| Afrânio Coutinho | Afrânio Peixoto | Antônio Houaiss |
| Augusto Rodrigues | Darcy Ribeiro | Jorge Amado | Josué Montello |
| Monteiro Lobato | Perícles Madureira de Pinho |

Testimony

" ... A worthy, pure, decent citizen. Besides his extreme intelligence, his extraordinary culture, his unchallenged mastership as far as education is concerned, Anísio was a rare Brazilian. So extraordinary to the point of being subjected to restraints, suspicions, slanders, persecutions, miseries of all sorts throughout his life, inflicted on him by filthy people - there are countless of them in Brazil. They tried through all means to prevent Anísio from accomplishing his civilising mission, but he was unbending and invincible. The best and greatest in today's Brazil is owed to a large extent to this Bahian humanist of universal dimension. ..."

JORGE AMADO