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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the far west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe...

from Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east...

15th century

Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia

Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia was a 15th Century Portuguese sailor and explorer, who was born in Porto. In 1435 he captained one of two ships which crossed the Tropic of Cancer, the first time that this is recorded to have been done by Europeans since the Phoenicians in 813 BC....

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Álvaro Caminha

Álvaro Caminha was appointed by King John II of Portugal in 1492 Captain-major - apparently the second - of São Tomé and Príncipe which had been discovered 22 years ago....

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

Álvaro Martins

Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, may have been a 15th century Portuguese explorer of the western Atlantic and later the African coast. He is alleged to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on an alleged joint Portuguese-Danish expedition to Greenland and Newfoundland in 1472...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Alvise Cadamosto

Alvise Cadamosto or Alvide da Ca' da Mosto , also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto , was an Italian sea captain and explorer, who was hired by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator....

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands and of the African coast)

André Gonçalves

André Gonçalves , Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalves was one of Cabral's captains of the fleet. According to some sources he was sent back to Lisbon with important news and not Gaspar de Lemos ....

(15th century explorer of the sea route to Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

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Antão Gonçalves

Antão Gonçalves was a 15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader who was the first European to buy Africans as slaves from black slave traders....

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

António Fernandes

António Fernandes, or sometimes Álvaro Fernandes, was one of the leading Portuguese explorers of the earlier 15th century, the age of Henry the Navigator. He was brought up in the household of Prince Henry, and while still young took an important part in the discovery of Guinea...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias , a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so, although some historians credit Herodotus's account of a Phoenician expedition that achieved the feat under...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Bartolomeu Perestrelo

Bartolomeu Perestrello , 1st Capitão Donatário, Lord and Governor of the Island of Porto Santo was a Portuguese navigator and explorer that, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, discovered...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

Dinis Dias

Dinis Dias was a 15th century Portuguese explorer.In 1445, as Dias was beginning to enter old age and made the decision to take up exploring because "he was unwilling to let himself grow soft in the well being of repose", left Portugal and sailed down the West African coast, setting a new record by...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Diogo Afonso (15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands and of the African coast)

Diogo Cão

Diogo Cão was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most remarkable navigators of the golden age of the discoveries, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s.He is well known in Angola, because of him the country was a Portuguese colony & has close ties with Portugal...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Diogo de Azambuja

Diogo de Azambuja was a Portuguese Noble.Make rider of Avis's Order and it enters to the service of a prince Dom Pedro, son of the regent with the same name, like wardrobe of his house. In the sequence of the battle of Alfarrobeira, accompany his man in the exile, but in 1458 it is already beside...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Diogo de Teive

Diogo de Teive was a captain and squire to the House of Infante D. Henrique during the Portuguese period of discovery.On January 1, 1451 he disembarked on the island of Terceira in the Azores from which he made his base. He realized two voyages of exploration to the West of the archipelago...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

Diogo Dias

Diogo Dias, also known as Diogo Gomes, was a 15th century Portuguese explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands together with António Noli. Accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one of the captains of the fleet...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands, of the African coast and the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by South Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean...

, discovered Madagascar

Madagascar

Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are endemic to...

)

Diogo Silves (15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

Duarte Pacheco Pereira

Duarte Pacheco Pereira, called the Great, was a 15th century Portuguese sea captain, soldier, explorer and cartographer. He travelled particularly in the central Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde islands, along the coast of West Africa and to India...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic)

Fernão do Pó

Fernão do Pó , also Fernão Pó, Fernando Pó, Fernando Poo was a Portuguese navigator and explorer of the West African coast. He discovered the islands in the Gulf of Guinea around 1472, one of which until the mid 1900s bore a version of his name, Fernando Pó or Fernando Poo. The island is...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Gil Eanes

Gil Eannes was a 15th century Portuguese navigator and explorer.Very little was known of him. Eannes was in the service of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator. Sailing from Lagos, Eannes made an unknown number of voyages along the African coast...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Gonçalo Velho

Frei Gonçalo Velho Cabral, was a 15th century Portuguese monk, explorer and settler of the Atlantic, one of the first discoverers of the Azores islands...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

João Cartveli (15th century explorer of the African coast)

João de Santarém

João de Santarém Portuguese explorer that discovered São Tomé and Príncipe together with Pedro Escobar....

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

João Gonçalves Zarco

João Gonçalves Zarco was a Portuguese explorer who established settlements and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was appointed first captain of Funchal by Henry the Navigator....

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

João Grego

João Grego was a Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488....

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

João Infante

João Infante Portuguese explorer of the African coast. Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488....

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

João Vaz Corte-Real

João Vaz Corte-Real was a Portuguese explorer.In 1474, he was granted lands on Terceira Island in the Azores because he had discovered Terra Nova do Bacalhau . There is speculation that this otherwise-unidentified isle was Newfoundland. If this is so, Corte-Real came to America about twenty years...

(15th century explorer of North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific...

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Lopes Gonçalves

Lopes Gonçalves was a Portuguese explorer of the Atlantic. He discovered Gabon for Portugal and was the first to cross the Equator in 1473....

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic)

Luís Pires

Luís Pires , was a Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one of the captains of the fleet. On leaving the Cape Verde Islands Luís Pires was forced by a storm to return to Lisbon, never having reached Brazil or India ....

(15th century explorer of the sea route to Brazil

Brazil

)

Nicolau Coelho

Nicolau Coelho Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, being one of the captains of the fleet. He was also one of the companions of Vasco da Gama in the discovery of the sea route to India in 1498 being the captain of the Berrio...

(15th century explorer of the sea route to Brazil

Brazil

)

Nuno Tristão

Nuno Tristão was a 15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader who was the first European to land in what is today Guinea-Bissau.In 1441, Tristão and Antão Gonçalves were sent by Henry the Navigator to explore the West African coast...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Paulo da Gama

Paulo da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, son of Estevão da Gama and the older brother of Vasco da Gama....

(15th century explorer of the sea route to India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...

)

Pedro Álvares Cabral

Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and explorer. Cabral is generally regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil .-Early life:...

(discoverer of Brazil

Brazil

in 1500)

Pedro Escobar

Pedro Escobar, also known as Pêro Escobar, was a 15th century Portuguese navigator who discovered São Tomé and Príncipe together with João de Santarém and Fernão do Pó circa 1470. He is then recorded sailing with Diogo Cão on his first voyage in 1482, and as the pilot of the famous Bérrio caravel...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

Pêro de Alenquer

Pêro de Alenquer Portuguese explorer of the African coast. Accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. Latter wrote a description of Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India. Pêro was born in Alenquer....

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Pêro de Sintra

Pêro de Sintra was a Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He was the first European to reach Sierra Leone in 1460....

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Pêro Dias

Pêro Dias was a Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He accompanied his brother Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488, having commanded the supply-ship...

(15th century explorer of the African coast)

Pêro Vaz de Caminha

Pêro Vaz de Caminha , was a Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the European discovery of Brazil, being one of the captains of the fleet...

(15th century explorer of the sea route to Brazil

Brazil

)

Tristão Vaz Teixeira

Tristão Vaz Teixeira was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, discovered the Madeira Islands...

(15th century explorer of the Atlantic islands)

Vasco da Gama

Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India...

(Led the discovery of the sea route to India

India

in 1498)

15th/16th century

Afonso de Paiva

Afonso de Paiva , born as João Afonso de Aveiro, was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer of Ethiopia and Barbary Coast together with Pêro da Covilhã. According to James Bruce, Afonso left Pêro da Covilhã at Aden, and proceeded to Suakin where he hoped to join a caravan to his destination...

(15th century/16th century diplomat and explorer in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast. Its size is 1,100,000 km² with an...

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Fernão de Noronha

Fernão de Noronha , Portuguese Jewish explorer, also known as Fernando de Noronha or even Fernão de Loronha, his real name...

(15th century/16th century explorer of the Atlantic)

Gaspar de Lemos

Gaspar de Lemos , Portuguese explorer and captain of the supply ship of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet that discovered Brazil. Sent back to Portugal with news of their discovery, he was credited by the Viscount of Santarém as having discovered the Fernando de Noronha archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean...

(15th century/16th century explorer of the Atlantic and of the sea route to Brazil

Brazil

)

Gonçalo Coelho

Gonçalo Coelho , Portuguese explorer of the South Atlantic and of the South American coast ....

(15th century/16th century explorer of the South American coast)

João Fernandes Lavrador

João Fernandes Lavrador was a Portuguese explorer of the late 15th century. He was the first modern explorer in the coasts of the Northeast of Northern America, including the Labrador peninsula, which bears his name.-Expeditions:Fernandes was granted a patent by King Manuel I in 1498 given him...

(15th century/16th century explorer of North America

North America

)

Pêro da Covilhã

Pedro or Pêro da Covilhã was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer.He was a native of Covilhã in Beira. In his early life he had gone to Castile and entered the service of Alphonso, Duke of Seville...

(15th century/16th century diplomat and explorer in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

and India

India

)

Pêro de Barcelos

Pêro de Barcelos , sometimes Pedro de Barcelos, was a Portuguese explorer of North America, whom, together with João Fernandes Lavrador, was the first to sight the Coast of Labrador in 1492....

(15th century/16th century explorer of North America

North America

)

16th century

Afonso de Albuquerque

Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian ocean...

(16th century naval admiral and viceroy

Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who runs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king. His province or larger territory is called a viceroyalty. The relative...

of India

India

)

António da Mota (16th century among the first to reach Japan

Japan

is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

)

António de Abreu

António de Abreu was a Portuguese navigator and naval officer . He participated under Afonso de Albuquerque in the conquest of Ormus in 1507 and Malacca in 1511, where he was injured...

(16th century explorer of Indonesia

Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With an estimated population of around 237 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, with the world's largest population of Muslims.Indonesia is a republic, with an...

)

António Peixoto (16th century among the first to reach Japan

Japan

)

Bento de Góis (16th century explorer)

Cristóvão Borralho (16th century among the first to reach Japan

Japan

)

Cristóvão de Mendonça

-Mendonça in João de Barros's Décadas da Ásia:Cristóvão de Mendonça was a Portuguese sailor and statesman who was active in South East Asia in the 16th century. He is known from a small number of Portuguese sources, notably João de Barros...

(16th century, some have claimed he discovered Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

- highly disputed)

Diogo Lopes de Sequeira

Diogo Lopes de Sequeira was a Portuguese admiral, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca, he arrived at Malacca on 11 September, 1509. He left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah, the local leader, was devising his assassination...

(16th century explorer of the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

)

Diogo Rodrigues

Diogo Rodrigues was a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean, after whom the island of Rodrigues is named. In 1528 he explored the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues, naming it the Mascarene or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman Pedro Mascarenhas, who had been there...

(16th century explorer of the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

)

Diogo Zeimoto (16th century among the first to reach Japan

Japan

)

Duarte Fernandes

Duarte Fernandes Portuguese diplomat, was the first European to establish diplomatic relations with Thailand in 1511, under the orders of Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese Viceroy of India....

(16th century diplomat in Thailand

Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia.It is bordered to the north by Laos and Burma, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Burma...

)

Estevão da Gama

Estêvão da Gama

Estêvão da Gama was the Portuguese governor of Portuguese Gold Coast and Portuguese India . He was the second son of Vasco da Gama and brother of Cristóvão da Gama, and named after his paternal grandfather Estevão da Gama....

(16th century explorer of the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

)

Fernão Lopez

Fernão Lopez was the first known permanent inhabitant of the remote Island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, an island that later became famous as the site of Napoleon's exile and death. Lopez was a 16th century Portuguese soldier in India. He was tortured and disfigured in punishment...

(16th century soldier in India

India

and first resident of the island of Saint Helena

Saint Helena

Saint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha.The island...

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Fernão Mendes Pinto

Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage in 1614, an autobiographical work whose validity is nearly impossible to assess...

(16th century among the first to reach Japan

Japan

)

Fernão Pires de Andrade

Captain Fernão Pires de Andrade was a Portuguese merchant, pharmacist, and official diplomat under the explorer and Malacca governor Afonso de Albuquerque...

(16th century merchant in China

China

China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

)

Francisco Álvares

Francisco Álvares was a Portuguese missionary and explorer.Born in Coimbra, Portugal, as an adult he was a chaplain-priest and almoner to King Manuel I of Portugal. He was sent in 1515 as part of an embassy to the of Ethiopia, accompanied by the Ethiopian ambassador Mattheus...

(16th century missionary and explorer in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

)

Francisco de Almeida

Dom Francisco de Almeida , also known as "the Great Dom Francisco" , was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492...

(16th century explorer and viceroy

Viceroy

of India

India

)

Gaspar Corte-Real

Gaspar Corte-Real was a Portuguese explorer.He was the youngest of three sons of João Vaz Corte-Real, also an explorer, and had accompanied his father on his expeditions to North America. In 1500, King Manuel I of Portugal sent Gaspar to discover lands and search for a Northwest Passage to Asia...

(16th century explorer of North America

North America

)

Gomes de Sequeira

Gomes de Sequeira was a Portuguese explorer in the early 1500s. It has been suggested by some historians that Gomes de Sequeira may have sailed to the northeast coast of Australia as part of his explorations, although this is highly disputed.-See also:...

(16th century, some have claimed he discovered Australia

Australia

- highly disputed)

João da Nova

João da Nova , Xoán de Novoa, Juan de Nova was a Galician explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the service of Portugal. He is credited as the discoverer of Ascension and Saint Helena islands...

(16th century explorer of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

)

Jorge Álvares

Jorge Álvares is credited as the first Portuguese explorer to have reached China and Hong Kong. The Fundação Jorge Álvares , founded by Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira prior to the handover of Macau, got its name for also having reached there.-Exploration:In May 1513 Álvares sailed under the...

(16th century the first to reach China

China

China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

)

João Rodrigues Cabrilho

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese, was a Portuguese explorer noted for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California in the United States...

(16th century discoverer of California

California

California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

)

Lourenço Marques

Lourenço Marques was a 16th century Portuguese trader and explorer.-Biography:He explored the area that is now Maputo Bay in 1544. He settled permanently in present-day Mozambique, where he spent most of his life with his black wife and mixed-race children.By order of King John III the bay was...

(16th century trader and explorer in East Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the...

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Martim Afonso de Sousa

Martim Afonso de Sousa was a Portuguese fidalgo and explorer.Born in Vila Viçosa, he was commander of the first official Portuguese expedition into mainland Brazil...

(16th century explorer and soldier in India

India

)

Miguel Corte-Real

Miguel Corte-Real was a Portuguese explorer who charted about 600 miles of the coast of Labrador. In 1501 he disappeared while on an expedition and was believed lost at sea.-Early life and education:...

(16th century explorer of North America

North America

)

Paulo Dias de Novais

Paulo Dias de Novais , a nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Angola. He was the grandson of the explorer Bartolomeu Dias....

(16th century colonizer of Africa

Africa

)

Pedro Mascarenhas

Pedro Mascarenhas was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512...

(16th century explorer of the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

)

Tristão da Cunha

Tristão da Cunha Tristão da Cunha Tristão da Cunha (sometimes spelled Tristão d'Acunha; ; (Portugal c. 1460 – c. 1540) was a Portuguese explorer and naval commander. In 1514 he served as ambassador from king Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X leading a luxurious embassy presenting in Rome...

(16th century naval general and discoverer)

Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan was a maritime navigator and explorer. Ferdinand Magellan was born circa 1480 at Sabrosa, near Vila Real, in the province of Tras-os-Montes, one of the wildest districts of Portugal...

) (16th century Led the first successful attempt to circumnavigate the Earth (1519-1522). Explorer of the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Tepre Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. It extends from the Arctic in the north to Antarctica in the south, bounded by Asia and...

17th century

Estêvão Cacella

Estêvão Cacella was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. Cacella was born in Aviz in 1585, joined the Jesuits at the age of nineteen, and sailed for India in 1614 where he worked for some years in Kerala...

(17th century missionary and explorer of Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north of the Himalayas. It is home to the indigenous Tibetan people, and to some other ethnic groups such as Monpas and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese people. Tibet is the highest region on earth, with an average...

, first european in Buthan )

Baltazar Fernandes

Baltazar Fernandes was a Portuguese colonist of Brazil who led the expeditions called Bandeirantes into the interior and laid the foundations of Sorocaba in the year 1654.-External links:*...

(17th century explorer of Brazil

Brazil

's interior)

David Melgueiro

David Melgueiro was a Portuguese navigator and explorer. According to some sources, he would have discovered the Northeast Passage in 1660, travelling between Japan and Portugal through the Arctic Ocean....

(17th century explorer of the Arctic

Arctic

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.The word Arctic comes from the Greek αρκτικός , "near...

)

Jerónimo Lobo

Jerónimo Lobo was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary.He was born in Lisbon the third of at least five sons and six daughters to Francisco Lobo da Gama, the Governor of Cape Verde, and Dona Maria Brandão de Vasconcelos. He entered the Order of Jesus at the age of 14...

(17th century missionary and explorer of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

)

Luís Vaz de Torres (16th century/17th century explorer of south-west Pacific)

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós also known as Pedro Fernández de Quirós, was a Portuguese navigator best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595-1596 voyage of Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira, and for leading a 1605-1606 expedition which...

(16th century/17th century explorer of south-west Pacific, some have claimed he discovered Australia

Australia

)

Pedro Teixeira

Pedro Teixeira was a Portuguese explorer who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up the entire length of the Amazon River. His exploits are remarkable even today...

(17th century explorer of the Amazon River

Amazon River

The Amazon River of South America is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next eight largest rivers combined. The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. During...

)

António Raposo Tavares

Antonio Raposo Tavares

Antônio Raposo Tavares o Velho was a Portuguese colonial bandeirante who explored mainland eastern South America and claimed it for Portugal, extending the territory of the colony beyond the limits imposed by the treaty of Tordesillas, Raposo Tavares was of Jewish origin.-Biography:Tavares...

(17th century bandeirante)

19th and 20th century

Serpa Pinto (19th century explorer of Africa

Africa

)

Carlos Bleck (20th century pioneer of aviation)

Gago Coutinho

Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC, generally known simply as Gago Coutinho was a Portuguese aviation pioneer who, together with Sacadura Cabral , was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, from March to June 1922 , from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro.The Fairey seaplane used by...

and Sacadura Cabral

Sacadura Cabral

Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, GCTE , known simply as Sacadura Cabral , was a Portuguese aviation pioneer who, together with Gago Coutinho , was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air in 1922, from Lisbon, in Portugal, to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil...

(20th century the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air)

Hermenegildo Capelo

Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo , was a Portuguese explorer of Africa and an officer in the Portuguese Navy. He joined Roberto Ivens in the famous crossing of Southern Africa between Angola and Mozambique.-Early life:...

(19th century explorer of Africa

Africa

)

Roberto Ivens

Roberto Ivens was a Portuguese explorer of Africa, Geographer, colonial administrator, and an officer of the Portuguese Navy.-Early life:...

(19th century explorer of Africa

Africa

)

Saints

Amador of Portugal

Saint Amador of Portugal , whose feast day is celebrated on March 27, was a hermit of Portugal.Several churches in the diocese of Guarda and elsewhere in Portugal are dedicated to him....

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1312 (Early Christianity

Early Christianity

Early Christianity is commonly known as the Christianity of the roughly three centuries between the Crucifixion of Jesus and the First Council of Nicaea in 325....

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Anthony of Lisbon (1195-1231)

António Vieira

Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time.-Life:...

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=6046 (1608-1697)

Basileus http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3156 (1st century)

Beatriz da Silva Menezes http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=337 (1424-1490)

Elizabeth of Portugal (1271-1336)

Felix the Hermit (9th century)

Fernando, the Saint Prince

The Infante Fernando , commonly known as the Saint Prince was an infante of Portugal of the House of Aviz...

(1402-1443)

Fructuosus of Braga

Saint Fructuosus of Braga was the Bishop of Dumio and Archbishop of Braga , a great founder of monasteries, who died April 16, 665. He was the son of a Visigothic dux in the region of Bierzo and he accompanied his father at a young age on certain official trips over his estates...

(7th century)

Gonçalo of Amarante (1187-1259)

Irene of Tomar (7th century)

João Baptista Machado http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3941 (16th/17th century)

John de Brito

Saint John de Brito was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr, often called the Portuguese St. Francis Xavier....

(1647-1693)

John of God

Saint John of God was a Portuguese-born friar and saint, who has become one of Spain's leading religious figures....

(1495–1550)

Julia http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1952 (3rd century)

Mafalda of Portugal

Infanta Mafalda of Portugal was a Portuguese infanta , later Queen consort of Castile for a brief period. She was the second youngest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce Berenguer. She was born c. 1190....

(1190-1256)

Mancius http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4444 (Early Christianity

Early Christianity

Early Christianity is commonly known as the Christianity of the roughly three centuries between the Crucifixion of Jesus and the First Council of Nicaea in 325....

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Martin of Braga

Saint Martin of Dumio was an archbishop of Braga in Portugal, amonastic founder, and an ecclesiastical author. Born in Pannonia, he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he became a monk...

(520–580)

Maxima http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1952 (3rd century)

Nuno Álvares Pereira

Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. , also spelled Nun'Álvares Pereira, was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile...

(1360-1431)

Peter of Rates

Saint Peter of Rates , also known in English as Saint Peter of Braga, is traditionally considered to be the first bishop of Braga between the years 45 and 60. He is said to have been ordered to preach the Christian faith by Saint James the Great...

(1st century)

Quiteria

Saint Quiteria was a 5th century virgin martyr and saint. Nothing is certain about Quiteria except her name and her cult. Her name appears in the Roman Martyrology, but not in any other ancient calendars...

(5th century)

Rita Amada de Jesus http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5678 (1848-1913)

Rudesind

Saint Rudesind was a Galician bishop and abbot. He was born into the nobility; his father was Count Gutierre Menéndez , brother-in-law to Ordoño II and supporter of Alfonso III of León, and his mother was St. Ilduaria Eriz . Rudesind was related to the abbess Saint Senorina...

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4646 (10th century)

Saint Ovidius

Saint Ovidius , also Saint Auditus, is a Portuguese saint. According to hagiographies of the 16th century, Ovidius was a Roman citizen of Sicilian origin. Tradition states that he was sent to Braga by Pope Clement I, where he served as the city's third bishop around 95...

(1st and 2nd centuries)

Sancha of Portugal (1180-1229)

Teotónio of Coimbra (1082-1162)

Teresa of Portugal

Infanta Teresa of Portugal , also known as Tarasia of Portugal and later as the Infanta-Rainha , was the oldest daughter of Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce Berenguer...

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=738 (1181–1250)

Verissimus http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1952 (3rd century)

Victor http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1961 (3rd century)

Wilgefortis http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15622a.htm (folk saint)

Blessed

Alexandrina of Balasar (1904-1955)

Bartolomeu dos Mártires (1514-1590)

Inácio de Azevedo (1528-1570)

Francisco Marto

Jacinta and Francisco Marto

Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto , also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia Santos were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal who reported witnessing three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several...

(1908-1919)

Jacinta Marto

Jacinta and Francisco Marto

(1910-1920)

Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal

Blessed Joan of Portugal , known in Portugal as Saint Joan Princess , was a Portuguese princess of the House of Aviz, daughter of King Afonso V of Portugal and his first wife Isabel of Coimbra....

(1452-1490)

João Mendes de Silva

Blessed João Mendes de Silva , better known as Amadeus of Portugal, was the founder of a former Franciscan branch named after him.-Biography:...

(1420–1482), also known as Amadeus de Portugal

Religious

António de Andrade

Father António de Andrade , was a Jesuit priest and explorer from Portugal. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1596. From 1600 to 1624 he was the chief missionary in the Indies.-Life:...

(1580-1634), Missionary/explorer of Tibet

Tibet

António Vieira

Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time.-Life:...

(1608-1697), Writer, Diplomat and Preacher

João Ferreira Annes de Almeida (1628-1691), Missionary

Paulus Orosius (385–420), historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine

Popes

Damasus I (4th century pope

Pope

The pope is the Bishop of Rome and, as such, is leader of the worldwide Catholic Church...

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John XXI (13th century pope

Pope

The pope is the Bishop of Rome and, as such, is leader of the worldwide Catholic Church...

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Philosophers

Agostinho da Silva

George Agostinho Baptista da Silva, GCSE was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist and writer. His thought combines elements of pantheism and millenarism, an ethic of renunciation , and a belief in freedom as the most important feature of man...

(1906-1996)

António Castanheira Neves

António Castanheira Neves is a Portuguese legal philosopher and a professor emeritus at the law faculty of the University of Coimbra....

(1929-)

António Sérgio

António Sérgio de Sousa was an influential educationist, philosopher, journalist, sociologist and essayist from Portugal.-Background:...

(1883-1969)

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death...

(1632-1677)

Damião de Góis

Damiao de Góis born in Alenquer, Portugal, was an important Portuguese humanist philosopher. He was a friend and student of Erasmus. He was appointed secretary to a Portuguese trading post in Antwerp in 1523 by King John III of Portugal...

(1502-1574)

Eduardo Abranches de Soveral (1927-2003)

José Gil

José Gil is a Portuguese philosopher.In his youth he lived in Lisboa, Portugal but his experiences António Salazar’s 1933-1974 dictatorship, made him decide to study in a free country, in Paris, France...

(1939-)

Joaquim de Carvalho

Musicians

Adriano Correia de Oliveira

Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira, GCIH, ComL, or just Adriano was a Portuguese musician, born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His family moved to Avintes after his birth...

(1942-1982) (singer)

Alfredo Keil

Alfredo Cristiano Keil was a Portuguese romantic composer and painter.Son of Johann Christian Keil and wife Alfredo Cristiano Keil (Lisbon, 3 July 1850 – Hamburg, 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese romantic composer and painter.Son of Johann Christian Keil (son of Johann Georg Keil and wife...

(1850-1907) (composer of the Portuguese anthem)

Ana Free

Ana Free is the stage name of Ana Gomes Ferreira, a singer–songwriter from Portugal who achieved a certain fame within the popular video sharing website YouTube....

(singer)

Miguel Vieira

-Overview:Miguel de Santos Vieira is a highly acclaimed concert pianist. Born in Lisbon, he now lives in London, United Kingdom. Miguel, a specialist in Heidegger and Aristotle, is preparing for the final stages of his PhD at Heythrop College, under the supervision of Professor Peter...

(born 1978) (pianist, philosopher)

Alfredo Marceneiro

Alfredo Rodrigues Duarte ComIH better known as Alfredo Marceneiro due to his profession was a Portuguese Fado singer, owner of a singular voice, became a milestone in this kind of music in Portugal.On June 10, 1984, he was awarded posthumously Commander of the Order of Infante...

(1891-1982) (fado singer)

Amália Rodrigues

Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, GCSE, GCIH, , also known as Amália Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress. Despite official documents give her date of birth as July 23, Rodrigues always said her birthday was July 1, 1920. She was born in Lisbon, in the rua Martim Vaz ,...

(1920-1999) (the most famous fado

Fado

Fado is a music genre which can be traced from the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. In popular belief, fado is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor...

singer)

António Fragoso (1897-1918) (piano composer)

António Variações

António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career, due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, he would, under the stage name of António Variações, become one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent...

(1944-1984) (singer and songwriter)

Carlos Paredes

Carlos Paredes, ComSE, was a virtuoso Portuguese guitar player, born in Coimbra, son of the equally famous Artur Paredes....

(1925-2004) (Portuguese guitar

Portuguese guitar

The Portuguese guitar is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses comprising two strings each. It has a distinctive tuning mechanism. It is most notably associated with fado, although it has and is being used in a broader context.-History:The Portuguese guitar...

player)

Carlos Seixas

José António Carlos de Seixas, , was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes....

(1704-1742) (composer)

Cláudio Carneiro (1895-1963) (composer)

Cristina Branco

Cristina Branco is a Portuguese musician.Branco was originally drawn to jazz and other forms of Portuguese music before finally opting for fado after being introduced to the music of Amália Rodrigues by her grandfather. Branco studied the poems from which major fado lyrics are taken...

(1972-) (fado singer)

Daniel Lopes

Daniel Lopes was a contestant on the first season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar. Lopes was born in Brazil and adopted by his German stepfather. During the show, he dated fellow contestant Juliette Schoppmann. They have since broken up.Lopes was eliminated on January 11, 2003, and ended 7th on...

(1976-) (singer)

David Fonseca

David fonseca

David Fonseca is a Portuguese musician. He's a singer-songwriter, but he also plays several instruments, like acoustic guitar and organ. David is married and has one son. He studied Cinema at Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa between 1992 and 1994, where he obtained a degree...

DJ Vibe

This article refers to the House DJ Vibe, not the hardcore DJ Vibe DJ Vibe is a house music DJ.-Career:Vibe was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and became a DJ at 15...

Duarte Lobo

Duarte Lobo was a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was the most famous Portuguese composer of the time. Along with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, and John IV, King of Portugal, he is considered to represent the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony.Details...

(1565-1646) (composer)

Dulce Pontes

Dulce Pontes is a Portuguese musician, songwriter, and singer who writes and performs in many music styles, including pop, folk and classical music. She's usually defined as a world music artist. Her songs contributed to the 1990s revival of Portuguese urban folk music called fado...

(1969-) (singer)

Ernesto Rodrigues

Ernesto Rodrigues is a Portuguese composer, violinist, violist and electronic musician. Rodrigues has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, in the studio and live around the world...

(1959-) (performer, composer)

Fausto

Fausto may refer to:* Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player* Fausto Cleva, Italian-born American operatic conductor* Fausto Coppi, , Italian racing cyclist* Fausto Gresini, Italian motorcycle racer...

(1948-) (singer)

Fernando Lopes Graça (1906-1995) (composer)

Fernando Ribeiro

Fernando Ribeiro is a Brazilian artist, designer, photographer, geographer and professor. He is the fourth son of artists Beatriz and Milton Ribeiro, and lives and works in Brasilia, capital city of Brazil...

(1974-) (Moonspell

Moonspell

Moonspell is a Portuguese black metal/gothic metal/dark metal band with death/doom metal elements, formed in 1989 as Morbid God. After renaming themselves Moonspell in 1992, they released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart...

vocals)

Francisco de Lacerda

Dr Francisco José Maria de Lacerda was a Portuguese explorer in the 18th century. He led an expedition to the Kazembe region of Zambia in 1798. After his death on this mission, the group was led by Francisco Pinto.-External links:*...

(1869-1934) (composer)

Guilhermina Suggia

Guilhermina Suggia , was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Leipzig under Julius Klengel. From 1907 to 1913 she lived and worked in Paris with fellow cellist Pau Casals, whom she did not however marry...

(1885-1950) (cellist)

Ignácio Parreiras Neves (1730-1794) (composer)

João Domingos Bomtempo

João Domingos Bomtempo was a Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue.-Biography:...

(1775-1842) (composer)

Joaquim José Antunes

Joaquim José Antunes was a Portuguese harpsichord maker who lived in Lisbon. Other members of his family were also harpsichord and piano makers....

(1725-1790) (harpsichord maker)

Joe Raposo

Joseph Guilherme Raposo Jr., OIH was a Portuguese-American composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the theme song, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and...

(1937-1989) (composer and lyricist)

Jorge Ferreira (1955-) (Portuguese American

Portuguese American

Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira....

singer/songwriter)

Jorge Palma

Jorge Manuel d’Abreu Palma, known as Jorge Palma , is a Portuguese singer and songwriter.-Early life and career:At just the age of six, Jorge Palma learnt to play the Piano and to read...

(1950-) (singer, pianist and songwriter)

José Afonso (1929-1987) (aka Zeca Afonso, composer, player)

Luciana Abreu

Luciana Abreu Sodré Costa Real is a Portuguese singer, actress and Television host. Abreu is known for her participation in Idolos, for representing Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as part of the pop-duo 2B, for her personage in Floribella, Flor Valente, and for her TV Show.-Early...

(1985-) (singer/composer/actress/TV host)

Lúcia Moniz

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz is a Portuguese singer and actress.- Early life:Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz was born on September 9, 1976 in Lisbon, Portugal...

(1976-) (singer/actress)

Luís de Freitas Branco

Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco was a Portuguese composer and professor of music who played a preeminent part in the development of Portuguese music in the first half of the 20th century,....

(1890-1955) (composer)

Luísa Todi

Luísa Rosa de Aguiar Todi was a popular and successful Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer.Luísa Todi was born Luísa Rosa de Aguiar on January 9, 1753 in Setúbal, Portugal. In 1765, her family moved to Lisbon, where her father was a musical writer in the Theatre of Bairro Alto.Luísa began her...

(1753-1833) (lyrical singer)

Mafalda Arnauth

Mafalda Arnauth is a fado singer. She was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 1974 and started her career in 1995 when invited by João Braga to participate in a concert at S. Luis's Theater...

(1974-) (fado singer)

Manuela Azevedo

Manuela Azevedo is a Portuguese singer.
Now member of the Clã band, once integrated the Humanos band.She graduated in law at the University of Coimbra.Participation in other projects:*Ornatos Violeta -- «Líbido» e «Letra S»...

(singer)

Maria João Pires

Maria João Pires is a renowned Portuguese pianist who lives in Brazil.-Musical Studies:Her first recital was at age five, and at age seven she was already playing Mozart Piano Concertos publicly. Two years later, she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians...

(1944-) (piano player)

Maria João

Maria João is a Portuguese Jazz singer.While she is typically lumped with the Jazz moniker, her music incorporates an eclectic mix of various ethnic musics, modern jazz, and the avant-garde...

(1956-) (jazz singer)

Mário Laginha

Mário João Laginha, OIH , piano player and composer, is one of the most creative contemporary Portuguese jazz musicians. He is mostly recognized for his recurrent collaborations with fellow Portuguese jazz singer Maria João, with whom he recorded over a dozen discs and toured...

(1960-) (piano player)

Mariza

Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. At the time, Mozambique was known as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....

(1973-) (fado singer)

Mia Rose

Mia Rose is the stage name of Maria Antónia Sampaio Rosa, an English/Portuguese singer-songwriter who achieved fame within the popular video sharing website YouTube, where she quickly rose to the top of the most-viewed rankings and became the most-subscribed musician ever...

(pop singer)

Mísia

Mísia is a Portuguese fado singer, born in 1955 in Oporto, Portugal.Mísia's mother was Catalan and used to be a cabaret dancer, which accounts for many of the influences that shaped her music: tango, bolero, the use of Portuguese guitar with accordion, violin and the piano.Throughout her career,...

(fado

Fado

singer)

Nelly Furtado

Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold over 18 million albums worldwide, and currently resides in Toronto...

(pop singer)

Nuno Bettencourt

Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt is a Portuguese-American guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for his role as the lead guitarist of the Boston hard rock band Extreme whose hits include the acoustic ballads "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted"...

(1966-) (guitarist, songwriter, singer)

Paulo Furtado (blues performer)

Pedro de Escobar

Pedro de Escobar , a.k.a. Pedro do Porto, was a Portuguese composer of the Renaissance, mostly active in Spain. He was one of the earliest and most skilled composers of polyphony in the Iberian Peninsula, whose music has survived.-Life:He was born at Oporto, Portugal, but nothing is known of his...

(c. 1465-1535) (composer)

Pedro de Freitas Branco (1896-1963)

Rita Guerra

Rita Guerra is a Portuguese singer.-Biography: Born and raised in Lisbon, she has been very successful in her home country of Portugal. She has long competed in the Portuguese national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. She first participated in 1992, making it to the national final...

(1967-) (singer)

Rita Redshoes

Rita redshoes

Rita Redshoes is a solo artist from Portugal. In 1997 she sang with her first band, Atomic Bees, releasing an album in 2000 entitled love.noises.and.kisses. In 2003, she was invited to play piano with David Fonseca, and shared with him the song “Hold Still” from Our Hearts Will Beat As One, his...

(singer)

Rui da Silva

Rui da Silva is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single "Touch Me" topped the UK Singles Chart in 2001. At the time, he was the only Portuguese musician to have a UK hit, and hence was the first to score a UK number one.-Career:...

(disc jockey)

Rui Veloso

Rui Manuel Gaudêncio Veloso, commonly known as Rui Veloso, CavIH , is a Portuguese rock singer and musician...

(1957-) (singer)

Sara Carvalho

Sara Carvalho is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Porto, Portugal she received her first musical training at the age of three and started composing in 1984. In 1995 she graduated with a First Class Degree in Composition, Music and Teaching from the University of Aveiro...

(1970-) (composer)

Sara Tavares

Sara Tavares is a Portuguese singer, composer and guitarist. She is of Cape Verdean descent and grew up in Portugal. She composes African influenced world music....

(1978-) (singer)

Sérgio Godinho

Sérgio Godinho, OL is a Portuguese poet, composer, and singer. He was born on August 31, 1945 in Porto, Portugal, and is one of the most influential popular musicians in Portugal...

(1948-) (singer)

Steve Perry

Steve Perry (musician)

Steve Perry is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Journey from 1978–1987 and 1995–1998. Perry had a successful, but short lived solo career throughout the late eighties and early nineties. He released Street Talk in 1984 which went to #12 on the...

(1949-) Former lead singer of the rock band Journey

Teresa Salgueiro

Teresa Salgueiro , OIH is a Portuguese singer. She is best known as the lead singer of Madredeus from 1987 until 2007....

(1969-) (Madredeus

Madredeus

Madredeus is a Portuguese band. Their music combines traditional Portuguese music with influences with modern folk music...

vocals)

Tim

TIM

Tim may refer to:Names*Timothy or Tim, for short.People*Tim, the Oldenburg Baby, abortion survivor*Tim , popular K-pop solo singer*Tiny Tim , American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist*Timati, a Russian hip-hop singer...

(1960-) (player, vocals Xutos & Pontapés

Xutos & Pontapés

Xutos & Pontapés are a rock band, who got together in Almada, Portugal in 1978, 4 years after the 25 April 74 Revolution. Their first rehearsal as a band was on 20 December 78, but they've marked 13 January 79 as the beginning of their career, after playing for the first time before an audience -...

)

Tomás Alcaide (1901-1967) (lyrical singer)

José Vianna da Motta

José Vianna da Motta was a distinguished Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt...

(1868-1948) (piano player, composer)

Vitorino

Vitorino is a Portuguese singer-songwriter born in 1942. His music combine his two life-long passions: the traditional music of his native region of Alentejo and his personal style of urban popular song built around his rich, smooth voice.-Albums:...

(1942-) (singer)

Writers

Agostinho da Silva

(writer and philosopher)

Agustina Bessa-Luís

Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE is a Portuguese writer. She was born at Travanca, Amarante in 1922. Her novel As Terras do Risco was the basis for the film O Convento in 1995. She was awarded the Camões Prize in 2004....

(writer)

Alberto Pimenta (writer and poet)

Alexandre Herculano

Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo , Portuguese historian, was born in Lisbon of humble stock, his grandfather having been a foreman stonemason in the royal employ.-Early life:...

(writer)

Alice Vieira

Alice Vieira is a Portuguese children's book author. She graduated from the University of Lisbon with a thesis about Bernard Shaw's theatre. She worked as a teacher and as a journalist before devoting all her time to writing books for children...

(writer)

Almada Negreiros

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros was a Portuguese painter, poet and writer...

(writer)

Almeida Garrett

João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese Romanticist poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and Liberal politician and a freemason.-Biography:...

(writer and playwright)

Álvaro Cunhal

Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal, who used the name Álvaro Cunhal , was a Portuguese politician. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party from 1961 to 1992...

(neo-realist writer)

Álvaro Magalhães

Álvaro Magalhães (writer)

Álvaro Magalhães is a Portuguese writer who was born in 1951. In 1982 he published his first book, História com muitas letras. Since then, Álvaro Magalhães wrote many other stories. His most prominent work, in literature, however, is the series of books Triângulo Jota...

(writer)

Alves Redol

António Alves Redol was one of the most influential Portuguese neorealist writers. Redol was born in Vila Franca de Xira, an industrial zone near Lisbon. In 1927 he finished school and in the next year travelled to the Portuguese colony of Angola, where he stays for three years...

(neo-realist writer)

Ana de Castro Osório (writer / feminist)

André de Resende

Andre de Resende

André de Resende , the father of archaeology in Portugal, a Dominican friar.He spent many years traveling in Spain, France and Belgium, where he corresponded with Erasmus and other learned men. He was also intimate with King John III and his sons, and acted as tutor to the Infante D...

(writer)

Antero de Quental

Antero Tarquínio de Quental , old spelling Anthero, , Portuguese poet, was born in Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island, in the Azores, into one of the oldest families of the provincial captaincies on the island, his parents being Fernando de Quental ,...

(writer)

António Alçada Baptista (writer)

António José da Silva

António José da Silva , was a Portuguese-Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" . The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio.-Life:...

(playwright)

António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes, GCSE MD is a Portuguese novelist.António Lobo Antunes was born in Lisbon. At the age of seven he decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to the medical school of the University of Lisbon where he graduated as a medical doctor and later...

(writer)

António Vieira

Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the "prince" of Catholic pulpit-orators of his time.-Life:...

(1608-1697) (preacher and writer)

Aquilino Ribeiro

Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese novelist of the 20th century...

(neo-realist writer)

Branquinho da Fonseca (writer)

Bulhão Pato (writer)

Camilo Castelo Branco

Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco,1st Viscount de Correia Botelho , was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having authored over 260 books...

(writer)

Carlos de Oliveira

Carlos de Oliveira, GOSE , was a Portuguese poet and novelist.He was born to a Portuguese family living in Brazil, which then moved back to Portugal in 1923. He graduated from the University of Coimbra in history and philosophy, and is counted amongst the neorealist poets...

(writer)

Damião de Góis

(writer)

Daniel Sampaio (writer and psychiatrist)

David Mourão-Ferreira

David de Jesus Mourão-Ferreira, GCSE was a Portuguese writer and poet from Lisbon.He was a son of David Ferreira and wife Teresa de Jesus Ferro Mourão...

(writer)

Dinis Machado (writer)

Diogo Barbosa Machado (1682-1772) (writer)

Eça de Queiroz (writer)

Fernando Aires (writer)

Fernão Lopes

----Fernão Lopes , was a Portuguese chronicler appointed by King Edward of Portugal. Fernão Lopes wrote the history of Portugal as it was known at the time....

(c. 1380-1458) (royal chronicler)

Gil Vicente

Gil Vicente , called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus"^[3] and often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama."^[1]Vicente...

(playwright)

Gomes Eanes de Zurara (writer)

Gonçalo Tavares (writer)

Guerra Junqueiro

Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro was a Portuguese lawyer for the University of Coimbra, a high administrative employee, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work help inspire the creation of the Portuguese First Republic...

(poet and writer)

Hélia Correia

Hélia Correia was a Portuguese writer, born in Lisbon. At university, she read what in Portuguese was then known as “Romance Philology", the equivalent of today’s Portuguese Studies. After a period working as a high school teacher, Hélia Correia undertook postgraduate studies in Classical Theatre...

(writer)

Inês Pedrosa (writer)

Irene Lisboa (1892-1958) (writer)

Jacinto Lucas Pires (writer)

João Aguiar (writer)

João Barrento (writer)

João Bénard da Costa (writer)

João de Barros

João de Barros , called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia , a history of the Portuguese in India and Asia.-Early years:...

(writer and historian)

Jorge de Sena (writer and poet)

José Cardoso Pires

José Cardoso Pires, ComL, GCM was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire.-Origins and formative influences:Born in the village of São João do Peso, municipailty of Vila de Rei, Castelo Branco district...

(writer)

José Gomes Ferreira

José Gomes Ferreira, GOSE, GOL was a Portuguese poet and fiction writer with a vast work of varied influences. Gomes Ferreira was also a political activist that participated in the resistance against the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar, becoming later a member of the Portuguese...

(writer)

José Leon Machado (writer)

José Rodrigues Miguéis (1901-1980) (writer)

José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for...

(writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998)

Luís António Verney (1713-1792) (writer)

Luís Lopes (writer)

Luiz Pacheco (writer and editor) (1925-2008)

Manuel Alegre

Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, GCL , is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and an independent candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006.-Background:...

(poet, writer and politician)

Maria Lamas (1893-1983) (writer and journalist)

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the most well known of the "Geração D'Orpheu".-Life:...

(novelist and poet)

Miguel Torga

Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century...

(poet and writer)

Natália Correia

Natália de Oliveira Correia, GOSE, GOL was a Portuguese writer, and was the author of the lyrics of Hino dos Açores, the traditional anthem of The Azores.-Biography:Correia was born in Fajã de Baixo near downtown Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel island in the Azores on September...

(writer and poet)

Onésimo Teotónio Almeida (writer)

Orlando da Costa

Orlando António Fernandes da Costa was a Portuguese writer of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Portuguese and French on his mother Amélia Maria Fréchaut Fernandes' side, born in the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques. He lived...

(poet and playwright)

Ramalho Ortigão

José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão was a Portuguese writer of the late 19th century. He spent his early years with his maternal grandmother in Oporto.Ortigão studied law in the University of Coimbra but never finished the course...

(writer)

Raul Brandão

Raul Germano Brandão was a Portuguese writer, journalist and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and by the lyricism of his speech. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth...

(1867-1930) (writer)

Raul Proença

Raul Proença was a Portuguese writer, journalist, and intellectual. Born in Caldas da Rainha, Proença earned a degree in economic and financial sciences from the Instituto Industrial e Comercial de Lisboa. He was a founder of the magazine Seara Nova. In 1927, Proença was exiled to Paris. Proença...

(1884-1941) (writer)

Rosa Lobato Faria (writer)

Rui de Pina

-Biography:Pina was a native of Guarda. He acted as secretary of the embassy sent by King John II of Portugal to Castile in the spring of 1482, and in the following September returned there as sole envoy. He was present at the execution of Fernando II, Duke of Braganza at Evora in 1483, and in...

(writer)

Rui Miguel Saramago (poet and writer)

Rui Zink (writer)

Sampaio Bruno (writer)

Sarah Beirão (writer)

Soeiro Pereira Gomes

Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes was a Portuguese writer of realist influence and became one of the major names of Portuguese literature of the 20th century. Pereira Gomes is, along with Alves Redol, the biggest name of the Portuguese neo-realist movement...

(neo-realist writer)

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was an award-winning Portuguese poet and writer.Sophia, as she is often referred to in Portugal, was born in Porto to a wealthy aristocratic family. She inherited the surname 'Andresen' from her paternal grandfather, a Danish merchant...

(poet and writer)

Teófilo de Braga (literary historian)

Teolinda Gersão (writer)

Tomé Pires

Tomé Pires was an apothecary from Lisbon who spent 1512 to 1515 in Malacca immediately after the Portuguese conquest, at a time when Europeans were only first arriving in South East Asia...

1465-1540, author of the Suma Oriental

Trindade Coelho (writer)

Urbano Tavares Rodrigues

Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, GCIH is a Portuguese professor of literature, a literary critic and a fiction writer, winner of many literary prizes. He was born in 1923 in Lisbon, Portugal, but spent most of his childhood near Moura, in Alentejo, the Southern region of Portugal...

(writer and journalist)

Vasco Graça Moura

Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura, OSE is a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social...

(writer)

Vasco Pulido Valente (historian and critic)

Vergílio Ferreira

Vergílio Ferreira, JOSE was a Portuguese writer.As a teenager, he studied in a seminar. Later he studied at the University of Coimbra. His experiences are related in his most famous work "Manhã Submersa", Vergílio Ferreira, JOSE (Melo, Gouveia, 28 January 1916 -...

(writer)

Artists

Almada Negreiros

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros was a Portuguese painter, poet and writer...

(1893-1970) (20th century painter)

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was a Portuguese artist, working in the style of the vanguard of his time. Although he lived a short life, his workmanship was legendary.- Life :He was born in Mancelos, a parish of Amarante...

(1887-1918) (20th century painter)

António Soares dos Reis

António Soares dos Reis was a Portuguese sculptor.-Studies:He first studied at the Portuense Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in sculpture in 1867. He studied at the Fine Arts Imperial School of Paris, from 1867 to 1870, where he achieved several prizes, and in Rome...

(1847-1889) (19th century sculptor)

Aurélia de Souza

Aurélia de Souza was a Portuguese painter.She was born in Valparaíso, Chile. Her parents were emigrants in Brazil and Chile, but they moved back to Porto, Portugal, in 1869. She studyed at the Fine-Arts Academy of Porto, since 1893, where she was a pupil of João Marques de Oliveira, who greatly...

(1865-1922) (19th/20th century painter)

Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) (19th century photographer)

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro , who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter...

(1857-1929) (19th/20th century painter)

Domingos António de Sequeira (1768-1837) (18th/19th century painter)

Eduardo Gageiro

Portuguese photographer Eduardo Gageiro is widely considered the country's foremost photojournalist.-Beginnings:Gageiro became interested in photography at a very early age whilst working at the Fábrica de Sacavém, the life of its workers providing the theme to the photographer's early work...

(1935) (20th century photographer)

Fernando Lanhas

Fernando Lanhas, GOSE is a Portuguese painter and architect. He studied architecture but became known as the leading name in Portuguese abstract painting. He started painting in 1944, influenced by music, astronomy, and the international abstract movement. Since then, he's been one of the most...

(1923-)

Filipe Alarcão

Filipe Alarcão is one of today's most recognizable names in Portuguese product design. His designs range from the renowned china, porcelain and casual dishes manufactured by Vista Alegre to the contemporary furniture design of Temahome.He obtained a degree in equipment design from the Lisbon...

(1963-) (Urban and modern contemporary designer)

Helena Almeida (1934) (20th century plastic artist)

José Dias Coelho

José Dias Coelho was a Portuguese painter and sculptor, an anti-fascist and an important member of the Portuguese Communist Party....

(20th century artist)

José Dominguez Alvarez (1906-1942) (20th century painter)

José Malhoa

José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa was a Portuguese painter, born in Caldas da Rainha. He was, with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting, in the second half of the 19th century...

(19th century painter)

Josefa d'Óbidos (1630-1684) (17th century painter)

Joshua Benoliel (1873-1932) (19th/20th century photographer)

Júlio Pomar

Julio Pomar, GOL, GCM is a Portuguese painter. He studied painting in both Lisbon and Porto Academy of Fine Arts, in this last he one he joined the group of other fellow artists called Independents....

(1926) (20th century painter)

Manuel Pereira da Silva

thumb|200px|Manuel Pereira da SilvaManuel Pereira da Silva was a Portuguese sculptor. He was born in Oporto, Portugal....

(1920-2003) (20th century sculptor)

Nadir Afonso

Nadir Afonso, OSE is a geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers in Kinetic art, working alongside...

(1920) (geometric abstract painter)

Nuno Gonçalves

Nuno Gonçalves was a 15th century Portuguese artist credited for the painting of the paineis de São Vicente de Fora . The panels depict the main elements of Portuguese society in the 15th century: clergy, nobility and common people....

(15th century painter)

Paula Rego

Paula Figueiroa Rego, GCSE is a Portuguese painter, illustrator and printmaker, who has lived in Britain since 1951. She was born in Lisbon to a rich family, during Salazar´s regime, which would be a later influence in her work....

(20th century painter)

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration, caricatures, sculpture and ceramics designs, and is considered the first Portuguese comics creator.- Life :...

(19th century charicaturist)

Vasco Fernandes

Vasco Fernandes , better known as Grão Vasco, was one of the main Portuguese Renaissance painters.Vasco Fernandes was probably born in Viseu, in Northern Portugal, where he began his career in the team of painters executing the main altarpiece of Viseu Cathedral . Between 1506 and 1511 he painted...

(Grão Vasco)(15th century painter)

Vieira da Silva (20th century painter)

Scientists

Abel Salazar

Abel de Lima Salazar , was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto...

(1889-1946)

Adelaide Cabete (1867-1935)

Almeida Lima, neurologist

André de Resende

Andre de Resende

(c. 1500-1573)

António A. Coutinho (1946), immunologist

António A. de Freitas

António A. de Freitas , is an immunologist. He is Portuguese, born in Cuamba, Mozambique. He earned his M.D. in 1970 from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is Professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France where he directs...

(1947), immunologist

António Damásio

Antonio Damasio

António Rosa Damásio, GOSE is a Portuguese-born, American behavioral neurologist and neuroscientist. He is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Brain and Creativity Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at USC,...

(1944), neurologist

Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Bartolomeu de Gusmão, born Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão , was a priest and naturalist born in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, recalled for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.He began his novitiate in the Society of Jesus at Bahia when he was about fifteen years old, but left the...

(1685-1724), inventor

Bento de Jesus Caraça

Bento de Jesus Caraça, GCSE, GOL was an influential Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician...

(1901-1948), mathematician

Bissaya Barreto (1886-1974)

Corino de Andrade (1906-2005), neurologist

Correia da Serra (1750-1823)

Egas Moniz

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz known as Egas Moniz ; was a Portuguese neurologist and researcher....

(1874-1955), neurologist and Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949)

Fernando Catarino (1932), biologist

Francisco Gentil (1878-1964)

Francisco Pulido Valente (1884-1964)

Freitas-Magalhães (1966), psychologist

Garcia de Orta

Garcia de Orta was a Portuguese Renaissance Sephardi Jewish physician and naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine.- Life :...

(c. 1499-1568), botanical scientist

Hanna Damásio

Hanna Damasio is Dana Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neurology at the University of Southern California. She is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California...

(1942), neurologist

Jacob de Castro Sarmento

Jacob de Castro Sarmento was a Portuguese physician, naturalist, poet and Deist....

(c. 1691-1762)

João de Pina-Cabral

João de Pina-Cabral is a Portuguese anthropologist and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon, where he as President of the Scientific Council .-Academic life:...

(1954), anthropologist

João Magueijo

João Magueijo is a Portuguese cosmologist and professor in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. He is a pioneer of the varying speed of light theory.- Career :...

, physicist

Manuel Sobrinho Simões (1947)

Maria de Sousa (1947)

Miguel Vale de Almeida

Miguel Vale de Almeida is a Portuguese anthropologist, LGBT activist, and professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa in Lisbon. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Etnográfica and member of CEAS-ISCTE and APA...

(1960), anthropologist

Moisés Espírito Santo (1934), sociologist

Benedita Barata da Rocha

Benedita Barata da Rocha , is an immunologist. She is Portuguese, born in Lisbon, Portugal. She earned her M.D. 1972 from the University of Lisbon, and her Ph.D...

(1949), immunologist

Orlando Ribeiro

Orlando Ribeiro , was a Portuguese geographer and historian.-Biography:Ribeiro devoted his life to the teaching and research in Geography and is often labelled as one of the main reformist of this science in Portugal. He graduated in Geography and History in 1932, and completed his doctorate at the...

(1911-1997), geographer

Pedro Nunes

Pedro Nunes , was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, born from a New Christian family....

(1502-1578), mathematician and cosmographer

Ribeiro Sanches (1699-1783)

Sousa Martins (1843-1897)

Tomé Pires

Tomé Pires was an apothecary from Lisbon who spent 1512 to 1515 in Malacca immediately after the Portuguese conquest, at a time when Europeans were only first arriving in South East Asia...

(c. 1465-c. 1540)

Vitorino Magalhães Godinho (1918), historian

Engineers and architects

Afonso Domingues (architect)

Álvaro Siza Vieira

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, , who signs as Álvaro Siza Vieira and is sometimes known as Álvaro Siza, is a contemporary Portuguese architect....

(1933-) (architect)

António Segadães Tavares (1944-) (engineer, "Outstanding Structure Award 2004" winner)

João Luís Carrilho da Graca

Carrilho da Graça

João Luís Carrilho da Graça, , graduated from ESBAL in 1977 and lectured at the faculty of architecture of the technical university of lisbon between 1977 and 1992....

(architect)

Cassiano Branco (1897-1970) (architect)

Duarte Pacheco (1900-1943) (engineer)

Edgar Cardoso

Edgar Cardoso was a noted Portuguese civil engineer and university professor. In Portugal, Edgar Cardoso was a pioneer of experimental analysis of structures and of high precision instruments development for measure mechanical sizes in the little models and in his own works.-Early life:Cardoso...

(1913-2000) (engineer)

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura is a Portuguese architect. Son of medical doctor José Alberto Souto de Moura and wife Maria Teresa Ramos Machado, he is the brother of José Souto de Moura, former 9th Attorney-General of Portugal.Moura currently lives and works in Porto where he has built...

(architect)

Eugénio dos Santos (1711-1760) (architect)

Fernando Távora

Fernando Luís Cardoso de Meneses de Tavares e Távora, simply known as Fernando Távora , was a renowned Portuguese architect and professor....

(1923-2005) (architect)

Gonçalo Sousa Byrne (architect)

José Tribolet

José Tribolet is a full professor of the Computer Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal....

(engineer, IST

Instituto Superior Técnico

The Instituto Superior Técnico is a Portuguese faculty of engineering and part of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa...

professor)

Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia (1917-2006) (architect)

Tomás Taveira

Tomás Taveira is a Portuguese architect. He is among Portugal's most highly-acclaimed architects born in the 20th century. He has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon and owns a post-graduation from the MIT ....

(1938-) (architect)

Psychiatrists

Daniel Sampaio

Henrique Barahona Fernandes

João dos Santos

João dos Santos was a Portuguese Dominican missionary in India and Africa.-Life:On 13 August, 1586, four months after leaving Lisbon, dos Santos arrived in Mozambique. He was at once sent to Sofala, where he remained four years with Father João Madeira...

José Augusto Seco Machado Gil (1953-1996)

José Luís Simões da Fonseca

Actors and directors

Alexandra Lencastre

Alexandra Lencastre is a Portuguese actress.-Television:* Fascínios, 2007 * Tempo de Viver, 2006 * Ninguém Como Tu, 2005...

Ana Cristina de Oliveira

Ana Cristina Oliveira

Ana Cristina de Oliveira is a Portuguese actress and model. Born in Lisbon, Portugal; her father worked in the Portuguese radio industry while her mother worked in a Lisbon movie theater. An only child, she originally wanted to become a journalist.She eventually moved to the US on 2003-07-25,...

(actress and model)

Amélia Rey Colaço (1898-1990) (actress)

António Lopes Ribeiro

António Filipe Lopes Ribeiro was a Portuguese film director.Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester da Nazaré Lopes, he was the brother of actor Ribeirinho.-Filmography:...

(1908-1995) (film director)

António Ribeiro (1969-) (playwright and director)]

António Silva

António Maria da Silva was a great Portuguese actor. Born to a humble family, one of many sons and daughters of Francisco Constantino Augusto da Silva , a frame gilder in Lisbon, where he married at the Parish of Mercês on May 12, 1872 with Amélia das Dores ,...

(actor)

Beatriz Batarda

Beatriz da Silveira Moreno Batarda is a Portuguese actress named as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion in 1998. She studied Design at IADE Institute in Lisbon and trained in acting at Guidhall School of Music and Drama in London.She was born in London and has lived...

(actress)

Beatriz Costa

Beatriz Costa was a Portuguese actress, the best-known actress of the golden age of Portuguese cinema....

(actress)

Carmen Miranda

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha GCIH, better known by the stage name Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer and actress popular in the 1940s and 1950s....

(1909–1955) (singer and actress)

Daniela Ruah

Daniela Ruah is a Jewish Portuguese American-born actress raised in Portugal. She currently plays Kensi Blye in the series NCIS: Los Angeles, which premiered in September of 2009 on CBS....

(actress)

Diogo Infante

Diogo Nuno Infante de Lacerda, born 28 May 1967, in Lisbon, is a Portuguese theatre, cinema and television actor and television presenter. He is the natural son of Maria Infante de Lacerda by an Englishman named Jonathan and maternal grandson of Renée Lance Infante de Lacerda , daughter of the 5th...

(actor)

Eunice Muñoz

Eunice Muñoz, OSE, GCIH is a Portuguese actress. She was born in Amareleja, Portugal....

(1928-) (actress)

Herman José

Hermann José Krippahl or simply Herman José is the most successful comedian in Portugal, though virtually unknown abroad...

(1954)(actor and humourist)

Ivo Canelas (1973-) (actor)

João César Monteiro

João César Monteiro was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic . He was born in Figueira da Foz in February 2, 1939 and died of cancer in Lisbon on February 3, 2003.- Life and career :...

(1939-2003) (film director)

João Villaret

João villaret

João Henrique Pereira Villaret was a Portuguese actor.-Filmography:*O Pai Tirano, by António Lopes Ribeiro *Inês de Castro, by Leitão de Barros *Camões, by Leitão de Barros...

(1913-1961) (actor and poetry reader)

Joaquim de Almeida

Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida, CavIH is a Portuguese actor. One of the most appraised Portuguese actors alive, well known in the world of international cinema, he has travelled the world working in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, United States and Brazil in many film and...

(1957-) (actor)

Laura Alves (actress)

Luís Miguel Cintra

Luís Miguel Cintra is a Portuguese film actor. He has appeared in 60 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* A Ilha dos Amores * The Distant Land * The Cannibals...

(1948-)

Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He is currently the oldest active film director in the world.-Biography:...

(1908-) (film director)

Manuela Cassola (1925-) (actress)

Marco Martins

Marco Martins is a Portuguese film director, best known for his 2005 film Alice, which premiered at Cannes and won the Best Picture Award at the Directors%27_Fortnight.-Biography:...

(1972-) (film director)

Maria de Medeiros

Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida, DamSE , better known simply as Maria de Medeiros , is a Portuguese actress and director who has been involved in both European and American film productions....

(actress)

Maria Matos (1890-1952) (actress)

Mário Viegas (1948-1996) (actor)

Nuno Lopes

Nuno Lopes is a Portuguese actor. Awarded, in 2006, with the Best Actor Globo de Ouro for his performance in Alice, he also took the Best Actor prize at the Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro and the Shooting Star award at the Berlin International Film Festival.-Training:He graduated from the...

(1978-) (actor)

Pedro Varela (1974-) (actor and director)

Raul Solnado

Raúl Solnado

Raul Solnado, GCIH was a popular Portuguese actor and comedian. He was born in Lisbon's Madragoa neighborhood, and first appeared on stage there...

(actor and humourist)

Ruy de Carvalho (1927-) (actor)

Vasco Nunes

Vasco Lucas Nunes is a Portuguese cinematographer, producer, and film director. In 2003, he graduated from the AFI Conservatory, where he got a masters in Cinematography, but had begun working in the film and television industry in the early '90s...

(1974-) (director/cinematographer/producer)

Vasco Santana

Vasco Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema....

(1898-1958) (actor)

Soldiers

Constantino de Sá de Noronha (-1630) (Captain General

Captain General

Captain General is a high military rank and a gubernatorial title.-History:This term Captain General started to appear in the 14th century, with the meaning of commander in Chief of an army in the field, probably the first usage of the term General in military settings...

of Ceylon, killed in battle)

Gaspar Figueira de Cerpe (Captain-major

Captain-major

Captain-major is the English rendering of the Portuguese title Capitão-mor for colonial officers, put in charge of a capitania, Portuguese possession deemed not important enough to have its own colonial Governor.Due to the impossibility of exercising direct control and sovereignty over islands,...

at the seige of Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the capital city of Sri Lanka. Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life and colonial buildings and ruins and a city...

, 1656)

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, GCL , formerly a Portuguese military officer, was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon.-Biography:...

(1936-) chief strategist of the Carnation Revolution

Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril, was a left-leaning military coup started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy after two years of a transitional period known as PREC ,...

Sports

Ana Rocha

Ana Rocha is an Portuguese professional wrestler and manager known by her ring name "The Portuguese Princess" Ariel, who has competed in Northeastern independent promotions including Ring of Honor, IWA Mid-South and the National Wrestling Alliance.-Early life and career:Born in Sao Miguel, Azores,...

(Professional Wrestler)

Andrea L. Hall (1984-) (BMX racer/rider)

António Jesus Correia

António Jesus Correia, better known as Jesus Correia , was a Portuguese footballer and roller hockey player, one of the greatest and most eclectic sportsmen from his generation....

(1924-2003)

António Livramento

António José Pereira do Livramento was a Portuguese roller hockey player and coach. An amazing forward, he's revered in the roller hockey world as the greatest player ever on his sport, in the same way as Wayne Gretsky in ice hockey.-Player career:He first started to play football, when he was...

(1944-1999) (Hockey Player)

Carlos Lopes

Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes, GCIH, is a former Portuguese long-distance athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles...

(1947-) (marathon olympic champion)

Carlos Queiroz

Carlos Queiroz, ComIH is a Portuguese football coach. He is currently coach of the Portugal national football team. He was Alex Ferguson's assistant manager at English club Manchester United, where he has enjoyed two spells...

(football coach)

Carlos Sousa (off road driver, world champion in 2003)

Kevin Correia

Kevin John Correia is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres. He attended Grossmont High School in El Cajon, California. He attended Grossmont Junior College and then transferred to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2000...

(baseball player)

Costinha

Francisco José Rodrigues da Costa Júnior, OIH , commonly known as Costinha , is a Portuguese footballer currently for Atalanta B.C...

(1974-) (football player)

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team...

(1985-) (football player)

Eusébio (1942-) (football player, born in Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest. It was explored by Vasco da Gama in 1498...

; later moved to Portugal)

Fernanda Ribeiro

Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH , is a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal...

(1969-) (10,000m olympic champion)

Francis Obikwelu

Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November, 1978 in Nigeria and a Portuguese citizen since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres. He holds the record for the fastest time in the 100 m set by a European competitor with a time of 9.86 seconds...

(Nigerian born runner)

Hélder Rodrigues (Enduro & Dakar rally rider)

Joaquim Agostinho

Joaquim Fernandes Agostinho, OIH was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer. He was champion of Portugal in six successive years . He rode the Tour de France 13 times and finished all but once, winning on Alpe d'Huez in 1979, and finishing 3rd twice...

(cyclist)

José Azevedo

José Bento Azevedo Carvalho is a Portuguese former professional road racing cyclist and from 2010, a team manager with Team RadioShack...

(cyclist)

João Moutinho

João Filipe Iria Santos Moutinho born 8 September 1986 in Portimão) is a Portuguese footballer, currently playing as a midfielder for Sporting Club de Portugal , also being a Portuguese international.- Senior Squad :...

(football player)

Nani (football player)

Luís Figo

Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo is a former Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder for Sporting Clube de Portugal, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Internazionale during a career which spans over 20 years. He retired from football on 31 May 2009...

(1972-) (football player)

Maniche

Nuno Ricardo de Oliveira Ribeiro, OIH , commonly known as Maniche , is a Portuguese footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for 1...

(1977-) (football player)

Manuel dos Santos

Manuel dos Santos can refer to:*Manuel António dos Santos, Portuguese politician*Manuel dos Santos Fernandes, French footballer*Manuel dos Santos , Brazilian swimmer*Manuel Francisco dos Santos, best known as Garrincha, Brazilian footballer...

(1925-1973) (bullfighter)

Rui Costa (1972-) (football player)

Mery Andrade (WNBA player)

Nuno Gomes

Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro , commonly known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese footballer who currently plays for Sport Lisboa e Benfica in the Portuguese first division, and for the Portugal National Football Team as a striker .He was given the nickname Gomes during childhood after FC Porto...

(football player)

Pauleta

Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes, OIH , commonly known as Pauleta , is a former Portuguese professional footballer, who played as a striker....

(football player)

Paulo Ferreira

Paulo Renato Rebocho Ferreira, OIH is a Portuguese football player currently playing as a full back for Chelsea in the English Premier League....

(football player)

Paulo Futre

Paulo Jorge dos Santos Futre is a former Portuguese professional footballer, who played mostly as a left winger.-Football career:...

(former football player)

Paulo Sousa

Paulo Manuel Carvalho Sousa, CavIH is a former Portuguese footballer and current manager of Swansea City....

(former football player)

Pedro Lamy

José Pedro Mourão Lamy Viçoso, OIH, better known as Pedro Lamy , is a professional racing driver from Portugal, notable for being the first Portuguese driver to score a point in a World Championship event, in the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, for Minardi.-Early years:After graduating...

(former Formula One and DTM driver)

Ricardo Carvalho

Ricardo Alberto Silveira Carvalho, OIH is a Portuguese footballer who currently plays as a central defender for English Premier League club Chelsea and the Portuguese national team....

(football player)

Ricardo Pereira

Ricardo Alexandre Martins Soares Pereira, simply Ricardo , is a Portuguese footballer currently playing with Real Betis, as a goalkeeper.-Club career:...

(football player)

Ricardo Quaresma

Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo is a Portuguese footballer partly of Gypsy heritage, who currently plays for Internazionale and for the Portuguese national team...

(1983-) (football player)

Ricardo Sá Pinto

Ricardo Manuel Andrade e Silva Sá Pinto is a former Portuguese football forward.He was known for his fighting spirit, best displayed in his Sporting Clube de Portugal stints.-Football career:...

(football player)

Rosa Mota

Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes...

(1958-) (marathon olympic champion)

Rui Gonçalves (World Motocross Championship rider)

Simão Sabrosa

Simão Pedro Fonseca Sabrosa, OIH , commonly known as just Simão , is a Portuguese football winger who currently plays for Atlético Madrid and the Portuguese national team...

(1979-) (football player)

Tiago Monteiro

Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro is a racing driver who drove for Jordan, Midland and Spyker MF1 Racing Formula One teams—all progressive iterations of the same team as it was bought up by new owners—during a two year stint as part of the Formula 1 circus...

(Formula One driver)

Ticha Penicheiro

Ticha Penicheiro is a Portuguese professional basketball player in the WNBA...

(WNBA player)

Dustin Pedroia

Dustin Luis Pedroia is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Boston Red Sox. During his brief career in the majors, Pedroia has won several awards, including the 2007 AL Rookie of the Year award and the 2008 AL MVP...

(baseball player)

Vítor Baía

Vítor Manuel Martins Baía , is a former Portuguese international footballer, primarily for FC Porto...

(1969-) (football player)

Mark Teixeira

Mark Charles Teixeira is an American Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees. Teixeira is of Portuguese-American descent. Primarily a first baseman, he has also played third base and in the outfield...

(baseball player)

John Tavares (ice hockey player)

Mike Ribeiro

Michael Ribeiro is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League . Ribeiro is of Portuguese ancestry.-Playing career:...

(ice hockey player)

Politicians

Afonso Costa

Afonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, professor, and republican politician.-Political career:...

(1871-1937) (Primer Minister during the First Republic

Portuguese First Republic

The Portuguese First Republic spans a complex 16 year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the Constitutional Monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May coup d'état of 1926...

)

Alberto João Jardim

Alberto João Cardoso Gonçalves Jardim, GCIH is the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal. He has at times been a controversial figure.-Early years:...

(1943-) (President of Regional Government of the Madeira Autonomous Region

Madeira

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago in the mid Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands...

)

Álvaro Cunhal

Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal, who used the name Álvaro Cunhal , was a Portuguese politician. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party from 1961 to 1992...

(1913-2005) (former General Secretary of the PCP

Portuguese Communist Party

The Portuguese Communist Party , or PCP, is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party, and its organization is based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself to be patriotic and internationalist.The party was founded in 1921 as the Portuguese...

)

Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC , is the President of the Portuguese Republic, having won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January 2006. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on 9 March 2006....

(economist, former Prime Minister, current President of the Republic)

Anton de Vieira

António Manuel de Vieira, known in Russia as Count Anton Manuilovich Devier, Антон Мануилович Девиер , was one of Peter I's foreign associates, who proved to be an efficient administrator in St Petersburg and Siberia....

(1682-1745, governor of St Petersburg and Okhotsk

Okhotsk

Okhotsk is an urban-type settlement and a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.Located at the eastern end of the River Route from the Urals, Okhotsk was the first Russian settlement on the Pacific Coast. It was established as a wintering camp...

)

António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He was the President of the Republic in 1951, as interim...

(1889-1970) (Head of State, Leader of the National Union "União Nacional")

António Guterres

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, GCC is a Portuguese politician, a former prime minister and President of the Socialist International. Currently he is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.-Early life:...

(former Prime Minister, current president of the Socialist International

Socialist International

The Socialist International is a worldwide organisation of democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.- History :...

and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country...

)

António Vitorino

António Vitorino is a Portuguese politician, member of the Socialist Party .-Career:Vitorino graduated in law from the University of Lisbon. A lawyer by training, he was first elected to Parliament in 1980...

(former Minister and EU Commissionar)

Bento Gonçalves

Bento António Gonçalves

Bento António Gonçalves, GOL was the second Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party. He was born in Montalegre, near Bragança, in the North of Portugal. Not much is known about his childhood. In 1915 he became an apprentice mechanical turner in Lisbon...

(1902-1942) (former General Secretary of the PCP

Portuguese Communist Party

)

Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto (1936-1985) (former Prime Minister)

Carlos Carvalhas

Carlos Alberto do Vale Gomes Carvalhas, GCC is a Portuguese politician and former Secretary-General of the Portuguese Communist Party , succeeding the historical leader Álvaro Cunhal....

(1941-) (former General Secretary of the PCP

Portuguese Communist Party

)

Diogo Freitas do Amaral

Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral, GCC, GCSE, GCIH , usually referred to as either Freitas do Amaral or informally Freitas, is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 March 2005 to 1 July 2006...

(former president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, current Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Duarte Pio, Duke of Bragança (claimant to the abolished throne of Portugal)

Francisco Sá Carneiro

Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro, GCTE, GCC, GCL , was Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months in 1980.-Background:...

(1934-1980) (former Prime Minister)

Jaime Ornelas Camacho

Jaime Ornelas Camacho, , was the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal, and a member of the Madeiran branch of the popular centre-right-wing Portuguese party PSD....

(1911-) (first Regional Government President of Madeira)

Jerónimo de Sousa

Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa (born 13 April 1947 in Pirescôxe (aka Pirescouxe, Pirescoche, Piriscouxe and Pires Coche) Santa Iria de Azóia, Loures, (a suburb of Lisbon) is the General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party since the 17th...

(1947 -) (General Secretary of the PCP

Portuguese Communist Party

)

Jorge Sampaio

Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, GColTE, GCIH, GColL is a Portuguese lawyer, politician, and the former President of the Republic. His brother is the teenage-psychiatrist and writer Daniel Sampaio.-Background:...

(former President of the Republic)

José Manuel Barroso (former Prime Minister, current president of the EU Commission)

José Sócrates

José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH , commonly known simply as José Sócrates, is the Prime Minister of Portugal and Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. Sócrates became Prime Minister on 12 March 2005. For the second half of 2007, he acted as the President-in-Office of...

(current Prime Minister)

Marcelo Caetano

Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano, GCTE, GCC, also spelled Marcello Caetano , was a Portuguese politician and scholar, who was prime minister from 1968 until his overthrow in the Carnation Revolution of 1974.-Prime Minister:In August 1968, at 79, Salazar suddenly...

(1906-1980) (former Head of State from 1970 to 1974)

Mário Soares

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE , Portuguese politician, served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.-Background:Soares...

(1924-) (former Prime Minister and President of the Republic)

Octávio Pato

Octávio Floriano Rodrigues Pato started working at 14 in a shoe factory. At the same time he also played soccer on S.L. Benfica's youth teams...

(1925 - 1999)

Pedro Santana Lopes

Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes , a Portuguese lawyer and politician, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005...

(former Prime Minister, former Mayor of Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the district of Lisbon and the main city of the Lisbon region...

)

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz commonly known as Teresa Heinz Kerry is an American philanthropist, former widow of the late U.S. Senator H...

(philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry)

Vasco Gonçalves

General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as the 104th Prime Minister from 18 July, 1974 to 19 September, 1975....

(1922 - 2005) (former Prime Minister)

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal

Marquis of Pombal

Count of Oeiras was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, dated from July 15th, 1759, by King Joseph I of Portugal, and granted to Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Head of the Portuguese Government.Later, through another royal decree dated from September 16th, 1769, the same...

(1699-1782) (Statesman)

Historians

António de Oliveira Martins (1845-1894)

Diogo do Couto (1542-1616) (historian of India

India

and Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka , officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka , is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India...

)

Fernão de Queiroz (1617-1688) (Jesuit historian of India and Sri Lanka)

Jaime Cortesão (1884-1960) (writer and historian)

João Ribeiro

João Ribeiro may refer to:*João da Rocha Ribeiro Portuguese football player*João Paulo Pinto Ribeiro Portuguese football player*João Ubaldo Ribeiro*Ponta João Ribeiro...

(1622-1693) (soldier and historian of Sri Lanka)

José de Figueiredo (1872-1937) (historian and painting critic)

José Hermano Saraiva

José Hermano Baptista Saraiva , is a Portuguese historian and jurist.He was a professor of law and business management. He was Minister of Education of Portugal between 1968 and 1970 and ambassador to Brazil between 1972 and 1974...

(1919-)

Businessmen

Alfredo da Silva (1871-1942) (industrial)

Antónia Ferreira (a.k.a. Ferreirinha) (1811-1896)

António Champalimaud (1918-2004)

Belmiro de Azevedo

Belmiro Mendes de Azevedo is a Portuguese entrepreneur, ranked by Forbes as the 605th richest person in the world , as well as the second richest in Portugal, with an estimated wealth of US$2 billion...

(1938-)

Fausto Figueiredo (1880-1950)

Joe Berardo (1944-)

Jorge Ferreira (1955-) (Portuguese American

Portuguese American

Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira....

music producer, biggest international Portuguese music producer of the world and founder of Portuguese Music World label & record company).

Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva (1900-1955) (philanthropist)

Salvador Caetano

Salvador Caetano is a coachbuilder and vehicle distributor based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. It was established in 1946 by Salvador Fernandes Caetano , and it was the first coachbuilding company of Portugal.Salvador Caetano is also the importer of Toyota, since the Japanese car brand was...

(1926-)

Other

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa.He was born September 18, 1837 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a son of Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Esmeraldo Rolim de Moura and wife Augusta Correia Vasques Salvago de Brito de Olival...

(1837-1880) (former 19th-century archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave Goa

Goa

Goa is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast.Panaji is...

)

Catarina Eufémia

Catarina Efigénia Sabino Eufémia was an illiterate harvester from Alentejo, Portugal who was murdered during a worker's strike by lieutenant Carrajola of the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Monte do Olival, Baleizão, in Beja, Alentejo...

(1928-1954) (assassinated rural worker)

Fernando Pessa

Fernando Pessa, ComIH, GOM, OBE was a Portuguese journalist and reporter. Early in 2002, Pessa was hailed as the world's oldest journalist...

(1902-2002) (journalist)

José de Azeredo Perdigão (1896-1993) (lawyer)

Mariana Alcoforado (1624-1723) (nun and writer)