List of Famous people born in Brazil

José Santa Cruz is a Brazilian television actor, comedian and voice actor. He is now working on Zorra Total, a sketch comedy program on Rede Globo.

Viscardi Andrade Guimarães, also known as ‘derekp’ is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Welterweight division of Taura MMA. A professional competitor since 2006, he was also a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 2 before joining the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and has also formerly competed for Jungle Fight.

Yan Cabral is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division.

Wanda Maria Ferreira de Sá is a Brazilian bossa nova singer and guitarist, active from 1964 to the present day.

Léa Garcia is a Brazilian actress. She is known for her numerous television and film roles. Her breakout role was in the Oscar-winning Black Orpheus, in which she portrayed Serafina, Eurydice's crazy cousin.

Rafael Paulo de Lara Araújo is a Brazilian retired professional basketball player. He played for three years in the National Basketball Association.

Pedro de Alcântara Carlos João Lourenço Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança, known as Pedro Carlos of Orléans-Braganza is a forest engineer, one of two claimants to the defunct Brazilian throne, and head of the Petrópolis branch of the Imperial House of Brazil.

Pedro Corrêa do Lago is a Brazilian art historian and curator who has formed the largest private collection of autograph letters and manuscripts in the world today. He is the author of over twenty books on manuscripts and Brazilian art and was president of Brazil's National Library from 2003 to 2005. In 2002, partnering with his wife Bia Corrêa do Lago, he founded Capivara, an art publishing house specialized in catalogues raisonnés of artists active in Brazil. Since 2012 he has been a columnist for the monthly magazine Piaui.