Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the second-most-populous city in Brazil and the sixth-most-populous city in the Americas.
Nise da Silveira was a Brazilian psychiatrist and a student of Carl Jung. She devoted her life to psychiatry and challenged the conventional orthodoxies of her era, which insisted on using institutionalization and aggressive forms of medical intervention, including electroconvulsive therapy, insulin shock therapy and lobotomy to treat mental illnesses.
Ricardo Tacuchian, born in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian conductor, composer and Doctor in Musical Arts (Composition) at the University of Southern California.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro is a Jesuit, Catholic, pontifical university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of the Catholic Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and the Society of Jesus.
Kátia Lund is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. Her most notable work was as co-director of the film City of God.
Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco, is a Brazilian physician and professor, specializing in Pneumology. He graduated in 1971.
Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, writer, historian and journalist. His nickname and artistic name, Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure after the meeting of a candomblé community's lay board of directors, the Cruz Santa Opô Afonjá Society, of which he was a member.
Marcelo de Souza Camelo is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, and poet. He is best known as composer and lead guitarist of the Brazilian band Los Hermanos. Since the end of the band, he continues composing for many interpreters, mainly Maria Rita and Ivete Sangalo. In 2008, his first solo CD, "Sou", was released.
Ana Luiza Nobre is a Brazilian architectural historian, author and critic, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1964. She is Director of the History, Theory and Criticism Section of the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), in Brazil, where she has been teaching for the last 10 years.
Antonio Luz Furtado is a Brazilian computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science known for his work in databases and conceptual modeling.
Lêdo Ivo was a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist. He was member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, elected in 1986.
Franz Josef Weissmann was a Brazilian sculptor born in Austria, emigrating to Brazil while he was eleven years old. Geometric shapes, like cubes and squares, are strongly featured in his works. He was one of the founders of the Neo-Concrete Movement.
Carlos Nantes Bolsonaro, is a Brazilian politician, the second son of the 38th President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
Carlos Laufer, better known mononymously as Laufer, is a Brazilian musician, songwriter and record producer.
The Projeto Portinari was established by João Candido Portinari with initial support from FINEP and resources from FNDCT, in 2 April 1979, with the PUC-RJ, for the rescue of Candido Portinari's work and its placing in public access.
Paulo Cezar Costa is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Brasilia since December 2020. He has been a bishop since 2010 and served as Bishop of São Carlos from 2016 to 2020.
Tarcísio Meirelles Padilha was a Brazilian philosopher and chairman of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 17 April 1928, the son of Raymundo Delmiriano Padilha and D. Mayard Meirelles Padilha. In 1951, he married Ruth Maria Fortuna Padilha, and the couple has six children.
Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros is a Brazilian physicist, biophysicist, writer, science communicator, musician, screenwriter, painter and poet.
Rosa Freire d'Aguiar is a Brazilian journalist, editor and translator.
