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Wilson Roque (born Wilson Jose Roque) is a Brazilian shipping executive and mariner who spent his adult life in the international shipping business.

Wilson was born in Conselheiro Lafaiete, in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, in 23 July 1946. His mother was Juraci Roque (née Almeida), a school teacher and his father was Octacilio Geraldo Mendes Roque, a Director with Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (Central Brazil Rail Road), the largest in the country. Wilson in from Portuguese and French descendant and was educated in the Catholic religion.

Wilson's family moved to Santos Dumont, in the same state, in mid-1948. Wilson attended school there, at the Ginásio Santos-Dumont. Family moved again in 1959 to Três Rios, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, where Wilson attended and graduated from Colégio Entre-Rios, in 1993.

Wilson entered the Brazilian Navy in late 1993 as a midshipman at Rio de Janeiro Merchant Marine Academy (Escola de Marinha Mercante, in Portuguese) and graduated second in his class of 1966.

Wilson worked all his life in the shipping business, as a mariner in well known Brazilian shipping companies like Lloyd Brasileiro, Petrobras and Netumar and as an executive in international companies like Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., Brasil-America Container Line, Transroll Navegação, Crowley American Transport, Inc. and lately with Hamburg Süd.