Luiz Fernando da Silva (born 2 July 1971) is a Brazilian athlete who specialises in the javelin throw. [1] He won multiple medals on the regional level.
His personal best in the event is 79.50 metres, first set in 2000, then repeated in 2003.
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet and one of the most influential figures of Brazilian popular music in the twentieth century. He has been credited with having presented the rich universe of Northeastern musical genres to all of Brazil, having popularized the musical genre baião and has been called a "revolutionary" by Antônio Carlos Jobim. According to Caetano Veloso, he was the first significant cultural event with mass appeal in Brazil. Luiz Gonzaga received the Shell prize for Brazilian Popular Music in 1984 and was only the fourth artist to receive this prize after Pixinguinha, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Dorival Caymmi. The Luiz Gonzaga Dam was named in his honor.
The Cabinet of Brazil, also called Council of Ministers or Council of Government, is composed of the Ministers of State and senior advisors of the executive branch of the federal government of Brazil. Cabinet officers are appointed and dismissed by the President. There are currently twenty-three Ministries, including six Ministry-level offices: the Chief of Staff, General-Secretariat of the Presidency, Secretariat of Institutional Relations, Secretariat of Social Communication, Personal Office of the President of the Republic and the Institutional Security Office. Other institutions also assists the Presidency.
Luizão is a Portuguese nick-name. It may refer to:
Tarso Fernando Herz Genro is a Brazilian politician from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. A prominent associate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Genro was one of the most important leaders of the Workers' Party (PT) in the 2000s.
The Ministry of Culture of Brazil is a cabinet-level federal ministry created in 1985, in the first month of president's José Sarney government, dissolved by Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 and reinstated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2023.
The Brazil men's national water polo team represents Brazil in international men's water polo competitions and friendly matches.
Capitu is a Brazilian television series written by Euclydes Marinho, directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, who also finalized the script, and presented by Rede Globo between 8 and 13 December 2008. The production was a homage to the centennial anniversary of the death of Machado de Assis, author of the 1899 novel Dom Casmurro, on which the miniseries was based. Capitu is the main female character of that novel, and is the object of Bentinho's obsession. The novel forces the reader to decide if Capitu cheated or not on Bentinho.
Jorginho is a Portuguese-language diminutive name of Jorge, and may refer to:
Fernando Haddad 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 minister of education from 2005 to 2012.
Fernandinho is a hypocorism of the name Fernando and means "Little Fernando" or "Fernando Jr." in Portuguese.
Events from the year 2008 in Brazil.
The Republican Party of the Social Order was a political party in Brazil, founded in 2010, and officially recognized in 2013.
Events in the year 2009 in Brazil.
The following lists events that happened in the year 1989 in Brazil.
This is a bibliography of books by or about the Brazilian director Luiz Fernando Carvalho.
The Brazil men's national under-21 volleyball team represents Brazil in international men's volleyball competitions and friendly matches under the age 21 and it is ruled by the Brazilian Volleyball Federation that is a member of South American volleyball body Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV) and the international volleyball body government the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB).
Brazil–Namibia relations are the diplomatic relations between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Namibia. Both nations are members of the Group of 77 and the United Nations.
Brazil–Holy See relations are the current and historical relations between Brazil and the Holy See. Catholicism was introduced in Brazil in 1500 by the Portuguese Empire, and it is the country's predominant faith. Brazil also has the world's largest Catholic population. Since the adoption of the Constitution in 1891, Brazil is a secular nation.
Esther Dweck is a Brazilian economist, professor and writer. She is currently a professor at the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In December 2022, she was nominated the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services by the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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