- Yeda Crusius
Yeda Crusius is the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. She is first female governor of the state. - 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, … - Mario Quintana
Mario de Miranda Quintana (July 30, 1906-May 5, 1994), was a Brazilian writer. Born in Alegrete, state of Rio Grande do Sul. - Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo (1905-1975) is an important Brazilian writer, who was born in Rio Grande do Sul. His father, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth. Verissimo worked in a pharmacy before arriving at Editora Globo, a book publisher, where he translated and released works of writers like Aldous Huxley. During the Second World War, he went to the United States. This period of his life was retold in some of his books, … - 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). - Germano Rigotto
Germano Rigotto is a Brazilian politician currently affiliated to the PMDB party. He was the governor of Rio Grande do Sul state until December 31, 2006. He ran for a second term in October 2006 elections, but he was unexpectedly defeated by Olívio Dutra and Yeda Cruisus. Rigotto paced third by a small margin - 0.17% behind Olivio Dutra, the second one. - Leonel Brizola
Leonel de Moura Brizola (Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, January 22, 1922 - Rio de Janeiro, June 21 2004) was a Brazilian politician. He was governor of Rio Grande do Sul from 1959 to 1962, as well as serving two terms as governor of Rio de Janeiro state (1983-1987 and 1991-1994). He was also vice-president of Socialist International, as well as Honorary President of that organization for a few months (from October 2003 until his death). - Augusto Pestana
Augusto Pestana was a Brazilian engineer and politician. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and received his education there graduating from the "Escola Politécnica do Rio de Janeiro" as a civil engineer. After several years working as a specialist in railroad engineering in the Rio Grande do Sul region, he became involved in politics. In 1899 he became director of the colony of Ijuí and when it became a municipality in 1912, … - 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. - 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. - Deodoro da Fonseca
Field Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca, pron., (August 5, 1827 - August 23, 1892) overthrew Emperor Pedro II and became the first president of the Republic of Brazil. Born in Alagoas, in a town that today bears his name, Fonseca made a military career, putting down the Praieira revolt in Pernambuco, in 1848, which was Brazil's response to the European year of failed liberal revolutions. He also saw action during the War of the Triple Alliance (1864 - 1870), … - 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. - Sepé Tiaraju
Sepé Tiaraju was an indigenous Guarani leader born (no date available) in the Jesuit mission of São Luiz Gonzaga and who died on February 7, 1756, in the municipality of São Gabriel, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Sepé Tiaraju lead the fight against the Portuguese and Spanish colonial powers in the "Guerras Guaraníticas" (Guarani wars) and was killed together with around fifteen hundred of his fellow warriors. - Luiz Felipe Scolari
Luiz Felipe Scolari, <small>ComIH</small> (born November 9, 1948 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), also known as "Felipão" ("Big Phil"), is a Brazilian football coach, who led the Brazilian national team to victory in the 2002 World Cup. He has been the head coach of the Portuguese national team since 2003. - Lupicinio Rodrigues
Lupicínio Rodrigues was a great composer of sambas from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was the main exponent of a style of samba called Dor-de-Cotovelo. The term, literally "elbow pain," translates to heartbreak. While his own singing was exceedingly charming and unique, he left his compositions to be recorded by many wondeful Brazilian composers. His most famous interpreter, Jamelão, recorded two albums of exclusively Lupicinio's compositions. - Jorge Furtado
Gorge Furtado (born June 9, 1959, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul), is a Brazilian film writer and director. - Ana Hickmann
Ana Hickmann (born March 1, 1981 in Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a professional supermodel. She got married on 14-Feb-1998 to Alexander Correa, when she was only 16 She distributes her own clothing and cosmetics lines, manages a photo studio and a DJ agency and is also a television hostess on the programme "Hoje em Dia", aired by Brazilian TV network Rede Record. - Renato Borghetti
Renato Borghetti (born July 23, 1963) is a Brazilian folk musician and composer of Italian descent. He works in many genres including traditional styles from his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, other styles of Brazilian music like samba, and international genres like jazz and European classical music. His main instrument is the diatonic button accordion. He won a Latin Grammy in 2005 for Best Brazilian Roots/Regional Album, for his album Gaita Ponto Com. - Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assís Moreira is a Brazilian footballer, also known as Ronaldinho "Gaúcho" (due to him being from the Rio Grande do Sul state of Brazil), or simply and most commonly Ronaldinho. He became a naturalized Spanish citizen in January 2007. Ronaldinho, meaning "little Ronaldo", is better known in Brazil by the nickname Ronaldinho "Gaúcho", in order to distinguish him from Ronaldo (already called Ronaldinho in Brazil). - Dunga
Dunga (born Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri on October 31, 1963 in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian former football defensive midfielder, of Italian and German descent, and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup. He is now national coach of the Brazilian national team. - Xuxa
Xuxa is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host. Her various shows have been broadcasted in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Xuxa is of German, Austrian, Italian, and Polish descent. She was a famous idol to Latin American children in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among her achievements include the best-selling album in the history of Brazil, … - Nelson Gonçalves
Nelson Gonçalves was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Born Antônio Gonçalves Sobral in Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul, he was raised in São Paulo. As a young man he worked at a variety of menial jobs, including a boxer, before embarking on a career in music that saw him become one of the most popular Brazilian radio singers of the 1950s. - 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 as a villain. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Bento Gonçalves da Silva
General Bento Gonçalves da Silva, was a Tatter Revolutionary leader and President of Piratini Republic (1836 - 1845). Considered one of the most important heroes in Rio Grande do Sul history. He personally led many of the military campaigns of revolutionaries. His principal commanders were Antônio de Souza Netto and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Bento Gonçalves was a Brazilian military leader during Argentina-Brazil War (1825 - 1828). - 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. - Juliana Didone
Juliana Didone Nascimento (born on October 11, 1984 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian actress and former model. - Aldo Locatelli
Aldo Locatelli was an Italian-Brazilian painter. His most important works the frescos and panels in churches and public buildings of Rio Grande do Sul. - Ellen Gracie Northfleet
Ellen Gracie Northfleet (born February 16, 1948, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian judge, and the first female to be appointed to the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal and its first female president. She earned her LL.B from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1970, and later pursued a graduate degree in Social Anthropology at the same university. Her public career began in 1971, clerking for the Rio Grande do Sul State General Counsel. - 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, … - João Simões Lopes Neto
João Simões Lopes Neto was a Brazilian regionalist writer of Rio Grande Do Sul born March 9, 1865. After some unsuccessful business ventures he married at 27. He only wrote three works of note, but nevertheless had a strong importance to Brazilian regionalist writing. He died of a perforated ulcer on June 14, 1916. - Marcos Daniel
Marcos Diniz Daniel (born on July 4, 1978 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul) is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1997. Marcos Daniel's brother owns an academy for developing young tennis players, called Daniel Tennis Center where Marcos Daniel used to work as a ball catcher there before playing youth tournaments. When he was 12, representing this academy, he reached his first final but he didn't succeed in winning the title. - João Saldanha
João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a journalist and football manager. He took the Brazil national football team to the 1970 FIFA World Cup title. Saldanha was nicknamed "João Sem Medo" (fearless João) and played football for Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas. He then entered journalism and became one of Brazil's most prolific sport writers. He often criticised players, managers and teams, and was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party. - Caroline Trentini
Caroline Aparecida Trentini is a Brazilian supermodel. She was born in Panambi, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Trentini is the youngest daughter of Lourdes and the late Jacó Trentini, who died when she was one year old. Her older sisters are Franciele and Élen. Although she had never worked before, Trentini's mother got a job as a public employee when her husband died and raised her daughters single-handedly. - Jayme Caetano Braun
Jayme Caetano Braun is a Brazilian folk musician, poet and composer. Jayme was a most famous payador of the Rio Grande do Sul and had great participation in the dissemination of the gaúcho culture for Brazil. Between 1973 and 1988, he worked as radialist in Radio Guaíba. - Mascarenhas de Morais
Marshal João Baptista Mascarenhas de Morais was a Brazilian Army Officer and commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in the Second World War. Mascarenhas de Morais was born in São Gabriel, a municipality and a comark (county) of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. His father was a trader, son of a veteran official from the 'War of Tatters' ("Guerra dos Farrapos"). - Raquel Zimmermann
Raquel Zimmermann (born May 6, 1983 in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian supermodel of German origin. She attended a modeling school at the age of 14 and soon afterwards made her way to Japan. She modeled for a number of years but it was only in recent years that her icy look really became noted and appreciated by fashion designers. Raquel has campaigned for such brands as: Chanel, Prada, Balenciaga, Hermes, Gucci, Dior, Chloe, Max Mara, Versace, … - Ieda Maria Vargas
Ieda Maria Vargas (born Ieda Maria Britto Vargas, c. 1943), is a Brazilian woman who made history for her country by becoming, in 1963, the first Miss Universe winner from Brazil. Vargas is a native of Rio Grande do Sul. She also became the first Brazilian to win an international beauty pageant, such as Miss World and Miss International. She won the Miss Universe title in Miami Beach, Florida. After living in New York, New York, for five years, …
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