List of Famous people born in Portugal

Fernando Lopes dos Santos Varela is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays for Greek club PAOK FC and the Cape Verde national team mainly as a central defender.

Fernando Eugénio Pacheco Mamede, ComM is a former Portuguese athlete, a long distance running specialist. He was born in Beja. Together with Carlos Lopes, he is one of the best Portuguese male long distance runners ever, and held the 10,000 metres world record (1984-1989) with a time of 27:13.81 until bettered by Arturo Barrios of Mexico. He also competed at three Olympic Games. However, he never won any high-level competition as he dealt very badly with pressure.

Mário Costa Martins de Carvalho is a Portuguese playwright and novelist.

Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH is a Portuguese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Continental team LA Alumínios–LA Sport. He was a domestique in the 2007, 2009 and 2010 Tour de France and won the silver medal for Portugal in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Luísa Costa Gomes is a Portuguese chronicler, librettist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Paulo Sérgio Bento Brito, known as Paulo Sérgio, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a forward, and is the current manager of Portimonense SC.

Mário Jorge Faria da Costa is a Portuguese former professional cyclist, who competed professionally between 2008 and 2010 and then again from 2013 to 2016. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.