List of Famous people born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Elizabeth de Portzamparc is a French-Brazilian architect.

Euzébia Silva de Oliveira, better known as Dona Zica,, was a Brazilian samba dancer at the Mangueira Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, who went on to play an important role in the Mangueira favela.

Antônio Callado was a Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist. Born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Callado studied law, then worked as a journalist in London for the BBC's Brazilian Service from 1941 to 1947. Callado began writing fiction in the 1950s. His first novel, A assunção de Salviano, was published in 1954, and his last, O homem cordial e outras histórias, came out in 1993. Quarup (1967) is regarded as his most famous work. Callado has received literary prizes that include the Golfinho de Ouro, the Prêmio Brasília, and the Goethe Prize for fiction for Sempreviva (1981). He died in Rio de Janeiro, aged 80.

Mara Dyrce Abrantes da Silva Santos, better known as Mara Abrantes was a Brazilian-Portuguese singer and actress known for the films A Canção da Saudade and Malandros em Quarta Dimensão.