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)
• 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