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Zumbi
Zumbi ( – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (), was a Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a settlement of Afro-Brazilian people who liberated themselves from enslavement in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil. He is revered in Afro-Brazilian culture as a symbol of African freedom.
Pedro Teixeira
Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator (1585–1641)
Gregório de Matos
Brazilian poet and lawyer
Ganga Zumba
King of Quilombo dos Palmares
Antônio Raposo Tavares
Portuguese explorer to Brazil (1598–1658)

Felipa de Souza
Luso-Brazilian activist
Antônio Filipe Camarão
Brazilian soldier
Dandara dos Palmares
17th-century Brazilian freed slave and warrior
Matias de Albuquerque, conde de Alegrete
Portuguese colonial administrator and soldier
Martyrs of Natal
17th-century Catholic martyrs
Fernão Dias
17th-century Brazilian frontiersman
António Luís de Sousa, 2nd Marquis of Minas
Portuguese general and noble (1644-1721)
Henrique Dias
Brazilian soldier
André Vidal de Negreiros
Brazilian military personnel and politician
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva
Paulista explorer (1672-1740)

Zacimba Gaba
african princess, quilombola leader

Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco
Portuguese colonial administrator
Domingos Jorge Velho
Paulista explorer

Maria Ortiz
Brazilian heroine, famous for her defense of Espírito Santo (1603-1646)

Clara Camarão
indigenous Brazilian warrior
Suzana Dias
Domingos Fernandes Calabar
Brazilian smuggler