Politicians
See also: List of Brazilian presidents- Aécio Neves, senator of Minas Gerais, grandson of former president Tancredo Neves.
- André Franco Montoro, senator and governor of the state of São Paulo
- Adhemar de Barros, governor of the state of São Paulo
- Artur da Costa e Silva, general and president during the military regime
- Carlos Lacerda (1914–1977), journalist and governor of former Guanabara State
- Cesar Maia, mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
- Ciro Gomes, mayor of Fortaleza, governor of Ceará, presidential candidate and minister
- Dilma Rousseff, president
- Ernesto Geisel (1907–1996), general and president during the military regime, started the political liberalization
- Esperidião Amin, senator and governor of Santa Catarina
- Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1883–1974), marshal of the Army, war minister during the WWII, succeeded by Getúlio Vargas in 1951.
- Fernando Collor de Mello, mayor, governor of Alagoas and impeached president in 1992
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), sociologist and university professor, senator, minister and twice president
- Geraldo Alckmin, ex-mayor of Pindamonhangaba, vice-governor and ex-governor of São Paulo
- Getúlio Vargas (1882–1954), senator and twice president (1930–45;1951–54), was also a dictator (1937–45), killed himself in 1954
- Golbery do Couto e Silva (1911–1987), early conspirator of the military coup against Goulart, and powerful political figure behind the office of the president under Ernesto Geisel
- José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, statesman, first Brazil's foreign minister, hero of the independence
- José Sarney (born 1930), governor of Maranhão and senator, vice-president of Tancredo Neves, became president upon the latter's sudden death
- Júlio Prestes, governor of the state of São Paulo and defeated presidential candidate
- Juscelino Kubitschek(1902–1976), mayor, governor of Minas Gerais, senator and president
- Jânio Quadros, mayor and governor of São Paulo, president (renounced 1961)
- João Goulart, vice-president of Jânio Quadros, president (deposed by a military coup in 1964)
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 1945), labor activist and politician, former president.
- Mário Covas (1930–2001), mayor and governor of the state of São Paulo, senator and federal representative
- Marta Suplicy, Federal representative, mayor of São Paulo, minister of Tourism and senator
- Paulo Maluf, state governor and twice mayor of the state capital of São Paulo, defeated presidential candidate
- Paulo Renato Souza, education minister 1995–2002
- Tancredo Neves (1910–1985), several times federal representative and senator, elected president by the Congress in 1985, being the first civil president after the military ruled, but died before taking office.
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