Jorge Amado
1912 – 2001
Brazilian

Novelist and committed Communist. His novels depicted the poverty and hopelessness of much of the rural population of his native Brazil.

Contemporaries
1918–1998Cláudio Villas-Bôas
1920–1961Leonardo Villas-Bôas
1916–2002Orlando Villas-Bôas
1925–1996Juan Segundo
1915–2006Augusto Pinochet
1919–1952Eva Perón
1944–1988Chico Mendes
Born 1928Gustavo Gutiérrez
1928–1967Che Guevara
1909–1999Heider Camara
1899–1986Jorge Borges
Born 1938Leonardo Boff
1931–2009Augusto Boal
1906–1988Sir Frederick Ashton
1890–1936La Argentina
1908–1973Salvador Allende