Leon Feffer

Leon Feffer (1902–1999) was a Brazilian businessman who founded Suzano Papel e Celulose.

Biography Feffer was born on November 27, 1902, to a Ukrainian Jewish family in Rovno, Ukraine (other sources say Kolki, Ukraine), the son of Bertha (née Brandes) and Simpson Feffer. In 1910, concerned about increasing anti-Semitism, his father immigrated to Brazil where he worked as a peddler selling stationery items around São Paulo and Mato Grosso from his ox-drawn cart. Leon started his first business manufacturing candles although it was not successful as Sao Paulo already had electricity. They had two children, Max (1926–2001) and Fanny (1930–2017). He died on 7 February 1999.

In 1995, Forbes Magazine named him as the fifth richest Brazilian with a net worth of $1.6 billion US dollars.