This is a list of notable persons who have graduated from the University of São Paulo.
Presidents of Brazil
Prudente de Morais (1894–1898) - Law Campos Sales (1898–1902) - Law Rodrigues Alves (1902–1906) - Law Afonso Pena (1906–1909) - Law Venceslau Brás (1914–1918) - Law Delfim Moreira (1918–1919) - Law Washington Luís (1926–1930) - Law Júlio Prestes (1930) - Law José Linhares (1945–1946) - Law Nereu Ramos (1955–1956) - Law Jânio Quadros (1961) - Law Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2003) - Social Sciences Michel Temer (2016–2018) - Law
São Paulo state governors
Jânio Quadros (1955–1959) Abreu Sodré (1967–1971) Paulo Maluf (1979–1982) André Franco Montoro (1983–1987) Mário Covas (1995–2001) Cláudio Lembo (2005) José Serra (2006–2010) Alberto Goldman (2010)
Politicians
Fernando Haddad - former Minister of Education of Brazil; former mayor of São Paulo (law degree) Gilberto Kassab - former mayor of São Paulo (engineering and economics degree) Guido Mantega - former Finance Minister of Brazil (economics degree) Aloizio Mercadante - current Minister of Education of Brazil (economics degree) Antonio Palocci - former Minister of Civil House of Brazil (M.D. degree) Rubens Ricupero - former Finance Minister of Brazil and Minister of the Environment and Amazonian Affairs (law degree)
Writers, authors Cesar Calejon, journalist and writer Antonio Candido, writer and literary critic Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos, poet, critic, professor, and translator Hilda Hilst, poet, novelist, and playwright Glauco Mattoso Raduan Nassar Décio Pignatari, poet, essayist and translator Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist and writer
Scientists and physicians Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber - archaeologist, geographer, geologist and ecologist Ennio Candotti - physicist and scientific leader Marcelo Damy - physicist and co-discoverer of mesons in cosmic ray showers Abrahão de Moraes - physicist Gilberto de Nucci - physician and experimental pharmacologist Sérgio Henrique Ferreira - physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension Miguel Mies - oceanographer and research scientist José Goldemberg - scientific leader and research scientist José Graziano da Silva - agronomist and Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (2012-2015) Adib Domingos Jatene - physician Dr. Jalma Jurado - physician known for pioneering work on gender-affirming surgery in Brazil Warwick Estevam Kerr - geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees Marta Mirazón Lahr - human evolutionary biologist and anthropologist César Lattes - physicist, co-discoverer of the pi meson José Leite Lopes - theoretical physicist Euripedes Constantino Miguel - psychiatrist, later returned to Faculty of FMUSP Carlos Augusto Monteiro - nutrition, preventive medicine, public health José E. Moreira - system software architect for Blue Gene/L, the fastest supercomputer in the worldDr José Moreira, Distinguished Researcher, IBM Research Dr. Miguel Nicolelis - physician and neurobiological researcher Lucila Ohno-Machado - biomedical engineer and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego Merav Opher - Astronomer and space physicist Vivian Pellizari - Antarctic researcher and microbiologist Silvano Raia - Brazilian surgeon Dr. Renato M. E. Sabbatini - neuroscientist and physiologist Oscar Sala - Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist Maria Léa Salgado-Labouriau - Brazilian scientist who specialized in palaeobotany Roberto Salmeron - electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist Mário Schenberg - physicist Evelyna Bloem Souto - only woman in the first class of the civil engineering course at the University of São Paulo, civil engineer, academic. Andréa Sardinha Taschetto - climate change scientist Jayme Tiomno - experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist Marcos Troyjo - social scientist, political economist and diplomat Drauzio Varella - physician, educator and medical science popularizer Mayana Zatz - molecular biologist and geneticist Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini - medical doctor; did the first heart transplantation in Latin America
Others João Batista Vilanova Artigas - architect (architecture degree) Paulo Autran - actor (law degree) Amaury Bier - Economist William Bonner - journalist (advertising degree) Chico Buarque de Holanda - singer (architecture degree) José Celso Martinez Corrêa - playwright (law degree) Chavoso da USP - YouTuber and speaker Luiza Coppieters, LGBTQ+ activist, professor, and local politician (philosophy degree) Amyr Klink - sailor and explorer (economics degree) Fernando Meirelles - film director, City of God, The Constant Gardener and Blindness (architecture degree) Henrique Meirelles - former president of the Central Bank of Brazil (engineering degree) Matheus Nachtergaele - actor (dramatic arts degree) Sebastião Salgado - photographer and photojournalist (economics degree) Nelson Pereira dos Santos - filmmaker (law degree) Alexandre Schwartsman - economist (M.S.), former Director of the Central Bank of Brazil Sócrates - former Brazil national football team football player (medicine degree) Dan Stulbach - actor (dramatic arts degree) Marcelo Tas - actor and writer (engineering degree) Cilene Victor - journalist, professor, and commentator
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