Events in the year 1936 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

*President of Brazil, President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

* :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas, Alagoas: Osman Laurel * List of Governors of Amazonas, Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia * List of Governors of Bahia, Bahia: Juracy Magalhães * List of Governors of Ceará, Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel * Governor of Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley * :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás, Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira * List of Governors of Maranhão, Maranhão: * List of Governors of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso: Mário Correia da Costa * List of Governors of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro * :pt:Lista de governadores do Pará, Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher * :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba, Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo * List of Governors of Paraná, Paraná: Manuel Ribas * :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco, Pernambuco: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti * :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí, Piauí: Leônidas Melo * Governors of Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão * List of Governors of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha * :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos * List of Governors of São Paulo, São Paulo: Armando de Sales Oliveira (till 29 December); Henrique Smith Baima (from 29 December) * :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe, Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor * :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo, São Paulo: no vice governor

Events

*15 January – Farroupilha Revolution centennial fair closes. *16 April – Pedro Calmon is elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras. *16 October – President Vargas signed the decree, which gives the name of the aviator Alberto Santos Dumont Airport located in Ponta do Calabouço, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, currently named Santos Dumont Airport, Brazil's first civilian airport.

Arts and culture

Films

*''Noites Cariocas'', directed and written by Enrique Cadícamo and featuring Grande Otelo.

Births

January

*13 January – Renato Aragão ("Didi"), actor and comedian *19 January – Carlos Mário da Silva Velloso, president of the Supreme Federal Tribunal 1999–2001. *28 January – Waldyr Boccardo, basketball player (died 2018 in Brazil, 2018)

March

*13 March – Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega, actor, comedian and humorist. *12 March – José Mojica Marins ("Coffin Joe"), filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television horror host (died 2020 in Brazil, 2020) *26 March – Éder Jofre, architect and boxer (died 2022 in Brazil, 2022)

April

*24 April – Esther Pillar Grossi, educator and politician

May

*23 May – Wadih Mutran, politician

June

*22 June – Hermeto Pascoal, composer and multi-instrumentalist

August

*4 August – **Joaquim Roriz, politician (died 2018 in Brazil, 2018) **Alfredo Bosi, historian and literary critic (died 2021 in Brazil, 2021)

September

*September 16 – Yara Amaral, actress (died 1988 in Brazil, 1988)

October

*October 16 – Agnaldo Timoteo, singer and politician (died 2021 in Brazil, 2021)

Deaths

* 11 April – :pt:Aarão Reis, engineer (born 1853 in Brazil, 1853) * 29 October – Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes, diplomat (b. 1891 in Brazil, 1891)Baronesa do Mês: Maria José Rebello Mendes
*''date unknown'' **:pt:Geminiano Lira Castro, politician (born 1863 in Brazil, 1863)