Famous People with Name Maio

Maio Etimani            Origin/Culture/Country: Tuvaluan

Maio Etimani: is a Tuvaluan footballer who currently plays for FC Tofaga. Maio was called up to the Tuvalu national futsal team for the 2008 Oceanian Futsal Championship, he played six games.

Maiola Kalili            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maiola Kalili: was an American swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Nelson Ângelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maio            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Nelson Ângelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maio: a Brazilian race car driver. He is the son of three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet, one of Brazil's most successful F1 drivers. In the 2005 and 2006 seasons he raced in the GP2 Series, taking a win in Belgium in 2005 and claiming 2nd place in the series in 2006[2]. He was signed as test driver for Renault Formula One team for the 2007 season, and has been promoted to the race team for 2008 [3]. Piquet currently resides in Oxford, England.Piquet's racing career started in 1993 in Brazilian karting, where he would stay until 2001 when he moved to Formula Three Sudamericana [

Pia Maiocco            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pia Maiocco: an American former bass guitarist and backing vocals for the female heavy metal band Vixen. She is married to the famous rock guitarist Steve Vai, whom she met while they both attended the Berklee College of Music. They have two children, Fire and Julian

Gia Maione            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gia Maione: an American singer and widow of singer Louis Prima born 1941.Gia Maione is a 1959 graduate of Toms River (New Jersey) High School (now known as Toms River High School South). She first gained notice in 1962, when she was signed to sing lead female vocals

Nelson Piquet Souto Maior            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Nelson Piquet Souto Maior: is a Brazilian former racing driver who was Formula One world champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987. He is one of eight drivers to win three or more world championships, the others being Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna (3 each), Alain Prost (4), Juan Manuel Fangio (5), and Michael Schumacher (7).After becoming in Brazilian go-karting (1971 and 1972 national champion) and in the local Formula Super Vee 1976 championship, on the advice of Emerson Fittipaldi, the first Brazilian Formula One world champion who sold the chassis for the Brazilian Formula Vee champion car with his brother,[5] he arrived in European motor sports hailed as a prodigy. In the 1978 British Formula 3 season he broke Jackie Stewart's record of the most wins in a season, and his promotion to Formula One heralded the start of a long and successful career. Together with the Brabham team, including team boss Bernie Ecclestone and chief designer Gordon Murray, he became a consistent challenger for the world title, and was the first driver to win the F1 title with a turbo engine in 1983.

Titu Liviu Maiorescu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Titu Liviu Maiorescu: was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.