Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world – but got little love back in Brazil
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Dr Elza Furtado Gomide
Elza Furtado Gomide was the second Brazilian woman to be awarded a doctorate in mathematics. She served for many years as Head of Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics in the University of São Paulo. She was influential in promoting a debate on the role of the university in the training of qualified professionals.
Dr Marília Peixoto
Marília Chaves Peixoto was the first Brazilian woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 1951 she was the first Brazilian woman to be elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She made substantial contributions to what is now known as Peixoto’s Theorem on the structural stability of dynamical systems.
Bidu Sayão
Brazilian operatic soprano
Rachel de Queiroz
Rachel de Queiroz published over twenty-five novels, plays, crônicas and memoirs, among them O Quinze (The Fifteen) (1930), As três Marias (The Three Marias) (1939) and Dôra Doralina (1975).
Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon is the author of more than a dozen books, including novels, essays and memoirs.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Brazilian author
Lucia Aizim
Lucia Aizim published nine works of poetry, short stories, novels and children’s literature, including Errância (1978), Exercício efêmero (1982) and Saga (1997).
Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin
American suffragist and writer
Maria Quitéria de Jesus
1800s Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine