100 Notable alumni of
University of Coimbra
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The University of Coimbra is 283rd in the world, 99th in Europe, and 2nd in Portugal by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Coimbra sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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António de Oliveira Salazar
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomistpedagogue
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António de Oliveira Salazar GCTE GCSE GColIH GCIC was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Portugal's President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the regime as the corporatist Estado Novo ("New State"), with himself as a dictator. The regime he created lasted until 1974, making it one of the longest-lived authoritarian regimes in modern Europe.
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Luís de Camões
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- writerplaywrightpoetmilitary personnel
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Luís Vaz de Camões, sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Milton, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His collection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost during his life. The influence of his masterpiece Os Lusíadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camões".
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Agostinho Neto
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- political prisonerpoliticianpoetphysician writer
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António Agostinho Neto was an Angolan communist politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974). Until his death, he led the MPLA in the civil war (1975–2002). Known also for his literary activities, he is considered Angola's preeminent poet. His birthday is celebrated as National Heroes' Day, a public holiday in Angola.
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António Egas Moniz
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- neurologistpoliticianphysicianneuroscientistneurosurgeon
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António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz GCSE GCIB, known as Egas Moniz ( Portuguese: [ˈɛɣɐʒ muˈniʃ]), was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure leucotomy—better known today as lobotomy—for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Walter Rudolf Hess).
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Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
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- politiciandiplomatministerurban plannercivil servant
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D. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras, known as the Marquis of Pombal (Portuguese: Marquês de Pombal [mɐɾˈkeʒ ðɨ põˈbal]), was a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who despotically ruled the Portuguese Empire from 1750 to 1777 as chief minister to King Joseph I. A strong advocate for absolutism, and the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Pombal led Portugal's recovery from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and reformed the kingdom's administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical institutions. During his lengthy ministerial career, Pombal accumulated and exercised autocratic power. His cruel persecution of the Jesuits and Portuguese lower classes led him to be known as Nero of Trafaria (Nero da Trafaria), after a village he ordered to be burned with all its inhabitants inside, for refusing to follow his orders.
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José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
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- politicianpoetmineralogistuniversity teacherdiplomat
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José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire.
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- In 1908 studied jurisprudence
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- writerdiplomatlawyer
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches GCC OL was a Portuguese consul during World War II.
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Luís Castro
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Studied physics
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
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Luís Manuel Ribeiro de Castro is a Portuguese football manager and former player who played as a right-back.
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José Maria de Eça de Queirós
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Studied law
- Occupations
- writernovelistjournalistdiplomat
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José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
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Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
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- entrepreneursports executive
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Jorge Nuno de Lima Pinto da Costa is the former president of Portuguese sports club Porto from 1982 until 2024. He is the president with most titles won (69) and most days in charge in world football. He was involved in the Portuguese football corruption scandal Apito Dourado, from which he was eventually absolved in April 2009 after receiving a two-year suspension and a €10,000 fine in May 2008.
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Gonçalves Dias
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- journalistpoetethnologistuniversity teacherhistorian
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Antônio Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "Indianism", he is famous for writing "Canção do exílio" (arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature), the short narrative poem I-Juca-Pirama, the unfinished epic Os Timbiras, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of Native Brazilian languages and folklore.
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Joseph of Anchieta
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- writercomposerteacherCatholic priestlinguist
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José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its European discovery, Anchieta was one of the founders of São Paulo in 1554 and of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. He is the first playwright, the first grammarian and the first poet born in the Canary Islands, and is considered the father of Brazilian literature.
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Almeida Garrett
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- politiciandiplomatplaywrightpoetwriter
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João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major promoter of theater in Portugal he is considered the greatest figure of Portuguese Romanticism and a true revolutionary and humanist. He proposed the construction of the D. Maria II National Theatre and the creation of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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- philosopherlawyerwritersociologistconferencier
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos GOSE is a sociologist, Professor emeritus at the Department of Sociology of the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, and Director Emeritus of the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. An outspoken sympathizer and avowed supporter of the Bloco de Esquerda party, he is regarded as one of the most prominent Portuguese living left-wing intellectuals.
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Gregório de Matos
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- composerpoetpoet lawyerlawyerwriter
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Gregório de Matos e Guerra was a famous Portuguese Baroque poet from Colonial Brazil. Although he wrote many lyrical and religious poems, he was better known for his satirical ones, most of them criticizing the Catholic Church, earning him the nickname "Boca do Inferno" (Hell's Mouth).
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José Afonso
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- politicianrecording artistsinger-songwritercomposerrevolutionary
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José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known professionally as José Afonso and also popularly known as Zeca Afonso, was a Portuguese singer-songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Portugal's folk and protest music scene. His music played a significant role in the resistance against the dictatorial Estado Novo regime, making him an icon in Portugal.
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Miguel Torga
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- physicianpoetphysician writerwriterplaywright
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Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha (São Martinho de Anta, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, 12 August 1907 – Coimbra, 17 January 1995), is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, a genre in which he is accounted a master, theater and a 16 volume diary, written from 1932 to 1993.
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Antero de Quental
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- philosopherwritertranslatorpoet
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Antero Tarquínio de Quental was a Portuguese poet, philosopher, and writer. Quental is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his generation and is recognized as one of the most influential Portuguese language artists of all time. His name is often mentioned alongside Luís Vaz de Camões, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Fernando Pessoa.
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Artur Jorge
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Artur Jorge Braga de Melo Teixeira, commonly known as Artur Jorge, was a Portuguese football player and manager.
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Marta Temido
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- politician
- Biography
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Marta Alexandra Fartura Braga Temido de Almeida Simões is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Health under Prime Minister António Costa, between 15 October 2018 and 10 September 2022. She submitted her resignation from the post on 30 August 2022 and ended her functions on 10 September 2022.
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Joana Amaral Dias
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- psychiatristpolitician
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Joana Beatriz Nunes Vicente Amaral Dias is a Portuguese politician and clinical psychologist. She was member of the Portuguese Parliament for the Left Bloc (2002–2005). She is the National Democratic Alternative candidate to the 2026 Portuguese presidential election.
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Teófilo Braga
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- philosopherpoliticianwriterplaywrightanthropologist
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Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga was a Portuguese writer, playwright, politician and the leader of the Republican Provisional Government after the overthrow of King Manuel II, as well as the second elected president of the First Portuguese Republic, after the resignation of President Manuel de Arriaga.
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Turibius of Mongrovejo
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- Catholic priestinquisitor
- Biography
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Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima from 1579 until his death.
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Bartolomeu de Gusmão
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- aircraft pilotCatholic priestnaturalistinventor
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Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a Portuguese priest and naturalist from Colonial Brazil who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to understand the operational principles of the hot air balloon and to build a functional prototype of such device. He is also one of the main characters in Nobel Prize-winning José Saramago's Baltasar and Blimunda.
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António, Prior of Crato
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- king
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António, Prior of Crato, sometimes called "The Determined", "The Fighter", "The Independentist" or "The Resistant", was a grandson of King Manuel I of Portugal who claimed the Portuguese throne during the 1580 dynastic crisis. According to some historians, he was King of Portugal for 33 days in 1580. Philip II of Spain prevailed in the succession struggle, but António claimed the throne until 1583. He was a disciple of Bartholomew of Braga.
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José Cid
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- singersongwriter
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José Albano Cid de Ferreira Tavares is a Portuguese singer, composer and record producer. Internationally, Cid is best known for his 1978 progressive rock album 10,000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte and for representing Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the song "Um grande, grande amor".
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Sidónio Pais
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- soldierpoliticiandiplomatuniversity teachermilitary personnel
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Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais CavC OA CavA was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divisive figures in modern Portuguese history, he was referred to by the writer Fernando Pessoa as the "President-King", a description that stuck in later years and symbolizes his regime.
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Marisa Matias
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- politiciansociologist
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Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias is a Portuguese sociologist and politician. She is a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024. She was also a Member of the European Parliament, between 2009 and 2024. She currently seated on the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committees. She was also Chairwoman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the Mashreq countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria). Between 2010 and 2016 she was Vice-President of the Party of the European Left.
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Manuel de Arriaga
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- politicianwriterpoetlawyer
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Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue was a Portuguese lawyer, the first attorney-general and the first elected president of the First Portuguese Republic, following the deposition of King Manuel II of Portugal and a Republican Provisional Government headed by Teófilo Braga (who would succeed him in the post following his resignation).
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Christopher Clavius
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Studied in 1556
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- mathematicianastronomer
- Biography
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Christopher Clavius, SJ was a Jesuit German mathematician, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by Aloysius Lilius, that is known as the Gregorian calendar. Clavius would later write defences and an explanation of the reformed calendar, including an emphatic acknowledgement of Lilius' work. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe and his textbooks were used for astronomical education for over fifty years in and even out of Europe.
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Mário de Sá-Carneiro
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- poetwriter
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Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the best known authors of the "Geração D'Orpheu", and is usually considered their greatest poet, after Fernando Pessoa.
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Bernardino Machado
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- politician
- Biography
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Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães, GCTE, GCL, was a Portuguese political figure, the third and eighth president of Portugal (1915–1917, 1925–1926).
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Manuel Alegre
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- revolutionarypoliticianwriterpoet
- Biography
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Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte GCL GCSE GCCa is a Portuguese poet and politician. He was a candidate to the presidency of the Portuguese Republic in 2006 and 2011, finishing in second place in both elections. For his literary work, he was awarded the Camões Prize in 2017.
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Manuel da Nóbrega
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- philosopherwriterCatholic priestmissionary
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Manuel da Nóbrega, SJ was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and first Provincial of the Society of Jesus in colonial Brazil. Together with José de Anchieta, he was very influential in the early history of Brazil and participated in the founding of several cities, such as Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, as well as many Jesuit colleges and seminaries.
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Cláudio Manuel da Costa
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in law
- Occupations
- musicianwriterpoetlawyer
- Biography
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Cláudio Manuel da Costa was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of Neoclassicism in Brazil. He wrote under the pen name Glauceste Satúrnio, and his most famous work is the epic poem Vila Rica, that tells the history of the homonymous city, nowadays called Ouro Preto.
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Luís Marques Mendes
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Luís Manuel Gonçalves Marques Mendes, GCIH is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, and a former Leader of the Social Democratic Party.
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Luis de Molina
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- economistuniversity teachertheologianphilosopherjurist
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Luis de Molina SJ was a Spanish Jesuit Catholic priest, jurist, economist and theologian renowned for his contributions to philosophy and economics within the framework of the second scholasticism.
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John de Brito
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- Catholic priestmissionary
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John de Britto, SJ was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and an evangelist, often called "the Portuguese St. Francis Xavier" by Indian Catholics. He is also called "the John the Baptist of India."
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Vasco Gonçalves
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Studied in 1940
- Occupations
- revolutionarypoliticianmilitary personnelminister
- Biography
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General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves OA was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975.
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Paulo Rangel
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- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by Luís Montenegro.
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Vergílio Ferreira
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Vergílio António Ferreira, JOSE was a Portuguese writer, essayist, professor and a key figure in Portuguese-language literature. His prolific literary output, comprising works of fiction (novels, short stories and novellas), philosophical essays and literary diaries, are generally divided into neorealism, dominant in Portuguese fiction at the time, and existentialism.
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Tomás António Gonzaga
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- writerpoetjuristpolitical activist
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Tomás António Gonzaga was a Portuguese poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic writers in colonial Brazil, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly "Vila Rica"), as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia. He wrote under the pen name Dirceu.
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Fábio Lucindo
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- voice actoractor
- Biography
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Fábio Lucindo is a Brazilian actor and presenter. He specializes in dubbing cartoons, anime, films, and video games in the Portuguese language. Lucindo was born in São Paulo, and is perhaps most known for voicing Ash Ketchum in Pokémon from 1999 to 2015 and Fishtronaut in the eponymous television series.
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João Franco
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- politicianminister
- Biography
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João Franco Ferreira Pinto Castelo-Branco, GCTE was a Portuguese politician, minister, 43rd Minister for Treasury Affairs (14 January 1890) and 47th Prime Minister (19 May 1906 – 4 February 1908).
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Eduardo Lourenço
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- essayistliterary criticuniversity teacherwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Eduardo Lourenço de Faria GCSE GCIH GCL, best known as Eduardo Lourenço, was a Portuguese essayist, professor, critic, philosopher and writer.
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Afonso Costa
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Afonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and republican politician.
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José Mário Branco
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- recording artistsingeractorrevolutionarysinger-songwriter
- Biography
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José Mário Branco was a Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer.
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Sam Hou Fai
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- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Sam Hou Fai is a Macau judge and politician who is currently the Chief Executive of Macau since 2024 and previously served as the 1st President of the Court of Final Appeal of Macau, the highest court in Macau, China.
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António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro
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- businesspersonentomologist
- Biography
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António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, also known as Monteiro dos Milhões (Monteiro the Millionaire), was a Brazilian-Portuguese businessman, collector, bibliophile, entomologist and Freemason. His largesse created the Quinta da Regaleira.
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Manuel Teixeira Gomes
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- writerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Manuel Teixeira Gomes, GCSE was a Portuguese politician and writer who served as the seventh president of Portugal between 5 October 1923 and 11 December 1925.
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José Régio
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- writerplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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José Maria dos Reis Pereira, better known by the pen name José Régio ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ʁɛ.ʒju] zhoo-ZEH REH-zhyoo), was a Portuguese writer who spent most of his life in Portalegre (1929 to 1962). He was the brother of Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira, a painter and illustrator.
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António José de Almeida
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- politicianphysicianminister
- Biography
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António José de Almeida, GCTE, GCC, GCA, GCSE, was a Portuguese politician who served as the sixth president of Portugal from 1919 to 1923.
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Alberto João Jardim
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- politicianlawyerjournalistteacher
- Biography
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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.
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Herberto Hélder
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- journalistpoet lawyerpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Herberto Helder de Oliveira was a Portuguese poet often considered the most important Portuguese poet of the second half of the 20th century.
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Guerra Junqueiro
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Graduated with law
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistdiplomatpoetlawyer
- Biography
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Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro was a Portuguese top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work helped inspire the creation of the Portuguese First Republic. Junqueiro wrote highly satiric poems criticizing conservatism, romanticism, and the Church leading up to the Portuguese Revolution of 1910. He was one of Europe's greatest poets. Junqueiro studied law at the University of Coimbra.
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Camilo Pessanha
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Camilo de Almeida Pessanha was a Portuguese symbolist poet.
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António Marinho e Pinto
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyerjournalist
- Biography
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António de Sousa Marinho e Pinto is a Portuguese lawyer and former journalist. He was president of the Portuguese Bar Association from 2008 to 2013 and is well known for his controversial speeches. In 2014, he ran for the election for the European Parliament as top candidate for the Earth Party (MPT) and succeeded in being elected, along with the second candidate of the list, José Inácio Faria. He left MPT to found his own party, the Democratic Republican Party, being its first leader until 2020.
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José Norton de Matos
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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José Maria Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese general and politician.
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António José da Silva
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- composerpoetwriterplaywrightjurist
- Biography
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António José da Silva Coutinho was a Brazilian-Portuguese dramatist born in colonial Brazil, known as "the Jew" (O Judeu). The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio; António José da Silva Coutinho in Hebrew is אנטוניו ז'וזה דה סילווה.
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda
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- writerplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda was a Portuguese poet of the Renaissance.
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João de Deus
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- writerpedagoguepoet
- Biography
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João de Deus de Nogueira Ramos, better known as João de Deus, was a Portuguese poet, pedagogue and editor who turned his attention to Portuguese educational problems and wrote the famous didactic book Cartilha Maternal (1876), used to teach the Portuguese language across the country during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Santa Rita Durão
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- friarpoetwriterlibrarianorator
- Biography
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José de Santa Rita Durão OSA, known simply as Santa Rita Durão, was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of "Indianism" in Brazilian literature, with his epic poem Caramuru.
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Bernardo the Japanese
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- missionary
- Biography
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Bernardo the Japanese was an early Japanese Christian convert of the 16th century, born in Kagoshima, and the first Japanese person to set foot in Europe. Bernardo was one of the first converts of Saint Francis Xavier, and one of his two disciples. Bernardo was baptized in 1549. He followed Xavier in Japan and India.
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José Pedro Aguiar Branco
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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José Pedro Correia de Aguiar-Branco is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been the President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024, in the 16th Legislature. Previously he served as Minister of Justice from 2004 to 2005 and Minister of National Defence from 2011 to 2015.
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Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná was a Brazilian politician, diplomat, judge and monarchist. Paraná was born to a noble family in São Carlos do Jacuí, in what was then the captaincy of Minas Gerais. After attending the University of Coimbra in Portugal and having returned to Brazil, Paraná was appointed a judge in 1826 and later elevated to appellate court justice. In 1830, he was elected to represent Minas Gerais in the Chamber of Deputies; he was re-elected in 1834 and 1838, and held the post until 1841.
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Alexandre de Serpa Pinto
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- military personnelexplorer
- Biography
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Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Viscount of Serpa Pinto was a Portuguese explorer of southern Africa and a colonial administrator.
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António de Almeida Santos
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- writerpolitician
- Biography
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António de Almeida Santos GCC, GCIH, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, politician and government minister.
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Teixeira de Pascoaes
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos, better known by his pen name Teixeira de Pascoaes, was a Portuguese poet. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Tiago Brandão Rodrigues
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tiago Brandão Rodrigues is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Education from 26 November 2015 until 30 March 2022. 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 and 2022.
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Maria de Belém Roseira
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maria de Belém Roseira Martins Coelho Henriques de Pina GCC is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Health from 1995 to 1999, Minister for Equality from 1999 to 2000, and President of the Socialist Party from 2011 to 2014. She is informally known as Maria de Belém.
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Matias Aires
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- writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Matias Aires Ramos da Silva de Eça was a brasilo-Portuguese philosopher and writer. He immigrated to Portugal in late 1716. Born in colony Brazil, he wrote works in French and Latin and was also a translator of Latin classics. It is considered by many to be the biggest name in 18th century Portuguese Language Philosophy.
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Ana Drago
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Ana Isabel Drago Lobato is a Portuguese sociologist and a politician of the Left Bloc party.
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Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, GCC, GCSE, GCIH was a Portuguese cardinal who served as Patriarch of Lisbon from 1929 to 1971. He was the last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope Pius XI, and his cardinalate of forty-eight years was the longest since the fifty-eight-year cardinalate of Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal-Duke of York which lasted from 1747 to 1805. He took part in three conclaves: in 1939, 1958 and 1963. Although there were seven other cardinals elevated by Pius XI who participated in the 1963 conclave, Cerejeira was the longest-serving living cardinal from the death of Jozef-Ernest van Roey on 6 August 1961 until his own death almost exactly sixteen years later.
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Pedro de Araújo Lima
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- politicianjournalistjurist
- Biography
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Pedro de Araújo Lima, Marquis of Olinda was a politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. His long political career spanned the reigns of John VI, Pedro I and Pedro II. He was also one of the founders of the Brazilian Conservative Party.
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António Feliciano de Castilho
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Graduated with law
- Occupations
- writerpoetjournalistlinguist
- Biography
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António Feliciano de Castilho, 1st Viscount of Castilho was a Portuguese writer.
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Pedro Cunha Lima
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- lawyerpolitician
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Pedro Oliveira Cunha Lima is a Brazilian politician as well as a lawyer and writer. He has spent his political career representing Paraíba, having served in the state legislature from 2014 to 2019.
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Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela
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- ministerpoliticianmilitary personneldiplomat
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D. Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Faial and Palmela was one of the most important Portuguese diplomats and statesmen in the first half of the 19th century. He also served as the country's first modern Prime Minister (with the title of "President of the Council of Ministers").
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António Maria da Silva
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- engineerauthorministerrevolutionarypolitician
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António Maria da Silva, GCTE was a Portuguese politician. An engineer, he was a prominent member of the Portuguese Republican Party. He was Prime Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) for four times, during the Portuguese First Republic. After his party's victory in the legislative elections of 8 November 1925, he was invited to form a government. He led a great campaign against President Manuel Teixeira Gomes, that forced him to resign. He was the last Prime Minister of the 1st Republic, resigning two days after the 28 May 1926 military movement.
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Graça Fonseca
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Graduated with master's degree
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- politiciansociologist
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Graça Maria da Fonseca Caetano Gonçalves is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister António Costa since 15 October 2018. Fonseca graduated with a law degree from the University of Lisbon, has a master's degree in economics from the University of Coimbra, and obtained a PhD in sociology from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. From 26 November 2015 to 15 October 2018, Fonseca served as Secretary of State Assistant and of Administrative Modernisation.
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Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem
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- diplomatpolitician
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Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem was an Angolan politician who was the First Vice-President of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament. He was a member of the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and served as Prime Minister of Angola twice during the 1990s.
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Fernando Goncalves Namora
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- Studied in 1942
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- physicianpoetessayistphysician writerwriter
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Fernando Namora, with the full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora was a Portuguese writer and medical doctor. Namora was born in Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra District and died in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Cândido José de Araújo Viana, Marquis of Sapucaí
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- writerpoliticianjudge
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Cândido José de Araújo Viana, Marquis of Sapucaí was a Brazilian politician and judge.
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Vitorino Nemésio
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- writerjournalistpoet
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Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva was a Portuguese poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel Mau Tempo No Canal (literally, Bad Weather in the Channel but published in an English translation as Stormy Isles – An Azorean Tale), as well as a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.
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Constança Urbano de Sousa
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- academicpolitician
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Maria Constança Dias Urbano de Sousa is a Portuguese jurist and the country's former Minister of Internal Administration.
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Eugénio de Castro
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- writerpedagoguepoet
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Eugénio de Castro e Almeida was a Portuguese writer and a poet. He was a professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra and attended Escola Normal Superior in the same university.
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António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar
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- judgepoliticianmilitary personneldiplomat
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António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Count and 1st Marquis of Tomar was a Portuguese 19th century statesman.
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Manuel Alves Branco, 2nd Viscount of Caravelas
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- judgepoliticianeconomist
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Manuel Alves Branco, the 2nd Viscount of Caravelas (7 June 1797 – 13 July 1855) was a Brazilian politician, economist, and magistrate during the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889). He held the positions of general deputy, minister of justice, minister of finance, senator and was also the first de jure Prime Minister of Brazil.
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Joaquim António de Aguiar
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- politicianministermilitary personnel
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Joaquim António de Aguiar was a Portuguese politician. He held several relevant political posts during the Portuguese constitutional monarchy, namely as leader of the Cartists and later of the Partido Regenerador (English: Regenerator Party). He was three times prime minister of Portugal: between 1841 and 1842, in 1860 and finally from 1865 to 1868, when he entered a coalition with the Partido Progressista (English: Progressive Party), in what became known as the Governo de Fusão (English: Fusion Government).
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António Ferreira
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- writerpoliticianpoet
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António Ferreira was a Portuguese poet and the foremost representative of the classical school, founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work, Castro, is the first tragedy in Portuguese, and the second in modern European literature.
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Cipriano Barata
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- politicianjournalistphysician
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Cipriano José Barata de Almeida, better known as Cipriano Barata, was a Brazilian physician and politician who was in favor of Brazilian independence. He was a founding member of a Masonic Lodge, "The Knights of the Light Shop." He was also a journalist who started a newspaper in Portugal called Sentinel of Liberty.
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João Botelho
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- film directorscreenwriterwriterfilm editorteacher
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João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho is a Portuguese film director.
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Vasco Cordeiro
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- politician
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Vasco Ilídio Alves Cordeiro is a Portuguese Socialist Party politician, who served as President of the Regional Government of the Azores from 2012, following his party's victory in the 2012 Azores regional election, until 2020. Since 2022 is the President of the European Committee of the Regions.
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José Relvas
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- politiciandiplomatrevolutionary
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José Maria de Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos (Golegã, Golegã, 5 March 1858 – Alpiarça, Casa dos Patudos, 31 October 1929; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈʁɛlvɐʃ], was a Portuguese politician and Prime Minister of Portugal.
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Salgado Zenha
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- lawyerpolitician
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Francisco Salgado Zenha GCL was a Portuguese left-wing politician and lawyer.
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Roderigo López
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- spyphysician
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Roderigo Lopes served as a physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1581 until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plotting to poison her. A Portuguese converso or New Christian of Jewish ancestry, he is the only royal doctor in English history to have been executed, and may have inspired the character of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which was written within four years of his death.
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Fernando Nogueira
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- politician
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Joaquim Fernando Nogueira, commonly known just as Fernando Nogueira, is a Portuguese lawyer and former politician.
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António Arnault
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- literarypoliticianpoet
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António Duarte Arnaut, GOL was a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician. He was Minister of Social Affairs in the II Constitutional Government of Portugal, led by Mário Soares. He is considered the "father" of the Portuguese national health service (SNS - Serviço Nacional de Saúde), having created the first basic health law in Portugal and contributed to universal access to medical care for all Portuguese.
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Orlando Mendes
- Enrolled in the University of Coimbra
- 1944-1951 studied biology
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- phytopathologistbotanistpoetcivil servantwriter
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Orlando Marques de Almeida Mendes was a Mozambican biologist and writer.
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Manuela Azevedo
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- singer
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Manuela Azevedo is a Portuguese singer. A graduate in law at the University of Coimbra, she is the singer of the Clã band, once integrated the Humanos band.
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Ana Abrunhosa
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- politician
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Ana Maria Pereira Abrunhosa Trigueiros de Aragão is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as Minister for Territorial Cohesion from October 2019 to March 2024, when she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal as a member of the Socialist Party (PS), representing the Coimbra constituency.
