- Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen is a Brazilian supermodel who is constantly acclaimed as the most famous and the highest-paid model in the world. Since her introduction onto the fashion scene in the '90s she has appeared in countless billboards and magazine covers, as well as numerous TV and print ads. Bundchen is currently the face of more than 20 brands from different countries such as United States, Russia, Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, … - Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001. Kuerten is also known as "Guga", an affectionate nickname which is a common abbreviation of the name "Gustavo" in Portuguese-speaking countries. - Hermann von Ihering
Hermann von Ihering was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Büdingen, Hesse, Germany. He was the son of Rudolf von Jhering. Ihering travelled to Brazil in 1880 and got his first work at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro. He was the founder and first director of the Museu Paulista, in São Paulo in 1894. He was the author of "Catálogos da Fauna Brasileira" (1907) with his son Rudolpho von Ihering. - Oscar Schmidt
Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt is a Brazilian former basketball player. He is also known as Oscar Schmidt and Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or "Mão Santa" (Holy Hand). He is considered one of the best players never to have competed in the NBA. He played in five Olympics, and was the top scorer in three of them. - 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. - Cintia Dicker
Cintia Dicker is a Brazilian supermodel. She was born in Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul, and is of German descent. Dicker primarily speaks Portuguese, but is working on her English. She has appeared in many fashion advertisements including Ann Taylor and Yves Saint-Laurent. Her most recent campaign is the H.I.P. cosmetics line for L'Oréal Paris. She has been on the covers of the magazines "ELLE", … - Ernesto Geisel
Ernesto Beckmann Geisel, pron., (August 3, 1907 - September 12, 1996) was a Brazilian military leader and politician. - 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, … - Ana Claudia Michels
Ana Claudia Michels (b. 31 July 1981 in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil) is a Brazilian supermodel. She started modelling at the age of 14 with the Mega Agency, when she was introduced to the owners by a friend. She is known for her Victoria's Secret catalogue work, her Calvin Klein advertisements, being featured on the cover of a catalog for Le Lis Blanc, a noted Brazilian clothing company, and catwalk modelling. - 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. - Fritz Müller
Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller PhD (March 31, 1821-May 21, 1897), always known as "Fritz", was a German biologist who emigrated to Brazil, where he studied the natural history of the Amazon rainforest and was an early advocate of evolutionary theory. Müllerian mimicry is named after him. Müller was born in Windischholzhausen, near Erfurt, Germany, on March 31 1821, the son of a minister. - Vera Fischer
Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. She was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969 which is what propelled her career to great fame. The film that brought her onscreen reputation was "A superfêmea", a "pornochanchada" of 1973. Among her theatrical appearances, she is best known for "A Primeira Noite de Um Homem" (2004), … - 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. - Bruna Erhardt
Bruna Erhardt is a Brazilian fashion model. She was born in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and her ancestry is German-Brazilian. She has appeared on the cover of the Brazilian "Vogue". Fellow Brazilian models Caroline Trentini and Cintia Dicker are her good friends and roommates in New York City. Erhardt has signed with major agencies such as Marilyn São Paulo and New York, Select Model ManagementLondon, Women Milan, and Colors Modeling Agency Barcelona. - Mariana Weickert
Mariana Weickert (born in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, 17 February, 1982) is a Brazilian supermodel of German ascent, affiliated to Ford Models. She regularly models in cities such as Paris, Milan, London and New York, for such high fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen, Sonia Rykiel, Bottega Veneta, Marc Jacobs, Ana Molinari, Narciso Rodrigues, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Versace and Armani, among others. Weickert, has also made the cover pictures in many magazines, … - 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. - Helmut Sick
Helmut Sick (10 January, 1910 - 5 March, 1991), was a German-Brazilian ornithologist. Probably, the most important ornithologist in Brazil, he published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work "Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introducao (1984)", named in English "Birds in Brazil: A Natural History". He also described new species of Brazilian birds, and led scientific expeditions in remote areas in Brazil. - Letícia Birkheuer
- Tiago Splitter
Tiago Splitter Beirns is a Brazilian-Spanish professional basketball player who currently plays in the Spanish ACB with TAU Cerámica. The 6'11" power forward was expected to declare for the 2006 NBA Draft, but as the expensive buyout of his contract discouraged teams with high picks, he remained in Spain for that season. Splitter was automatically eligible for the 2007 NBA Draft, as he was at least 22 years of age at the time of the draft. - Jeísa Chiminazzo
Jeísa Chiminazzo is a Brazilian supermodel currently residing in New York. - Eduardo Krieger
Eduardo Moacyr Krieger (b. June 27, 1928, Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul) is an influential Brazilian physician, physiologist and scientific leader, current president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. - Cláudio Cardinal Hummes
Auri Alfonso Hummes was born in Montenegro to Pedro Adão Hummes, a Brazilian, and Maria Frank, a German. Taking the name Cláudio upon his profession as a Franciscan, he was ordained to the priesthood on August 3, 1958 by Archbishop João Resende Costa, SDB. He obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1963 from the Pontifical Antonianum Athenaeum in Rome. From 1963 until 1968, he taught philosophy at the Franciscan seminary in Garibaldi, … - Olga Benário Prestes
Olga Benário Prestes was a German-Brazilian communist militant, born in Munich as Olga Gutmann Benario. Her father was a Social-Democrat lawyer of Jewish origin and her mother was a member of Bavarian high-society. In 1923, aged fifteen, she joined the Communist Youth International and in 1928 she organised her lover and comrade Otto Braun's escape from Moabit prison. - Monique Olsen
Monique Grotto Olsen is a Brazilian born fashion model of German descent. Olsen works for Mega Models - São Paulo; Mega Models - Miami; Women Management; Women Management - Milan; Traffic Models; Traffic Models; Premier Model Management; and Saturo Japan, INC. Olsen has appeared in numerous ad campaigns, including D&G, Agilita, Huis Clos, Someday, and Stussy. Olsen has graced the pages of fashion editorials for magazines like "Vogue" Italia, "Vogue" Russia, … - Queen Silvia Of Sweden
Queen Silvia of Sweden (born Silvia Renate Sommerlath) (born 23 December 1943) is the Queen consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf, Sweden's monarch, and the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria. She is styled "Her Majesty The Queen" and is in Sweden most often referred to as "Queen Silvia". - Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke
Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke was a German botanist, explorer and naturalist. Born at Alfeld, near Hannover, Germany, Schwacke studied Natural Sciences at the University of Göttingen and Bonn, specializing in botany after graduation. He emigrated to Brazil in 1873 and in March 1874 he was hired as a travelling naturalist ("Naturalista viajante") by the botanical department of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. He travelled all over the country, beginning in 1877, … - Lya Luft
Lya Luft (born September 15, 1938, in Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil) is a writer, a novelist, a poet, a prolific translator (working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations). The author was a college professor of linguistics and literature. Luft currently writes an opinion column for "Veja" magazine. Since her youth she has been living in Porto Alegre. - Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award winning song "The Girl from Ipanema". - Ludwig Riedel
Ludwig Riedel (b. 1790, Berlin, Germany; d. 1861, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a German botanist. Riedel came to Brazil in 1811, invited to participate in the expedition organized by the German-Russian physician, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer Baron von Langsdorff. From 1820 to 1830 and from 1831 to 1836, Riedel worked in Brazil collecting plants for the Botanical Garden of St.Petersburg. - 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, … - Daniele Suzuki
Daniele Suzuki is a Brazilian actress and TV host, born on September 21 1977, in Rio de Janeiro, to a Japanese Brazilian father and a Brazilian mother of Italian, German and Amerindian descent. Suzuki acted in Malhação and in other soap operas and also works as a host in Tribos show, in Brazilian Multishow channel. She is one of the most popular young actresses in Brazil. - Paulo Rink
Paulo Roberto Rink is a German-Brazilian football player who plays for Atlético Paranaense. He began his career playing for Atlético Paranaense. After a solid career with Atletico, he negotiated with Bayer Leverkusen, and he was transferred for 6 million USD, the highest transfer fee paid for an Atlético Paranaense player at that time. He remained there for four year, having a break of six months, when he was loaned out to Santos FC. - Arthur Friedenreich
Art(h)ur Friedenreich was a Brazilian football player. Nicknamed "The Tiger", he was one of the first black players in the previously white world of Brazilian football, and was arguably the sport's first black superstar. He was of mixed descent; his father Oscar Friedenreich emigrated from Germany to Brazil, and his mother Mathilde was an Afro-Brazilian. After playing with a succession of São Paulo club sides from 1910 onwards, … - Carina Beduschi
Carina Schlichting Beduschi (born December 19, 1984 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil) is a beauty pageant contestant who has represented Brazil at the Miss Universe pageant. Her father, Domingos Sávio Beduschi, is of Italian ancestry, and her mother, Helena Márcia Schlichting Beduschi, is of German ancestry. Beduschi was elected as the 51st Miss Brasil on April 14, 2005 at Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro. - Cláudio Taffarel
Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel is a former football goalkeeper. He is of Italian and German descent, and played for Brazil in their victory at the 1994 World Cup. He allowed only one goal in the first round and two in the knock-out phases (excluding two penalty kicks in the final). In addition to USA 1994, Taffarel helped lead Brazil to second place in the 1998 World Cup in France. - 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. - Guy Ecker
Guy Ecker (born Guy Frederick Ecker; February 9, 1959 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) is an Brazilian-born Mexican actor who became well known with his portrayal of Sebastian Vallejo in the Colombian telenovela, "Cafe Con Aroma de Mujer." He later portrayed Demetrio Azúnsolo, opposite Kate del Castillo in the Mexican telenovela "La mentira". He is also known for his role in "Salomé" alongside Edith González. - Paulo Evaristo Arns
"His Eminence" Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns is the Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo. See=Sao Paulo (emeritus)Paulo Evaristo Arns was born as the fifth of thirteen children of the German immigrants Gabriel and Helana Arns. Three of his sisters would later become nuns and one of his brothers a Franciscan. From 1941 to 1943 Arns studied philosophy in Curitiba and then theology from 1944 to 1947 in Petrópolis. Then he attended Sorbonne in Paris in 1950, … - Rafaela Zanella
Rafaela Köhler Zanella is a medical student who represented her country in the Miss Universe 2006 pageant. Her mother is German-Brazilian and her father Italian-Brazilian. - Carolina Solberg Salgado
Carolina Solberg Salgado (Born August 6, 1987) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. A native of Rio de Janeiro, one of two areas considered the most beach volleyball obsessed in the world (the other being Southern California), she was able to be heavily immersed in the sport at a young age. Carolina is considered to be one of the sports up-and-coming stars, having made an impression on a number of local Brazilian tournaments and several overseas beach volleyball tours.
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