Marco Aurélio Garcia, (22 June 1941 – 20 July 2017) was a Brazilian politician. He was a member of the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). He was a Professor of Latin American History on leave from UNICAMP University and a left idealist. He was previously professor at the Latin American Social Science Faculty of the University of Chile and of the Paris-VIII and Paris-X universities. He was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.