List of Brazilian Americans
This is a list of Brazilian Americans, Americans of Brazilian ancestry, including both immigrants from Brazil who have American citizenship or residency, and their American descendants.
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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Brazilian American or must have references showing they are Brazilian American and are notable.
List
Americans of Brazilian descent
- Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD - professor of History at Howard University[1]
- Blondfire - brother and sister musical act
- Marshall Brickman - screenwriter
- Hailey Baldwin - model
- Camilla Belle - actress (Brazilian mother)[2][3]
- Jordana Brewster - film actress (Brazilian mother)[4][5]
- Lin Chao - biologist and geneticist
- Flavia Colgan - political strategist
- Yaya DaCosta - model and actress
- Guy Ecker - actor
- Jon-Michael Ecker - actor, son of Guy Ecker
- Julia Goldani Telles - actress and ballet dancer
- Breno Giacomini - American football player
- Alésia Glidewell - actress, 1/2 Japanese descent
- Ryan Hollweg - hockey player
- Palestina "Tina" Isa - honor killing victim, daughter of Brazilian Maria Isa, an accomplice to the killing[6]
- Ezra Klein - journalist
- Camila Mendes - actress
- Linda Perry - singer
- Bianca Santos - actress, 1/2 Cuban descent
- Garren Stitt - actor[7]
- Vic Seixas (born 1923) - Hall of Fame former top-10 tennis player
- Maiara Walsh - actress
- Isadora Williams - figure skater, competes for Brazil
Born in/lived in Brazil, with American citizenship
- Jessie Rogers - pornographic actress
- Walter Afanasieff - Grammy Award-winning record producer and songwriter
- Alessandra Ambrosio - model
- Pedro Andrade - model, actor and journalist
- Morena Baccarin - actress
- Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, PhD - cryptographer, assistant professor at University of Washington Tacoma[8][9]
- Ana Beatriz Barros - model
- Vitor Belfort - former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion
- Lyoto Machida - former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion
- Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira - former Interim UFC Heavyweight
- Royce Gracie - UFC Hall of Famer
- Leandro Barbosa - basketball player
- Bruno Barreto - film director
- Walter Salles - film director
- Daniel Benzali - actor
- Alexandra Bruce - writer and filmmaker
- Gisele Bundchen - model and entrepreneur
- Bob Burnquist - professional skateboarder[10][11]
- Mario Caldato, Jr. - music producer
- Bruno Campos - actor
- Sergio Cariello - comic book artist
- Ana Maria Carvalho, PhD - professor of linguistics at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona[12][13]
- Max Cavalera - musician, frontman of Sepultura, Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy
- Nelson Cupello - soccer player
- Bruce Driscoll - musician
- Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva - astronomy student for whom asteroid 96747 Crespodasilva was named after
- Guy Ecker - actor
- Sergio Kato - actor, host, comedian and businessman
- Benny Feilhaber - soccer player
- Val Fernandes - soccer player
- A. C. Frieden - author
- Bebel Gilberto - singer
- Marcelo Gleiser, PhD - physicist and astronomer, Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College[14][15]
- Ben Goertzel, PhD - former professor of Computer Sciences at the University of New Mexico, researcher of artificial intelligence, visiting faculty at Xiamen University[16]
- Yan Gomes - baseball player
- Carley Gracie - member of the Gracie family
- Rolles Gracie Jr. - member of the Gracie family
- Isabelle Greiner, news anchor and journalist[17][18][19][20]
- Bill Handel - radio personality
- Nene Hilário - basketball player
- Cristiane Justino - MMA fighter, current Invicta FC World Featherweight Champion
- Adriana Lima - model
- Roger Lima - bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the ska-punk band Less Than Jake
- Carlos Metidieri - soccer player
- Carmen Miranda - prominent singer and actress from the 40s and 50s
- Fabrizio Moretti - musician, drummer for The Strokes
- Naza - visual artist
- David Neeleman - founder of JetBlue Airways; CEO and founder of Azul Airlines
- Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD - Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience; Duke University Professor of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering and Psychology and Neuroscience; and founder of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering[21][22][23]
- Michelle Nordin - actress
- Pelé (real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento) - retired professional soccer player; considered the best player of all time
- Nancy Randall - model
- Andre Rienzo - baseball player
- Carlos Saldanha - animator and filmmaker, Blue Sky Studios
- Jovino Santos-Neto - musician
- Anderson Silva - UFC Middleweight Champion
- Rafael Silva - actor, writer, director and musician
- Tiago Splitter - basketball player
- Ed Soares - martial arts businessman
- Robert Rey - plastic surgeon featured on TV series Dr. 90210
- Rodrigo Santoro - actor
- Lateef Crowder dos Santos - actor and martial artist
- Eduardo Saverin - entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger, LL.M., S.J.D. - Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School (Harvard University)[24]
- Fabrício Werdum - MMA fighter, former UFC Heavyweight Champion
See also
- Immigration to the United States
- Brazilian diaspora
- List of Brazilian Britons
- Brazilian people
Footnotes
- "HU History". coas.howard.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "She's part Brazilian – her mother is from Sao Paulo" Archived 2006-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
- "Belle already speaks fluent Portuguese — her mother is Brazilian" Archived 2008-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ""Nationality:, American/Brazilian"". celebritywonder.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ""The 5'7 American Brazilian actress..."". lesbianation.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- Krajicek, David J. (2013-11-10). "Justice Story: 'Die, my daughter, die!' An old-world 'honor killing' in modern St. Louis". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- Topacio Long, Stephanie (March 19, 2019). "Everything You Need Know About Actor and Musician Garren Lake". Sweety High. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
- "pbarreto | Faculty & Staff Directory". directory.tacoma.uw.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
- "pbarreto | Center for Data Science". cwds.uw.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
- Ruibal, Sal (2008-06-18). "Skateboarder Burnquist strikes a balance on Dew Tour - USATODAY.com". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- https://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/04/sports/sp-xdiary4 Los Angeles Times
- "Ana Maria Carvalho - Ana Maria Carvalho". anacarvalho.faculty.arizona.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "Ana Maria Carvalho - Center for Latin American Studies". las.arizona.edu. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "Marcelo Gleiser - Department of Physics and Astronomy". physics.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "Marcelo Gleiser". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "Ben Goertzel, PhD". goertzel.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- Alexander Bobadilla (2018-03-22), Coconut Grove Arts Festival 2018, retrieved 2018-12-03
- Alexander Bobadilla (2018-05-17), Crudos Feature, retrieved 2018-12-03
- Alexander Bobadilla (2018-11-19), I'm A Star Feature, retrieved 2018-12-03
- "isabelle greiner🇧🇷 (@isabelle.greiner) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
- https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/miguel-nicolelis
- "Nicolelis Lab - Duke Neurobiology". www.neuro.duke.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- "Miguel Nicolelis - Duke Institute for Brain Sciences - Brain Functions Research & Science". dibs.duke.edu. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- School, Harvard Law. "Roberto Mangabeira Unger - Harvard Law School". hls.harvard.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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