Heloneida Studart was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, on 9 April 1932. Her parents were Edite Studart and Vicente Soares. She was a descendant of the historian Baron of Studart on her maternal side, and the abolitionist leader and famous geographer Antonio Bezerra de Menezes on her paternal side.

The North-American researcher and anthropologist, Katherine Royal Cate, known as Katarina Real, an expert in Carnival from Recife, was born in the city of Annapolis, in Maryland, in 1927.

Nísia Precursora do feminismo brasileiro, educadora, escritora e poetisa, Dionísia Pinto Lisboa, que adotou o pseudônimo de Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta, nasceu no dia 12 de outubro de 1809, em Papari, hoje município de Nísia Floresta, no Rio Grande do Norte.