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Sofia Padua Manzano (born 19 May 1971) is a Brazilian economist, professor and politician. She was the Brazilian Communist Party candidate for President in the 2014 and 2022 Brazilian general election.

Maria Lúcia Ribeiro Alckmin (born 28 December 1951), commonly known as Lu Alckmin, is former first lady of the state of São Paulo, occupying the position of president of the São Paulo Social Fund between 2001 and 2006 and 2011 and 2018. In the 2022 elections, her husband was elected the 26th Vice President of Brazil, making her the second lady of the country effective 1 January 2023.Lu Alckmin has been married to Geraldo Alckmin since 16 March 1979, when he was still in office as mayor of Pindamonhangaba. They have three children. She became First Lady of São Paulo in 2001 after her husband took over the state government following the death of then-Governor Mário Covas. Withith the re-election of Geraldo Alckmin in 2002, Lu continued as first lady of the state until 31 March 2006, when Alckmin resigned to run for president.
In 2010, she returned to being first lady of the state due to her husband's election as governor. Geraldo was re-elected in 2014 for the same post. Lu remained the lady of the house at Palácio dos Bandeirantes until 2018, when her husband resigned again to run for president.

José Maria Ferreira de Castro (24 May 1898 – 29 June 1974) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. Ferreira de Castro had a long career in journalism, and considered his fiction writing to be an extension of his documentary reporting; in that regard, he is considered to be one of the fathers of contemporary Portuguese social-realist (or neorealist) fiction, a forerunner of socially-committed literature about the rural and working classes later further established by Alves Redol, and more than once a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.Ferreira de Castro was part of the group of noted public intellectuals that were oppositionists to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime; despite his participation in almost every pacific action directed against the regime, his national and international recognition as an acclaimed novelist meant he was never a victim of excessively violent repression, such as prison, torture or loss of political rights.