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

Testimony

"Only Anísio's colleagues can assess how much it means a day of work of his, spent between CAPES, INEP, the Philosophy College, the Institute of Education, the Centre, when not the Centre branches in federated states. The normal capacity of an average intelligent man would exhaust through a single one of these appointments. (...) Anísio multiplies himself in everything with the same lucidity, the same enthusiasm..."

PÉRICLES MADUREIRA DE PINHO