List of Famous people born in Coimbra, Portugal
Sérgio Conceição
Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who mostly played as a right winger. He is the current manager of Porto.
Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos
Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos is a Portuguese conservative politician and a lawyer. He was elected President of the CDS – People's Party in the National Congress of the Party in Aveiro, with 46% of the votes. In 2018, he was elected one of the "30 more brilliant, innovative and influential youths of Europe in law and policy" by Forbes.
Lisandro Cuxi
Lisandro Monteiro Furt, better known by his stage name Lisandro Cuxi, born 17 July 1999 in Torres Vedras, is an Portuguese–Cape-Verdean singer-songwriter and dancer. In 2017, Lisandro Cuxi won the sixth season of The Voice: la plus belle voix as part of Team M. Pokora. He released his debut album named Ma bonne étoile in September 2017.
Marta Temido
Marta Temido is a Portuguese politician who has been serving as Minister of Health in the government of Prime Minister António Costa since 15 October 2018. She has a law degree and a master's degree in health economics and management from the University of Coimbra, as well as a PhD in international health from the NOVA University of Lisbon. From 2016 to 2017, Temido served as the president of the board of directors of the Central Administration of the Health System (ACSS).
Tony Carreira
Tony Carreira is a Portuguese musician. Born in the small rural locality of Armadouro, Pampilhosa da Serra, he moved to Paris at age 10 with his emigrant parents. He lived there for 20 years. Carreira has had several hits since 1991, becoming during the 2000s one of the most renowned and best-selling popular singers in his home country. Tony Carreira sold out concerts in one of the largest venues in Portugal, the Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon, and also at the Olympia in Paris.
Hugo Almeida
Hugo Miguel Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
Marisa Matias
Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias is a Portuguese sociologist and Member of the European Parliament, elected for the first time in 2009 and re-elected in 2014. She currently sits on the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committees. She is also Chairwoman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the Mashreq countries. Between 2010 and 2016 she was Vice-President of the Party of the European Left.
Pedro Passos Coelho
Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 118th Prime Minister of Portugal, in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018. Passos Coelho started very early in politics, becoming the national leader of the youth branch of the PSD. He led the XIX Governo Constitucional and the XX Governo Constitucional as head of government from 21 June 2011 to 26 November 2015. His term in office oversaw the application of the Troika bailout to Portugal and was marked by a wave of widespread austerity in both Portugal and abroad.
Chico Conceição
Francisco 'Chico' Fernandes Conceição is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Porto B.
Miguel Poiares Maduro
Miguel Poiares Maduro is a Portuguese academic and politician. He was the Portuguese Minister for Regional Development from April 2013 to October 2015. Formerly, he was Director of the Global Governance Program and professor of law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Poiares Maduro was also visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at Yale University in the United States of America.