This is a list of notable persons who have graduated from the

University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...

Presidents of Brazil

Prudente de Morais Prudente José de Morais Barros (4 October 1841 – 3 December 1902), often referred to as Prudente de Morais, was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the third president of Brazil from 1894 to 1898. Morais was elected in 1894, bein ...

(1894-1898) - Law * Campos Sales (1898-1902) - Law *

Rodrigues Alves Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, PC (; 7 July 1848 – 16 January 1919) was a Brazilian politician who first served as president of the Province of São Paulo in 1887, then as Treasury minister in the 1890s. Rodrigues Alves was elected the ...

(1902-1906) - Law *

Afonso Pena Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena (30 November 1847 – 14 June 1909), often referred to as Afonso Pena, was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, and politician who served as the sixth president of Brazil, from 1906 until his death in 1909. Pena was 1906 Br ...

(1906-1909) - Law *

Venceslau Brás Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes (26 February 1868 – 15 May 1966) was a Brazilian politician who served as the ninth president of Brazil between 1914 and 1918, during the First Brazilian Republic. Brás was born in Brasópolis (formerly São ...

(1914-1918) - Law *

Delfim Moreira Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro (; 7 November 1868 – 1 July 1920) was a Brazilian politician who served as the tenth president of Brazil. Biography He was born in Minas Gerais state to a Portuguese father and to a Portuguese Brazilian moth ...

(1918-1919) - Law *

Washington Luís Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (; 26 October 1869 – 4 August 1957) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 13th president of Brazil. Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926, Washington Luís belonge ...

(1926-1930) - Law *

Júlio Prestes Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque (; 15 March 1882 – 9 February 1946) was a Brazilian poet, lawyer and politician. He was the last elected President of Brazil of the period known as the Old Republic, but never took office because the gover ...

(1930) - Law *

José Linhares José Linhares (; 28 January 1886 – 26 January 1957)

(1945-1946) - Law *

Nereu Ramos Nereu de Oliveira Ramos (; 3 September 1888 – 16 June 1958) was a Brazilian political figure. He briefly served as interim president of Brazil in the aftermath of the political crisis which culminated in the suicide of President Getúlio Varg ...

(1955-1956) - Law *

Jânio Quadros Jânio da Silva Quadros (; 25 January 1917 – 16 February 1992) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd president of Brazil from 31 January to 25 August 1961, when he resigned from office. He also served as the 24th a ...

(1961) - Law *

Fernando Henrique Cardoso Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor, and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003. He was the first Brazi ...

(1995–2003) - Social Sciences *

Michel Temer Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 1 January 2019. He took office after the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impe ...

(2016-2018) - Law

São Paulo state governors

(1955–1959) *

Abreu Sodré Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré (21 June 1917 — 14 September 1999) was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman and politician. He was a state deputy, governor of the State of São Paulo and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. He was one of the found ...

(1967–1971) *

Paulo Maluf Paulo Salim Maluf (; born 3 September 1931) is a Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including those of State Governor of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mayor of the São Paulo, City of São Paulo, N ...

(1979–1982) *

André Franco Montoro André Franco Montoro (; 14 July 1916 – 16 July 1999) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was born in São Paulo as the son of André de Blois Montoro and Tomásia Alijostes. He was a senator and governor of São Paulo, winning against S ...

(1983–1987) *

Mário Covas Mário Covas Almeida Júnior (; 21 April 1930 – 6 March 2001) was a Brazilian politician. Biography Covas studied engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He entered politics in his native city of Santos, in th ...

(1995–2001) * Cláudio Lembo (2005) *

José Serra José Serra Chirico (; born 19 March 1942) is a Brazilian politician who has served as a Congressman, Senator, Minister of Planning, Minister of Health, Mayor of São Paulo, Governor of São Paulo state, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brazil) ...

(2006–2010) *

Alberto Goldman Alberto Goldman (; 12 October 1937 – 1 September 2019) was a Brazilian engineer and politician who served as Governor of São Paulo for nine months in 2010 after the resignation of José Serra. He had previously served as Vice Governor of that ...

(2010)

Politicians

Fernando Haddad Fernando Haddad (; born 25 January 1963) is a Brazilian scholar, lawyer and politician who has served as the Brazilian Minister of Finance since 1 January 2023. He was previously the mayor of São Paulo from 2013 to 2017 and the Brazilian mini ...

- former

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of Brazil; former mayor of São Paulo (law degree) *

Gilberto Kassab Gilberto Kassab (; born 12 August 1960) is a Brazilian politician and former mayor of São Paulo. His term ended in 2012. A civil engineer and economist, one of the most famous Brazilians of Lebanese descent, Kassab took over from José Serra, a ...

- former mayor of São Paulo (engineering and economics degree) *

Guido Mantega Guido Mantega (; born 7 April 1949) is an Italian-born Brazilian economist and politician. Mantega served as Minister of Finance from 2006 to 2015 under the presidencies of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. His tenure as Ministe ...

- former

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of Brazil (economics degree) *

Aloizio Mercadante Aloizio Mercadante Oliva (born 13 May 1954 in Santos, São Paulo) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the Chief of Staff of Brazil between 2014 and 2015. He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice-chairma ...

- current Minister of Education of Brazil (economics degree) *

Antonio Palocci Antonio Palocci Filho (born 4 October 1960) is a Brazilian physician and politician, and formerly Chief of Staff of Brazil under President Dilma Rousseff. He was the finance minister of the Brazilian federal government from 1 January 2003 to ...

- former Minister of Civil House of Brazil (M.D. degree) *

Rubens Ricupero Rubens Ricupero (born March 1, 1937) is a Brazilian academic, economist, bureaucrat and diplomat. He served as the fifth Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from September 1995 to September 2004. Educatio ...

- former Finance Minister of Brazil and Minister of the Environment and Amazonian Affairs (law degree)

Writers

* Clóvis de Barros Filho *

Cesar Calejon Cesar Antonio Calejon Ibrahim (born 11 July 1979) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. Since the general elections in Brazil in 2018, he has been a critic of Jair Bolsonaro and the movement known as “Bolsonarism”, having written several book ...

* Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza *

Augusto de Campos Augusto de Campos (born 14 February 1931) is a Brazilian writer who (with his brother Haroldo de Campos) was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist. Work In 1952 he founded ...

Haroldo de Campos Haroldo Eurico Browne de Campos (19 August 1929 – 17 August 2003) was a Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Brazilian literature since 1950. Biography He did his ...

Hilda Hilst Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst (21 April 1930 – 4 February 2004) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and Sexual revolution, female sexual liberation. Hilst ...

* Glauco Mattoso *

Raduan Nassar Raduan Nassar (born November 27, 1935, in Pindorama, São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. In 1970, he wro ...

* Alcides Nogueira *

Décio Pignatari Décio Pignatari (August 20, 1927 – December 2, 2012) was a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator. Early life and education Born in Jundiaí in 1927, Pignatari began conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals ...

* Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes *

Lygia Fagundes Telles Lygia Fagundes da Silva Telles ( de Azevedo Fagundes; ; 19 April 1918 – 3 April 2022), also known as "the lady of Brazilian literature" and "the greatest Brazilian writer" while alive, was a Brazilian novelist and writer, considered by academ ...

* Antônio Vicente Seraphim Pietroforte * Ismail Xavier

Scientists and physicians

* Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber - archaeologist, geographer, geologist and ecologist *

Ennio Candotti Ennio Candotti (12 February 1942 – 6 December 2023) was a Brazilian physicist and scientific leader. Biography Born in Rome, Italy, he studied physics at the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, from 1960 to 1964, and also at the Univers ...

- physicist and scientific leader *

Marcelo Damy Marcelo Damy de Sousa Santos (July 14, 1914 – November 29, 2009) was a Brazilian physicist. Considered as one of the most important educators and researchers in physics in Brazil, along with Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopes and Mario Schenbe ...

- physicist and co-discoverer of mesons in

cosmic ray Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the Sun, from outside of the ...

showers *

Abrahão de Moraes Abrahão De Moraes (1916–1970) was a Brazilian astronomer and mathematician. He taught at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and also served as director of the . The (OAM) is named after him. Founded in 1972, it is situat ...

- physicist * Gilberto de Nucci - physician and experimental pharmacologist *

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (October 4, 1934 – July 17, 2016) was a Brazilian physician and pharmacologist noted for the discovery of the bradykinin potentiating factor, which led to new and widely used anti-hypertension drugs — the ACE inhibi ...

- physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension * Miguel Mies - oceanographer and research scientist *

José Goldemberg José Goldemberg (born in Santo Ângelo, May 27, 1928) is a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist. He is a leading expert on energy and environment issues. Goldemberg earned his Ph.D. in physical scienc ...

- scientific leader and research scientist *

José Graziano da Silva José Graziano da Silva (born November 17, 1949) is a Brazilian American agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil. Between 2003 and 2004, Graziano served in the Luiz Inácio L ...

- agronomist and Director General of the

Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; . (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, , translates ...

(2012-2015) *

Adib Domingos Jatene Adib Domingos Jatene (June 4, 1929 – November 14, 2014) was a noted Brazil, Brazilian physician of Lebanese people, Lebanese background, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgery, thoracic surgeon. He is remembered as the invento ...

- physician * Dr. Jalma Jurado - physician known for pioneering work on

gender-affirming surgery Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their gender identity. The phrase is most often associated ...

in Brazil *

Warwick Estevam Kerr Warwick Estevam Kerr (9 September 1922 – 15 September 2018) was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Afric ...

- geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees * Marta Mirazón Lahr - human evolutionary biologist and anthropologist *

César Lattes Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (11 July 1924 – 8 March 2005), also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Life Latte ...

- physicist, co-discoverer of the

pi meson In particle physics, a pion (, ) or pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi (), is any of three subatomic particles: , , and . Each pion consists of a quark and an antiquark and is therefore a meson. Pions are the lightest mesons and, more ...

José Leite Lopes José Leite Lopes (October 28, 1918 – June 12, 2006) was a Brazilian theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Life Leite Lopes began his university studies in 1935, enrolling in industrial che ...

- theoretical physicist * Euripedes Constantino Miguel - psychiatrist, later returned to Faculty of FMUSP *

Carlos Augusto Monteiro Carlos Augusto Monteiro (born March 8, 1948) is a Brazilian epidemiologist who coined the term ultra-processed food and introduced the Nova classification. Education Monteiro studied medicine at the University of São Paulo from 1967 to 1972. ...

- nutrition, preventive medicine, public health * José E. Moreira - system software architect for

Blue Gene Blue Gene was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power consumption. The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, Blue ...

/L, the fastest supercomputer in the worldDr José Moreira, Distinguished Researcher, IBM Research
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Miguel Nicolelis Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis (, born March 7, 1961), is a Brazilian scientist, physician and Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience at Duke University, best known for his pioneering work surrounding brain-computer interface (also ...

- physician and neurobiological researcher *

Lucila Ohno-Machado Lucila Ohno-Machado is a biomedical engineer and Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine. ...

- biomedical engineer and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at

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* Vivian Pellizari - Antarctic researcher and microbiologist * Silvano Raia - Brazilian surgeon * Dr.

Renato M. E. Sabbatini Renato Marcos Endrizzi Sabbatini (born 20 February 1947, Campinas) is a retired professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the State University of Campinas Institute of Biology. He received a B.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from M ...

- neuroscientist and physiologist *

Oscar Sala Oscar Sala (born March 26, 1922, in Milan, Italy, d. January 2, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo. Early life ...

- Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist * Maria Léa Salgado-Labouriau - Brazilian scientist who specialized in palaeobotany * Roberto Salmeron - electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist *

Mário Schenberg Mário Schenberg (born Mayer Schönberg ar. ''Mário Schönberg'', ''Mario Schonberg'', ''Mário Schoenberg'' 2 July 1914 – 10 November 1990) was a Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer. Early life Schenberg was ...

- physicist * Evelyna Bloem Souto - only woman in the first class of the civil engineering course at the

, civil engineer, academic. * Andréa Sardinha Taschetto - climate change scientist *

Jayme Tiomno Jayme Tiomno (April 16, 1920 in Rio de Janeiro – January 12, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian experimental and theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics and general relativity General relativity, also known as th ...

- experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist * Marcos Troyjo - social scientist, political economist and diplomat *

Drauzio Varella Antônio Drauzio Varella (; born May 3, 1943, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian physician, scientist, writer, and medical science communicator. Varella has often commented publicly on issues such as prison conditions, social welfare, gover ...

- physician, educator and medical science popularizer *

Mayana Zatz Mayana Zatz (; born July 16, 1947) is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo, is its Research dean. Biography Professor Zatz's accomplishments have been recognized and she has received ...

- molecular biologist and geneticist * Dr.

Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini (10 May 1912 – 23 October 1993) was a Brazilian physician and cardiac surgeon. He is internationally known for performing the first heart transplantation in Latin America in 1968, and for creating the famous and respe ...

- physician; did the first

heart transplantation A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. , the most common procedure is to take a functioning heart ...

Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...

Others

* João Batista Vilanova Artigas - architect (architecture degree) *

Paulo Autran Paulo Paquet Autran (September 7, 1922 – October 12, 2007) was a Brazilian film and theater actor. His accomplishments during his life earned him the nickname, "Lord of the Stage." Biography Autran was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Septem ...

- actor (law degree) * William Bonner - journalist (advertising degree) *

Chico Buarque de Holanda Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque (), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, econom ...

- singer (architecture degree) *

Ana Cañas Ana or ANA may refer to: People * Ana (given name), a list of people with the name * Ana people or Atakpame people, an ethnic group of West Africa * ana (gamer), Anathan Pham, an Australian professional ''Dota 2'' player known as ana Places * ...

- singer (dramatic arts degree) *

José Celso Martinez Corrêa José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...

- playwright (law degree) *

Amyr Klink Amyr Klink (born 25 September 1955) is a Brazilian explorer, sailor and writer. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 88 days between 1998 and 1999. Career Amyr Klink was the first pe ...

- sailor and explorer (economics degree) *

Fernando Meirelles Fernando Ferreira Meirelles (; born 9 November 1955) is a Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-directing the film ''City of God (2002 film), City of God'', released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the Un ...

- film director, '' City of God'', ''

The Constant Gardener ''The Constant Gardener'' is a 2001 novel by British author John le Carré. The novel tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing there is something behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the t ...

'' and ''

Blindness Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception. In the absence of treatment such as corrective eyewear, assistive devices, and medical treatment, visual impairment may cause the individual difficul ...

'' (architecture degree) * Henrique Meirelles - former president of the

Central Bank of Brazil The Central Bank of Brazil (, ) is Brazil's central bank, the bank is autonomous in exercising its functions, and its main objective is to achieve stability in the purchasing power of the national currency. It was established on Thursday, 31 Dece ...

(engineering degree) *

Matheus Nachtergaele Matheus Nachtergaele OMC (; born 3 January 1968) is a Brazilian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has starred in numerous Brazilian films, best known for his appearances in the 1997 film '' Four Days in September'' and the 2002 film '' ...

- actor (dramatic arts degree) *

Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (8 February 1944 – 23 May 2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He traveled in more than 120 countries for his photographic projects, which appeared in numerous press p ...

- photographer and photojournalist (economics degree) *

Nelson Pereira dos Santos Nelson Pereira dos Santos (22 October 1928 21 April 2018) was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as ''Vidas secas (film), Vidas Secas'' (Barren Lives, 1963), based on the Vidas Secas, book with the same name by Brazilian writer G ...

- filmmaker (law degree) *

Alexandre Schwartsman Alexandre Schwartsman is a Brazilian economist, former Director of International Affairs of the Central Bank of Brazil. Academic life Schwartsman graduated in Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas of São Paulo (FGV-SP), earned a Bachelor' ...

- economist (

M.S. A Master of Science (; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree. In contrast to the Master of Arts degree, the Master of Science degree is typically granted for studies in sciences, engineering and medicine ...

), former Director of the

Sócrates Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira (19 February 1954 – 4 December 2011), simply known as Sócrates , was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with s ...

- former

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football player (medicine degree) *

Dan Stulbach Dan Filip Stulbach (; born September 26, 1969) is a Brazilian actor, television presenter, director, and artistic director. Biography He is the first member of his Polish Jewish immigrant family to be born in Brazil. He has only one sister, wh ...

- actor (dramatic arts degree) *

Marcelo Tas Marcelo Tristão Athayde de Souza (born November 10, 1959), better known as Marcelo Tas, is a Brazilian director, writer, actor and television presenter. Host of PROVOCA and commentator for Jornal da Cultura of TV Cultura. He works as a speaker and ...

- actor and writer (engineering degree) * Cilene Victor - journalist, professor, and commentator

References

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