Events in the year 1975 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: General Ernesto Geisel * Vice President: General

Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Adalberto Pereira dos Santos (11 April 1905 – 2 April 1984) was a Brazilian general and politician. A veteran of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force during World War II, he served as the Army Chief of Staff during Costa e Silva's Presidency and ...

Governors

Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imp ...

: vacant * Alagoas: Afrânio Lages (till 15 March); Divaldo Suruagy (from 15 March) * Amazonas: João Walter de Andrade (till 15 March);

Henoch da Silva Reis Henoch may refer to: * ''Henoch'' (journal), on the history of Judaism * Henoch–Schönlein purpura, a vascular disease * Henoch Leibowitz (1918–2008), Lithuanian-American rabbi * Chanoch Henoch Bornsztain (died 1965), Polish rabbi * Eduard He ...

(from 15 March) * Bahia:

Antônio Carlos Magalhães Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães (4 September 1927 – 20 July 2007), also known by his initials ACM, was a Brazilian politician. He served as Governor of Bahia three times and represented Bahia in the Senate of Brazil three times. Magalhãe ...

then

Roberto Santos Roberto Santos Pinhanez (1928–1987) was a Brazilian film director, known for films like '' Matraga'' (''A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga'') and ''The Great Moment'' (''O Grande Momento''). Biography Santos was born in a working-class subur ...

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

: César Cals (until 15 March);

José Adauto Bezerra José Adauto Bezerra (3 July 1926 – 3 April 2021) was a Brazilian politician. He was Governor of Ceará from 1975 to 1978, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ceará from 1959 to 1979, and a national deputy from 1979 to 1983. Biography He ...

(from 15 March) * Espírito Santo: Artur Carlos Gerhardt Santos (until 15 March); Élcio Álvares (from 15 March) * Goiás: Leonino Caiado (until 15 March); Irapuan Costa Jr. (from 15 March) * Guanabara:

Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

(until 15 March) * Maranhão:

Pedro Neiva de Santana Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for '' Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meani ...

(until 15 March); Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire (from 31 March) *

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

José Fragelli José Manuel Fontanillas Fragelli (31 December 1915 – 30 April 2010) was a Brazilian politician, lawyer and academic. Fragelli served as the Governor of Mato Grosso from 1970 until 1974 and the President of the Senate of Brazil from ...

then

Jose Garcia Neto Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilean ...

* Minas Gerais: Rondon Pacheco (until 15 March);

Aureliano Chaves Aureliano Chaves (13 January 1929 – April 30, 2003) was a Brazilian politician. Born in Três Pontas, state of Minas Gerais, he was a Representative of this state in the Chamber of Deputies in 1967 from the ARENA party. He was se ...

(from 15 March) * Pará: Fernando Guilhon (until 15 March); Aloysio Chaves (from 15 March) *

Paraíba Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...

: Ernâni Sátiro (until 15 March);

Ivan Bichara Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

(from 15 March) * Paraná: Emílio Hoffmann Gomes then

Jaime Canet Júnior Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

* Pernambuco: Eraldo Gueiros (until 15 March); Francisco Moura Cavalcanti (from 15 March) *

Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...

Alberto Silva Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albe ...

(until 15 March); Dirceu Arcoverde (from 15 March) * Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima * Rio Grande do Norte: Jose Pereira de Araújo Cortez (until 15 March); Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia (from 15 March) *

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

: Euclides Triches (until 15 March); Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli (from 15 March) * Santa Catarina: Colombo Salles (until 15 March); Antônio Carlos Konder Reis (from 15 March) * São Paulo: Laudo Natel (until 15 March); Paulo Egídio Martins (from 15 March) * Sergipe: Paulo Barreto de Menezes (until 15 March); José Rollemberg (from 15 March)

Vice governors

: Alberto Barbosa da Costa (until 15 March); Omar Sabino de Paula (from 15 March) * Alagoas:

José de Medeiros Tavares José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

(until 15 March); Antônio Gomes de Barro (from 15 March) * Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal (until 15 March);

João Bosco Ramos de Lima João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below. Kings * ...

(from 15 March) * Bahia: Menandro Minahim (until 15 March); Edvaldo Brandão Correia (from 15 March) *

: Francisco Humberto Bezerra (until 15 March); José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva (from 15 March) * Espírito Santo: Henrique Pretti (until 15 March); Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen (from 15 March) * Goiás: Ursulino Tavares Leão (until 15 March); José Luís Bittencourt (from 15 March) * Maranhão: Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira (until 15 March); José Duailibe Murad (from 15 March) *

: José Monteiro de Figueiredo (until 15 March);

Cássio Leite de Barros Cássio is a Brazilian masculine given name, and Cassio is an Italian surname. Cássio or Cassio may refer to: People Given name * Cássio Alessandro de Souza (born 1986), Brazilian footballer * Cássio Alves de Barros (born 1970), Brazilian foo ...

(from 15 March) * Minas Gerais: Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado (until 15 March); Levindo Ozanam Coelho (from 15 March) * Pará: Newton Burlamaqui Barreira (until 15 March); Clovis Silva de Morais Rego (from 15 March) *

: Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti (until 15 March); Dorgival Terceiro Neto (from 15 March) * Paraná:

(until 15 March); Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior (from 15 March) * Pernambuco: José Antônio Barreto Guimarães (until 15 March); Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha (from 15 March) *

: Sebastião Rocha Leal (until 15 March); Djalma Martins Veloso (from 15 March) * Rio Grande do Norte: Tertius Rebelo (until 15 March);

Geraldo Melo Geraldo José da Câmara Ferreira de Melo (12 July 1935 – 6 March 2022) was a Brazilian businessman, politician and journalist. Life and career Geraldo worked as journalist until 1959, the year he graduated in Economic Development at Unit ...

(from 15 March) * Rio de Janeiro: Teotônio Araújo (until 15 March); vacant thereafter (from 15 March) *

: Edmar Fetter (until 15 March);

José Augusto Amaral de Sousa José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

(from 15 March) * Santa Catarina: Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana (until 15 March); Marcos Henrique Büechler(from 15 March) * São Paulo: Antonio José Rodrigues Filho (until 15 March); Ferreira Filho (from 15 March) * Sergipe: Adalberto Moura (until 15 March); Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo (from 15 March)

Events

March

* March 15 - The state of Guanabara merges into the state of Rio de Janeiro, in accordance to a complementary law approved the previous year.

Births

* 6 January – Ricardo Santos, beach volleyball player * 30 January – Juninho Pernambucano, footballer * 14 April - Anderson Silva, mixed martial artist * 10 May - Hélio Castroneves, racing driver * 16 July - Ana Paula Arósio, actress and model * 22 August –

Rodrigo Santoro Rodrigo Junqueira Reis Santoro (; born 22 August 1975) is a Brazilian actor. He is most known for his portrayal of Persian King Xerxes in the movie '' 300'' (2006) and its sequel '' 300: Rise of an Empire'' (2014). Other famous movies include ...

, actor * 7 September – Renato Sobral, martial artist * 14 November – Luizão, footballer