Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Renault and Nissan Motors. He is largely credited with turning around Nissan. As an outsider in charge of one of Japan's largest companies, Ghosn has been extremely successful. He was voted Man of the Year 2003 by "Fortune" magazine's Asian edition and is also on the board of Alcoa, Sony, and IBM. Ghosn became CEO of Renault, Nissan's partner and shareholder, in 2005, succeeding Louis Schweitzer, while remaining CEO of Nissan as well.

Paulo Salim Maluf (b. 3 September 1931, São Paulo) is a Lebanese Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including state governorship (São Paulo), presidential candidacy and mayor of the city of São Paulo. He has been plagued throughout his political career with substantial allegations of corruption, but nevertheless, has only been convicted once, in 2001. Due to the nature of the Brazilian judicial system, …

Raduan Nassar was born on November 27, 1935, in Pindorama, São Paulo state. He is a Brazilian writer, son of Lebanese immigrants. He moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at one of the most important universities in Brazil, USP. In 1970, he wrote "Um Copo de Cólera", published in 1978. His literature debut happened in 1975 when "Lavoura Arcaica" was released.

Luciana Gimenez Morad is a Brazilian fashion model and TV show hostess of Lebanese origin. 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. Gimenez is famous for having an affair with Mick Jagger in 1999 and revealed she was pregnant with his son Lucas, while Jagger was still married. Luciana is a TV hostess in Brazil's Rede TV, and her show is called "Superpop".

Sabrina Sato Rahal is a Brazilian celebrity. She is half Japanese (maternal side), 1/4 Swiss and 1/4 Lebanese (paternal side). She was a cast member of the third season of the reality television program "Big Brother Brasil", ranking in 6th place. During the show, she had a relationship with Domini, the winner of the edition. Their relationship was covered by the media for a while after the show ended, but soon interest faded.

Carlos Eddé (born in 1956), is a Lebanese politician. He is since 2000 the president of Lebanese National Bloc succeeding at his uncle Raymond Eddé. His unsolicited election surprised as he had been established in Brazil since 1976 and he barely speaks literary Arabic. In 2004 he participated actively in the opposition coalition and was one of the elaborators the strategy to unify the opposition which led the departure of the Syrians.

Daniella Sarahyba Fernandes (born July 8, 1986) is a Brazilian supermodel. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and her mother, Mara Lucia 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 her career at age 12, when she entered modeling contests.

Antônio Houaiss was a Brazilian writer and translator, who served as the Minister of Culture. He was the son of Lebanese immigrants. He is best known for his translation of James Joyce's "Ulysses", and for supervising the composition of the Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, one of the major reference dictionaries for the Portuguese language. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Adib Domingos Jatene is a noted Brazilian physician, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon, one of the founders of the University of São Paulo Heart Institute and internationally respected as the inventor of the Jatene operation, an open heart surgery for revascularization of the myocardium. He was a Secretary of Health of São Paulo city and Minister of Health of Brazil. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine.

Adriano da Gama Kury (born April 25,1924) is a Brazilian philologist. He is the son of Lebanese immigrant Elias Kury and Brazilian Maria Celecina da Gama Kury. Has two elder brothers and one sister.

But it was Kanaan's accomplishments in 2004 that were quite spectacular. He became the first driver in major auto racing history to complete every lap of every race for an entire season on his way to winning the 2004 IndyCar Series title. "I never thought about it, but at the end of the year everyone was talking about it," Kanaan said. "It was pretty amazing. It was something unexpected. We did it, it's in the books, and I'm happy to have a record like that."

Anthony William "Garotinho" Matheus de Oliveira ("Garotinho" means "little boy") (born in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, 1960) is a Brazilian politician. He started as a radio presenter and later joined the Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He was elected Governor of Rio de Janeiro State from 1999 to 2002. He moved to the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) due to problems with the PDT leader, Leonel Brizola, …

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo is a Brazilian football coach and former player, of Lebanese origin. Zagallo started his footballer career in América in 1948. He was the first footballer to win the World Cup as a player (1958, 1962), as a coach (1970), and as assistant coach (World Cup 1994), all with the Brazilian national team. He also coached his country to a fourth-place finish in the 1974 World Cup and to a second-place finish in the 1998 World Cup.