Angola competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Paulo César Villar Nieto is a Colombian hurdling athlete.
João Paulo Garcia Vieira is a Portuguese race walker.
Stephen Edward Clark is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Amaury Antônio Pasos, also commonly known simply as Amaury is a retired Brazilian basketball player and coach of Argentine origin. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, he was a 1.91 m (6'3") tall power forward. He competed at three Olympic Games and was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. He was awarded with the Brazil Former Athlete Olympic Prize in 2003. He was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
Hugo Pellicer Parisi is a male diver from Brazil, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympic Games for his native country, starting in 2004. A member of Associação Peneira Olimpica de Esportes he claimed two silver medals at the 2008 South American Swimming Championships in São Paulo.
Rodrigo Santana, commonly known as Rodrigão, is a Brazilian volleyball player who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. Santana with brazil team won the World Championship in 2002 Argentina, 2006 Japan and 2010 Italy. He also won the World Cup, the Pan-American Games, and the South American Championship, in Chile, where he was elected as the Best attacker.
Bruno Lins Tenório de Barros is a Brazilian sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva was a Brazilian triple jumper. He won two Olympic gold medals and set four world records in athletics, the last being 16.56 metres in 1955 Pan American Games. In his early career he also competed in the long jump, placing fourth at the 1951 Pan American Games.
Edmar Bernardes dos Santos, or simply Edmar, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a forward. He won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics with Brazil.
Paulo André Jukoski da Silva, known as Paulão, is a Brazilian former volleyball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, and in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
João Gonçalves Filho was a Brazilian sportsman. He competed in five Olympic Games in both swimming and water polo. Born in Rio Claro, São Paulo, he represented Brazil in swimming at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and in water polo at the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Olympics.
Paulo dos Santos is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics with the Brazil national football team.
Paulo Obradović is a Croatian water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the Croatia men's national water polo team in the men's event, where they won the gold medal. He is 6 ft 3 inches tall. At club level, he plays for Greek powerhouse Olympiacos, with whom he won the 2017–18 LEN Champions League.
Nina Adams Harmer, also known by her married name Nina Thompson, is an American former competition swimmer and Pan American Games gold medalist.
Juliana Ribeiro Cabral is a retired Brazilian football player and defender in the women's national team. She played and trained internationally for Kopparbergs and São Paulo Football Club, and also, served as the captain and two-time member of the Brazilian national team at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Lia Paulo is an Angolan handball player.
The Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016, as independent Olympic participants. In March 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach declared that the IOC would choose five to ten refugees to compete at the Rio Olympics, in the context of the "worldwide refugee crisis", of which the European migrant crisis is a prominent part. The athletes competed under the Olympic Flag. Initially, they were labeled "Team of Refugee Olympic Athletes", with the IOC country code ROA, but this was updated to Refugee Olympic Team with the country code ROT.
Paulo Frischknecht is a Portuguese former swimmer. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Paulo Martins is a Portuguese wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman 74 kg at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
