Alvacir dos Santos Raposo Filho (born January 18, 1950) is a physician and writer.
Born in Piaui, Brazil, Raposo moved as a young man to Recife, Pernambuco.
He graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in 1974 with a doctorate in Ophthalmology.
Raposo is a professor at UFPE and the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Pernambuco.
He is an award-winning poet, composer frevos, having recorded a CD of gender to another physician and composer Luiz Guimaraes.