List of Famous people born in Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Francisco António Machado Mota Castro Trincão is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club Barcelona and the Portugal national team.

Pedro Lomba Neto is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Portugal national team.

António Manuel Seixas Sampaio da Nóvoa GCIP ComRB is a Portuguese professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and former Rector of the same university. He was defeated as a candidate in the January 2016 Portuguese presidential election.

Tiago Cardoso Mendes OIH, known simply as Tiago, is a Portuguese football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.

Fernando Ismael Fernandes Pimenta GOIH ComM is a Portuguese sprint canoeist who has won medals at the Olympic Games, World and European championships.

Tiago Brandão Rodrigues is a Portuguese politician serving as Minister of Education since 26 November 2015. He has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Coimbra. Rodrigues was elected by the Viana do Castelo constituency to the Assembly of the Republic in 2015.

Paulo Alexandre Baptista Teixeira de Morais is a Portuguese professor and politician. He is the vice-president of the national chapter of the NGO Transparency International. Former deputy mayor of Porto and a public voice against corruption in Portuguese politics, he ran to the presidential elections of 2016. Paulo de Morais, whose campaign focused on the fight against corruption, obtained more than 100,000 votes.

José Gomes Temporão is a Brazilian public health physician and politician, formerly of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, who later joined the Brazilian Socialist Party. He was Brazilian Minister of Health from 2007 to 2010, during the second term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration.

Joaquim de Magalhães Fernandes Barreiros, known professionally as Quim Barreiros, is a Portuguese Pimba music writer, singer and accordion player, more known for his double entendre songs. Among his biggest hits are Bacalhau à Portuguesa [Portuguese Style Cod] (1986), A Garagem da Vizinha [The Neighbour's Garage] (2000) and A Cabritinha [The Little Goat] (2004).

José Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira was a Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop.