• Evaristo de Morais Filho (1914-2016) was a Brazilian lawyer and former member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was born in Rio de Janeiro on July...
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  • Spanish engineer Evaristo de Macedo (born 1933), former Brazilian footballer Evaristo de Moraes Filho, Brazilian lawyer Evaristo Endanco (born 1896)...
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    succeeding Evaristo de Moraes Filho. He was received on April 7, 2017, by academician Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He is married to Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro...
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    Correspondência. São Paulo: Monteiro Lobato. Barreto Filho (1947). Introdução a Machado de Assis. Rio de Janeiro: Agir. Bettencourt Machado, José (1962)....
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    Paulo Coelho (category Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛl.juː, kuˈɛl.juː, -joʊ/ KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu koˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist...
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    Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), better known as Vinícius de Moraes (Portuguese pronunciation: [viˈnisjuʒ dʒi moˈɾajʃ])...
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    Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books...
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    Sarney Filho, Governor Roseana Sarney, and the businessman Fernando Sarney. As a writer, his best known work is the poetry book Os Marimbondos de Fogo ("The...
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    the Filhos de Gandhi ("Sons of Gandhi") performance group, which only allowed black Brazilians to join. Gil also recorded a song titled "Patuscada de Gandhi"...
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    Getúlio Vargas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    riots broke out in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. The Vargas family refused a state funeral, but his successor, Café Filho, declared official days...
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    Kubitschek, at that time the chief doctor of the Blood Hospital (Hospital de Sangue). Later on, he became a civil servant through examination. In 1933...
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    Hermilo Borba Filho. And along with him, he founded the Student Theater of Pernambuco. In 1947 he wrote his first play, Uma Mulher Vestida de Sol. In 1948...
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    Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (5 November 1849 – 1 March 1923), also known as Rui Barbosa, was a Brazilian politician, writer, jurist, and diplomat. He was a...
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    of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. Filho was born in Itajuípe, Brazil, the son of Adonias Aguiar and Rachel Bastos de Aguiar. In 1936, 2 years after...
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    Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo (pronounced [fɾɐ̃ˈsisku dʒi aˈsis ʃɐtobɾiˈɐ̃ bɐ̃ˈdejɾɐ dʒi ˈmɛlu]), also nicknamed Chatô (October 4,...
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    Fernanda Montenegro (category Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    27, 2014. "Fernanda Montenegro participa novamente de 'Mister Brau' e personagem tenta casar o filho". Gshow.com. June 13, 2017. Gabriel Menezes. "Fernanda...
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    with an award-winning project, entrusted the work to José Bina Fonyat Filho and Humberto Lemos; the inauguration was scheduled to take place on 4 July...
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  • Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy (July 5, 1926 – August 6, 2016) was a plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro. Pitanguy studied at the Bethesda North...
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    doctoral thesis by Evaristo de Moraes Filho). His father was the Spaniard Antonio Sanches, also a physician; his mother Filipa de Sousa was Portuguese...
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    Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈlwizju tɐ̃ˈkɾedu ɡõˈsawviʒ dʒɐzeˈvedu]; 14 April 1857 – 21 January 1913) was a Brazilian...
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    year. He went to Rio de Janeiro, living there until 1854. There he wrote for newspapers, and began to write the drama Leonor de Mendonça in 1846 and his...
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    Francisco de Aquino Correia (April 2, 1885 – March 22, 1956) was a Brazilian Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was the tenth archbishop of Cuiabá...
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    Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He...
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    Brazilian journalist and politician. "Alcindo Guanabara | Academia Brasileira de Letras". academia.org.br. Retrieved 2023-06-18. Media related to Alcindo Guanabara...
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    Euclides da Cunha (category People from Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro)
    the World. Euclides da Cunha was born January 20, 1866, in Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived until he was three years old. His grandparents...
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    José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be...
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    Evaristo Ferreira da Veiga e Barros (October 8, 1799 – May 12, 1837) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, politician, and bookseller. Veiga founded one of...
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    born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1843. His father was Félix Taunay, Baron of Taunay, a painter, professor and headmaster of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes;...
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    child, he moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family. At the age of 15 he started to study at the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and in 1892 he graduated...
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    University, with the thesis Tratado de Direito Natural, heavily influenced by Enlightenment ideals. Gonzaga became the juiz de fora of the city of Beja in 1778...
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