• Inglês de Sousa (born Herculano Marcos Inglês de Sousa) was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Óbidos, PA, on December...
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    José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa GCIH (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈsɔkɾɐtɨʃ]), is a Portuguese politician...
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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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    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 kuˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist...
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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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    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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    became Joaquim's godmother; her brother-in-law, commendator Joaquim Alberto de Sousa da Silveira, was his godfather, and both were paid homage by giving their...
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    Alberto Santos-Dumont (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    César Ribeiro de Sousa [pt].: 308  Airships, powered aerostats, were first demonstrated and patented by the Brazilian priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão in 1709...
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    Aurélio de Lira Tavares (7 November 1905m João Pessoa–18 November 1998) was a general in the Brazilian Army. He was one of the military in the joint military...
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    Luzia Pereira de Sousa Inglês Van-Dúnem (born 11 January 1948) is an Angolan politician, feminist and expert in military telecommunications. She is a...
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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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    Brazilian currency was proposed in 1926, by Brazilian economist Carlos Inglês de Sousa (1882–1948).[citation needed] The first editorial of the Brazilian...
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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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    Getúlio Vargas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Bourne 1974, p. 53. Skidmore 2010, p. 110–111. "DECRETO Nº 19.398 DE 11 DE NOVEMBRO DE 1930" [DECREE No. 19,398 OF NOVEMBER 11, 1930.]. Presidência da República...
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    a wealthy Portuguese gentleman. He then married his daughter, Juliana de Sousa Mascarenhas, having with her two children: Ana and Alexandre. Gonzaga lived...
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  • Affonso Arinos de Mello Franco (November 11, 1930–March 15, 2020) was a Brazilian diplomat and journalist. He was born in Belo Horizonte on November 11...
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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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    Southern Brazil Railway. At the age of 24, he founded the Companhia Construtora de Santos. The next decade was filled with intense commercial activity, and the...
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    Oswaldo Cruz (category Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni)
    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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    he was elected on July 24, 1919, in succession to Inglês de Sousa. He was received into the Academy by Goulart de Andrade on September 17, 1920. Bio...
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    Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (May 3, 1910 – February 28, 1989) was a Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer, best known for...
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  • Abgar de Castro Araújo Renault (1901–1995) was a Brazilian professor, educator, politician, poet, essayist and translator. He was born in Barbacena in...
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    published extensively in both fiction and non-fiction, and his complete works in 10 volumes came out in 1966. He died in 1988 in Rio de Janeiro. Vianna Moog...
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  • Hélio Jaguaribe (category People from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Jaguaribe de Mattos (1923-2018) was a Brazilian political scientist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of eminent geographer Francisco Jaguaribe de Mattos...
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    Valentim Magalhães (category Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    a founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Antônio Valentim da Costa Magalhães and Maria Custódia...
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    Antonio Cicero (category Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni)
    Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and, later, at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 1969, due...
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  • João Cabral de Melo Neto (January 6, 1920 – October 9, 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian...
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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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    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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    returned to Brazil and took an artillery course at the Military School in Rio de Janeiro. He took part in the Canudos campaign, where his efforts were crowned...
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