Recognised by many intellectuals as a towering figure in Brazilian literature, and also sometimes as designer, Luis Inácio de Miranda Jardim, son of Manuel Antônio de Azevedo Jardim and Angélica Aurora de Miranda Jardim, was born in the city of Garanhuns, Pernambuco, on 8 December 1901.

The painter Manoel Bandeira was born in Limoeirinho, in the municipality of Escada, Pernambuco on 2 May 1900. He signed his name as M. Bandeira or Manoel with the letter o, in order to mark the small difference in relation to the name of the poet, also from Pernambuco, Manuel Bandeira.

Pernambuco painter Murillo LaGreca, registered as Vicente LaGreca, was born on 3 August 1899 in the city of Palmares. His parents, Vincenzo LaGreca and Teresa Carlomagno, were Italians who had come to Brazil at the end of the 19th century when Italy was suffering severe crises in all areas.

Olimpio Bonald Neto da Cunha Pedrosa, a lawyer, journalist, folklorist, writer, poet and painter, was born in Olinda on 7 October 1932. He graduated in Law and Social Sciences from the Recife Faculty of Law in 1957.

The painter from Pernambuco, named Wellington Virgulino de Souza was born in the city of Recife, in September, 19th, 1929, in the borough called bairro de Casa Amarela (The Yellow House Borough); the son of Gervázio Virgulino de Souza and Carmoniza Andrade de Souza. Although he was baptized Virgulin