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.
- Sports
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Music
- Other
- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Óscar Carmona
1869 - 1951
Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho
1869 - 1959
Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa
1863 - 1929
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro
1861 - 1944
João do Canto e Castro
1862 - 1934
Augusto de Vasconcelos
1867 - 1951
Adelina Abranches
1866 - 1945
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso
1864 - 1950
José Eugenio Ribera
1864 - 1936
Ricardo Severo
1869 - 1940
Tomás de Melo Breyner
1866 - 1933
Júlio Cândido Neuparth
1863 - 1919
Luciano Freire
1864 - 1935
Carlos Lobo de Ávila
1860 - 1895
Manuel Moreira Júnior
1866 - 1953
Bernardo António da Costa de Sousa de Macedo
1863 - 1947
Eduardo Schwalbach Lucci
1860 - 1946
Emília dos Santos Braga
1867 - 1950
Ezequiel Pereira
1868 - 1943
Aires Kopke
1866 - 1947
Álvaro de Oliveira Soares de Andrea
1864 - 1939
António Tomás da Conceição Silva
1869 - 1958
João Duarte de Meneses
1868 - 1918
Eduardo Augusto Ferreira da Costa
1865 - 1907
Herculano Galhardo
1868 - 1944
Luís de Sousa Holstein
1868 - 1935
Levy Marques da Costa
1868 - 1941
Mariana do Canto e Castro
1865 - 1946
João Ferreira de Mesquita
1861 - 1935
Teotónio Octávio de Ornelas Bruges
1861 - 1906
Eduardo Rodrigues da Costa
1860 - 1912
Carlos de Sá Pais do Amaral Pereira e Meneses –
1865 - 1909
Guilherme Pinto Basto
1864 - 1957
Tomás de Sousa Rosa (1867-1929)
1867 - 1929
Tomás Maria de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena
1864 - 1932
Artur Jaime Viçoso May
1869 - 1936