Afro-Brazilian people

Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist

Antônio Francisco Lisboa ( or 1738 – 18 November 1814), better known as Aleijadinho (, ), was a sculptor, carver and architect of Colonial Brazil, noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. With a style related to Baroque and Rococo, Aleijadinho is considered almost by consensus as the greatest exponent of colonial art in Brazil by Brazilian critics and, surpassing Brazilian borders, for some foreign scholars he is the greatest name of Baroque in the Americas.

Brazilian actress

Brazilian model and actress

Brazilian poet and journalist (1861–1898)

Brazilian musician

Catholic archbishop (1919–2017)

Brazilian musician

Brazilian women's rights, black movement and labor activist

beatified Brazilian person

Brazilian administrator, sociologist and politician

Brazilian percussionist and singer (1919–1982)

engineer and geographer; his hometown renamed the town after him (1855-1937)

Brazilian judge

17th-century Brazilian freed slave and warrior

Aqualtune (fl. 1665-75) was a Kongo princess who was the daughter of an unidentified Manikongo. According to the tradition, she was the mother of Ganga Zumba and the maternal grandmother of Zumbi.

Brazilian enslaved priest (1827-1905)

Brazilian writer and screenwriter

Brazilian rapper and singer (1973–2003)

Brazilian musician

Brazilian singer (1946–2013)

leader of the Quilombo do Piolho

Brazilian comics artist

Brazilian mãe-de-santo and sambista

Afro-Brazilian historian, teacher, screenwriter, poet and human rights activist (1942-1995)

Brazilian actor and singer

Brazilian linguist

Liniker de Barros Ferreira Campos (Araraquara, 3 July 1995), widely known as Liniker, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and former bandleader for Brazilian soul and Black music band Liniker e os Caramelows. Her voice has been described as 'powerful and low-pitched' with a 'slightly raspy, soul-singer' character as well as 'versatile' with a 'recurrent falsetto' and 'easily recognisable timbre'—with occasional comparisons arising towards Tim Maia. Liniker is an openly trans woman, and her music is an influence on young Brazilians facing gender discrimination, an audience which 'rarely finds itse

Brazilian educator and anthropologist, former Minister for Women, Racial Equality and Human Rights

artist, professor and curator (born 1967)

Brazilian sociologist

african princess, quilombola leader

Brazilian psychiatrist (1872–1933)

musical artist

ethnic group

Brazilian samba dancer

Longevity claimant (1871–2000)

Brazilian writer

Candomblé mãe-de-santo, a spiritual leader

Brazilian activist

Brazilian sculptor, designer, illustrator, costume designer, printmaker, set designer, painter, curator and museologist.

Brazilian writer, poet and psychoanalyst and literary critic

Brazilian lawyer

Brazilian politician

Afro-Brazilian painter and decorator (1882-1922)

Brazilian capoeira master (1917–2011)

Brazilian politician