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BELO HORIZONTE

Most Famous People Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Notable people
668
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1969
Most distinctive
Model 7.0×

A planned modernist capital laid out at the end of the nineteenth century, and the page looks exactly like what happens when you drop a million people into a new city and wait eighty years — a Player bench at better than four times the global baseline, a Singer and Composer presence from the mineiro music tradition, and a Model cluster that almost certainly traces to the city's outsized turn in Brazilian television.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Belo Horizonte during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 123 notable births.

What Belo Horizonte Is Known For

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Football is Belo Horizonte's biggest profession — 26% of all notables (173).

Belo Horizonte over-indexes on model7.0× the global rate.

Belo Horizonte under-produces painter — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Football173
  2. Politician73
  3. Player57
  4. Actor50
  5. Singer31
  6. Writer28
  7. Journalist20
  8. Composer17
  1. Model127.0×
  2. Player574.4×
  3. Driver73.4×
  4. Swimmer103.1×
  5. Football1732.4×
  6. Singer312.2×
  7. Composer171.9×
  8. Journalist201.9×
  1. Painter100.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Belo Horizonte's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0001 POLITICIAN

Dilma Rousseff

Born 1947

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0010 FOOTBALL

Tostão

Born 1947

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0015 THEOLOGIAN

Frei Betto

Born 1944

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0036 MUSIC

Toninho Horta

Born 1948

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0040 JUDGE

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

Born 1947

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0058 WRITER

Conceição Evaristo

Born 1946

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0072 ARTIST

Iole de Freitas

Born 1945

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0109 MURDER

Ângela Diniz

1944 - 1976

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0123 ACTOR

Lady Francisco

1940 - 2019

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0132 WRITER

Ângela Lago

1945 - 2017

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0148 ACTOR

Regina Braga

Born 1945

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0156 MUSIC

Márcio Greyck

Born 1947

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0161 FOOTBALL

Roberto Batata

1949 - 1976

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0164 LINGUIST

Lucy Seki

1941 - 2017

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0169 SINGER

Nelson Angelo

Born 1949

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0170 DRIVER

Alex Ribeiro

Born 1948

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0178 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Nivio Ziviani

Born 1946

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0186 COMPOSER

Nivaldo Ornelas

Born 1941

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0211 ACTOR

Neville d'Almeida

Born 1941

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0212 FOOTBALL

Vantuir

Born 1949

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0220 FOOTBALL

Natal de Carvalho Baroni

Born 1945

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0221 FOOTBALL

Ronaldo Drummond

1946 - 2020

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0234 WRITER

Chico Mário

1948 - 1988

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0238 WRITER

Herbert Daniel

1946 - 1992

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0263 POLITICIAN

Márcio Fortes

Born 1944

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0264 POLITICIAN

Pimenta da Veiga

Born 1947

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0274 SCIENTIST

Marc A. Meyers

Born 1946

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0282 COMPOSER

Flávio Venturini

Born 1949

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0287 MODEL

Bethy Lagardère

Born 1949

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0294 WRITER

Eliana Cardoso

Born 1944

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0307 FOOTBALL

Hilton Oliveira

1941 - 2006

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0309 FOOTBALL

Décio Randazzo Teixeira

1941 - 2000

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0311 SINGER

Tavito

1948 - 2019

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0316 SOCIOLOGIST

Vânia Bambirra

1940 - 2015

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0318 ACTOR

Teuda Bara

Born 1941

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0322 JOURNALIST

Lucas Mendes (journalist)

Born 1944

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0330 WRITER

Elizabeth Jhin

Born 1949

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0343 ACTOR

Lúcia Alves

Born 1948

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0345 INVENTOR

Nélio José Nicolai

1940 - 2017

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0358 ACTOR

Cleyde Blota

Born 1940

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0374 POLITICIAN

Eduardo Azeredo

Born 1948

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0390 PIANIST

Marilton Borges

Born 1943

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0405 POLITICIAN

Virgílio Guimarães

Born 1949

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0408 VOCALIST

Martinha

Born 1949

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0411 POLITICIAN

Márcia Kubitschek

1943 - 2000

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0416 VOCALIST

Marcio Lott

Born 1940

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0423 JOURNALIST

Jorge Pontual (jornalista)

Born 1948

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0428 FOOTBALL

Jorge Santoro

1944 - 2011

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0438 SOCIOLOGIST

Maria do Carmo Brito

Born 1943

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0452 POLITICIAN

Júnia Marise

Born 1945

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0453 POLITICIAN

Roberto Brant

Born 1942

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0463 POLITICIAN

Ana Maria de Resende Vieira

Born 1945

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0464 POLITICIAN

Sandra Meira Starling

Born 1944

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0468 JOURNALIST

Fernando Mitre

Born 1943

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0479 FOOTBALL

Humberto da Silva Ramos

Born 1949

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0484 SINGER

Márcio José

1942 - 2002

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0486 FOOTBALL

Wilton Cezar Xavier

1947 - 2009

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0488 MUSIC

Marco Antonio Araujo

1949 - 1986

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0494 LAWYER

Misabel Derzi

Born 1946

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0495 PLAYER

Luiz Eymard Zech Coelho

Born 1949

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0501 POLITICIAN

Arnaldo Cardoso Rocha

1949 - 1973

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0504 PIANIST

Tânia Cançado

1949 - 2016

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0507 JOURNALIST

Carlos Valadares

1946 - 2012

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0518 ATRIZ

Lúcia Flecha de Lima

1941 - 2017

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0529 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Tião Rocha

Born 1948

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0533 ECONOMIST

Vinícius Caldeira Brant

1941 - 1999

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0536 POLITICIAN

Leopoldo Bessone

Born 1942

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0537 POLITICIAN

Messias Soares

1942 - 2003

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0541 FOOTBALL

Manoel José Dias

1940 - 2004

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0548 PIANIST

Helvius Vilela

1941 - 2010

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0550 POLITICIAN

Octávio Elísio

Born 1940

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0555 PASTOR

Márcio Valadão

Born 1947

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0565 PAINTER

Luiz Alphonsus

Born 1948

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0572 POLITICIAN

Leopoldo Pacheco Bessone

Born 1942

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0587 JOURNALIST

Lauro Machado Coelho

Born 1944

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0602 CHEMIST

Marco-Aurelio De Paoli

Born 1949

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0604 JOURNALIST

Pedro Rogério Moreira

Born 1946

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0606 MISSING

Eduardo Antônio da Fonseca

1947 - 1971

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0608 POLITICIAN

Washington Thadeu de Mello

Born 1941

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0609 CRIANÇA

Arlete Hilu

Born 1941

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0622 ACTOR

Sonia Maria Dorce

Born 1944

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0624 POLITICIAN

Saulo Levindo Coelho

Born 1949

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0625 PLAYER

Elda Maria da Silva Pimenta

Born 1945

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0637 LAWYER

Oscar Dias Corrêa Júnior

Born 1949

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0639 POLITICIAN

Daniel Andrade Ribeiro de Oliveira

Born 1948

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0642 DIPLOMAT

Carlos Eduardo Sette Câmara da Fonseca Costa –

Born 1949

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0658 SINGER

Verinha Cordovil

Born 1945

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0662 DIPLOMAT

Marco Antônio Diniz Brandão

Born 1949

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