List of Famous people born in Portugal
Jorge Jesus
Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Benfica.
Carlos Carvalhal
Carlos Augusto Soares da Costa Faria Carvalhal is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a centre-back, and is the current manager of S.C. Braga.
Bruno Lage
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento, known as Bruno Lage, is a Portuguese football manager who last managed Primeira Liga club Benfica.
André Villas-Boas
Luís André de Pina Cabral e Villas-Boas, known as André Villas-Boas is a Portuguese football manager, who is currently the manager of Ligue 1 club Marseille. He is one of a growing number of top-level managers who have never played football professionally and one of the few managers to have never played beyond youth football.
João Félix
João Félix Sequeira is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Portugal national team.
Salvador Sobral
Salvador Thiam Vilar Braamcamp Sobral ComM is a Portuguese singer, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 for Portugal with the song "Amar pelos dois," written and composed by his sister, Luísa Sobral. In doing so, he gave Portugal its first ever win in the contest since its debut in 1964, ending the longest winless run by a country in Eurovision history. Sobral and his entry hold the Eurovision record for the highest-scoring winner, having earned a total of 758 points under the current voting system, after winning both the jury vote and televote.
Aure Atika
Aure Atika is a French actress, writer and director.
Alba Baptista
Alba Baptista is a Portuguese-Brazilian actress. She began her career in Portugal with the telenovela Jardins Proibidos (2014–2015). She then starred in multiple Portuguese telenovelas and series such as A Impostora, Filha da Lei, A Criação, and Jogo Duplo.
Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was active from the 1930s on. Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", Miranda is known for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films. As a young woman, she designed hats in a boutique before making her first recordings with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of "Taí ", written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her to stardom in Brazil as the foremost interpreter of samba.
Lio
Lio is a Luso-Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s.