Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as " São Paulo de Loanda ", and the region developed as a slave trade market with the help of local Imbangala and Mbundu peoples who were notable slave hunters.

* 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.

The Portuguese colony of Angola was founded in 1575 with the arrival of Paulo Dias de Novais with a hundred families of colonists and four hundred soldiers.

In 1956 an international exhibition of concrete poetry was shown in São Paulo, Brazil, by the group Noigandres ( Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, Décio Pignatari and Ronaldo Azeredo ) with the poets Ferreira Gullar and Wlademir Dias Pino.

His cabinet includes Celso Amorim as foreign minister ; Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva becomes Governor of Amapá, Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Braga becomes governor of Amazonas, Paulo César Hartung Gomes becomes governor of Espírito Santo, Blairo Borges Maggi becomes governor of Mato Grosso, Simão Robison Oliveira Jatene becomes governor of Pará, Cássio Rodrigues da Cunha Lima becomes governor of Paraíba, Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva becomes governor of Paraná, José Wellington Barroso de Araújo Dias becomes governor of Piauí, Wilma Maria de Faria becomes governor of Rio Grande do Norte, Germano Antônio Rigotto becomes governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Ivo Narciso Cassol becomes governor of Rondônia, and Marcelo de Carvalho Miranda becomes governor of Tocantins.

Os Mutantes was formed in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 by two brothers: Arnaldo Baptista ( bass, keyboards and vocals ) and Sérgio Dias Baptista ( guitar and vocals ), and lead singer Rita Lee.

The plans for the stadium were drawn up by seven Brazilian architects, Miguel Feldman, Waldir Ramos, Raphael Galvão, Oscar Valdetaro, Orlando Azevedo, Antônio Dias Carneiro and Pedro Paulo Bernardes Bastos.

The competition for the work was opened by municipality of Rio de Janeiro in 1947, with the construction contract awarded by engineer Humberto Menescal, and architectural contract awarded by Michael Feldman, Waldir Ramos, Raphael Galvão, Oscar Valdetaro, Orlando Azevedo, Pedro Paulo Bernardes Bastos, and Antônio Dias Carneiro.

* Paulo Dias de Novais

from the main interstate highway BR-391 ( Rodovia Fernão Dias ), which connects São Paulo to Belo Horizonte.

Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos known simply as Djalma Santos (; also spelled Dejalma Santos, born 27 February 1929 in São Paulo, Brazil ) is a former Brazilian footballer who started for the Brazil national team in four World Cups, winning two, in 1958 and 1962.

Manuel Faria, a long distance runner of great prestige, predecessor of Manuel de Oliveira, Carlos Lopes, Fernando Mamede and of the Castro brothers, won the famous race of São Silvestre de São Paulo in 1957 and 1958 which was, until then, the best achievement in Sporting athletics history, along with the 4th place of Álvaro Dias in the long jump at the European Athletics Championships.

Kongo initially assisted Portugal in Angola, sending an army to rescue the Portuguese governor Paulo Dias de Novais when his war against the nearby African kingdom of Ndongo failed in 1579.

Portuguese discoverer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda.

In any case, the second Portuguese mission arrived at the mouth of the Kwanza in 1560, headed by Paulo Dias de Novais, grandson of the famous explorer Bartolomeu Dias, and including several Jesuit priests including Francisco de Gouveia.

The island was mapped, described in detail and painted by members of the crew of the Nau São Paulo, among them the Father Manuel Alvares and the chemist Henrique Dias ( Alvares and Dias calculated the correct latitude 38 ° South in the same moment of discovery ).

BR-381 or Rodovia Fernão Dias, as it is called, is a highway which runs in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and southern and eastern regions of Minas Gerais.

In 1958 he was invited by Professor Dias da Silveira to assist in organizing the Department of Biology at the Faculdade de Ciências de Rio Claro, of the recently created State University of São Paulo UNESP, in the city of Rio Claro, where he stayed until 1964, directing a research group on the genetics of bees, his main field of specialization.

Although the source is at most from the coast, the escarpment of the Serra do Mar forces it to run in the opposite direction, to the interior, going through the state of São Paulo from southeast to northwest till it runs into the artificial lake formed by Eng Souza Dias ( Jupiá ) Dam on the Paraná River, in the municipality of Três Lagoas, about from the city of Pereira Barreto.

The club continued to grow and won more championships, and at the outset of the 1930s became the three-time São Paulo State soccer and basketball champion – a feat which prompted Palestra fans to chant in celebration: " With the feet or with the hands, Palestra is the best in the land.

* Sport Club Americano, a defunct Brazilian football ( soccer ) club from Santos, São Paulo

The Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, also known as Taça de Prata, or nicknamed Robertão, was a football competition contested between 1967 and 1970 among soccer teams from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais and Paraná states.

* Ademir, Pinga, Milton Cruz, André Luiz Ferreira, Mauro Galvão, Antonio José Gil, Joâo Leichardt Neto, Augilmar Silva Oliveira, Silvio Paiva, Gilmar Luiz Rinaldi, Paulo Santos, Davi Cortez Silva, Ronaldo Morais Silva, Dunga, Francisco Carlos Vidal, and Luiz Carlos Winck — Football ( soccer ), Men's Team Competition

* Foot Brazil-A weekly series that provides a recap and highlights of all the games from the São Paulo State Championship and the Brasileirão Serie A, as well as interviews with the biggest stars of Brazilian soccer.

" The city of São Paulo also has a number of samba schools with some tradition that is linked to an interesting mixture of African-Brazilian display of pride, immigrant or working class activism, and soccer team fondness, as schools such as " Gavioes da Fiel ", " Mancha Verde " began as rooting singing / dancing group that cheered during matches in São Paulo stadiums.

Although samba exists throughout Brazil – especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo – in the form of various popular rhythms and dances that originated from the regional batuque, a type of music and associated dance form from Cape Verde, the samba is most frequently identified as a musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro, where it was born and developed between the end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

* Paulo Szot born c. 1970 ; opera singer ; Broadway musical theatre actor

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain ), was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.

Senna was born in the Pro-Matre Maternity Hospital of Santana, a neighbourhood of São Paulo city.

Emerson Fittipaldi (; born December 12, 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil ) is a Brazilian automobile racing driver who throughout a long and successful career won the Indianapolis 500 twice and championships in both Formula One and CART.

Rubens Gonçalves " Rubinho " Barrichello (, born 23 May 1972 in São Paulo ) is a racing driver from Brazil, best known for competing in Formula One between and.

* Paulo da Palma ( born 1965 ), German-born Portuguese football player

He was born in São Paulo, where he finished high school.

Roberto Carlos was born in the city of Garça, São Paulo, Brazil.

Maria Lucélia dos Santos was born in Santo André, São Paulo, to Maurílio Simões dos Santos and Maria Moura dos Santos.

Fernando Ferreira Meirelles ( born November 9, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil ) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.

She was born in São Paulo.

SBT is owned by Silvio Santos ( born Senor Abravanel ) ( a Brazilian TV host ), and its studios are located in São Paulo.

Lobato was born in Taubaté, São Paulo.

Claudio was born on December 8, 1916 in Botucatu, São Paulo and died of a stroke in his São Paulo apartment on March 1, 1998.

Neeleman was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and raised in the United States, to a family of Dutch and North American descent.

* Paulo Mendes da Rocha ( born 1928 ), Brazilian architect

Lina Bo Bardi ( Born Achillina Bo on December 5, 1914 in Rome, Italy — Died March 20, 1992 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian modernist architect born in Italy.

He was born in Umbuzeiro, state of Paraíba, in the Northeast of Brazil, on October 4, 1892, and died on April 4, 1968, in São Paulo.

He was born in São Paulo in 1714, into a Paulista family, the son of Bartolomeu Paes de Abreu and Leonor de Siqueira Paes.

Paulo Jorge dos Santos Futre (; born 28 February 1966 ) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played mostly as a left winger.

Jorge Paulo Costa Almeida ( born 14 October 1971 ), known as Costa, is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a central defender, and a current manager.

Roberto Rivellino (; ; born 1 January 1946 in São Paulo ) is a former Brazilian footballer.