List of Brazilian Americans
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This is a list of Brazilian American
s, Americans of Brazilian ancestry, including both immigrants from Brazil who have American citizenship or residency, and their American descendants.
Brazilian American
Brazilian Americans are Americans of Brazilian origin. There were an estimated 351,914 Brazilian Americans as of 2008, according to the United States Census Bureau. Another source gives an estimate of some 800,000 Brazilians living in the U.S...
s, Americans of Brazilian ancestry, including both immigrants from Brazil who have American citizenship or residency, and their American descendants.
- Morena BaccarinMorena BaccarinMorena Baccarin is a Brazilian-born American actress most widely known for roles in several American science fiction television shows: as Inara Serra in the series Firefly; as Adria in the series Stargate SG-1; and as Anna in the 2009 version of the series V...
- actress - Camilla BelleCamilla BelleCamilla Belle is an American actress. Her works include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, When a Stranger Calls, 10,000 BC, The Quiet, Push and Speedy Singhs.- Early life :...
- actress (When a Stranger CallsWhen a Stranger Calls (2006 film)When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 American horror film and a remake of the 1979 horror film of the same name based on the urban legend "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs"...
) - [Clinton Da Rocha]- student at Mass Bay Community College in Wellesley
- Daniel BenzaliDaniel BenzaliDaniel Benzali is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor.-Biography:Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents...
- actor - BlondfireBlondfireBlondfire is an indie pop band from New York City composed of the brother-and-sister duo Bruce and Erica Driscoll.- Childhood :The Driscolls were born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to an American father and a Brazilian mother. They spent many summers in northern Brazil, and are citizens of...
- brother and sister musical act - Jordana BrewsterJordana BrewsterJordana Brewster is an American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen...
(1980 - ) - film actress - Marshall BrickmanMarshall BrickmanMarshall Brickman is a screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in The New Yorker.-Biography:After attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he...
- screenwriter - Alexandra BruceAlexandra BruceAlexandra "Chica" Bruce is a Brazilian-American author and filmmaker who currently lives in Los Angeles, California.She is the author of six non-fiction books about popular culture, science and spirituality...
- writer and filmmaker - Bob Burnquist - professional skateboarder
- Mario Caldato, Jr. - music producer
- Bruno CamposBruno CamposBruno Campos is a Brazilian-born United States-based actor, best known for his role as Dr. Quentin Costa on the Golden Globe Award-winning television show Nip/Tuck.-Early life:...
- actor - Sergio CarielloSergio CarielloSergio Cariello is a Brazilian-American comic book artist. He has done work for many major comic publishers through his career, including Marvel Comics and DC Comics, as well as popular independent companies like CrossGen Comics and Dynamite Entertainment.-Career:Sergio Cariello knew he wanted to...
- comic book artist - Ana Maria CarvalhoAna Maria CarvalhoAna Maria Carvalho is a Brazilian sociolinguist and a professor of linguistics within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. She is the author of several books and articles on sociolinguistics and language acquisition.-Career:...
- linguistic professor - Lin ChaoLin ChaoProfessor Lin Chao is a Chinese Brazilian American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Professor Chao gained his PhD in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as a student of Bruce R. Levin , and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in the laboratory of Edward C. Cox...
- biologist and geneticist - Flavia ColganFlavia ColganFlavia Monteiro Colgan is a Democratic strategist, who is an active political contributor on MSNBC and serves as a special correspondent for Extra. She resides in Los Angeles.-Family:...
- political strategist - Nelson CupelloNelson CupelloNelson A. Cupello is a former Brazilian-American of Italian ethnicity soccer defender and current collegiate soccer coach. He played five seasons in the North American Soccer League and three in the American Soccer League. He currently coaches the Monroe Community College men's soccer...
- soccer player - Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva - astronomy student for whom asteroid 96747 Crespodasilva96747 Crespodasilva96747 Crespodasilva is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva. While making observations, at the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, August 16, 1999, she sighted this new asteroid....
was named after - Bruce DriscollBruce DriscollBruce Driscoll is a Brazilian/American record producer, songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. He first gained notoriety as one half of the indie pop band Astaire . Co-writing/Producing/Self-releasing songs with his sister, Erica, the duo quickly became iTunes darlings...
- musician - Guy EckerGuy EckerGuy Frederick Ecker is an American actor better known for his work in telenovelas. Ecker became a household name in Latin America for his portrayal of Sebastián Vallejo in the Colombian telenovela Cafe Con Aroma de Mujer. A second Colombian production, Guajira also proved successful...
- actor - Val Fernandes - soccer player
- Ben GoertzelBen GoertzelBen Goertzel , is an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He currently leads Novamente LLC, a privately held software company that attempts to develop a form of strong AI, which he calls "Artificial General Intelligence"...
- artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
researcher - Bill HandelBill HandelWilliam Wolf Handel is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California....
, radio personality - Ryan HollwegRyan HollwegRyan Alexander Hollweg is a professional ice hockey forward currently playing in the Phoenix Coyotes organization.-Playing career:...
- hockey player - Carlos MetidieriCarlos MetidieriJose Carlos Metidieri is a retired Brazilian-American soccer forward. He played professionally in Canada and the United States where he was the leading scorer of the North American Soccer League in 1970 and 1971 and named the league's Most Valuable Player - the only player in the league's history...
- soccer player - Michelle NordinMichelle NordinMichele Nordin is a Brazilian American actress.-Life:Nordin was raised in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
- actress - Joe PennaJoe PennaJoe Penna , known online as MysteryGuitarMan, is a Brazilian guitarist, animator, and filmmaker. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.-YouTube:...
- YouTube filmmaker - Nancy RandallNancy RandallNancy Randall is an American beauty queen of Brazilian descent who represented the United States at Miss World 2004. She won the Beach Beauty award and placed 2nd runner-up. Randall has Brazilian ancestry and was previously Miss Cidade do Rio de Janeiro 2004. She was 1st runner-up to Miss Earth...
- model - Jovino Santos-NetoJovino Santos-NetoJovino Santos-Neto is a Brazilian American jazz pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, educator and producer....
- musician - Zuleyka SilverZuleyka SilverZuleyka Silver is an American fashion model and actress. She is of Brazilian, Puerto Rican, Mexican and Jewish descent.-Modeling:...
- model and actress - Ed SoaresEd SoaresEd Soares is a Brazilian American born in California to Brazilian parents. He is known for being the manager of a number of Brazilian Mixed martial arts fighters, including Anderson Silva, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira and Lyoto Machida.-Career:...
- martial arts businessman - Maiara WalshMaiara WalshMaiara Walsh is a Brazilian American actress and singer known for playing Ana Solis on the sixth season of the hit ABC show, Desperate Housewives, and as Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House...
- actress - David NeelemanDavid NeelemanDavid G. Neeleman is a Brazilian-born American entrepreneur who has founded three commercial airlines, Morris Air, JetBlue Airways and Azul Brazilian Airlines.-Biography:...
- founder of JetBlue AirwaysJetBlue AirwaysJetBlue Airways Corporation is an American low-cost airline. The company is headquartered in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. Its main base is John F. Kennedy International Airport, also in Queens....
, also CEO and founder of Azul Airlines - Raphael Miranda - Meteorologist at NBC UniversalNBC UniversalNBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
- Alessandra AmbrosioAlessandra AmbrosioAlessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Ambrosio is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret and was chosen as the first spokesmodel for the company's "PINK" line...
- model and actress - Ana Beatriz BarrosAna Beatriz BarrosAna Beatriz Barros is a Brazilian model known for her work with Guess?, bebe, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO fashion line.-Early life and family:...
- model - Robert Rey - plastic surgeon featured on TV series Dr. 90210Dr. 90210Dr. 90210 is an American reality television series focusing on plastic surgery in the wealthy suburb of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, Southern California. The series began its run in 2004. Dr...
- Max CavaleraMax CavaleraMassimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s...
- musician - Alice BragaAlice BragaAlice Braga Moraes is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in several Brazilian films, most notably as Angélica in 2002's highly acclaimed City of God and as Karina in 2005's Lower City...
- actress - XuxaXuxaXuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, born March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host...
- television celebrity - Carley GracieCarley GracieCarley Gracie, nicknamed "The lion of the Gracie family", is a Brazilian-born martial artist and a prominent member of the Gracie family.- Biography :...
- members of the Gracie familyGracie familyThe Gracie family is a prominent sporting family from Brazil known for their founding of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu . They have been successful in combat sport competitions including mixed martial arts, vale tudo and submission wrestling events... - Rolles Gracie Jr.Rolles Gracie Jr.Rolles Gracie Jr. is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He is a 3rd degree black belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and the son of one of the pioneers of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Rolls Gracie....
- members of the Gracie family - Rodrigo SantoroRodrigo SantoroRodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro is a Brazilian actor.-Life and career:Santoro was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. He is of half Brazilian and half Italian descent. In 1993, as Santoro was studying Journalism at PUC-Rio, he entered the Actor's Workshop of Rede Globo...
- Benny FeilhaberBenny FeilhaberBenny Feilhaber is Brazilian-born American soccer player currently playing for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.-Early life:...
- soccer player
See also
- Immigration to the United StatesImmigration to the United StatesImmigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants,...
- Brazilian diasporaBrazilian diasporaThe Brazilian diaspora refers to the migration of Brazilians to other countries, a fairly recent phenomenon that has been driven mainly by economic problems that have afflicted Brazil since the ending of the military dictatorship in the 1980s.-Demographics:...
- List of Brazilian Britons
- Brazilian people