Notable Citizens
- João Gonçalves da Costa (c. 1720 – Manuel Vitorino, Bahia; c. 1820) - was an explorer and conquistador, who, at 16 years of age went to Brazil, in the service of King John V, conquering lands in the Sertão da Resaca, fighting local native tribes, and founding the village of Vitória da Conquista, in the state of Bahia;
- Rodrigo Domingos de Sousa Coutinho, 1st modern Count of Linhares (4 August 1755 — Rio de Janeiro, 26 January 1812), a diplomat, politician, Minister and Secretary of State for the Navy and Overseas Dominions (Portuguese: Ministro/Secretário de Estado da Marinha e Domínios Ultramarinos), in the council of King Joseph I, and the Prince Regent John IV;
- Agostinho de Sousa Pinto de Barros Cachapuz (31 July 1783 - 7 August 1864), an officer during the Peninsular Wars and Liberal Wars, he was a colonel of the militia, serving under the Marquess of Chaves, decorated for his defense of legitimist ideals;
- Nadir Afonso Rodrigues, (4 December 1920 –) - a geometric abstractionist painter, formally trained in architecture, but who later studied painting in Paris, becoming one of the pioneers in the Kinetic art movement;
- Cândido Sotto Mayor (Lebução; 26 October 1852 - Lisbon, 29 October 1935), a philanthropist responsible for the main Garden in Chaves, but also as the founder of the Banco Sotto Mayor (English: Sotto Mayor Bank);
- António Joaquim Granjo (27 December 1881 — Lisbon, 20 October 1921), was a lawyer and politician, assassinated as Minister of the Interior, during the infamous Noite Sangrenta(English: Bloody Night) on 19 October 1921;
- Francisco da Costa Gomes, (Chaves; 30 June 1914 – (Lapa) Lisbon; 31 July 2001), was a military officer, politician, the 15th President of the Portuguese Republic (the second after the Carnation Revolution), known for his brokered military agreement between UNITA against the MPLA and the FNLA (in Portuguese West Africa), and his refusal to swear public loyalty to the President of the Council of Ministers Marcello Caetano;
- Francisco Gonçalves Carneiro (Chaves, 20 July 1915), lawyer, museum curator and writer;
- Gentil de Valadares (25 February 1916 - Alvor, 17 September 2006), a poet, known as the poet traitor during the Estado Novo regime for his work "Coração" against the Colonial Wars, and imprisoned by the PIDE (secret police) his homage to writer José Maria Ferreira de Castro;
- Mário Gonçalves Carneiro (7 December 1917 - 5 July 2008), a surgeon and director of the Caldas de Chaves; promoted a modern thermal park system in the Alto Tâmega region, that includes the Chaves spa;
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