List of Brazilian Scientists

This is a list of Brazilian scientists, those born in Brazil or who have established citizenship or residency there.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
  • Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
  • Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
  • Adolpho Ducke, Croatian-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; botanist
  • Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor.
  • Alexander Kellner, Liechtensteinian/Brazilian paleontologist.
  • André Rebouças (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
  • Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima (1887–1964), Brazilian; doctor; entomologist.
  • Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression, a phenomenon of nervous tissue
  • Aziz Ab'Saber - geographer; geologist; ecologist recognized for the Theory of Refuges and Amazon studies. Former presidente of the SBPC.
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian Catholic priest, pioneer of aviation, the inventor of the balloon, he became to be known as the "flying priest"
  • Carlos Augusto Bertulani, Brazilian physicist.
  • Carlos Chagas Filho, physician and physiologist, former presidente of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Son of Carlos Chagas.
  • Carlos Chagas, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; public health worker
  • Carlos Paz de Araújo, Brazilian scientist and inventor, he holds nearly 600 patents in the area of nanotechnology
  • Celso Furtado, noted economist and ideologue of economy of developing nations
  • César Lattes, experimental physicist, co-discoverer of the pi=meson, a type of subatomic particle, first president of the Brazilian National Research Council
  • Daniel Martins-de-Souza, Brazilian biologist; biochemist
  • Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
  • Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, former president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  • Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Brazilian biologist and geneticist; described the sequencing methodology ORESTES
  • Émil Göldi, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
  • Ennio Candotti, physicist and scientific leader
  • Euryclides Zerbini, heart surgeon, pioneer of first heart transplant in Brazil
  • Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine. Son of Carlos Chagas.
  • Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, Brazilian geologist
  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso, sociologist and former President
  • Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), father of Brazilian sociology
  • Fritz Müller, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologist
  • Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Brazilian mathematician and statistician
  • Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), historiographer and sociologist
  • Gilberto Righi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; specialist on earthworms
  • Helmut Sick, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologist
  • Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist, he discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus
  • Hércules Florence, pioneer of photography
  • Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist. Discovered neural mechanisms of memory
  • Jacob Palis, mathematician of international fame, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  • Jacques Hüber, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; botanist
  • Jayme Tiomno, experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
  • Jean Paul Jacob, Brazilian electronic engineer, researcher and professor, research manager at the Almaden IBM Research Center, California
  • Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, professor at UNICAMP
  • José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • José Cândido de Melo Carvalho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
  • José Goldemberg, physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the University of São Paulo
  • José Leite Lopes, theoretical physicist
  • José Lutzenberger (1926–2002), ecologist and zoologist
  • José Márcio Ayres, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; primatologist
  • José Reis, biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
  • Lotar Siewerdt, Brazilian agronomist; forage production
  • Manuel de Abreu, physician, inventor of abreugraphy (mass radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis)
  • Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva, he was responsible for the identification and complete description of the pathogenic agent and the pathophysiological cycle of Schistosomiasis disease
  • Marcelo Gleiser, physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the Dartmouth College since 1991
  • Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
  • Mário Schenberg, theoretical physicist
  • Maurício Rocha e Silva, physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin, an active cardiovascular peptide
  • Maurício Peixoto, he was a Brazilian engineer who pursued a bright career as a mathematician, he pioneered the studies on structural stability, and is the author of Peixoto's theorem.
  • Mayana Zatz, biologist and geneticist
  • Miguel Nicolelis, neuroscientist, one of Scientific American's best scientists of 2004
  • Milton Santos (1926–2001), geographer, he won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize- the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography.
  • Newton da Costa (1929), mathematician and logician, recognised for his works in paraconsistent logic
  • Nise da Silveira (1905–1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
  • Oswaldo Cruz, physician and public health champion, eliminated yellow fever, bubonic plague and smallpox in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century
  • Paulo Emílio Vanzolini, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; herpetologist
  • Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
  • Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a drug for hypertension
  • Vera Cordeiro, social entrepreneur and physician
  • Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
  • Wagner Farid Gattaz, physician and scientist, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
  • Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
  • Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin

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