22.9085° S, 43.1965° W
RIO DE JANEIRO
Most Famous People Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Notable people
- 5,466
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1956
- Most distinctive
- Martial Art 13.2×
The capital that wasn't, but acted like one. Rio's most distinctive profession is martial arts at more than thirteen times the global rate — the home of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and the Gracie family — alongside the composers, singers, and music players of bossa nova and samba and a deep diplomatic-and-journalistic bench from its century as the seat of the Portuguese and then Brazilian empires. Footballers and actors are tied at almost exactly the same share, a balance that you don't see in any other Brazilian city.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Rio de Janeiro Is Known For
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Football is Rio de Janeiro's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (898).
Rio de Janeiro over-indexes on martial art — 13.2× the global rate.
Rio de Janeiro under-produces painter — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Rio de Janeiro's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Writing
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1920s Clear ×
Antônio Carlos Jobim
1927 - 1994
Fernanda Montenegro
Born 1929
José Mauro de Vasconcelos
1920 - 1984
Luiz Bonfá
1922 - 2001
Carlos Heitor Cony
1926 - 2018
Nílton Santos
1925 - 2013
Dona Ivone Lara
1921 - 2018
Paulo Autran
1922 - 2007
Irasema Dilián
1924 - 1996
Tônia Carrero
1922 - 2018
Millôr Fernandes
1923 - 2012
Zizinho
1921 - 2002
Carlos José Castilho
1927 - 1987
Valdir Azevedo
1923 - 1980
Perry Broad
1921 - 1993
Elizete Cardoso
1920 - 1990
Johnny Alf
1929 - 2010
Newton Mendonça
1927 - 1960
Emilinha Borba
1923 - 2005
Dom Um Romão
1925 - 2005
Hélio Jaguaribe
1923 - 2018
Augusto da Costa
1920 - 2004
Bola Sete
1923 - 1987
Candido Mendes (Schriftsteller)
Born 1928
Sergio Rodrigues (architect)
1927 - 2014
Ronaldo Bôscoli
1928 - 1994
David Resnick
1924 - 2012
Alfredo dos Santos
1920 - 1997
Ruth de Souza
1921 - 2019
Átila Iório
1921 - 2002
Dick Farney
1921 - 1987
Jayme Tiomno
1920 - 2011
Algodão
1925 - 2001
Carmélia Alves
1923 - 2012
Nora Ney
1922 - 2003
Miriam Pires
1926 - 2004
Sérgio Britto (actor)
1923 - 2011
Carlos Manga
1928 - 2015
Miltinho
1928 - 2014
Carlos Zéfiro
1921 - 1992
Nathalia Timberg
Born 1929
Sérgio Porto
1923 - 1968
Beatriz Segall
1926 - 2018
Maurício do Valle
1928 - 1994
Danilo Alvim
1920 - 1996
Tito Madi
1929 - 2018
Zé Keti
1921 - 1999
Alfredo da Motta
Born 1921
Bárbara Heliodora
1923 - 2015
Nelson Dantas
1927 - 2006
Paulo Amaral
1923 - 2008
M. Rainer Lepsius
1928 - 2014
Ivan Serpa
1923 - 1973
Guilherme de Brito
1922 - 2006
Eliezer Gomes
1920 - 1979
Marcus Vinícius Dias
1923 - 1992
Almir Mavignier
1925 - 2018
Jorge Loredo
1925 - 2015
Tarcísio Padilha
Born 1928
Roberto Silva
1920 - 2012
Cláudio Correia e Castro
1928 - 2005
Jorge Dória
1920 - 2013
Pedro Pinchas Geiger
Born 1923
Lídia Mattos
1924 - 2013
Monsueto
1924 - 1973
Mário Brasini
1921 - 1997
Renina Katz
Born 1925
Flávio Cavalcanti
1923 - 1986
Décio Esteves
1927 - 2000
Lolita Rodrigues
Born 1929
Vasco Mariz
1921 - 2017
Yara Cortes
1921 - 2002
Leonora Amar
1926 - 2014
Anna Maria Niemeyer
1929 - 2012
Jorge Cherques
1928 - 2011
Célio Borja
Born 1928
Carlos Dittborn
1924 - 1962
Daisy Lúcidi
1929 - 2020
Wilson Francisco Alves
1927 - 1998
Wilson Grey
1923 - 1993
Tião Macalé
1926 - 1993
Hélio Marques Pereira
1925 - 1971
Henri Van Lier
1921 - 2009
Mauro Thibau
1923 - 2005
Antônio Carlos Villaça
1928 - 2005
Raymundo Carvalho dos Santos
Born 1923
Dora Lopes
1922 - 1984
Miguel Gustavo
1922 - 1972
Lourdes Mayer
1920 - 1998
Fernando Pamplona
1926 - 2013
Nelson Sargento
Born 1924
Maria Fernanda (atriz)
Born 1928
Acácio Gil Borsoi
1924 - 2009
Manoel Francisco do Nascimento Brito
1922 - 2003
Jansen José Moreira
1927 - 2010
Giovanni Alliata Di Montereale
1921 - 1994
Sebastião Amorim Gimenez
Born 1925
Yolanda Cardoso
1928 - 2007
Villas-Bôas Corrêa
1923 - 2016
Waldir Villas Boas
Born 1925
Piedade Coutinho
1920 - 1997
Cyll Farney
1925 - 2003
Marcello Alencar
1925 - 2014
Pires Constantino
1929 - 2002
Isolda Cresta
1929 - 2009
Max Nunes
1922 - 2014
Jorge Goulart
1926 - 2012
Antonio Teixeira Guerra
1924 - 1968
Elza Medeiros
1921 - 2009
Castor de Andrade
1926 - 1997
Costinha (humorista)
1923 - 1995
Rosita Thomaz Lopes
1920 - 2013
Vanda Lacerda
1923 - 2001
Pedro Farah
Born 1926
Arthur Costa Filho
1927 - 2003
Romy Medeiros da Fonseca
1921 - 2013
Leonor Bassères
1926 - 2004
Eulália Maria Lahmeyer Lobo
1924 - 2011
Madeleine Rosay
1924 - 1996
Paulo Duque
1927 - 2020
Gustavo Moraes Rego Reis
1920 - 1997
Israel Klabin
Born 1926
José Paulo Moreira da Fonseca
1922 - 2004
Vera Nunes
Born 1928
Jamil Haddad
1926 - 2009
Aram Boghossian
Born 1929
Emil Pinheiro
1923 - 2001
Aïda Espinola
1920 - 2015
Dênio Chagas Nogueira
1920 - 1997
Agnes Fontoura
1928 - 2005
Antônio Carlos Pires
1927 - 2005
Ibrahim Sued
1924 - 1995
Nancy Wanderley
1927 - 2008
Domício Costa
1928 - 2016
Hilda Rebello
1924 - 2019
Jutahy Magalhães
1929 - 2000
Günther Kehnscherper
1929 - 2004
Fada Santoro
Born 1926
Hélio Souto
1929 - 2001
Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira
Born 1928
Milton Carneiro
1923 - 1999
Antônio Dias Leite Júnior
1920 - 2017
Gérson Bergher
1925 - 2016
Geraldo Casé
1928 - 2008
Ida de Vattimo-Gil
1928 - 1993
Edith de Oliveira
1928 - 1964
Victor Lima
1920 - 1981
Moacyr Felix
1926 - 2005
Remo Usai
Born 1928
Álvaro Aguiar
1926 - 1988
Zêus Wantuil
1924 - 2011
Heleninha Costa
1924 - 2005
Júlio Delamare
1928 - 1973
Moacyr Deriquém
1927 - 2001
Paulo Gonçalves (ator)
1926 - 1986
Octávio Pinto Guimarães
1922 - 1990
Paulo Celestino
1924 - 1988
Xangô da Mangueira
1923 - 2009
Robert W. Lichtwardt
1924 - 2018
Argemiro da Portela
1923 - 2003
Alfredo Karam
Born 1925
José de Arimathéa
1920 - 1992
Zaquia Jorge
1924 - 1957
Gilda Sarmento
1928 - 1999
Anescarzinho do Salgueiro
1929 - 2000
Virgínia Lane
1920 - 2014
Newton Cruz
Born 1924
Francisco Carlos
1928 - 2003
Otávio Aguiar de Medeiros
1922 - 2005
Hilton Gomes
1924 - 1999
Antônio Patiño
1929 - 2014
Rubens Bayma Denys
Born 1929
Ary Vasconcelos
1926 - 2003
Ottilia Rodrigues Affonso Mitidieri
Born 1927
Vagareza
1928 - 1997
Miguel Rosenberg
1926 - 2016
Roberto Paiva
1921 - 2014
Erasmo Martins Pedro
1921 - 2003
Osvaldo Sargentelli
1924 - 2002
Dona Neuma
1922 - 2000
Giacomo Attolico
1928 - 2020
Lourival Faissal
Born 1922
Milton Ribeiro (artista plástico)
1922 - 2013
Octávio Júlio Moreira Lima
1926 - 2011
Nílton Campolino
1926 - 2001
Walter Goulart da Silveira
Born 1922
Rubens Florentino Vaz
1922 - 1954
Astor Silva
1922 - 1968
Kalma Murtinho
1920 - 2013
Francisco de Assis Grieco
1924 - 2001
Haroldo Leon Peres
1922 - 1992
J. Piedade
1920 - 1978
Agathyrno da Silva Gomes
1927 - 2015
Bella Jozef
1926 - 2010
Marcos Tamoio
1926 - 1981
Horácio Macedo
1925 - 1999
Glorinha Beuttenmüller
Born 1925
Manaceia
1921 - 1995
Patrícia Bins
1928 - 2008
Casquinha da Portela
1922 - 2018
Elisa Frota Pessoa
1921 - 2018
Manuel de Brito
1928 - 2005
Paulo Monte
1921 - 2014
Maria Cecília Geyer
1922 - 2014
Doutel de Andrade
1920 - 1991
Murilo Néri
1923 - 2001
Max Justo Guedes
1927 - 2011
Carlos Niemeyer
1920 - 1999
Jair do Cavaquinho
1922 - 2006
Mario Telles
1926 - 2001
Maneco Muller
1923 - 2005
Cláudio Garcia de Souza
Born 1927
Newton Cardoso
1925 - 1975
Luís Fernando Bocaiuva Cunha
1922 - 1993
Helena de Lima
Born 1926
Hélio da Costa Campos
1921 - 1991
Wilson Leite Passos
1926 - 2016
Aloysio Gomide
1929 - 2015
Walter Rosa (músico)
1925 - 2002
Elmo de Araújo Camões
Born 1927
Bené Nunes
1920 - 1997
Araty Viana
Born 1923
Luís Antônio (compositor)
1921 - 1996
Luiz Carlos Lisboa
Born 1929
Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti
1929 - 2020
Daso Coimbra
1926 - 2007
Roberto de Regina
Born 1927
Paulo Geyer
1921 - 2004
Murillo Gurgel Valente
Born 1927
José Montes Paixão
1927 - 2004
Nauro Esteves
1923 - 2007
Diogo de Oliveira Figueiredo
1926 - 2018
Haroldo Coimbra Veloso
1920 - 1969
Homero Ferreira
1929 - 2015
José Martins de Araújo Júnior
1924 - 1965
Ari Cordovil
1923 - 1981
Jair de Taumaturgo
1920 - 1970
Ludy Veloso
1924 - 1990
Salomão Pavlovsky
1924 - 1997
Victor José Silveira
1923 - 1999
Antenor de Santa Cruz Abreu
Born 1927
Antonio Leitão
1923 - 2005
Ernani Filho
Born 1920
Creusa Cartola
1927 - 2002
Helio R. Camargo
Born 1926
Paulo Konder Bornhausen
Born 1929
Nilo Sérgio
1921 - 1981
Jonas de Morais Correia Neto
1925 - 2015
Alberto Braga
1929 - 2004
Maury Gurgel Valente
Born 1921
Moacir Peixoto
1920 - 2003
Nazareno de Brito
1925 - 1981
José Bonifácio Diniz de Andrada
1928 - 2002
Ivan Ferreira
Born 1925
Alberto Baquit
1924 - 2015
Zélia Hoffman
1924 - 2007
Carlos Mattos
1926 - 2006
Chlau Deveza
1922 - 1993
Hélio Langsch Keller
1924 - 1991
Mário Luiz
1925 - 2009
José Rivelli Neto
1929 - 1980
Waldir 59
1927 - 2015
Abílio Lessa
1926 - 1975
Dirno Jurandir Pires Ferreira
1926 - 1986
Max Hablitzel
1924 - 2016
Renato Ferreira
Born 1920
Bidu Reis
1920 - 2011
Pedro Paulo de Leoni
Born 1927
Waldir Machado
Born 1923
Mocinha
1926 - 2002
Armínio Pascual
1920 - 2006
Cabana (compositor)
1924 - 1986
Glauco Ferreira
Born 1925
Eloisa Biassoto
1924 - 2019
Aída Hassón-Voloch
1922 - 2007
Paulo Afonso Martins de Oliveira
1927 - 2005
Brasinha (compositor)
1925 - 1998
Jorge Zagaia
1922 - 1995
Aparício Pires
1925 - 2008
Luiz Augusto Pereira Souto Maior
Born 1927
Almeidinha
Born 1925
Norival Cabral Ponce de León
Born 1927
João Luiz Areias Netto
Born 1924
Aquiles Medeiros
1925 - 1971
Arnô Provenzano
Born 1920
João Hermes Pereira de Araújo
Born 1926
Mário Trindade
1921 - 1994
Aor Ribeiro
Born 1920
Octávio Rainho da Silva Neves
Born 1929
Murillo de Miranda Bastos Júnior
Born 1920
Leduvi de Pina
Born 1920
Lyle Amaury Tarrisse da Fontoura
Born 1926
Quirino Lopes
Born 1920
Manoel do Nascimento
Born 1926