1936 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas

  Governors

• :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas|Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Espírito Santo:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás|Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• :pt:Lista de governadores do Pará|Pará:
• :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba|Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
• :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí|Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina|Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe|Sergipe:

  Vice governors

• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte|Rio Grande do Norte:
• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo|São Paulo:

  Events

• January 15 – Farroupilha Revolution centennial fair closes
• April 16 – Pedro Calmon is elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• October 16 – President Vargas signed the decree, which gives the name of the aviator Alberto Santos Dumont Airport located in Ponta do Calabouço, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, currently named Santos Dumont Airport, Brazil's first civilian airport.

  Arts and culture

Films

• Noites Cariocas, directed and written by Enrique Cadícamo and featuring Grande Otelo.

  Births

• January 13 – Renato Aragão, actor and comedian
• January 19 – Carlos Mário da Silva Velloso, president of the Supreme Federal Tribunal 1999–2001.
• March 12 – Carlos Alberto de Nóbrega, actor, comedian and humorist.
• March 26 – Éder Jofre, pugilist
• April 24 – Esther Pillar Grossi, educator and politician
• May 23 – Wadih Mutran, politician

  Deaths

• date unknown
• *:pt:Geminiano Lira Castro, politician
• *:pt:Aarão Reis, engineer