List of Famous people born in Brazil
Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos
Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian footballer who plays as striker for Ríver.
Daniel Carvalho
Daniel da Silva Carvalho, more commonly known as Daniel Carvalho, is a Brazilian football attacking midfielder for Pelotas.
Mariana Aydar
Mariana Aydar is a Brazilian singer of MPB.
Eliane Brum
Eliane Brum is a Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. She graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1988 and has written for Zero Hora, Época and El País and won more than 40 international awards for reporting, among them the Premio Rey de España and the Inter American Associated Press Award.
Jesus Luz
Jesus Pinto da Luz is a Brazilian model and DJ.
Bruno Landgraf das Neves
Bruno Landgraf das Neves is a Brazilian Paralympic athlete and former association footballer. A promising goalkeeper who had won the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship with the Brazil under-17 team, Landgraf saw his football career end with a car accident in 2006. While he drove back from his family's home at São Lourenço da Serra along with four friends he lost control of the vehicle at the Rodovia Régis Bittencourt and had the car roll over. Two of the passengers, a fellow young goalie from Bruno's club São Paulo FC and a female volleyballers, died on the crash, while Bruno was gravely injured. Affected with tetraplegia, he spent eight months at the hospital, three of those unable to talk or eat. In 2009, Landgraf decided to take up sailing as it had opportunities for disabled athletes. By 2011, sailing in the SKUD 18 class with Elaine Pedroso da Cunha, he managed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Paralympics that would happen in London. Landgraf and Cunha finished last overall in the Paralympics. Aiming to appear in the next Paralympic cycle, Landgraf moved to Niterói, where he would train with new partner Marinalva de Almeida. In the 2016 Summer Paralympics at Rio de Janeiro, they finished in eighth place.
Marcelo Miranda
Marcelo Miranda is an ex-governor of the Brazilian state of Tocantins. He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.
Pedro Ken
Pedro Ken Morimoto Moreira, known as Pedro Ken, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Operário Ferroviário. He is of Japanese descent.
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Júnior
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Júnior, or simply Carlos Alberto, is a Brazilian defensive midfielder who currently plays for Joinville Esporte Clube.
Eduardo Lopes
Eduardo Benedito Lopes is a Brazilian politician and a member of the Brazilian Republican Party (PRB). He served as Minister of Fishing and Aquaculture in the government of Dilma Rousseff.