Júlio Cernadas Pereira, aka Juca (born 13 January 1929 in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique - died 11 October 2007 in Lisbon), was a Portuguese football midfielder and coach.

Most of his career was associated with Sporting Clube de Portugal, as both player and manager.

The son of Portuguese parents who had settled in Mozambique, Juca started playing professionally with local Sporting de Lourenço Marques, as a goalkeeper. In 1949, he returned to the land of his ancestors and joined Sporting Clube de Portugal, where he would remain nine years until his retirement at the age of only 29 - due to a knee injury- helping the Lions win five national championships and the 1954 domestic cup.

During nearly four years, Juca gained six caps for Portugal. His first match was a 1–1 draw with Austria on 23 November 1952, in a friendly match in Porto, and his last appearance was in another exhibition game, with Hungary (9 June 1956 in Lisbon, same result).

Shortly after retiring, in 1960, Juca started managing, his first job being with main club Sporting's under-19. He was promoted to head coach of the first team the following year, being in charge for three 1/2 of the following five years, and winning the 1962 and 1966 leagues (he was only in charge for four games in the latter campaign however) and the 1963 Portuguese Cup.

Eduardo da Costa Paes (born November 14, 1969) is a Brazilian politician who is currently the mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, having defeated Fernando Gabeira in the 2008 Elections.

"Paes was a noted trenchant critic of the Lula administration, particularly during the Mensalão scandal in 2005 over alleged payments to congressmen for votes"

“Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.”

Juca Chaves (born 22 October 1938 in Rio de Janeiro, as Jurandir Czaczkes) is a Brazilian comedian, singer and writer well known for his irreverence. He is the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants. [1]

An active critic of the Brazilian military dictatorship, he went to exile in the early 1970’s, first in Portugal and later Italy. After his return to Brazil, he hosted a program on national TV and subsequently made a career as a comedian. He currently lives in Bahia.

José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares (born January 16, 1938 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author, theatrical producer, director, actor, painter and musician. Soares was born in Rio de Janeiro. After being educated in Switzerland and the United States, Soares returned to Rio and worked at TV Rio in 1958, writing and performing in comedy shows for the station. He acted as an American in Carlos Manga's O homem do Sputnik. In 1970, Soares started working at Rede Globo.

In 1988, Soares moved to SBT, where he hosted a talk-show, Jô Soares Onze e Meia ("Jô Soares Eleven Thirty"), until 1999. In 2000, Soares took his show's format (very similar to David Letterman's) back to Rede Globo, where it was then called Programa do Jô, and presents the program until the present day.

He is known for his knowledge of culture and literature, and for speaking English, Spanish, Italian and French besides his native Portuguese.

His first novel O Xangô de Baker Street was written in 1995 and has already been published in several other countries; it was made into a film in 2000. He has put out various jazz CDs. He has also produced many plays including a recent version of Richard III.