38.7083° N, 9.1392° W
LISBON
Most Famous People Born in Lisbon, Portugal
- Notable people
- 3,023
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1938
- Most distinctive
- Model 3.8×
An Atlantic capital that built an empire and kept the receipts. Lisbon's distinctive professions tilt literary and architectural — writers, poets, composers, physicians, architects — and the dataset reaches back unbroken to the 12th century, when the city was reconquered from the Moors. The modern half is footballers, stage actors, and a surprisingly deep model bench; the older half is the colonial governors and Discoveries-era princes who never quite leave any Lisbon street.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lisbon Is Known For
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Football is Lisbon's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (379).
Lisbon over-indexes on model — 3.8× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lisbon's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
Hermenegildo Capelo
1841 - 1917
Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins
1845 - 1894
Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (1843–1884)
1843 - 1884
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro
1846 - 1905
Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
1847 - 1921
António Gomes Leal
1848 - 1921
Manuel Pinheiro Chagas
1842 - 1895
Ricardo Balaca
1844 - 1880
Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral
1844 - 1923
António José Enes
1848 - 1901
Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana
1840 - 1914
Henry Hoyle Howorth
1842 - 1923
Anselmo Braamcamp Freire
1849 - 1921
Francisco da Veiga Beirão
1841 - 1916
Augusto Machado
1845 - 1924
Henrique de Barros Gomes
1843 - 1898
Júlio de Castilho
1840 - 1919
Infante João, Duke of Beja
1842 - 1861
Infante Augusto, Duke of Coimbra
1847 - 1889
José Luís Monteiro
1848 - 1942
Jaime Batalha Reis
1847 - 1934
Infante Fernando of Portugal
1846 - 1861
Augusto de Castilho
1841 - 1912
Guiomar Torrezão
1844 - 1898
José Curry da Câmara Cabral
1844 - 1920
Augusto Epifânio da Silva Dias
1841 - 1916
Frederico Ressano Garcia
1847 - 1911
Antonio Soller
1840 - 1884
Silva Pinto
1848 - 1911
José Moura Girão
1840 - 1916
Anselmo de Andrade
1844 - 1928
António de Sousa Bastos
1844 - 1911
Eduardo Galhardo
1845 - 1908
Frederico Arouca
1846 - 1902
Francisco de Freitas Gazul
1842 - 1925
Leonildo de Mendonça e Costa
1849 - 1923
Jorge Torlades O'Neill II
1849 - 1925
Jaime Artur da Costa Pinto
1845 - 1909
Pedro Inácio Lopes
1840 - 1900
Filippo Augusto Fidanza
1847 - 1903
João António das Neves Ferreira
1846 - 1902
António Maria Cardoso
1849 - 1900
Vicente Rodrigues Monteiro
1847 - 1936
Adolfo Möller
1842 - 1920
José Estêvão de Morais Sarmento
1843 - 1930
Jorge Berkeley Cotter
1845 - 1919
Pedro Peres
1841 - 1923
Ernesto Driesel Schröeter
1849 - 1942
Alexandre Maria da Silveira e Lorena
1847 - 1903
Carlos Félix de Lima Mayer
1846 - 1910
Salomão Bensabat Saragga
1842 - 1900
Henrique de Sá Nogueira de Vasconcelos
1843 - 1923
Carlos de Faria e Melo
1849 - 1917
Manuel Domingos Xavier Francisco Eugénio Pio Tele
1840 - 1910
Isabel de Sousa Botelho
1849 - 1936
Filipe de Sousa Holstein
1841 - 1884
José Henriques Totta
1849 - 1928
Pedro Augusto de Carvalho
1841 - 1894
António Maria Correia de Sá e Benevides Velasco
1840 - 1910
Simões Margiochi
1848 - 1904
Júnio Gualberto de Bettencourt Rodrigues
1849 - 1908
Henrique Luís Feijó da Costa
1842 - 1864