The Cemitério de São João Batista (
lit. ' Saint
John the Baptist 's Cemetery ' ) is a municipal
necropolis originally owned and operated by the
Santa Casa da Misericórdia do
Rio de Janeiro (Holy House of Mercy of Rio de Janeiro), and run, since August 2014, by the private company
Rio Pax .
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Located in the neighborhood of
Botafogo , it is the only cemetery in the city's south area, the
Zona Sul , and, on 5 October 2015, it became the first cemetery in
Latin America to be featured in
Google Street View .
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Partial view of the cemetery with the
Christ the Redeemer statue in the background
Grave of
Tom Jobim
Grave of
Carmen Miranda
Ary Barroso – Brazilian composer
Álvares de Azevedo – Brazilian poet, playwright and essayist
Alberto Santos-Dumont – Brazilian aviator
Antônio Carlos Jobim – Brazilian musician (composer of "
The Girl From Ipanema ")
Artur Bernardes – 12th
President of Brazil
Artur da Costa e Silva – 27th President of Brazil
Aurora Miranda – Brazilian singer, dancer, sister of Carmen Miranda
Bussunda – Brazilian comedian and TV personality
Café Filho – 18th President of Brazil
Candido Portinari – Brazilian painter
Cândido Rondon – Brazilian explorer
Carmélia Alves – Brazilian singer
Carmen Miranda – Portuguese Brazilian singer and actress
Cazuza – Brazilian composer and singer
Cecília Meireles – Brazilian writer and educator
Chacrinha – Brazilian TV entertainer
Clara Nunes – Brazilian singer
Damião Experiença – Brazilian
outsider musician
Darcy Ribeiro - Brazilian anthropologist, politician
Dorival Caymmi – Brazilian musician, actor and painter
Emílio Garrastazu Médici – 28th Brazilian President
Ernesto Geisel – 29th President of Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra – 16th President of Brazil
Marshal
Floriano Peixoto – 2nd President of Brazil
Francisco José do Nascimento (1839–1914) – Afro-Brazilian abolitionist
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Brazilian composer
Izidor "Dori" Kürschner , also often Kru(e)schner (1895–1941) – Hungarian association football coach-
João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira – Prime Minister of the
Brazilian Empire
João Havelange – 7th President of
FIFA
Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos – Brazilian football referee
José Linhares – 15th President of Brazil
Júlio Ximenes Sênior – Brazilian scientist, author and Brazilian Army General
Luís Cruls – Belgian-born Brazilian astronomer and geodesist
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Marcelo Caetano – Prime-Minister of
Portugal
Marília Pêra – Brazilian actress
Nelson Gonçalves – Brazilian singer
Nelson Rodrigues – Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist
Nilo Peçanha – 7th President of Brazil
Oscar Cox – Founder of
Fluminense Football Club
Oscar Niemeyer – Brazilian architect who designed civic buildings for Brasilia.
Osvaldo Aranha – Brazilian diplomat
Oswaldo Cruz – Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute
Otto Glória – association football coach
Roberto Marinho – Founder of the biggest Brazilian TV channel,
Rede Globo
Vinicius de Moraes – Brazilian poet, composer and diplomat
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