Veridiana

Veridiana Victoria Rossetti (1917 - 2010) was a Brazilian agronomist and the first woman in Brazil with a degree in agronomy to practise the profession. She became a world authority on citrus diseases, was a recipient of several national and international awards, and is considered to have made a major contribution to the Brazilian economy and the lives of farmers by helping to reduce the losses experienced by the orange industry in the country.

Veridiana Valéria da Silva Prado (February 11, 1825 – June 11, 1910), known as Dona Veridiana, was a Brazilian aristocrat, landowner and intellectual. She had a significant influence in social, political and cultural life of the city of São Paulo at the end of the Empire and the beginning of the First Republic.