1953 in Brazil

Events in the year 1953 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Getúlio Vargas
 * Vice President: Café Filho

Governors

 * Alagoas: Arnon de Mello
 * Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
 * Bahia: Régis Pacheco
 * Ceará: Raul Barbosa
 * Espírito Santo: Francisco Alves Ataíde
 * Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
 * Mato Grosso: Fernando Corrêa da Costa
 * Minas Gerais: Juscelino Kubitschek
 * Pará: Zacarias de Assumpção
 * Paraíba: José Américo de Almeida
 * Paraná: Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto
 * Pernambuco: Etelvino Lins de Albuquerque
 * Piauí: Pedro Freitas
 * Rio de Janeiro: Amaral Peixoto
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Silvio Piza Pedrosa
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Ildo Meneghetti
 * Santa Catarina: Irineu Bornhausen
 * São Paulo: Lucas Nogueira Garcez
 * Sergipe: Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez

Vice governors

 * Alagoas: Antônio Guedes de Miranda
 * Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva
 * Espírito Santo: Francisco Alves Ataíde
 * Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte
 * Maranhão: Renato Bayma Archer da Silva
 * Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros
 * Minas Gerais: Clóvis Salgado da Gama
 * Paraíba: João Fernandes de Lima
 * Piauí: Tertuliano Milton Brandão
 * Rio de Janeiro: Tarcísio Miranda
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Vacant
 * São Paulo: Erlindo Salzano
 * Sergipe: Edelzio Vieira de Melo

Events

 * Date Unknown: JBS Group, a worldwide meat processing brand, was founded in Goiás.

January

 * January 20: Lima Barreto's film O Cangaceiro is released in cinemas.

March

 * March 23: The Brazilian branch of the German automaker Volkswagen is established in São Bernardo do Campo.

April

 * April 1: The Brazilian football team is defeated 3-2 by Paraguay at the Estadio Nacional, Lima, to finish second in the 1953 South American Championship.

June

 * June 30: The naval destroyer escort USS Pennewill (DE-175) is transferred from the United States to Brazilian ownership, taking on the new name Bertioga (BE–1).

July

 * July 25: The Ministry of Health is created.

September

 * September 27: RecordTV is launched in São Paulo.

October

 * October 3: President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras.

March

 * 3 March: Zico, footballer and coach

April

 * 22 April: Lucinha Turnbull, singer, composer and guitarist

May

 * 4 May: Lulu Santos, singer and guitarist
 * 23 May: Armandinho, composer and singer

March

 * 20 March: Graciliano Ramos, writer (born 1892)

November

 * 15 November: Jorge de Lima, writer (born 1893)
 * 2 December – Miguel Osório de Almeida, physician and scientist (born 1890)