1939 in Brazil

Events in the year 1939 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

 * Alagoas: Osman Laurel
 * Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
 * Bahia: Landulfo Alves
 * Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
 * Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
 * Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
 * Maranhão:
 * Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
 * Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
 * Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
 * Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo
 * Paraná: Manuel Ribas
 * Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
 * Piauí: Leônidas Melo
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
 * Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
 * São Paulo: Ademar de Barros
 * Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

Vice governors

 * Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
 * São Paulo: no vice governor

Events

 * 27 June – The municipality of Canoas obtains city status.
 * 30 November – Serra dos Órgãos National Park is created
 * 5 December – The Imperial Mausoleum is officially inaugurated at the Cathedral of Petrópolis.

Films

 * El Grito de la juventud (Argentine film directed by Brazilian director Raul Roulien)

Music

 * Ary Barroso - "Aquarela do Brasil"

Births

 * 2 February - Maximira Figueiredo, actress (died 2018)
 * 8 February - Jonas Bloch, actor
 * 14 March - Glauber Rocha, film director, actor and writer (died 1981).
 * 30 April - Axel Schmidt-Preben, Olympic sailor (died 2018 )
 * 13 June - Antônio Pitanga, actor
 * 16 October - Suely Franco, actress and entertainer

Deaths

 * 19 April - Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (born 1887).
 * 16 October - Malvina Tavares, anarchist, poet, and educator (born 1866)
 * 25 November - Odette Vidal de Oliveira, candidate for beatification (born 1930).