Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (born 1893)

Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.

February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 309 days remain until the end of the year.