Swiss Brazilians ( pt, helveto-brasileiros, brasileiros suÃços) are
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian citizens of full or partial
Swiss
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
*Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
* Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internati ...
ancestry, who remain culturally connected to Switzerland, or Swiss-born people permanently residing in Brazil.
Notable Swiss Brazilians
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Clóvis Bornay
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José Carlos Bauer
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A. C. Frieden
A.C. Frieden, (1966, Dakar, Senegal) is an author of thrillers and mysteries, including the acclaimed Jonathan Brooks series.
Biography
Frieden spent most of his youth abroad. After leaving his birthplace in West Africa, he spent several year ...
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Émil Goeldi
Émil August Goeldi (var. Göldi, Portuguese var. EmÃlio Augusto Goeldi) (28 August 1859 – 5 July 1917 in Bern), was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist. He was the father of Oswaldo Goeldi, a noted Brazilian engraver and illustr ...
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Oswaldo Goeldi
Oswaldo Goeldi (31 October 1895 – 16 February 1961) was a Brazilian artist and renowned engraver. He was the son of Swiss naturalist Émil Goeldi.
Goeldi was born in Rio de Janeiro, but lived in Belém, in the state Pará, until he was 6 ...
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Cláudio Heinrich
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HeloÃsa Périssé
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Ricardo Boechat
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Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima (; born 12 June 1981) is a Brazilian model, who was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 to 2018. She was the longest-running model and named "the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel" in 2017. She is also known as a spokesmodel fo ...
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Adolfo Lutz
Adolfo Lutz (6 October 1855 – 18 December 1940) was a Brazilian physician, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases.
Life
Lutz was born in Rio de Janeiro, on ...
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Berta Lutz
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Jorge Paulo Lemann
Jorge Paulo Lemann (born August 26, 1939) is a Brazilian billionaire investment banker and businessman with dual Brazilian and Swiss citizenship.
Early life
In 1939, Lemann was born in Rio de Janeiro to Paul Lemann, a Swiss immigrant who founded ...
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Eric Walther Maleson
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Gérard Moss
Gérard Moss, MBE (born 16 May 1955, died 16 March 2022) was a Swiss-Brazilian pilot, engineer, public speaker, environmentalist and explorer born in England. As a pilot, Gerard was known for being the first person to complete a solo flight in a ...
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Sabrina Sato
Sabrina Sato Rahal (born 4 February 1981) is a Brazilian television presenter. She was a contestant on ''Big Brother Brasil 3'' (2003) and a hostess on comedy program ''Pânico na TV'' from 2004 until 2013. Since 2014, she has her own show on ...
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Leticia Spiller
Leticia Pena Spiller (born 19 June 1973) is a Brazilian actress, producer, director, poet, dancer, writer, and singer-songwriter.
Personal life
Spiller was married to actor Marcello Novaes, with whom she has a son named Pedro, born in 1996.
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Xuxa Meneghel
See also
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Immigration to Brazil
Immigration to Brazil is the movement to Brazil of foreign peoples to reside permanently. It should not be confused with the Colonial Brazil, colonization of the country by the Portuguese people, Portuguese, or with the forcible bringing of p ...
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White Brazilians
White Brazilians ( pt, brasileiros brancos ) refers to Brazilian citizens who are considered or self-identify as "white", typically because of European or Levantine descent.
The main ancestry of current white Brazilians is Portuguese. Histor ...
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Swiss people
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Swiss Americans
Swiss Americans are Americans of Swiss descent.
Swiss emigration to America predates the formation of the United States, notably in connection with the persecution of Anabaptism during the Swiss Reformation and the formation of the Amish commu ...
References
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