List of Italo-Brazilians

The list of 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.

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
*Maria Bonomi, painter
*Thomaz Ianelli, artist
*Victor Brecheret, sculptor

Science
*Lina Bo Bardi, architect and artist
*Aroldo Misi, geologist
*Aldo Misi, engineer and entrepreneur

Entertainment
*Alessandra Ambrosio, fashion model
*Alessandra Negrini, actress
*Alfredo Montalban, model
*Álvaro Jacomossi, fashion model
*Ana Paula Arósio, fashion model and actress
*Antonio Calloni, actor
*Bianca Rinaldi, actress
*Bruna Lombardi, actress, model, poet and writer
*Bruno Gagliasso, actor
*Cacilda Becker (real name Cacilda Becker Iaconis)
*Carina Beduschi, Miss Brasil 2005
*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
*Claudio Cavalcanti, actor
*Cláudia Raia,actress
*Cláudio Mamberti, actor
*Cristiana Reali, actress
*Cynthia Benini, model and TV personality
*Daniel Del Sarto, actor
*Daniella Cicarelli, fashion model, VJ and former wife of soccer player Ronaldo
*Débora Falabella, TV and film actress
*Denise Del Vecchio, actress
*Diogo Mainardi, political columnist and TV commentator
*Edson Celulari, actor
*Ellen Rocche, fashion model
*Emílio Orciollo Neto, actor and TV anchor
*Evandro Soldati, model
*Fernanda Martinelli, fashion model
*Francisco Cuoco, TV soap opera actor
*Francisco Milani, TV and film actor
*Fúlvio Stefanini, actor
*Germano Antonio Rigotto, politic
*Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, actor, director and dramaturgist
*Gianne Albertoni, top model
*Giovanna Antonelli, actress
*Gustavo Gianetti, fashion model
*Henri Castelli,actor
*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
*Leonardo Miggiorin, actor
*Lilian Pacce, TV personality
*Luana Piovani, fashion model and actress
*Luigi Bariccelli, actor
*Luiza Valdetaro, actress
*Marcelo Rossi, Catholic priest, actor and singer
*Marco Nanini, actor
*Marcos Mion, actor/VJ/TV host
*Maria Della Costa, actress
*Mauricio Pommella, artist
*Mazzaropi, actor and film producer and director
*Michelle Casiraghi Henning Maranzano, supermodel, fashion reporter
*Miguel Falabella, actor and director
*Morena Baccarin, actress
*Murilo Benício, actor
*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
*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
*Reynaldo Gianecchini, fashion model/actor
*Ricardo Tozzi, actor
*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

Music
*Adoniran Barbosa (real name João Rubinato), samba composer and singer
*Adriana Calcanhotto, singer
*Camargo Guarnieri, composer and conductor
*Carla Maffioletti, singer
*Daniela Mercury, singer
*Deborah Blando, singer
*Egberto Gismonti, composer and musician
*Fabrizio Moretti, musician - drummer with the New York post-punk band The Strokes.
*Francisco Mignone, composer and conductor
*Igor Cavalera, musician - drummer and founding member of the Brazilian thrash/death metal band Sepultura (younger brother of Max Cavalera)
*Júlio Medaglia, musical director and composer
*Laura Finocchiaro, singer
*Luiza Possi, singer
*Mauricio Manieri, musician
*Max Cavalera, musician - singer and guitarist in heavy metal band Soulfly (older brother of Igor Cavalera)
*Maysa Matarazzo, singer
*Paulo Emilio Vanzolini, zoologist, educator and samba composer
*Renato Russo, musician
*Rita Lee, singer, composer, musician, former member of Brazilian tropicalia band Os Mutantes
*Ronaldo Folegatti, musician and composer
*Tony Bellotto, musician, composer and TV personality
*Victor Lazzarini, musician, composer and professor
*Zizi Possi, singer

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

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

Sport
*Alessander Lenzi, sportsman
*Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini, soccer player
*Ayrton Senna, Formula 1 driver
*Bruno Senna, racing driver
*Christian Fittipaldi, Formula 1 driver
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*Emerson Fittipaldi, Formula 1 driver
*Elano, soccer player
*Felipe Massa, Formula 1 driver
*Fernanda Venturini, volleyball player
*Fernando Meligeni, tennis player
*Hilderaldo Bellini, soccer player
*Hortência 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
*Natália Falavigna, taekwondo practitioner
*Oberdan Cattani, soccer goalkeeper
*Roberto Rivellino, soccer player
*Rodrigo Possebon, soccer player
*Rogério Ceni, soccer player
*Rubens Barrichello, Formula 1 driver
*Thomaz Brandolin, sportsman
*Vicente Feola, former coach of Brazilian national soccer team
*Walter Casagrande, soccer player
*Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Formula 1 driver
*Wilson Piazza, former soccer player

Other
*Anita Garibaldi, wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi
*Andrea Calabi, economist
*Antoninho Marmo Trevisan, entrepreneur
*Antônio Palocci Filho, physician and politician
*Antônio Pizzonia, Formula 1 driver
*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
*Dante Olavo Fischer Pinotti, Urology, surgeon
*Diltor Opromolla, physician
*Eduardo Gianetti, economist and philosopher
*Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, politician, Senator of the Republic (1992-)
*Elvio Armando Tuoto, physician, medical historian (1956-)
*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
*Mario Pinotti, Political and Minister of Health
*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
*Modesto Pinotti, Urology, surgeon
*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
*Renato M.E. Sabbatini, scientist, writer and entrepreneur
*Rogério Buratti, politician
*Rubens Ricupero, diplomat
*Tranquillo Giannini, founder of Giannini
*Viviane Senna, philanthropist and sister of Ayrton Senna

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