Notable Citizens
- Aníbal Cavaco Silva (current Portuguese President and former Prime Minister)
- Adelino da Palma Carlos (former Portuguese Prime Minister)
- António Aleixo (poet)
- António Calvário (singer)
- Bartolomeu Dias (navigator)
- Carlos Brito (politician and writer)
- Diogo Rodrigues (explorer of the Indian Ocean)
- Duarte Pacheco (former Minister of Public Education and Public Works and Communications and Mayor of Lisbon)
- Francisco Barreto (soldier and explorer. An officer in Morocco, viceroy of Portuguese India, he was tasked with an expedition to southeast Africa in search of legendary gold mines.)
- Gil Eannes (navigator)
- Helena Vieira (soprano)
- João de Deus (poet)
- João Moutinho (football player)
- João Vaz Corte-Real (claimed by some accounts to have been an pre-Columbian explorer of a land called New Land of the Codfish, possibly part of North America)
- José Mendes Cabeçadas (former Portuguese President and Prime Minister)
- José Miguel Júdice (journalist)
- Júlio Dantas (writer, physician)
- Lídia Jorge (writer)
- Manuel Teixeira Gomes (former Portuguese President and writer)
- Maria Barroso (actress, wife of former Portuguese President and Prime Minister Mário Soares)
- Maria Cavaco Silva (wife of present Portuguese President and former Prime Minister)
- Maria das Dores Formosinho Vieira (wife of former Portuguese President and Prime Minister José Mendes Cabeçadas)
- Maria José Rodrigues Ritta (wife of former Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio)
- Maria Margarida Pinto Ribeiro de Sousa Uva (wife of José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Portugal)
- Nuno Júdice (poet)
- Nuno Krus Abecassis (former Mayor of Lisbon)
- Clive Dunn, British film and television actor (Dad's Army), from the 1980s until his death in 2012.
- Patrick Swift (Artist. Lived in Algarve from 1962 until his death in 1983. Founded Porches Pottery/Olaria Algarve.)
- Katherine Swift (artist) (Artist and ceramicist. Worked at Porches Pottery and founded Estudio Destra in Silves.)
- Tomaz Cabreira (former Minister of the Finances)
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