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
  
  , German religious reformer (1983)
• Adolfo Lutz
  Adolfo Lutz
  Adolfo Lutz was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases....
  
  , physician (1955)

M

• Gilka Machado
  Gilka Machado
  Gilka Machado was a Brazilian poet.Machado started to write poetry as a child. As an adult, she supported her family by working for the Rio Railway Company.-Works:* Cristais partidos [Broken Crystals], 1915...
  
  , poet (1993) article in Portuguese
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis , often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho , was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, but he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in...
  
  , writer (1940, 1958, 1989)
• José Vieira Couto de Magalhães, statesman and writer (1938) article in Portuguese
• Ferdinand Magellan
  Ferdinand Magellan
  Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" ....
  
  , Portuguese navigator and explorer (1991)
• Anita Malfatti
  Anita Malfatti
  Anita Catarina Malfatti is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil...
  
  , painter (painting shown 1989)
• Emílio Luiz Mallet, artillery officer (1968) article in Portuguese
• Otávio Mangabeira, politician (1986) article in Portuguese
• Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
  
  , Italian inventor (1995)
• Rodrigo Melo Franco
  Rodrigo Melo Franco
  Rodrigo Melo Franco de Andrade was a Brazilian art critic and historian. He served as director of preservation of artistic patrimony of Brazil at the Ministry of Education. He is credited, among many similar discoveries, with reviving interest in Antônio Francisco Lisboa...
  
  , writer (998)
• Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
  , American actress (1996)
• Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros, naval officer (1966) article in Portuguese
• Joaquim Marques Lisboa, Marquis of Tamandaré, admiral (1954, 1957, 1997, 2008)
• Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre
  Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre
  Manuel Marques de Sousa, the Count of Porto Alegre , was a Brazilian military officer, monarchist and politician.-Early years:...
  
  , general (1941)
• Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
  
  , German naturalist (drawings of plants shown 1994)
• Roberto Burle Marx
  Roberto Burle Marx
  Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil...
  
  , landscape architect (pictures of flowers shown 1995)
• Teresa de Marzo, aviatrix (2000) article in Portuguese
• João Baptista Mascarenhas de Morais, military leader (1983)
• Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho, art collector and industrialist (1989) article in Portuguese
• Luiz de Matos, spiritualist (1960) article in Portuguese
• Gregório de Mattos e Guerra
  Gregório de Mattos
  Gregório de Mattos e Guerra was the most famous Colonial Brazilian Baroque poet. Although he wrote many lyrical and religious poems, he was more well-known by his satirical ones, winning because of them the nickname "Boca do Inferno" .He is the patron of the 16th chair of the Brazilian Academy of...
  
  , poet (book cover shown 1986)
• Viscount of Mauá
  Irineu Evangelista de Sousa
  Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, the Viscount of Mauá was a Brazilian entrepreneur, industrialist, banker and politician. He was called the Rothschild of the South American continent by the New York Times in 1871. He received the titles of baron and visconde com grandeza of Mauá...
  
  , industrialist and politician (1963, 2010)
• Joaquim Antônio Cordovil Maurity, naval officer (1941)
• Humberto Mauro
  Humberto Mauro
  Humberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.-Career:...
  
  , film director (1985)
• Amácio Mazzaropi
  Amácio Mazzaropi
  Amácio Mazzaropi was a Brazilian actor and filmmaker.- Filmography:* Sai da frente - * Nadando em dinheiro - * Candinho - * O gato da madame -...
  
  , actor and filmmaker (1998)
• Cecília Meireles
  Cecília Meireles
  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 Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she combatted the word...
  
  , poet (2001)
• Murilo Mendes
  Murilo Mendes
  Murilo Mendes was an exponent of Modernist poetry in Brazil. He lived in Europe twice and died in Lisbon. His greatest connection in Europe though was to Rome...
  
  , poet (2001)
• Mãe Menininha do Gantois, candomblé
  Candomblé
  Candomblé is an African-originated or Afro-Brazilian religion, practised chiefly in Brazil by the "povo de santo" . It originated in the cities of Salvador, the capital of Bahia and Cachoeira, at the time one of the main commercial crossroads for the distribution of products and slave trade to...
  
   priestess (1994) article in Portuguese
• Júlio de Mesquita, journalist (1962) article in Portuguese
• Michiko, Japanese empress (1967)
• Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Paulo Mignone is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos...
  
  , composer (1997)
• Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
  , singer and actress (1990, 2009)
• José Bento Monteiro Lobato
  Monteiro Lobato
  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 writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic...
  
  , author (1955, 1973)
• Dulcina de Moraes, stage actress (1998) article in Portuguese
• Prudente de Moraes, president (1906, 1942, 1991)
• Vinicius de Moraes
  Vinicius de Moraes
  Marcus Vinicius de Moraes , known as Vinicius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinho , was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes, he was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music...
  
  , musician, composer and poet (1993)
• Leonardo Mota, writer (1991) article in Portuguese
• Sérgio Motta, engineer (1998, 2002) article in Portuguese
• Lauro Müller
  Lauro Müller
  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 who helped achieve the Brazilian diplomatic victory over Bolivia through the Treaty of Petrópolis,...
  
  , politician (1964)
• Joaquim Murtinho, physician and politician (1954) article in Portuguese

N

• Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country.-Biography:...
  
  , statesman and abolitionist (1949, 1999)
• Maurice of Nassau, Dutch governor of Pernambuco (2009)
• Severino Neiva (1962)
• Ana Néri
  Ana Néri
  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.-Biography:...
  
  , nurse (1967)
• Rogério Neuhaus, priest (1983) article in Portuguese
• Tancredo de Almeida Neves, politician (1985, 2010)
• Oscar Niemeyer
  Oscar Niemeyer
  Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...
  
  , architect (2008)
• Manuel da Nóbrega
  Manuel da Nóbrega
  Manuel da Nóbrega was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and first Provincial of the Society of Jesus in colonial Brazil...
  
  , missionary and educator (1949)
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia
  José Maurício Nunes Garcia
  José Maurício Nunes Garcia was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas....
  
  , composer (1973)

O

• Manuel A. Odría
  Manuel A. Odría
  Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti was the President of Peru from 1948 to 1956.Manuel Odría was born in 1897 in Tarma, a city in the central Andes just east of Lima. He graduated first in his class from the Chorillos Military Academy in 1915. He joined the army and as a lieutenant-colonel was a war...
  
  , Peruvian president (1953)
• Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins
  Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
  
  , Chilean independence leader (1909)
• Olaf V
  Olav V of Norway
  Olav V was the king of Norway from 1957 until his death. A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud of Norway...
  
  , Norwegian king (1967)
• João Carlos de Oliveira
  João Carlos de Oliveira
  João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump....
  
  , athlete (1975)
• Francisco de Orellana
  Francisco de Orellana
  Francisco de Orellana was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He completed the first known navigation of the length of the Amazon River, which was originally named for him...
  
  , Spanish explorer (1991)
• Oscarito
  Oscarito
  Oscarito was the stage name of Brazilian actor and comedian Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz. Oscarito was born to a family of circus comedians. His first film was Voz do Carnaval , which also featured Carmen Miranda. He became a sought actor for chanchadas...
  
  , actor and comedian (1990, 1998)
• Manuel Luís Osório
  Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval
  Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval , was a Brazilian military officer, monarchist and politician.-References:* Carvalho, José Murilo de. D. Pedro II: ser ou não ser. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2007....
  
  , military officer (1958, 1970)
• Henrique Oswald
  Henrique Oswald
  Henrique Oswald was a Brazilian composer and pianist whose work fell into disfavor after the "Semana de Arte Moderna" manifesto. Oswald's father was a Swiss-German immigrant and his mother from Italy. The family name was changed from "Oschwald" due to concerns of discrimination...
  
  , composer (1952)
• Teófilo Ottoni, politician and pacifier of Indians (2007) article in Portuguese

P

• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia , ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979...
  
  , shah of Iran (1965)
• Guilherme Paraense
  Guilherme Paraense
  Guilherme Paraense was a Brazilian sport shooter and Olympic Champion. He was the first Brazilian ever to win an Olympic gold medal.He won gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Rapid-Fire Pistol...
  
  , Olympic medalist (1992)
• José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, diplomat (1913, 1944, 1945, 1969, 1995)
• Pascoal
  Paschal Baylon
  Saint Paschal Baylon was a Spanish friar and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations.-Life:...
  
  , Spanish friar and saint (1955)
• Louis Pasteur
  Louis Pasteur
  Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...
  
  , French chemist and microbiologist (1995)
• José Carlos do Patrocínio
  José do Patrocínio
  José Carlos do Patrocínio was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist. He founded and occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1905.-Life:...
  
  , journalist and abolitionist (1953)
• Pope Paul VI
  Pope Paul VI
  Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...
  
  , pope (973)
• Nilo Peçanha
  Nilo Peçanha
  Nilo Procópio Peçanha was a Brazilian politician. Governor of Rio de Janeiro State . Elected vice-president in 1906, he assumed the presidency in 1909 following the death of President Afonso Pena and served until 1910...
  
  , president (1910, 1967)
• Raul Pederneiras, cartoonist and painter (1974) article in Portuguese
• Pedro I, emperor (1965, 1972, 1984, 1998, 2008)
• Pedro II
  Pedro II of Brazil
  Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...
  
  , emperor (1866, 1939, 1952, 1966, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991)
• Floriano Peixoto
  Floriano Peixoto
  Floriano Vieira de Araújo Peixoto , April 30, 1839, Maceió, Brazil — July 29, 1895, Rio de Janeiro; born in Ipioca , was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the War of the Triple Alliance, and the second President of Brazil.-Election and Succession as President:Floriano Peixoto...
  
  , president (1906, 1941)
• Pelé
  Pelé
  However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
  
  , soccer player (1969, 1970)
• Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, president (1906, 1908)
• Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos, politician (1987) article in Portuguese
• Epitacio Pessoa
  Epitácio Pessoa
  Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist, and president of the republic between 1919 and 1922, when Rodrigues Alves could not take office due to illness after being elected in 1918...
  
  , president (1920, 1965)
• João Pessoa
  João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque
  João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque , was the governor of Paraíba between 1928 and 1930. He was the vice-presidential nominee on the ticket of Getúlio Vargas in the 1930 presidential elections...
  
  , politician (1931)
• Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, Italian cardinal (1954)
• Menotti Del Picchia
  Menotti Del Picchia
  Paulo Menotti Del Picchia was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernists....
  
  , poet and painter (1992)
• Conde de Pinhal, businessman and politician (1957) article in Portuguese
• Anésia Pinheiro, aviatrix (2000) article in Portuguese
• Israel Pinheiro da Silva, politician (1996) article in Portuguese
• Adel Pinto, engineer (1960)
• Apolonia Pinto (1854–1937), actress (1954)
• Euclides Pinto Martins, aviator (1951) article in Portuguese
• Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva
  Pirajá da Silva
  Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva was a Brazilian parasitologist, medical researcher and physician.-Biography:...
  
  , medical researcher (1959)
• Pixinguinha
  Pixinguinha
  Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., better known as Pixinguinha was a composer, arranger, flautist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. Pixinguinha is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre of music known as choro...
  
  , composer (1993, 1997)
• Raul Pompeia
  Raul Pompéia
  Raul d'Ávila Pompeia was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and chronicler. He is famous for the Impressionist romance O Ateneu.He is patron of the 33rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Biography:...
  
  , writer (1988)
• Candido Portinari
  Cândido Portinari
  Candido Portinari was one of the most important Brazilian painters and also a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting....
  
  , painter (2003, 2004)
• Francisco Prestes Maia
  Prestes Maia
  The Prestes Maia, was the largest squatted highrise building on the South American continent. Originally, 468 families, united through the Downtown Roofless Movement of São Paulo, lived in the 22-storey highrise since 2002.The building had been closed and left in a rundown condition for years,...
  
  , politician and urban planner (1996) article in Portuguese
• Antônio Prudente (1906–1955), physician (1983) biography in English
• Count of Porto Alegre
  Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre
  Manuel Marques de Sousa, the Count of Porto Alegre , was a Brazilian military officer, monarchist and politician.-Early years:...
  
  , general (1941)
• Viscount of Porto Seguro
  Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
  Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Viscount of Porto Seguro was a Brazilian military, diplomat and historian. He is the patron of the 39th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Life:...
  
  , historian (1966)

Q

• Eusébio de Queirós, politician (1952) article in Portuguese
• Luiz de Queiroz, agronomist (1998) article in Portuguese
• Mário Quintana
  Mario Quintana
  Mario de Miranda Quintana , was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time...
  
  , writer (2005)

R

• João Ramalho, explorer (1932, 1953) article in Portuguese
• Graciliano Ramos
  Graciliano Ramos
  Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was a Brazilian Post-Modernist writer, politician and journalist. In most of his novels he depicts the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão.-Life:Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was born in the city of Quebrangulo, in the Brazilian State...
  
  , novelist (1992)
• Orlando Rangel, pharmacist (1968)
• Elis Regina
  Elis Regina
  Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...
  
  , MPB
  Música Popular Brasileira
  Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...
  
   singer (1998)
• Aarão Reis. urban planner and engineer (1953) article in Portuguese
• Taciana Reis, film actress (1998)
• José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, diplomat (1913, 1944, 1945, 1969, 1995)
• Glauber Rocha, film director (1986, 1998)
• Henrique da Rocha Lima
  Henrique da Rocha Lima
  Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist. He discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus. Rickettsia prowazekii was named after German zoologist Stanislaus von Prowazek.Henrique da Rocha Lima received his M.D. degree from the Medical...
  
  , physician and pathologist (1966)
• Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
  Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
  Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, PC was a Brazilian politician who first served as governor of the State of São Paulo in 1887, and as Treasury minister in the 1890s. Rodrigues Alves was elected president of Brazil in 1902 and served until 1906....
  
   (1906)
• João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues
  João Barbosa Rodrigues was a Brazilian botanist and engineer.He was born in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí and raised in Campanha, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He returned to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1858. He first dedicated to the commerce, but he was always interested in natural...
  
  , botanist (1943)
• Nelson Rodrigues
  Nélson Rodrigues
  Nelson Falcão Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog...
  
  , writer (2004)
• José Rodrigues de Carvalho, writer (1967) article in Portuguese
• Joaquim Rodrigues Torres, Viscount of Itaboraí
  Joaquim Rodrigues Torres, Viscount of Itaboraí
  Joaquim Rodrigues Torres, the Viscount of Itaboraí was a Brazilian politician and monarchist during the period of the Empire of Brazil ....
  
  , statesman (1953)
• Ada Rogato, aviatrix (2000) article in Portuguese
• Cícero Romão Batista
  Padre Cícero
  Padre Cícero was born Cícero Romão Batista in Ceará, Brazil. He was the son of Joaquim Romão Batista and Joaquina Vicência Romana. When he was 6 years old, he started to study with professor Rufino de Alcântara Montezuma.One important thing about his infancy is his pledge of chastity, made when he...
  
  , priest (1994)
• Sílvio Romero
  Sílvio Romero
  Sílvio Vasconcelos da Silveira Ramos Romero was a Brazilian "Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist....
  
  , writer (1951)
• Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon
  Cândido Rondon
  Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations...
  
  , military officer and explorer (1958, 1965, 1985)
• Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist (x-ray of hand shown" 1995)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president (1940, 1949)
• Noel Rosa
  Noel Rosa
  Noel de Medeiros Rosa was a Brazilian songwriter, singer, and guitar/banjo player. 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, witty language and making it a vehicle for ironic social commentary.Noel...
  
  , singer and songwriter (1977)
• Johann Moritz Rugendas
  Johann Moritz Rugendas
  Johann Moritz Rugendas , was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas, in the first half of the 19th century....
  
  , German painter (1992)

S

• Estácio de Sá
  Estácio de Sá
  Estácio de Sá was a Portuguese soldier and officer who came to Brazil on orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon , who had established themselves in 1555 at the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, in the episode which became known...
  
  , soldier (1965)
• Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides
  Salvador de Sá
  Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides was a Portuguese soldier and politician. In 1625 he fought the Dutch invasion of Salvador in Brazil and regained Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe from the Dutch in 1647...
  
  , Portuguese soldier and politician (1940)
• Albert Sabin
  Albert Sabin
  Albert Bruce Sabin was an American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.-Life:...
  
  , US immunologist (1994)
• Augustin de Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin Saint-Hilaire
  Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire , French botanist and traveler, was born at Orléans, France, on 4 October 1779. He began to publish memoirs on botanical subjects at an early age...
  
  , French botanist (1953)
• Luís Filipe de Saldanha da Gama, admiral (1946) article in Portuguese
• Vicente do Salvador
  Vicente do Salvador
  Vicente do Salvador born Vicente Rodrigues Palha, was a Franciscan friar in Brazil, the author of the first history of Brazil, often titled the "father of Brazilian history"....
  
  , priest and historian (1967) article in Portuguese
• Antônio de Sampaio, general (1967) article in Portuguese
• José Francisco de San Martín, Argentine general and hero of independence (1909)
• José de Santa Rita Durão
  Santa Rita Durão
  José de Santa Rita Durão was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of the "Indianism" in the literature of Brazil, with his epic poem Caramuru....
  
  , poet (1981)
• Cármen Santos, film actress, producer and director (1990) article in Portuguese
• Edgard Santos, physician and educator (1994) article in Portuguese
• Alberto Santos-Dumont
  Alberto Santos-Dumont
  Alberto Santos-Dumont , was a Brazilian early pioneer of aviation. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos Dumont dedicated himself to science studies in Paris, France, where he spent most of his adult life....
  
  , aviator (1929, 1951, 1969, 1973, 1981, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2008)
• Bernardo Saião, politician (2001) article in Portuguese
• Giuseppe Saragat
  Giuseppe Saragat
  Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician who was the fifth President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971.Saragat was born in Turin, from Sardinian parents....
  
  , Italian president (1965)
• José Antônio Saraiva
  José Antônio Saraiva
  José Antônio Saraiva, also known as Counsellor Saraiva , was a politician, diplomat and lawyer during the period of the Empire of Brazil ....
  
  , politician (1952)
• José Sarney
  José Sarney
  José Sarney de Araújo Costa is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician. He served as president of Brazil from 15 March 1985 to 15 March 1990....
  
  , president (1990)
• Bidú Sayão
  Bidu Sayão
  Bidú Sayão was a Brazilian opera soprano. One of Brazil's most famous musicians, Sayão was a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1937 to 1952.-Life and career:...
  
  , opera singer (2006)
• Alfredo Vicente Scherer
  Alfredo Scherer
  Alfredo Vicente Scherer was a German-Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Porto Alegre from 1946 to 1996, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.-Biography:...
  
  , cardinal (2004)
• Guilherme Schüch, barão de Capanema, engineer and naturalist (1952) article in Portuguese
• Raul Seixas
  Raul Seixas
  Raul Santos Seixas June 28, 1945 Salvador Northeast Brazil – August 21, 1989),was a Brazilian rock composer, singer, songwriter and producer.He is sometimes called the "Father of Brazilian Rock" and "Maluco Beleza"....
  
  , rock star (1991)
• Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese...
  
  , Senegalese president and poet (1964)
• Lasar Segall
  Lasar Segall
  The artist Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism...
  
  , Lithuanian-born painter (1991)
• Ayrton Senna
  Ayrton Senna
  Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver. A three-time Formula One world champion, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time...
  
  , race car driver (1989, 1994, 2000)
• Augusto Severo
  Augusto Severo
  Campo Grande, formerly Augusto Severo is a town and municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...
  
  , aviator (1929)
• Zalman Shazar
  Zalman Shazar
  Zalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...
  
  , Israeli president (1966)
• Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, military leader and politician 1935, 1939, 1944, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1971, 1980, 2003, 2008)
• Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer (1945)
• José da Silva Lisboa, Viscount of Cairu, economist (1936) article in Portuguese
• José da Silva Paes, general (1937)
• Joaquim José da Silva Xavier
  Tiradentes
  Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes , was a leading member of the Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira whose aim was full independence from the Portuguese colonial power and to create a Brazilian republic. When the plan was discovered, Tiradentes was...
  
  , hero of independence (1948, 1965, 1992, 2008)
• Nise da Silveira
  Nise da Silveira
  Nise da Silveira was born in Maceió, in the northeastern state of Alagoas, Brazil, in 1905. After graduating from the Medical School of Bahia in 1926, she devoted her life to psychiatry and never was in agreement with the aggressive forms of treatment of her time such as commitment to psychiatric...
  
  , psychiatrist (2005)
• Ernesto Simões Filho, journalist (1986) article in Portuguese
• Lauro Sodré, general and politician (1958) article in Portuguese
• Anastasio Somoza
  Anastasio Somoza García
  Anastasio Somoza García was officially the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 to 29 September 1956, but ruled effectively as dictator from 1936 until his assassination.-Biography:Somoza was born in San Marcos, Carazo Department in Nicaragua, the son of...
  
  , Nicaraguan president (1953)
• Gabriel Soares de Souza
  Gabriel Soares de Souza
  Gabriel Soares de Souza was a Portuguese explorer and naturalist.A participant in Francisco Barretos Africa expeditions he settled in Brazil living there for...
  
  , naturalist (1987)
• Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Baron of Mauá
  Irineu Evangelista de Sousa
  Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, the Viscount of Mauá was a Brazilian entrepreneur, industrialist, banker and politician. He was called the Rothschild of the South American continent by the New York Times in 1871. He received the titles of baron and visconde com grandeza of Mauá...
  
  , industrialist and politician (2010)
• Martim Afonso de Sousa
  Martim Afonso de Sousa
  Martim Afonso de Sousa was a Portuguese fidalgo and explorer.Born in Vila Viçosa, he was commander of the first official Portuguese expedition into mainland Brazil...
  
  , Portuguese explorer and colonizer (1932, 1982)
• Herbert José "Betinho" de Souza
  Herbert de Souza
  Herbert Jose "Betinho" de Souza was a sociologist and activist against economic injustice and government corruption in Brazil and founder of the...
  
  , sociologist and human rights activist (1998)e
• Joaquim Silvério de Souza (1859–1933), bishop (1959) article in Portuguese
• Thomé de Souza
  Tomé de Sousa
  Tomé de Sousa was the first governor-general of Brazil from 1549 to 1553, when it was a Portuguese colony. He was a nobleman and soldier born in Rates, Póvoa de Varzim...
  
  , governor-general (1949)
• Sukarno
  Sukarno
  Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo was the first President of Indonesia.Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967...
  
  , Indonesian president (1959)
• Anne Sullivan, American teacher (1980)

T

• Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  , Indian poet (1961)
• Marquis of Tamandaré, admiral (1954, 1957, 1997, 2008)
• Aimé-Adrien Taunay
  Adrien Taunay the Younger
  Adrien Taunay the Younger was a French painter and draftsman.He was born in Paris in 1803, the son of history and genre painter Nicolas-Antoine Taunay . Adrien moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1816, accompanying his father, who was a member of the French Artistic Mission...
  
  , French painter (1992)
• Anísio Teixeira, educator (2000) article in Portuguese
• Luís Olímpio Teles de Menezes, spiritist (1969) article in Portuguese
• Teresa of Ávila
  Teresa of Ávila
  Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...
  
  , Spanish mystic and saint (1982)
• Mother Teresa
  Mother Teresa
  Mother Teresa , born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950...
  
  , Albanian-born Indian nun and humanitarian (1998)
• Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (1973)
• Tibiriçá
  Tibiriçá
  Tibiriçá was an indigenous leader who converted to Christianity under the auspices of José de Anchieta. He led the Tupiniquim people of Piratininga. His daughter, Bartira, took the name "Isabel" and married a Portuguese man named João Ramalho....
  
  , Indian chief (1932)
• Josip Broz Tito
  Josip Broz Tito
  Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
  
  , Yugoslav president (1963)
• Tiradentes
  Tiradentes
  Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes , was a leading member of the Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira whose aim was full independence from the Portuguese colonial power and to create a Brazilian republic. When the plan was discovered, Tiradentes was...
  
  , hero of independence (1948, 1965, 1992, 2008)
• Américo Thomás
  Américo Thomaz
  Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás, GCC, GOA, GOSE , archaic spelling: Américo Thomaz, was a Portuguese admiral and politician.-Career:Tomás became minister of the Navy in 1944...
  
  , Portuguese president (1972)
• Harry S. Truman
  Harry S. Truman
  Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...
  
  , US president (1947)

V

• Fagundes Varela
  Fagundes Varela
  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.-Biography:...
  
  , poet (1991)
• Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
  Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
  Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Viscount of Porto Seguro was a Brazilian military, diplomat and historian. He is the patron of the 39th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.-Life:...
  
  , historian (1966)
• Darci Vargas
  Darci Vargas
  Darci Sarmanho Vargas was the wife of Getúlio Vargas, former President of Brazil, and the First Lady of the country during two different periods .Darci and Getúlio Vargas, whom she married in March 1911, had five children...
  
  , first lady and philanthropist (1967)
• Getulio Vargas
  Getúlio Vargas
  Getúlio Dornelles Vargas served as President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Vargas led Brazil for 18 years, the most for any President, and second in Brazilian history to Emperor Pedro II...
  
  , president (1931, 1938, 1958)
• Érico Veríssimo
  Erico Verissimo
  Erico Verissimo was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. His father, Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth...
  
  , novelist (2005)
• Amerigo Vespucci
  Amerigo Vespucci
  Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.-Expeditions:...
  
  , Florentine navigator (2010)
• Gaspar Vianna, pathologist (1962) article in Portuguese
• Queen Victoria, British queen (1990)
• Antonio Vieira
  António Vieira
  Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time.-Life:Vieira was born in Lisbon to Cristóvão Vieira Ravasco, the son of a mulatto woman, and Maria de Azevedo. Accompanying his parents to Brazil in 1614, he received his education at the...
  
  , priest and orator (1940, 1997)
• André Vidal de Negreiros, soldier and colonial governor (1954) article in Portuguese
• João Carlos Vilagran Cabrita, military engineer (1955) article in Portuguese
• Orlando Villas-Bôas, Indian rights activist (2004)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
  , composer (1977, 1987)
• Ramón Villeda Morales
  Ramón Villeda Morales
  Ramón Villeda Morales is a municipality in the Honduran department of Gracias a Dios....
  
  , Honduran president (1958)
• Vincent de Paul
  Vincent de Paul
  Vincent de Paul was a priest of the Catholic Church who became dedicated to serving the poor. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He was canonized in 1737....
  
  , French priest and saint (1982)
• Eliseu Visconti, painter (his painting "Youth" shown, 1966)

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• Eduardo Wandenkolk, naval officer (1906) article in Portuguese
• George Washington
  George Washington
  George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
  
  , US president (1909, 1939)

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• Antônio Carlos Zago
  Antônio Carlos Zago
  Antônio Carlos Zago, widely known as "Antônio Carlos" or "A.C.Zago", is a former Brazilian footballer and current coach.-Club career:...
  
  , soccer player (1931)
• Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
  L. L. Zamenhof
  Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was the inventor of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language designed for international communication.-Cultural background:...
  
  , Russian-Polish philologist (1945, 1960)
• Zumbi dos Palmares
  Zumbi
  Zumbi , also known as Zumbi dos Palmares, was the last of the leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil.-Quilombos:...
  
  , quilombo
  Quilombo
  A quilombo is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, Quilombolas, or Maroons. Most of the inhabitants of quilombos were escaped slaves and, in some cases, a minority of marginalised Portuguese, Brazilian aboriginals, Jews and Arabs, and/or other non-black,...
  
  leader (1974, 1995, 2008)