List of Famous people born in Beja, Portugal

Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha is a Portuguese football manager.

Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas is a Portuguese civil engineer, economist and politician

Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was a Brazilian military leader and politician. He served as the first President of the Brazilian military dictatorship after the 1964 military coup d'etat. Castelo Branco was killed in an aircraft collision in July 1967, soon after the end of his Presidency.

Eunice Muñoz, OSE, GCIH is a Portuguese actress. She was born in Amareleja, Portugal. She studied at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the Lisbon Theatre and Film School.

Eduardo Manuel "Nelo" Martinho Braganza de Vingada is a Portuguese football manager.

Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua was born in Alvito, 24 de Junho de 1986 and is a Portuguese economist and politician. In 2013 Mortágua was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, replacing Ana Drago. Mortágua is a member of the Bloco de Esquerda.

Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lança better known as Linda de Suza is a Lusophone and Francophone singer, actress and best-selling author. She is of Portuguese origin.

António Zambujo (ComIH) is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. One of the characteristic qualities of his music is the presence of Cante Alentejano, a regional genre that influenced him while growing up in Beja. Since 2004, António Zambujo has been performing worldwide. He has won the Amália Rodrigues Foundation prize as best male fado singer.

Tonicha is a Portuguese pop-folk singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, with the song "Menina do alto da serra" ; she finished ninth. She also represented her country in the OTI Festival 1972 in which she had better luck and finished sixth.

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. Catarina had three children, one eight months old, who was with her when she was shot.