List of Famous people born in Portugal

Nuno Albertino Varela Tavares is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Benfica in Primeira Liga as a defender.

Ivan Ricardo Neves Abreu Cavaleiro is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Fulham. Mainly a winger, he can also play as a forward.

Rúben Afonso Borges Semedo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Greek club Olympiacos as a central defender or a defensive midfielder.

Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça is a Portuguese child who went missing on 4 March 1998 in Lousada, northern Portugal. Mendonça was 11 years old and riding his bicycle outside near his home when he disappeared. The subsequent police investigation was criticized by both the media and by the missing boy's family. Mendonça's whereabouts remain unknown, and he was declared legally dead in 2019.

Maria Antónia Palla is a feminist, journalist and writer who was one of the first female journalists in Portugal. She played an important role in the legalization of abortion in the country, having been taken to court for a television programme she produced on the topic. In 2004 Palla was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Liberty.

David Pereira da Costa is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ligue 1 club Lens.

Eduardo Arménio do Nascimento Cabrita is a Portuguese legal professional and politician, acting as Minister Assistant in the cabinet of Prime Minister António Costa since 26 November 2015. He was a member of parliament from 2002 to 2015, before taking office as minister in the Government.

Rui Fernando da Silva Rio, GCIH is a Portuguese politician and former Mayor of Porto. On 13 January 2018, he was elected President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) with 54% of the votes, in which position he acts as the Leader of the Opposition.

Fábio Daniel Soares Silva is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.

João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa, known as João Sousa, is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who is ranked 77th in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), as of 28 September 2020. A top-100 player since July 2013 and with three ATP World Tour singles titles, Sousa is regarded as the best Portuguese tennis player of all time. He is nicknamed Conquistador for sharing his birthplace with Afonso I of Portugal, the country's first king. Sousa is coached by former player Frederico Marques and practices at the BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona. Sousa began playing tennis at the age of seven. After winning national youth titles, he decided at the age of fifteen to invest in his career by moving to Barcelona. After an unimpressive junior career, Sousa turned professional in 2008 and won his first singles tournament in 2009. He started playing in the ATP Challenger Tour in 2008, winning his first tournament at this level in 2011. Sousa debuted in the top-level ATP World Tour in 2008, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Malaysian Open, where he became the first Portuguese player to win a World Tour-level singles tournament.