1921 in Brazil

Events in the year 1921 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Epitácio Pessoa
 * Vice President: Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva

Governors

 * Alagoas:
 * till 1 March: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
 * 1 March-12 June: Manuel Capitolino da Rocha Carvalho
 * from 12 June: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
 * Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro
 * Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
 * Ceará: Justiniano de Serpa
 * Goiás:
 * till 14 July: João Alves de Castro
 * from 14 July: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim
 * Maranhão: Urbano Santos
 * Mato Grosso: Francisco de Aquino Correia
 * Minas Gerais: Artur Bernardes
 * Pará:
 * till 1 February: Lauro Sodré
 * from 1 February Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
 * Paraíba: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
 * Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
 * Pernambuco:
 * till 3 June: Otávio Hamilton Tavares Barreto
 * from 3 June: Severino Marques de Queirós Pinheiro
 * Piauí: João Luís Ferreira
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
 * Santa Catarina:
 * São Paulo:
 * Sergipe:

Vice governors

 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * São Paulo:

Events

 * February – Antoun Saadeh arrives in Brazil with his father, a prominent Arabic-language journalist.
 * May 22 – The Estádio Antônio R. Guimarães is opened at Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.
 * October - The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic.
 * date unknown – The Correio da Manhã publishes letters supposedly sent by Artur Bernardes and Raul Soares de Moura, containing insults towards the Armed Forces and Marshal Hermes da Fonseca.

Films

 * Um Crime no Parque Paulista, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Nicola Tartaglione
 * Carlitinhos and Perversidade, short films directed by José Medina

Births

 * 13 April – Dona Ivone Lara, singer (died 2018)
 * 12 May – Ruth de Souza, actress (died 2019)
 * 5 June – Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and political campaigner (died 1976)
 * 19 September – Paulo Freire, philosopher (died 1997)
 * 26 September - Carlos Zéfiro, artist (died 1992)

Deaths

 * 28 January – Luis Soares Horta Barbosa, Deputy Grand Master of Brazil's Freemasons.
 * 26 March – Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar, lawyer and diplomat (born 1832)
 * 14 November – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, nicknamed "the Redemptress", heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil (born 1846)