Notable native

• Eugênio Gomes - Critic and author who won the Prêmio Machado de Assis
  Prêmio Machado de Assis
  The Prêmio Machado de Assis is a literary prize awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, and possibly the most prestigious literary award in Brazil. The prize was founded in 1941, named in memory of the novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis...
  
  in 1950.