First Ladies and Gentlemen of Brazil

Adelaide Benvinda Silva Gordo

Ana Gabriela de Campos Sales

Ruth Cardoso

Marisa Letícia and Lula

The First Lady or First Gentleman of Brazil (Portuguese: Primeira-dama do Brasil) is the spouse of the President of Brazil. If the holder of the title is a woman, she can be referred to by the honorific title Dona.

#	Name	Spouse	From	To
1	Mariana Cecília de Sousa Meireles	Deodoro da Fonseca	1889	1891
2	Josina Vieira de Araújo	Floriano Peixoto	1891	1894
3	Adelaide Benvinda Silva Gordo	Prudente de Morais	1894	1898
4	Ana Gabriela de Campos Sales	Campos Sales	1898	1902
5	Catita Alves (until 1904)	Rodrigues Alves	1902	1904
6	Marieta Alves	Rodrigues Alves	1904	1906
6	Maria Guilhermina de Oliveira Pena	Afonso Pena	1906	1909
7	Anita de Castro Belisário de Sousa	Nilo Peçanha	1909	1910
8	Orsina Francisca da Fonseca	Hermes da Fonseca	1910	1912 (died)
9	Nair de Tefé von Hoonholtz	Hermes da Fonseca	1913	1914
10	Maria Carneiro Pereira Gomes	Venceslau Brás	1914	1918
11	Francisca Ribeiro de Abreu	Delfim Moreira	1918	1919
11	Maria da Conceição de Manso Saião	Epitácio Pessoa	1919	1922
12	Clélia Vaz de Melo	Artur Bernardes	1922	1926
13	Sofia Pais de Barros	Washington Luís	1926	1930
14	Darci Sarmanho Vargas	Getúlio Vargas	1930	1945
15	Luísa Cavalcanti Linhares	José Linhares	1945	1946
16	Carmela Teles Leite	Eurico Gaspar Dutra	1946	1951
17	Darci Sarmanho Vargas	Getúlio Vargas	1951	1954
18	Jandira Carvalho de Oliveira Café	Café Filho	1954	1955
19	Graciema Junqueira da Luz	Carlos Luz	1955	1955
20	Beatriz Pederneiras Ramos	Nereu Ramos	1955	1956
21	Sarah Luísa Gomes de Sousa Lemos	Juscelino Kubitschek	1956	1961
22	Eloá do Vale Quadros	Jânio Quadros	1961	1961
23	Sílvia Pitaguari Serra	Ranieri Mazzilli	1961	1961
24	Maria Teresa Fontela Goulart	João Goulart	1961	1964
25	Sílvia Pitaguari Serra	Ranieri Mazzilli	1964	1964
▬	None (see Notes)	Castelo Branco	1964	1967
26	Iolanda Barbosa	Costa e Silva	1967	1969
27	Scila Gaffré Nogueira Médici	Emílio Médici	1969	1974
28	Lucy Mankus Geisel	Ernesto Geisel	1974	1979
29	Dulce Figueiredo	João Figueiredo	1979	1985
30	Marly de Pádua Macieira Sarney	José Sarney	1985	1990
31	Rosane Malta Collor	Fernando Collor de Mello	1990	1992
▬	None (see Notes)	Itamar Franco	1992	1995
32	Ruth Valença Correia Leite Cardoso	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	1995	2002
33	Marisa Letícia Rocco Casa	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	2003	2010
▬	None (see Notes)	Dilma Rousseff	2011	-

Notes

Catita and Marieta Alves, 5th and 6th First Ladies of Brazil, respectively, were daughters of President Rodrigues Alves, since his wife Ana Guilhermina de Oliveira Borges was deceased when he took office.

Brazil did not have a First Lady from 1964 to 1967 (Castelo Branco was a widower of Argentina Viana) and from 1992 to 1994 (Itamar Franco was divorced from Ana Elisa Surerus).

There's no First Lady in the period from 2011 to 2019 because President Dilma Rousseff is female. There is no First Gentleman either, given that President Rousseff was already twice divorced when she assumed the presidency, and, as of January 2016, she remains unmarried. Paula Rousseff de Araújo, the president's daughter, sometimes accompanies her on state visits in an unofficial capacity.

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