List of sons and daughters of the City of Recife
The list of sons and daughters of the city of Recife enumerates people who were born in the Brazilian metropolis of Recife , the capital of the state of Pernambuco . The list does not claim to be complete.
19th century
- Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910), politician
- Izidoro Martins Júnior (1860–1904), lawyer and poet
- Augusto Álvaro da Silva (1876–1968), Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
- Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968), writer and poet
- Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), sociologist
20th century
- Jorge Kirchhofer Cabral (1903–1962), diplomat
- Luperce Miranda (1904–1977), mandolinist and composer
- Josué de Castro (1908–1973), doctor, writer and important fighter against world hunger
- Dom Hélder Câmara (1909–1999), Archbishop of Recife and Olinda, important liberation theologian
- João José da Mota e Albuquerque (1913–1987), Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
- Mário Schenberg (1914–1990), theoretical physicist, art critic and writer
- Norberto Odebrecht (1920–2014), founder and namesake of Odebrecht
- Paulo Freire (1921–1997), influential educator as both theoretician and practitioner
- Leopoldo Nachbin (1922–1993), mathematician
- Ademir de Menezes (1922-1996), football player
- Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira (1928–2017), Roman Catholic religious, Archbishop of Paraíba
- Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti (* 1929), writer, translator and diplomat
- Walter Wanderley (1932–1986), jazz musician
- Vavá (1934–2002), football player
- Willy Oliveira (* 1938), composer
- Marlos Nobre (* 1939), composer
- Vitória Alice Cleaver (* 1944), diplomat
- Naná Vasconcelos (1944–2016), jazz musician
- Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães (* 1946), Catholic priest, military archbishop
- Silvio Roberto de Oliveira (* 1946), writer
- Paulo Antônio Pereira Pinto (* 1948), diplomat
- Antonio Meneses (* 1957), cellist
- Romero Britto (* 1963), pop artist
- Eduardo Campos (1965–2014), economist and politician
- André Vital Félix da Silva (* 1965), Brazilian religious, Roman Catholic bishop of Limoeiro do Norte
- Miguel Kertsman (* 1965), composer, musician (keyboards) and music producer
- Alex Fernandes (* 1973), football player
- Juninho Pernambucano (* 1975), football player
- Daniel Lopes (* 1976), German musician, singer and DJ / MC
- Lúcio (* 1979), football player
- Robyn Regehr (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Rebecca Da Costa (* 1984), actress
- Alex Diniz (* 1985), racing cyclist
- Hernanes (born 1985), football player
- Leozinho (born 1985), football player
- Itaro Santos (* 1985), snooker player
- Bárbara Micheline do Monte Barbosa (* 1988), football player
- Elizeu Araújo de Melo Batista (* 1989), football player
- Deborah Nunes (* 1993), handball player
- Juninho Barros (born 1996), football player
Romero Britto
Juninho Pernambucano
Lúcio
Robyn Regehr
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