The University of Coimbra (UC) (Portuguese: Universidade de Coimbra, pronounced: [univɨɾsiˈdad(ɨ) dɨ kuˈĩbɾɐ]) is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, Portugal. Established in 1290, it is one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world, the oldest university of Portugal,...
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Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira
Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (April 27, 1756 – April 23, 1815) was a naturalist born in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He undertook an extensive journey which crossed the interior of the Amazon Basin to Mato Grosso, between 1783 and 1792. During...
Teófilo Braga
Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga (Portuguese pronunciation: [tiˈɔfilu ˈbɾaɡɐ]; São José, Ponta Delgada, 24 February 1843 – 28 January 1924) was a Portuguese writer, playwright, politician and the leader of the Republican Provisional Government after...
Duarte Leite
Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva, GCC (Porto, 11 August 1864 - Porto, 29 September 1950; Portuguese pronunciation: [duˈaɾt(ɨ) ˈlɐjt(ɨ)], was a Portuguese historian, mathematician, journalist, diplomat and politician. He graduated in Mathematics at the...
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro
Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro, 10th Count of Pimenta de Castro (Pias, Monção, 5 November 1836 - Lisbon, 14 May 1918; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuɐˈkĩ piˈmẽtɐ dɨ ˈkaʃtɾu]) was a Portuguese army officer and politician. He was a career military...
José de Castro
José Augusto Soares Ribeiro de Castro (Valhelhas, 7 April 1868 - 31 July 1929; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ dɨ ˈkaʃtɾu], was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician. He graduated in Law at the University of Coimbra, and was a lawyer in...
José Relvas
José Maria Mascarenhas Relvas (Golegã, Golegã, March 5, 1858 - Alpiarça, Casa dos Patudos, October 31, 1929; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈʁɛɫvɐʃ], was a Portuguese politician.
An historic republican, it was he who proclaimed the republic from...
Francisco José Fernandes Costa
Francisco José Fernandes Costa (Portuguese: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku ʒuˈzɛ fɨɾˈnɐ̃dɨʃ ˈkɔʃtɐ]; 1857–1925) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Portuguese Republican Party and later of the Evolutionist Party, the Liberal Party and the...
Domingos Leite Pereira
Domingos Leite Pereira (Portuguese: [duˈmĩɡuʃ ˈlɐjt(ɨ) pɨˈɾɐjɾɐ]; 1882–1956) was a Portuguese politician of the Portuguese First Republic. He had degrees in theology and literature of the University of Coimbra. He helped to improve the relationships...
Bernardino Machado
Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães, 2nd Baron de Vila Nova de Famalicao, GCTE, GCL (Portuguese pronunciation: [bɨɾnaɾˈdinu mɐˈʃadu]; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 28 March 1851 – Porto, Portugal, 29 April 1944), was a famous Portuguese political figure,...
End Date:
- 1873
Start Date:
- 1866
Manuel de Arriaga
Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛɫ dɨ ɐˈʁiaɡɐ]; Horta, July 8, 1840 – Santos-o-Velho, Lisbon, March 5, 1917) was a Portuguese lawyer, the first Attorney-General and the first elected President...
Vítor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho, 18th Count of Azevedo (1871–1955), GCC was a Portuguese naval officer, politician and professor, at the University of Coimbra and later the Escola Naval (Naval School). He was a member of the Portuguese Democratic...
Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Ernesto Rodolfo Hintze Ribeiro, (Portuguese pronunciation: [eɾˈnɛʃtu ʁuˈdoɫfu ˈĩtzɨ ʁiˈbɐjɾu]; Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands, November 7, 1849 — Lisbon, August 1, 1907) was a prominent Portuguese politician. His name sometimes appears styled as...
Christopher Clavius
Christopher Clavius (March 25, 1538 – February 6, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar. In his last years he was probably the most respected astronomer in Europe and his...
Egas Moniz
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as Egas Moniz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛɡɐʃ muˈniʃ]), was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is sometimes regarded as the...
Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Count of Oeiras, 1st Marquess of Pombal (Marquês de Pombal, Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐɾˈkeʃ dɨ ˈpõbaɫ]; 13 May 1699 – 8 May 1782) was an 18th century Portuguese statesman. He was Minister of the Kingdom (the...
Pedro Nunes
Pedro Nunes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpedɾu ˈnunɨʃ]; Latin, Petrus Nonius), (1502, Alcácer do Sal – August 11, 1578, Coimbra) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family. Nunes,...
António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu ðɨ oliˈvɐjɾɐ sɐlɐˈzaɾ]; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese professor and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He...
Harald Haarmann
Harald Haarmann (born 1946) is a German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Haarmann studied general linguistics, various philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor....
José Afonso
José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as Zeca Afonso (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈzɛkɐ aˈfõsu]) or just Zeca (2 August 1929 – 23 February 1987), was born in Aveiro, Portugal, the son of José Nepomuceno Afonso, a judge, and Maria das Dores....
Miguel Torga
Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha (São Martinho de Anta, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, August 12, 1907 – Coimbra, January 17, 1995) is considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short...
Ruy Luís Gomes
Ruy Luís Gomes (5 December 1905, Porto – 27 October 1984) was a Portuguese mathematician and founder os the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute. He was one of the great intellectual figures during the 20th century in Portugal.
His father, the...
Gregório de Mattos
Gregório de Mattos e Guerra (Salvador April 7, 1636 – Recife November 26, 1696) was the most famous Colonial Brazilian Baroque poet. Although he wrote many lyrical and religious poems, he was more well-known by his satirical ones, winning because of...
Guerra Junqueiro
Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (September 17, 1850 – July 7, 1923) was a Portuguese, bachelor in law at the University of Coimbra, a top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work helped...
Vergílio Ferreira
Vergílio Ferreira, JOSE (Melo, Gouveia, 28 January 1916 – Lisbon, 1 March 1996) was a Portuguese writer.
As a teenager, he studied in a seminar. Later he studied at the University of Coimbra. His experiences are related in his most famous work ...
António José de Almeida
António José de Almeida, GCTE, GCA, GCC, GCSE, (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu ʒuˈzɛ dɨ aɫˈmɐjdɐ]; Penacova, São Pedro de Alva, 27 July 1866 - Lisbon, 31 October 1929), son of José António de Almeida and wife Maria Rita das Neves, was a...
Manuel da Nóbrega
Manuel da Nóbrega (old spelling Manoel da Nóbrega) (1517–1570) 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,...
José de Anchieta
José de Anchieta (March 19, 1534 – June 9, 1597) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the 1st century after its discovery on April 22, 1500 by a...
Manuel Alegre
Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte, GCL (born Águeda, 12 May 1936), is a Portuguese poet and politician, member of the Socialist Party, and a candidate to the Portuguese presidential election, 2006. He was a presidential candidate, in the 2011...
José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (June 13, 1763 – April 6, 1838), was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire. He was one of the most important mentors of Brazilian...
Antero de Quental
Antero Tarquínio de Quental (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɛɾu dɨ kẽˈtaɫ]), old spelling Anthero, (18 April 1842 – 11 September 1891) was a Portuguese poet, philosopher and writer, whose works became a milestone in the Portuguese language,...
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- 1856
José Maria Eça de Queiroz
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Eça de Queirós (according with the new Portuguese Orthography) (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛsɐ dɨ kejˈɾɔʃ] or [kɐiˈɾɔʃ]; November 25, 1845 – August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese...
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches, GCC, OL (July 19, 1885 – April 3, 1954; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾiʃˈtidɨʒ dɨ ˈsowzɐ ˈmẽdɨʃ]) was a Portuguese diplomat. He ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war...
Bartolomeu de Gusmão
Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain), was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design....
António Maria da Silva
António Maria da Silva, GCTE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu mɐˈɾiɐ dɐ ˈsiɫvɐ]; 1872- Lisbon, 14 October 1950) was a Portuguese politician. An engineer, he was a prominent member of the Portuguese Republican Party. He was Prime Minister ...
Paula Isabel da Silva Moreira
Paula Isabel da Silva Moreira (born January 4, 1975 in France) is a neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Coimbra. Moreira is recognized in the field of Alzheimer's disease research particularly for her work on...
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
Tomás António Gonzaga (11 August 1744 – 1810?) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic colonial Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto (formerly "Vila Rica"), as well as...
Cláudio Manuel da Costa
Cláudio Manuel da Costa (June 4, 1729 – July 4, 1789) was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of the Neoclassicism in Brazil. He wrote under the pen name Glauceste Satúrnio, and his most famous work is the epic poem Vila...
José Régio
José Maria dos Reis Pereira, better known by the pen name José Regio (Vila do Conde, Portugal,September 17, 1901 — December 22, 1969 ) was a Portuguese writer which lived most of his life in Portalegre (1928 to 1967). He was the brother of Júlio...
Vitorino Nemésio
Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (Praia da Vitória, December 19, 1901 – Lisbon, February 20, 1978) was a poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his romance Mau Tempo No Canal, as well as being a professor in the...
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Fernando Goncalves Namora
Fernando Namora (April 15, 1919 – January 31, 1989), 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.
He received his medical...
End Date:
- 1942
Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, Viscount of Almeida Garrett (February 4, 1799 – December 9, 1854) was a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist and politician. He is considered to be the introducer of the Romanticism in Portugal. He...
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End Date:
- 1821
Start Date:
- 1816
Branquinho da Fonseca
Besides his career as an author, Branquinho da Fonseca became Director of the Cascais Libraries and Museums, and later the Gulbenkian Library in Lisbon.
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Gonçalves Dias
Antônio Gonçalves Dias (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡõˈsawvis ˈdʒiɐs]; August 10, 1823 — November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright and linguist. A major exponent of the Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as ...
António Augusto Soares de Passos
António Augusto Soares de Passos (November 27, 1826 — February 8, 1860) was a Portuguese poet, creator of the "Ultra-Romanticism" in Portugal. Son of merchants and a follower of the Liberal ideas, having learned French and English during his youth,...
Alberto João Jardim
Alberto João Cardoso Gonçalves Jardim, GCIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [aɫˈbɛɾtu ʒuˈɐ̃w̃ ʒɐɾˈdĩ], (born February 4, 1943 in Santa Luzia, Funchal, Madeira Island) is a Portuguese politician who has been the President of the Regional Government of...
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End Date:
- 1973
Santa Rita Durão
José de Santa Rita Durão (1722 — 1784) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of the "Indianism" in the literature of Brazil, with his epic poem Caramuru.
He is the correspondent patron...
Sousa Caldas
Antônio Pereira de Sousa Caldas (November 24, 1762 — March 2, 1814) was a Colonial Brazilian poet, priest and orator, patron of the 34th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Sousa Caldas was born in 1762, to Portuguese merchant Luís Pereira de...
Domingos Caldas Barbosa
Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1739? — November 9, 1800) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and musician, famous for creating the modinha. He wrote under the pen name Lereno.
Barbosa is the patron of the 3rd chair of the Academia Brasileira de...
Ho Chio Meng
Ho Chio Meng (born 1955) is the first and current Prosecutor General of the Public Prosecutions Office of the Macau Special Administrative Region, having been appointed in 1999, and re-appointed in 2004 and 2009.
Ho is also the President of the...
João Carlos de Bragança e Ligne de Sousa Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva
Former Prime Minister of Portugal, 2nd Duke of Lafões, 4.th Marquês de Arronches, and 8th Conde de Miranda do Corvo. He was exiled from Portugal for 17 years from 1761 to 1779, when, after Marquês de Pombal fell from power, he was able to take...
Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Jacob (Henriquez) de Castro Sarmento (1692, Bragança, Portugal—14 September 1762, London) was a Portuguese physician, naturalist, poet and Deist.
At the age of seventeen he entered the University of Évora to study philosophy, and later studied...
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End Date:
- 1717
Start Date:
- 1711
José Mascarenhas, 8th Duke of Aveiro
Implicated by Pombal in the attack on D José I (Joseph I of Portugal), he was executed shortly after the Tavoras. All the family properties throughout Portugal were immediately demolished and the remains of the family imprisoned or left in poverty
Joaõ Torreiano
João Torreano was born in Lisbon in 1610, studied in Coimbra and became a Bendictine monk in 1629. He was the son of Leonardo Torreano who was one of the leading military engineers of his day. As such, João Torriano inherited many of his father´s...
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José Henrique de Azeredo Perdigão
Lisbon Lawyer and President of the Gulbenkian Foundation for almost 50 years.
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End Date:
- 1919
Start Date:
- 1919
Colin Evans
Colin Evans (Diplomat) (born 1964) is a Trade Diplomat.
Born in 1964 into a working class family. He grew up in Birkenhead and swam and played rugby for his High School. He completed GCE Advanced Level education and a Gold Pass in The Duke of...
António Luiz Gomes
Leading Republican politician who was appointed Minister of Public Works following the fall of the Portuguese Monarchy in October 1910. He later became Portuguese Ambassador in Brazil.
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End Date:
- 1890
Alvarenga Peixoto
Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto (1744 — 1793) was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and a lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste Fenício.
Peixoto was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Simão Alvarenga Braga and Maria Braga. He studied at the Jesuit...
Augusto Fuschini
Influential figure in the restoration of the Sé de Lisboa (Lisbon Cathedral) in the second half of the 19th C (about 100 years after the earthquake). Notable amongst these projects was the restoration of the West Façade, which was subsequently...
