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50 Famous People from South America

Can you name 50 famous people from South America?
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Last updated: April 15, 2022
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First submittedMarch 16, 2021
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Brazilian model who is married to American football quarterback Tom Brady
Gisele Bündchen
Argentine female tennis player who won US Open in 1990
Gabriela Sabatini
Brazilian, three times F1 World champion who died in an accident in 1994
Ayrton Senna
President of Venezuela since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019
Nicolas Maduro
Brazilian footballer who was named FIFA World Player of the Year three times
Ronaldo
Chilean actor who played in Game of Thrones, Narcos and The Mandalorian
Pedro Pascal
Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One Championship three times
Nelson Piquet
Argentine Marxist revolutionary and a major figure of the Cuban Revolution
Che Guevara
Brazilian musician who was a pioneer of the bossa nova genre in the late 1950s
Joao Gilberto
Chilean Army General and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990
Augusto Pinochet
Brazilian who served as the seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998
Joao Havelange
Chile's first socialist president who committed suspected suicide in 1973
Salvador Allende
Colombian novelist who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Argentine footballer who captained the team that won 1986 FIFA World Cup
Diego Maradona
Brazilian actress who played in series Firefly, Homeland and Gotham
Morena Baccarin
Ecuadorian revolutionary who supported women's rights
Manuela Sáenz
Guyanese singer whose famous song is "Gimme Hope Jo'anna"
Eddy Grant
Colombian, the highest paid actress in American television from 2013 to 2020
Sofia Vergara
Argentine footballer who is the most capped player and top goal scorer in history
Lionel Messi
Peru's greatest football player ever
Teofilo Cubillas
Brazilian lyricist and novelist, best known for his novel The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Colombian goalkeeper known for his high-risk 'sweeper-keeper' playing style
Rene Higuita
Brazilian basketball player, considered to be the all-time leading scorer in the history
Oscar Schmidt
Colombian racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2001 to 2006
Juan Pablo Montoya
Argentine general and a key leader of South America's struggle for independence
Jose de San Martin
Brazilian tennis player who won the French Open singles title in 1997, 2000 and 2001
Gustavo Kuerten
President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
Evo Morales
Venezuelan fashion designer known for dressing various First Ladies
Carolina Herrera
Argentine racing car driver who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing
Juan Manuel Fangio
Venezuelan conductor who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Gustavo Dudamel
President of Brazil since 1 January 2019
Jair Bolsonaro
Head of the Catholic Church whose real name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Pope Francis
Brazilian model who was named "the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel" in 2017
Adriana Lima
Top goal scorer in the history of Uruguay national football team
Luis Suarez
Brazilian actress who shares her last name with one European country
Fernanda Montenegro
Paraguayan footballer who was three-times World's best goalkeeper
Jose Luis Chilavert
Peruvian coloratura soprano who played exotica music during the 1950s
Yma Sumac
President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013
Hugo Chavez
Colombian drug lord who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel
Pablo Escobar
First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952
Eva Perron
Brazilian singer who performed international hit "Ai Se Eu Te Pego"
Michel Telo
Argentine writer whose best-known books are Fictions and The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
Brazilian model and actress who was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2004 to 2017
Alessandra Ambrosio
Venezuelan military and political leader known as "the Liberator"
Simon Bolivar
Nickname of Brazilian footballer Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
Pele
Colombian singer who is married to Spanish footballer Gerard Pique
Shakira
President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and then from 1951 until 1954
Getulio Vargas
Argentine basketball player who played 16 years for the San Antonio Spurs
Manu Ginobili
Brazilian actor who starred in the series Narcos
Wagner Moura
Argentine male tennis player who won US Open in 2009
Juan Martin Del Potro
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Level 77
Mar 16, 2021
Good quiz. But there's a lot of stage people in there. Have you not room for one conductor? I suggest that Gustavo Dudamel is arguably the best in the World. Bolsonaro is also a well-known politician.
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Level 53
Mar 17, 2021
Thanks. I didn't know about Dudamel so I looked his biography and he definitely deserves a place in the quiz. I also added the Brazilian president.