José Eduardo dos Santos was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and president of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the party that has ruled Angola since it won independence in 1975. By the time he stepped down in 2017, he was the second-longest-serving president in Africa, surpassed only by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.
Daiane Garcia dos Santos is a retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2003 world champion on the floor apparatus. On doing so, she became the first black gymnast to ever win an event at the World Championships as well as the first Brazilian and South American to win the competition. She represented Brazil at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. Widely regarded as the most powerful tumbler of her generation by critics and fellow competitors alike, the gymnast had two eponymous skills added on the FIG code of points after being the first woman to compete them at international championships. Dos Santos I, an F rated element, and Dos Santos II, an H rated element on the 2017–2020 COP.
The Angola women's national handball team, nicknamed As Pérolas, represents Angola in international handball competitions.
Isabel Evelize Wangimba Guialo, nicknamed Belinha is an Angolan handball player for Fleury Loiret HB and the Angolan national team.
Luisa Kiala is an Angolan handball player. She is a member of the Angola women's national handball team and participated at the 2011 and 2013 World Women's Handball Championships in Brazil and Serbia.
Natália María Bernardo dos Santos is an Angolan handball player for Primeiro de Agosto and the Angola women's national handball team.
Maik Ferreira dos Santos is a Brazilian handball goalkeeper for Al-Rayan and the Brazilian handball team.
Marta Florença Casimiro dos Santos is an Angolan handball player. She plays for the club Petro de Luanda and on the Angolan national team. She competed for the Angolan team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. and she is the side chick of cunamata
The Angola women's national handball team Under-17 represents Angola in international handball competitions and is controlled by the Federação Angolana de Andebol. At continental level, it competes at the African Women's Youth Handball Championship which qualifies for the IHF Women's Youth World Championship. Angola has been a member of the IHF since 1979.
Thiagus Petrus Gonçalves dos Santos is a Brazilian professional handball player for FC Barcelona and the Brazilian national team.
Angola competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, because of its participation in the Soviet boycott.
Célia Janete da Costa Coppi is a Brazilian handball player who plays for the club Metodista/São Bernardo. She is also member of the Brazilian national team. She competed at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship in Denmark.
Wuta Dombaxe is an Angolan handball player for Romanian club Corona Brașov and the Angolan national team.
Elizabeth Jurema Faro Cailo is an Angolan handball player who plays for the club Primeiro de Agosto. She is member of the Angolan national team. She competed at the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship in Denmark.
Juliana Machado is an Angolan handball player for Primeiro de Agosto. She is a member of the Angolan national team.
Liliana Venâncio is an Angolan handball player for club Primeiro de Agosto and the Angolan national team.
Filipe de Carvalho Pinto da Cruz, best known as Filipe Cruz is a former Angolan handball player and a current handball coach of Primeiro de Agosto and the Angolan national team.
Oswaldo Maestro dos Santos Guimarães is a Brazilian handball player for Balonmano Torrelavega and the Brazilian handball team.
Marcos Paulo "Marcão" dos Santos is a Brazilian male handball player. He was a member of the Brazil men's national handball team, playing as a goalkeeper. He was a part of the team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. On club level he played for Metodista in Brazil. His brother Maik Ferreira dos Santos was also an international handball player who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
António Dias dos Santos is an Angolan long jumper and triple jumper.
