Greek Brazilians ( el, Ελληνοβραζιλιάνοι, Ellinovraziliani, pt, Greco-brasileiros) 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 residents who are either fully or partially of
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
descent. They are located throughout
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 ...
with estimated numbers that range from about 30,000 people to 50,000
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, oth ...
living in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
alone.
Notable Greek Brazilians
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João Pandiá Calógeras, Brazilian Minister of War during WWI
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Bruna Griphao
Bruna Grigoriadis Orphao (born March 10, 1999), best known as Bruna Griphao (), is a Brazilian actress of Greek descent. She was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Griphao is fluent in Portuguese, and Greek. Her maternal grandparents ar ...
- television actress
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Cleo Rocos
Cleo Rocos (born 24 July 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a UK-based comedy actress, producer, presenter and businesswoman who starred alongside Kenny Everett on ''The Kenny Everett Television Show''.
Early life
Rocos was born in Brazil. Her f ...
- comedy actress, presenter and business woman
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Constantine Andreou
Constantine Andreou (also: Costas Andreou, Kostas Andreou; french: Constantin Andréou, Costas Andréou; el, Κωνσταντίνος Ανδρέου, Κώστας Ανδρέου) (March 24, 1917 – October 8, 2007) was a painter and sculp ...
- painter and sculptor
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Constantino Tsallis
Constantino Tsallis (; el, Κωνσταντίνος Τσάλλης ; born 4 November 1943) is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brazil.
Biography
Tsal ...
- physicist
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Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D. (, born March 7, 1961), is a Brazilian scientist, physician and Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience at Duke University, best known for his pioneering work surrounding brain-computer i ...
- neuroscientist
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Pavlos Papaioannou
Pavlos Papaioannou (Greek: Παύλος Παπαϊωάννου; born 19 March 1959) is a Greek- Brazilian international former football player.
Club career
Papaioannou started his football career at Rodos with which he made great appearances, ...
- former football player
*
Ronald Golias
Ronald Golias (May 4, 1929 — September 27, 2005) was a Brazilian comedian and actor.
Biography
Golias was born in the city of São Carlos, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and worked as a tailor assistant and insurance agent, amongst ...
- comedian
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Silvio Santos
Senor Abravanel, known professionally as Silvio Santos (Portuguese: /ˈsiwvju ˈsɐ̃tus/) (born December 12, 1930), is a Brazilian entrepreneur, media tycoon and television host. He is the owner of holdings that include SBT, the second largest ...
- TV host and entrepreneur
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Vitor Belfort
Vítor Vieira Belfort (; born 1 April 1977) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight and Middleweight divisions. Belfort previously competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he fought in the Heavywe ...
- Mixed Martial Artist
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Leonardo Koutris
Leonardo Koutris ( el, Λεονάρντο Κούτρης; born 23 July 1995) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ekstraklasa club Pogoń Szczecin.
Club career Ergotelis
Of Brazilian descent, Koutris started his caree ...
- footballer
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 colonization of the country by the Portuguese, or with the forcible bringing of people from Africa as slaves. Latin ...
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White Brazilians
White Brazilians ( pt, brasileiros brancos ) refers to Brazilians, Brazilian citizens who are considered or self-identify as "white", typically because of Ethnic groups in Europe, European or Levant, Levantine descent.
The main ancestry of curre ...
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Greek people
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, other ...
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Greek diaspora
The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia ( el, Ομογένεια, Omogéneia), are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus (excluding Northern Cyprus). Such places historically include Albania, North Macedonia, parts of ...
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Brazil–Greece relations
Greco-Brazilian relations refers to the historical and current bilateral relationship between Brazil and Greece.
History
The countries have enjoyed "Bilateral relations hathave always been good and are progressing smoothly," according to the Gre ...
References
Bilateral relations between Greece and Brazil
European Brazilian
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 ...
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