The city is one of the most important of region and has a privileged geographic location where there are different types of agriculture and it has a campus of UNESP, that offers the courses of Languages, History, Psychology, Biology and Biotechnological Engineer.
Clube Atlético Assisense, commonly known as Assisense, is a Brazilian football club based in Assis, São Paulo state.
Assis Chateaubriand was founder and director of the then main press chain of Brazil, the Diários Associados: 34 newspapers, 36 radio stations, 18 television stations, one news agency, one weekly magazine (O Cruzeiro), one monthly magazine (A Cigarra) as well as many magazines for children.
By the 1940s, he assisted Candido Portinari with the "São Francisco de Assis" painting at the Pampulha Church, in Belo Horizonte.
Fabrício de Assis Costa da Silva (born July 24, 1990), better known as Fabrício Guerreiro, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in Bellator's featherweight division.
Amongst those are Fernanda Tavares, Tiiu Kuik, Jeísa Chiminazzo, Petra Kvapilova, María Reyes, Vanessa de Assis, Cintia Dicker, Cristina Guillén, Nicole Jonnel, Mike Nock, Jason and Laszlo.
Jô (born 1987), name by which Brazilian footballer João Alves de Assis Silva is known
Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature, alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes.
In 2008, the book was adapted into comics, by Hiroshi Maeda and Leandro Assis.
In her career, Olívia has released several albums: Anjo vadio (1980), Identidad (1981), Para Viver um Grande Amor (1983), Música (1984), Encontro (1984) (Chiquinha Gonzaga Award), Melodia Sentimental (1986), Olivia Byington and João Carlos Assis Brasil (1990) and A Dama do Encantado (1997), the former in tribute to Aracy de Almeida.
Orlando da Costa was the father of Isabel dos Santos da Costa, who died as a child, as well as politician António Costa -present Mayor of Lisbon, former Portuguese Minister (Internal Affairs and Justice), Portuguese deputy, Member of the European Parliament and one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, born of his first marriage to writer Maria Antónia Palla née de Assis dos Santos.
From an early age, Barrozo was exposed to the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and to the literature of Machado d Assis, Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Simone de Beauvoir, and Thomas Mann.
The highway starts in the city of São Paulo and continues westward, serving the main cities of Cotia, Vargem Grande Paulista, São Roque, Sorocaba, Itapetininga, Angatuba, Ourinhos, Assis, Presidente Prudente, Presidente Bernardes, Presidente Venceslau and Presidente Epitácio, at the shores of the Paraná River, by the border with Mato Grosso do Sul.
Rosana Melo (born October 24, 1973 in Assis, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian popular singer who rose to prominence in 2005 participating in the TV show Gente que Brilha on SBT.
O alienista or The Psychiatrist, a novella by Machado de Assis
Victor Assis Brasil (August 28, 1945 – 1981) was a Brazilian jazz saxophonist.