List of Italo-Brazilians

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Italo-Brazilians are Brazilian citizens who are ethnically Italian, or who have some Italian descent. They are best described as Brazil's equivalent of the USA's Italian-Americans, in that they are highly integrated, and usually do not retain the Italian language, but do keep some elements of their own culture. According to the Italian government there are 25 million Brazilians of Italian descent, which is the largest population of Italian background outside of Italy itself. Most Italo-Brazilians have Portuguese as their native language, but some are native speakers of Italian or its dialects. The following is a list of some renowned Italo-Brazilians, arranged by field of activity, alphabetical by first name.

1 Art
2 Entertainment
3 Literature
4 Religion
5 Sport
6 Other

[edit] Art

Aldo Bonadei, painter
Aldo Locatelli, painter
Alfredo Volpi, plastic artist
Angeli, cartoonist
Angelo Agostini, cartoonist and illustrator
Anita Malfatti, plastic artist and painter
Arcangelo Ianelli, artist
Bruno Giorgi, painter and sculptor
Candido Portinari, plastic artist and painter
Gianni Ratto, cenographer
Lina Bo Bardi, architect and artist
Maria Bonomi, painter
Thomaz Ianelli, artist
Victor Brecheret, sculptor

[edit] Entertainment

Adoniran Barbosa (real name João Rubinato), samba composer and singer
Adriana Calcanhotto, singer
Alessandra Ambrosio, fashion model
Alessandra Negrini, actress
Alvaro Jacomossi, fashion model
Ana Paula Arósio, fashion model and actress
Antonio Calloni, actor
Bruna Lombardi, actress, model, poet and writer
Bruno Gagliasso, actor
Camargo Guarnieri, composer and conductor
Cacilda Becker (real name Cacilda Becker Iaconis)
Carina Beduschi, Miss Brasil 2005
Carla Maffioletti, singer
Carla Camurati, actress, director, filmmaker
Carlos Alberto Riccelli, actor
Carlos Roberto Massa (Ratinho), TV presenter
Carlos Zara, actor
Carol Francischini, top model
Caroline Trentini, fashion model
Christiane Torloni, actress
Cláudia Raia,actress
Cláudio Mamberti, actor
Cristiana Reali, actress
Cynthia Benini, model and TV personality
Daniel Del Sarto, actor
Daniela Mercury, singer
Daniella Cicarelli, fashion model, VJ and former wife of soccer player Ronaldo
Deborah Blando, singer
Débora Falabella, TV and film actress
Denise Del Vecchio, actress
Diogo Mainardi, political columnist and TV commentator
Edson Celulari, actor
Egberto Gismonti, composer and musician
Ellen Rocche, fashion model
Emílio Orciollo Neto, actor and TV anchor
Fabrizio Moretti, musician - drummer with the New York post-punk band The Strokes.
Fernanda Martinelli, fashion model
Francisco Cuoco, TV soap opera actor
Francisco Milani, TV and film actor
Francisco Mignone, composer and conductor
Fúlvio Stefanini, actor
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, actor, director and dramaturgist
Gianne Albertoni, top model
Giovanna Antonelli, actress
Grazielli Massafera, actress, model and ex-Big Brother Brazil contestant.
Gustavo Gianetti, fashion model
Henri Castelli,actor
Igor Cavalera, musician - drummer and founding member of the Brazilian thrash/death metal band Sepultura (younger brother of Max Cavalera)
Iran Malfitano, actor
Isabeli Fontana, fashion model
Isabella Fiorentino, supermodel
Ítalo Rossi, actor
Izabel Goulart, fashion model
Jeisa Chiminazzo, fashion model
João Silvério Trevisan writer/essayist/composer/director/gay rights advocate
João Vellutini, model
Juliana Baroni, actress
Júlio Medaglia, musical director and composer
Laura Finocchiaro, singer
Leonardo Miggiorin, actor
Lilian Pacce, TV personality
Luana Piovani, fashion model and actress
Luigi Bariccelli, actor
Luiza Possi, singer
Luiza Valdetaro, actress
Marcelo Rossi, Catholic priest, actor and singer
Marco Nanini, actor
Marcos Mion, actor/VJ/TV host
Maria Della Costa, actress
Mauricio Manieri, musician
Mauricio Pommella, artist
Max Cavalera, musician - singer and guitarist in heavy metal band Soulfly (older brother of Igor Cavalera)
Maysa Matarazzo, singer
Mazzaropi, actor and film producer and director
Miguel Falabella, actor and director
Morena Baccarin, actress
Narciso Vernizzi, radio journalist
Ney Latorraca, actor
Nicete Bruno, actress
Nicole Puzzi, actress
Olga Bongiovanni, TV commentator and anchorwoman
Pasquale Cípro Neto, professor and TV personality
Paulo Betti, actor
Paulo Emilio Vanzolini, zoologist, educator and samba composer
Pietro Maria Bardi, museum curator
Primo Carbonari, film director and producer
Priscila Fantin, actress
Rafaela Mandelli, actress
Rafaela Zanella, Miss Brasil 2006
Renata Ceribelli, TV anchorwoman and reporter
Renata Lo Prete, journalist
Renata Pallottini, writer
Renato Russo, musician
Reynaldo Gianecchini, fashion model/actor
Ricardo Tozzi, actor
Rita Lee, singer, composer, musician, former member of Brazilian tropicalia band Os Mutantes
Roberto Cabrini, TV reporter and anchorman
Rodrigo Santoro, actor
Sérgio Mamberti, actor
Ugo Giorgetti, film maker and director
Victor Pecoraro, model and actor
Xuxa (real name Maria da Graça Meneghel), fashion model and TV entertainer
Zizi Possi, singer

[edit] Literature

Alfredo Bosi, writer
Bárbara Gancia, journalist and newspaper columnist
Betty Milan, writer
César Tralli, journalist
Cesidio Ambrogi, poet and journalist
Claudio Tognolli, writer
Dalton Trevisan, writer
Dante Milano, poet
Dario Di Martino, journalist and writer
Décio Pignatari, writer and literary critic
Elio Gaspari, journalist and writer
Emílio Simonetti, poet and director of education
Fabiana Scaranzi, journalist
Fábio Tagliaferri, musicist
Fábio Turci, journalist
Ilze Scamparini, journalist
Ivaldo Bertazzo, writer
João Silvério Trevisan writer/essayist/composer/director/gay rights advocate
Josué Montello, writer
Kiko Zambianchi, musicist
Libero Badaró, journalist and educator
Marcelo Sabbatini, educator, scientist and writer
Marcos Rey (real name Edmundo Donato), writer of fiction
Marina Colasanti, writer
Mauro Tagliaferri, journalist
Menotti del Picchia, poet and writer
Mino Carta, journalist, publisher and writer
Ná Ozzetti, musicist
Renato Marcos Endrizzi Sabbatini, educator/scientist/writer
Rinaldo de Lamare, physician and writer
Roberto Civita, publisher
Rodrigo Bocardi, journalist
Sérgio Rizzo, journalist
Victor Civita, publisher
Zélia Gattai, photographer and writer

[edit] Religion

Agnelo Rossi, Catholic cardinal
Geraldo Majella Cardinal Agnelo, catholic prelate, archbishop of Salvador (and thus, primate of Brazil)
Madre Paulina, first Brazilian saint
Marcelo Crivella, evangelic bishop
Marcelo Rossi, Catholic priest, actor and singer

[edit] Sport

Alessander Lenzi, sportsman
Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini, soccer player
Ayrton Senna, racing driver
Bruno Senna, race driver
Christian Fittipaldi, Formula 1 driver
Cícero João de Cezare (Cicinho), soccer player
Emerson Fittipaldi, Formula 1 driver
Felipe Massa, F1 pilot
Fernanda Venturini, volleyball player
Fernando Meligeni, tennis player
Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini, soccer player
Hortencia Marcari, basketball player
José João Altafini, footballer
José Carlos Pace, racing driver
Jose Oscar Bernardi, soccer player
Juliano Belletti, soccer player
Luciano Pagliarini, cyclist
Luiz Felipe Scolari, soccer coach
Mauricio Gugelmin, racing driver
Oberdan Cattani, soccer goalkeeper
Roberto Rivellino, soccer player
Rogério Ceni, soccer player
Rubens Barrichello, Formula 1 pilot
Thomaz Brandolin, sportsman
Vicente Feola, former coach of Brazilian national soccer team
Walter Casagrande, soccer player
Wilson Fittipaldi, Formula 1 pilot
Wilson Piazza, former soccer player

[edit] Other

Andrea Calabi, economist
Antoninho Marmo Trevisan, entrepreneur
Antônio Palocci Filho, physician and politician
Antônio Pizzonia, pilot
Blairo Maggi, farmer and politician, governor of Mato Grosso
Carlos Marighella, Marxist revolutionary
César Lattes, physicist and university professor
Ciccilo Matarazzo, industrialist and arts patron
Cláudia Matarazzo, psychologist and writer
Claudya Piazera, international adviser-Ecodesigncenter Brasil founder
Cláudio Lembo, politician, governor of São Paulo
Diltor Opromolla, physician
Eduardo Gianetti, economist and philosopher
Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, politician, Senator of the Republic (1992-)
Emílio Garrastazú Médici, Army general and president of the Republic
Ennio Candotti, physicist
Ermelino Matarazzo, industrialist
Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, cardiac surgeon
Francesco Matarazzo, industrialist
Germano Antônio Rigotto, politician
Gilberto de Nucci, pharmacologist and physician
Giulio Massarani, chemical engineer and professor
Harri Lorenzi, agronomical engineer and scientist
Henrique Walter Pinotti, surgeon and professor
Itamar Franco, politician, former president of the Republic
João Carlos di Genio, educator, owner and dean of Universidade Paulista
José Aristodemo Pinotti, physician and politician
José Carlos Semenzato, entrepreneur and president of Microlins
José Maurício Bustani, diplomat
José Serra, politician, former mayor of São Paulo city
Luís Dulci, politician
Luiz Fernando Furlan, industrialist
Marcelo Tosatti, software developer
Marco Tebaldi, politician
Mário Amato, industrialist
Marisa Letícia, current First Lady
Menotti Garibaldi, politician, son of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Miguel Nicolelis, physician and neuroscientist
Miguel Stabile, engineer
Miguel Reale, Brazilian lawyer, politician and educator
Miguel Reale Jr., Brazilian lawyer
Octavio Ianni, sociologist
Orestes Quércia, lawyer, businessman and politician
Oscar Sala, physicist and university professor
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, politician, president of the Senate and of the Republic
Renato Migliorini, physician, scientist and professor
Ricardo Berzoini, politician
Ricardo Renzo Brentani, physician and researcher
Rogério Buratti, politician
Rubens Ricupero, diplomat
Viviane Senna, philanthropist and sister of Ayrton Senna