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This is a chronologically ordered list of Brazilian presidents. (See also Brazil; South America.)

Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (1891)
Floriano Peixoto (1891–94)
Prudente José de Morais Barros (1894–98)
Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1898–1902)
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (1902–06)
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena (1906–09)
Nilo Procópio Peçanha (1909–10)
Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca (1910–14)
Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes (1914–18)
Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro (1918–19)
Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa (1919–22)
Artur da Silva Bernardes (1922–26)
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (1926–30)
(military junta; 1930)
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1st time; 1930–45)
José Linhares (1945–46)
Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1946–51)
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (2nd time; 1951–54)
João Fernandes Campos Café Filho (1954–55)
Carlos Coimbra da Luz (1955)
Nereu de Oliveira Ramos (1955–56)
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1956–61)
Jânio da Silva Quadros (1961)
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (1st time; 1961)
João Belchior Marques Goulart (1961–64)
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (2nd time; 1964)
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1964–67)
Artur da Costa e Silva (1967–69)
(military junta; 1969)
Emílio Garrastazú Médici (1969–74)
Ernesto Geisel (1974–79)
João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (1979–85)
José Sarney de Araújo Costa (1985–90)
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (1990–92)
Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco (1992–95)
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2003)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003–11)
Dilma Rousseff (2011–16)
Michel Temer (2016–19)
Jair Bolsonaro (2019–23)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2nd time; 2023– )

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.