1941 in Brazil

Events in the year 1941 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Getúlio Vargas

Governors

 * Alagoas: José Maria Correia das Neves (till 19 February); Ismar de Góis Monteiro (from 19 February)
 * 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: Rui Carneiro
 * 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 (till 4 June); Fernando de Sousa Costa (from 4 June)
 * Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho (till 30 June); Milton Pereira de Azevedo (from 30 June)

Vice governors

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

Events

 * 22 March – The Brazilian ship Taubaté is attacked by a German warplane in the Mediterranean Sea.
 * 21 September – The Estádio Presidente Vargas is opened at Fortaleza.
 * date unknown
 * The pulp and paper company Celulose Irani is founded in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.
 * Oscar Lorenzo Fernández's nationalist-themed opera, Malazarte, to a libretto by José Pereira Graça Aranha, receives its première at the Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, eight years after it was completed.

Films

 * Barulho na Universidade
 * 24 Horas de Sonho

February

 * 11 February – Sérgio Mendes, musician
 * 12 February – Dominguinhos, composer, accordionist and singer (died 2013)
 * 15 February – Florinda Bolkan, actress

March

 * 26 March – José Edison Mandarino, tennis player

April

 * 19 April – Roberto Carlos, singer
 * 22 April – José Guilherme Merquior, diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher (died 1991)
 * 29 April – Nana Caymmi, singer, daughter of Dorival Caymmi
 * 21 June – Eduardo Suplicy, left-wing politician, economist and professor
 * 7 August – Celso Lafer, jurist, philosopher and politician
 * 30 August – Nelson Xavier, actor (died 2017)

Deaths

 * 9 March – Nestor Gomez, politician (born 1875)