List of Famous people born in Paraíba, Brazil

Álvaro Magliano de Morais Filho is a Brazilian male beach volleyball player. Early in his adolescence, Álvaro liked to play soccer. By the influence of his father, who practices beach volleyball, Álvaro began venturing onto the sand and as he says himself: "I have become hooked to beach volleyball". He played with Vitor Felipe from 2007 to the middle of the 2011 season, when he started a partnership with Moisés. Over the years, he also played with Fábio Luiz, Benjamin, Luciano and Thiago. In March 2013, he started playing with Ricardo Santos, a world class Olympic Games gold medalist player. This partnership proved to be outstanding and led Álvaro and Ricardo to finish the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship Mazury 2013 in second place. Furthermore, Álvaro also won the prize of Most Valuable Player of the tournament. FIVB said that "... the tournament's Most Valuable Player Alvaro Filho not only performed superbly on the sand but the statistics also reflected how well he played. The 22-year-old topped the most number of spikes and digs illustrating how often he was served to while impressing with his back court play". In 2019, Álvaro partnered with Olympic champion - Alison Cerutti. The team will be competing in the Tokyo2020 journey.

Edinanci Fernandes da Silva is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division at the Pan American Games. A resident of São Paulo born in Sousa, Paraíba, she represented her country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Daniella Velloso Borges Ribeiro is a federal senator of Brazil representing her home state of Paraíba. She was previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba from 2011 to 2019 and was vereador of Campina Grande from 2009 to 2011.

Mariana Andrade Costa, also known as Mari Paraíba is a Brazilian female volleyball player. She is part of the Brazil women's national volleyball team. On club level she played for Osasco Voleibol Clube (2001–06), EC Pinheiros (2006-07) and Minas Tênis Clube. She currently plays for Voléro Zürich.

Judivan Flor da Silva, simply known as Judivan, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Botafogo-SP.

Fábio Alves da Silva, commonly known as Bilica, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Brazilian club São Francisco Futebol Clube (AC).

José Róbson do Nascimento, better known as Róbson or Robgol (born May 10, 1970 in Barra de São Miguel, Paraíba state is a Brazilian politician and former association football forward.

Carlos Pereira Berto Júnior, or simply Carlinhos Paraíba, is a Brazilian midfielder who currently plays for Anapolina.

José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world. Along with Graciliano Ramos and Jorge Amado he stands as one of the greatest regionalist writers of Brazil According to Otto Maria Carpeaux, José Lins was "the last of the story tellers". His first novel, Menino de Engenho, was published with difficulty, but soon it got praised by the critics.