Alzira Silva
Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil, c. 1910 - Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, 1989
Acrobat, actress. She is the daughter of Pedro Basílio Silva and Maria Joana Darc Silva, she comes from the third generation of the Silva family, who was formerly known as the Wassilnowich family before coming to Brazil from Western Europe in the middle of XVIII century. Alzira married the jockey, Fred Miranda, in 1940. Their son, Athos Silva Miranda, is the clown Chumbrega.