List of Famous people born in Leiria, Portugal

Primavera Ácrata Saiz das Neves commonly known as Primavera das Neves, was a Portuguese translator, journalist and writer, who worked and lived most of her life in Brazil, having signed most of her works as Vera Neves Pedroso.

José João da Conceição Gonçalves Mattoso is a Portuguese medievalist and university professor.

Telma Santos is a Portuguese badminton player. She competed for Portugal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Santos is the niece of Fernando Silva, a badminton player who also represented Portugal in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

António José Baptista Cardoso e Cunha was a Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) politician. He was a government minister in the 1970s and 1980s, and then from 1986 to 1992 he served as Portugal's first European Commissioner.

Carolina Loureiro is a Portuguese actress, model and presenter, best known for playing Nazaré Gomes in SIC's soap opera Nazaré.

Ricardo Costa was a Portuguese film director. He wrote texts on cinema, vision, and language.

António Campos was one of the pioneer filmmakers of visual anthropology in Portugal. Mainly using pure documentary techniques, he shot ethnographic films and tried docufiction. As well as in fictional films, he used the methods of direct cinema to portrait the life of ancient human communities (ethnofiction) of his country.