List of massacres in Brazil
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Brazil :
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
| Massacre at 11th Parallel | 1963 | Mato Grosso | 30 | Only two villagers survived |
| Helmet massacre | 1988 | Amazonas | 4 | 19 wounded |
| 1989 Santa Elmira massacre | 1989 | Rio Grande do Sul | 19 | 400 injured |
| Candelária massacre | July 23, 1993 | Rio de Janeiro | 8 | |
| Carandiru massacre | October 2, 1992 | São Paulo | 111 | |
| Haximu massacre | 1993 | Haximu, Brazil | 16-73 | |
| Vigário Geral massacre | August 29, 1993 | Rio de Janeiro | 21 | |
| Eldorado dos Carajás massacre | April 17, 1996 | Pará | 19 | |
| Parque Oeste massacre | February 16, 2005 | Goias | 2 | 40 wounded. Unknown missing. Over 20 killed in aftermath. |
| Complexo do Alemão massacre | June 27, 2007 | Rio de Janeiro | 19 | |
| Rio de Janeiro school shooting | April 7, 2011 | Rio de Janeiro | 12 | 20 wounded. All children aged 10–13. |
| Campinas massacre | December 31, 2016 | Campinas | 13 | 15 wounded |
| 2017 Manaus prison riot | January 1, 2017 | Manaus | 56 | |
| 2017 Santa Lúcia massacre | May 24, 2017 | Fazenda Santa Lúcia, Pau d'Arco, Pará | 10 | 17 military and civilian police shot and killed 10 farm-occupying activists associated with the Landless Workers' Movement. |
| Janaúba Tragedy | October 5, 2017 | Minas Gerais | 14 | 37 wounded |
| Campinas Cathedral shooting | December 11, 2018 | Campinas, São Paulo | 5 | 4 injured non-fatally |
| Suzano massacre | March 13, 2019 | Suzano | 8 | 8 victims + 2 attackers, 20+ injured, mostly children. |
| 2019 Altamira prison riot | July 29, 2019 | Altamira, Pará | 62 | 16 prisoners were beheaded, and a further 41 people died from inhaling smoke from a fire lit at the beginning of the riot. |
| Belém bar shooting | May 19, 2019 | Belém, Pará | 11 | A group of heavily-armed men — riding on a motorcycle and in three cars — went on a shooting rampage at a bar in Brazil, killing at least 11 people on Sunday |