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This is a list of notable 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 Moreira da Costa Lima (1887-1964), Brazilian; doctor; entomologist.
- 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
- Aziz Nacib Ab`Saber, geographer; geologist; ecologist recognised for his works in theory of refuges and Amazon. Conservation and scientific leader.
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian Catholic priest, pioneer of aviation, the inventor of the balloon, he became to be known as the "flying priest"
- 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 Augusto Bertulani, Brazilian physicist.
- 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
- 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
- Lotar Siewerdt, Brazilian agronomist; forage production
- 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
- Vera Cordeiro, social entrepreneur and physician
- 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
- Gregório Gregorievitch Bondar, Russian agronomist; zoologist; entomologist
- 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
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