People
- Charles Darwin is known to have traveled to Porto Praya, evident from his Voyage of the Beagle.
- Gelson Fernandes, a footballer who currently plays for Leicester City and Switzerland.
- Nani, a footballer who currently plays for Manchester United and Portugal.
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people Id like to be.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? Theyre a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had beenwhat people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortalneeds to be protected from people.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)