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Tim Maia
Tim Maia was a Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. Maia contributed to Brazilian music within a wide variety of musical genres, including soul, funk, bossa nova, disco, romantic ballads, pop, rock, jazz, baião and MPB. He introduced the soul style on the Brazilian musical scene. Along with Jorge Ben, Maia pioneered MPB's samba rock genre, combining samba, soul, and funk. He is internationally recognized as one of the biggest icons in Brazilian music.
Demian Maia
Demian Maia is a Brazilian professional submission grappler and mixed martial artist. He currently fights as a Welterweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Maia is regarded as one of the greatest grapplers in MMA history. He has competed in two UFC title championships, losing against Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight Championship in 2010 and losing against Tyron Woodley for the UFC Welterweight Championship in 2017. As of January 25, 2021, he is #8 in the UFC welterweight rankings.
Alena Kostornaia
Alena Sergeyevna Kostornaia is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2020 European champion, the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2019 Internationaux de France champion, the 2019 NHK Trophy champion and the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy champion. Competing domestically, she is the 2020 Russian national silver medalist, and a two-time Russian national bronze medalist.
Azzedine Alaïa
Azzedine Alaïa was a Tunisian couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful beginning in the 1980s.
Marina Granovskaia
Marina Granovskaia is a Russian-Canadian who is currently a director at Chelsea. She is responsible for brokering the team's sponsorship deal with Nike, that will fund £60m per year to the club until 2032. She is described as 'The Iron Lady' and she is considered as one of the best club directors in world football. In 2018, Forbes ranked her Number 5 in their "Most Powerful Women in International Sports" list.
Rodrigo Maia
Rodrigo Felinto Ibarra Epitácio Maia is a Brazilian politician who has been the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil since July 2016. Maia is the son of former Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia and he is in his fifth term as congressman.
Cláudia Raia
Maria Cláudia Motta Raia, best known as Cláudia Raia, is a Brazilian television and film actress.
Jennifer Maia
Jennifer Apreciada Gonçalves de Maia is a Brazilian female mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division. Maia trains at Chute Boxe Academy in Brazil. She is currently signed with The Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional since 2009, she is also the former Invicta FC Flyweight World Champion. As of December 14, 2020, she is #4 in the UFC women's flyweight rankings.
Mel Maia
Melissa Maia de Sousa, better known as Mel Maia is a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia is an Italian motorcycle racer. He currently competes in MotoGP for the Pramac Racing team. Bagnaia became the 2018 Moto2 World Champion after winning 8 races during the season, finishing his season with a total of 12 podiums, 6 pole positions and 306 points.
Arthur Maia
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.
Nuno Leal Maia
Nuno Leal Maia is a Brazilian actor and former football manager. Born in Santos, São Paulo, Maia started his career as a stage actor in the 1970s, and then debuting on cinema in the 1973 film Anjo Loiro starred by Vera Fischer. Maia became notorious for his role on the 1979 pornochanchada film Bem Dotado – O Homem de Itu, having appeared in more than 30 films since then as well as in television series and telenovelas.
Amaia
Amaia Romero Arbizu, also known as simply Amaia, is a Spanish singer and pianist. She gained national recognition after taking part in series nine of the television talent contest Operación Triunfo, where she'd end up first place. Romero represented Spain alongside fellow competitor Alfred García at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with "Tu Canción".
Thiago Maia
Thiago Maia Alencar, known as Thiago Maia, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Brazilian club Flamengo on loan from Lille.
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Beatriz Haddad Maia is a Brazilian tennis player.
Cesar Maia
Cesar Epitácio Maia is a Brazilian politician, notable for having been elected three times for mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
Salgueiro Maia
Fernando José Salgueiro Maia, GOTE, GCL, commonly known as Salgueiro Maia, was a captain in the Portuguese army. He made a significant contribution to the Carnation Revolution, which resulted in the fall of the ruling dictatorship.
Tarita Teriipaia
Tarita Teri'ipaia is a former French actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for having been the third wife of actor Marlon Brando, whom she later divorced. For media and entertainment appearances and engagements, she has usually been billed as Tarita.
Elena Tchaikovskaia
Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia is a Russian figure skating coach, choreographer, and former competitor for the Soviet Union. She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the Strogino District west of Moscow. She coaches in collaboration with Vladimir Kotin, her former pupil.
Silas Malafaia
Silas Lima Malafaia is a Brazilian Pentecostal pastor, author and televangelist, who also has a degree in Psychology. He is the leader of the Pentecostal church Assembleia de Deus Vitória em Cristo, a branch of the broader Assembleias de Deus movement of Pentecostal churches in Brazil. He is also the CEO of the Central Gospel Music publishing company, and vice president of the Interdenominational Council of Evangelical Ministers of Brazil (CIMEB), which is made up of approximately 8.500 ministers and leaders from almost all Brazilian evangelical denominations.
Jay Laga'aia
Jay Laga'aia is a New Zealand-Australian actor and singer. He is best known internationally for his role as Captain Typho in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
Maía
Mónica Andrea Vives Orozco, more commonly known as Maía is a Colombian singer-songwriter.