Fernando Gomes de Morais (born July 22, 1946) is a Brazilian journalist, biographer, politician and writer.

He wrote biographies and books on a series of Brazilian historical personalities and events,[1] many of which were adapted into film.

In 1961, he was then a courier in a magazine edited by a bank in Belo Horizonte, when he had to cover the absence of their only journalist at a press conference.

After that, Moraes wrote other biographies and non-fiction books, such as Olga, Chatô, o Rei do Brasil and O Mago.

Fernando was state deputy for eight years and State Secretary of Culture (1988-1991) and Education (1991-1993) for São Paulo, during the governments of Orestes Quércia and Luiz Antônio Fleury Filho.