List of Famous people born in Brazil

Djair Kaye de Brito is a Brazilian international footballer nicknamed Djair.

Flavia Mello Moraes de Oliveira is a Brazilian director and filmmaker. Owner of an important career in audiovisual and advertising, Flavia Moraes has built an expressive career as a director for over 30 years. Produced and directed more than 3,000 commercials, documentaries, movies and music concerts.

William Francisco da Silva Macário is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently competing as a welterweight. A professional competitor since 2010, he has formerly competed for the UFC and was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 2.

Father Paulo Ricardo de Azevedo Júnior, known in Portuguese as Padre Paulo Ricardo, is a Brazilian Catholic priest, TV host, writer, and professor.

Lee Winston Leandro da Silva Oliveira, or simply Lee is a goalkeeper who plays for Clube Atlético Tubarão.

Oriovisto Guimarães is a Brazilian politician. He has represented Paraná in the Federal Senate since 2019 and he is a member of Podemos. He was president of Grupo Positivo and he was rector of the Universidade Positivo.

Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Beginning his career as a samba musician in Brazil, he moved to the United States in the early 1970s and worked with Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes. He went on to perform with many American pop, rock and jazz musicians and participated in thousands of albums. DownBeat magazine call him "one of the most talented percussionists of our time." He was an artist on Michael Jackson's Thriller, Madonna's True Blue, Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love, hit singles and movie soundtracks, including Saturday Night Fever, Dirty Dancing and Purple Rain among others. He has also toured with Diana Krall. He plays over 200 instruments professionally, and has worked in a variety of music genres including Brazilian, blues, Christian, country, disco, gospel, hip hop, jazz, Latin, pop, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, and world music. He was signed to Norman Granz's Pablo Records for three of his solo albums, Agora, Happy People and Sunrise, as well as Breakdown. Da Costa received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Most Valuable Player Award for three consecutive years. He also received the Musicians Emeritus Award.

Emerson da Conceição, known as Emerson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left back.

Geremias Steinmetz is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Londrina since 2017. He was Bishop of Paranavaí from 2011 to 2017.

Fernando Henrique da Conceição, known as Fernando Henrique or Fei Nanduo, is a Brazilian-born Chinese professional footballer who plays for Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao as a left-footed winger.