People

Adelaide Cabete

1867–1935

obstetrician and gynaecologist

Agostinho Neto

1922–1979

doctor (Lisbon Faculty of Medicine)

Aida Magro

1918–2011

chemical engineer

Albina Fernandes

1928–1970

fighter in the French Resistance

Alda do Espírito Santo

1926–2010

poet

Alfredo Assunção

lieutenant of the Cavalry Practical School

Alice Pestana

1860–1929

writer and educationalist (pen name Caiel)

Álvaro Cunhal

1913–2005

general secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party

Amílcar Cabral

1924–1973

agronomist (Higher Institute of Agronomy)

Ana de Castro Osório

1872–1935

writer, pioneer of children’s literature

Angélica Viana Porto

1881–1938

philanthropist

Angelina Vidal

1847–1917

teacher

António de Oliveira Salazar

1889–1970

professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Coimbra

António de Spínola

1910–1996

general

António Tereso

car mechanic

Arajaryr Campos

1930–1965

Humberto Delgado’s secretary

Aurora de Castro e Gouveia

1891–1931

notary, with an office in Alcântara

Aurora Rodrigues

b. 1952

law student

Carlos Albino

journalist on República

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo

1878–1911

surgeon and gynaecologist

Cecília Supico Pinto

1921–2011

founder and leader of the National Women’s Movement (pro-regime)

Celeste Caeiro

1933–2024

restaurant worker

Cesina Bermudes

1908–2001

obstetrician

Clarisse Guerra

announcer of the MFA’s 14:30 communiqué (25 April 1974)

Conceição Matos

b. 1936

factory worker

Costa Gomes

1914–2001

general

Deolinda Lopes Vieira

1888–1993

primary school teacher and nursery teacher

Diana Andringa

b. 1947

medical student

Domingos Abrantes

b. 1936

leader of the MUD Juvenil

Domitila de Carvalho

1871–1966

first woman to attend the University of Coimbra

Elina Guimarães

1904–1991

jurist and writer

Emídio Santana

1906–1988

metalworker

Estêvão Giro

1937–1962

printer

Eurico de Figueiredo

1939–2025

leader of the medical students in the 1962 academic crisis

Fernanda Botelho

1926–2007

writer

Fernando Giesteira

1955–1974

waiter

Fernando Reis

1950–1974

soldier in the 1st Disciplinary Company of Penamacor

Fernando Sottomayor

officer of the 7th Cavalry Regiment

Helena Cabeçadas

b. 1947

activist in the secondary-school students’ association movement

Helena Neves

b. 1945

journalist

Helena Pato

b. 1939

teacher

Helena Roseta

b. 1947

architect

Humberto Delgado

1906–1965

soldier and aviator, Air Force general

Isabel Aboim Inglez

1902–1963

teacher

Isabel do Carmo

b. 1940

doctor

João Arruda

1954–1974

philosophy student at the Lisbon Faculty of Letters

João Paulo Diniz

b. 1949

radio announcer

Joaquim Furtado

b. 1948

journalist

José Afonso (Zeca Afonso)

1929–1987

singer and composer

José António Ribeiro Santos

1946–1972

law student

José Barneto

1935–1974

clerk

José Dias Coelho

1923–1961

sculptor

José Luandino Vieira

b. 1935

Portuguese-Angolan writer

Junqueira dos Reis

brigadier

Leite de Vasconcelos

announcer on the Rádio Renascença programme “Limite”

Luísa Tito de Morais

b. 1942

activist in the secondary-school movement

Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra

1925–1991

philologist and linguist

Madalena Barbosa

1942–2008

feminist

Manuela Porto

1908–1950

actress

Manuel Serra

1931–2010

Merchant Navy officer

Marcelo Caetano

1906–1980

President of the Council of Ministers (head of government, 1968-1974)

Margarida Tengarrinha

1928–2023

visual artist

Maria Alda Nogueira

1923–1998

teacher

Maria Antónia Fiadeiro

1942–2023

journalist

Maria Antónia Palla

b. 1933

journalist

Maria Barroso

1925–2015

actress

Maria Cândida Parreira

1877–1942

lawyer

Maria Clara Correia Alves

1869–1948

teacher

Maria da Conceição Moita

1937–2021

nursery-school teacher

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo

1930–2004

chemical engineer

Maria Guardiola

1895–1987

Mathematics teacher

Maria Isabel Barreno

1939–2016

writer

Maria José Morgado

b. 1951

law student

Maria Lamas

1893–1983

journalist

Maria Lourença Cabecinha

1933–2022

farm worker

Maria Luísa van Zeller

1906–1983

doctor

Maria Machado

b. 1949

militante clandestina do PCP

Maria O'Neill

1873–1932

writer and poet

Maria Teresa Cárcomo Lobo

1929–2018

jurist

Maria Teresa Horta

1937–2025

poet

Maria Veleda

1871–1955

teacher

Maria Velho da Costa

1938–2020

writer

Mário Soares

1924–2017

general secretary of the Socialist Party

Militão Ribeiro

1896–1950

textile worker

Natália Correia

1923–1993

poet

Noémia de Sousa

1926–2002

poet

Norton de Matos

1867–1955

general

Nuno Teotónio Pereira

1922–2016

architect

Olga Morais Sarmento

1881–1948

writer and lecturer

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

1936–2021

Artillery major

Paulo de Carvalho

b. 1947

singer

Pinheiro de Azevedo

1917–1983

naval officer

Raul Alves

1914–1958

welder

Regina Quintanilha

1893–1967

first Portuguese woman lawyer

Salgueiro Maia

1944–1992

Cavalry captain

Silva Pais

1905–1981

major

Sofia Ferreira

1922–2010

farm worker and domestic servant

Sofia Quintino

1879–1964

doctor

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

1919–2004

poet

Stella Piteira Santos

1917–2009

feminist and anti-fascist activist

Virgínia Moura

1915–1998

civil engineer

Virgínia Quaresma

1882–1973

first woman reporter in Portugal