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
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1970s with 321 notable births.
What Lisbon Is Known For
Click any row to filter the list of people below.
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 1880s Clear ×
Fernando Pessoa
1888 - 1935
António Silva (actor)
1886 - 1971
Eduardo Viana
1881 - 1967
Cosme Damião
1885 - 1947
Fidelino de Figueiredo
1888 - 1967
Raul Leal
1886 - 1964
Alberto Monsaraz
1889 - 1959
Henry Bucknall
1885 - 1962
Mário de Noronha
1885 - 1973
Branca de Gonta Colaço
1880 - 1945
Frederico Paredes
1889 - 1972
Luís Cabral de Moncada
1888 - 1974
Maximiano Alves
1888 - 1954
Carlos Rebelo de Andrade
1887 - 1971
Liberato Pinto
1880 - 1949
Afonso de Dornelas
1880 - 1944
Vítor Cândido Gonçalves
1886 - 1965
Albino Forjaz de Sampaio
1884 - 1949
Amílcar Ramada Curto
1886 - 1961
Francisco Pulido Valente
1884 - 1963
Gustavo de Matos Sequeira
1880 - 1962
Francisco Smith
1881 - 1961
André Brun
1881 - 1926
Augusto Celestino da Costa
1884 - 1956
Emmerico Nunes
1888 - 1968
José Alvalade
1885 - 1918
Henrique Trindade Coelho
1885 - 1934
Norberto de Araújo
1889 - 1952
José Gabriel Pinto Coelho
1886 - 1978
Rui Enes Ulrich
1883 - 1966
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício
1884 - 1947
Aires Jácome Correia
1882 - 1937
José Pacheko
1885 - 1934
Damião Peres
1889 - 1976
Henrique de Sommer
1886 - 1944
Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa
1880 - 1940
Joaquim Vital
Born 1884
José Campas
1888 - 1971
Alberto Sanches de Castro
1888 - 1934
Artur Ricardo Jorge
1886 - 1974
Lino Ferreira
1884 - 1939
Fernando Branco
1880 - 1940
Ernesto de Albuquerque
1883 - 1940
Hélder Ribeiro
1883 - 1973
Menezes Ferreira
1889 - 1936
José Eugénio Dias Ferreira
1882 - 1953
Afonso Botelho
1887 - 1968
Vasco Borges
1882 - 1942
Fernando Enes Ulrich
1884 - 1950
João Henrique Enes Ulrich
1880 - 1956
Francisco Rego Chaves
1881 - 1941
Ruimondo Mayer
1888 - 1959
Alves da Cunha
1889 - 1956
Augusto Sabbo
1887 - 1971
Asdrúbal António de Aguiar
1883 - 1961
Francisco António Real
Born 1885
João Pedro Medeiros de Almeida
1884 - 1943
Luís da Costa de Sousa de Macedo
1887 - 1970
Ewald von Kleist-Wendisch Tychow
1882 - 1953
Veva de Lima
1886 - 1963
Fernando José Luís Burnay de Sousa Coutinho –
1883 - 1945
Luís António de Carvalho Viegas
1887 - 1965
Tomás da Câmara
1889 - 1970
José Lages Perestrelo de Vasconcelos
1881 - 1935
Tertuliano Marques
1883 - 1942
José Duarte Junqueira Rato
Born 1889
Fernando de Castro da Silva Canedo
1886 - 1954
Rosindo de Morais Moniz da Maia
1885 - 1974
Alberto Tota
Born 1882
Augusto Neuparth Vieira
1888 - 1953
Jorge Aníbal Saldanha Carreira
Born 1887
Jorge de Macedo de Oliveira Simões
1889 - 1959