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.

Rui Jorge de Sousa Dias Macedo de Oliveira ( born 27 March 1973 ), known as Rui Jorge, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a left defender, and a current coach.

Sousa Dias ( born in Oporto 1956 ) is a Portuguese philosopher.

In 1899, the Empresa do Elevador do Carmo ( Company of the Elevator of Carmo ) was founded ( constituted by principal partners Raul Mesnier du Ponsard, medical surgeon João Silvestre de Almeida and the Marquess of Praia e Monforte, António Borges de Medeiros Dias da Câmara e Sousa ) in order to secure the permanent concession of the elevator project for a period of 99 years.

The village was elevated to a parish in 1568 when Dias Diogo, a Christian of many new possessions, bought from D. Jerome de Albuquerque Sousa 10 thousand fathoms of land near the present city of Goiana, then Captaincy of Itamaracá, establishing a fortified ingenuity in the Valley of the Rio Tracunhaém.

María was the widow ( circa 1360 ) of Álvaro Dias de Sousa ( circa 1330 – 1365 ), 2nd Lord of Mafra and Ericeira, by whom she had conceived Lopo Dias de Sousa ( 1350 – 1435 Pombal ), who inherited his father's titles and later became Master of the Order of Christ.