Lawyer, journalist, jurist, politician, diplomat, essayist and speaker, he represented Brazil at the Hague Conference and was recognized as "The Hague Eagle". He was a founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and its president between 1908 and 1919. One of the most important abolitionists, Rui worked in the Abolitionist Campaign in favor of the liberation of slaves

 Edison Arantes do Nascimento,  Pelé,  was born in 23 october of 1940, in de Três Corações city Minas Gerais.

He started in football playing for Bauru Atlético Clube. In 1956, Pelé was  invited by Waldemar de Britto to train at Santos and was approved.

In the Santos team he had the greatest achievements, won more than 40 cups and was top scorer of the São Paulo championship in 11 opportunities. He was also top scorer of the Libertadores (in 1965, with six goals), the Brazil Cup three times (1961, 1963 and 1964) and the Rio-São Paulo Tournament in 1963. He scored over 1200 goals.

In the Brazilian national team, Pelé debuted on July 7, 1957, and said goodbye to football on October 2, 1974.

His talent was essential to bring out aspects of Brazilian music, focusing on popular and regional culture.

Heitor Villa-Lobos was born on March 5, 1887, in Rio de Janeiro.

The work of the German composer is an important inspiration for the work of Villa-Lobos and his career in general.

During Pedro II's minority the governing regency faced countless rebellions throughout the country. Again breaking with his father and other relatives sympathetic to the rebels, from 1839 to 1845 Caxias commanded loyalist forces suppressing such uprisings as the Balaiada, the Liberal rebellions of 1842 and the Ragamuffin War. In 1851, under his command, the Brazilian army prevailed against the Argentine Confederation in the Platine War; a decade later Caxias, as army marshal (the army's highest rank), led Brazilian forces to victory in the Paraguayan War. As a reward he was raised to the titled nobility, becoming successively a baron, count, and marquis, finally becoming the only person created duke during Pedro II's 58-year reign.

In the early 1840s Caxias became a member of the Reactionary Party, which evolved into the Party of Order and finally the Conservative Party. He was elected senator in 1846. The Emperor appointed him president of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) in 1856; he briefly held that office again in 1861, but fell when his party lost its parliamentary majority. Over the decades Caxias witnessed the growth and zenith of his party, then its slow decline as internal conflict divided it. In 1875, he headed a cabinet for the last time, and after years of failing health he died in May 1880.

In the years after his death and mainly following the downfall of the Brazilian monarchy, Caxias' reputation was initially overshadowed by that of Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval, but with time surpassed even Erval's renown. In 1925 his birthday was established as the Day of the Soldier, a day of honor for the Brazilian army. On 13 March 1962 he was officially designated the army's protector—​its soldierly ideal and the most important figure in its tradition. Historians have regarded Caxias positively, several ranking him as the greatest of Brazil's military officers

Brazilian Hero

Marcos Cesar Pontes

 

Marcos Cesar Pontes was born in Bauru in March, 11^th 1963. When he was a kid, he had the dream of flying but his family didn’t have enough resources, because his father was a janitor.

Nowadays he is lieutenant colonel of F.A.B., the Brazilian Air Force. He is space engineer, ONU Ambassador, writer and Brazil’s Science Minister of technology, Innovation and Communication in the government of President Jair Bolsonaro.

In 1998, he won a competition to represent Brazil in the international space program at NASA, becoming part of the astronaut group 98.

He was the first and only Brazilian man to go to space. His worked as technical maintenance in the space ship.

He was chosen to be in the Russian Ship crew and share the station with some other countries. For this to happen, he had to learn Russian in three months. His mission happened in 2006, Cesar Pontes stayed eight days in space while his friend spent one year.   

            He created a foundation called “Fundação Astronauta Marcos Pontes” and he wrote three books, one called “E possivel! Como tornar seus sonhos em realidade”, an autobiography and a children’s book.

Marcos Cesar Pontes believes that life beyond Earth is possible and in 2019 during an interview, he said the first exploration to Mars might happen around 2030.

Brazilian Hero 

Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (Anita Garibaldi)

Hero of the Farrapos War became Anita Garibaldi after marrying the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Together with her husband, she fought in the Farroupilha Revolution, a republican movement against the Empire in Brazil, and also in the unification of Italy, becoming known as the heroine of two worlds.
Born in 1821 and died in 1849.