Name	Maya Gabeira
Height
Naionality	Brazilian
Date of Birth	10-April-1987
Place of Birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Famous for	Surfing

Maya Gabeira is a professional big wave surfer from Brazil. In 2009, Gabeira won the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete. Later that year, Gabeira surfed the biggest wave ever by a female when she successfully surfed a 45-foot wave at Dungeons, a big wave surf spot in South Africa. In 2010, she was awarded with the Billabong Girls Best Overall Performance Award for a record four straight years in a row.

Gabeira's current sponsors include Billabong and Red Bull. Gabeira's father is Fernando Gabeira, one of the founding members of the Green Party of Brazil. Her father is also a former member of a guerilla group responsible for the kidnapping of the US Ambassador in Brazil, Charles Elbrick, in 1969. Since late 2010 she has been dating Australian actor Jesse Spencer.