2003 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

• *Otto Alencar
• *Paulo Souto Ceará:
• *Beni Veras
• *Lúcio Alcântara Espírito Santo:
• *José Ignácio Ferreira
• *Paulo Hartung Goiás: Marconi Perillo Maranhão: José Reinaldo TavaresMato Grosso: Blairo Maggi [List of Governors of List of Governors of Mato Grosso|Mato Grosso do Sul|Mato Grosso do Sul]: José Orcírio Miranda dos SantosMinas Gerais:
• *Itamar Franco
• *Aécio Neves Pará:
• *Almir Gabriel
• *Simão Jatene Paraíba: Cássio Cunha Lima Paraná:
• *Jaime Lerner
• *Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva Pernambuco: Jarbas Vasconcelos Piauí:
• *Hugo Napoleão
• *Wellington Dias Rio de Janeiro:
• *Benedita da Silva
• *Rosinha Garotinho Rio Grande do Norte:
• *Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire
• *Wilma Maria de Faria Rio Grande do Sul:
• *Olívio Dutra
• *Germano Rigotto Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol Roraima: Francisco Flamarion Portela Santa Catarina:
• *Esperidião Amin
• *Luiz Henrique da Silveira São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin Sergipe:
• *Albano Franco
• *João Filho Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda

Vice governors

• *Edison Simão Cadaxo
• *Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior Alagoas:
• *Geraldo Costa Sampaio
• *Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto Amapá:
• *Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo
• *Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho Amazonas:
• *Samuel Assayag Hanan
• *Omar José Abdel Aziz Bahia: Eraldo Tinoco Melo Ceará: Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior Espírito Santo:
• *Celso José Vasconcelos
• *Wellington Coimbra Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues Filho Maranhão: Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho Mato Grosso: Iraci Araújo Moreira Mato Grosso do Sul:
• *Moacir Kohl
• *Egon Krakheche Minas Gerais:
• *Newton Cardoso
• *Clésio Soares de Andrade Pará:
• *Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes
• * Valéria Pires Franco Paraíba: Lauremília Lucena Paraná:
• *Emília de Sales Belinati
• *Orlando Pessuti Pernambuco: José Mendonça Bezerra Filho Piauí:
• *Felipe Mendes de Oliveira
• * Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Paulo Conde Rio Grande do Norte:
• *Vacant
• *Antônio Jácome Rio Grande do Sul:
• *Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto
• *Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt Rondônia:
• *Miguel de Souza
• *Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira Roraima:
• *Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz
• *Erci de Moraes Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira São Paulo:
• *Vacant
• *Claudio Lembo Sergipe:
• *Benedito de Figueiredo
• *Marília Mandarino Tocantins:
• *João Lisboa da Cruz
• *Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos

Events

January

• January 1: Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil.
• January 28: 18-year-old Edmar Freitas opens fire on students and classmates in a school in Taiúva, wounding eight people before killing himself.
• January 30: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country.

June

August

• August 19: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.August 22: An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program.

September

October

Births

Deaths

January

March

April

May

June

• June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer

July

• July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter
• July 31: Bigode, footballer

August