List of Famous people with last name Andrade
Demetrius Andrade
Demetrius Cesar Andrade is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO middleweight title since 2018, and previously the WBA (Regular) and WBO light middleweight titles between 2013 and 2017. As an amateur he won the U.S. national championships and Golden Gloves twice each, a gold medal at the 2007 World Championships, and represented the U.S. at the 2008 Olympics; all in the welterweight division.
Jessica Andrade
Jéssica Andrade is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist, currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she competes in the women's Flyweight division. Andrade is the former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion. As of October 19, 2020, she is #1 in the UFC women's flyweight rankings, and #5 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings.
Diego de Souza Andrade
Diego de Souza Andrade, known as Diego Souza, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a forward for Brazilian Série A club Grêmio.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his widely influential poem "Canção Amiga" has been featured on the 50-cruzado novo bill.
Rebeca Andrade
Rebeca Andrade de Rodrigues is an artistic gymnast who represented Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
José Leandro Andrade
José Leandro Andrade was an Uruguayan footballer who played at wing-half. He was nicknamed "The Black Marvel". During his prime he was regarded as one of the finest footballers in the world, contributing to the Uruguay national football team's domination of international football during the 1920s, winning two consecutive Olympic Gold Medals and then the first FIFA World Cup.
Yeimar Gómez
Yeimar Pastor Gómez Andrade is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC.
Castor de Andrade
Castor Gonçalves de Andrade e Silva was a well-known bicheiro in Rio de Janeiro. From the 1980s, Castor de Andrade was the uncontested leader of all the main bicheiros of the city of Rio de Janeiro, and had more than 100 policemen and a number of public servants, prominent politicians, and judges working for him. Castor was also very involved in the Brazilian Carnival and in soccer—he was the major sponsor of Bangu Atlético Clube and even called the "owner of Bangu", and he was also the patron of samba school Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel. He also helped found in 1984 the Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro, which has run the Rio de Janeiro Carnival ever since and has served as the legal cover for the "jogo do bicho cartel".
Danilo Gabriel de Andrade
Danilo Gabriel de Andrade, or simply Danilo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder, most recently for Vila Nova.
Jorge Carrera Andrade
Jorge Carrera Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, and diplomat during the 20th century. He was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1902. He died in 1978. During his life and after his death he has been recognized with Jorge Luis Borges, Vicente Huidobro, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Cesar Vallejo as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century.