- Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. He was a pioneer in the exploration of the constructive possibilities of reinforced concrete. Although he was a defender of utilitarianism, his creations did not have the blocky coldness frequently criticized by post-modern critics.
- Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro), popularly known as Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer. He is best known for his music, which often comments on Brazil's social, economic and cultural reality.
- Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento is a singer-songwriter who is considered one of the icons of Brazilian Music. Nascimento was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His mother was the maid Maria do Carmo Nascimento. When he was just a few months old, the boy was adopted by the family for whom his mother had previously worked: the couple Josino Brito Campos (a banker, mathematics teacher and electronic technician) and Lília Silva Campos (a music teacher).
- Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
- Fernando Collor de Mello
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, pron., (born August 12, 1949) was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992. He was elected a Senator of the republic in the 2006 general elections and began his term in February 2007. The son of Arnon Afonso de Farias Melo and Leda Collor de Mello, Collor was born in a political family, led by his father, a journalist and former governor of Alagoas.
- Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape designer (besides being a painter, ecologist and naturalist) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. Marx was respected by other 20th century architects. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. Marx's first landscaping inspirations came while studying painting in Germany, …
- Cássia Eller
Cássia Rejane Eller was a Brazilian musician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1962, but spent most of her adolescence in Brasília. In 1990 she returned to Rio and her recording career took off. Her most popular album is the live recording "Acústico" that she did for MTV Brasil (essentially the Brazilian version of an MTV Unplugged album), and her best-known hit songs are her cover of "Malandragem", originally written by Cazuza and "Segundo Sol".
- Juliana Paes
Juliana Couto Paes (born March 26, 1979 in Rio Bonito, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian actress of Black African and Brazilian Indian ancestry
- José de Alencar
José Martiniano de Alencar, was a Brazilian novelist. Born in Messejana, a small town near Fortaleza - Ceará, in northeast of Brazil. Alencar was the son of an important senator, José Martiniano de Alencar, and the cousin of the later, Ana Josefina de Alencar. After earning a bachelor's degree in Law he traveled to Rio de Janeiro, and started to work for the newspapers "Correio Mercantil" and "Diário do Rio de Janeiro".
- Elizete Cardoso
Elizete Moreira Cardoso (Rio de Janeiro, July 16, 1920 - May 7, 1990), was a singer and actress of great renown in Brazil. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Her father was a serenader who played guitar, her mother an amateur singer. Elizete began working at an early age and between 1930 and 1935 was a store clerk and hairdresser among other things. She was discovered by Jacó do Bandolim at her 16th birthday party, to which he was brought by her cousin Pedro, …
- Sérgio Cabral Filho
Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho, or just Sérgio Cabral Filho, is a Brazilian politician and journalist. In the 2006 Brazilian general elections, he was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro; he was sworn into office on January 1st, 2007. His father is journalist Sérgio Cabral. Cabral Filho was a state representative for the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1991 and 2002, having presided the State Assembly from 1995 to 2002.
- Hermínio Bello de Carvalho
Hermínio Bello de Carvalho is a a brazilian record producer, composer, writer and poet. He is regarded as one of the most respected experts in brazilian music.
- José Maurício Nunes Garcia
José Maurício Nunes Garcia, a Brazilian classical composer, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 20, 1767, and died in the same city on April 18, 1830. He was one of the greatest composers of the Classicism in the Americas. Son of mulattoes, Nunes Garcia lost his father at an early age, and his mother perceived that her son had an inclination for becoming a musician and, for this reason, improved her work to allow him to continue his musical studies.
- Jackie Silva
Jacqueline ("Jackie") Louise Cruz Silva (born February 13, 1962 in Rio de Janeiro) is a retired beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Sandra Pires.
- Daniel Benzali
Daniel Benzali (born January 20 1950) is a Brazilian-American actor of television, film and theater. Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents. He is the oldest of three boys born to a father who was an actor in the Yiddish theater in New York and a mother who was a homemaker. Benzali began his career in guest starring roles on television series such as "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "The X-Files", …
- Alfredo da Motta
Alfredo Rodrigues da Motta (born January 12, 1921 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian basketball player, who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. There he won the bronze medal with the men's national team.
- Maria Lenk
Maria Emma Hulga Lenk was a Brazilian swimmer and to date is considered one of the best Brazilian female swimmers. At the age of 17, she was the first Brazilian and South-American woman to participate in the Summer Olympic Games, at the 1932 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles.
- Sandra Pires
Sandra Pires Tavares (born June 16, 1973 in Rio de Janeiro) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Jackie Silva. She also represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where she claimed the bronze medal, teaming up with Adriana Samuel.
- Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was "Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo" (The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961 which concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel. In the 1970s she became noted for erotic novels "A casa de paixão" (The House of Passion) and "A força do destino" (The Force of Destiny), written in 1977.
- Roberta Close
Roberta Close was born "Luíz Roberto Gambine Moreira" in Rio de Janeiro on 7 December 1964 — although she has occasionally claimed to have been born on December 12, 1965. Although she was born biologically male, she is reputed to have been born with incomplete male genitalia. Close, the first pre-operative transsexual model to have posed for the Brazilian edition of Playboy, is probably Brazil's most famous transexual woman: today, …
- Monica Rodrigues
Mônica Rodrigues is a Brazilian volleyball player, who won the silver medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Adriana Samuel. She plays for the FIVB, a volleyball association. She's played for eleven years, and has collected eleven titles.
- Ronald de Carvalho
Ronald de Carvalho(May 16, 1893 - February 15, 1935) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat from Rio de Janeiro. A street in Rio is named for him.
- 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 spreading depression, an electrophysiological phenomenon of the central nervous system, which received his name. Leão was born to an intellectual family in Rio de Janeiro. He started to study medicine at the University of São Paulo, but had to interrupt it, …
- Marcus Vinicius de Souza
Marcus Vinicius Vieira de Souza (born May 31 1984 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian professional basketball player currently with the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA. He was a second round draft choice of the Hornets in the 2006 NBA Draft, chosen 43rd overall. Souza played professionally for Sao Carlos at the time of his selection in the draft.
- Helvécio Martins
Helvécio Martins was the first Latter-day Saint of African descent to be called as a General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born to descendants of African slaves in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Martins joined the LDS Church in 1972, despite his knowledge that the Church did not then allow members of African descent to hold the priesthood or to attend the temple.
- Lota de Macedo Soares
Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares was a Brazilian aesthete who conceived and constructed the Parque do Flamengo (Park of the Flamingo) in Rio de Janeiro. She was born in Paris, a member of a prominent political family in Rio de Janeiro state. Lota, as she was known, maintained a lesbian relationship with the 20th Century American poet Elizabeth Bishop from 1951 to 1967. In 1967, Soares followed Bishop back to the United States, …
- Robson da Silva
Robson Caetano da Silva (born September 4, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) is the most successful Brazilian sprinter to date. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) and won the bronze medal over 200 m in Seoul 1988 as well as in 4x100 m relay in Atlanta 1996. Possibly, Da Silva's greatest achievement was a series of three victories at World Cup competitions (1985, 1989, and 1992) over 200m.
- Ana Richa
Ana Maria Richa Medeiros (born December 3, 1966 in Rio de Janeiro) is a female beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, partnering Larissa Franca. In the 1980s she twice was a member of the Brazilian National Women's Indoor Team, that competed at the 1984 (Los Angeles, California) and 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul, South Korea).
- Nalbert Bittencourt
Nalbert Betancourt, known as Nalbert (born March 9, 1974 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player. Nalbert is 195 cm and plays as passer-attacker. With Brazil national team he won two World Leagues (2003 and 2004), one World Cup (2003), a World (2002) and on Olympic gold medal.
- Marcus Vinícius Dias
Marcus Vinícius Dias was a Brazilian basketball player, who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. There he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian basketball team under the guidance of head coach Moacyr Daiuto.
- Francisco Rodrigues Saturnino de Brito
Francisco Rodrigues Saturnino de Brito , was considered the "pioneer" of Sanitary Engineering in Brazil. He was born in Campos 1864 and died in Pelotas, 1929. He was an hydraulics and sanitation engineer and professor. He was an Brazilian researcher and Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He lived in Rio de Janeiro. His son Francisco Saturnino de Brito Filho had continued his important works.
- Jorge Rios
Jorge Paes Rios was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April, 1945. He is an hydraulics and sanitary engineer and professor. He is a Brazilian researcher and Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a scientific leader. He lives in Rio de Janeiro. He is also Professor at Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Military Institute of Engineers of Rio de Janeiro and Lecturer at The Polytechnical Institute of Lisbon (Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa), …
- Éder Fialho
Éder Moreno Fialho is a long-distance runner from Brazil, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia). He won the bronze medal in the same event, a year earlier at the 1999 Pan American Games.
- Royce Gracie
The 39-year-old Gracie is one of nine children, seven of whom are boys. His training in Jiu-Jitsu began at a very early age as a game with his father Helio, now 88 years old. Helio never pushed any of the children to take formal classes until they wanted to do so, however they often went to the Academy in Rio after school and on weekends. Royce began competing in tournaments at age eight He received his blue belt at age 16 and was promoted to black belt in less than two years.
- Raquel Nunes
Raquel and Bruno are expecting their first child together.
- Pedro Bromfman
I am originally from Rio de Janeiro and currently live in Los Angeles. I have my own music production company Buzz Entertainment and I compose music for Films, TV Shows, Commercials and Trailers. Check out my music profile at http://www.myspace.com/pedrobromfman.
- Alberto Escarlate
CTO and co-founder of TigerTag.
- Luiz Brandão
A hunter, a farmer, a maverick, an explorer, a dreamer, a lonewolf all combined
- Luiz Gustavo Amorim
- Diana Barrows
Appeared in a musical stage production of "Annie", which also starred Danielle Brisebois and future TV star Sarah Jessica Parker. Alternates residences between New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. Is fluent in five languages.