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Ariano Suassuna (born June 16, 1927 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Northeast Brazil) is a Brazilian playwrighter and author. He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco. Four of his plays have been filmed and he is considered one of Brazil's greatest living playwrights. He is also an important regional writer doing various novels set in the Northeast of Brazil. He received an honorary doctorate at a ceremony performed at a circus. He is the author of, among other works, the "Auto da Compadecida" and "A Pedra do Reino". He is a staunch defender of the culture of the Northeast, and his works deal with the popular culture of the Northeast.

Ariano Suassuna Vilar was born in Our Lady of the Snows, now João Pessoa, Paraíba, on June 16, 1927, son of João Suassuna and Cassia Villar Suassuna. The following year, his father leaves the government of Paraiba and the family goes to live in the wilderness, in Acauhan Farm ("Fazenda Acauã").

With the Revolution of 30, his father was murdered for political reasons in Rio de Janeiro and the family moved to Taperoá, where he lived from 1933 to 1937. In this city, made his first studies Ariano and watched for the first time a piece of mamulengos and a challenge to Viola, whose character of "improvisation" was also one of the hallmarks of his theatrical production.

Atahualpa Yupanqui (31 January 1908 – 23 May 1992) was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century.^{[citation needed]}

Yupanqui was born as Héctor Roberto Chavero Aranburu in Pergamino (Buenos Aires Province), in the Argentine pampas, about 200 kilometers away from Buenos Aires. His father was Argentine, descended from indigenous people, while his mother was born in the Basque country. His family moved to Tucumán when he was ten. In a bow to two legendary Incan kings, he adopted the stage name Atahualpa Yupanqui, which became famous the world over.

In his early years, Yupanqui travelled extensively through the northwest of Argentina and the Altiplano studying the indigenous culture. He also became radicalized and joined the Communist Party of Argentina. In 1931, he took part in the failed Kennedy brothers uprising against the de facto government of José Félix Uriburu and in support of deposed president Hipólito Yrigoyen. After the uprising was defeated, he was forced to seek refuge in Uruguay. He returned to Argentina in 1934.