WDavid José Martins, known as David Canabarro, was a Brazilian general. He died in 1867 in Santana do Livramento.
WJoão Cândido Felisberto was a Brazilian sailor, best known as the leader of the 1910 "Revolt of the Lash". His name was sometimes given as simply "João Cândido" or "Jean Candido" in foreign articles.
WJoaquim da Silva Rabelo, later Frei Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo, commonly known as Frei Caneca, was a Brazilian religious leader, politician, and journalist. He was involved in multiple revolts in Northeastern Brazil during the early 19th century. He acted as the main leader on the Pernambucan Revolt. As a journalist, he founded and edited Typhis Pernambucano, a weekly journal used on the Confederation of the Equator.
WBento Gonçalves, was an army officer, politician, monarchist and rebel leader of the Empire of Brazil. He was the first President of the Riograndense Republic and, by all accounts, one of the most prominent figures in the history of Rio Grande do Sul.
WMaragato is a name given in Brazil to those who initiated the Riograndense Revolution of 1893 in protest against the federal government represented in the province by Júlio Prates de Castilhos.
WCarlos Marighella was a Brazilian politician, writer and guerrilla fighter of Marxist–Leninist orientation, accused of engaging in "terrorist acts" against the Brazilian Military Dictatorship.
WGeneral Antônio de Sousa Neto was the military leader of the Tatter Revolution. On 20 September 1836, Neto declared the independence of the Piratini Republic.
WLuís Carlos Prestes was a Brazilian revolutionary and politician who served as the General-Secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party from 1943 to 1980 and a Senator for the Federal District from 1946 to 1948. One of the leading Communists in Brazil, Prestes has been regarded by many as one of Brazil's most charismatic yet tragic figures for his leadership of the 1924 tenente revolt and his subsequent work with the Brazilian Communist movement. The 1924 expedition earned Prestes the nickname The Knight of Hope.
WSérgia Ribeiro da Silva, better known as Dadá was a Cangaço — the only woman to take up arms on the side of Lampião. There were two films made regarding Ribeiro, Corisco & Dadá and A Mulher no Cangaço (1976).*
WThe War of Canudos was a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the residents of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia. After a number of unsuccessful attempts at military suppression, the conflict came to a brutal end in October 1897, when a large subsection of the Brazilian army overran the village, razed it and slaughtered nearly all its inhabitants. This conflict marks the deadliest civil war in Brazilian history.