List of Famous people born in Brazil
Tiago Brendle
Tiago Brendle is a Brazilian male volleyball player. He is part of the Brazil men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Ziober Maringá Vôlei.
Rafael Almeida
Rafael Araújo Almeida is a Brazilian actor, director, cinematographic producer, singer-songwriter. In addition to acting in several telenovelas, he works as a director in his own video production company, RA3 Filmes. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida.
Paulo Bauer
Paulo Roberto Bauer is a Brazilian politician. He has represented Santa Catarina in the Federal Senate since 2011. Previously he was a Deputy from Santa Catarina from 1991 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2007. He was Vice-Governor of Santa Catarina from 1999 to 2003. He is a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.
Phelipe Rodrigues
Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues is a paralympic swimmer from Brazil competing mainly in category S10 events. He was born with a club foot and had two surgeries when he was just four weeks old. After his second surgery when his foot was in the right position he had an infection which made under his knee and specially his tendon stop to grown disabling his right foot movements so as weakness from his knee below. He started swimming when he was 8 months as physiotherapy. He also tried many different sports but his passion since a child was swimming.
Claudinei Oliveira
Claudinei dos Santos Oliveira, known as Claudinei Oliveira, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is the manager of Avaí.
Maurício Gugelmin
Maurício Gugelmin is a Brazilian former racing driver. He took part in both Formula One and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). He participated in 80 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in 1988 for the March team. Gugelmin achieved one top-three finish and scored a total of ten championship points in the series. He competed in CART between 1993 and 2001, starting 147 races. Gugelmin won one race, in 1997 in Vancouver, finishing fourth in the championship that year. His best result in the Indianapolis 500 was in 1995 where he started and finished in sixth position, leading 59 laps. For a period, he held the world speed record for a closed race track, set at California Speedway in 1997 at a speed of 240.942 mph (387.759 km/h). Gugelmin retired at the end of 2001 after a year that included the death of his third child.
Marcelo Toscano
Marcelo Aparecido Toscano is a Brazilian footballer who plays for América Mineiro. Mainly a striker, he can also play as a winger.
Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Luiz Fernando Carvalho is a Brazilian filmmaker and television director, known for works closely linked to literature that constitute a renovation in Brazilian audiovisual aesthetics. He has already brought to the screen works by Ariano Suassuna, Raduan Nassar, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector, Milton Hatoum, José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos, among others.
Yasmin Lucas
Laís Yasmin Lucas Gontijo is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
Igor de Camargo
Igor Albert Rinck de Diver Camargo, known as Igor de Camargo, is a Belgian footballer who plays for Mechelen as a striker.