List of Famous people with last name Prestes

Olga Benário Prestes was a German-Brazilian communist militant executed by Nazi Germany.

Luís Carlos Prestes was a Brazilian revolutionary and politician who served as the General-Secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party from 1943 to 1980 and a Senator for the Federal District from 1946 to 1948. One of the leading Communists in Brazil, Prestes has been regarded by many as one of Brazil's most charismatic yet tragic figures for his leadership of the 1924 tenente revolt and his subsequent work with the Brazilian Communist movement. The 1924 expedition earned Prestes the nickname The Knight of Hope.

Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes is a Brazilian/German historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.

Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque was a Brazilian poet, lawyer and politician. He was the last elected President of Brazil of the period known as the República Velha, but never took office because the government was overthrown in the Revolution of 1930. Prestes was the only politician to be elected President of Brazil and then impeded from taking office. He was also the last person born in São Paulo to be elected president until the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018.