Cornélio Pires (July 13, 1884 in Tietê – February 17, 1958 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian journalist, writer, composer, film director, and folklorist.

At the age of 17, he left his hometown Tietê and moved to São Paulo where he continued his journalism, where he then pursued his other careers during his adulthood.

[2] During the 1920s, Cornélio had his highest success in his writing career with “As estrambóticas aventuras de Joaquim Bentinho”.

[3] In 1935, he began his radio show and then produced his second film, “Vamos Passeiar”.

In 1945 he published his last book, “Enciclopédia de Anedotas e Curiosidades”, more than a decade before his death, which during that time he'd become a spiritualist.