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
Abraão de Morais - physicist
Gilberto de Nucci - physician and experimental pharmacologist
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira - physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension
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.
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)
Lawrence Lin Murata - technology entrepreneur (engineering dropout)^[1]
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, commentator