# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helio-jaguaribe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:04:28.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helio-jaguaribe"
name: "Helio Jaguaribe"
slug: "helio-jaguaribe"
description: "Helio Jaguaribe de Mattos was a Brazilian lawyer, sociologist, and political scientist. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of eminent geographer Francisco Jaguaribe de Mattos, and Francelina Santos Jaguaribe de Mattos. He studied law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, graduating in 1946. As an academic, he specialized in the sociopolitical development of Brazil and Latin America. He taught at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and El Colegio de Méjico. He also held a chair at the University Institute in Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the Club of Rome. In 2005, he was elected to be the ninth occupant of Chair No. 11 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters in succession to Celso Furtado. He was received into the Academy on July 22, 2005 by academician Candido Mendes de Almeida."
tagline: "Lawyer, sociologist, political scientist and Brazilian writer (1923-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H%C3%A9lio_Jaguaribe_Gomes_de_Mattos%2C_sem_data.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-04-23"
deathDate: "2018-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.74
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.015624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9lio_Jaguaribe"
    title: "Hélio Jaguaribe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9lio_Jaguaribe"
    title: "Hélio Jaguaribe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_Jaguaribe"
    title: "Helio Jaguaribe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_Jaguaribe"
    title: "Helio Jaguaribe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9lio_Jaguaribe"
    title: "Hélio Jaguaribe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q820676"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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