List of Famous people born in Brazil

Sara Fernanda Giromini, known as Sara Winter, is a Brazilian activist and politician. She was the founder of the Brazilian variant of the Femen group, but after the second half of 2013 she worked in her own group, BastardXs. As of 2015, she joined the "Pro-Woman group", at the same time that she started to fight against the agendas she once defended, including the social construction of genders, feminism and the legalization of abortion, defending since then political positions linked to the right and conservatism.

Gabriel Boschilia is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Internacional.

Eduardo Pazuello is a Brazilian Divisional general of the Brazilian Army and politician, current Minister of Health.

Pedro Rocha Neves, known as Pedro Rocha, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Fortaleza.

Wallace Fortuna dos Santos, known as simply Wallace, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Turkish club Yeni Malatyaspor.

Helena Rizzo is a Brazilian chef and restaurateur. She runs the restaurant Maní in São Paulo. Rizzo was elected Best Female Chef of the Year by Restaurant Magazine in 2014.

Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she combatted the word poetess because of gender discrimination.

Gleisi Helena Hoffmann is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. She was the Chief of Staff of Brazil from 8 June 2011 to 2 February 2014, during the presidency of Dilma Rousseff. Following her tenure as Chief of Staff, she became a Senator for Paraná and in 2017 became national president of the Workers' Party.

Elisabeth Maria Silva de Faria known professionally as Betty Faria is a Brazilian actress.

Carlos Arthur Nuzman is a Brazilian lawyer and a former volleyball player, having competed professionally from 1957 to 1972 and represented the national team between 1962 and 1968. Nuzman was part of the first Brazilian male volleyball team at the 1964 Summer Olympics, when the sport debuted at the Olympic Games. He later became an administrator, with the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation (CBV) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was the leader of the Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and was subsequently appointed head of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016.