Alvacir dos Santos Raposo Filho (born January 18, 1950) is a brazilian physician and writer. Born in Piaui, Brazil, Raposo moved as a young man to Recife, Pernambuco. He graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 1974 with a doctorate in Ophthalmology. Raposo is a professor at UFPE and the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Pernambuco. He is a poet, composer frevos, having recorded a CD of gender to another physician and composer Luiz Guimaraes.