Maximiano Campos

• Name — Maximiano Campos • Office — Secretary of Tourism, Culture, and Sports of Pernambuco • Term Start — January 1987 • Term End — December 1988 • Birth Name — Maximiano Accioly Campos • Born — 19 November 1941 • Birthplace — Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil • Died — 7 August 1998 • Place of death — Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil • Spouse — Ana Arraes • Children — 2, including Eduardo • Relatives — * Guel Arraes (brother-in-law) • João Henrique Campos (grandson) • Pedro Campos (grandson) • Marília Arraes (great-niece) • Education — Catholic University of Pernambuco

Campos was born on 19 November 1941 in Recife. After he graduated with a law degree from the Catholic University of Pernambuco, he was a columnist with Diario de Pernambuco and was a superintendent at the Institute of Documentation at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. From January 1987 to December 1988, he was the State Secretary of Tourism, Culture, and Sports of Pernambuco during the governorship of his father-in-law Miguel Arraes. He was married to Ana Arraes, with whom he had two sons: Eduardo Campos, and lawyer, writer, and member of the Academia Pernambucana de Letras, Antônio Campos. Campos was the author of 17 books, some of which were released posthumously. His first work, the romance novel Sem Lei nem Rei, was also his most well known and tells the story of fights between colonels in the sertão and zona da mata of Pernambuco.

• Sem Lei Nem Rei - Maximiniano Campos, documentary (2007). Directed by Marcelo Peixoto.