- Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
Manuel José de Araújo Porto-alegre (Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; November 2, 1806 – Lisboa, Portugal; December 29, 1879), baron of Santo Ângelo, was a Brazilian poet and playwright, forerunner of Brazilian romanticism, as well as a painter, architect, urban planner, journalist, cartoonist, art critic and historian, faculty professor, and diplomat. He is patron of the Chair Number 32 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters ("Academia Brasileira de Letras").
- João Goulart
João Belchior Marques Goulart was the last left-wing president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) before the military dictatorship. The surname Goulart is of Azorean-Flemish origin. A former "estancieiro" (farmer with huge properties of land), Goulart (nicknamed "Jango") studied law in Porto Alegre. He was elected to the Rio Grande do Sul state legislature in 1946 with the Brazilian Labor Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB).
- Tarso Genro
Tarso Fernando Herz Genro is a Brazilian politician, and a member of the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). As a result of the Mensalão scandal, Genro served the remainder of José Genoíno's term as party president in 2005. Ricardo Berzoini was elected to the post later that year. Following his service as interim president, Genero was a top political adviser to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the current President of Brazil, during the contentious, …
- Moacyr Scliar
Moacyr Jaime Scliar, a Brazilian writer and physician, was born in the Jewish quarter of Porto Alegre, in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul in 1937. He qualified in Medicine in 1962 and specialized in Public Health Medicine. In 1962, his first book "Stories of a Doctor in Formation" was published, although, later, after the printing, the writer regretted publishing it so soon in his life.
- Jorge Furtado
Gorge Furtado (born June 9, 1959, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul), is a Brazilian film writer and director.
- Adriana Calcanhotto
Adriana Calcanhotto (born 1965 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian singer/instrumentist. Her melancholic songs are most often categorized as being from the MPB genre. She started her professional career in 1984 and released her first studio album in 1990.
- François Houtart
François Houtart is a Belgian sociologist and catholic priest. He studied philosophy and theology at the seminary of Mechelen (Belgium) and became a priest in 1949. He earned a masters degree in political and social sciences at the Catholic university of Leuven (Belgium). He earned a degree at the International Superior Institute of Urbanism (Brussels, Belgium).
- Luiz Adriano
Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva or simply Luiz Adriano (born April 12, 1987, in Porto Alegre), is a Brazilian striker who plays for FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The top moment of his career, however, did not come until late 2006, as SC Internacional decided the FIFA Club World Cup 2006 against Spain's FC Barcelona. Luiz Adriano came in as a late substitute and helped the squad as teammate Adriano Vieira netted the winner in the 82nd minute.
- Daniel Galera
Daniel Galera is a Brazilian writer, translator, Editor and musician. He was born in São Paulo, but was raised and spent most of his life in the Porto Alegre, until 2005 when he went back to Sao Paulo. He is considered by the critics to be one of the most influent new authors in Brazilian literature. Daniel is on of the founders of the editing company Livros do Mal and had several of his works adapted into plays and movies.
- Maria Berenice Dias
Maria Berenice Dias (born in 1948 in the city of Santiago, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a progressive Brazilian judge and the first woman to take the bench in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. Dias also was the first woman to become a justice of the state highest Court of Appeals. She is the presiding justice over the Seventh Panel of Judges of the state highest Court of Appeals; the quorum of judges assembles in Porto Alegre, the state capital. Dr.
- Daiane dos Santos
Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born on February 10, 1983 in Porto Alegre) is Brazil's most successful female gymnast ever. She has two floor skills named after her called "Dos Santos": the piked and the laid-out double arabian somersaults. At the comparatively old age of 20, she won the world title on her specialty apparatus, the floor, in the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Anaheim, USA.
- Humberto Gessinger
Humberto Gessinger (born Porto Alegre, December 24, 1963) is the singer and bassist of the famous Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii. In 1985, he formed a rock band with two friends from the faculty of architecture at UFRGS, Carlos Maltz and Marcelo Pitz. The band decided to call themselves Engenheiros do Hawaii, which was a name making fun at the expense of the engineering students of the faculty. The band released their first disc in 1986.
- Mel Lisboa
Mel Lisboa Alves is a Brazilian actress born in Porto Alegre. A precocious child, she began dating at 11, got her first tattoo at 13 years and various small piercings. She started seeing a psychotherapist at 15 and debuted on television as the protagonist in the series "Presença de Anita" on Brazil's TV Globo, at the age of 19. She acted in telenovelas ("Desejos de Mulher" - "Woman's Desires" and "Como uma Onda" - "Like a Wave"), …
- João Gilberto Noll
João Gilberto Noll is a Brazilian writer, born on April 15 1946 in Porto Alegre. He studied Litetature at UFRGS and PUC. He has lived in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo for some years. Nowadays he lives in Porto Alegre. He was invited to teach Brazilian literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. He was also invited for a three-month writing residency at the Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture & Society at King's College London in 2004.
- José Lutzenberger
José Antônio Lutzenberger was a Brazilian environmentalist. He was born of a German family in Porto Alegre, the capital city of southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. He graduated in agronomy in 1950. For more than 15 years he worked in Germany, Venezuela and Morocco for a German chemical company, selling the same products he would later campaign against. In 1971 he founded the Agapan, an environmentalist organization.
- Teixeirinha
Teixeirinha ", given name Vitor Mateus Teixeira, was a Brazilian musician. "Teixeirinha" is the diminutive form of the common Brazilian surname of "Teixeira". Teixeirinha was born in Rolante, Rio Grande do Sul, on March 3, 1927. Teixeirinha's father, Saturno Teixeira, died when young Vitor was 6 years old. His mother, Ledurina Mateus Teixeira died when Teixeirinha was 9 just years old.
- Juliana Didone
Juliana Didone Nascimento (born on October 11, 1984 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian actress and former model.
- Luiz Marenco
Luiz Marenco (Porto Alegre, December 22, 1964) is a Brazilian folk musician, and composer
- Marcelo Tosatti
Marcelo Wormsbecker Tosatti is a Linux kernel developer. He became the maintainer of the stable 2.4 kernel series in November 2001 when he was 18 years old, releasing 2.4.16 on November 26, and ultimately passed on maintainership for the 2.4 kernel series to Willy Tarreau on July 27 2006 following the release of 2.4.33-rc3. He was brought up in Curitiba, Brazil and worked for Conectiva for six years, during which time he became involved in kernel programming.
- Diego Gavilán
Diego Antonio Gavilán Zarate is a footballer who plays for Grêmio and Paraguay. Gavilán's nickname "pampero" - meaning the horse that runs like the wind - offers a fair indication of his purposeful and hard-running style. He began his top-flight career at Cerro Porteño, and he became the first ever Paraguayan to play in England, when he signed for Newcastle in 2000. Gavilán cost Newcastle £2m when he left his native Paraguay behind at the age of just 19.
- Isaac Karabtchevsky
Isaac Karabtchevsky is a Jewish Brazilian conductor and musician of international fame. He conducted the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro until 1988 when he moved to Vienna to take over the Tonkünstlerorchester. He stayed there until 1995 when he took over the direction of the Grande Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Since 2003, he is the director of Symphony Orchestra of Porto Alegre (OSPA) in Brazil.
- Paulo César Carpegiani
Paulo César Carpegiani is a former Brazilian footballer, currently a manager. Carpegiani began his professional career at Sport Club Internacional of Porto Alegre, in the Rio Grande do Sul, where he played from 1970 to 1977, winning two Brazilian Championships (1975 and 1976). Carpegiani also played for Flamengo (1977-1980), winning the Brazilian Championship in 1980. Upon retiring, he started an irregular career as football coach.
- Ivo Lorscheiter
Bishop José Ivo Lorscheiter was a Brazilian clergyman in the Roman Catholic church. He was a bishop for over 38 years, from 1965 to his retirement in 2004. He was a leading proponent of liberation theology, and denounced abuses of human rights by the military regime that controlled Brazil in the "anos de chumbo" from 1964 to 1985. Lorscheiter was born in São José do Hortêncio, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the south of Brazil, one of seven brothers.
- Ivan Izquierdo
Ivan Antonio Izquierdo is a renowned 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 (1961) and completed his Ph.D. in Pharmacology (1962), both in the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). For nearly a decade, Izquierdo was professor in the National University of Cordoba (UNC), in Argentina, but, due to a confluence of reasons, …
- Thomaz Koch
Thomaz Koch (born May 11, 1945 in Porto Alegre), was a Brazil left-handed tennis player, who won two gold medals in the men's tennis competition at the 1967 Pan American Games. Koch achieved a career-high singles ranking of World Number 24 which he reached on December 20, 1974. He reached his career-high doubles ranking on January 3, 1983, when he became World Number 60.
- Roberto de Assis Moreira
Roberto de Assis Moreira is the older brother, manager, agent and adviser of Brazilian football star Ronaldinho. Although Assis is known predominantly for his intelligent managing of better known and more illustrious younger brother Ronaldinho's career, he himself was a budding football talent in his youth. In fact, Brazilian giants Grêmio offered Assis' family a villa in order to keep the promising youngster with the club.
- Wellington Santos da Silva
Wellington Santos da Silva or simply Wellington born August 17, 1985, in Porto Alegre, Brazil is a Brazilian left-wingback who plays for Corinthians on loan from Grêmio. Bought from União São João in May 2006, on a 4 year deal, he is 1st choice left-back, with a buy-out clause of £5.75 million.
- Larry Pinto de Faria
Larry Pinto de Faria, (born in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, November 3, 1932) was a Brazilian football (soccer) player. Actually lives in Porto Alegre. With Bodinho formed most invaluable double striker attack of Internacional. He started career for Fluminense in 1951.
- Tizuka Yamazaki
Tizuka Yamazaki (May 12, 1949) is a Brazilian film director born in Porto Alegre from a Japanese background.
- Christian Correa Dionisio
Christian Correa Dionisio, (born April 23, 1975 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Sport Club Internacional. Christian played 11 matches for Brazil National Football Team.
- Alfred Agache
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.
- Manfredo Fest
Manfredo Fest(born 1936 in Porto Alegre, died October 08, 1999 in Tampa, Florida) was a legally blind bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist from Brazil. He was also a bandleader. His initial training had been classical and his father was a concert pianist from Germany who taught at University in Porto Alegre. That stated at 17 Manfredo became interested in the works of George Shearing and Bill Evans. At college he gained steady work playing bossa nova in São Paulo.
- Marcos Camozzato
Marcos Camozzato or simply, Camozatto, (born June 17 1983 in Porto Alegre, Brazil), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a right-wingback. He currently plays for Standard on loan from Internacional from January 2, 2006 until June 30, 2006. There is also an option for loan to be extended for 2 more years from July 1, 2006.
- Leandro Macedo
Leandro Corrieri de Macedo (born March 18, 1968 in Porto Alegre) is an athlete from Brazil, who competes in triathlon. He won the inaugural event at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Macedo competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took fourteenth place with a total time of 1:49:50.69. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Macedo competed again. He placed thirty-first with a time of 1:57:39.36.
- Edimo Ferreira Campos
Edimo Ferreira Campos or simply Edinho is a defensive-midfielder player from Brazil. He currently plays for Porto Alegre's "Internacional" in Brazil and is highly regarded by the club who have him under contract until December 31 2009 with an £11 million buy-out clause. Edinho's club career began in 2003 in Internacional, and won Campeonato Gaúcho in three times (2003, 2004 and 2005) and one Libertadores Cup (2006).
- Andrey Nazário Afonso
Andrey Nazário Afonso is a Brazilian Football Goalkeeper who currently plays for Steaua Bucureşti in the Liga 1 the top flight of Romania Football. Andrey was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil playing in the top division. He was brought to the club to help with Steaua Bucureşti in the UEFA Cup. He made his debut with Steaua on the 1st of March, 2007, in the quarter-final cup match against Oţelul Galaţi, when Steaua won 8-7 on penalties.
- Rodrigo José Galatto
Rodrigo José Galatto or simply Galatto born March 10, 1983, in Porto Alegre, is a Brazilian goalkeeper who plays for Grêmio. Made 1st team debut in Campeonato Serie B against Nautico, November 26, 2005 in a 1-0 away win.
- Tales Schutz
Tales Schutz is a Brazilian football player who is now playing for Leixões S.C.. He spent a year palying in Hong Kong First Division League with South China during 2006-07 season. He joined the team in 2006 when South China gave up its "All-Chinese" policy in recent years. During his time in Hong Kong, he obtained 3 out of the 4 Top Scorer Awards in local competition, including the main Hong Kong First Division League Top Scorer Award.
- Lily Safra
Lily Safra is a philanthropist and social figure. Born to an affluent family, she attained considerable additional wealth after several marriages. Her net worth is estimated at $1 billion, ranking her as the 620th richest person in the world according to Forbes in 2005.
- Sylvio Pirillo
Sylvio Pirillo (born July 27 1916 in Porto Alegre(RS) - dead April 22 1991, in Porto Alegre(RS)) was a Brazilian football striker. Pirilo's first professional club was Americano-RS. His good performances granted him moves to Internacional and then Peñarol. In 1941 he transferred to Flamengo with the hard task to replace Leonidas da Silva -- who had been 1940 Rio State Championship's top scorer with 30 goals.