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As I did a thread with Brazilians with mostly Colonial descent I'm doing one with Brazilians with recent Italian ancestry. Not all of these people are fully Italian, most probably aren't actually. They range from 100% Italian to only 10-20% Italian. So I'm not trying to make a case about Italian phenotypes but about Brazilians with Italian surnames. Brazil has the largest Italian diaspora in the world, but only the ones living in inland regions of Southeast and the South are likely only Italian by ancestry (others may be mixed with Colonial Brazilians, Germans, Levantines, recent Iberians and a minority even with Pardos, Mestizos/Amerindians or Blacks).
I'm using fewer actors or politicians and a lot of footballers for these ones compared to my thread about Colonials because in the case of Italian surnames they are most certainly recent and not colonial (with very few exceptions) so I don't need to check genealogy or something like that. Overall most came from middle class or working class. Very few are upper class.
1# Alessandro Pierozan (likely fully North Italian)
2# Guga Chacra (Gustavo Cerello Chacra) - part Lebanese as the Chacra surname indicates
3# Roberto Rivellino (full ancestry is from Molise region)
4# Isabella Fiorentino
5# Xuxa Meneghel (Maria da Graça Meneghel) - likely North Italian + German + Polish + Portuguese
6# Ayrton Senna (Ayrton Senna da Silva) - probably a mix of Italian and Colonial
7# Emerson Fittipaldi - likely mostly Italian, I don't know the origin of the surname and I'm too lazy to look it up on cognomix now
8# Paulo Cesar Carpegiani
9# Luizão (Luiz Carlos Bombonato Goulart) - likely Italian + Colonial mix
10# Bellini (Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini) - likely fully Italian like most of these footaballers from the beggining of the 20th century. The captain of Brazil's first World Cup title
11# Felipe Massa - seems to be fully (Southern) Italian
12# Taffarel (Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel) - fully Northeastern Italian or Italian-German mix, I'm not sure about Mergen (could be from Trentino)
13# Marcelo Crivella - Italian + Colonial mix
14# Renata Fan (Renata Bonfiglio Fan) - Likely mostly Northern Italian
15# Max Cavalera (Massimiliano Antônio Cavalera) - Italian + Colonial
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