Politicians
- Afonso Costa (1871–1937) (Primer Minister during the First Republic)
- Alberto João Jardim (born 1943) (President of Regional Government of the Madeira Autonomous Region)
- Álvaro Cunhal (1913–2005) (former General Secretary of the PCP)
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva (economist, former Prime Minister, current President of the Republic)
- Anton de Vieira (1682-1745, governor of St Petersburg and Okhotsk)
- António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970) (Head of State, Leader of the National Union "União Nacional")
- António Guterres (former Prime Minister, current president of the Socialist International and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
- António Vitorino (former Minister and EU Commissionar)
- Bento Gonçalves (1902–1942) (former General Secretary of the PCP)
- Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto (1936–1985) (former Prime Minister)
- Carlos Carvalhas (born 1941) (former General Secretary of the PCP)
- Diogo Freitas do Amaral (former president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, current Minister of Foreign Affairs)
- Duarte Pio, Duke of Bragança (claimant to the abolished throne of Portugal)
- Francisco Sá Carneiro (1934–1980) (former Prime Minister)
- Jaime Ornelas Camacho (born 1911) (first Regional Government President of Madeira)
- Jerónimo de Sousa (born 1947) (General Secretary of the PCP)
- Jorge Sampaio (former President of the Republic)
- José Manuel Barroso (former Prime Minister, current president of the EU Commission)
- José Sócrates (former Prime Minister)
- Manuel Pinho (born 1954) (former Minister of Economy and Innovation)
- Marcelo Caetano (1906–1980) (former Head of State from 1970 to 1974)
- Mário Soares (born 1924) (former Prime Minister and President of the Republic)
- Octávio Pato (1925–1999)
- Pedro Santana Lopes (former Prime Minister, former Mayor of Lisbon)
- Teresa Heinz Kerry (philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry)
- Vasco Gonçalves (1922–2005) (former Prime Minister)
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal (1699–1782) (Statesman)
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