Luis Freitas Branco
1890 - 1955
Composer, musicologist, and professor of music
Manoel de Oliveira
1908 - 2015
Film director and screenwriter
Amalia da Piedade Rebordao Rodrigues
1920 - 1999
Fado singer
Orlando Ribeiro
1911 - 1997
Geography and History professor and researcher
Damiao Gois
1502 - 1574
Humanist philosopher, chronicler, archivist
Martim Afonso de Sousa
1500 - 1564
First colonizer of Brazil
Adriano Correia de Oliveira
1942 - 1982
Fado singer, protest singer
Antonio Fragoso
1897 - 1918
Composer, pianist
Gaspar Corte-Real
1450 - 1501
Explorer of the North Atlantic
Goncalo Velho
1400 - 1460
Navigator and explorer of the West African coast
Jose Saramago
1922 - 2010
Writer and Nobel laureate
Alfredo Marceneiro
1891 - 1982
Fado singer
George Agostinho Baptista da Silva
1906 - 1994
philosopher, essayist and writer
Afonso Augusto da Costa
1871 - 1937
Prime Minister & leader of the Portuguese Republic
Vasco Santana
1898 - 1958
Actor
Joao Domingos Bomtempo
1775 - 1842
Composer and pianist
Irene Lisboa
1892 - 1958
Writer, teacher and pedagogue
Ferdinand Magellan
-1480 - -1521
First European to cross the Pacific Ocean
Guilhermina Suggia
1885 - 1950
Cellist
Maria Matos
1886 - 1952
Actress and theatre personality
Fernando Lanhas
1923 - 2012
Painter, architect and astronomer
Fernando Pessoa
1888 - 1935
Modernist poet and writer
Joao Cesar Monteiro
1939 - 2003
Film director, actor, writer and film critic
Luisa Todi
1753 - 1833
Mezzo-soprano opera singer
Egas Moniz
1874 - 1955
Neurologist and developer of cerebral angiography
Manuel Pereira Silva
1920 - 2003
Abstract sculptor inspired by the human figure
Antonio Vieira
1608 - 1697
diplomat, and master of classical Portuguese prose
Carlos Paredes
1925 - 2004
Portuguese guitar player and composer
Antonio Jesus Correia
1924 - 2003
Football and roller hockey player
Bartolomeu Dias
1450 - 1500
Navigator and explorer
Vasco Goncalves
1922 - 2005
Prime Minister of Portugal
Diogo do Couto
1542 - 1616
Historian of the Portuguese in Asia and Africa
Paula Rego
1935 - 2022
Painter and printmaker
Eduardo Lourenco de Faria
1923 - 2020
Essayist, professor, critic, philosopher, writer
Kamila Skolimowska
1982 - 2009
Hammer thrower
Francisco Andrade
1856 - 1921
Opera singer
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
1919 - 2004
Poet and writer
Nadir Afonso
1920 - 2013
Geometric abstractionist painter
Salvador Fernandes Caetano
1926 - 2021
Founder of Grupo Salvador Caetano
Dinis Martins Vital
1932 - 2014
Goalkeeper
Eugenio de Andrade
1923 - 2005
Poet, translator and public servant
Francisco Marto
1908 - 1919
Visionary of Fátima
Antonio Lopes Ribeiro
1908 - 1995
Film director
Francisco de Almeida
1450 - 1510
Viceroy of Portuguese India and naval commander
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
1936 - 2021
Chief strategist of the Carnation Revolution
Americo Amorim
1934 - 2017
Cork industry leader
Antonio Livramento
1943 - 1999
Roller hockey player and coach
Eunice Munoz
1928 - 2022
Actress
Alvaro Cunhal
1913 - 2005
Communist leader and writer
Julio Pomar
1926 - 2018
Neo-realist and neo-expressionist painter
Vasco da Gama
1460 - 1524
Navigator
Bento de Jesus Caraca
1901 - 1948
Mathematician, economist, professor, writer
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira
1942 - 1982
Fado singer, protest singer, critic and writer
Carol II of Romania
1893 - 1953
King
Eusebio da Silva Ferreira
1942 - 2014
Footballer
Jose Hermano Saraiva
1919 - 2012
Historian of the Portuguese in Asia and Africa
Raquel Seruca
1962 - 2022
Oncobiologist
Ana Luisa Amaral
1956 - 2022
Poet, translator
Carlos Carmo
1939 - 2021
Fado singer
Jose Afonso
1929 - 1987
Folk and protest music
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