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12 unusual facts about Ribeirão Preto


Big Brother Brasil 2

The winner was 32 year-old cowboy Rodrigo Leonel from Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo.

Esporte Clube Taubaté

In 1954, the club played the Campeonato Paulista second division final against Comercial of Ribeirão Preto and fielded an ineligible player in the match.

Gustavo Borges

Gustavo França Borges (born December 2, 1972 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) is a Brazilian former international swimmer.

Hospital das Clínicas de Ribeirão Preto

When the Medical School was established in 1952, the local obstetrical hospital, Maternidade Sinhá Junqueira de Ribeirão Preto, located downtown, was adapted as the school's teaching hospital for the clinical semesters.

It is affiliated to the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto.

Maurício Rocha e Silva

In that year, Rocha e Silva was invited to be the chairman of the Department of Pharmacology of the recently created Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo, in the city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, a position he held until his mandatory retirement in 1980.

Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva (September 19, 1910, Rio de Janeiro – December 19, 1983, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist.

Nicholas Santos

Nicholas Araújo Dias dos Santos (born February 2, 1980 in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian freestyle swimmer who specializes in sprint events.

Notícia Já

Notícia Já is owned and managed by a larger communications holding company, Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação (RAC), which owns the two other newspapers in Campinas, and others in the cities of Piracicaba and Ribeirão Preto, such as Correio Popular, Diário do Povo and Gazeta do Cambuí.

Olé Brasil Futebol Clube

Olé Brasil Futebol Clube, usually known as Olé Brasil, are a Brazilian football club based in Ribeirão Preto, a city in the state of São Paulo.

Olé Brasil Futebol Clube is the third club to be founded in Ribeirão Preto after Botafogo and Comercial.

Sertãozinho Futebol Clube

Between 1944 and 1969, the club only disputed amateur competitions, like Liga Ribeirãopretana de Futebol (Ribeirão Preto Football League) in the 1950s.


Adriano Rossato

Adriano Fabiano Rossato (born 27 August 1977 in Vila Velha, Espírito Santo) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Comercial Futebol Clube.

Alberto Taveira Corrêa

Taveira Corrêa received his episcopal consecration on the following July 6 from João Resende Costa, archbishop emeritus of Belo Horizonte, with the archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, and the archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Arnaldo Ribeiro, serving as co-consecrators.

Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).