Paulo José Gómez de Sousa (born on March 20, 1937 in Lavras do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian television and film actor, director and narrator.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 - August 17, 1987) was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" ("Friendly Song") was printed on the 50 cruzados note. He is considered to be among the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.

Drummond was born in Itabira, a mining village in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. His parents were farmers belonging to old Brazilian families. He went to a school of pharmacy in Belo Horizonte, but never worked as a pharmacist after graduation. He worked in government service for most of his life, eventually becoming director of history for the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service of Brazil.

Though his earliest poems are formal and satirical, Drummond quickly adopted the new forms of Brazilian modernism that were evolving in the 1920s, incited by the work of Mário de Andrade (to whom he was not related). He would mingle speech fluent in elegance and truth about the surrounding, many times quotidian, world, with a fluidity of thought.

Torquato Pereira de Araújo Neto (November 9, 1944 – November 10, 1972) was a Brazilian journalist and poet. He is perhaps best known as a lyricist for the Tropicália counterculture movement, which later expanded its influence to Música Popular Brasileira. He worked with Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo, and Waly Salomão. He committed suicide at the age of 28.

Neto was the son of a public prosecutor and a primary schoolteacher from Teresina, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Piauí. At the age of 16, he moved to Salvador, Bahia, to attend secondary school at the Colégio Nossa Senhora da Vitória, where he was a classmate of Gilberto Gil. While there, he also worked as an assistant on Glauber Rocha's first feature film, Barravento.

Neto became actively involved in the cultural scene in Salvador, where he met Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia. In 1962, he moved to Rio de Janeiro to study journalism at university but never graduated. He wrote columns on culture for several publications there. Torquato acted as a cultural agent and polemical defender of the artistic avant-garde, including Tropicalia, Cinema Marginal, and Concretism. He was friends with several major figures of these movements, including the musicians mentioned above, the poets Décio Pignatari and Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, filmmaker Ivan Cardoso, and artist Hélio Oiticica. At this time, Neto came to be seen as a figure in Tropicalism, having written the breviary "Tropicalismo para principiantes" ("Tropicalism for Beginners"), in which he argued for the necessity of creating a genuinely Brazilian "pop": "Accept completely all that the life of the tropics can give, without preconceptions of aesthetic order, without consideration of tackiness or bad taste, solely living the tropical and the new universe it contains, still unknown." Neto was also an important lyricist of iconic songs of the tropicalist movement.

{{Infobox football biography | name = Renato Augusto | image = | fullname = Renato Soares de Oliveira Augusto | height = 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | birth_date = (1988-02-08) 8 February 1988 (age 24) | birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Frankrig | currentclub = [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen|]Bayer 04 Leverkusen] | clubnumber = 10 | position = Attacking midfielder, Winger | youthyears1 = 2001–2005 | youthclubs1 = Flamengo | years1 = 2005–2008 | clubs1 = Flamengo | caps1 = 51 | goals1 = 4 | years2 = 2008– | clubs2 = Bayer Leverkusen | caps2 = 82 | goals2 = 9 | nationalyears1 = 2005 | nationalteam1 = Brazil U-17 | nationalcaps1 = 4 | nationalgoals1 = 1 | nationalyears2 = 2007 | nationalteam2 = Brazil U-20 | nationalcaps2 = 3 | nationalgoals2 = 0 | nationalyears3 = 2011– | nationalteam3 = Brazil | nationalcaps3 = 3 | nationalgoals3 = 0 | pcupdate = 14 January 2012 | ntupdate = 27 March 2011 }} Renato Soares de Oliveira Augusto, or simply Renato Augusto (born 8 February 1988 in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian footballer. He plays as an attacking midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen.

José da Costa (born 10 January 1941) is a Brazilian former volleyball player who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.