Actors

• Alice Braga
  Alice Braga
  Alice Braga Moraes is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in several Brazilian films, most notably as Angélica in 2002's highly acclaimed City of God and as Karina in 2005's Lower City...
  
   (1983 -)
• Alinne Moraes
  Alinne Moraes
  Aline Cristine Dorelli de Magalhães e Morais is a Brazilian actress who starred as Mônica Paiva on the soap opera Como Uma Onda and as Luciana on the soap opera Viver a Vida. Her stage name is Alinne Moraes....
  
   (1983 -)
• Ana Paula Arósio
  Ana Paula Arósio
  Ana Paula Arósio is a Brazilian model and actress.-Early life:Arósio is one of the most popular actresses in Brazil. She started her career at the age of twelve when Ana Paula was "discovered" by a representative for an advertisement agency while shopping at a supermarket...
  
   (1975 -)
• Antônio Fagundes
  Antônio Fagundes
  Antônio da Silva Fagundes Filho is a Brazilian actor.- External links :...
  
   (1949 -)
• Bete Mendes
  Bete Mendes
  Bete Mendes is a Brazilian actress and politician.-Early life:Bete Mendes was born Elizabeth Mendes de Oliveira in Santos, São Paulo. She is the daughter of Osmar Pires de Oliveira, a Sub-Lieutenant of the Brazilian Air Force, and Maria Mendes de Oliveira. She acted in school plays since she was 5...
  
   (1949 -), actor/politician
• Betty Lago
  Betty Lago
  Elizabeth Lago Netto is a Brazilian actress, and former model.She was married to singer and actor Eduardo Conte for many years.-Television filmography:*2006 - Pé na Jaca .... Morgana Botelho Bulhões...
  
   (1955 -)
• Bruno Campos
  Bruno Campos
  Bruno Campos is a Brazilian-born United States-based actor, best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa on the Golden Globe Award-winning television show Nip/Tuck.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bruna Lombardi
  Bruna Lombardi
  Bruna Patrizia Maria Teresa Romilda Lombardi is a Brazilian poet, writer, model, and film and TV actress. She is daughter of Italian film producer Ugo Lombardi....
  
   (1952 -)
• Dado Dolabella
  Dado Dolabella
  Carlos Eduardo Bouças Dolabella Filho is a Brazilian actor and singer. His parents are actor Carlos Eduardo Dolabella and actress Pepita Rodríguez.-Television :...
  
   (1980 -)
• Daniel Benzali
  Daniel Benzali
  Daniel Benzali is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor.-Biography:Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents...
  
  
• Daniele Suzuki
  Daniele Suzuki
  Daniele Suzuki is a Brazilian actress and TV host.Daniele Suzuki is the daughter of Hiroshi Suzuki, a first generation Japanese Brazilian from São Paulo, whose parents immigrated from Shizuoka. Her mother is Ivone Suzuki, a Brazilian from Minas Gerais, of Italian, German and Amerindian descent...
  
   (1977 -)
• Denise Fraga
  Denise Fraga
  Denise Rodrigues Fraga Villaça is a Brazilian actress.- Filmography :*Norma - Norma*Cristina Quer Casar - Cristina*Uga uga - Meg*O auto da Compadecida - Dora...
  
   (1965 -)
• Dercy Gonçalves
  Dercy Gonçalves
  Dercy Gonçalves, stage name of Dolores Gonçalves Costa, was a Brazilian comedienne. She stood 4' 11" tall. In her 80-year long career, Dercy Gonçalves worked in the theater, revues, film, radio and television, becoming famous by her humorous use of vulgar language...
  
  , (1907–2008) , artist
• Eliane Giardini
  Eliane Giardini
  Eliane Giardini is a Brazilian actress. Although she didn't achieve much fame until her 40th birthday, she is now considered one of the best and most beautiful Brazilian actresses...
  
   (1952 -)
• Fernanda Montenegro
  Fernanda Montenegro
  Fernanda Montenegro is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress, mostly recognized for her leading role in Central Station, which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Brazilian actor to be nominated.She is commonly revered as one of Brazil's finest...
  
  , (1929 -)
• Fernanda Torres
  Fernanda Torres
  Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres is a Brazilian movie, theatre and television actress. She is the daughter of the Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and the actor Fernando Torres....
  
   (1965 -)
• Fábio Assunção
  Fábio Assunção
  Fábio Assunção Pinto is a Brazilian actor.-Filmography:*Mad Maria - Dr. Richard Finnegan*Celebridade - Renato Mendes*Coração de Estudante - Eduardo Feitosa*Os Maias - Carlos Eduardo da Maia...
  
   (1971 -)
• Francisca Queiroz
  Francisca Queiroz
  Francisca Vaz Queiroz is a Brazilian television and film actress. She plays the lead role, Catarina, in the television series A Lei e o Crime.-Biography:...
  
   (1979 -)
• Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
  Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
  Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri was a Brazilian actor and playwright.- External links :...
  
   (1934-2006)
• Giovanna Antonelli
  Giovanna Antonelli
  Giovanna Antonelli Prado is a Brazilian actress, television presenter and producer.-Early life:Antonelli was born on March 18, 1976, in Rio de Janeiro. She is the daughter of Ilton Prada and dancer Suelly Antonelli. She also has one older brother, Leonard.Giovanna started her career when she was 14...
  
   (1976 -)
• Glória Menezes
  Glória Menezes
  Nicelde Soares Magalhães, known as Glória Menezes, is a Brazilian actress.- Filmography :* A Favorita - Irene*A estranha Clementine - Clementine...
  
   (1934 -)
• Grande Otelo
  Grande Otelo
  Grande Otelo is the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata...
  
   (1915–1993)
• Guilherme Berenguer
  Guilherme Berenguer
  Guilherme Berenguer is a Brazilian TV actor, best known for his roles in Malhação as Gustavo and Bang-Bang as Neon....
  
  
• Hebe Camargo
  Hebe Camargo
  Hebe Maria Monteiro de Camargo Ravagnani is a Brazilian TV presenter. She is also a singer and actress.-Early years:...
  
   (1929 -), TV presenter, singer, actress
• Jéssica Sodré
  Jéssica Sodré
  -Career:Sodré is best known for her work on telenovelas, including Prova de Amor and Senhora do Destino.- External links :...
  
   (1985 -)
• José Lewgoy
  José Lewgoy
  José Lewgoy was an American-Brazilian television, film and theatre actor.He was born in Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to a Russian father and an American mother, who met in New York. He died in Rio de Janeiro. He was considered one of the best actors in Brazil, and was usually typecast...
  
   (1920–2003)
• José Wilker
  José Wilker
  José Wilker de Almeida is a Brazilian actor of film, stage and TV, born in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Northeast of Brazil.-Filmography:* A falecida * A vida provisória * Estranho triângulo...
  
   (1945 -)
• Juliana Didone
  Juliana Didone
  Juliana Didone Nascimento is a Brazilian actress and former model.-Television career:Born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, she is best known for her role as Letícia Gomes da Silva, the main character of the 2004 season of the telenovela Malhação...
  
   (1984 -)
• Juliana Silveira
  Juliana Silveira
  Juliana Bragança Saúda Silveira, better known as Juliana Silveira , is a Brazilian actress and singer...
  
   (1980), actress/singer
• Lázaro Ramos
  Lázaro Ramos
  Luís Lázaro Sacramento Ramos is an Emmy Award-nominated Brazilian actor. He started his acting career with the Flock of Olodum Theater group, in Salvador, and is best known for his portrayal of João Francisco dos Santos in the 2002 film Madame Satã...
  
   (1978 -)
• Lima Duarte
  Lima Duarte
  Lima Duarte is a Brazilian actor. He has played a number of characters in Brazilian soap operas, such as Zeca Diabo in "O Bem Amado" and Sinhozinho Malta in "Roque Santeiro"...
  
   (1930)
• Lucélia Santos
  Lucélia Santos
  Lucélia Santos is a Brazilian actress, director and producer. She received international acclaim for her leading role in the 1976 Rede Globo telenovela Escrava Isaura, broadcast in over 80 countries.-Biography:...
  
   (1957), actress, film director and producer
• Malu Mader
  Malu Mader
  Maria de Lourdes da Silveira Mäder is a Brazilian actress of Lebanese and Portuguese origin. She lives in Ipanema, a rich neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, and is married to Brazilian rock star Tony Bellotto from the band Titãs...
  
   (1966 -),
• Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
   (1909–1955), singer
• Marco Nanini
  Marco Nanini
  Marco Antônio Barroso Nanini is a Brazilian theater, film and TV actor of Italian descent. Most of his activities have been in comedy. He is in the permanent casting of Rede Globo....
  
   (1948?)
• Maria Flor
  Maria Flor
  Maria Flor Leite Calaça, usually known as Maria Flor is a Brazilian actress...
  
   (1983 -)
• Matheus Nachtergaele
  Matheus Nachtergaele
  Matheus Nachtergaele is a Brazilian actor and director. He has starred in numerous Brazilian films and television programmes but is probably most well known for his appearance in the 2002 film Cidade de Deus , playing the part of Carrot Sandro...
  
   (1969 -)
• Miguel Falabella
  Miguel Falabella
  Miguel Falabella is a Brazilian TV, cinema and theater actor, producer, writer and director.-External links:*...
  
   (1957)
• Murilo Benício
  Murilo Benício
  Murilo Benício Ribeiro is a Brazilian actor, best known for his film roles in Woman On Top with Penélope Cruz and Amores Possíveis which won the Jury Award for Latin American Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival, and his television roles in O Clone and América.- Career :Benicio's television roles...
  
   (1972 -)
• Natália Guimarães
  Natália Guimarães
  Natália Guimarães is a former Miss Universe Brazil. She won the title on April 14, 2007 beating out over 26 other contestants from states and the Federal District, Brasília....
  
   (1984), Miss Brasil 2007
  Miss Brasil 2007
  The Miss Brasil 2007 pageant took place April 14, 2007, in the Vivo Rio concert house in Rio de Janeiro. Each state and the Federal District competed for the title, won by Natália Guimarães of Minas Gerais. The winner would go to be First runner up at Miss Universe 2007. Miss Brasil Internacional...
  
  , actress
• Oscarito
  Oscarito
  Oscarito was the stage name of Brazilian actor and comedian Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Imaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz. Oscarito was born to a family of circus comedians. His first film was Voz do Carnaval , which also featured Carmen Miranda. He became a sought actor for chanchadas...
  
  
• Paola Oliveira
  Paola Oliveira
  Caroline Paola Oliveira da Silva is a Brazilian television and film actress. She played the lead role, Sônia, in the telenovela O Profeta, and currently stars in Insensato Coração for TV Globo.-Biography:...
  
   (1982 -)
• Paulo Autran
  Paulo Autran
  Paulo Autran was a Brazilian film and theater actor. His accomplishments during his life earned him the nickname, "Lord of the Stage."-Biography:...
  
   (1922-2007)
• Paulo Betti
  Paulo Betti
  Paulo Betti is a Brazilian stage, film and television actor. He also works occasionally as a film producer and director.-Biography:...
  
   (1952)
• Raul Cortez (1932-2006)
• Raw Leiba
  Raw Leiba
  Raw Leiba Leiba got his first taste of acting in 1999 in an uncredited role as a pro football Wide Receiver in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday"...
  
  , actor and sportsmodel
• Regina Duarte
  Regina Duarte
  Regina Blois Duarte is a Brazilian film, television and stage actress. Her efforts against the current Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2002 elections caused considerable controversy. Duarte appeared in a TV advertisement saying that she was afraid of what could happen to...
  
   (1947 -)
• Renato Aragão
  Renato Aragão
  Antônio Renato Aragão is a Brazilian comedian. He is best known for leading the television series Os Trapalhões.-Biography:...
  
   (1936 )
• Reynaldo Gianecchini
  Reynaldo Gianecchini
  Reynaldo Gianecchini is a Brazilian actor.He started acting at the age of 6, on the stage of his school in Birigüi, São Paulo...
  
   (1972 -)
• Rodrigo Hilbert
  Rodrigo Hilbert
  Rodrigo Hilbert Albertoni , is a Brazilian actor and model.- Early life :Although he also used to think about majoring in Agronomy, Hilbert's dream was inheriting his grandfather's smithery, with whom he used to work...
  
   (1980 -)
• Rodrigo Santoro
  Rodrigo Santoro
  Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro is a Brazilian actor.-Life and career:Santoro was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. He is of half Brazilian and half Italian descent. In 1993, as Santoro was studying Journalism at PUC-Rio, he entered the Actor's Workshop of Rede Globo...
  
   (1975 -)
• Ronald Golias
  Ronald Golias
  Ronald Golias , was a Brazilian comedian and actor. From the city of São Carlos, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, he started as a tailor assistant and insurance agent, amongst other professions...
  
   (1929–2005), actor and comedian
• Selton Mello
  Selton Mello
  Selton Figueiredo Melo is a Brazilian actor. He works on TV, movies and theater. He also produces and directs movies and videoclips...
  
   (1972 -)
• Seu Jorge
  Seu Jorge
  Seu Jorge is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba...
  
   (1970), artist
• Sônia Braga
  Sônia Braga
  Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She has been nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.-Early life:...
  
   (1950 -)
• Taís Araújo
  Taís Araújo
  Taís Bianca Gama de Araújo is a Brazilian actress. She was the first black Brazilian actress to be a protagonist in a Brazilian telenovela, Xica da Silva , in Rede Manchete...
  
   (1978 -)
• Tarcisio Meira
  Tarcísio Meira
  Tarcísio Magalhães Sobrinho, usually known as Tarcísio Meira is a well known actor in Brazil. He was one of the first actors to work in the most popular Brazilian channel Globo....
  
   (1935)
• Teresa Seiblitz
  Teresa Seiblitz
  Ana Tereza Milanez de Lossio e Seiblitz or Tereza Seiblitz is a Brazilian actress.She made an appearance in the Brazilian series, Malhação, on the Rede Globo network, in 2002...
  
   (1962)
• Vagner Dantas (1983)
• Vera Fischer
  Vera Fischer
  Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. A former beauty pageant titleholder, she was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969.-Biography:...
  
   (1951 -)
• Viétia Zangrandi
  Viétia Zangrandi
  Viétia Zangrandi is the stage name of Viétia Zangrandi Rocha, a Brazilian actress who works in TV, film and theater. She was born in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil on 12 July 1970...
  
  
• Xuxa Meneghel (1963), actress, singer, TV host
• Leonardo Villar
  Leonardo Villar
  Leonardo Villar is a Brazilian actor. He became internationally known for his performance as Zé do Burro in Anselmo Duarte's O Pagador de Promessas, the only Brazilian film so far awarded with a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival....
  
  

Architects and urbanists

• Affonso Eduardo Reidy
  Affonso Eduardo Reidy
  Affonso Eduardo Reidy was a Brazilian architect. Among his projects was participation in the Gustavo Capanema Palace.-External links:...
  
   (1909–1964), architect and urban planner, reformer of Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
  
  
• João Batista Vilanova Artigas
  João Batista Vilanova Artigas
  João Batista Vilanova Artigas was one of the most important Brazilian modernist architects. Born in Curitiba and much-awarded in his lifetime, Artigas is considered one of the most important names in the architectural history of São Paulo, and the founding figure of the Paulista School.- Life...
  
   (1915–1985), architect
• Lina Bo Bardi
  Lina Bo Bardi
  Lina Bo Bardi was a Brazilian modernist architect born in Italy....
  
  
• Lúcio Costa
  Lúcio Costa
  Lucio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner.-Career:Costa was born in Toulon, France.Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England and in Montreux until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the School of Fine Art in Rio de Janeiro...
  
   (1902–1998), architect and urbanist, creator of Brasília
  Brasília
  Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
  
  
• Oscar Niemeyer
  Oscar Niemeyer
  Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture...
  
   (born 1907), architect of international renown
• Paulo Mendes da Rocha
  Paulo Mendes da Rocha
  Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a Brazilian architect, honored with the Mies van der Rohe Prize and the Pritzker Prize .Paulo attended the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie College of Architecture, graduating in 1954...
  
   (born 1928), architect, winner of the 2006 Pritzker Prize
  Pritzker Prize
  The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
  
  
• Roberto Burle Marx
  Roberto Burle Marx
  Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil...
  
   (1909–1994), architect and landscape designer.
• Ruy Ohtake
  Ruy Ohtake
  Ruy Ohtake is an architect born on January 27, 1938, in the neighbourhood of Móoca, São Paulo, Brazil.-History:Son of Japanese artist Tomie Ohtake, Ruy Ohtake is known for his dynamic and unusual architectural designs...
  
  , architect
• Sidney Linhares, paisagist
• Fernando Chacel, paisagist

Artists

• Artur Barrio
  Artur Barrio
  Artur Barrio is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in his art, often without their knowledge that it is art in which they are participating...
  
  
• Anita Malfatti
  Anita Malfatti
  Anita Catarina Malfatti is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil...
  
  , painter
• Alfredo Volpi
  Alfredo Volpi
  Alfredo Volpi , was a famous painter of the artistic and cultural Brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazil, where he lived for most part of his life...
  
   (1896–1988), painter
• Almeida Junior (1850–1899), painter
• Ana Lucia Souza
  Ana Lucia Souza
  Ana Lucia Souza is a journalist, producer, actress and ballet dancer. She is a former member of several legendary ballet companies such as the Stuttgart Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and the extinct Das Meininger Ballett.Ana is the New York executive producer and on-air host for the...
  
   (born 1982), ballet dancer
• Ana Maria Pacheco
  Ana Maria Pacheco
  Ana Maria Pacheco is a Brazilian artist who works in the United Kingdom. Her work is partly inspired by the troubled period of Brazil's history, culminating in the takeover by the military junta in 1964, to which she was an eyewitness...
  
  (born 1943) painter and sculptor
• Antonio Francisco Lisboa "O Aleijadinho" (1730–1814), Baroque
  Baroque
  The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
  
   sculptor
• Cândido Portinari
  Cândido Portinari
  Candido Portinari was one of the most important Brazilian painters and also a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting....
  
   (1903–1962), painter
• Cybèle Varela
  Cybèle Varela
  Cybèle Varela, , is a Brazilian mixed-media artist currently based in Europe. She is a painter, video artist, and photographer.-Career:From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro....
  
   (born 1943), painter, mixed-media artist
• Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
  Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
  Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Melo , known as Di Cavalcanti, was a Brazilian painter who sought to produce a form of Brazilian art free of any noticeable European influences...
  
   (1897–1976), painter
• Hélio Oiticica
  Hélio Oiticica
  Hélio Oiticica was a Brazilian visual artist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete group, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art", which included Parangolés and Penetrables, like the famous Tropicália.- Early work :Oiticica's early works,...
  
   (1937–1980), painter
• José Pancetti
  José Pancetti
  Giuseppe Giannini Pancetti, better known as José Pancetti was a Brazilian modernist painter.-Biography:Born into a humble family of immigrants from Tuscany, Italy...
  
   (born 1902), painter
• Lasar Segall
  Lasar Segall
  The artist Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism...
  
  
• Lygia Clark
  Lygia Clark
  Lygia Clark was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement...
  
   (1920–1988)
• Lygia Pape
  Lygia Pape
  Lygia Pape was an influential Brazilian artist, active in both the Concrete and Neo-Concretist movements in Brazil.-Life and work:...
  
   (1924–2004)
• Manabu Mabe
  Manabu Mabe
  was a Japanese-Brazilian painter. Mabe worked as a vendor of hand-painted ties in São Paulo before becoming a famous artist...
  
   (1924–1997)
• Mauricio de Sousa
  Mauricio de Sousa
  Mauricio de Sousa is a Brazilian cartoonist who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books....
  
  , cartoonist
• Moysés Baumstein
  Moysés Baumstein
  Moysés Baumstein was a Brazilian artist.Moysés worked in many fields: from literary creation to painting, from film making to holography....
  
  , holographer, painter, film/video producer (1931–1991)
• Naza
  Naza
  Naza Group of Companies is a Malaysian business conglomerate associated with motor trading, automotive franchises and property development, which began operations in 1974...
  
  , painter, Visual Artist
• Oswaldo Goeldi
  Oswaldo Goeldi
  Oswaldo Goeldi was a Brazilian artist and renowned engraver, the son of Swiss naturalist Émil Goeldi....
  
   (1895–1961), illustrator and engraver
• Raul Bopp
  Raul Bopp
  Raul Bopp was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. He did diplomatic work in Japan and was a friend of Oswald de Andrade. Hence his Cobra Norato is an example of work based in the Manifesto Antropófago. In 1977 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.- References :...
  
  , painter
• Rodrigo Teixeira
  Rodrigo Teixeira
  Rodrigo Teixeira Pereira is a Brazilian football striker who currently plays for Club Nacional in Paraguay.-External links:* * * *...
  
   (born 1976), Visual Effects
• Taiguara
  Taiguara
  Taiguara Chalar da Silva , whose stage name was Taiguara, was a Brazilian singer and songwriter....
  
   (1945–1996), singer/songwriter
• Tarsila do Amaral
  Tarsila do Amaral
  Tarsila do Amaral, , known simply as Tarsila, is considered to be one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as "the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style." She was a member of the Grupo dos Cinco , which...
  
   (1886–1973), painter
• Victor Brecheret
  Victor Brecheret
  Victor Brecheret was an Italian-Brazilian sculptor. He lived most of his life in São Paulo, except for his studies in Paris in his early twenties...
  
   (1894–1955), painter
• Victor Meirelles
  Victor Meirelles
  Victor Meirelles de Lima was a 19th century painter. He studied art in Paris but painted most of his works in and about his native Brazil. His religious and military paintings helped him become one of the most popular and celebrated Brazilian painters...
  
   (1832–1903)
• Sidnei Tendler
  Sidnei Tendler
  Sidnei Tendler is a Brazilian architect, poet, designer and painter. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he has lived and worked in Belgium since 2000.- Biography :...
  
   (1958)

Diplomats

• Barão do Rio Branco
  Barão do Rio Branco
  José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Jr., 1st Baron of Rio Branco was a Brazilian diplomat, geographer, historian, politician and professor, considered to be the "father of Brazilian diplomacy". He was the son of famous statesman José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Sr....
  
   (1845–1912)
• Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country.-Biography:...
  
   (1849–1910)
• Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas
  Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas
  Luis Martins de Souza Dantas was a Brazilian diplomat who was awarded the Righteous Among The Nations by the Israeli Supreme Court in June 2003 for his participation during the Holocaust in helping Jews in France escape. It is estimated he saved 800 people, 425 confirmed to be Jewish...
  
  
• Oswaldo Aranha
  Oswaldo Aranha
  Osvaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha was a Brazilian politician, diplomat and statesman, who came to national prominence in 1930 under Getúlio Vargas....
  
  
• Rui Barbosa
• Walter Moreira Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles was a highly successful Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist who is considered by many as one of the premier founders of the modern Brazilian financial and banking industry....
  
  
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello
  Sérgio Vieira de Mello
  Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations employee who worked for the UN for more than 34 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the humanitarian and political programs of the UN...
  
   (1948–2003), UN representative

Film directors

• Aluizio Abranches
  Aluizio Abranches
  Aluizio Abranches is a Brazilian filmmaker. He has worked extensively as an assistant director and producer in Brazil. His first feature film as director was in the 1999 film Um Copo de Cólera, which was based on a soap opera by Raduan Nassar...
  
  
• Ana Carolina
  Ana Carolina (director)
  Ana Carolina is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She directed seven films between 1969 and 2003.In 1978, she was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival...
  
  
• Andrucha Waddington
  Andrucha Waddington
  Andrucha Waddington is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1998. His film Eu Tu Eles was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Alberto Cavalcanti
  Alberto Cavalcanti
  Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.-Early life:Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a...
  
   (1897–1982), pioneer film-maker
• Ana Maria Magalhães
  Ana Maria Magalhães
  Ana Maria Portinho Magalhães is a Brazilian film actress and director.-As Actor:* 1965 - Attack by teen street gang* 1967 - All the Women of the World* 1967 - Girl of Ipanema* 1967 - The Devil Deferred payment In the Blood...
  
  , director and actress
• Anselmo Duarte (born 1920), winner of a Cannes Film Festival
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
   Palme d'Or
• Bruno Barreto
  Bruno Barreto
  Bruno Barreto is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors to this day...
  
  , Golden Berlin Bear-nominated director
• Arnaldo Jabor
  Arnaldo Jabor
  Arnaldo Jabor is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film Toda Nudez Será Castigada won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  , director, writer and journalist, Silver Berlin Bear-winner
• Cacá Diegues
• Cao Hamburger
  Cao Hamburger
  Carlos Imperio Hamburger , or, simply, Cao Hamburger, is a Brazilian screenwriter and director of movies and TV. He is the creator of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, which gave origin also to a successful movie picture with the same title...
  
  
• Carlos Coimbra (1925–2007)
• Carlos Manga, Chanchada
  Chanchada
  Chanchada is the name of a genre of Brazilian comedies, often musical. Its name , coming from the Paraguayan Spanish slang and meaning "mess", "trash", "trick", implied the ease in accessibility of these films' content to a culturally deprived audience.In 1935, the company Cinédia of Rio de...
  
   films and TV director
• Carlos Reichenbach
  Carlos Reichenbach
  Carlos Oscar Reichenbach Son is a Brazilian filmmaker.With one year of age came live in São Paulo. He has studied in the School of Cinema São Luiz, where he was a student of Luis Sérgio Person...
  
  
• Cláudio Torres, Fernanda Torres
  Fernanda Torres
  Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres is a Brazilian movie, theatre and television actress. She is the daughter of the Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and the actor Fernando Torres....
  
  's brother
• Daniel Filho
  Daniel Filho
  Daniel Filho is a Brazilian film producer, director and actor and screenwriter. He starred in the film Os Cafajestes, which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:Actor...
  
  , director and actor
• Daniela Thomas
  Daniela Thomas
  Daniela Thomas is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.-Biography:Thomas, whose birthname is Daniela Gontijo Alves Pinto, is the daughter of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo Alves Pinto and the sister of Golden Globe Award-nominated film score composer Antonio Pinto.In 1994 she...
  
  
• David Neves
  David Neves
  David Neves was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1964 and 1988. He was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival in 1970.-External links:...
  
   (1938–1994)
• Domingos Oliveira
• Eduardo Coutinho
  Eduardo Coutinho
  Eduardo Coutinho is an Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer.He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 popular Brazilian film, El ABC del amor near the beginning of his career...
  
  , documentary filmmaker
• Fabio Barreto
  Fábio Barreto
  Fábio Barreto is a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known for directing and co-writing Lula, o filho do Brasil, a biography based on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's early life, which had been the most expensive film in the history of Brazilian cinema...
  
  , Bruno Barreto
  Bruno Barreto
  Bruno Barreto is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors to this day...
  
  's brother
• Fernando Meirelles
  Fernando Meirelles
  Fernando Ferreira Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films...
  
  , Academy Award-nominated director
• Glauber Rocha (1939–1981), founder of Brazilian New Cinema – Cinema Novo
  Cinema Novo
  Cinema Novo was practised by Brazilian filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. In Portugal, Novo Cinema flourished after the 1960s, where it lasted, inspired by Italian Neo-Realism and the French movement of the New wave, the direct cinema techniques, and by the ideals the Carnation Revolution up to...
  
  , Cannes Film Festival award
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
   – winning director
• Guilherme de Almeida Prado
  Guilherme de Almeida Prado
  Guilherme de Almeida Prado is a Brazilian film director.Graduated in civil engineering while at the same time doing movies...
  
  
• Hugo Carvana
  Hugo Carvana
  Hugo Carvana is a Brazilian film actor. He has appeared in 65 films since 1955.-Selected filmography:* Os Cafajestes * Os Fuzis * Entranced Earth * O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro...
  
  , director and actor
• Hector Babenco
  Hector Babenco
  Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
  
  , Argentine-Brazilian Academy Award-nominated director
• Heitor Dhalia
  Heitor Dhalia
  Heitor Dhalia is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1988. His film, À Deriva, competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Humberto Mauro
  Humberto Mauro
  Humberto Duarte Mauro was a Brazilian film director. His best known work is Ganga Bruta. He is often considered the greatest director of early Brazilian cinema.-Career:...
  
   (1897–1983), pioneer and inventive film-maker
• João Moreira Salles
  João Moreira Salles
  João Moreira Salles is a Brazilian documentarian and president of the Instituto Moreira Salles. In 2006, he founded the magazine piauí. He has also taught courses on documentary at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Princeton University...
  
  , documentary director and Walter Salles
  Walter Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...
  
  's brother
• Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
  Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
  Joaquim Pedro de Andrade was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He was a member of the Cinema Novo movement in Brazil. Andrade is best known for his 1969 film Macunaíma, based loosely on the novel of the same title by Mário de Andrade...
  
   (1932–1988), member of Brazilian New Cinema – Cinema Novo
  Cinema Novo
  Cinema Novo was practised by Brazilian filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. In Portugal, Novo Cinema flourished after the 1960s, where it lasted, inspired by Italian Neo-Realism and the French movement of the New wave, the direct cinema techniques, and by the ideals the Carnation Revolution up to...
  
  
• Joel Zito Araújo
  Joel Zito Araújo
  Joel Zito Araújo is a Brazilian film director, writer and producer of films and TV programs. Since 1984, Mr. Araújo has produced 26 films, as follows: 1 feature film, 2 short films and 25 documentaries . Some of these works have been awarded with prizes or selected to be screened at Film Festivals...
  
  
• Jom Tob Azulay
  Jom Tob Azulay
  Jom Tob Azulay, is a Brazilian ex-diplomat, producer, director, writer, director of photography and soundman. In 1975, he established himself as producer with his company A&B Productions Ltd., in Rio de Janeiro. Produced and directs shorts, documentaries and videos...
  
  
• Jorge Furtado
  Jorge Furtado
  Jorge Furtado , is a Brazilian film writer and director. He also works for Rede Globo. One of his most recognized pictures is the short film Isle of Flowers from 1989. His most recent picture is Saneamento Básico, released in 2007.-External links:...
  
  
• José Mojica Marins (born 1936), also known as Coffin Joe, film-maker expert in horror movies.
• José Padilha
  José Padilha
  José Padilha is an award-winning Brazilian film director and producer.Padilha emerged onto the Brazilian movie scene with his first feature film Bus 174. In 2007, Padilha directed The Elite Squad , his first fictional film. The film was a commercial and critical success, seen by more than 11...
  
  , Golden Berlin Bear winner
• Karim Aïnouz
  Karim Aïnouz
  Karim Aïnouz is a film director.-Filmography:* 2006 - O Céu de Suely , 35mm, color, 88 min.* 2002 - Madame Satã, 35mm, color, 105 min....
  
  
• Lima Barreto
  Lima Barreto
  Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure on the Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, a bitter satire of the first years of the República Velha in Brazil.-Life:Lima Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro in...
  
   (1906–1982)
• Lucélia Santos
  Lucélia Santos
  Lucélia Santos is a Brazilian actress, director and producer. She received international acclaim for her leading role in the 1976 Rede Globo telenovela Escrava Isaura, broadcast in over 80 countries.-Biography:...
  
  , director and actress
• Luiz de Barros
  Luiz de Barros
  Luiz de Barros was a prominent Brazilian film director, film producer, film editor, screenwriter, cinematographer, film actor and set designer and manager who played a key role in Brazilian film production from the early silent era around 1914 through to the late 1970s...
  
   (1893–1992)
• Luiz Duarte (born 1956), director and screenplaywriter
• Luiz Fernando Carvalho
  Luiz Fernando Carvalho
  Luiz Fernando Carvalho de Almeida was born in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro. He's an innovative Brazilian director, producer, writer, and film editor. He studied literature and architecture....
  
  
• Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes may refer to:* Marcelo Gomes , Brazilian ballet dancer* Marcelo Gomes , Brazilian film director* Marcelo Gomes Inocencio, Brazilian footballer...
  
  
• Mário Peixoto
  Mario Peixoto
  Mário Rodrigues Breves Peixoto was mainly known for his first and only film Limite, a silent experimental film filmed in 1930 and premiered in Rio de Janeiro on 17 May 1931. Peixoto wrote, directed and took up a minor role in the film...
  
   (1910–1992), pioneer film-maker
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos, director
• Norma Bengell
  Norma Bengell
  Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães D´Áurea Bengell , best known as Norma Bengell, is a Brazilian film and television actress, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter....
  
  , director and actress
• Paulo Morelli
  Paulo Morelli
  Paulo Morelli is a Brazilian film director.Morelli was born as Paulo de Tarso Morelli in São Paulo, and when studying architecture at the University of São Paulo he became involved in experimental film making...
  
  
• Paulo Porto
  Paulo Porto
  Paulo Porto was a Brazilian actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 32 films and television shows between 1947 and 1988...
  
   (1917–1999), director and actor
• Paulo Thiago
  Paulo Thiago
  Paulo Thiago Alencar Artunes is a Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist. Thiago is currently signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, fighting in their welterweight division.-Mixed martial arts:...
  
  
• Roberto Farias
  Roberto Farias
  Roberto Farias is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1957. His 1982 film Pra Frente, Brasil was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Roberto Santos
  Roberto Santos
  Roberto Santos Pinhanez was a Brazilian film director, known for films like Matraga and The Great Moment .- Biography :...
  
   (1928–1987)
• Ruy Guerra
  Ruy Guerra
  Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira is a film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor in Brazil. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques in Moçambique, when it was still a colony of Portugal....
  
   (born in Mozambique, 1931), member of Brazilian New Cinema – Cinema Novo
  Cinema Novo
  Cinema Novo was practised by Brazilian filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. In Portugal, Novo Cinema flourished after the 1960s, where it lasted, inspired by Italian Neo-Realism and the French movement of the New wave, the direct cinema techniques, and by the ideals the Carnation Revolution up to...
  
  
• Sérgio Machado
  Sérgio Machado
  Sérgio Machado is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. His film Cidade Baixa was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Onde a Terra Acaba...
  
  
• Sérgio Rezende
  Sérgio Rezende
  Sérgio Rezende is a Brazilian filmmaker. He is most known for directing several biographical films, such as Lamarca, Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei, and Zuzu Angel, about guerrilla leader Carlos Lamarca, entrepreneur Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, and stylist Zuzu Angel Jones, which embarked in a...
  
  
• Suzana Amaral
  Suzana Amaral
  Suzana Amaral is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She had eight children when she entered film school. In 1976 she entered NYU to further her desire to make films....
  
  
• Tata Amaral
  Tata Amaral
  Tata Amaral born in 1961 in São Paulo is an award winning Brazilian director, writer, producer and actor. She has won various awards across South America, including 'Best director' and 'Best film'.-References:...
  
  
• Walter Hugo Khouri (1929–2003)
• Walter Lima Jr.
• Walter Salles
  Walter Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...
  
  , director of "Central do Brasil
  Central do Brasil (film)
  Central Station is a 1998 Brazilian/French drama film set in Brazil. It tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. The film was adapted by Marcos Bernstein and João Emanuel Carneiro from a story by Walter Salles and it was directed by the latter. It features...
  
  " (Central Station)
• Watson de Macedo (1918–1981), director of Chanchada
  Chanchada
  Chanchada is the name of a genre of Brazilian comedies, often musical. Its name , coming from the Paraguayan Spanish slang and meaning "mess", "trash", "trick", implied the ease in accessibility of these films' content to a culturally deprived audience.In 1935, the company Cinédia of Rio de...
  
   films

Executives and business entrepreneurs

• Abílio Diniz
• Aloysio de Andrade Faria
  Aloysio de Andrade Faria
  Aloysio de Andrade Faria is a Brazilian banker. He is one of Forbes Magazine's "World's Richest People."A physician by training, Faria entered early the financial business...
  
  
• Andre Medici
  Andre Medici
  Andre Medici is an internationally-known Brazilian health economist with extensive background in health strategy, public and private health financing in Latin America and the Caribbean, social security and pensions, economic reform, gender health issues, environmental protection, and globalization...
  
  
• Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
  Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
  Antônio Ermírio de Moraes is a Brazilian businessman who is the chairman of the Votorantim Group; one of the country's largest companies, specialized in metals, paper, cement and frozen orange juice...
  
  
• Armínio Fraga
  Arminio Fraga
  Arminio Fraga is a Brazilian economist who was president of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1999 to 2002. He is also a former associate of George Soros and his Quantum Fund...
  
  
• Assis Chateaubriand
  Assis 'Chatô' Chateaubriand
  Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, best known as Assis Chateaubriand and also nicknamed Chatô , was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat. He was born in Umbuzeiro, state of Paraíba, in the Northeast of Brazil, on October 4, 1892, and died on April 4, 1968, in São...
  
  
• Bob Falkenburg
  Bob Falkenburg
  Robert Falkenburg is a former American amateur tennis player and entrepreneur. He is best known for winning the 1948 men's singles Wimbledon Championship and for introducing soft ice cream and American fast food to Brazil in 1952...
  
  
• Carlos Ghosn
  Carlos Ghosn
  Carlos Ghosn, KBE , born 9 March 1954, is a Brazilian-Lebanese-French businessman who is currently the Chairman and CEO of Yokohama, Japan-based Nissan and holds the same positions at Paris-based Renault, which together produce more than one in 10 cars worldwide...
  
  
• Daniel Dantas
  Daniel Dantas
  Daniel Valente Dantas is a Brazilian banker and financier, founder of Opportunity Asset Management in 1994. Opportunity Group lead an international private sector partnership that bought up a large chunk of the Brazilian telecoms sector in 1997, when this sector was privatized...
  
  
• Edmond Safra
  Edmond Safra
  Edmond J. Safra was a Jewish Brazilian-naturalized, Lebanese banker who continued the family tradition of banking in Lebanon, Brazil and Switzerland. He married Lily Watkins. He died in a fire that attracted wide media interest and was judicially determined to be due to arson.-Life of Edmond...
  
  
• Eike Batista
  Eike Batista
  Eike Fuhrken Batista , is a Brazilian entrepreneur and president of the EBX Group , which includes five companies that trade on the BOVESPA´s Novo Mercado, a special segment of the São Paulo stock market where enterprises with the highest standards of corporate governance are listed...
  
  
• Francesco Matarazzo
  Francesco Matarazzo
  Francesco Matarazzo, was an Italian historian of the European Renaissance. His fame rests largely on his masterwork Chronicles of the City of Perugia 1492-1503 which has become a primary source for many later historians of the Italian Renaissance and in particular the city of...
  
  
• Germán Efromovich
  German Efromovich
  German Efromovich is a Bolivian-born Colombian-Brazilian entrepreneur born to a family of Polish Jews in Bolivia, raised in Arica, Chile and in São Paulo, Brazil...
  
  
• Gustavo Franco
  Gustavo Franco
  Gustavo Franco is a Brazilian economist, born April 10, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro.-Career:Son of Maria Isabel Barbosa de Barroso Franco and Guilherme Arinos Lima Verde de Barroso Franco, who was a friend and assistant of President Getúlio Vargas, and also a member of the first board of Directors of...
  
  
• Henrique Meirelles
  Henrique Meirelles
  Henrique de Campos Meirelles is the former president of Banco Central do Brasil, Brazil's central bank. In 2002 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil's congressional lower house, as a Goiás-state PSDB party congressman...
  
  
• João Carlos di Genio
  João Carlos di Genio
  João Carlos di Genio is a Brazilian physician and educator. He created and is the main owner of the largest educational holding in the country, comprised by the Sistema Objetivo and the Universidade Paulista , a private university with more than 60 campuses all over Brazil.Di Genio started his...
  
  
• Jorge Paulo Lemann
  Jorge Paulo Lemann
  Jorge Paulo Lemann is the third wealthiest individual in Brazil. He is ranked as the 55th richest person in the world by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of as of September 2011.-Biography:...
  
  
• José Alencar
  José Alencar
  José Alencar Gomes da Silva , also known as José Alencar, the Strong, was a Brazilian businessman and politician, and the Vice President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. In business since a young age, Alencar was a self-made multimillionaire, as the chief executive of Coteminas, after working as...
  
  
• José Mentor Guilherme de Mello
  José Mentor Guilherme de Mello
  José Mentor Guilherme de Mello was a colonel of the Brazil´s National Guard, an entrepreneur in the waterway transport business and an exporter...
  
  
• Julio Bozano
  Julio Bozano
  Júlio Rafael de Aragão Bozano is a Brazilian businessman who made his fortune in the finance and banking industries as the cofounder of Banco Bozano Simonsen. In 2000 he sold Banco Bozano Simonsen to Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano...
  
  
• Norberto Odebrecht
  Norberto Odebrecht
  Norberto Odebrecht is a Brazilian engineer, businessman and founder of the Brazilian Odebrecht Foundation ....
  
  
• Pedro Moreira Salles
  Pedro Moreira Salles
  Pedro Moreira Salles is the current Chairman of Itaú Unibanco the largest private banking institution in Brazil and is a Forbes billionaires listed person with a net worth of US$ 2.6 billion.-Career:...
  
  
• Ricardo Semler
  Ricardo Semler
  Ricardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Under his ownership, revenue has grown from US$4 million in 1982 to US$212 million in 2003 and his innovative business management...
  
  
• Roberto Marinho
  Roberto Marinho
  Roberto Pisani Marinho was the president and founder of the biggest Brazilian TV channel, Globo, a television network with 113 stations and associates...
  
  
• Samuel Klein
  Samuel Klein (businessman)
  Samuel Klein is a businessman who founded the Casas Bahia string of department stores in Brazil, building them into the top retailer in the country...
  
  
• Victor Civita
  Victor Civita
  Victor Civita was an American businessman, journalist and naturalized Brazilian...
  
  
• Walter Moreira Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles was a highly successful Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist who is considered by many as one of the premier founders of the modern Brazilian financial and banking industry....
  
  

Explorers and discoverers

• Cândido Rondon
  Cândido Rondon
  Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations...
  
   (1865–1958), famous explorer and engineer
• Orlando Villas Boas
  Villas Boas brothers
  Orlando and his brothers Cláudio and Leonardo Villas-Bôas were Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples.-Achievements:...
  
   (1914–2003), explorer and indigenist
• Amyr Klink
  Amyr Klink
  Amyr Klink is an explorer and sailor. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 79 days in 1998....
  
  , adventurer and navigator, first solo rowing across the South Atlantic
• Sydney Possuelo
  Sydney Possuelo
  Sydney Ferreira Possuelo is a Brazilian explorer, social activist and ethnographer who is considered the leading authority on Brazil's remaining isolated Indigenous Peoples....
  
   (1940–), explorer, social activist and Indian expert

Fashion designers

• Alberto Sabino
  Alberto Sabino
  Alberto Sabino is a Brazilian jewelry designer and photographer. He is a member of the board of directors of the Zuzu Angel Institute.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Alexandre Herchcovitch
  Alexandre Herchcovitch
  Alexandre Herchcovitch is a Brazilian fashion designer. He's of Jewish descent, his grandparents emigrated from Poland and Romania.-Overview:...
  
  
• Amir Slama
  Amir Slama
  Amir Slama is a Brazilian-born fashion designer of Iraqi Jewish and Romanian heritage . He is the designer, stylist and owner of the Brazilian beach fashion brand Rosa Chá....
  
   (Rosa Chá)
• André Lima
  André Lima
  André Luiz Barreto Silva Lima , commonly known as André Lima, is a Brazilian footballer, who currently plays for Grêmio on loan from Hertha BSC.-Honours:*Belgian Cup: 2005São Paulo* Brazilian League: 1...
  
  
• Carlos Falchi
  Carlos Falchi
  Carlos Falchi is a Brazilian-born handbag and accessories designer known for his patchwork designs. He has won awards for accessory design, and his accessories have appeared in several TV shows and movies...
  
  
• Carlos Tufvesson
  Carlos Tufvesson
  Carlos Tufvesson is a renowned fashion designer in Brazil. He attended Domus Academy, in Milan, Italy. In 2000, he opened a space in Ipanema: One side his atelier, the other a store front. In 2001, he released his fist prêt-à-porter collection during the Semana Barra Shopping, a precursor event to...
  
  
• Clodovil Hernandes
  Clodovil Hernandes
  Clodovil Hernandes was a Brazilian fashion stylist, television presenter, and politician....
  
   (Haute-Couture)
• David Azulay (Blue Man)
• Francisco Costa (Calvin Klein)
• Igor Cavalera
  Igor Cavalera
  Igor Graziano Cavalera is a Brazilian musician. He is best known as the former drummer for Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura.-Biography:...
  
   (Cavalera)
• João Pimenta
  João Pimenta
  João Nuno Cabral Pimenta is a Portuguese football player. Pimenta started at Sporting Clube de Portugal and is currently playing for S.C...
  
  
• Ocimar Versolato
  Ocimar Versolato
  Ocimar Versolato is a Paris-based Brazilian Fashion designer, who at one time worked for the house of Lanvin.-References:...
  
  
• Ricardo Almeida
  Ricardo Almeida
  Ricardo Almeida is a retired Brazilian-American mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu grappler residing in Bordentown, New Jersey.-Background:...
  
  
• Tufi Duek
  Tufi Duek
  Tufi Duek is a Brazilian fashion designer, creator of the Triton and Forum brands, which have an international following.-References:...
  
   (Fórum / Triton)
• Zuzu Angel
  Zuzu Angel
  Zuleika Angel Jones, better known as Zuzu Angel , was a Brazilian-American fashion designer, who became famous for opposing the Brazilian military dictatorship after the forced disappearance of her son Stuart. Zuzu was also mother of journalist Hildegard Angel.-Biography:As a child, Zuzu moved to...
  
  

Geologists

• Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa
  Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa
  Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa usually known as Professor Licínio is a retired geologist. He is Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Geociências of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ....
  
   (born 1916, Alto do Rio Doce-MG)
• Djalma Guimarães
  Djalma Guimarães
  Djalma Guimarães , was a pioneer Brazilian geochemist. He was Professor Emeritus in the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto and in the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais at Belo Horizonte...
  
   (1895–1973, born Santa Luzia, MG, died Belo Horizonte)
• Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
  Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
  Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida is a Brazilian Geologist. Almeida did the central works to understand the South American geology: son of the first Brazilian generation of geologists did the pioners papers of the continent's geology He is considered to be one of the top Brazilians in geology and...
  
   (born 1916, Rio de Janeiro), one of the most outstanding geologists of the 20 century; he is still active in researching, teaching, lecturing, and publishing in the 21st century
• José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (1763–1838)
• Louis Agassiz
  Louis Agassiz
  Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
  
  
• Louis de Loczy
  Louis de Loczy
  Louis de Loczy . He was the son of Lajos Lóczy, probably the most famous Hungarian geologist...
  
   (Hungria, 1897–1980, born Brazil, Rio de Janeiro)
• Orville Adalbert Derby
  Orville Adalbert Derby
  Orville Adalbert Derby was an American geologist who worked in Brazil.-Education:Derby studied geology at the Cornell University, obtaining his degree in 1873...
  
   (1851–1915, born Kellogsville, New York, died Rio de Janeiro), American geologist who worked in Brazil particularly for the DNPM, CPRM.
• Reinhard Maack (1892–1969, born in Herford-Germany, died in Curitiba-Brazil)
• Walter K. Link
  Walter K. Link
  -Career:In 1926, Walter Link went to work for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey as a junior geologist mapping deposits in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. His work for Standard Oil then took him to Indonesia, Ada, Oklahoma, and the American Gulf Coast...
  
  , USA geologist. Controversial organizer of Oil Exploration in Brazil.
• Octávio Barbosa
  Octávio Barbosa
  Octávio Barbosa was a Brazilian geologist.Barbosa was born in Ituverava, where he lived with his parents on a farm until 13 years old. He learned to read at the age of five, and had his secondary education at schools in Ribeirão Preto. Octávio Barbosa graduated from the University of Ouro Preto ...
  
   (1907–1997) Brazilian field geologist, prospector
• Heinz Ebert
  Heinz Ebert
  Heinz Ebert was a German-Brazilian geologist, naturalist, and educator.Ebert had his basic training in chemistry, physics, and analytical chemistry and natural sciences and served as geologist at the Geological Survey of Prussia...
  
   (1907–1983) born in Saxony, Germany, died Rio Claro, São Paulo
• Aziz Ab'Saber
  Aziz Ab'Saber
  Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber is an environmentalist and one of Brazil´s most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography, geology, ecology and archaeology...
  
   (born 1924, São Luiz do Paraitinga, São Paulo), Brazilian geoscientist
• Sérgio Estanislau do Amaral
  Sérgio Estanislau do Amaral
  Sérgio Estanislau do Amaral was a Brazilian geologist. He became a professor of geology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo in 1959...
  
  
• Peter Szatmari (geologist)
  Peter Szatmari (geologist)
  Peter Szatmari is a geologist born in Budapest, Hungary, where he graduated in geology at the Eötvös Loránd University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh on salt and performed post-doctoral research at Princeton University...
  
  , Hungarian geologist

Heroes and historical figures

• Admiral Tamandaré, military combatant, war veteran, Father of the Navy.
• Ana Néri
  Ana Néri
  Ana Justina Ferreira Néri was a Brazilian nurse, considered the first in her country. She is best known for her volunteer work with the Triple Alliance during the Paraguayan War.-Biography:...
  
  , pioneering nurse, she assisted Brazilian forces on the battlefield, Mother of Nursery.
• Anita Garibaldi
  Anita Garibaldi
  Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro di Garibaldi, best known as Anita Garibaldi, was the Brazilian wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi...
  
   (1821–1849), revolutionary combatant, fought in Brazil and Italy, was married to Giuseppe Garibaldi
  Giuseppe Garibaldi
  Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...
  
  .
• Barão do Amazonas, Admiral of the Navy, war hero, led the decisive Battle of Riachuelo
  Battle of Riachuelo
  The naval Battle of Riachuelo was a key point in the War of the Triple Alliance. By late 1864, Paraguay had scored a series of victories in the war; on June 11, 1865, however, its naval defeat by Brazil began to turn the tide in favor of the allies....
  
  .
• Bento Gonçalves
  Bento Gonçalves da Silva
  General Bento Gonçalves da Silva, , was a Tatter Revolutionary leader and President of the Piratini Republic ....
  
  , military commander, led a separatist movement.
• Chico Mendes
  Chico Mendes
  Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes , was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples...
  
   (1944–1988), murdered rural leader and martyr of ecological movements in the Amazon.
• Duke of Caxias, military commander, nationalist leader, Father of the Army.
• José Bonifácio
  José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva
  José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva , was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire. He was one of the most important mentors of Brazilian independence, and his actions were decisive for the success of Emperor Pedro I...
  
  , Patriarch of the Independence.
• Princess Isabel
  Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil
  Dona Isabel , nicknamed "the Redemptress", was the heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil, bearing the title of Princess Imperial....
  
   (1846–1921), Princess Imperial of Brazil, later de jure
  De jure
  De jure is an expression that means "concerning law", as contrasted with de facto, which means "concerning fact".De jure = 'Legally', De facto = 'In fact'....
  
   Empress of Brazil, second daughter of Emperor D. Pedro II
  Pedro II of Brazil
  Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...
  
  , signed the abolition of slavery
  Slavery
  Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
  
   in the country.
• Tiradentes
  Tiradentes
  Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes , was a leading member of the Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira whose aim was full independence from the Portuguese colonial power and to create a Brazilian republic. When the plan was discovered, Tiradentes was...
  
   (1746–1792), leader of a failed conspiracy against the Portuguese, executed by hanging.
• Tristão de Alencar Araripe
  Tristão de Alencar Araripe
  Tristão Gonçalves de Alencar, later Araripe, was born in 1789 in Ceará, Brazil. He was one of the sons of Barbara de Alencar and an important revolutionary leader during the revolutionary movements of 1817...
  
  , republican leader
  Confederation of the Equator
  The Confederation of the Equator was a short-lived rebellion that occurred in the northeastern region of Brazil during that nation's struggle for independence from Portugal. The secessionist movement was led by wealthy landowners who opposed early reforms by the nation's first leader, Emperor...
  
  .
• Zumbi dos Palmares
  Zumbi
  Zumbi , also known as Zumbi dos Palmares, was the last of the leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil.-Quilombos:...
  
   (1655–1695), African-born leader of a slave revolt, killed in battle.

Intellectuals and thinkers

• Alessandro Hirata
  Alessandro Hirata
  Alessandro Hirata is a Brazilian jurist. He is professor of roman law at the University of São Paulo.After studying law at the University of São Paulo, he earned his doctorate in 2007 from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich...
  
  , jurist
• Benjamin Sodré
• Benjamin Constant
  Benjamin Constant (Brazil)
  Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães was a Brazilian military man and political thinker.He was born at Niterói....
  
  , abolitionist and republican
• Darcy Ribeiro
  Darcy Ribeiro
  Darcy Ribeiro was a Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician. Darcy Ribeiro's ideas of Latin American identity have influenced several later scholars of Latin American studies...
  
   (1922–1997), anthropologist and educator, scientific leader and politician
• Florestan Fernandes
  Florestan Fernandes
  Florestan Fernandes was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice.- Life and career :...
  
   (1920–1995), sociologist
• Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
  
   (1900–1987), sociologist
• Jorge Stolfi
  Jorge Stolfi
  Jorge Stolfi is a full professor of computer science at the State University of Campinas, working in computer vision, image processing, splines and other function approximation methods, graph theory, computational geometry, and several other fields...
  
   (born 1950), computer scientist
• José do Patrocínio
  José do Patrocínio
  José Carlos do Patrocínio was a Brazilian writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist. He founded and occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1905.-Life:...
  
  , liberal abolitionist and republican
• Leonardo Boff
  Leonardo Boff
  Leonardo Boff was born 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. He is a theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded....
  
  , friar, theologian, silenced by the Vatican
  Holy See
  The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...
  
   due to his socialist stance
• Milton Santos
  Milton Santos
  Milton Almeida dos Santos was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law.-Biography:Santos was born in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil on May 3, 1926. Santos' parents were teachers at elementary school and taught him at home how to read and write...
  
   (1926–2001), geographer, writer and university professor
• Paulo Freire
  Paulo Freire
  Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.-Biography:...
  
   (1921–1997), educator and university professor
• Raymundo Faoro
  Raymundo Faoro
  Raymundo Faoro was a lawyer, jurist, sociologist, historian, writer and president of the Brazilian Bar Association, which in Portuguese is known as OAB . Even though lawyers have an expressive presence in the political scenery of Brazil, not one President after Faoro gained the same intellectual...
  
   (1925–2003), jurist

Female

• Adriana Lima
  Adriana Lima
  Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model, best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000, and as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009...
  
  
• Alessandra Ambrosio
  Alessandra Ambrosio
  Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Ambrosio is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret and was chosen as the first spokesmodel for the company's "PINK" line...
  
  
• Ana Beatriz Barros
  Ana Beatriz Barros
  Ana Beatriz Barros is a Brazilian model known for her work with Guess?, bebe, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO fashion line.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• Ana Carolina Reston
  Ana Carolina Reston
  Ana Carolina Reston Macan was a Brazilian fashion model.Reston was born to a middle-class family in Jundiaí, on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil. At the age of 13, she began her modeling career after winning a local beauty contest in her hometown...
  
  
• Ana Claudia Michels
  Ana Claudia Michels
  Ana Cláudia Michels is a Brazilian model of German descent.Michels started modeling in 1997 with the Mega Agency, when she was introduced to the owners by a friend. She has appeared in catalogs for Victoria's Secret and Le Lis Blanc, a noted Brazilian clothing company, as well as Calvin Klein...
  
  
• Ana Hickmann
  Ana Hickmann
  Ana Lúcia Hickmann is a German Brazilian model who has worked for Victoria's Secret, Nivea, L'Oreal, Clairol, and Bloomingdales...
  
  
• Bruna Erhardt
  Bruna Erhardt
  Bruna Erhardt is a Brazilian fashion model of German descent. She was born in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil. She has appeared on the cover of the Brazilian Vogue. Fellow Brazilian models Caroline Trentini and Cintia Dicker are her good friends and roommates in New York City...
  
  
• Bruna Tenório
  Bruna Tenório
  Bruna Tenório is a Brazilian model of Indigenous Brazilian ancestry.-Biography:Bruna Tenório started her career in 2006 when she walked the runway for designers like Chanel, Christian Dior and Dolce & Gabbana in Paris and Milan...
  
  
• Camilla Finn
• Caroline Ribeiro
  Caroline Ribeiro
  Caroline Ribeiro is a Brazilian model. As a teenager, Ribeiro moved to São Paulo to begin modeling. She states of her own looks, "I think my face is different, it's exotic - not like normal beauty. I don't have what you would call perfect beauty.....
  
  
• Caroline Trentini
  Caroline Trentini
  Caroline Trentini , also known as Carol Trentini, is a Brazilian fashion model.- Early life :...
  
  
• Cintia Dicker
  Cintia Dicker
  Cintia Dicker is a Brazilian model of German descent.She was born in Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul. She has appeared in advertisements for Ann Taylor, Macy's, L’Oréal, American Eagle Outfitters, and Yves Saint Laurent, and in catalogs for Victoria's Secret, Gap, bebe stores, and Lands' End...
  
  
• Daniella Cicarelli
• Daniella Sarahyba
  Daniella Sarahyba
  -Early life:Sarahyba was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and her mother, Mara Lúcia Sarahyba, was also a model in Brazil. When she was 3 days old, she appeared with her mother on the cover of Brazilian parenting magazine Pais & Filhos. Sarahyba began entering modeling contests at age 12...
  
  
• Emanuela de Paula
  Emanuela de Paula
  Emanuela de Paula is a Brazilian model. She has been the face of UK retailer Next for the past two seasons and can be seen in the 2009 Pirelli Calendar...
  
  
• Fabiana Semprebom
  Fabiana Semprebom
  Fabiana Semprebom is a Brazilian fashion model. She is the daughter of a Brazilian father and an Italian-American mother and she is engaged to Argentinian tennis player Guillermo Ignacio Cañas...
  
  
• Fernanda Lessa
  Fernanda Lessa
  Fernanda Lessa is a Brazilian top model. She was born April 15, 1977 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is 5'10" tall and has brown hair and eyes....
  
  
• Fernanda Motta
  Fernanda Motta
  Fernanda Motta is a Brazilian model, actress, and television host. She is the host of the reality TV show Brazil's Next Top Model, the Brazilian version of the show, created by Tyra Banks.-Biography:Motta was born and grew up in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
  
  
• Fernanda Tavares
  Fernanda Tavares
  Fernanda Tavares is a Brazilian model.-Biography:Born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Tavares was appearing in local shows at the age of nine, and at just 13 she won the "Elite Look of the Year" contest. A year later, she was invited by agents to go to São Paulo to pursue a modeling career...
  
  
• Flavia de Oliveira
  Flavia de Oliveira
  Flavia de Oliveira is a Brazilian model who participated in the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows. She has been in shows such as Dior, Valentino, Missoni, Elie Saab, and Chanel...
  
  
• Gianne Albertoni
  Gianne Albertoni
  Gianne Albertoni is a Brazilian actress and model. She was discovered when she was 13 by the photographer, Sérgio Valle Duarte. Four months later in Milan, she walked the runway for designers like Versace, Armani, Prada, Fiorucci.In Milan, she worked for Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, and Armani...
  
  
• Gisele Bündchen
  Gisele Bündchen
  Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success...
  
  
• Isabeli Fontana
  Isabeli Fontana
  -Early life and discovery:Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from South of Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career.-Career:...
  
  
• Izabel Goulart
  Izabel Goulart
  Maria Izabel Goulart Dourado , better known as Izabel Goulart, is a Brazilian model. She is best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels from 2005 to present and for her work with Armani Exchange.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Jeisa Chiminazzo
  Jeisa Chiminazzo
  Jeísa Chiminazzo is a Brazilian model.- Personal life :Chiminazzo grew up in Muçum, RS, Brazil, born to parents Ernani and Ivone of Italian and German descent. She has two sisters, Grace and Jéssica...
  
  
• Jéssica Pauletto
  Jéssica Pauletto
  -Biography:Jéssica Pauletto was born in the town of Bento Gonçalves, State of Rio Grande do Sul, 125 km away from the State's capital Porto Alegre. She is the daughter of a Brazilian industrialist...
  
  
• Juliana Imai
• Juliana Martins
  Juliana Martins
  This article is about the Brazilian model. For the Brazilian actress, see Juliana Martins .Juliana Martins is a Brazilian model. She worked for Sports Illustrated, and contested in the 1997 Elite Model Look...
  
  
• Letícia Birkheuer
  Letícia Birkheuer
  Letícia Birkheuer is a Brazilian fashion model of German descent. She was discovered while playing volleyball in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil and on 2006 she was the 7th best paid Brazilian model. She is a Sport Club Internacional supporter...
  
  
• Luciana Curtis
  Luciana Curtis
  Luciana Curtis is a Brazilian model. She was born in São Paulo to a Brazilian mother and an English father. She has been in advertisements for the likes of: Arden B., Bebe, Bergdorf Goodman, Charlie Miller, Coccinelle, CoverGirl, Harrods, H&M, L'Oréal, and two years contract with Revlon...
  
  
• Luciana Gimenez
  Luciana Gimenez
  Luciana Gimenez Morad is a Brazilian fashion model and TV show hostess. Luciana started her modeling career at age 13, and has worked in many cities around the world, such as Paris, Hamburg, Milan and New York...
  
  
• Luíza Brunet
  Luíza Brunet
  Luíza Botelho Brunet is a former model for many international clothing brands. She has a beauty and fashion-themed website ....
  
  
• Marcelle Bittar
  Marcelle Bittar
  Marcelle Bittar de Almeida , better known as Marcelle Bittar, is a Brazilian fashion model of Lebanese decent....
  
  
• Mariana Weickert
  Mariana Weickert
  Mariana Weickert is a Brazilian model of German descent affiliated to Ford Models. She regularly modeled in cities such as Paris, Milan, London and New York, for such high fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen, Sonia Rykiel, Bottega Veneta, Marc Jacobs, Ana Molinari, Narciso Rodrigues,...
  
  
• Mariana Maxi Torres-Hamilton
• Michelle Alves
  Michelle Alves
  Michelle Alves is a Brazilian model.She was born in Londrina, Parana, Brazil, as the daughter of a lawyer and an engineer . Alves was a student in civil engineering at Brazil's Londrina State University prior to moving to São Paulo, where she pursued modeling...
  
  
• Raica Oliveira
  Raica Oliveira
  Raica Oliveira is a Brazilian model known for her work with numerous companies, including Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Vogue, Chanel, Lancome, Victoria's Secret, Pepe Jeans, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, JLO, H&M, Elle, Marie Claire, TNG, Ann Taylor and XOXO...
  
  
• Raquel Zimmermann
  Raquel Zimmermann
  Raquel Zimmermann is a Brazilian model of German descent.-Discovery and modeling career:Zimmermann was discovered by a scouting agency in Porto Alegre, Brazil at the age of 14 and made her way to Japan and on to Paris...
  
  
• Shirley Mallmann
  Shirley Mallmann
  Shirley Mallmann is a Brazilian model of German descent. She was born in Santa Clara do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul.Her career includes advertisements for designers such as Alberta Ferretti, Chanel 'Allure' perfume, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani, Gianfranco Ferré, Guess?, Jean Paul...
  
  
• Yasmin Brunet
  Yasmin Brunet
  Yasmin Brunet is a Brazilian model who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.- Biography :...
  
  

Male

• Anderson Silva
  Anderson Silva
  Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion and the promotion's longest reigning champion. With 14 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest winning streak and title defense streak in UFC history...
  
  
• Evandro Soldati
  Evandro Soldati
  Evandro Soldati is a Brazilian male model. According to Forbes, he was the 7th most successful male model in the world in 2008. Evandro is of Italian ancestry. Soldati appears in the music video for Lady Gaga's single Alejandro .He started modelling in 2002 when his mother signed him up for a Ford...
  
  
• Miro Moreira
  Miro Moreira
  Miro Moreira , is a Brazilian male model.-Biography:Miro Moreira was born on April 6, 1984 in São Paulo. According to him, when he was a teenager he was like the "ugly ducking" because he was skinny, used braces and had a lot of pimples. At first he worked in a bank, but after his workmates...
  
  
• Rafael Verga
  Rafael Verga
  Rafael Maximiliano Verga is a Brazilian model. He was born in Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina state. His modeling career has taken off with campaigns such as 2ist and Sean John. In 2005, Verga was named Brazilian male model of the year...
  
  
• Romulo Pires
  Romulo Pires
  Rômulo Pires is a Brazilian male model. Romulo is of Italian and Brazilian ancestry.Pires was working as a mechanic when a woman with a flat tire said he was attractive and had the skill for modeling...
  
  
• Francisco Lachowski
  Francisco Lachowski
  Francisco Lachowski is a Brazilian-Polish model. He started his career in 2009 when he won a modeling contest in São Paulo, for which he was awarded a contract with Ford Models. In 2009 he did his first runway shows in Milan and Paris, walking for designers like Gucci and Dior Homme...
  
  

Monarchs

• Emperor Pedro I
• Emperor Pedro II
  Pedro II of Brazil
  Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...
  
  

Politicians

• Aécio Neves
  Aécio Neves
  Aécio Neves da Cunha is a Brazilian economist and politician; he was the Governor of Minas Gerais from 2003 to 2010 and is currently a member of the Brazilian Federal Senate. Born in Belo Horizonte, on March 10, 1960, he is the youngest governor in the state's history...
  
  , senator of Minas Gerais
  Minas Gerais
  Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
  
  , grandson of former president Tancredo Neves
  Tancredo Neves
  Tancredo de Almeida Neves, SFO more commonly Tancredo Neves was a Brazilian politician. He was born in São João del Rey, in the state of Minas Gerais, of mostly Portuguese, but also Austrian descent and graduated in law. The Neves family name comes from an Azorean great great grandfather...
  
  .
• André Franco Montoro
  André Franco Montoro
  André Franco Montoro was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was born in São Paulo as the son of André de Blois Montoro and Tomásia Alijostes. He was a senator and governor of São Paulo. He was a member of several parties, such as PDC, MDB, Party of Brazilian Democratic Movement and one of the...
  
  , senator and governor of the state of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  
• Adhemar de Barros
  Adhemar de Barros
  Adhemar Pereira de Barros was the mayor of São Paulo , and twice elected Governor of São Paulo . He was also the federal interventor in the state of São Paulo nominated by Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, serving between 1938 and 1941...
  
  , governor of the state of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  
• Artur da Costa e Silva
  Artur da Costa e Silva
  Artur da Costa e Silva was a Brazilian Army General, the second President of Brazil during the military regime set up by the 1964 coup d'état; he was born only a month before the coup that overthrow Dom Pedro II. He was married to Iolanda Barbosa Costa e Silva, the daughter of a soldier...
  
  , general and president during the military regime
• Carlos Lacerda
  Carlos Lacerda
  Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda was a Brazilian journalist and politician.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lacerda was the son of a family of politicians from Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro State....
  
   (1914–1977), journalist and governor of former Guanabara State
  Guanabara State
  The State of Guanabara was a former Brazilian state that existed from 1960 to 1975. It comprised the city of Rio de Janeiro, after the national capital was moved to Brasília in 1960...
  
  
• Cesar Maia
  Cesar Maia
  César Epitácio Maia is a Brazilian politician, notable for having been elected three times for mayor of Rio de Janeiro.A native of Rio, born in 1945, Maia was forced to leave Brazil in exile during the 1960s on account of his affiliation with the Brazilian Communist Party...
  
  , mayor of Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
  
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• Ciro Gomes
  Ciro Gomes
  Ciro Ferreira Gomes is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was a founding member of the then-center-left Brazilian Social Democracy Party , but left the party in 1996. He later moved to the Socialist People's Party and ran as the PPS' presidential candidate in 1998 and 2002...
  
  , mayor of Fortaleza
  Fortaleza
  Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. With a population close to 2.5 million , Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil. It has an area of and one of the highest demographic densities in the country...
  
  , governor of Ceará
  Ceará
  Ceará is one of the 27 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is currently the 8th largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the main touristic destinations in Brazil. The state capital is the city of...
  
  , presidential candidate and minister
• Dilma Rousseff
  Dilma Rousseff
  Dilma Vana Rousseff is the 36th and current President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office. Prior to that, in 2005, she was also the first woman to become Chief of Staff of Brazil, appointed by then President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
  
  , president
• Ernesto Geisel
  Ernesto Geisel
  Ernesto Beckmann Geisel, was a Brazilian military leader and politician of German descent who was President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979.-Early life and family:...
  
   (1907–1996), general and president during the military regime, started the political liberalization
• Esperidião Amin
  Esperidião Amin
  Esperidião Amin "Tabaco com orelha" is a Brazilian politician born in a family of businessmen and politicians of Lebanese origin. He was twice elected governor of the State of Santa Catarina and twice mayor of the city of Florianopolis, its capital. He was Senator of the Republic between 1991 and...
  
  , senator and governor of Santa Catarina
  Santa Catarina (state)
  Santa Catarina is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island. Neighbouring states are Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bounded on the east by...
  
  
• Eurico Gaspar Dutra
  Eurico Gaspar Dutra
  Eurico Gaspar Dutra , was a Brazilian marshal, politician and president of Brazil from 1946–1951.He was born in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, and like many other Brazilians, was from Azorean-Portuguese origin...
  
   (1883–1974), marshal of the Army, war minister during the WWII, succeeded by Getúlio Vargas in 1951.
• Fernando Collor de Mello
  Fernando Collor de Mello
  Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello was the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his trial of impeachment by the Brazilian Senate...
  
  , mayor, governor of Alagoas
  Alagoas
  Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...
  
   and impeached
  Impeachment
  Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....
  
   president in 1992
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  Fernando Henrique Cardoso – also known by his initials FHC – was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician...
  
   (born 1931), sociologist and university professor, senator, minister and twice president
• Geraldo Alckmin
  Geraldo Alckmin
  Geraldo José Rodrigues Alckmin Filho , known as Geraldo Alckmin is a Brazilian politician, who has been elected as the new governor of São Paulo, doing it for the second time, and former candidate for president of Brazil in the 2006 Elections...
  
  , ex-mayor of Pindamonhangaba
  Pindamonhangaba
  Pindamonhangaba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located in the Paraíba valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is accessed to the Via Dutra at the 99th km...
  
  , vice-governor and ex-governor of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  
• Getúlio Vargas
  Getúlio Vargas
  Getúlio Dornelles Vargas served as President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Vargas led Brazil for 18 years, the most for any President, and second in Brazilian history to Emperor Pedro II...
  
   (1882–1954), senator and twice president (1930–45;1951–54), was also a dictator
  Dictator
  A dictator is a ruler who assumes sole and absolute power but without hereditary ascension such as an absolute monarch. When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship...
  
   (1937–45), killed himself in 1954
• Golbery do Couto e Silva
  Golbery do Couto e Silva
  Golbery do Couto e Silva was a Brazilian General of the Army, who developed the Brazilian National Security Doctrine....
  
   (1911–1987), early conspirator of the military coup against Goulart, and powerful political figure behind the office of the president under Ernesto Geisel
  Ernesto Geisel
  Ernesto Beckmann Geisel, was a Brazilian military leader and politician of German descent who was President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, statesman, first Brazil's foreign minister, hero of the independence
• José Sarney
  José Sarney
  José Sarney de Araújo Costa is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician. He served as president of Brazil from 15 March 1985 to 15 March 1990....
  
   (born 1930), governor of Maranhão
  Maranhão
  Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil. To the north lies the Atlantic Ocean. Maranhão is neighbored by the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent...
  
   and senator, vice-president of Tancredo Neves, became president upon the latter's sudden death
• Júlio Prestes
  Júlio Prestes
  Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque was a Brazilian politician. Governor of São Paulo state in 1926, he was elected president of Brazil on March 1, 1930, but never took office because the government was overthrown in the Revolution of 1930 that brought Getulio Vargas to power, three weeks before Prestes'...
  
  , governor of the state of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
   and defeated presidential candidate
• Juscelino Kubitschek(1902–1976), mayor, governor of Minas Gerais
  Minas Gerais
  Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
  
  , senator and president
• Jânio Quadros
  Jânio Quadros
  Jânio da Silva Quadros , , was a Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil for only 7 months in 1961.-Career:...
  
  , mayor and governor of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , president (renounced 1961)
• João Goulart
  João Goulart
  João Belchior Marques Goulart was a Brazilian politician and the 24th President of Brazil until a military coup d'état deposed him on April 1, 1964. He is considered to have been the last left-wing President of the country until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2003.-Name:João Goulart is...
  
  , vice-president of Jânio Quadros, president (deposed by a military coup in 1964)
• Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (born 1945), labor activist and politician, former president.
• Mário Covas
  Mário Covas
  Mário Covas Júnior was a Brazilian politician.Covas studied engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He entered politics in his native city of Santos, in the state of São Paulo....
  
   (1930–2001) , mayor and governor of the state of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , senator and federal representative
• Marta Suplicy
  Marta Suplicy
  Marta Teresa Smith de Vasconcelos Suplicy is a Brazilian politician and psychologist. She was Mayor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2004 as a member of the Brazilian Workers' Party...
  
  , Federal representative, mayor of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , minister of Tourism and senator
• Paulo Maluf
  Paulo Maluf
  Paulo Salim Maluf is a Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including those of State Governor of São Paulo, Mayor of the City of São Paulo, Congressman and Presidential candidate. As of 2011, Maluf is on a second consecutive term as Federal Deputy...
  
  , state governor and twice mayor of the state capital of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , defeated presidential candidate
• Paulo Renato Souza
  Paulo Renato Souza
  Paulo Renato Costa Souza was a Brazilian economist and politician.-Life:...
  
  , education minister 1995–2002
• Roberto Requião, mayor of Curitiba
  Curitiba
  Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
  
  , governor of the state of Paraná
  Paraná (state)
  Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
  
   and senator
• Tancredo Neves
  Tancredo Neves
  Tancredo de Almeida Neves, SFO more commonly Tancredo Neves was a Brazilian politician. He was born in São João del Rey, in the state of Minas Gerais, of mostly Portuguese, but also Austrian descent and graduated in law. The Neves family name comes from an Azorean great great grandfather...
  
   (1910–1985), several times federal representative and senator, elected president by the Congress in 1985, being the first civil president after the military ruled, but died before taking office.

Religious leaders

• Antonio Conselheiro
  Antônio Conselheiro
  Antônio Conselheiro was a Brazilian religious leader, preacher, and founder of the village of Canudos, the scene of the War of Canudos , a civil rebellion against the central government which was brutally stamped out with the loss of more than 15,000 lives.-Early...
  
  , also known outside Brazil as "The Counselor", founder of Canudos
  Canudos
  Canudos was a town founded in the racially diverse Bahia state of northeastern Brazil in 1893 by Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel. Antonio was an itinerant preacher from Ceara who had been wandering through the backroads and lesser-inhabited areas of the country from the 1870s onwards, followed by a...
  
  
• David Miranda, Christian
  Christian
  A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
  
   missionary, founder of the Deus é Amor church.
• Edir Macedo
  Edir Macedo
  Edir Macedo Bezerra is a Brazilian religious leader. Macedo was raised Catholic, but by 1970 was a Pentecostal. He founded the "Neo-Pentecostal" Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil in 1977....
  
  , founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
  Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
  Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is a Pentecostal Christian organisation established in Brazil on July 9, 1977, with a presence in many countries...
  
  .
• Inri Cristo
  Inri Cristo
  Inri Cristo is a Brazilian religious leader who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated...
  
   (born 1948), who have claimed to be Jesus.
• R. R. Soares, founder of the International Church of the Grace of God.
• Saint Anthony of Saint Anne Galvão (Friar Galvão), friar, Catholic saint.
• D. Helder Câmara
  Hélder Câmara
  Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife.He was known as the 'Bishop of Corum' and took a clear position with the urban poor....
  
   (1909–1999), Archbishop of Olinda
  Olinda
  Olinda is a historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, just north of Recife and south of Paulista...
  
   and Recife
  Recife
  Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...
  
  , a fierce defender of civil rights during the military regime.
• D. Paulo Evaristo Arns
  Paulo Evaristo Arns
  Paulo Evaristo Arns O.F.M. is the Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo.-Early life and education:...
  
  , former Archbishop of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , also a civil rights leader.
• D. Cláudio Hummes
  Cláudio Hummes
  Cláudio Hummes, OFM is a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia , having previously served as Archbishop of Fortaleza from 1996 to 1998 and archbishop of São Paulo from 1998 to 2006...
  
  , Bishop
  Bishop
  A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
  
  , Archbishop
  Archbishop
  An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
  
   and Cardinal
  Cardinal (Catholicism)
  A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
  
   of São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , current Mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
   of the Congregation for the Clergy
  Congregation for the Clergy
  The Sacred Congregation for the Clergy is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for overseeing matters regarding priests and deacons not belonging to religious orders...
  
  .
• Helvécio Martins
  Helvécio Martins
  Helvécio Martins was the first person of Black African descent to be called as a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
  
  , General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Chico Xavier
  Chico Xavier
  Chico Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido was a popular medium in Brazil's spiritism movement who wrote 413 books, ostensibly using a process known as "psychography"....
  
   (1910–2002), main figure of Spiritism
  Spiritism
  Spiritism is a loose corpus of religious faiths having in common the general belief in the survival of a spirit after death. In a stricter sense, it is the religion, beliefs and practices of the people affiliated to the International Spiritist Union, based on the works of Allan Kardec and others...
  
  .

Journalists and TV celebrities

• Abelardo Barbosa
• Alexandre Garcia
• Angélica Ksyvickis
• Boris Casoy
  Boris Casoy
  Boris Casoy is a Brazilian journalist, the son of Jewish Russian immigrant parents. He has spent most of his professional life in TV journalism and is currently a Brazilian TV news anchorman....
  
  
• Eliana
• Fátima Bernardes
• Fausto Silva
• Jô Soares
  Jô Soares
  José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author, theatrical producer, director, actor, painter and musician. Soares was born in Rio de Janeiro...
  
  
• Luciana Gimenez
  Luciana Gimenez
  Luciana Gimenez Morad is a Brazilian fashion model and TV show hostess. Luciana started her modeling career at age 13, and has worked in many cities around the world, such as Paris, Hamburg, Milan and New York...
  
  
• Luciano Huck
  Luciano Huck
  Luciano Grostein is a Brazilian television personality and presenter. He is better well-known as Luciano Huck, which is his artistic pseudonym, after the famous jurist Hermes Marcelo Huck....
  
  
• Pedro Bial
  Pedro Bial
  Pedro Bial is a Brazilian producer, director, writer, journalist and a celebrity TV presenter, best known for hosting the Variety Show Fantástico, and the Reality Show Big Brother Brasil, -Career:Bial graduated in journalism from PUC-RJ. His career, as a reporter, began at Rede Globo in 1981...
  
  
• Silvio Santos
  Silvio Santos
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• William Bonner

Sportsmen

• Daniel Adler, sailing, Olympic silver (yachting; sailing class)http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&pg=PA194&dq=daniel+adler+brazil&hl=en&ei=13NDTdrnB8aAlAfD8dRH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=daniel%20adler%20brazil&f=false
• Kevin Alves
  Kevin Alves
  Kevin Alves is a Brazilian-Canadian figure skater. At the 2008 Four Continents Championships, he became the first male skater to represent Brazil at any ISU Championship...
  
  , (born 1991), Brazilian figure skater
• Thiago Alves
  Thiago Alves
  Thiago Alves d'Araujo is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He started training in Muay Thai when he was 15 and mixed martial arts at 17. He is a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has been described as a "Muay Thai wrecking machine". As of July 2011, He is currently ranked the #10 welterweight...
  
  
• Jade Barbosa
  Jade Barbosa
  Jade Fernandes Barbosa is a Brazilian gymnast.-Junior career:Barbosa won the gold medal in the Junior Championships in the All-Around, Floor, Balance Beam and Vault....
  
  , (1991- ), gymnast
• Leandro Barbosa
  Leandro Barbosa
  Leandro Mateus Barbosa is a Brazilian professional basketball player, who plays at the guard position with Flamengo Basketball in Brazil. He is also under contract with the National Basketball Association's Toronto Raptors, and is expected to return to that team once the 2011 NBA lockout ends...
  
  , basketball player
• Rubens Barrichello
  Rubens Barrichello
  Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He is currently racing for Williams F1.Barrichello has scored the seventh highest points total in Formula One history. Barrichello drove for Ferrari from to , as Michael Schumacher's teammate, enjoying considerable...
  
  
• Bebeto
  Bebeto
  José Roberto Gama de Oliveira, known as 'Bebeto', is a former football forward, a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup...
  
  
• Adriana Behar
  Adriana Behar
  Adriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation....
  
  , volleyball, beach player; 2-time Olympic silver; Pan American champion; 2-time world champion
• Bob Burnquist, professional skateboarder
• Cafu
  Cafu
  Marcos Evangelista de Moraes , better known as Cafu, is a former Brazilian footballer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest right-backs ever. He was given this nickname due to his speed up and down the right flank which was reminiscent of Cafuringa, a Brazilian forward from the 1970s...
  
  
• Roberto Carlos
• Ayrton Senna da Silva, (1960–94), 3-time Formula 1 World Champion, died on 1 May 1994, in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at the Tamburello curve, at the circuit at Imola.
• Bruno Senna
  Bruno Senna
  Bruno Senna Lalli is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver and the nephew of the late three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. His mother is Ayrton's older sister, Viviane. His father, Flávio Lalli, died in a motorcycle crash in 1996. He wears a slightly modified version of his uncle's...
  
  , Formula One racing driver and the nephew of the late three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna
• Eronilde de Araújo
  Eronilde de Araújo
  Eronilde Nunes de Araújo is a Brazilian athlete who specializes in 400 metres hurdles. He dominated the event on the South American scene during the 1990s, and personal best of 48.04 seconds is also the South American record.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   - athlete who specializes in 400 metre hurdles
• Dida
• Junior dos Santos
  Junior dos Santos
  Junior dos Santos Almeida, also known as Junior Cigano , is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and the current UFC Heavyweight Champion. Dos Santos fights in the Heavyweight division, under the tutelage of former UFC and Pride Heavyweight Champion Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira and UFC...
  
  
• Benny Feilhaber
  Benny Feilhaber
  Benny Feilhaber is Brazilian-born American soccer player currently playing for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.-Early life:...
  
  , soccer player, center/attacking midfielder (AGF Aarhus & US national team)
• César Cielo Filho (1987- ), professional swimmer, having obtained two Olympic medals
• Garrincha
  Garrincha
  Manuel Francisco dos Santos , known by the nickname "Garrincha" , was an association football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962. He played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo.The word garrincha itself...
  
  ,(1933–83) Legendary soccer player
• Giba
  Giba
  Gilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, known as Giba , is a Brazilian professional volleyball player.-Biography:...
  
  , (born 1976), volleyball player, eight time World League
  World League
  World League may refer to:* World League of American Football, which later became NFL Europa* FIVB World League, a men's volleyball competition* FINA Water Polo World League, a water polo competition...
  
   champion
• Emerson Fittipaldi
  Emerson Fittipaldi
  Emerson Fittipaldi |São Paulo]], Brazil) is a Brazilian automobile racing driver who throughout a long and successful career won the Indianapolis 500 twice and championships in both Formula One and CART.-Early and personal life:...
  
  
• Nenê Hilário, basketball player
• Kaká
  Kaká
  Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite , commonly known as Kaká , is a Brazilian football attacking midfielder who currently plays for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazilian national team. Kaká started his footballing career at the age of eight, when he began playing for a local club...
  
  
• Lúcio
  Lúcio
  Lucimar Ferreira da Silva , commonly known as Lúcio, is a World Cup-winning Brazilian footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Inter and the Brazil national team. He is a strong defender with good aerial play, who adds presence in the attack.Lúcio began his professional career in 1997, in one...
  
  
• Lyoto Machida
  Lyoto Machida
  Lyoto Carvalho Machida is a Japanese-Brazilian mixed martial artist from Belém, Brazil who fights as a light heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
  
• Maurren Maggi
  Maurren Maggi
  Maurren Higa Maggi is a Brazilian athlete and Olympic gold medallist. She is the South American record holder at 100 metres hurdles and at long jump, with 12.71 seconds and 7.26 metres respectively. She also has 14.53 metres in the triple jump...
  
  
• Felipe Massa
  Felipe Massa
  Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished second in the Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the season.-Early years:...
  
  
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
  Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
  Antônio Rogério Nogueira is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist currently signed with the UFC. He is the twin brother of Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira. A proficient amateur boxer, he was the 2006 and 2007 Brazilian Super Heavyweight Champion. He also won a bronze medal in the 2007 Pan...
  
  
• Pelé
  Pelé
  However, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
  
  , most famous brazilian football player, three times World Cup
  FIFA World Cup
  The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
  
   Champion
• Nelson Piquet
  Nelson Piquet
  Nelson Piquet Souto Maior , known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian former racing driver. He was Formula One world champion in , and . He is one of eight drivers to win three or more world championships, the others being Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna , Alain Prost , Juan...
  
  
• Bernard Rajzman
  Bernard Rajzman
  Bernard Rajzman is a former Brazilian volleyball player. He is Jewish, and was born in Rio de Janeiro. He was enshrined in the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005...
  
  , volleyball, Olympic silver; Pan American champion; world silver
• Rivaldo
  Rivaldo
  Rivaldo Vítor Borba Ferreira , commonly known simply as Rivaldo , is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for São Paulo, on loan from Mogi Mirim, as an attacking midfielder and sometimes as a supporting striker.He most notably played five years with Spanish club FC Barcelona, with whom he...
  
  
• Robinho
  Robinho
  Robson de Souza , more commonly known as Robinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who currently plays as second striker and winger for Serie A club AC Milan...
  
  
• Rogério Ceni
  Rogério Ceni
  Rogério Ceni is a Brazilian goalkeeper. He has been a member of the Brazilian Série A club São Paulo since September 7, 1990, playing more than 1,000 matches and winning 2 Copa Libertadores trophies and one Club World Championship with them...
  
  , football player, the greatest goalkeeper in the world top scorer with 99 goals scored
• Romário
  Romário
  Romário de Souza Faria , better known simply as Romário , is a former footballer who played striker,manager and current politician where is currently running for a mayor like position in his hometown...
  
  
• Ronaldinho
  Ronaldinho
  Ronaldo de Assis Moreira , commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Flamengo and the Brazilian national team as an attacking midfielder or forward. He is a two-time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year, awarded to the best player over the year...
  
  
• Ronaldo
  Ronaldo
  Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima , commonly known as Ronaldo, is a retired Brazilian footballer who last played for Corinthians. Ronaldo is widely considered to be the greatest 'pure' striker in the history of the modern game, and by some accounts, in the history of football. Ronaldo was one of the...
  
  , soccer player, two times World Cup champion.
• Oscar Schmidt
  Oscar Schmidt
  Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt is a retired Brazilian basketball player. He is also known as Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or Mão Santa in his homeland. At his peak, he was 2.05 m tall and weighed...
  
  , retired basketball player.
• Wanderlei Silva
  Wanderlei Silva
  Wanderlei César da Silva , nicknamed "The Axe Murderer", is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who has competed in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships and the American based Ultimate Fighting Championship . Silva is known for his aggressive fighting style with the majority of his fights ending in...
  
  
• Anderson Silva
  Anderson Silva
  Anderson da Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He is the current UFC Middleweight Champion and the promotion's longest reigning champion. With 14 consecutive wins, Silva holds the longest winning streak and title defense streak in UFC history...
  
  
• Anderson Varejão
  Anderson Varejão
  Anderson França Varejão is a Brazilian professional basketball player, who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He won the gold medal with Brazil at the 2003 Pan American Games.-1998–2001 :...
  
  , basketball player
• Diego Walsh
  Diego Walsh
  Diego Walsh is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for TOT S.C. in the Thai Premier League.-Youth and College:...
  
  
• Zico
  Zico
  Arthur Antunes Coimbra , better known as Zico , is a Brazilian coach and former footballer. He is the current head coach of the Iraq national football team. Often called the "White Pelé", he is commonly considered one of the most skilled finishers and one of the best passers ever and possibly the...
  
  
• Zizinho
  Zizinho
  Thomaz Soares da Silva, also known as Zizinho , was a Brazilian football player, who played as an attacking midfielder or winger for Brazil's national team. He came to international prominence at the 1950 World Cup, where scored two goals...
  
  

Writers and poets

• Álvares de Azevedo
  Álvares de Azevedo
  Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist...
  
   (1831–1852), poet and writer
• Alfredo D'Escragnolle Taunay
  Alfredo D'Escragnolle Taunay
  Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman...
  
   (1843–1871), writer and historian
• Augusto dos Anjos
  Augusto dos Anjos
  Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered to forerun the Modernism in Brazil....
  
   (1884–1914), poet
• Antônio Gonçalves Dias
  Antônio Gonçalves Dias
  Antônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright and linguist. He is famous for writing the poem "Canção do exílio", arguably the most well-known poem of the Brazilian literature, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would later give him the title of national poet of...
  
   (1823–1864), poet
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...
  
   (1902–1987), poet and writer
• Cecília Meireles
  Cecília Meireles
  Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she combatted the word...
  
   (1901–1964), poet
• Clarice Lispector
  Clarice Lispector
  Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
  
   (1925–1977), writer
• Érico Verissimo
  Erico Verissimo
  Erico Verissimo was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. His father, Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth...
  
   (1905–1975), writer
• Fernando Sabino
  Fernando Sabino
  Fernando Sabino was a Brazilian writer and journalist.Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro....
  
   (1923–2004), writer
• Ferreira Gullar
  Ferreira Gullar
  Ferreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira , Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer...
  
  , writer and poet
• Gustavo Dourado
  Gustavo Dourado
  Gustavo Dourado is a Brazilian teacher, writer and poet. Counselor of the Writers' Union of PD and author of 13 books....
  
  , (1960-) writer and poet
• Haroldo de Campos
  Haroldo de Campos
  Haroldo de Campos was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator. He did his secondary education at the College of St. Benedict, where he learned the first foreign language, like Latin, English, Spanish and French...
  
   (1929–2003), poet
• Holdemar Menezes
  Holdemar Menezes
  Holdemar Menezes was a Brazilian writer.He was born in Aracati, Ceará, Brazil, as the 3rd child of Ezequiel Silva de Menezes and Otília Oliveira de Menezes...
  
   (1921–1996) writer
• João Cabral de Melo Neto
  João Cabral de Melo Neto
  João Cabral de Melo Neto was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.He is often quoted saying "I try not to perfume the flower"...
  
   (1920–1999), poet
• João Guimarães Rosa
  João Guimarães Rosa
  João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, considered by many to be one of the greatest Brazilian novelists born in the 20th century. His best-known work is the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas...
  
   (1908–1967), writer
• Jorge Amado
  Jorge Amado
  Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
  
   (1912–2001), writer
• José de Alencar
  José de Alencar
  José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani...
  
   (1829–1877), writer
• Julio Ribeiro, writer
• Luis Fernando Veríssimo
  Luis Fernando Verissimo
  Luís Fernando Veríssimo is a Brazilian writer.Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood....
  
   (born 1936), writer
• Lya Luft
  Lya Luft
  Lya Luft is a Brazilian writer, a novelist, a poet, a prolific translator of German descent. She was also a college professor of linguistics and literature. Luft currently writes an opinion column for Veja magazine...
  
   (born 1938), writer and poet
• Machado de Assis (1839–1908), writer
• Manuel Bandeira
  Manuel Bandeira
  Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...
  
   (1886–1968), poet
• Maria Clara Machado
  Maria Clara Machado
  Maria Clara Machado was a Brazilian playwright, specialized on plays for children. She was born in 1921, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and died in Rio de Janeiro in 2001, where she lived most of her life. Daughter of writer Aníbal Machado, she studied theater in Paris; in her return to Brazil,...
  
   (1921–2001), playwright
• Mário de Andrade
  Mário de Andrade
  Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
  
   (1893–1945), writer
• Márcio Souza
  Márcio Souza
  Márcio Souza is a Brazilian writer, recognized for his focus on Amazonia.-Fiction:*Galvez – Imperador do Acre *Operação Silêncio *Mad Maria *A Resistível Ascensão do Boto Tucuxi...
  
   (born 1946), writer
• Menotti del Picchia
  Menotti Del Picchia
  Paulo Menotti Del Picchia was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernists....
  
  , critic and writer
• Monteiro Lobato
  Monteiro Lobato
  José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic...
  
   (1882–1948), writer and publisher
• Nelson Rodrigues
  Nélson Rodrigues
  Nelson Falcão Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog...
  
   (1912–1980), journalist and writer
• Oduvaldo Vianna Filho
  Oduvaldo Vianna Filho
  Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, known as Vianinha was a Brazilian playwright.Vianinha started in theater as an actor, in 1955, with the Teatro Paulista do Estudante group...
  
   (1936–1974), playwright
• Olavo Bilac
  Olavo Bilac
  Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"...
  
   (1865–1918), poet
• Otto Maria Carpeaux
  Otto Maria Carpeaux
  Otto Maria Carpeaux , born Otto Karpfen, was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939...
  
   (1900–1978), critic
• Oswald de Andrade
  Oswald de Andrade
  José Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
  
   (1890–1954), writer and critic
• Paulo Coelho
  Paulo Coelho
  Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.-Biography:Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical,...
  
   (born 1947), writer
• Patrícia Galvão ("Pagu"), wife of Oswald de Andrade
  Oswald de Andrade
  José Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
  
  
• Vinícius de Morais (1913–1980), poet
• Luiz Duarte (born 1956), writer, playwright, and screenplaywriter
• Paulo Fernando Craveiro
  Paulo Fernando Craveiro
  Paulo Fernando Craveiro is a writer, journalist, columnist and art critic.- Biography :...
  
   (born 1934) romance writer, chronicalist, poet, journalist

Science and technology

• Adib Jatene, heart surgeon
  Cardiac surgery
  Cardiovascular surgery is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease , correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease from various causes including endocarditis, rheumatic heart...
  
  
• Adolfo Lutz
  Adolfo Lutz
  Adolfo Lutz was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases....
  
  , physician and pioneer of public health
  Public health
  Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...
  
  
• Alberto Santos-Dumont
  Alberto Santos-Dumont
  Alberto Santos-Dumont , was a Brazilian early pioneer of aviation. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, Santos Dumont dedicated himself to science studies in Paris, France, where he spent most of his adult life....
  
  , aviator
  Aviation
  Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...
  
   and inventor.
• André Rebouças
  André Rebouças
  André Pinto Rebouças was a Brazilian military engineer, abolitionist and inventor, son of Antônio Pereira Rebouças and Carolina Pinto Rebouças. Lawyer, member of Parliament and an adviser to Pedro II of Brazil, his father was the son of a manumitted slave and a Portuguese tailor...
  
   (1838–1898), pioneer engineer, brother of Antônio Rebouças Filho.
• Aristides Leão
  Aristides Leão
  Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Leão was one of the most noted Brazilian biologists and scientists, one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the discoverer of cortical spreading depression, an electrophysiological phenomenon of the central...
  
  , physician and physiologist, discovered Leão's depression
• Carlos Chagas
  Carlos Chagas
  Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas , was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro...
  
  , physician and biomedical scientist, discovered Chagas Disease
  Chagas disease
  Chagas disease is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi is commonly transmitted to humans and other mammals by an insect vector, the blood-sucking insects of the subfamily Triatominae most commonly species belonging to the Triatoma, Rhodnius,...
  
  .
• Carlos Chagas Filho
  Carlos Chagas Filho
  Carlos Chagas Filho was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes...
  
  , physician and physiologist, former president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is a scientific academy of the Vatican, founded in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. It is placed under the protection of the reigning Supreme Pontiff. Its aim is to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical and natural sciences and the study of related...
  
  . Son of Carlos Chagas
  Carlos Chagas
  Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas , was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro...
  
  .
• Celso Furtado
  Celso Furtado
  Celso Monteiro Furtado was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world...
  
  , noted economist and ideologue of economy of developing nations
• César Lattes
  César Lattes
  Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes , also known as Cesar Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.-Life:Lattes was born to a family of Italian Jewish immigrants in Curitiba, Southern Brazil...
  
  , experimental physicist, co-discoverer of pi meson, a type of subatomic particle
• Daniel Martins-de-Souza, Brazilian biologist; biochemist ref
• Eduardo Krieger
  Eduardo Krieger
  Eduardo Moacyr Krieger is an influential Brazilian physician, physiologist and scientific leader, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.-Life:...
  
  , physician and physiologist
  Physiology
  Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
  
  , current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  The Brazilian Academy of Sciences is the national academy of Brazil. It is headquartered in the city of Rio de Janeiro and was founded in 1916....
  
  
• Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Brazilian biologist and geneticist; described the sequencing methodology ORESTES
• Ennio Candotti
  Ennio Candotti
  Ennio Candotti is a Brazilian physicist and scientific leader.He studied physics at the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, from 1960 to 1964, and also at the University of Naples, in Naples, Italy...
  
  , physicist and scientific leader
• Euryclides Zerbini, heart surgeon, pioneer of first heart transplant in Brazil
• Evandro Chagas
  Evandro Chagas
  Evandro Chagas , was a Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist specializing in tropical medicine.He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the eldest son of Carlos Chagas , noted physician and scientist who discovered Chagas disease, and brother of Carlos Chagas Filho , also a noted physician and...
  
  , physician and biomedical scientist specialized in tropical medicine. Son of Carlos Chagas
  Carlos Chagas
  Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas , was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro...
  
  .
• Florestan Fernandes
  Florestan Fernandes
  Florestan Fernandes was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice.- Life and career :...
  
   (1920–1995), father of Brazilian sociology
  Sociology
  Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
  
  
• Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto Freyre
  Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
  
   (1900–1987), historiographer and sociologist
• Henrique da Rocha Lima
  Henrique da Rocha Lima
  Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist. He discovered Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus. Rickettsia prowazekii was named after German zoologist Stanislaus von Prowazek.Henrique da Rocha Lima received his M.D. degree from the Medical...
  
  ,
• Hércules Florence
  Hércules Florence
  Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre , using the matrix negative/positive, still in use...
  
  , pioneer in photography
• Ivan Izquierdo
  Ivan Izquierdo
  Dr. Ivan Antonio Izquierdo is a renowned Argentine Brazilian scientist and a pioneer in the study of the neurobiology of learning and memory. Born in 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Izquierdo has graduated in Medicine and completed his Ph.D. in Pharmacology , both in the University of Buenos Aires...
  
  , physician and neuroscientist
  Neuroscience
  Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
  
  , discovered neural mechanisms of memory
• Jacob Palis
  Jacob Palis
  Jacob Palis, Jr. is a Brazilian mathematician and professor. Since 1973 he has held a permanent position as professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was director of the same institute from 1993 until 2003...
  
  , mathematician
• Jorge Stolfi
  Jorge Stolfi
  Jorge Stolfi is a full professor of computer science at the State University of Campinas, working in computer vision, image processing, splines and other function approximation methods, graph theory, computational geometry, and several other fields...
  
  , computer scientist, currently professor at UNICAMP
• Johanna Döbereiner
  Johanna Döbereiner
  Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner was a Brazilian agronomist. Her family were German Czechoslovakians who left the country after World War II. She received her degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, but settled in Brazil and became a Brazilian citizen in 1956...
  
   (1924–2000), biologist, discoverer of the nitrogen fixing
  Nitrogen fixation
  Nitrogen fixation is the natural process, either biological or abiotic, by which nitrogen in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia . This process is essential for life because fixed nitrogen is required to biosynthesize the basic building blocks of life, e.g., nucleotides for DNA and RNA and...
  
   role of soil bacteria
• José Aristodemo Pinotti
  José Aristodemo Pinotti
  José Aristodemo Pinotti was a Brazilian physician, gynecological surgeon, university professor, scientific and educational leader and politician....
  
  , physician and gynecologist, former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  The International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, usually just FIGO as the acronym of its French name Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique, is a worldwide NGO organisation representing obstetricians and gynaecologists in over one hundred territories...
  
  
• José Goldemberg
  José Goldemberg
  José Goldemberg , a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues....
  
  , physicist, former Minister of Science & Technology and Dean of the University of São Paulo
  University of São Paulo
  Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
  
  
• José Leite Lopes
  José Leite Lopes
  José Leite Lopes , noted Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.-Life:...
  
  , theoretical physicist
• José Lutzenberger
  Jose Lutzenberger
  José Antônio Kroepf Lutzenberger was a Brazilian environmentalist.-Biography:He was born in a German family in Porto Alegre, the capital city of southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, as the only son of architect Joseph Franz Seraph Lutzenberger. He graduated in Agronomy at the Federal...
  
   (1926–2002), ecologist and zoologist
• José Reis
  José Reis
  José Reis was a noted Brazilian scientist, journalist, scientific leader and science writer....
  
  , biologist, science writer
• Laila A Nahum http://www.nahum.com.br/laila/ biologist, science writer
• Manuel de Abreu
  Manuel de Abreu
  Manuel Dias de Abreu was a Brazilian physician and scientist, the inventor of abreugraphy, a rapid radiography of the lungs for screening tuberculosis...
  
  , physician, inventor of abreugraphy
  Abreugraphy
  Chest photofluorography, or abreugraphy is a photofluorography technique for mass screening for tuberculosis using a miniature photograph of the screen of a x-ray fluoroscopy of the thorax, first developed in 1935.-History:Abreugraphy receives its name from its inventor, Dr...
  
  , mass radiography
  Radiography
  Radiography is the use of X-rays to view a non-uniformly composed material such as the human body. By using the physical properties of the ray an image can be developed which displays areas of different density and composition....
  
   of the lungs for screening for tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
  
  
• Marcelo Gleiser
  Marcelo Gleiser
  Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer.-Biography:Gleiser received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1982 from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and his Ph.D. in 1986 from King's College London...
  
  , physicist, writer and professor of physics and astronomy at the Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
   since 1991
• Marcos Pontes
  Marcos Pontes
  Marco Pontes is a Brazilian Air Force pilot. He became the first Brazilian and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006...
  
  , first Brazilian astronaut, Expedition 13
  Expedition 13
  Expedition 13 was the 13th expedition to the International Space Station , and launched at 02:30 UTC on 30 March 2006. The expedition used the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft, which stayed at the station for the duration of the expedition for emergency evacuation....
  
  
• Mário Schenberg
  Mário Schenberg
  Mário Schenberg, , var. Mário Schönberg, Mario Schonberg, Mário Schoenberg), was a Jewish Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.-The Urca process:...
  
  , theoretical physicist
• Maurício Peixoto
  Maurício Peixoto
  Maurício Matos Peixoto, born on April 15 of 1921, in Fortaleza, Ceará, is a Brazilian engineer who pursued a bright career as a mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and is the author of Peixoto's theorem....
  
  , mathematician
• Maurício Rocha e Silva
  Maurício Rocha e Silva
  Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist...
  
  , physician and pharmacologist, discovered bradykinin
  Bradykinin
  Bradykinin is a peptide that causes blood vessels to dilate , and therefore causes blood pressure to lower. A class of drugs called ACE inhibitors, which are used to lower blood pressure, increase bradykinin further lowering blood pressure...
  
  , an active cardiovascular peptide
  Peptide
  Peptides are short polymers of amino acid monomers linked by peptide bonds. They are distinguished from proteins on the basis of size, typically containing less than 50 monomer units. The shortest peptides are dipeptides, consisting of two amino acids joined by a single peptide bond...
  
  
• Mayana Zatz
  Mayana Zatz
  Mayana Zatz is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo, currently being its Research dean.-Biography:...
  
  , biologist and geneticist
• Miguel Nicolelis
  Miguel Nicolelis
  Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis, MD, PhD, is a Brazilian physician and scientist, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control...
  
  , neuroscientist, one of Scientific American
  Scientific American
  Scientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
  
  's best scientists of 2004
• Mílton de Arruda Martins, physician, pulmonary scientist and medical educator
• Milton Santos
  Milton Santos
  Milton Almeida dos Santos was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law.-Biography:Santos was born in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil on May 3, 1926. Santos' parents were teachers at elementary school and taught him at home how to read and write...
  
   (1926–2001), geographer
• Newton da Costa
  Newton da Costa
  Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He studied engineering and mathematics at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba and the title of his 1961 Ph.D...
  
   (born 1929), mathematician and logician, recognised for his works in paraconsistent logic
  Paraconsistent logic
  A paraconsistent logic is a logical system that attempts to deal with contradictions in a discriminating way. Alternatively, paraconsistent logic is the subfield of logic that is concerned with studying and developing paraconsistent systems of logic.Inconsistency-tolerant logics have been...
  
  
• Nise da Silveira
  Nise da Silveira
  Nise da Silveira was born in Maceió, in the northeastern state of Alagoas, Brazil, in 1905. After graduating from the Medical School of Bahia in 1926, she devoted her life to psychiatry and never was in agreement with the aggressive forms of treatment of her time such as commitment to psychiatric...
  
   (1905–1999), psychiatrist and mental health reformer
• Oswaldo Cruz
  Oswaldo Cruz
  Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better known as Oswaldo Cruz |São Paulo]] state, Brazil – February 11, 1917, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state) was a Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.He also occupied the 5th chair of...
  
  , physician and public health champion, eliminated yellow fever
  Yellow fever
  Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....
  
  , bubonic plague
  Bubonic plague
  Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death...
  
   and smallpox
  Smallpox
  Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
  
   in Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
  
   at the turn of the 20th century
• Paulo Vanzolini
  Paulo Vanzolini
  Paulo Emilio Vanzolini is a Brazilian scientist and music composer. He is best known by his samba compositions, including the famous 'Ronda' and 'Boca da Noite', and for his scientific works in herpetology. He is considered one of the greatest samba composers from São Paulo...
  
  , zoologist, and composer of Brazilian popular music
• Roberto Landell de Moura, pioneer of telephony
  Telephony
  In telecommunications, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other....
  
  
• Santiago Americano Freire
  Santiago Americano Freire
  Santiago Americano Freire was a scientist of many interests and fields of works in science and culture.-Education:...
  
   (1908–1997), physician and professor of pharmacology, psychiatrist, writer, painter
• Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
  Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
  Sérgio Henrique Ferreira , Brazil, Brazilian physician and pharmacologist, noted for his discovery of Bradykinin potentiating factor, which led to better anti-hypertension drugs.Ferreira received his M.D...
  
  , physician and pharmacologist
  Pharmacology
  Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...
  
  , discovered the active principle of a drug for hypertension
  Hypertension
  Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...
  
  
• Vital Brazil
  Vital Brazil
  Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, known as Vital Brazil was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and immunologist, internationally renowned for the discovery of the polyvalent anti-ophidic serum used to treat bites of venomous snakes of the Crotalus, Bothrops and Elaps genera. He went on...
  
  , physician and scientist, discoverer of the antivenom for snakes and other venomous animals
• Wagner Farid Gattaz, physician and scientist, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  Brazilian Academy of Sciences
  The Brazilian Academy of Sciences is the national academy of Brazil. It is headquartered in the city of Rio de Janeiro and was founded in 1916....
  
  
• Warwick Estevam Kerr
  Warwick Estevam Kerr
  Warwick Estevam Kerr is a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees Warwick...
  
  , geneticist, researcher on the biology and genetics
  Genetics
  Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
  
   of bees
• Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
  Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
  Wilson Teixeira Beraldo was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin....
  
  , co-discoverer of bradykinin
  Bradykinin
  Bradykinin is a peptide that causes blood vessels to dilate , and therefore causes blood pressure to lower. A class of drugs called ACE inhibitors, which are used to lower blood pressure, increase bradykinin further lowering blood pressure...
  
  

Foreign scientists and engineers who lived in Brazil

• Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke
  Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke
  Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke was a German botanist, explorer and naturalist.Born at Alfeld, near Hannover, Germany, Schwacke studied Natural Sciences at the University of Göttingen and Bonn, specializing in botany after graduation.He emigrated to Brazil in 1873 and in March 1874 he was hired as a...
  
  , German botanist
• Charles Frederick Hartt
  Charles Frederick Hartt
  Charles Frederick Hartt was an Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil.-Exploration in Brazil:...
  
  , Canadian-American geologist and paleontologist
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
  
  , French anthropologist
• Émil Goeldi
  Émil Goeldi
  Émil August Goeldi , was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist....
  
  , Swiss naturalist
• Emmanuel Liais
  Emmanuel Liais
  Emmanuel Liais was a French astronomer, botanist and explorer who spent many years in Brazil.He was born in Cherbourg, the son of a wealthy family in the shipbuilding industry....
  
  , French astronomer and naturalist
• Friedrich Sellow
  Friedrich Sellow
  Friedrich Sellow was a German botanist and naturalist, one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Brazilian flora....
  
  , German botanist
• Fritz Müller
  Fritz Müller
  Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller , better known as Fritz Müller, and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist and physician who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, Santa Catarina...
  
  , German naturalist
• Fritz Köberle
  Fritz Köberle
  Fritz Köberle was an Austrian-Brazilian physician, pathologist and scientist, discoverer of the neurogenic mechanism of the chronic phase of Chagas disease, a human parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan.-Life:Fritz Köberle was born in Eichgraben, Austria, and studied medicine...
  
  , Austrian physician and pathologist
• Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
  Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
  Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Baron de Langsdorff was a Prussian aristocrat, politician and naturalist. He lived in Russia and was better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovitch...
  
  , German/Russian naturalist
• Giuseppe Occhialini
  Giuseppe Occhialini
  Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell . At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H...
  
  , Italian physicist
• Gleb Wataghin
  Gleb Wataghin
  Gleb Vassielievich Wataghin ; was a Ukrainian-Italian experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents: in the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and in the University of Turin, Turin, Italy.Wataghin was...
  
  , Ukrainian/Italian physicist
• Helmut Sick
  Helmut Sick
  Helmut Sick , was a German-Brazilian ornithologist.A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work: Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introdução , later translated into English as Birds in Brazil: A Natural History...
  
  , German zoologist
• Hermann von Ihering
  Hermann von Ihering
  Hermann von Ihering was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.-Biography:...
  
  , German naturalist
• Louis Couty
  Louis Couty
  Louis Couty was a French physician and physiologist. He worked at the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, the first of its kind in Brazil...
  
  , French physiologist and pharmacologist
• Lucien Lison
  Lucien Lison
  Lucien Alphonse Joseph Lison was a Belgian/Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist, considered the "father of histochemistry" ....
  
  , Belgian anatomist
• Ludwig Riedel
  Ludwig Riedel
  Ludwig Riedel was a German botanist.Riedel came to Brazil in 1811, invited to participate in the expedition organized by the German-Russian physician, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer Baron von Langsdorff...
  
  , German botanist
• Miguel Rolando Covian
  Miguel Rolando Covian
  Miguel Rolando Covian , was an Argentine-Brazilian physiologist, medical educator and writer.Covian was born in Rufino, Santa Fé Province, Argentina, on September 7, 1913. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, where, while a student, he worked also as a teaching...
  
  , Argentinian physiologist
• Orville Adalbert Derby
  Orville Adalbert Derby
  Orville Adalbert Derby was an American geologist who worked in Brazil.-Education:Derby studied geology at the Cornell University, obtaining his degree in 1873...
  
  , American geologist
• Peter Wilhelm Lund
  Peter Wilhelm Lund
  Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist and who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil...
  
  , Danish zoologist and paleontologist
• Richard Feynman
  Richard Feynman
  Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
  
  , American physicist
• David Bohm
  David Bohm
  David Joseph Bohm FRS was an American-born British quantum physicist who contributed to theoretical physics, philosophy, neuropsychology, and the Manhattan Project.-Youth and college:...
  
  , American physicist