List of Famous people born in Brazil
Marcelo Cabo
Marcelo Ribeiro Cabo, known as Marcelo Cabo, is a Brazilian football manager, currently in charge of Atlético Goianiense.
Mike dos Santos Nenatarvicius
Mike dos Santos Nenatarvicius, simply known as Mike, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Gwangju FC.
Osmar Loss Vieira
Osmar Loss Vieira is a Brazilian professional football manager, currently in charge of no team.
Rosa Magalhães
Rosa Lúcia Benedetti Magalhães is a Brazilian professor and artist. She is best known as the most successful carnival designer in Rio de Janeiro, with six championships won since 1984, when the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí was built. Designing carnival parades since 1971, Rosa likes telling historic events in her designs, such as the discovery of Brazil (2000), the life and creations of Hans Christian Andersen (2005), Don Quixote (2010), and the corruption scandal that led to the construction of the Versailles Palace in France (2017).
Milton Ribeiro
Milton Ribeiro is a Brazilian protestant pastor, lawyer, theologian, professor and current Minister of Education of Brazil.
Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Júnior
Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Júnior, known simply as Wilson, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Coritiba.
Thyago Vieira
Thyago Vieira Lucio is a Brazilian professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox.
Demétrio Magnoli
Demétrio Martinelli Magnoli is a Brazilian sociologist, PhD in human geography, writer and columnist. While in 2012, he was named by the Época magazine as one of the "New Right's shrill voices.", Magnoli considers himself a centre-left social-democrat.
Bárbara Arenhart
Bárbara Elisabeth Arenhart is a Brazilian female handball goalkeeper for RK Krim and the Brazilian national team.
Marcia Haydée
Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira da Silva is a Brazilian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director. She was prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko and succeeded him as the company's director, serving from 1976 to 1995. She has been director of the Santiago Ballet since 1992.