List of Lebanese people (Brazil)
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This is a list of notable individuals born in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 of Lebanese ancestry or people of Lebanese and Brazilian dual nationality who live in Brazil.

Athletes

  • Tony Kanaan
    Tony Kanaan
    Antoine Rizkallah Kanaan Filho, commonly known as Tony Kanaan is a Brazilian race car driver of Lebanese heritage. Kanaan won the 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series championship driving Andretti Green Racing's 7-Eleven sponsored car, winning three times in his Honda-powered Dallara...

     - race car driver
  • Edson Cholbi Nascimento
    Edson Cholbi Nascimento
    Edson Cholbi Nascimento, usually known simply as Edinho , is a former Brazilian football goalkeeper...

     - former football (soccer) goalkeeper
  • Emil Assad Rached
    Emil Assad Rached
    Emil Assad Rached was a former Brazilian basketball player of Lebanese origin. He played basketball professionally from 1964 to 1980 in 5 teams: XV de Piracicaba , Corinthians , Botafogo , Tênis Cube de Campinas and Rio Claro...

     - professional basketball player
  • Mario Zagallo
    Mário Zagallo
    Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo is a Brazilian former football player and manager.-Biography:Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born in Maceió, Alagoas, to a family of Lebanese and Italian heritage....

     - Soccer player and coach

Politics

  • José Maria Alkmin
    José Maria Alkmin
    José Maria Alkmin was Vice-President of Brazil from 1964 to 1967. He had been finance minister before becoming vice president. He was also once the Partido Social Democrático's deputy.- References :...

     - former Vice President
  • Gilberto Kassab
    Gilberto Kassab
    Gilberto Kassab is a Brazilian politician, current mayor of São Paulo. His term ends in 2012. A civil engineer and economist, of Lebanese descent, Kassab took over from José Serra, after Serra decided to run for governor of São Paulo...

     - mayor of São Paulo
  • Paulo Maluf
    Paulo Maluf
    Paulo Salim Maluf is a Brazilian politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including those of State Governor of São Paulo, Mayor of the City of São Paulo, Congressman and Presidential candidate. As of 2011, Maluf is on a second consecutive term as Federal Deputy...

     - Former governor of São Paulo
    São Paulo (state)
    São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...

     state
  • Michel Temer
    Michel Temer
    Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia , better known as Michel Temer, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, and currently the Vice-President of Brazil after winning on the ticket of Workers' Party candidate Dilma Rousseff...

     - Vice-President of Brazil

See also

  • Lebanese Brazilian
    Lebanese Brazilian
    A Lebanese Brazilian is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Lebanese ancestry, or a Lebanese-born person immigrant in Brazil....

  • Arab Brazilian
    Arab Brazilian
    An Arab Brazilian is a Brazilian citizen born in an Arabic country, or a Brazilian-born person of Arab descent, who is aware of such ancestry and remains connected, in some degree, to Arabic culture.- Immigration to Brazil :...

  • List of Lebanese people
  • List of Lebanese people (Diaspora)
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