Pelé in the sport. Pelé was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on 23 October 1940, in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the son of Fluminense footballer Dondinho (born João Ramos do Nascimento) and Celeste Arantes. He was the elder of two siblings. He was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison. His parents decided to remove the "i" and call him "Edson", but there was a mistake on the birth certificate, leading many documents to show his name as "Edison", not "Edson", as he is called. He was originally nicknamed "Dico" by his family. He received the nickname "Pelé" during his
Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty) Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty) Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty) (October 7, 1904 – July 2, 1974) was a Brazilian sculptor and poet. Carlota was born in Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil. She studied in Escola Nacional de Belas Artes under the great master and director of the school Rodolfo Bernardelli (1852–1931), an innovator in the teaching of arts in Brazil. Carlota de Camargo Nascimento signed her works as Loty. She was one of the pioneering women to do sculpture in Brazil, an art generally confined to the male sex. Her name is included in the Brazilian Dictionary of Artists (Dicionário Brasileiro