List of Famous people born in Pernambuco, Brazil

Carlos Alberto Santos da Silva, also known as Betinho, is a Brazilian footballer who current plays as a forward for Altos.

Raquel Lyra is the current mayor of Caruaru, and in the past served in the state legislature from 2011 to 2017.

Antônio José da Silva Filho, usually known as Biro-Biro, is a retired professional Brazilian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder for several Campeonato Brasileiro Série A clubs.

Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues is a paralympic swimmer from Brazil competing mainly in category S10 events. He was born with a club foot and had two surgeries when he was just four weeks old. After his second surgery when his foot was in the right position he had an infection which made under his knee and specially his tendon stop to grown disabling his right foot movements so as weakness from his knee below. He started swimming when he was 8 months as physiotherapy. He also tried many different sports but his passion since a child was swimming.

Carlos Eduardo Cintra da Costa Pereira, better known as Carlos Eduardo Cadoca or simply Cadoca, was a Brazilian Politician and Lawyer.

Mário Schenberg was a Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.

Osman Lins was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. He is considered to be one of the leading innovators of Brazilian literature in the mid 20th century.

Otto Maximiliano Pereira de Cordeiro Ferreira, known mononymously as Otto, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, drummer, and television actor and presenter, famous for being one of the founding members of the pioneering Mangue Bit band Mundo Livre S/A, of which he served as its drummer from 1984 to 1996.