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.

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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

• 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
• 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]
• 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
• 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

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4. ""Nationality:, American/Brazilian"". celebritywonder.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
5. ""The 5'7 American Brazilian actress..."". lesbianation.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
6. 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.
7. Topacio Long, Stephanie (March 19, 2019). "Everything You Need Know About Actor and Musician Garren Lake". Sweety High. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
8. "pbarreto | Faculty & Staff Directory". directory.tacoma.uw.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
9. "pbarreto | Center for Data Science". cwds.uw.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
10. Ruibal, Sal (2008-06-18). "Skateboarder Burnquist strikes a balance on Dew Tour - USATODAY.com". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
11. https://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/04/sports/sp-xdiary4 Los Angeles Times
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13. "Ana Maria Carvalho - Center for Latin American Studies". las.arizona.edu. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
14. "Marcelo Gleiser - Department of Physics and Astronomy". physics.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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21. https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/miguel-nicolelis
22. "Nicolelis Lab - Duke Neurobiology". www.neuro.duke.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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