Culture of Portugal II

Some important personalities from Portugal

António de Oliveira Salazar – Statesman, dictator between 1932 and 1968

Álvaro Cunhal – Politician

Aristides de Sousa Mendes – Diplomat

Afonso I – King

Luís Vaz de Camões – Poet

John II – King

Henry the Navigator – Prince

Fernando Pessoa – Poet

Marquês de Pombal – Politician

Vasco da Gama – Explorer

Salgueiro Maia  - Military chief

Mário Soares- Former President of the Republic

Saint Anthony of Lisbon - Saint

Amália Rodrigues - Fado singer

Eusébio - Football player

Francisco Sá Carneiro - Politician

Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa - President of Futebol Clube do Porto

Nuno Álvares Pereira - Strategist and general

José Mourinho - Football team manager

Agostinho da Silva - Philosopher

Egas Moniz - Doctor, first Portuguese to win a Nobel Prize

Cavaco Silva - President of the Portuguese Republic, former Prime Minister

Humberto Delgado - Military officer and politician

Luís Figo - Football player

Father António Vieira - Writer and preacher

Ferdinand Magellan - Navigator

John I of Portugal - 10th king of Portugal

António Damásio - Scientist

Manuel I of Portugal - 14th king of Portugal

José Saramago - Nobel-laureate writer

Elizabeth of Aragon - The Saint Queen, queen consort of Portugal

Pedro Álvares Cabral - Navigator who discovered Brazil

Álvaro Siza Vieira - Architect

Mariza - Fado singer

Rosa Mota - Athlete

Cristiano Ronaldo - Football player

Bocage - Poet

Pedro Hispano - Pope John XXI

Damião de Góis - Humanist writer and humanist

Paula Rego - Painter