Intellectuals and Thinkers
- Alessandro Hirata, jurist
- Benjamin Sodré
- Benjamin Constant, abolitionist and republican
- Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), anthropologist and educator, scientific leader and politician
- Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), sociologist
- Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), sociologist
- Jorge Stolfi (born 1950), computer scientist
- José do Patrocínio, liberal abolitionist and republican
- Leonardo Boff, friar, theologian, silenced by the Vatican due to his socialist stance
- Milton Santos (1926–2001), geographer, writer and university professor
- Paulo Freire (1921–1997), educator and university professor
- Raymundo Faoro (1925–2003), jurist
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