# List of University of São Paulo alumni

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

* Clóvis de Barros Filho
* Cesar Calejon
* Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza
* Augusto de Campos
* Haroldo de Campos
* Hilda Hilst
* Glauco Mattoso
* Raduan Nassar
* Alcides Nogueira
* Décio Pignatari
* Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
* Lygia Fagundes Telles
* Antônio Vicente Seraphim Pietroforte
* Ismail Xavier

## 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 world
* Dr. Miguel Nicolelis - physician and neurobiological researcher
* Lucila Ohno-Machado - biomedical engineer and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego
* 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
* Dr. Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini - physician; did the first heart transplantation in Latin America

## Others

* João Batista Vilanova Artigas - architect (architecture degree)
* Paulo Autran - actor (law degree)
* William Bonner - journalist (advertising degree)
* Chico Buarque de Holanda - singer (architecture degree)
* Ana Cañas - singer (dramatic arts degree)
* José Celso Martinez Corrêa - playwright (law 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