List of Famous people born in Portugal
Pedro Soares
Pedro Nuno de Almeida Soares is a Portuguese judoka.
Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Miguel Vicente Esteves Cardoso is a Portuguese writer, translator, critic and journalist. He is a well-known monarchist.
João Canijo
João Canijo is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His 2011 film Blood of My Blood was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Carlos Montez Melancia
Carlos Montez Melancia was a Portuguese politician who was the Governor of Macau from 9 July 1987 to 22 April 1992.
Valete
Keidje Torres Lima is a Portuguese language political hip hop artist, known professionally as Valete. that has enjoyed critical success in his home country of Portugal.
Rita Rato
Rita Rato Araújo Fonseca is a Portuguese politician, who has been elected to the Assembly of the Republic since 2009. She has a bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the New University of Lisbon and is a member of the Portuguese Communist Party.
Maria da Assunção Esteves
Maria da Assunção Andrade Esteves is a Portuguese politician who was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal from 2011 to 2015. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group, from 2004 to 2009.
Salvador Agra
Salvador José Milhazes Agra is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for C.D. Tondela as a winger.
Francisco Guerreiro
Francisco Guerreiro is a Portuguese politician currently serving as an independent Member of the European Parliament for Portugal, having been elected whilst standing as a candidate for People Animals Nature.
António Vitorino
António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino is a Portuguese lawyer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS).