List of Brazilian Americans
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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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List
Americans of Brazilian descent
- Ana Lucia Araujo , PhD - professor of History at Howard University [1]
- Barbie Ferreira - model and actress
- Blondfire - brother and sister musical act
- Marshall Brickman - screenwriter
- Rudy Mancuso - actor and musician
- Hailey Bieber - model
- Camilla Belle - actress (Brazilian mother) [2] [3]
- Jordana Brewster - film actress (Brazilian mother) [4] [5]
- Antonio Campos (director)
- Lee Chamberlin - actress (Brazilian father)
- Raw Leiba - actor,producer and Athlete (Brazilian mother)
- 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
- Sophie Michelle - vlogger
- Sergio Rossetti Morosini - Artist, Author, Filmmaker
- 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
- Vilayna LaSalle - Model
Born in/lived in Brazil, with American citizenship
- Anitta - Grammy Award-nominee, singer, songwriter, actress and dancer
- Jessie Rogers - pornographic actress
- Walter Afanasieff - Grammy Award-winning record producer and songwriter
- Alessandra Ambrósio - model
- Pedro Andrade - model, actor and journalist
- Morena Baccarin - actress
- Paulo S. L. M. Barreto , PhD - cryptographer, associate professor at University of Washington Tacoma [8] [9]
- Ana Beatriz Barros - model
- Vítor 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
- Marcelo Coelho - designer
- Walter Salles - film director
- Daniel Benzali - actor
- Gisele Bündchen - 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
- Rafael Araujo-Lopes - American Football 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
- Gisele Barreto Fetterman - activist, Second Lady of Pennsylvania
- 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
- Nenê 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
- Andrew Matarazzo - actor
- Carlos Metidieri - soccer player
- Carmen Miranda - prominent singer and actress from the 40s and 50s
- Fabrizio Moretti - musician, drummer for The Strokes
- Sergio Rossetti Morosini - Artist, Author, Filmmaker
- 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]
- Pelé (real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento) - retired professional soccer player; considered the best player of all time
- André Rienzo - baseball player
- Carlos Saldanha - animator and filmmaker, Blue Sky Studios
- Jovino Santos-Neto - musician
- Anderson Silva - UFC Middleweight Champion
- 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
- Maurício Moura, economist, pollster, George Washington University
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ "HU History" . coas.howard.edu . Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . 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 2022-10-29 .
- ↑ "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 . 2 April 2013 . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
- ↑ "Marcelo Gleiser" . www.dartmouth.edu . Archived from the original on 15 October 2018 . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
- ↑ "Ben Goertzel, PhD" . goertzel.org . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
- ↑ Alexander Bobadilla (2018-03-22), Coconut Grove Arts Festival 2018 , archived from the original on 2021-12-14 , retrieved 2018-12-03
- ↑ Alexander Bobadilla (2018-05-17), Crudos Feature , archived from the original on 2021-12-14 , retrieved 2018-12-03
- ↑ Alexander Bobadilla (2018-11-19), I'm A Star Feature , archived from the original on 2021-12-14 , retrieved 2018-12-03
- ↑ "isabelle greiner🇧🇷 (@isabelle.greiner) • Instagram photos and videos" . www.instagram.com . Retrieved 2018-12-03 .
- ↑ "Miguel Angelo L. Nicolelis" . 8 September 2021. Archived from the original on 29 December 2018 . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
- ↑ "Nicolelis Lab - Duke Neurobiology" . www.neuro.duke.edu . Archived from the original on 25 May 2017 . 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 .