List of Famous people born in Porto, Portugal
Leonor Beleza
Maria Leonor Couceiro Pizarro Beleza GCC, is a Portuguese politician.
Luciana Abreu
Luciana Abreu Sodré Costa Real is a Portuguese singer, actress and television host. Luciana 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 character in 2006 for Floribella as Flor Valente.
Jaime Pacheco
Jaime Moreira Pacheco is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a central midfielder, and is a current manager.
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, GCIP, is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.
João Loureiro
João Eduardo Pinto de Loureiro was the president of the board (chairman) of the Portuguese football club Boavista FC, from the 2nd January 2013 until the 28th December 2018. Now he is the President of the General Council of the club. He had previously held the office between 1997 and 2007, when he was the most successful president of the board of Boavista's history: he was the youngest football president to be champion ever in Portugal, the year in which he was considered the best chairman of Portugal by the newspaper Record. He also won the Honour Panther prize and the Gold Panther prize. During his mandates as President (Chairman) of Boavista FC, the club won all the Portuguese competitions of professional football at the time, as well as all the national competitions u-19, and was twice Vice-Champion of Portugal. Internationally, the club participated three times in the UEFA Champions League and went to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. Also, it was during his mandate that the modern and sophisticated stadium Estádio do Bessa Século XXI was built; it has 30,000 seats and was the location of several matches for the 2004 UEFA European Championship.
Fernanda Ribeiro
Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH, is a long-distance runner born in Penafiel, Portugal. The pinnacle of her career was at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she won the women's 10000 m gold medal, establishing a new Olympic record of 31:01.63. Her victory gave Portugal its third Olympic gold medal.
Sérgio Godinho
Sérgio de Barros Godinho OL is a Portuguese singer-songwriter, composer, actor, poet and author.
Fernando Gomes
Fernando Mendes Soares Gomes is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
Paulo Jorge Rebelo Duarte
Paulo Jorge Rebelo Duarte is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central defender, and a current manager.
Tiago Monteiro
Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro is a Portuguese professional racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup, driving a Honda Civic TCR for Münnich Motorsport. He competed in Formula One between 2005 and 2006 for the Jordan Grand Prix, Midland and Spyker MF1 teams – all different iterations of the same team as it was bought by new owners during a two-year stint as part of the Formula One paddock. He is the only Portuguese driver to have scored a Formula One podium finish.