List of Famous people born in Portugal

Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz is a Portuguese singer and actress. Moniz represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and has released four music albums to date. She has also acted in several television shows, in theatre, and in films, most prominently Love Actually.

Hugo Miguel Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

Giullia Buscacio Vieira is a Portuguese Brazilian actress.

José Manuel Ferreira de Morais is a Portuguese football coach.

Mariana van Zeller is a Peabody Award-winning Portuguese journalist and correspondent for National Geographic Channel. She is also chief correspondent for Fusion and is a former correspondent for the Vanguard documentary series on the former Current TV.

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.

Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, GCL is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and a candidate to the 2006 Portuguese presidential election. He was a presidential candidate, in the 2011 presidential election, this time being backed up by the Left Bloc and the Socialist Party. Alegre was awarded the Camões Prize in 2017.

Ricardo Manuel Andrade e Silva Sá Pinto is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a forward, and is the current manager of Turkish club Gaziantep.

Hélder Manuel Marques Postiga OIH is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC, GColL, is an economist who was the 19th President of Portugal, in office from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016. He had been previously Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 November 1985 to 28 October 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since António de Oliveira Salazar, and he was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union.