List of Famous people born in Fortaleza, Brazil

Denise Dumont is a Brazilian television and film actress.

Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a Brazilian Catholic Archbishop. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship of the country.

Maurício Matos Peixoto,, was a Brazilian engineer and mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and was the author of Peixoto's theorem.

Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte was the Brazilian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão from 1984 until his retirement in 2005. He had previously served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Itapipoca from 1971 until 1984, when Ponte was elevated to the Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão by Pope John Paul II.

José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo.

Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo, known simply as Ronny, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who mainly played as a midfielder.