List of Famous people born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Adriana Samuel Ramos is a Brazilian volleyball and beach volleyball player, who won the silver medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Mônica Rodrigues.

João Bevilaqua de Lucca is a Brazilian swimmer.

Hyuri Henrique de Oliveira Costa, simply known as Hyuri, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Selangor in Malaysia Super League.

Carlos Arthur Thiré was a Brazilian set designer, filmmaker, costume designer, painter and comics artist. He was married to actress Tônia Carrero and father of actor Cecil Thiré. He began his career as an illustrator in the 1930s at the newspaper A Noite, having been nominated to this work by Júlio César de Mello e Souza, a family friend. Thiré created the comics strip Raffles, whose comic books were published by Adolfo Aizen at Grande Consórcio de Suplementos Nacionais publishing house. He also created comics for the magazine O Tico-Tico, but, around the 1940s, he left comics to focus on his work as an actor and, later, in 1949, as a set designer, screenwriter and director at Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz. In 1998, he was posthumously awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.

Joaquim de Arruda Falcão Neto is a Brazilian scholar and writer. He was born on September 10, 1943, in Rio de Janeiro, the son of Maria de Lourdes Saldanha de Arruda Falcão and Corintho de Arruda Falcão.

Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter is a Brazilian businessman of German descent, great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Kaspar Gerdau, Gerdau Group's founder. He held various positions within the Gerdau Group, and was its CEO from 1983 to 2006. He was chairman until 2015. Since 2011, he has been president of the Chamber of Management Policies, Performance and Competitiveness (CGDC), an organization linked to the Presidency of Brazil.

Victor Rodrigues Penalber de Oliveira is a Brazilian judoka.

Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira is a Brazilian diplomat who has been serving as Brazil's Ambassador to Croatia since 2020. He was Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs during President Dilma Rousseff's second term. Having succeeded Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, Mauro Vieira took office as foreign minister on 1 January 2015.

Daniela Thomas is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.

Paulo Roberto Valoura Júnior, commonly known as Juninho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for América Mineiro, on loan from Fortaleza.