Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazilian architect known for designing civic buildings for Brasília and his influential exploration of reinforced concrete aesthetics

Brazilian composer, songwriter, and musician known as one of the fathers of bossa nova for merging samba with cool jazz

Pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright, and co-founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, revered as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature

English-Brazilian biologist and Nobel laureate known as the "father of transplantation" for his work on acquired immune tolerance