Sugarcane factory owner and politician from Pernambuco, Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti was born on the Caetésugarcane plantation, in the city of Amaraji, in the Pernambuco’s Northern Forest Zone on the seventh day of July, 1892.

Cid Feijó Sampaio, industrialist and sugarcane mill owner, was Governor of Pernambuco from1959 to 1963, Federal Representative from 1967 to 1971, and Senator of the Republic from 1983 to 1987. Born in Recife, on 7 December 1910, he was the fifth son of farmer and industrialist Mendo de Sá Barreto.

Teotônio Brandão Vilela was born in the city of Viçosa, Alagoas, on 28 May 1917 to Elias Brandão Vilela and Isabel Brandão Vilela.He completed his primary education in his native city and his secondary at the Ginásio de Maceió and Colégio Nóbrega (Recife).