List of Famous people born in Brazil

Yane Márcia Campos da Fonseca Marques is a modern pentathlon athlete from Brazil. She became nationally known despite the obscurity of her sport in the country after winning a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the first Latin American to medal and the only woman to do so.

Mauro Mendes Ferreira is a Brazilian politician. He is the former mayor of Cuiabá and is the governor of Mato Grosso, having been elected in the 2018 election. He is a member of the Democrats.

Hudson Rodrigues dos Santos, simply known as Hudson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he also played as a right-back.

Fantine Rodrigues Thó is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer and instructor. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), selling in all 6 million copies and becoming the most successful girl group of Brazil and one of the twenty that more sold in the world. In 2006 formed the progressive rock band Banda Thó with his brother Jonathan and some friends, which did not give continuity at the end of the following year, when married and moved to Netherlands.

Eduardo Alves da Silva, commonly known as Eduardo, sometimes nicknamed Dudu, is a Brazilian-born Croatian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Ingrid de Oliveira is a Brazilian competitive diver. She competed in the 10 metre platform, individual, and synchronized events at the 2015 Pan American Games and 2015 World Aquatics Championships, and won a silver medal in the synchronized event at the Pan American Games. She qualified in both events for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Milad Alexandre Mack Atala, known as Alex Atala, is a Brazilian chef of Irish and Palestinian ancestry, who runs the restaurant D.O.M. in São Paulo. In May 2012, D.O.M. was rated the 4th best restaurant in the world by the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants, published by Restaurant magazine. His establishment also holds the title of "Acqua Panna Best Restaurant In South America." He's known for transforming traditional Brazilian dishes, adapting French and Italian culinary techniques to native Brazilian ingredients. Atala also hosted a television show on Brazilian TV channel GNT. In 2013, he founded Atá, an institute about relation with food, with Roberto Smeraldi and Carlos Alberto Ricardo, among others. In 2019, Atala and his institute were accused of misappropriating the name "Cerrado vanilla" by registering it as a commercial name at the Brazilian Institute for Industrial Property (INPI), without prior consultation to rural communities who traditionally use the ingredient in their food cultures. In 2020, Atala was accused of sexual harrasement by a former employee.

Fernando Azevedo e Silva is a Brazilian politician and reserve army general. He served as the Brazilian Minister of Defence during the first half of President Jair Bolsonaro's term from January 2019 to March 2021.

Róbson Michael Signorini, commonly known as Robinho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Grêmio.

Bruno Alexandre Sutter de Lima is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, bassist, record producer, actor, humorist, YouTuber, and television music and talent competition judge. He is famous for being a founding member of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato, and under the alias Detonator he fronts the parodic heavy metal projects Massacration and Detonator e as Musas do Metal.