74 Notable alumni of
University of Porto
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The University of Porto is 641st in the world, 233rd in Europe, and 3rd in Portugal by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 74 notable alumni from the University of Porto sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Álvaro Siza Vieira
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- university teacherarchitect
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Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira GOSE GCIH GCIP is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈalvɐɾu ˈsizɐ]) and in Portugal as Siza Vieira ( pronounced [ˈsizɐ ˈvjɐjɾɐ]).
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Camilo Castelo Branco
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- translatorpoetwriterhistorianplaywright
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Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Viscount of Correia Botelho, was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent (and ultimately tragic) life.
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Rui Faria
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Rui Filipe da Cunha Faria is a Portuguese football coach, known for his work with football manager José Mourinho for 17 years.
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Francisco da Costa Gomes
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- revolutionarypoliticianmathematicianmilitary personnel
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Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE GOA was a Portuguese military officer and politician, the 15th president of Portugal (the second after the Carnation Revolution).
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Eduardo Souto de Moura
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- university teacherarchitect
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Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura, better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2013. Along with Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza, he is one of the alumni of the Porto School of Architecture, where he was appointed a Professor.
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Catarina Martins
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- stage actorpoliticianactor
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Catarina Soares Martins is a Portuguese politician and actress. She was the national coordinator of the Left Bloc from 11 November 2012 until 28 May 2023, and has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic for the Left Bloc since 2009. She trained as a linguist and is active in theater.
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Rui Rio
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- politicianeconomist
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Rui Fernando da Silva Rio GCIH is a Portuguese economist and retired politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was the Mayor of Porto from 2002 to 2013. Between 2018 and 2022, he was President of the PSD and Leader of the Opposition.
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Fernando Medina
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- sociologistpoliticianeconomist
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Fernando Medina Maciel Almeida Correia is a Portuguese economist and politician Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister António Costa from 2022 to 2024. He previously served as Mayor of Lisbon from 2015, succeeding Costa, to 2021.
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Augusto Santos Silva
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- sociologistschool teacheruniversity teacherpoliticianjournalist
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Augusto Ernesto dos Santos Silva GCL GCC is a Portuguese sociologist, university professor, and politician who served as the President of the Assembly of the Republic between 2022 and 2024, in the 15th Legislature. From November 2015 to March 2022, he was the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the XXI and XXII Constitutional Governments led by Prime Minister António Costa.
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Belmiro de Azevedo
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Belmiro Mendes de Azevedo was a Portuguese entrepreneur, ranked by Forbes as the 605th richest person in the world (2008), and 3rd richest in Portugal, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2 billion. He owned a controlling stake in Sonae SGPS, one of the largest business groups in Portugal, which also operates in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Brazil.
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Paulo Rangel
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- writerpolitician
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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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Agostinho da Silva
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- writerpoetphilosopher
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George Agostinho Baptista da Silva, GCSE was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer. His thought combines elements of pantheism and millenarism, an ethic of renunciation (like in Buddhism or Franciscanism), and a belief in freedom as the most important feature of man. Anti-dogmatic, he asserts that truth is only found in the sum of all conflicting hypothesis (in paradox). He may be considered a practical philosopher, living and working for a change in society, according to his beliefs.
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Nadir Afonso
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- philosopherarchitectpaintergraphic artist
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Nadir Afonso, GOSE was a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, Nadir Afonso later studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers of Kinetic art, working alongside Victor Vasarely, Fernand Léger, Auguste Herbin, and André Bloc.
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Manuel Teixeira Gomes
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- writerpoliticiandiplomat
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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 Pacheco Pereira
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- politicianwriterhistorianjournalist
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José Álvaro Machado Pacheco Pereira, GCL is a Portuguese political commentator, historian and politician. He is a member of the center-right Social Democratic Party.
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Júlio Dinis
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- writerpoetphysician writerteacher
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Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho was a Portuguese medical doctor and poet, playwright and novelist. He was the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society. His novels, extremely popular in his lifetime and still widely read in Portugal today, are written in a simple and direct style accessible to a large public.
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Jorge de Sena
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- writertranslatorpoetlinguist
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Jorge Cândido Alves Rodrigues Telles Grilo Raposo de Abreu de Sena was a Portuguese-born poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor who spent the latter portion of his life in the United States.
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Kaúlza de Arriaga
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- writerpoliticianmilitary personnel
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Kaúlza de Oliveira de Arriaga, OA, GCC, OC, OIH was a Portuguese general, writer, professor and politician. He was Secretary of State (junior minister) of the Air Force between 1953 and 1955 and commander of the Terrestrial Forces in Mozambique from 1969 until 1974 during the Mozambican War of Independence.
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Tomás Podstawski
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- association football player
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Tomás Martins Podstawski is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder.
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Raul Brandão
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- writerjournalistmilitary personnel
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Raul Germano Brandão was a Portuguese writer, journalist and military officer, notable for the realism of his literary descriptions and by the lyricism of his language. Brandão was born in Foz do Douro, a parish of Porto, where he spent the majority of his youth. Born in a family of sailors, the ocean and the sailors are recurring themes in his work.
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Ana Luísa Amaral
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- translatorpoetuniversity teachernovelistwriter
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Ana Luísa Amaral was a Portuguese poet. Professor at the University of Porto, she held a Ph.D. on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and had academic publications (in Portugal and abroad) in the areas of English and American poetry, comparative poetics, and feminist studies. She was a senior researcher and co-director of the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa. Co-author (with Ana Gabriela Macedo) of the Dictionary of Feminist Criticism (Afrontamento, 2005) and responsible for the annotated edition of New Portuguese Letters (Dom Quixote, 2010) and the coordinator of the international project New Portuguese Letters 40 Years Later, financed by FCT, that involves 10 countries and over 60 researchers. Editor of several academic books, such as Novas Cartas Portuguesas entre Portugal e o Mundo (with Marinela Freitas, Dom Quixote, 2014), or New Portuguese Letters to the World (with Marinela Freitas, Peter Lang, 2015).
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Júlio Pomar
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- sculptorpainterillustrator
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Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar, GOL, GCM was a Portuguese painter and visual artist. He was often considered the greatest Portuguese painter of his generation.
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Elisa Ferreira
- Enrolled in the University of Porto
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira, GCC is a Portuguese politician and economist who served as the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms in the administration of President Ursula von der Leyen between 2019 and 2024. She previously served as vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal from 2016 until 2019. She was as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2016. In 2019, she was selected by Portugal to serve as a European Commissioner. Previously, she was in charge of the Ministries of Environment (1995-1999) and Public Works (1999-2001) during the governments of António Guterres.
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Carlos Guimarães Pinto
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- authoreconomistuniversity teacherpoliticianfounding member
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Carlos Manuel Guimarães Oliveira Pinto, better known as Carlos Guimarães Pinto, is a Portuguese economist, author, university professor, think tank executive, blogger and politician. A prominent member of the Liberal Initiative, on October 13, 2018, he became the president of the party, a position he left on December 8, 2019 being succeeded by João Cotrim de Figueiredo. He is a founder of the think tank +Liberdade, a non-profit institute that promotes democracy, market economy and individual freedom in Portugal. In 2022, he was elected member of the Assembly of the Republic by the Porto electoral district.
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Paulo de Morais
- Enrolled in the University of Porto
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in industrial engineering
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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Aurélia de Souza
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- painter
- Biography
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Maria Aurélia Martins de Sousa was a Portuguese painter.
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José Francisco Pacheco
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- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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José Francisco de Almeida Pacheco is a Portuguese educator who pioneered a school called Escola da Ponte (Bridge School), in Vila das Aves, Portugal. He is also a published writer, with some books and a wide range of articles.
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Ana Filipa Martins
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- artistic gymnast
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Ana Filipa da Silva Martins is a retired Portuguese artistic gymnast who competed at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade on the balance beam. She is the first Portuguese gymnast to win a World Cup gold medal.
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Abel Salazar
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- philosopherphysician writerpainter
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Abel de Lima Salazar, was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto. He was the son of Adolfo Barroso Pereira Salazar (20 October 1858 in Guimarães – 1 January 1941 in Porto) and wife Adelaide da Luz da Silva e Lima (died 3 October 1929 in Porto).
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António Soares dos Reis
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- university teachersculptor
- Biography
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António Manuel Soares dos Reis was a Portuguese sculptor.
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José Marques da Silva
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- architect
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José Marques da Silva was a Portuguese architect and educator.
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Jorge Moreira da Silva
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva GOIH is a Portuguese engineer and politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as the executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, UNOPS, since 2023.
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Marcelo Viana
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems theory. He proved the Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture together with Artur Avila.
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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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Jorge Bom Jesus
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- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- politicianlinguist
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Jorge Lopes Bom Jesus, also known as JBJ, is a Santomean linguist and politician who was the 17th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 3 December 2018 to 10 November 2022. He is a member of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD).
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Manuel Pizarro
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Manuel Francisco Pizarro de Sampaio e Castro is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party who served as Minister of Health in Prime Minister António Costa's third cabinet from 2022 to 2024. He previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022.
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José Leite de Vasconcelos
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- academicuniversity teacherarchaeologistphilologistwriter
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José Leite de Vasconcelos Cardoso Pereira de Melo, known as simply Leite de Vasconcelos, was a Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and prolific author who wrote extensively on Portuguese philology and prehistory. He was the founder and the first director of the Portuguese National Museum of Archaeology.
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Francisco Assis
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- politician
- Biography
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Francisco José Pereira de Assis Miranda is a Portuguese politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party. He was part of the Party of European Socialists from 2004 to 2009, and again from 2014 until 2019. He is also a former mayor of Amarante, having been in office from 1989 to 1995, and member of the Assembly of Republic on two occasions, the first from 1995 to 2004 and the second from 2009 to 2014.
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Graça Morais
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- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- painter
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Graça Morais GOIH is a Portuguese artist. A member of the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes (National Academy of Fine Arts) of Portugal, she was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry in 1997. She is married to the musician Pedro Caldeira Cabral.
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Fernando Teixeira dos Santos
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Fernando Teixeira dos Santos GOIH is a Portuguese economist and professor. He was Minister of Finance in the XVII and XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal, led by José Sócrates.
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António Teixeira de Sousa
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- writerpoliticianminister
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António Teixeira de Sousa, 2nd Count of Sousa Palmela was a Portuguese medical doctor and politician during the Constitutional Monarchy. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Porto, in 1883. A member of the conservative Regenerator Party, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies, in 1889. He was later minister of the Navy and Overseas (1900–1903), and, twice, of Finance (1903–1904, 1906). He became President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) on 26 June 1910, and would be the last Prime Minister of the Constitutional Monarchy as King D. Manuel II was overthrown by a republican revolution on 5 October 1910. He left politics after the republic proclamation, but showed a moderate support for the new regime.
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Luís Filipe Menezes
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes is a Portuguese politician.
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João Pedro Matos Fernandes
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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João Pedro Matos Fernandes is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of the Environment since 26 November 2015 until 30 March 2022.
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Ricardo Rio
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Ricardo Bruno Antunes Machado Rio is a Portuguese economist and politician, currently serving as mayor of Braga.
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Jorge Jardim Gonçalves
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- banker
- Biography
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Jorge Manuel Jardim Gonçalves MTCG GCIH ComNSC is a Portuguese banker.
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Carlos Costa
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- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Carlos da Silva Costa is a Portuguese economist who served as Governor of the Bank of Portugal from June 7, 2010 to July 20, 2020, when he was succeeded by Mário Centeno.
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Alberto Vaquina
- Enrolled in the University of Porto
- 1986-1992 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in medicine
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Alberto Vaquina is a Mozambican politician who served as Prime Minister of Mozambique from 2012 to 2015. He was appointed by President Armando Guebuza on 8 October 2012, replacing Aires Ali, who was sacked in a cabinet reshuffle.
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António Teixeira Lopes
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- sculptor
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António Teixeira Lopes was a Portuguese sculptor.
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João Marques de Oliveira
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- painter
- Biography
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João Joaquim Marques da Silva Oliveira was a Portuguese painter in the Naturalist style.
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Maria Manuel Dias da Mota
- Enrolled in the University of Porto
- In 1994 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- malariologistacademicbiologistscientist
- Biography
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Maria Manuel Mota is a Portuguese malariologist and executive director of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisbon.
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Maria Helena Braga
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Maria Helena Sousa Soares de Oliveira Braga is an associate professor at the Engineering Physics Department of University of Porto, Portugal. She is currently focused on research areas in Materials Science and Materials Engineering at University of Porto and University of Texas at Austin. She is credited with expanding the understanding of glass electrolyte and glass batteries with colleague John B. Goodenough. Braga is a senior research fellow in the Materials Institute headed by Goodenough.
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Henrique Medina
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- painter
- Biography
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Henrique Medina de Barros was a Portuguese painter, better known as a portraitist.
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Miguel Ventura Terra
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- architectpolitician
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Miguel Ventura Terra was a Portuguese architect.
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Carvalho Araújo
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- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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José Botelho de Carvalho Araújo was a Portuguese Navy officer and colonial administrator who died in action in World War I battling German U-boat SM U-139, commanded by submarine ace Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière.
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António Carneiro
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- poetpainter
- Biography
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António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, poet and art professor.
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Ângelo de Sousa
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Ângelo César Cardoso de Sousa was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, better known for continuously experimenting with new techniques in his works. He was seen as a scholar of light and colour who explored minimalism in new radical ways.
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Pedro Filipe Soares
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- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Filipe Gomes Soares is a Portuguese mathematician and politician of the Left Bloc.
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João Torres
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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João Veloso da Silva Torres was a leader of the Socialist Youth, is a former Member of Parliament, former Secretary of State for Consumer Protection in the XXI Portuguese Government, and currently holds the office of Secretary of State for Commerce, Services and Consumer Protection in the XXII Portuguese Government.
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Delfim Santos
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- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Delfim Pinto dos Santos, was a Portuguese academic, philosopher, educationist, essayist and book and movie reviewer.
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José Albino Silva Peneda
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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José Albino da Silva Peneda is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.
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Ilda Figueiredo
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Maria Ilda da Costa Figueiredo is a Portuguese politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party, part of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group.
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José Moura Soeiro
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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José Borges de Araújo de Moura Soeiro is a Portuguese sociologist and politician, member of the Assembly of the Republic, first elected in 2005. He obtained his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Porto.
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Regina Pessoa
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- animatorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Regina Maria Póvoa Pessoa Martins is a Portuguese animator.
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Teresa Lago
- Occupations
- astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
- Biography
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Maria Teresa Vaz Torrão Lago is a Portuguese astronomer who founded the Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto and created the first astronomy degree program in Portugal. Lago is currently the General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union. Her research focuses on the evolution of young stars and she is active in the promotion of astronomy and scientific culture to the public.
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Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira
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- writerpainterillustrator
- Biography
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Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira ComIH, was a Portuguese painter and poet. He is better known by the two pseudonyms he used: Júlio, as a painter; and Saul Dias as a poet. He was an important artist of the second generation of Portuguese Modernism. His art features a strong expression of lyricism and artistic explorations that could be connected with the expressionist and surrealist movements.
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Diogo de Macedo
- Occupations
- writersculptorpainter
- Biography
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Diogo de Macedo was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, and writer.
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Sofia Martins de Souza
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Sofia Martins de Sousa was a Portuguese painter.
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Gonçalo Sampaio
- Occupations
- anthropologistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Gonçalo António da Silva Ferreira Sampaio was a Portuguese botanist.
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Carlos Ribeiro
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnelarchaeologistgeologist
- Biography
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Carlos Ribeiro was a pioneering geologist and archaeologist who inaugurated the concept of fieldwork in Portugal, and was responsible for the discovery and excavation of many Neolithic and other sites in Portugal. Director of the first Geological Commission of Portugal (1857), he led production of the first edition of the Geological Chart of Portugal to the scale of 1/500,000, work which was awarded a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris (1878). He also served as an officer of the Portuguese army and as a Member of Parliament.
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Virgínia Moura
- Occupations
- revolutionarypolitician
- Biography
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Virgínia Moura was a Portuguese anti-government activist and feminist, opposed to the authoritarian regime known as the Estado Novo. As a member of the Communist Party, she was arrested on 16 occasions for her activities. She was the second Portuguese woman to qualify as a civil engineer.
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Basílio Teles
- Occupations
- revolutionarywriterjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Basílio Teles was a Portuguese author.
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Leandro Müller
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Leandro Müller is a Brazilian writer. He has a double degree in Journalism and Advertising from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). Muller studied Philosophy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil) and at Porto University (Universidade do Porto, Portugal). He has been writing since 2004. He also worked as an editor in publishing.
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Armando Basto
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Armando Pereira de Basto was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, sculptor and decorator.
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José Fernando Ferreira Mendes
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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José Fernando F. Mendes is a Portuguese physicist (statistical physics) and professor of physics, best known for his work and contributions to the field of network theory.Graduated from University of Porto in 1987. He earned a PhD in March 1995 from the same University under the direction of Eduardo Lage, the title of the thesis was "Dynamics of spins systems".
