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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Rio de Janeiro during each.
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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Rodrigo Araújo Costa
Born 1988
Lug de Paula
Born 1957
Alessandra Scatena
Born 1975
Dora Bria
1958 - 2008
Ana Luiza Souza Lima
Born 1973
Custódio Mesquita
1910 - 1945
Guilherme Lamounier
1950 - 2018
Marcos Antônio dos Santos
Born 1979
Fábio de Souza Loureiro
Born 1980
Cláudya
Born 1946
Hélio Dias de Oliveira
Born 1943
Márcio Vito
Born 1972
Felipe Roque
Born 1987
Alcides Rocha Miranda
1909 - 2001
Serguei
1933 - 2019
Tom Karabachian
Born 1997
Emil Pinheiro
1923 - 2001
Rosental Calmon Alves
Born 1952
Nica Bonfim
Born 1956
Yocie Yoneshigue
Born 1939
Uilian Souza
Born 1982
Erivelto Martins
Born 1954
Vítor Epanor da Costa Filho
Born 1949
Léo Inácio
Born 1976
Francisco de Lima e Silva
1786 - 1853
Luiz Paulo Horta
1943 - 2013
José Carlos Guimarães
1899 - 1969
Thiago Picchi
Born 1976
Mister Jam
Born 1978
Marcio Braga
Born 1936
Gustavo Lins
Born 1986
Deo
1914 - 1971
Wallace Costa
Born 1986
Francisco das Chagas Santos
1763 - 1840
Giselle Motta
Born 1982
Péricles Cavalcanti
Born 1947
Amandha Lee
Born 1978
Chagas Freitas
1914 - 1991
Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães Neto
Born 1939
Marco Castillo
Born 1963
Francisco de Assis Correia de Melo
1903 - 1971
Eugênio Izecksohn
1932 - 2013
Lívian Aragão
Born 1999
Simone Caymmi
Born 1958
Rosane Gofman
Born 1957
Cândido Borges Monteiro
1812 - 1872
Júlio López
Born 1967
Vitor Hugo (ator)
Born 1977
Nélio dos Santos Pereira
Born 1943
Ana Paula Tabalipa
Born 1978
Ivan Pinheiro
Born 1949
João Antônio Rodrigues de Carvalho
1770 - 1840
Gigante Léo
Born 1978
Aïda Espinola
1920 - 2015
Andréa Murucci
Born 1965
Dilsinho
Born 1992
Christina Rocha
Born 1957
Sérgio Murilo
1941 - 1992
Luiz Maçãs
1963 - 1996
Anderson Luiz Gomes Ribeiro
Born 1982
Élcio Romar
Born 1949
Anísio Abraão David
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Júlio Soares de Moura Neto
Born 1943
Hélio Ribeiro (dublador)
Born 1957
Jorginho do Pandeiro
1930 - 2017
Roberto Bonfim
Born 1945
Valentina Herszage
Born 1998
Luciana Sandroni
Born 1962
Íris Bruzzi
Born 1935
Sonia Andrade
Born 1935
Carla Cecato
Born 1978
Saturnino Braga
Born 1931
Serginho Meriti
Born 1959
Jaime Barcelos
1930 - 1980
Alice Assef
Born 1983
Wagner Cardoso
Born 1989
Marquinhos do Sul
Born 1994
Míriam Martinho
Born 1954
Ademir Zanyor
Born 1973
Diego Lima
Born 1990
Marcelo Xavier
Born 1949
Anna Rita Cerqueira
Born 1998
Nilcéia Freire
1953 - 2019
Olney Cazarré
1945 - 1991
André Palmeira Cunha
Born 1965
Miguel de Frias e Vasconcelos
1805 - 1859
Dany Bananinha
Born 1976
Israel Salazar
Born 1990
Pedro Sá
Born 1972
Thiago dos Santos Ferreira
Born 1987
Fábio da Silva Azevedo
Born 1970
Geraldo Dantas de Andrade
Born 1931
Rodolfo Chambelland
1879 - 1967
Renata Castro Barbosa
Born 1974
Alice Sant’Anna
Born 1988
Ricardo Cruz (goalkeeper)
Born 1962
José Luiz Pereira
Born 1943
Oberdan Júnior
Born 1970
Rodrigo Netto
1977 - 2006
Davi Santos
Born 1990
Pedro Nercessian
Born 1985
Nélson Caruso
1939 - 1982
João Vítor Silva
Born 1996
Mario Gonçalves Vianna
1902 - 1989
Gabriel Andrade
Born 1981
Rian Marques
Born 1982
Luan Silva
Born 1993
Ângela Guadagnin
Born 1948
Diogo Ribeiro de Oliveira
Born 1982
Douglas Caetano
Born 1981
Shawlin
Born 1984
Bebeto Castilho
Born 1939
Felipe Grinnan
Born 1974
Denise Saraceni
Born 1954
Durval Ferreira
1935 - 2007
Dênio Chagas Nogueira
1920 - 1997
Joel Nascimento
Born 1937
Stela do Patrocínio
1941 - 1998
Agnes Fontoura
1928 - 2005
Joe Moreira
Born 1961
João Marcos Quintanilha
Born 1991
Luiz Henrique Ferreira de Menezes
Born 1943
Edmundo da Luz Pinto
1898 - 1963
Sergio Leo
Born 1963
Fátima Felgueiras
Born 1954
Juliana Castro
Born 1985
Cristina Possas
Born 1948
Ives Antero De Souza
Born 1985
Pedro Vedova
Born 1984
Domício Proença Filho
Born 1936
Bruno Gradim
Born 1980
Mu Carvalho
Born 1957
Fafy Siqueira
Born 1954
Langhorne A. Motley
Born 1938
Carlos Eduardo Novaes
Born 1940
Mario Brock
Born 1938
Eliane Cantanhêde
Born 1952
Antônio Carlos Pires
1927 - 2005
Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar
1832 - 1921
Vinícius Waked
Born 1987
Carlos Dafé
Born 1947
Ibrahim Sued
1924 - 1995
Sandra Barsotti
Born 1951
Jonas Torres
Born 1974
Simone Carvalho
Born 1960
Delurdes Moraes
Born 1945
Cristiano Portela de Araújo Pena
1913 - 2000
Tião Neto
1931 - 2001
Walter Butler (French businessman)
Born 1956
Paulo Malhães
1938 - 2014
Geraldo Ribeiro de Sousa Resende, Baron Geraldo of Resende
1847 - 1907
Ricardo Juarez
Born 1970
Nina de Pádua
Born 1960
Mônica Torres
Born 1958
Ângela Bismarchi
Born 1966
Felipe Saturnino Gomes
Born 1995
Boiadeiro (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Mariana da Fonseca
1826 - 1905
Mouhamed Harfouch
Born 1977
Lucy Burle
Born 1955
Dalal Achcar
-
Henrique Aristides Guilhem
1875 - 1949
Belita Koiller
Born 1949
Denise Emmer
Born 1958
Pápi Júnior
1854 - 1934
Eduardo Caldas
Born 1984
Eduardo Camões
Born 1955
Paulo Werneck
1907 - 1987
Lucas Galdino
Born 1990
Raphael Rossatto
Born 1987
Odette Vidal de Oliveira
1930 - 1939
Thiago Coimbra
Born 1983
Gabriella De Almeida Rinne
Born 1989
Chico Tenreiro
1944 - 2012
Bianca Alsina Moreira
Born 1972
Jonathas Serrano
1885 - 1944
David Feldman (musician)
Born 1977
Robin Gracie
-
Jaime Smith de Vasconcelos
1884 - 1933
Alan Fialho
Born 1993
Otávio Tarquínio de Sousa
1889 - 1959
Priscila Assum
Born 1982
Eduardo Drummond
Born 1999
Guida Vianna
Born 1954
Lana Bittencourt
Born 1932
Carlos César (football manager)
Born 1943
Leonardo Carvalho
Born 1979
Manoel José Gondin da Fonseca
1899 - 1977
Nádia Carvalho
Born 1956
Eduardo Galvão
Born 1963
Nancy Wanderley
1927 - 2008
Marcelo de Lima Henrique
Born 1971
Cícero Lins
Born 1986
Aroldo Rodrigues
Born 1933
Natália Klein
Born 1985
Lellêzinha
Born 1997
Carlos Augusto Montenegro
Born 1954
Gérson Andreotti
Born 1953
Graça Mello
1914 - 1979
Carlos Machado (fighter)
Born 1963
Aluizio Freire Ramos Accioly Neto
Born 1912
Sílvio de Noronha
1884 - 1957
Sheila Dorfman
Born 1956
Maximianno Cobra
Born 1969
Ernani Braga
1888 - 1948
Orã Figueiredo
Born 1965
Marcelo Itagiba
Born 1956
Alberto Faria
1869 - 1925
Elvandro Burity
Born 1940
Danielzinho (footballer, born 1996)
Born 1996
Paulo Antônio de Paranaguá
Born 1948
Márcio Máximo
Born 1962
Alexandre Moreno
Born 1969
Luís Guilherme
Born 1992
Joaquim Assis
Born 1934
Fernando Mac Dowell
1945 - 2018
Radamés Lattari
Born 1957
Anna Ratto
Born 1978
Thereza Santos
1930 - 2012
Duda Pamplona
Born 1978
Waldemar Gonçalves
Born 1916
Eduardo Hungaro
Born 1963
Domício Costa
1928 - 2016
Sérgio Menezes
Born 1972
Bustamante Sá
1907 - 1988
Carlos Nascimento
1904 - 1979
Thelmo Fernandes
Born 1966
Eliezer Motta
Born 1945
Leonardo Vitorino
Born 1973
Gabriela Moreyra
Born 1988
Castrinho
Born 1940
Cacau Melo
Born 1984
Denise Weinberg
Born 1956
Gabriel Kaufmann
Born 2001
Diego Guerra Taixeirão
Born 1990
Hilda Rebello
1924 - 2019
Conrado Jacó de Niemeyer
1831 - 1905
Ivo Soares
Born 1938
JP Rufino
Born 2002
Álamo Facó
Born 1981
Nina Morena
Born 1980
Vera Valdez
Born 1936
Maurício Carrilho
Born 1957
Miguel Lopes (basketball)
Born 1912
Alessandra Januário dos Santos
Born 1988
Jéssica Ellen
Born 1992
Gustavo Machado (desenhista)
Born 1958
Mário Dunlop
Born 1946
Celso Sisto
Born 1961
Artur de Souza Nascimento
1886 - 1957
João Velho
Born 1984
Cristiano Sergipano
Born 1988
Leandro Joaquim
1738 - 1798
Antônia Marzullo
1894 - 1969
Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva
1957 - 2017
Camilla Adão
Born 1984
Mariana Vaz
Born 1979
Paulo César Ximenes
Born 1943
Carlos César de Oliveira Sampaio
1861 - 1930
Tânia Puschnerat
Born 1957
Talita Rodrigues
Born 1934
Fernando Almeida
1974 - 2004
Diego Felipe Coutinho
Born 1989
Joice Coelho
Born 1993
Sandro Rocha
Born 1974
José J. de Sá Freire Alvim
1909 - 1981
Daniel Azulay
1947 - 2020
Cândido Inácio da Silva
1800 - 1838
Flávia Nadalutti
Born 1961
Luiz Antonio Millecco
1932 - 2005
Rodolfo Vieira (fighter)
Born 1989
Alziro Zarur
1914 - 1979
Luiz Cláudio Ramos
Born 1949
Claudia Jaguaribe
Born 1955
Paulo Cunha (businessman)
Born 1940
Scylla Venâncio
Born 1917
Kíria Malheiros
Born 2004
Marcela Monteiro
Born 1986
Felipe Gomes
Born 1986
Felipe Martins
Born 1960
Beto Silva
Born 1960
Mercedes Carné
1908 - 1988
Laura Barreto
Born 2001
Thaíssa Carvalho
Born 1982
Wellington "Megaton" Dias
Born 1967
Luís Edmundo
1878 - 1961
Luís Salém
Born 1963
Canrobert Pereira da Costa
1895 - 1955
Carlos Thiré
Born 1972
Ricardo Capanema
1931 - 1998
Roberta Gualda
Born 1981
Frederico Flexa
Born 1964
Jutahy Magalhães
1929 - 2000
Alex Damiaony
Born 1981
Flavio Behring
Born 1937
Toninho Andrade
Born 1964
João Vithor Oliveira
Born 1995
Cosme dos Santos
Born 1955
Joffre Rodrigues
1941 - 2010
Cintia Rosa
Born 1980