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St John the Baptist Cemetery

Rua General Polidoro 245
22280-002
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São João Batista Cemetery (Saint John the Baptist’s Cemetery) is a municipal necropolis originally owned and operated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (Holy House of Mercy of Rio de Janeiro), and run, since August 2014, by the private company Rio Pax.

Located in the neighborhood of Botafogo, it is the only cemetery in the city’s south area, the Zona Sul, and, on October 5, 2015, it became the first cemetery in Latin America to be featured in Google Street View.

Notable burials

Grave of Carmen Miranda
Ary Barroso – Brazilian composer
Álvares de Azevedo – Brazilian poet, playwright and essayist
Alberto Santos-Dumont – Brazilian aviator
Antônio Carlos Jobim – Brazilian musician (composer of “The Girl From Ipanema”)
Artur Bernardes – 12th President of Brazil
Artur da Costa e Silva – 27th President of Brazil
Aurora Miranda – Brazilian singer, dancer, sister of Carmen Miranda
Bussunda – Brazilian comedian and TV personality
Café Filho – 18th President of Brazil
Candido Portinari – Brazilian painter
Cândido Rondon – Brazilian explorer
Carmélia Alves – Brazilian singer
Carmen Miranda – Portuguese Brazilian singer and actress
Cazuza – Brazilian composer and singer
Cecília Meireles – Brazilian writer and educator
Chacrinha – Brazilian TV entertainer
Clara Nunes – Brazilian singer
Damião Experiença – Brazilian outsider musician
Dorival Caymmi – Brazilian musician, actor and painter
Emílio Garrastazu Médici – 28th Brazilian President
Ernesto Geisel – 29th President of Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra – 16th President of Brazil
Floriano Peixoto – 2nd President of Brazil
Francisco José do Nascimento (1839-1914) – Afro-Brazilian abolitionist
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Brazilian composer
Izidor “Dori” Kürschner, also often Kru(e)schner (1895-1941) – Hungarian association football coach-
João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira – Prime Minister of the Brazilian Empire
João Havelange – 7th President of FIFA
Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos – Brazilian football referee
José Linhares – 15th President of Brazil
Júlio Ximenes Sênior – Brazilian scientist, author and Brazilian Army General
Luís Cruls – Belgian-born Brazilian astronomer and geodesist[3]
Marcelo Caetano – Prime-Minister of Portugal
Marília Pêra – Brazilian actress
Nelson Gonçalves – Brazilian singer
Nelson Rodrigues – Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist
Nilo Peçanha – 7th President of Brazil
Oscar Cox – Founder of Fluminense Football Club
Oscar Niemeyer – Brazilian architect who designed civic buildings for Brasilia.
Osvaldo Aranha – Brazilian diplomat
Oswaldo Cruz – Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute
Otto Glória – association football coach
Roberto Marinho – Founder of the biggest Brazilian TV channel, Rede Globo
Vinicius de Moraes – Brazilian poet, composer and diplomat

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