List of Famous people born in Maceió, Brazil

Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team.

Kepler Laveran de Lima Ferreira ComM, known as Pepe, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Porto and the Portugal national team.

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo is a Lebanese Brazilian former professional football player and manager, who played as a forward.

Arthur Brasiliano Maia, known as Arthur Maia, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played for Chapecoense on loan from Vitória, as a winger or attacking midfielder.

Carlos Adriano de Souza Vieira or simply Adriano Gabiru, is a retired Brazilian attacking midfielder.

Floriano Vieira Peixoto, born in Ipioca, nicknamed the "Iron Marshal", was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the Paraguayan War, and the second President of Brazil. He is the first Vice President of Brazil to have succeeded a former President mid-term.

Fernando Iório Rodrigues was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and professor, who served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Palmeira dos Índios, based in Palmeira dos Índios, from March 1, 1985, until July 12, 2006.

Pedro Affonso Collor de Melo was the brother of former Brazilian president Fernando Collor. Working for the Collor family's newspaper Gazeta de Alagoas, Pedro Collor gained prominence when he made a series of accusations against his brother, who was then president. The allegations include corruption, and drug use. Pedro Collor's revelations helped precipitate his brother's downfall in 1992. Pedro Collor died of brain cancer in 1994.

Tiago Fernandes is a former Brazilian tennis player. He achieved the No. 1 ranking on the ITF Junior Circuit. Fernandes was coached by Larri Passos, the former coach of Brazilian former world #1 and three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten.

Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He was born in Maceió, Alagoas, and is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement. He is popularly known for his unconventional, yet intriguing film techniques among other film producers of the Cinema Novo movement. Diegues is also widely known for his dynamic use visuals, ideas, plots, themes, and other cinematic techniques. He incorporated many musical acts in his film as he favored musical pieces to be complementary of his ideas. Diegues remains very popular and is regarded one the most cinematic producers of his generation. Of the Cinema Novo directors, he would go on to produce films, plays, musicals and other forms of entertainment in Brazil.