starting out your career as a vendor on the streets of rio is not all that promising for ones future but as silvio santos once said, with the right attitude and dedication, one's destiny is not far from them.

ranked among the most wealthy personalities who never saw the doors of college, this is one of the richest brazilian tv hosts from rio and is phenomenal for being the first ever brazilian to be ranked as a billionaire. this did not come easy for santos and he had to go through radio, circus and finally landed to television.

in an aim to reach out to the masses in rio and brazil, popular tv host rosana hermann has incorporated blogging to her career. one of her popular shows 'speak brazil' and her latest 'atualissima' gained vast popularity among brazilians and these played a major role in increasing her popularity.