# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ze-pequeno
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:07:15.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ze-pequeno"
name: "Zé Pequeno"
slug: "ze-pequeno"
description: "José Eduardo Barreto Conceição  (1957–1985), better known by the nickname Zé Pequeno, was a Brazilian drug trafficker. He was a major criminal figure in the Cidade de Deus favela of Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s and 1980s. He rose to posthumous fame, thanks to the success of the 2002 Brazilian film City of God, in which he was played by Leandro Firmino and Douglas Silva. Starting out as a petty thief, Zé Pequeno became notorious in the favela for his cruel methods. He had a longstanding rivalry with Mane Galinha, and was eventually killed by the Valzinho gang in 1985."
tagline: "Brazilian drug trafficker (1957–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Z%C3%A9_Pequeno.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
birthDate: "1957-04-11"
deathDate: "1985-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.194246666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9_Pequeno"
    title: "Zé Pequeno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9_Pequeno"
    title: "Zé Pequeno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9_Pequeno"
    title: "Zé Pequeno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9_Pequeno"
    title: "Zé Pequeno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%BE%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "زپگوئنو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9_Pequeno"
    title: "Zé Pequeno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3576446"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump