Boris Fausto (December 8, 1930 – April 18, 2023) was a Brazilian historian, political scientist and writer.

During his career, he carried out studies on the political history of Brazil in the republican period, about mass immigration to Brazil, crime and criminality in São Paulo and authoritarian thinking.

He graduated in Law in 1953 and then mastered in History in 1966 at University of São Paulo (USP).

In 1965, he became an assistant professor at the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

[3] A collection released in the 1990s and re-released in the 2000s by Editora Bertrand Brasil, co-written with Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda.