List of Brazilian scientists

This is a list of Brazilian scientists.

* Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
* Adolfo Lutz, physician and pioneer of public health
* Adolpho Ducke, Croatian-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; botanist
* Adriano Lúcio Peracchi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; mammalogist
* Alberto Santos-Dumont, aviator and inventor.
* Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* André Rebouças (1838-1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
* Ângelo Pires do Prado, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Antônio Rebouças Filho, pioneer engineer and urbanist
* Aristides Leão, physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression, a phenomenon of nervous tissue
* Arthur Neiva, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Aurélio Buarque de Hollanda, historiographer and linguist
* Bráulio Dias, Brazilian zoologist and conservation leader
* Bruce Walker Nelson, American-Brazilian botanist in the Amazon
* Carlos Alberto Campos Seabra, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Carlos Chagas Filho, physician and physiologist, former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Son of Carlos Chagas.
* Carlos Chagas, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; public health worker
* Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandão, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Celso Furtado, noted economist and ideologue of economy of developing nations
* César Lattes, experimental physicist, co-discoverer of meson-pi, a kind of atomic particle, first president of Brazilian National Research Council
* Cincinnato Rory Gonçalves, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Cláudio Gilberto Froelich, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Czeslaw Marian Biezanko, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Dalton de Souza Amorim, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Domingos Gallo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; specialist on agricultural entomology
* Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
* Eduardo Krieger, physician and physiologist, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
* Elio Corseuil, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Ely Caetano Xavier Junior, young researcher, won the national Cientistas de Amanhã prize of UNESCO in 2006 for your study on lead-exposed children
* Émil Göldi, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist
* Ennio Candotti, physicist and scientific leader
* Euryclides Zerbini, heart surgeon, pioneer of first heart transplant in Brazil
* Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine. Son of Carlos Chagas.
* Fernando Dias de Ávila Pires, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Florestan Fernandes (1920-1995), father of Brazilian sociology
* Francisco A. Menezes Mariconi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Frederico Lane, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Fritz Müller, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; botanist; naturalist; entomologist
* Fritz Plaumann, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), historiographer and sociologist
* Gilberto Righi, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; specialist on earthworms
* Gregório Gregorievitch Bondar, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Hans Reichardt Filho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Heinz Ebert, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Helmut Sick, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; ornithologist
* Henrique da Rocha Lima,
* Hércules Florence, pioneer of photography
* Herman Lent, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Hermann Friedrich Albrecht von Ihering, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist
* Hermann Luederwaldt, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Hugo de Souza Lopes, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Isaias Raw, physician, biochemist and scientific leader
* Ivan Izquierdo, physician and neuroscientist. Discovered neural mechanisms of memory
* Jacob Palis, mathematician of international fame
* Jacques Hüber, Swiss-Brazilian biologist; botanist
* Jayme Tiomno, experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
* João Maria F. de Camargo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Jocélia Grazia Vieira, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Johanna Döbereiner (1924-2000), biologist of international fame, discoverer of the nitrogen fixation role of soil bacteria
* John Lane, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
* Jorge Stolfi, computer scientist, nowadays professor at UNICAMP
* José Albertino Rafael, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
* José Cândido de Melo Carvalho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* José Goldemberg, physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the University of São Paulo
* José Henrique Guimarães, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* José Leite Lopes, theoretical physicist
* José Lutzenberger (1926-2002), ecologist and zoologist
* José Márcio Ayres, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; primatologist
* José Maria Soares Barata, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* José Reis, biologist, greatest Brazilian science writer
* José Roberto Pujol-Luz, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* José Willibaldo Thomé, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
* Joseph Francisco Zikán, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
* Karol Lenko, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Keith Spalding Brown Junior, American-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; chemist; entomologist
* Lauro Travassos Filho, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Lauro Travassos, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Ludwig Buckup, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
* Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, physician, infectologist and immunologist
* Manuel de Abreu, physician, inventor of abreugraphy (mass radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis)
* Marcelo Duarte da Silva, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Marcelo Gleiser, physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the Dartmouth College since 1991
* Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
* Maria Helena Manieri Galileo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Mário Autuori, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Mário Schenberg, one of the most noted theoretical physicists in the world
* Maurício Rocha e Silva, physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin, an active cardiovascular peptide
* Mayana Zatz, biologist and geneticist
* Messias Carrera, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Miguel Angel Monné Barrios, Uruguayan-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Miguel Nicolelis, neuroscientist, one of Scientific American's best scientists of 2004
* Milton Santos (1926-2001), geographer
* Miriam Becker, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Mirna Martins Casagrande, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Moacir Alvarenga, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; naturalist; entomologist
* Mônica Barth, Brazilian biologist; botanist; palinologist
* Murylo Batista, famous immunologist, and infectologist
* Nelson Papavero, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist; historian of science
* Newton da Costa (1929), mathematician and logician, recognised for his works in paraconsistent logic
* Nise da Silveira (1905-1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
* Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Oswaldo Cruz, physician and public health champion, eliminated yellow fever, bubonic plague and smallpox in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century
* Oswaldo Paulo Forattini, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Padre Jesus Santiago Moure, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Paulo Buhrnheim, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Paulo Emílio Vanzolini, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; herpetologist
* Paulo Nogueira Neto, ecologist, zoologist and scientific leader
* Reginaldo Constatino, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Renato Contin Marinoni, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Renato Lion de Araújo, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
* Roger Pierre Hypolite Arlé, French-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Rogério César de Cerqueira Leite, physicist and scientific leader and writer
* Romualdo Ferreira de Almeida, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Rudolf Barth, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Samuel Barnsley Pessoa, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; parasitologist
* Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension
* Sonia Ambrosio de Nelson, journalist and sociologist.
* Tomás Borgmeier, German-Brazilian biologist; entomologist
* Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Vital Brazil, physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
* Vitor Osmar Becker, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Walter Wolfgang Franz Kempf, German-Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Walter Zikán, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist
* Warwick Estevam Kerr, geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
* Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, co-discoverer of bradykinin
* Wolfgang Bücherl, Brazilian biologist; zoologist
* Zilkar C. Maranhão, Brazilian biologist; zoologist; entomologist

Foreign scientists and engineers who lived or live in Brazil

* Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke, German botanist
* Charles Frederick Hartt, Canadian-American geologist and paleontologist
* Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
* Daniele Mundici, Italian mathematician
* Émil Goeldi, Swiss naturalist
* Emmanuel Liais, French astronomer and naturalist
* Erasmo Recami, Italian physicist
* Friedrich Sellow, German botanist
* Fritz Müller, German naturalist
* Fritz Köberle, Austrian physician and pathologist
* Giorgio Mortara, Italian Demographer and Statistician
* Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, German/Russian naturalist
* Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist
* Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian/Italian physicist
* Helmut Sick, German zoologist
* Hermann von Ihering, German naturalist
* Heinz Ebert, German geologist
* Louis Couty, French physiologist and pharmacologist
* Lucien Lison, Belgian anatomist
* Ludwig Riedel, German botanist
* Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian physiologist
* Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist
* Oscar Sala, Italian nuclear physicist
* Richard Feynman, American physicist
* David Bohm American physicist
* Luigi Fantappiè Italian mathematician
* Peter Szatmari Hungarian geologist