Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, arranger, singer, pianist/guitarist and one of the primary forces behind the creation of bossa nova, and its subsequent global popularity. Jobim's compositions, known for their exquisite melodies and harmonies, have been performed by numerous notable performers both within Brazil and internationally.

Vinicius de Moraes, nicknamed O Poetinha (the little poet) (October 19, 1913 - July 9, 1980), born Marcus Vinicius da Cruz de Melo Morais in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music. As a poet, he wrote lyrics for a great number of songs that became all-time classics. He was also a composer, a playwright, a diplomat and, as an interpreter of his own songs, he left several important albums

Stein Metzger (born November 17, 1972 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a top beach volleyball player from the United States, playing in the AVP. In 2006 he played with his high school teammate, Mike Lambert, and they advanced to the Final Four in fourteen of the fifteen team events, winning five times. They formed the only team to not have a losing record against any other team that season. Metzger made his Olympic beach volleyball debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, …

Douglas Silva,(born 1989 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Afro Brazilian Emmy-nominated actor whose most famous role is that of "Dadinho" ("Li'l Dice") in the 2002 Brazilian film, "City of God". He also played Acerola in the spin-off series "City of Men".

Claudio Roditi was born on May 28th, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By the time he was thirteen years old he was obsessed with jazz after hearing recordings of Louis Armstrong, Harry James and other American trumpeters. He later came to hear and love the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. After arriving in the United States in 1970, he began to study at Berklee School of Music, where he became musically influenced by Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.

Paulinho Da Costa (born May 31, 1948) is a Brazilian jazz fusion percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, probably best known for his years spent with Sergio Mendes from 1973-1977. Aside from his contributions to the Brazilian jazz idiom, he has also done crossover works with Dizzy Gillespie and Freddie Hubbard, among others.

Marcio Henrique Barroso Araujo is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Fabio Luiz Magalhães. Araujo represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, after having claimed the bronze medal alongside Benjamin Insfran at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Anthony Lawrence Azevedo (born November 21, 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an American water polo player and a graduate of Stanford University. Nicknamed "The Savior" at one point, he is considered to be one of the best American water polo players in recent memory. Although he was born in Brazil, his family moved to California when he was 1 month old. When he was four, Azevedo suffered a fall that severed his trachea and esophagus.

Bruno Campos (b. December 3 1973) is a Brazilian actor best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa on the Golden Globe Award-winning television show "Nip/Tuck". He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and spent his childhood travelling through Brazil, Canada, Bahrain, and the United States. At age 14, he attended Michigan's Interlochen Arts Academy. He then studied drama at Northwestern University.

Raul de Souza (born August 23 1934, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) a renowned trombonist who was a session musician for several notable artists, including Sergio Mendez, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Milton Nascimento, Sonny Rollins and Cal Tjader. American composer and pianist George Duke, was brought in to produce de Souza's first and second releases "Sweet Lucy" and "Don't Ask My Neighbors". In 1979, de Souza released "'Til Tomorrow Comes", …

Gualter Salles (born September 28, 1970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), is an open wheel racecar driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, with 49 career starts. His best finish came in his last race, the Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in Australia, where he finished 6th. Salles also raced one competition in the Indy Racing League in 1999. He now drives stock cars in his native Brazil.

Kyra Gracie (born May 29, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (also spelled Kira), daughter of Flavia Gracie, is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. Her uncles are Ralph Gracie, Renzo Gracie, and Ryan Gracie. She is one of the few Gracie women to hold that rank and is the first Gracie female to actively compete in the sport.

Marshall Brickman (born August 25 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. After attending the University of Wisconsin, he became a member of Folk act The Tarriers in 1962, recruited by former classmate Eric Weissberg. Upon the disbanding of The Tarriers in 1965, Brickman joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and Michelle Phillips who later had success with The Mamas & Papas.

Eliana Pittman (born August 14, 1945 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was one of the more soulful singers of early 1970s. The stepdaughter of the jazz saxophonist Booker Pittman, she was deeply influenced and encouraged by him to become an artist, as he was her first music teacher, mentor and partner on some records. With a distinctive swinging voice and intensity in her style, Pittman was a brilliant scat singer who turned insipid novelty tunes and light pop into definitive, …

Leonardo "The Wizard" Pinheiro Xavier, was born January 3, 1976, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of 5, Leo ventured into his first martial art, taking judo in school. At the age of 13 Leo began to take Tae Kwon Do classes. Finally, a friend introduced him to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Leo immediately became good friends with his coach, Saulo Ribeiro. Under Saulo’s watchful eye, Leo began to successfully compete in local and regional tournaments in Brazil and, …

Donat-Alfred Agache, sometimes called "Alfredo Agache", formally planned the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Porto Alegre and Curitiba in the 1940s and 1950s, supported by the Estado Novo fascist regime in Brazil. Although his plans were often too expensive to be completed, they formed the basis of more practical plans, and the affordable parts of his plan were followed for several decades.

Luis Alberto Nicolao (born June 28, 1944 in Buenos Aires) is a retired butterfly swimmer from Argentina, who in 1962 twice broke the world record in the men's 100 metres butterfly (long course). He first did so on April 24, 1962 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he clocked 58.4. Three days later he raised the standard to 57.0. Five years after that performance US swimming ace Mark Spitz broke Nicolao's top time.

José Lino Grunewald was born and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A multi-disciplinary intellectual, his facets included poetry, translation (especially Ezra Pound's "The Cantos"), essays (major works compiled in "O grau zero do escreviver") and movie acting ("O gigante da America").

Júlio Rafael de Aragão Bozano is a Brazilian billionare who made his fortune (estimated at $1.6 billion in 2006) 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. He currently owns an 11 percent interest in Brazilian jetmaker Embraer which has a value of roughly $700 million dollars. Bozano lives in Greenwich, CN. and has a pied-`-terre in Rio de Janeiro, …

Paul Michael Kent (born March 29, 1972 in Auckland) is a former breaststroke swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country. His biggest success came in 1995, at the second edition of the FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Kent won the gold medal with the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay Team. This was a New Zealand record time and was the 4th fastest time ever recorded.

Jonathan David Winter (born August 18, 1971 in Masterton) is a former backstroke swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country. His biggest success came in 1995, at the second edition of the FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Winter won the gold medal with the Men's 4x100 medley relay team. This was a New Zealand record time and was the fourth fastest time ever recorded.

Holger ("Holguer") Quiñonez is a retired soccer defender from Ecuador, who earned a total number of fifty caps for the Ecuador national team from 1984 to 1999. Once named the best Conmebol player in on his position, he played for various teams outside Ecuador, including Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Svetlana Bondarenko (born August 12, 1971 in Zaporizhzhia) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Ukraine, who won two silver medals at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 1990s Bondarenko also won three silver medals at the European Championships. She won the gold medal in the 100m Breaststroke at the European LC Championships 2004 in Madrid, Spain, just a couple of months before the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Dr. Michael Dorsey (born May 28, 1971) is Assistant Professor on Dartmouth College's Faculty of Science (Hanover, New Hampshire). Dr. Dorsey teaches in the Environmental Studies Program. Dorsey is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment; Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the University of Michigan Dept of Anthropology, from which received his PhD.

Oliver Hart Dockery (1830 - 1906) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Rockingham, North Carolina, August 12, 1830. Son of Alfred Dockery; attended the public schools and Wake Forest College; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1848; studied law, …

Ben Edmestone Barnes (London, England, June 3, 1903 - May 28, 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), also known as Ben Barnes or Professor Barnes, was for many years Professor of Structural Geology and Geophysics at the Course of Geology of the "Escola de Minas" (School of Mines) da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil (http://www.ufop.br).

John Preator (born on August 8, 1980) is a semi-finalist of the third season of American Idol. He is from Provo, Utah and graduated in 1998 from Timpview High School and served an LDS church mission to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1999. John spent two years performing as a member of the BYU Young Ambassadors and appears on their recording "The Lord is My Light". He was also acted in a number of musicals in the Utah Valley and Wyoming.

Murray William Burdan (born May 2, 1975 in Lower Hutt) is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country. His biggest success came in 1995, at the second edition of the FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Burdan won the gold medal with the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay Team.

Walter Nicholas ("Nick") Henry Tongue (born April 8, 1973 in Auckland) is a former freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country. His biggest success came in 1995, at the second edition of the FINA World SC Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Tongue won the gold medal with the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay Team.

Sonia Clayton formed Virtual Intelligence Providers (VIP) in October 2001, fulfilling a lifetime goal of having her own business. VIP is an international IT / ERP solutions company, offering a cafeteria style menu of service options that include SAP end user training and documentation, e-learning and IT solutions.

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