1951 in Brazil

Events in the year 1951 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President:
 * Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (until 30 January)
 * Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January)
 * Vice President:
 * Nereu Ramos (until 30 January)
 * Café Filho (from 31 January)

Governors

 * Alagoas:
 * Silvestre Pericles (until 31 January)
 * Arnon de Mello (from 31 January)
 * Amazonas:
 * Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves (until 31 January)
 * Álvaro Botelho Maia (from 31 January)
 * Bahia:
 * Otávio Mangabeira (until 31 January)
 * Régis Pacheco (from 31 January)
 * Ceará:
 * Faustino de Albuquerque (until 31 January)
 * Raul Barbosa (from 31 January)
 * Espírito Santo:
 * Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (until 31 January)
 * Jones dos Santos Neves (from 31 January)
 * Goiás:
 * Hosanah Guimarães (until 31 January)
 * Pedro Ludovico Teixeira (from 31 January)
 * Maranhão:
 * Sebastião Archer (until 31 January)
 * Traiaú Rodrigues Moreira (from 31 January)
 * Mato Grosso:
 * Jari Gomes (until 31 January)
 * Fernando Corrêa da Costa (from 31 January)
 * Minas Gerais:
 * Milton Soares Campos (until 31 January)
 * Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January)
 * Pará:
 * Alberto Engelhard (until 25 January: )
 * Waldir Bouhid (25 January-27 January)
 * Arnaldo Lobo (27 January-9 February)
 * Abel Nunes de Figueiredo (9 February-20 February)
 * Zacarias de Assumpção (from 20 February)
 * Paraíba:
 * Osvaldo Trigueiro (until 31 January)
 * José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January)
 * Paraná:
 * Moisés Lupion (until 31 January)
 * Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto (from 31 January)
 * Pernambuco:
 * Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (until 31 January)
 * Agamenon Magalhães (from 31 January)
 * Piauí:
 * José da Rocha Furtado (until 31 January)
 * Pedro Freitas (from 31 January)
 * Rio de Janeiro:
 * Macedo Soares (until 31 January)
 * Amaral Peixoto (from 31 January)
 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * José Augusto Varela (until 31 January)
 * Jerônimo Dix-Sept Rosado (31 January-16 July)
 * Silvio Piza Pedrosa (from 16 July)
 * Rio Grande do Sul:
 * Walter Só Jobim (till 31 January)
 * Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January)
 * Santa Catarina:
 * Aderbal Ramos da Silva (until 31 January)
 * Irineu Bornhausen (from 31 January)
 * São Paulo:
 * Ademar de Barros (until 31 January)
 * Lucas Nogueira Garcez (from 31 January)
 * Sergipe:
 * Jose Rollemberg (until 31 January)
 * João Dantas Martins dos Reis (31 January-17 February)
 * Edélzio Vieira de Melo (17 February-12 March)
 * Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez (from 12 March)

Vice governors

 * Alagoas:
 * Francisco de Menezes Pimentel (until 31 January)
 * Antônio Guedes de Miranda (from 31 January)
 * Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
 * Espírito Santo:
 * José Rodrigues Sette (until 31 January)
 * Francisco Alves Ataíde (from 31 January)
 * Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (from 31 January)
 * Maranhão:
 * Saturnino Bello (until 31 January)
 * Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (from 31 January)
 * Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros (from 31 January)
 * Minas Gerais:
 * José Ribeiro Pena (until 31 January)
 * Clóvis Salgado da Gama (from 31 January)
 * Paraíba:
 * José Targino Pereira da Costa (until 31 January)
 * João Fernandes de Lima (from 31 January)
 * Piauí:
 * Osvaldo da Costa e Silva (until 31 January)
 * Tertuliano Milton Brandão (from 31 January)
 * Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda (from 31 January)
 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * Tomaz Salustino (until 31 January)
 * Sylvio Pedroza (31 January-16 July)
 * Vacant (from 16 July)
 * São Paulo:
 * Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior (until 31 January)
 * Erlindo Salzano (from 31 January)
 * Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo (from 31 January)

Events

 * date unknown
 * The Brazilian Medical Association is founded.
 * The Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing is founded in São Paulo.

January

 * 18 January: Getúlio Vargas is proclaimed president-elect by the Superior Electoral Court.
 * 13 January: Getúlio Vargas assumes his second term as the 17th President of Brazil, this time elected by direct vote.

March

 * Unknown Date: Clarice Lispector returns from London with her husband, Maury Gurgel Valente, following a miscarriage.

June

 * 12 June: Última Hora, a tabloid newspaper, is founded by Samuel Wainer and personally endorsed by President Vargas.

July

 * 3 July: President Getúlio Vargas signs the Afonso Arinos Law, which prohibits racial discrimination in Brazil.
 * 12 July: A Linhas Aéreas Paulistas plane collides with a tree located 3 kilometers from the runway at the Aracaju airport, killing 32 passengers and crew.

Books

 * Ștefan Baciu - Analiza cuvântului dor

Films

 * Agüenta Firme, Isidoro, directed by Luiz de Barros.
 * Aí Vem o Barão, directed by Watson Macedo, starring Oscarito, José Lewgoy and Eliana.
 * Amazon Symphony, directed by Anelio Latini, starring Almirante.
 * Quando a Noite Acaba, starring Tônia Carrero.
 * O Saci, directed by Rodolfo Nanni, starring Paulo Matozinho.

January

 * 2 January:
 * Lula Ferreira, professional basketball coach
 * Waldir Peres, footballer (died 2017)

April

 * 9 April: Sérgio Rezende, filmmaker
 * 29 April: Vinicius Cantuária, jazz musician

July

 * 12 July: Carlos Minc, geographer, environmentalist and politician

August

 * 13 August: Beto Guedes, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
 * 14 August: Rita Segato (in Argentina), anthropologist, feminist and academic

October

 * 20 October: José Gomes Temporão, doctor and politician

August

 * 2 August: Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger, German-born architect and artist (born 1882)

November

 * 13 November: Walter de Souza Goulart, footballer (born 1912)