List of Famous people born in Portugal
Custódio Castro
Custódio Miguel Dias de Castro, known simply as Custódio, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and a current manager.
Tiago Machado
Tiago José Pinto Machado is a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Efapel.
Lara Li
Ana Moura
Ana Luisa Flôr Moura is a Portuguese badminton player from the Club Sports Madeira. Moura was the National Junior champion in the girls' singles and doubles event in 2004, and also in the girls' singles, doubles and mixed doubles event in 2005. At the National senior championships, she won once in the women's singles, three times in the women's doubles and two times in the mixed doubles event. In 2007, Moura won the singles title at the Iran and Algeria International tournaments, and in the doubles event at the Ecuador and Mauritius International tournaments. In the same year, she competed at the 2007 BWF World Championships in the women's singles, and was defeated in the second round by Xie Xingfang, of China, 21-2, 21-7. Moura also qualified to compete at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, but she was defeated by Jeanine Cicognini of Switzerland in the first round with the score 21-9, 21-13. Ana Moura is back on court. At the season 2018/2019 she is playing at Secção de Badminton - Associação Académica de Coimbra.
Nuno Gama
João Benta
João Ricardo Cardoso Benta is a Portuguese cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Rádio Popular–Boavista.
João de Deus Pinheiro
João de Deus Rogado Salvador Pinheiro, GCC GCIH, is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.
Álvaro José Brilhante Laborinho Lúcio
Jorge Filipe Monteiro
Jorge Filipe Monteiro dos Santos Lourenço, known as Monteiro, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Cypriot club Othellos Athienou FC as a winger.
Alberto João Jardim
Alberto João Cardoso Gonçalves Jardim, GCC, GCIH is a Portuguese politician who was the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal, from 1978 to 2015. He is a controversial political figure in Portugal.