List of University of São Paulo alumni

This is a list of notable persons who have graduated from the University of São Paulo.

Presidents of Brazil

 * Prudente de Morais (1894-1898) - Law
 * Campos Sales (1898-1902) - Law
 * Rodrigues Alves (1902-1906) - Law
 * Afonso Pena (1906-1909) - Law
 * Venceslau Brás (1914-1918) - Law
 * Delfim Moreira (1918-1919) - Law
 * Washington Luís (1926-1930) - Law
 * Júlio Prestes (1930) - Law
 * José Linhares (1945-1946) - Law
 * Nereu Ramos (1955-1956) - Law
 * Jânio Quadros (1961) - Law
 * Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2003) - Social Sciences
 * Michel Temer (2016-2018) - Law

São Paulo state governors

 * Jânio Quadros (1955–1959)
 * Abreu Sodré (1967–1971)
 * Paulo Maluf (1979–1982)
 * André Franco Montoro (1983–1987)
 * Mário Covas (1995–2001)
 * Cláudio Lembo (2005)
 * José Serra (2006–2010)
 * Alberto Goldman (2010)

Politicians

 * Fernando Haddad - former Minister of Education of Brazil; former mayor of São Paulo (law degree)
 * Gilberto Kassab - former mayor of São Paulo (engineering and economics degree)
 * Guido Mantega - former Finance Minister of Brazil (economics degree)
 * Aloizio Mercadante - current Minister of Education of Brazil (economics degree)
 * Antonio Palocci - former Minister of Civil House of Brazil (M.D. degree)
 * Rubens Ricupero - former Finance Minister of Brazil and Minister of the Environment and Amazonian Affairs (law degree)

Writers

 * Clóvis de Barros Filho
 * Cesar Calejon
 * Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza
 * Augusto de Campos
 * Haroldo de Campos
 * Hilda Hilst
 * Glauco Mattoso
 * Raduan Nassar
 * Alcides Nogueira
 * Décio Pignatari
 * Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
 * Lygia Fagundes Telles
 * Antônio Vicente Seraphim Pietroforte
 * Ismail Xavier

Scientists and physicians

 * Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber - archaeologist, geographer, geologist and ecologist
 * Ennio Candotti - physicist and scientific leader
 * Marcelo Damy - physicist and co-discoverer of mesons in cosmic ray showers
 * Abraão de Morais - physicist
 * Gilberto de Nucci - physician and experimental pharmacologist
 * Sérgio Henrique Ferreira - physician and pharmacologist, discovered the active principle of a new drug against hypertension
 * José Goldemberg - scientific leader and research scientist
 * José Graziano da Silva - agronomist and Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (2012-2015)
 * Adib Domingos Jatene - physician
 * Dr. Jalma Jurado - physician known for pioneering work on gender-affirming surgery in Brazil
 * Warwick Estevam Kerr - geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics of bees
 * Marta Mirazón Lahr - human evolutionary biologist and anthropologist
 * César Lattes - physicist, co-discoverer of the pi meson
 * José Leite Lopes - theoretical physicist
 * Euripedes Constantino Miguel - psychiatrist, later returned to Faculty of FMUSP
 * Carlos Augusto Monteiro - nutrition, preventive medicine, public health
 * José E. Moreira - system software architect for Blue Gene/L, the fastest supercomputer in the world
 * Dr. Miguel Nicolelis - physician and neurobiological researcher
 * Lucila Ohno-Machado - biomedical engineer and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego
 * Vivian Pellizari - Antarctic researcher and microbiologist
 * Silvano Raia - Brazilian surgeon
 * Dr. Renato M. E. Sabbatini - neuroscientist and physiologist
 * Oscar Sala - Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist
 * Maria Léa Salgado-Labouriau - Brazilian scientist who specialized in palaeobotany
 * Roberto Salmeron - electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist
 * Mário Schenberg - physicist
 * Evelyna Bloem Souto - only woman in the first class of the civil engineering course at the University of São Paulo, civil engineer, academic.
 * Jayme Tiomno - experimental and theoretical nuclear physicist
 * Marcos Troyjo - social scientist, political economist and diplomat
 * Drauzio Varella - physician, educator and medical science popularizer
 * Mayana Zatz - molecular biologist and geneticist
 * Dr. Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini - physician; did the first heart transplantation in Latin America

Others

 * João Batista Vilanova Artigas - architect (architecture degree)
 * Paulo Autran - actor (law degree)
 * William Bonner - journalist (advertising degree)
 * Chico Buarque de Holanda - singer (architecture degree)
 * Ana Cañas - singer (dramatic arts degree)
 * José Celso Martinez Corrêa - playwright (law degree)
 * Amyr Klink - sailor and explorer (economics degree)
 * Fernando Meirelles - film director, City of God, The Constant Gardener and Blindness (architecture degree)
 * Henrique Meirelles - former president of the Central Bank of Brazil (engineering degree)
 * Lawrence Lin Murata - technology entrepreneur (engineering dropout)
 * Matheus Nachtergaele - actor (dramatic arts degree)
 * Sebastião Salgado - photographer and photojournalist (economics degree)
 * Nelson Pereira dos Santos - filmmaker (law degree)
 * Alexandre Schwartsman - economist (M.S.), former Director of the Central Bank of Brazil
 * Sócrates - former Brazil national football team football player (medicine degree)
 * Dan Stulbach - actor (dramatic arts degree)
 * Marcelo Tas - actor and writer (engineering degree)
 * Cilene Victor - journalist, professor, commentator