# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/afranio-peixoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:54:47.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/afranio-peixoto"
name: "Afrânio Peixoto"
slug: "afranio-peixoto"
description: "Júlio Afrânio Peixoto was a Brazilian physician, writer, politician, historian, professor, and pioneering eugenicist. He held many public offices, including Brazilian congressional representative from Bahia in the federal Câmara de Deputados (1924–1930), first the president of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, member of the Brazilian Cultural Center in the United States, president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, and honorary doctorates from Coimbra University and the University of Lisbon, Portugal."
tagline: "Brazilian writer and politician, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and federal deputy for the State of Bahia (1876–1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto%2C_1956.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1876-12-17"
deathDate: "1947-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.359757333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "افرينيو پيكسوتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto"
    title: "Afrânio Peixoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BAlio_Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto"
    title: "Júlio Afrânio Peixoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto"
    title: "Afrânio Peixoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto"
    title: "Afrânio Peixoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afr%C3%A2nio_Peixoto"
    title: "Afrânio Peixoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4690359"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump