- José Serra
José Serra (born March 19, 1942 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian politician, former minister, mayor of São Paulo and current Governor of São Paulo state. - Diogo Mainardi
Diogo Briso Mainardi is an Brazilian writer, publicist and TV commentator, mainly known for his short, impactful, ironic articles in Brazil's best-selling, weekly newsmagazine, "Veja." He was born in São Paulo, where he finished high school. He went to London, England, to study economics at the London School of Economics. After not managing to maintain a passing average he quit, and never graduated. By that time, he met Ivan Lessa there, … - Oswaldo Cruz
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better know as Oswaldo Cruz, (b. August 5, 1872, São Luíz de Paraitinga, São Paulo state, Brazil; d. 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. - Marta Suplicy
Marta Teresa Smith de Vasconcellos Suplicy is a Brazilian politician and psychologist. She was Mayor of São Paulo, 2001-2004, as a member of the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT). She is currently the Brazilian Minister of Tourism. She attended Michigan State University (1966-1968), and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1969-1975); she did post-graduate work at Stanford University (1973). Suplicy started her career as a TV anchorwoman, … - Celso Pitta
Celso Pitta was the first Afro-Brazilian mayor of São Paulo, Brazil from 1997 to 2000. He was elected as the successor of Paulo Maluf, having his explicit political endorsement, since he worked with Maluf's administration as Secretary of Finance. He was a member of the PPB party at that time, and faced corruption allegations like his predecessor, most notoriously with accusations coming from his ex-wife, Nicéa Camargo. - Muricy Ramalho
Muricy Ramalho (born on November 30, 1955, in São Paulo, São Paulo state, Brazil) is a manager and former football player. - Grafite
Grafite, real name Edinaldo Batista Líbano (born April 2, 1979, in Campo Limpo Paulista, São Paulo) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for French Ligue 1 side Le Mans Union Club 72. His previous clubs include São Paulo Futebol Clube, Goiás Esporte Clube and LG Anyang in South Korea. He has one cap with the Brazil national football team, and received the "Brazilian Silver Ball" award in 2003. - Rogério Ceni
Rogério Ceni (born January 22, 1973 in Pato Branco, Paraná, Brazil) is a Brazilian goalkeeper. He has been a member of the Brazilian Série A club São Paulo since September 7, 1990, playing more than 700 matches and winning 2 Copa Libertadores trophies and 2 World Club Championship with them. He is officially recognised by FIFA and the IFFHS as the goalkeeper to have scored the most goals in the history of football: 72 (As of 03/06/07). - José Dirceu
José Dirceu de Oliveira e Silva is a Brazilian politician. Dirceu was born on March 16, 1946, the son of Castorino de Oliveira and Olga Guedes da Silva. He is married to Maria Rita Garcia and has three children: José Carlos, Joana and Camila. With a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), he served as state deputy from 1987 to 1991 (SP-PT) and federal deputy from 1991 to 1995 (SP-PT) and, again, from 1999 to 2003 (SP-PT). - Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire (Recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 - São Paulo, Brazil May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and is a highly influential theorist of education. - John Howard
John Howard is an artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is noted for hand-drawn limited-edition screen printed concert posters. Starting in 1994 John designed posters for local venues like The Fillmore and the Great American Music Hall. Many of these posters can be found in the "The Art Of Modern Rock" (Chronicle Books) A member of the American Poster Institute, John is a regular exhibitor at their Flatstock events, … - Ruth Cardoso
Ruth Corrêa Leite Cardoso is a Brazilian anthropologist and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She holds a Ph.D in anthropology. As professor and researcher Cardoso has taught at the Latin American College of Social Sciences (Flacso/Unesco), University of Chile (Santiago), Maison des Sciences de L'Homme (Paris), University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University (New York). - Maria Rita
Maria Rita (born September 19 1977 in São Paulo, Brazil) is the performance name of Maria Rita Mariano, a Brazilian singer. She is the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano. Her namesake is family friend and famed Brazilian rocker Rita Lee. Maria Rita majored in Latin American studies and communications at New York University, … - 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" ("Hallucinated City") in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, … - Paulo Maluf
Paulo Salim Maluf (b. 3 September 1931, São Paulo) is a Lebanese Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including state governorship (São Paulo), presidential candidacy and mayor of the city of São Paulo. He has been plagued throughout his political career with substantial allegations of corruption, but nevertheless, has only been convicted once, in 2001. Due to the nature of the Brazilian judicial system, … - Celso Amorim
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim (born 3 June, 1942 in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil) has served as the Foreign Minister of Brazil since 2003. He served a previous term as Foreign Minister from 1993-1995 under President Itamar Franco. Before his appointment as Foreign Minister, Amorim served as Brazil's ambassador to the United Kingdom - Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1 1967) is an American artist. Tunick was born in Middletown, New York, USA. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. In these images the nude form becomes abstract due to the sheer number so closely placed together. Known as installations, they are often situated in urban locations throughout the world. - Octavio Frias
Octavio Frias de Oliveira was a Brazilian executive who built Grupo Folha, one of Brazil's largest media empires. Frias was born in Rio de Janeiro, and family moved to São Paulo in 1918. He left school at 14 and worked for a bank, a real estate company, and as a civil servant before founding Grupo Folha in 1962 with his business partner Carlos Caldeira Filho. They own or control newspapers "Folha de São Paulo", "Agora", and "Valor Econômico", … - Rita Lee
Rita Lee Jones, now "Rita Lee Jones Carvalho", known simply as Rita Lee is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure on the Brazilian entertainment scene. Lee was born in São Paulo, Brazil, from an American father and a mother of italian ancestry. In 1966, together with Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias, she formed the band Os Mutantes. - Fernando Meirelles
Fernando Meirelles is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian film director from São Paulo, Brazil. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing in 2004 for his direction of the Brazilian film "City of God", which was released in 2002 and received an American release in 2003 by Miramax Films. He was also nominated for Golden Globe Best Director in 2005, for his first international film, "The Constant Gardener". In both occasions, however, he did not win. - Gustavo Borges
Gustavo França Borges is a former international top swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He participated in four Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. 6 ft 7 ½ inch Borges currently lives in São Paulo. He has lived in Jacksonville and was a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, under the guidance of swimming coach Jon Urbanchek, … - Gal Costa
Gal Costa in Salvador, Brazil, is a popular singer in Brazil. Influenced by music from a young age by her record store owner father, Costa became one of Brazil's foremost female Tropicalismo movement singers and guitar players during the late 1960s and 70s. Along with her friend Maria Bethânia, she became a political activist often coming into conflict with Brazil's military government when dissent in music was censored in 1968. - Tom Zé
Tom Zé is a Brazilian songwriter and composer. "Tom Zé" is a faithful informalization of his given names, literally meaning "Tony Joe". - Adriane Galisteu
Adriane Galisteu is a Brazilian model. She was born on April 18, 1973, in São Paulo, Brazil. She appeared in the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine and was a VJ for MTV Brasil. She was the girlfriend of the famous Formula One driver Ayrton Senna when he died in a car crash. - Aldo Rebelo
José Aldo Rebelo Figueiredo is a Brazilian politician, member of the Communist Party of Brazil, federal deputy elected by the state of São Paulo and the current president of the federal Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. - Mário Covas
Mário Covas Júnior (Santos, 21 April 1930 - São Paulo, 6 March 2001) was an important Brazilian politician. Covas studied engineering at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo). He entered politics in his native city of Santos, in the state of São Paulo. He was elected federal representative, mayor of São Paulo City (1983-1985), … - Vladimir Herzog
Vlado "Vladimir" Herzog, was a Brazilian jewish TV journalist, a university professor and a playwright, who was murdered by political police due to ideological reasons. - Candido 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. Born of Italian immigrants in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA) in Rio de Janeiro. In 1928 he won a gold medal at the ENBA and a trip to Paris where he stayed until 1930, when he returned to Brazil. - Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Bandeira was a Brazilian poet. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he learned that he had tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather. In 1922, after an extended stay in Europe where Bandeira met many prominent authors and painters, he contributed poems of political and social criticism to the Modernist Movement in São Paulo. - Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Week of Modern Art ("Semana de Arte Moderna"). Andrade is best known for his manifesto of Brazilian nationalism, … - Ney Matogrosso
Ney de Souza Pereira, widely known as Ney Matogrosso, is a Brazilian singer. Matogrosso enlisted in the air force at the age of 17, being later transferred to Brasília. Within a few years, Matogrosso started singing in a vocal quartet, performing at college festivals throughout Brazil. With the hope of becoming a stage actor, Ney moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1966, where he lived as a hippie and made ends meet by selling arts and crafts. - Olavo de Carvalho
Olavo de Carvalho (born April 26, 1949, in the city of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo) is a Brazilian philosopher and political pundit. His works have brought him a number of admirers, an array of followers - and a multitude of critics. Nonetheless he has expressed his unease with the label "right-wing" and the tendency to attempt to place his work on a crude political spectrum dealing with various subjects, especially politics, philosophy, culture, society, media, … - Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the penname and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Having his works translated into dozens of languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a wide variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems (such as "White Hills"), surrealist poems, historical epics, … - Ilsinho
Ilson Pereira Dias Júnior, or simply Ilsinho, is a Brazilian right-back. He currently plays for São Paulo. The 2006-2007 season is Ilsinho's first year of professional football, but he is already in his second club. He began in Palmeiras in the beginning of the year (2006), and only capped 5 times. He was signed by São Paulo FC in a free transfer in the middle of the year after rejecting a new contract offer from Palmeiras, to replace Cicinho, … - Lasar Segall
Lasar Segall was a Brazilian painter of Lithuanian Jewish origin. Segall was born in Vilnius, but moved to Berlin at the age of 15 and studied at the Royal Prussian College of Fine Arts. Frustrated with the academic school of painting in vogue there, he left for Dresden in 1910 and began developing his own style, which incorporated aspects of Cubism while exploring Segall's Jewish background. In 1912 he went to São Paulo, Brazil, … - Jânio Quadros
Jânio da Silva Quadros (January 25, 1917, in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul -February 16, 1992, in São Paulo) was a Brazilian politician who served briefly as President of Brazil in 1961. Quadros's meteoric career can be attributed to his widespread use of populist rhetoric and his extravagant behavior. He became mayor of the city of São Paulo in 1953 and governor of the state of São Paulo just two years later, in 1955. - José Reis
José Reis (b. June 12, 1907, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d. May 16, 2002, São Paulo) was a noted Brazilian scientist, journalist, scientific leader and science writer. Reis studied medicine at the University of Brazil's National Faculty of Medicine (presently Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from 1925 to 1930. After graduation, he started to work from 1928 to 1929 at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, having decided to specialize in scientific research in virology. - Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana is a Brazilian supermodel. Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look Contest when she was just 13. The following year she moved from Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career. In 1999, at the age of 16, she appeared in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue. - Reynaldo Gianecchini
Reynaldo Gianecchini (born Reynaldo Cisoto Gianecchini Júnior November 12, 1972 in Birigüi, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian actor. He is descended from Italians on his father’s side. He started acting the age of 6, on the stage of his school in Birigüi, São Paulo. He graduated with a degree in law from the Pontifica Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 1997, but he has never practiced law. - Eduardo Suplicy
Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy is a Senator in Brazil representing the State of São Paulo. He was the first member of the Workers' Party to be elected to the Senate. Suplicy supports the Program of Guaranteed Minimum Income and serves on the Board of advisors of the Basic Income Guarantee Network. Suplicy was formerly married to Marta Suplicy. His father, Paulo Cochrane Suplicy, and his maternal grandfather, Francisco Matarazzo, were important Brazilian businessmen.
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