- Ana Beatriz Barros
Ana was discovered by the Director of Elite Model Management who was in vacationing in Brazil
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 - November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, possibly the best-known classical composer born in South America. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his "Bachianas brasileiras" ("Brazilian Bach-pieces").
- Daniel Alves
Daniel Alves da Silva (born 6 May 1983 in Juazeiro), usually known as Daniel Alves, Dani Alves, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking right back or right winger for Sevilla in Spain. The Spanish paper AS has described Alves as "Three players in one: a central midfield playmaker with a winger's soul who plays at full-back."
- Maria Bueno
Maria Ester Audion Bueno, born October 11, 1939, in São Paulo, Brazil, is a female tennis player who won nineteen Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 11 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles) during her career. Bueno began playing tennis at a very young age and, without having received any formal training, won her first tournament at age 12. She was 14 when she captured her country’s women's singles championship.
- Gal Costa
Gal Costa in Salvador, Brazil, is a popular singer in Brazil. Influenced by music from a young age by her record store owner father, Costa became one of Brazil's foremost female Tropicalismo movement singers and guitar players during the late 1960s and 70s. Along with her friend Maria Bethânia, she became a political activist often coming into conflict with Brazil's military government when dissent in music was censored in 1968.
- Daniella Sarahyba
Daniella Sarahyba Fernandes (born July 8, 1986) is a Brazilian supermodel. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and her mother, Mara Lucia Sarahyba, was also a model in Brazil. When she was 3 days old, she appeared with her mother on the cover of Brazilian parenting magazine "Pais & Filhos". Sarahyba began her career at age 12, when she entered modeling contests.
- Galvão Bueno
Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Galvão Bueno, usually known as Galvão Bueno, is a Brazilian sports commentator famous nationwide for his affiliation with Globo TV, where he is the head of the sports department and the official host of Formula One races, National Team matches, key Brazilian football matches and most important sports events. Born on July 21, 1950, in Rio de Janeiro city, the son of an actress, Mildred dos Santos, and a journalist, …
- 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), …
- Luciana Gimenez
Luciana Gimenez Morad is a Brazilian fashion model and TV show hostess of Lebanese origin. Luciana started her modeling career at age 13, and has worked in many cities around the world, such as Paris, Hamburg, Milan and New York. Gimenez is famous for having an affair with Mick Jagger in 1999 and revealed she was pregnant with his son Lucas, while Jagger was still married. Luciana is a TV hostess in Brazil's Rede TV, and her show is called "Superpop".
- Mauro Silva
Mauro Silva, real name Mauro da Silva Gomes. Football central midfielder with Deportivo de La Coruña and the Brazilian national team. He received 58 caps with the Brazilian national team, between July 1991 and September 2001, and won the Football World Cup 1994. To some, he was considered the next star of the Brazilian national team and for many years, one of the best midfielders in the world. He did participate in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup.
- Mário Covas
Mário Covas Júnior (Santos, 21 April 1930 - São Paulo, 6 March 2001) was an important Brazilian politician. Covas studied engineering at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo). He entered politics in his native city of Santos, in the state of São Paulo. He was elected federal representative, mayor of São Paulo City (1983-1985), …
- 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".
- Pedro I of Brazil I of Brazil
Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (full name: "Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon"), known as "Dom Pedro Primeiro", 28th (or 29th according to some historians) king of Portugal and Algarves.
- 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.
- Américo Castro
Américo Castro y Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising heated controversy with his conclusions that (1) Spaniards didn't become the distinct group they are today until after the Islamic conquest of Hispania of 711 CE, an event that turned them into a Christian caste coexisting among Muslims and Jews, …
- José de Anchieta
José de Anchieta was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its discovery on April 22 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of São Paulo, in 1554, and Rio de Janeiro, in 1565. He was a writer and poet, and is considered the first Brazilian writer.
- Ivete Sangalo
Ivete Sangalo is a well-known Brazilian axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host. She is arguably the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singer of the present, with six albums released with Banda Eva, and seven more albums in a solo career. Ivete is most often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances. Her music is also popular in Portugal.
- Drauzio Varella
Drauzio Varella is a Brazilian physician, educator, scientist and noted medical science popularizer in the press and TV. Varella came from a family of Portuguese-Brazilians and Spanish Brazilians from São Paulo. He studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo. While a student, he was one of the founders of a pre-med preparatory course with João Carlos di Genio and other colleagues, and where he taught chemistry for several years.
- Vitor Negrete
Vitor Negrete was a prominent mountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak outside Asia and one of the Seven Summits, from its south face. Negrete was also a prominent Adventure racer since 2001. Among many other adventures, he had crossed the Amazon Rainforest and traveled from São Paulo state to the southern part of South America - Tierra del Fuego - Patagonia on a bicycle.
- Roberto Salmeron
Roberto Salmeron (b. 1922, São Paulo), Brazilian electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist of international renown, Emeritus Research Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France (CNRS). Salmeron did his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, in São Paulo, and in physics in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (then named Universidade do Brasil), …
- Emílio Garrastazu Médici
Emílio Garrastazu Médici, pron., (December 4, 1905-October 9, 1985) was a Brazilian military leader and politician. His rule marked the apex of military governments in Brazil.
- 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).
- Tarso Marques
Tarso Anibal Santanna Marques (born January 19, 1976 in Curitiba) is a racing driver driver from Brazil. He participated in 24 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 31, 1996. He scored no championship points in three separate seasons, all driving for the Minardi team. After five years of karting, Marques raced in Formula Chevrolet in his home country aged only 16, and he won the title at his first attempt.
- Fernando Baiano
Fernando Baiano, fullname João Fernando Nelo is a Brazilian football striker. As of July 2005, he plays for Celta de Vigo. He uses "Baiano" as his nickname, in memory of one of his coaches
- Raul Cortez
Raul Christiano Machado Cortez was a Brazilian actor. He was born in São Paulo, São Paulo state and was father of actress Lígia Cortez. Cortez worked on TV, theater and movies. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2006.
- Pedro Casaldáliga
Pedro Casaldáliga is a Catalan-born emeritus Brazilian Bishop of São Felix da Araguaia (Brazil). He is one of the most known practitioners of Liberation Theology. He has received numerous awards, including the International Catalunya Prize (2006). Well known for his work in support of indigenous peoples, he has published at least ten volumes of poetry.
- Clóvis Bornay
Clóvis Bornay was a Brazilian museologist, actor, and maker of Carnival costums for more than 40 years, which made him famous throughout the nation. He was born of Spanish and Swiss descent in Nova Friburgo, near to Rio de Janeiro, where he died in October 10, 2005.
- Djalminha
Djalminha, full name Djalma Feitosa Dias is a former Brazilian football player. He played offensive midfielder with CR Flamengo and Deportivo de La Coruña. He received the Bola de Ouro (Brazilian Golden Ball award) in 1996 and has 17 caps with the Brazilian national team. Blessed with outrageous natural ability, Djalminha has a full catalogue of independently created tricks which have excited crowds of for each club he has played for.
- Júlio Baptista
Júlio César Baptista is a football player from Brazil. Nicknamed "la Besta" (the Beast) or "the Tank", he plays as an attacking midfielder for Real Madrid.
- André Franco Montoro
André Franco Montoro was a Brazilian politician. He was a senator and governor of São Paulo. He was a member of several parties, such as PDC, MDB, Party of Brazilian Democratic Movement and one of the founders of PSDB. He was also a law philosopher and a professor at PUC-SP. Montoro is credited as being one of the key figures in the Diretas Já movement, along with Tancredo Neves and Ulysses Guimarães, which helped to bring about the return of direct elections to Brazil.
- Gisele Miro
Gisele Miro (born November 1, 1968) is a former tennis player from Brazil, who competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won two singles and one doubles titles in the ITF Circuit, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on April 25, 1988, when she became the number 99 of the world.
- Roberto Carlos da Silva
Roberto Carlos, full name Roberto Carlos da Silva (born April 10, 1973, Garça, São Paulo), is a Brazilian football wingback who currently plays for Turkish side Fenerbahçe. Carlos has also been a member of the Brazil national team in three World Cups, helping the team reach the final in the 1998 edition and win the 2002 tournament. He is one of only five players to have played more than 100 matches in the Champions League as of March 2007.
- Jose Ramirez Barreto
Jose Ramirez Barreto (born September 3, 1976 in Alegre) is a Brazilian football player who is currently playing for his second period with the Indian football club Mohun Bagan Athletic Club He joined Mohun Bagan in 1999 and spent a successful period of five seasons with the club, before leaving in 2004, apparently unhappy with how the club being managed by "dishonest sports administrators".. However, despite popular speculation that he was heading back to his native Brazil, …
- Milene Domingues
Milene Domingues is a model and footballer. She is the first ex-wife of football star Ronaldo (married in April 1999, divorced in September 2003). She was signed by Rayo Vallecano but plays football for Fiamma Monza. She has been dubbed by the Spanish media as Ronaldinha and is rated as one of the best female footballers in Europe. The ex-model also holds the record for ball juggling, keeping a football off the ground with 55,197 touches.
- Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was "Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo" (The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961 which concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel. In the 1970s she became noted for erotic novels "A casa de paixão" (The House of Passion) and "A força do destino" (The Force of Destiny), written in 1977.
- Marcos Assunção
Assunção, fullname Marcos do Santos Assunção, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a central midfielder. Assunção is currently one of the best dead ball specialists in Spain, playing for La Liga side Real Betis.
- Claudia Cepeda
Claudia Cepeda is a Brazilian actress, mostly known for playing the role of "O" in the 1992 Brazilian erotic series "Story of O".
- Roger Galera Flores
Roger Galera Flores (born August 17, 1978) is a Brazilian attacking midfielder. Roger started his professional career with Fluminense in 1996 and moved on to the Portuguese club SL Benfica for a brief six month stint in 2001 before coming back to his original club. Between 2001-2005, Roger alternated between Fluminense and Benfica before being acquired by Corinthians for a reported US$7 million.
- Júlio César Santos Correa
Júlio César Santos Correa is a Brazilian football defender who currently plays for Olympiacos. He is not to be confused with two other Brazilian players also named Julio Cesar, in particular with Julio Cesar da Silva who played in the World Cup 1986 for Brazil. Having started his career with Club America in Mexico. Then in 1996 with Real Valladolid, for whom he continued playing for three years before being snapped up by Real Madrid.
- José Lázaro Robles
José Lázaro Robles, best known as "Pinga" was a Brazilian footballer. He was born in São Paulo. During his career (1943-1964) he played for Juventus, Portuguesa and Vasco da Gama, where played 466 matches from 1953 to 1962 and scoring 250 goals. Defending the Brazilian team he participated in the Copa America 1953 and the 1954 FIFA World Cup, playing two games and scoring two goals. He died at 72 years old.