Category
page 1Founders of cities in colonial Brazil
Estácio de Sá
Portuguese soldier; first Governor of Rio de Janeiro
Manuel da Nóbrega
Portuguese Jesuit priest (1517 – 1570)
Tomé de Sousa
Governor General of Brazil
Duarte Coelho
Portuguese colonial administsrator
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva
Paulista explorer (1672-1740)
Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco
Portuguese colonial administrator
Brás Cubas
Portuguese explorer
Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, captain of Espírito Santo
Portuguese colonial administrator (1490-1571)
José da Silva Pais
Portuguese soldier and colony administrator (1679-1760)