# 1951 in Brazil

Events in the year 1951 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President:
** Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (until 30 January)
** Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January)
* Vice President:
** Nereu Ramos (until 30 January)
** Café Filho (from 31 January)

### Governors

* Alagoas:
** Silvestre Pericles (until 31 January)
** Arnon de Mello (from 31 January)
* Amazonas:
** Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves (until 31 January)
** Álvaro Botelho Maia (from 31 January)
* Bahia:
** Otávio Mangabeira (until 31 January)
** Régis Pacheco (from 31 January)
* Ceará:
** Faustino de Albuquerque (until 31 January)
** Raul Barbosa (from 31 January)
* Espírito Santo:
** Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (until 31 January)
** Jones dos Santos Neves (from 31 January)
* Goiás:
** Hosanah Guimarães (until 31 January)
** Pedro Ludovico Teixeira (from 31 January)
* Maranhão:
** Sebastião Archer (until 31 January)
** Traiaú Rodrigues Moreira (from 31 January)
* Mato Grosso:
** Jari Gomes (until 31 January)
** Fernando Corrêa da Costa (from 31 January)
* Minas Gerais:
** Milton Soares Campos (until 31 January)
** Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January)
* Pará:
** Alberto Engelhard (until 25 January: )
** Waldir Bouhid (25 January-27 January)
** Arnaldo Lobo (27 January-9 February)
** Abel Nunes de Figueiredo (9 February-20 February)
** Zacarias de Assumpção (from 20 February)
* Paraíba:
** Osvaldo Trigueiro (until 31 January)
** José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January)
* Paraná:
** Moisés Lupion (until 31 January)
** Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto (from 31 January)
* Pernambuco:
** Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (until 31 January)
** Agamenon Magalhães (from 31 January)
* Piauí:
** José da Rocha Furtado (until 31 January)
** Pedro Freitas (from 31 January)
* Rio de Janeiro:
** Macedo Soares (until 31 January)
** Amaral Peixoto (from 31 January)
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** José Augusto Varela (until 31 January)
** Jerônimo Dix-Sept Rosado (31 January-16 July)
** Silvio Piza Pedrosa (from 16 July)
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** Walter Só Jobim (till 31 January)
** Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January)
* Santa Catarina:
** Aderbal Ramos da Silva (until 31 January)
** Irineu Bornhausen (from 31 January)
* São Paulo:
** Ademar de Barros (until 31 January)
** Lucas Nogueira Garcez (from 31 January)
* Sergipe:
** Jose Rollemberg (until 31 January)
** João Dantas Martins dos Reis (31 January-17 February)
** Edélzio Vieira de Melo (17 February-12 March)
** Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez (from 12 March)

### Vice governors

* Alagoas:
** Francisco de Menezes Pimentel (until 31 January)
** Antônio Guedes de Miranda (from 31 January)
* Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
* Espírito Santo:
** José Rodrigues Sette (until 31 January)
** Francisco Alves Ataíde (from 31 January)
* Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (from 31 January)
* Maranhão:
** Saturnino Bello (until 31 January)
** Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (from 31 January)
* Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros (from 31 January)
* Minas Gerais:
** José Ribeiro Pena (until 31 January)
** Clóvis Salgado da Gama (from 31 January)
* Paraíba:
** José Targino Pereira da Costa (until 31 January)
** João Fernandes de Lima (from 31 January)
* Piauí:
** Osvaldo da Costa e Silva (until 31 January)
** Tertuliano Milton Brandão (from 31 January)
* Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda (from 31 January)
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** Tomaz Salustino (until 31 January)
** Sylvio Pedroza (31 January-16 July)
** Vacant (from 16 July)
* São Paulo:
** Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior (until 31 January)
** Erlindo Salzano (from 31 January)
* Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo (from 31 January)

## Events

* date unknown
** The Brazilian Medical Association is founded.
** The Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing is founded in São Paulo.

### January

* 18 January: Getúlio Vargas is proclaimed president-elect by the Superior Electoral Court.
* 13 January: Getúlio Vargas assumes his second term as the 17th President of Brazil, this time elected by direct vote.

### March

* Unknown Date: Clarice Lispector returns from London with her husband, Maury Gurgel Valente, following a miscarriage.

### June

* 12 June: Última Hora, a tabloid newspaper, is founded by Samuel Wainer and personally endorsed by President Vargas.

### July

* 3 July: President Getúlio Vargas signs the Afonso Arinos Law, which prohibits racial discrimination in Brazil.
* 12 July: A Linhas Aéreas Paulistas plane collides with a tree located 3 kilometers from the runway at the Aracaju airport, killing 32 passengers and crew.

## Arts and culture
### Books

* Ștefan Baciu - Analiza cuvântului dor

### Films

* Agüenta Firme, Isidoro, directed by Luiz de Barros.
* Aí Vem o Barão, directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.
* Amazon Symphony, directed by Anelio Latini, starring Almirante.
* Quando a Noite Acaba, starring Tônia Carrero.
* O Saci, directed by Rodolfo Nanni, starring Paulo Matozinho.

## Births
### January

* 2 January:
** Lula Ferreira, professional basketball coach
** Waldir Peres, footballer (died 2017)

### April

* 9 April: Sérgio Rezende, filmmaker
* 29 April: Vinicius Cantuária, jazz musician

### July

* 12 July: Carlos Minc, geographer, environmentalist and politician

### August

* 13 August: Beto Guedes, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
* 14 August: Rita Segato (in Argentina), anthropologist, feminist and academic

### October

* 20 October: José Gomes Temporão, doctor and politician

## Deaths
### August

* 2 August: Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger, German-born architect and artist (born 1882)

### November

* 13 November: Walter de Souza Goulart, footballer (born 1912)