Leonardo Boff

Leonardo Boff

male, 70 years old
Leonardo Boff was born 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. He is a theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his a...

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

male, deceased (1982)
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda is an important Brazilian writer, journalist, historian and member of the "Academia Brasileira de Letras" (Brazilian A...
Eduardo Portella

Eduardo Portella

male
Eduardo Portella is a Brazilian essayist, author, and Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has written thirty books...
Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser

male, 50 years old
Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Ri...
Paulo Lins

Paulo Lins

male
Paulo Lins Lins grew up in Rio de Janeiro and at the age of seven moved to the Cidade de Deus favela. He escaped the cycle of violence to become a...
Ronaldo Miranda

Ronaldo Miranda

male, 61 years old
Ronaldo Miranda is a Brazilian composer and music professor. Miranda studied at the "Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro", u...

Marco Pereira

male
Marco Pereira is a Brazilian classical guitarist. He was born in São Paulo and took lessons from Isaias Sávio. He got his master degree at the Un...
Roberto Salmeron

Roberto Salmeron

male, 87 years old
Roberto Salmeron (b. 1922, São Paulo), Brazilian electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist of international renown, Emeritus Research D...
Anita Dolly Panek

Anita Dolly Panek

female, 79 years old
Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek (born September 1, 1930 in Cracow, Poland) is a Brazilian biochemist. She emigrated to Brazil because of World War...

Francisco Manuel da Silva

male, deceased (1865)
Francisco Manuel da Silva was a songwriter, regent and professor. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro. He had great prominence in the musical...