Luiz Gonzaga

Luiz Gonzaga

male, deceased (1989)
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento (Exu, December 13, 1912 - Recife, August 2, 1989) was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and...
Joaquim Nabuco

Joaquim Nabuco

male, deceased (1910)
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer and statesman. The son of a wealthy landowner from Recife, Joaquim vehemently op...
Gilberto Freyre

Gilberto Freyre

male, deceased (1987)
Gilberto Freyre was a Brazilian author, professor, journalist and congressman. His best-known work was the 1933 sociological treatise "Casa-Grande...
Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire

male, deceased (1997)
Paulo Freire (Recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 - São Paulo, Brazil May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and is a highly influential theorist of e...
Frei Caneca

Frei Caneca

male, deceased (1825)
Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo e Caneca (Recife, July 1779 - Recife, January 13 1825), better known as Frei Caneca, was a Brazilian religious and...
Chico Science

Chico Science

male, deceased (1997)
Chico Science (March 13, 1966 - February 2, 1997) was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Bit cultural movement....
Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Bandeira

male, deceased (1968)
Manuel Bandeira was a Brazilian poet. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he learned that he had tuberculosis, which...
Cristovam Buarque

Cristovam Buarque

male
Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque (Recife, February 20, 1944) is a Brazilian politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour...
Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

female, deceased (1977)
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels, she was also an accomplished writer of short stories...
Juninho Pernambucano

Juninho Pernambucano

male, 34 years old
Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Júnior, commonly known as Juninho or Juninho Pernambucano, is a Brazilian football player, who plays as a central mi...