# List of ambassadors of Brazil to the United States

The following is a list of ambassadors of Brazil, or other chiefs of mission, to the United States of America. The title given by the Ministry of External Relations of the Federative Republic of Brazil to this position is currently "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" (Portuguese: Embaixador Extraordinário e Plenipotenciário). There have been fifty representatives of various ranks and titles from Brazil to the United States since diplomatic relations were inaugurated in 1824 to the present.
The United States of America was the second country to recognize Brazil's Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed in September 1822, by the regent, heir and crown prince to the throne of the former United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, Dom Pedro of the House of Braganza. He soon became Emperor Pedro I (1798-1834, reigned 1822-1834), of the Empire of Brazil, which endured under his son Dom Pedro II until 1889, when the present republic and federation were established. The huge South American nation's first legation was thus established in Washington, only a quarter-century after the founding of the American national capital and federal district itself. The long Brazilian-North American diplomatic relationship and inter-continental friendship was founded on May 26, 1824, when José Silvestre Rebello presented his diplomatic accreditation credentials as first Charge d'Affaires to fifth President James Monroe (1758-1831, served 1817-1825), at the newly restored Executive Mansion, now acquiring its new nickname and title of the White House, having been burned only a decade before by the invading British. He represented the new Emperor and Empire of Brazil for over five years to August 1829.
In 1905, the United States Legation representing the U.S. Department of State and its Secretary of State in the original coastal capital city of Rio de Janeiro was raised to a full embassy under 26th President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, served 1901-1909), similar to the gradual increased status of diplomatic missions across the board in international relations in the 20th century.
| Representative | Title | Presentation of credentials | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
| José Silvestre Rebello | Chargé d'Affaires | May 26, 1824 | August 10, 1829 | Emperor Pedro I |
| José de Araújo Ribeiro | Chargé d'Affaires | August 11, 1829 | February 14, 1833 | Emperor Pedro I |
| José Francisco de Paula Cavalcante de Albuquerque | Chargé d'Affaires | December 30, 1833 | July 22, 1838 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Ernesto Ferreira França | Resident Minister | July 23, 1838 | October 28, 1839 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Pedro Rodrigues Fernandes Chaves | Chargé d'Affaires | March 17, 1840 | October 30, 1840 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Gaspar José Lisboa | Resident Minister | May 29, 1841 | July 8, 1847 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Gaspar José Lisboa | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 29, 1841 | July 8, 1847 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Sérgio Teixeira de Macedo | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | March 12, 1849 | July 1, 1851 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Francisco Ignácio de Carvalho Moreira | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 21, 1852 | July 31, 1855 | Emperor Pedro II |
| José Francisco de Paula Cavalcante de Albuquerque | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | May 29, 1856 | August 25, 1858 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Miguel Maria Lisboa [es] | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 3, 1859 | April 27, 1864 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Joaquim Maria Nascentes de Azambuja | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | September 23, 1865 | May 17, 1867 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | July 5, 1867 | October 13, 1870 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Antônio Pedro de Carvalho Borges | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 9, 1871 | December 7, 1880 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Felippe Lopes Neto | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | October 24, 1882 | August 14, 1883 | Emperor Pedro II |
| José Gurgel do Amaral Valente | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | August 15, 1883 | December 8, 1885 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Marcos Antônio de Araújo e Abreu | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | December 9, 1885 | May 16, 1888 | Emperor Pedro II |
| José Gurgel do Amaral Valente | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | November 10, 1889 | January 21, 1891 | Emperor Pedro II |
| Salvador Furtado de Mendonça Drummond | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | January 22, 1891 | May 17, 1898 | Deodoro da Fonseca |
| Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | June 6, 1898 | April 22, 1903 | Prudente de Morais |
| Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim | December 28, 1904 | May 23, 1905 | Rodrigues Alves |
| Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 24, 1905 | January 17, 1910 | Rodrigues Alves |
| Domicio da Gama | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 16, 1911 | October 22, 1918 | Hermes da Fonseca |
| Augusto Cochrane de Alencar | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 26, 1920 | March 5, 1924 | Epitácio Pessoa |
| Sylvio Gurgel do Amaral | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 19, 1925 | April 9, 1931 | Artur Bernardes |
| Rinaldo de Lima e Silva | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 24, 1931 | May 16, 1934 | Getúlio Vargas |
| Oswaldo Aranha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 2, 1934 | December 11, 1937 | Getúlio Vargas |
| Mário Pimentel Brandão | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 28, 1938 | January 3, 1939 | Getúlio Vargas |
| Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | March 8, 1939 | April 20, 1948 | Getúlio Vargas |
| Maurício Nabuco | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 1, 1948 | October 28, 1951 | Eurico Gaspar Dutra |
| Walther Moreira Salles | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 12, 1952 | August 18, 1953 | Getúlio Vargas |
| João Carlos Muniz | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 20, 1953 | July 12, 1956 | Getúlio Vargas |
| Ernani do Amaral Peixoto | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 18, 1956 | May 18, 1959 | Juscelino Kubitschek |
| Walther Moreira Salles | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 23, 1959 | February 16, 1961 | Juscelino Kubitschek |
| Roberto de Oliveira Campos | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 18, 1961 | January 17, 1964 | João Goulart |
| Juracy Montenegro Magalhães | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 9, 1964 | October 6, 1965 | Castelo Branco |
| Vasco Tristão Leitão da Cunha | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 2, 1966 | June 29, 1968 | Castelo Branco |
| Mário Gibson Alves Barbosa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 21, 1969 | October 17, 1969 | Artur da Costa e Silva |
| Mozart Gurgel Valente Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 20, 1970 | December 19, 1970 | Emílio Garrastazu Médici |
| João Augusto de Araújo Castro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 18, 1971 | December 9, 1975 | Emílio Garrastazu Médici |
| João Batista Pinheiro | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 10, 1976 | June 9, 1979 | Ernesto Geisel |
| Antônio Francisco Azeredo da Silveira | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | July 24, 1979 | August 1, 1983 | João Figueiredo |
| Sérgio Corrêa da Costa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 5, 1983 | November 1, 1986 | João Figueiredo |
| Marcílio Marques Moreira | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 23, 1986 | August 24, 1991 | José Sarney |
| Rubens Ricupero | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 25, 1991 | August 11, 1993 | Fernando Collor de Mello |
| Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 12, 1993 | May 26, 1999 | Itamar Franco |
| Rubens Antonio Barbosa | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 8, 1999 | March 31, 2004 | Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
| Roberto Abdenur | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 3, 2004 | November 21, 2006 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Antonio de Aguiar Patriota | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 7, 2007 | October 4, 2009 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Mauro Vieira | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 6, 2010 | December 31, 2014 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Luiz Alberto Figueiredo | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 1, 2015 | August 16, 2016 | Dilma Rousseff |
| Sérgio Silva do Amaral | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | August 16, 2016 | June 3, 2019 | Michel Temer |
| Nestor Forster Jr. | Chargé d'Affaires ad interim | June 3, 2019 | December 23, 2020 | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Nestor Forster Jr. | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 23, 2020 | June 30, 2023 | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 30, 2023 | Incumbent | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |