List of Famous people with last name Padilha

José Bastos Padilha Neto is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer of the Netflix original series Narcos, starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura, and directed the first two episodes in the series.

Eliseu Lemos Padilha is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, who was appointed by Dilma Rousseff as the Chief-Minister of the Brazilian Civil Aeronautics Government Department. He was in office from January 1, 2015 to December 1, 2015. He has also served as Chief-Minister of Transport and Infrastructure between 1997 and 2001 and four terms as Federal Congressman of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, his birthplace. He is one of the few ministers in Brazilian history to have resigned from a ministerial office because of his divergent position from Dilma's government policies.

Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha is a Brazilian physician and politician affiliated with the Workers Party (PT). He was also minister of Institutional Relations in the Lula administration and Minister of Health under Dilma Rousseff. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of São Paulo state in the 2014 election.