Thereza Imanishi-Kari, an Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts University
Marcos Eduardo Elias is the only male child of Wilson Elias (Brazilian, Syrian descendant, belonging to Al-Akhras family, Homs) and Lúcia Thereza Falanga (Brazilian, Italian descendant, whose parents are from Torre del Greco and Lauria).
His second wife was a Brazilian, Thereza Lisboa Figueira de Mello (Rome, 10 June 1913 – Madrid, 30 March 1997), the daughter of Col. Jerónimo de Ávila Figueira de Melo and his wife Cândida Ribeiro Lisboa, and the sister of Francisco Lisboa Figueira de Melo, former ambassador of Portugal to Germany (b. Vienna, 12 March 1912).