Celso Monteiro Furtado was born on 26 July 1920, in the town of Pombal, Paraíba, to Maurício Medeiros Furtado and Maria Alice Monteiro Furtado.

The intellectual Djacir Lima de Menezes, son of Paulo Elpídio de Menezes and Olga Freire Lima de Menezes, was a professor, sociologist, jurist, economist and philosopher. He was born in the city of Maranguape, in the state of Ceará, on October 16, 1907.