- Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda, pron., (February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955); birth name Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, <small>GCIH</small>;) was a Portuguese-Brazilian samba singer and motion picture star most active in the 1940s. She was later nicknamed Carmen by her father, because of his love of opera (specifically: Carmen from the opera by Bizet). The "Carmen legacy" was instrumental in synthesizing, divulging and popularizing Tropicalismo.
- Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 30 languages and popularized in film, notably "Dona Flor and her Two Husbands" ("Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos") in 1978. His work dealt largely with the poor urban black and mulatto communities of Bahia.
- Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro), popularly known as Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer. He is best known for his music, which often comments on Brazil's social, economic and cultural reality.
- Tiradentes
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes, was part of the Brazilian seditious movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira. Born in Sao José del Rei (now called Tiradentes), Minas Gerais, Tiradentes was adopted by his godfather and moved to Vila Rica (now Ouro Preto) after the deaths of his parents (mother in 1755; father in 1757). He practiced several professions - cattle driver, miner, …
- Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna da Silva (pronounced /:Media:ayrton_senna_da_silva.oggsmall>(help•info</small>/, March 21, 1960 - May 1, 1994) was a Brazilian triple Formula One world champion. Senna was renowned for his qualifying skill, which produced a 65 pole positions in 162 races (0.401 poles/race), although the record now stands 68 which is held by the greatest, 7 times world champion Michael Schumacher. Senna was also known for his rain driving.
- Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto Freyre was a Brazilian author, professor, journalist and congressman. His best-known work was the 1933 sociological treatise "Casa-Grande & Senzala" (variously translated, but roughly"The Masters and the Slaves", as on a traditional plantation). He was born in Recife, Brazil, and studied in Baylor University (1918-1920) and Columbia University(1920-1922), …
- Ana Beatriz Barros
Ana was discovered by the Director of Elite Model Management who was in vacationing in Brazil
- 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.
- Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
- Marisa Monte
Marisa Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. While classically trained in opera singing, she grew up surrounded by the sounds of the Portela samba school, and combines diverse influences into her music. While most of her music is in the style of modern MPB, she has also recorded traditional samba and folk tunes, as well and songs by Marvin Gaye and Lou Reed. Much of her work has been in collaboration with musicians/songwriters Carlinhos Brown, Arnaldo Antunes, …
- Fernanda Tavares
Fernanda Tavares is a Brazilian supermodel. Tavares was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, and she was appearing in local shows at the age of nine, and at just 13 she won the "Elite Look of the Year." A year later she was invited by agents to go to São Paulo to pursue a modeling career. In 1998, at the age of 17, she was already appearing on the covers of fashion magazines - "L'Officiel Paris", …
- Daniela Mercury
Daniela Mercury is a Portuguese-Brazilian singer. At sixteen she began performing in bars in Salvador da Bahia and discovered that her calling in life was music. Her passion for Bahian Carnaval led to the ultimate challenge of singing in a trio elétrico. Mercury took to the rolling, amplified bandstand that lumbers down the avenue among Carnaval revelers at a time in which only men sang in blocos.
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" ("Friendly Song") was printed on the 50 cruzados note. Drummond was born in Itabira, a mining village in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. His parents were farmers of Portuguese ancestry (and remote Scottish ancestry). He went to a school of pharmacy in Belo Horizonte, …
- Fernanda Montenegro
Fernanda Montenegro (born October 16, 1929) is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian film, stage and television actress.
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, pron., often known as "Machado de Assis" or "Machado", (June 21 1839, Rio de Janeiro-September 29 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian realist novelist, poet and short-story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature and his works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century.
- Aleijadinho
Aleijadinho was a Brazilian-born sculptor and architect, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil.
- Euclides da Cunha
Euclides (archaic spelling "Euclydes") da Cunha, was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is "Os Sertões" ("Rebellion in the backlands"), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who put it above Tolstoy, …
- Darcy Ribeiro
Darcy Ribeiro was a famous Brazilian anthropologist and politician. He studied for a long time many different Brazilian aboriginal groups, and wrote important works about Brazilian cultures and racial groups. His most famous work is called "O Povo Brasileiro", which is a synthesis about the formation of the Brazilian society. He was also Minister of Education in Brazil, during 1961 through 1964 and the founder of the University of Brasília, …
- Lima Duarte
- 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, …
- Joaquim Nabuco
Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer and statesman. The son of a wealthy landowner from Recife, Joaquim vehemently opposed slavery, which he fought by political activity and in his writings. He campaigned against slavery in the Chamber of Deputies from 1878, and he founded the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society. He was largely responsible for the abolition of slavery in 1888, but his reasons for doing so were less than egalitarian.
- 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).
- Anita Garibaldi
Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva di Garibaldi (1821- August 4 1849) was the Brazilian-born wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Their partnership epitomized the spirit of the 19th century's age of romanticism and revolutionary liberalism.
- Fernanda Abreu
Fernanda Sampaio de Lacerda Abreu was born on Rio de Janeiro at September 8, 1961. She was the backing vocal of the band Blitz until 1986. After that, in 1990, she started a solo career singing funk, disco and dance music. Fernanda is a Portuguese-Brazilian through her Portuguese father, and applied for Portuguese nationality in the 2000s.
- Artur Da Costa E Silva
Artur da Costa e Silva, pron., (October 3, 1902 - December 17, 1969) was a Brazilian military officer and politician, son of immigrants from Madeira. War Minister in 1964 under Maschal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco. Elected president by the Congress in 1966, Costa e Silva took his oath on March 15, 1967. Facing strong opposition from important figures, students and workers, …
- Juliana Imai
Juliana Imai (born February 27, 1985 in Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná, Brazil) is a Brazilian model. Imai comes from a multiracial background: her maternal grandparents were Japanese and her paternal grandparents Portuguese. She was discovered while walking on the street with her mother. Juliana is married and has one child. She is a follower of the Buddhist and Seicho-No-Ie religions.
- Kelly Key
Kelly Key (real name Kelly de Almeida Afonso) born 1983 in Rio de Janeiro is a Brazilian singer and teen idol.
- Jô Soares
José Eugênio Soares, best known as Jô Soares is a Brazilian comedian, talk show host, author and musician. Soares was born in Rio de Janeiro. After being educated in Europe and the United States, Soares returned to Rio and worked at TV Rio in 1958 during comedy shows for the station. He acted as an American in Carlos Manga's "O homem do Sputnik". In 1971, Soares started working at Rede Globo. In 1988, Soares moved to SBT and hosted a talk-show, …
- Anderson Polga
Anderson Corrêa Polga, usually called Anderson Polga or just Polga, is a Brazilian football defender. He currently plays in Portugal for Sporting, having previously played for Grêmio. He was a World Champion at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Anderson Polga is a central defender who oozes class.
- Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Manuel Antônio de Almeida is a journalist and Brazilian writer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro city, state of Rio de Janeiro, on November 17, 1831, and he died in Macaé near Rio de Janeiro city on November 28, 1861.
- 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.
- Casimiro de Abreu
Casimiro José Marques de Abreu is a famous Brazilian writer, who was born in Barra de São João, state of Rio de Janeiro, on January 4 1839 and died in Nova Friburgo, state of Rio de Janeiro, on October 18, 1860. He is one of the best known and most important poets of Brazil. He is best known for his poetry on love of his native land and on romantic love. The city where he was born, Barra de São João, is now known as "Casimiro de Abreu" in his honor.
- Lúcio Costa
Lúcio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner. One of the earliest and most important modernist architects in Brazil, Lúcio (alternatively spelled Lucio) Costa became famous for a long career in which he built little, wrote much, and became involved in a number of high-profile controversies.
- Fernanda Torres
Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres (born September 15 1966 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian movie, theatre and television actress. She is the daughter of the Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and the director Fernando Torres. In 1986 she received a Palme D'Or in the Cannes Festival as Best Actress for "Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar". She was only 20 years old. She is married to movie producer and director Andrucha Waddington, …
- Roberto Marinho
Roberto Pisani Marinho. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marinho was the president and founder of the biggest Brazilian TV channel, Globo. He came under criticism in the documentary Beyond Citizen Kane for his role at Globo
- Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Luso-Brazilian poet. A native of Oporto, Gonzaga was son of a Brazilian-born judge and an English mother. He spent a part of his boyhood at Bahia, where his father was "desembargador" of the appeal court, and returning to Portugal he went to the University of Coimbra and took his law degree at the age of twenty-four. He remained on there for some years and compiled a treatise of natural law on regalist lines, …
- Aluísio Azevedo
Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo was a Brazilian writer. His writing style makes use of diverse characteristics from Naturalism, most zoomorphism and environmental determinism. Azevedo tended to keep the focus of his novels on the lower social classes and generally made use of crowded and enclosed spaces as scenery.
- Basílio da Gama
Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian author with a Portuguese father and Brazilian born mother. He was a member of the Society of Jesus until the order was disbanded and was later accused of Jansenism. He wrote the epic poem "O Uraguai" which is a noted example of the Arcadianism style of Brazilian literature.
- 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"), …
- Antônio Gonçalves Dias
Antônio Gonçalves Dias, was a Brazilian lyric poet. Dias was born near the town of Caxias, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. He attended the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. He returned to his native province ill in 1845, well-equipped with legal lore. The literary tendency which was strong within him, however, which led him to try his fortune as an author at Rio de Janeiro. There, he wrote for the newspaper press, appeared as a dramatist, …