João Manuel Hall Themido (6 January 1924 [1] – 7 November 2017) was a Portuguese diplomat who was Portugal's Ambassador to the United States from 1971 to 1981, [2] as well as Portugal's Ambassador to the United Kingdom (from 19 March 1984 [3] to 1989) and to Italy (from April 1968). [4] He retired in 1989, having begun his career with the Portuguese Foreign Ministry in 1947, and been one of only a few Portuguese Ambassadors to stay in post following the Coup of 25 November 1975. [5]
Hall Themido was awarded Portugal's Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada, Valor, Lealdade e Mérito (Grã-Cruz) in 1984.
João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho is a Portuguese film director.
Grande Otelo was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo was born in Uberlândia, and was orphaned as a child. He kept running away from the families that adopted him; only when he took up art did his life become settled.
Sebastião Lucas da Fonseca, known as Matateu, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.
António Pereira Nobre was a Portuguese poet. His masterpiece, Só, was the only book he published.
João Ameal was the literary pseudonym of Portuguese historian, political theorist, novelist and politician João Francisco de Barbosa Azevedo de Sande Ayres de Campos, 3rd Count of Ameal, GCC, OSE. His surname is also graphed Aires de Campos in contemporary Portuguese orthography, and he himself signed it in both forms. Both as an author and as a politician, he was active chiefly during Portugal's Estado Novo, and is regarded as one of the regime's leading intellectuals and historiographers. He is especially renowned for his widespread História de Portugal, a multi-volume work first published in 1940, and for the several historical studies which he authored throughout his life, most of which are shaped by his integralist convictions.
Sangalhos is a town and a civil parish in the municipality of Anadia, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,068, in an area of 16.90 km².
Jaime Alexandre Nogueira Pinto is a Portuguese writer and university professor, son of Jaime da Cunha Guimarães by Alda Branca Nogueira Pinto, who died in 2007.
Pedro Guilherme-Moreira is a Portuguese lawyer and novelist.
Benjamin Abdala Júnior is a Brazilian writer, scholar, and literary critic. His first book, A Escrita Neo-Realista, was published in 1981. He published the book Antologia da Poesia Brasileira - Realismo/Parnasianismo in 1985. He has written over 40 published books and hundreds of chapters in book collection,articles in newspapers and literary magazines .He has worked with the main Brazilian Scientific Agencies evaluating scholarships and grants requested by researchers from the main Brazilian universities. Benjamin has also lived in Portugal and France, where he expanded his research and gave lectures on Comparative, Portuguese and African Literatures. He has been invited to the main universities in Africa, China, United States, Canada, France, England, Portugal, Austria, Tchecoslovaquia, Russia and Chile, giving lectures on African Literatures of Portuguese Speaking Countries, Comparative Literature, Neo-realism in Portugal and Brazil, among other subjects. Grandson of Lebanese immigrants, he received a Merit Medal celebrating 130 years of Middle Eastern Immigration to South America from BibliASPA - Biblioteca e Centro de Pesquisa América do Sul - Países Árabes. He has 3 children and 3 grandchildren, and lives in São Paulo. He is retired from University of São Paulo after 35 years of contribution as professor and administrator, but he is still actively involved in the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras and Ciencias Humanas as a researcher.
Manuel João Mendes Silva Ramos is a Portuguese anthropologist, artist and civil rights advocate. As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide.
Sérgio Britto was a Brazilian actor and film director. He appeared in more than forty films from 1951 to 2008.
Beatriz Amélia Alves de Sousa Oliveira Basto da Silva was born in Anadia, Portugal in 1944 and majored in history at the University of Coimbra with the thesis of Historiografia - o Conceito de História em António Caetano do Amaral.
Verdades Secretas is a Brazilian telenovela created by Walcyr Carrasco and directed by Mauro Mendonça Filho and Amora Mautner. Produced and broadcast by TV Globo, it premiered on 8 June 2015. The second season was broadcast by Globo streaming service, Globoplay from 20 October 2021 to 17 December 2021.
The Prêmio Extra de Televisão de melhor telenovela is a category of the Prêmio Extra de Televisão, awarded to the best telenovela on Brazilian television.
Jill Rosemary Dias was an Anglo-Portuguese anthropologist and historian. Her work is said to have inspired contemporary research in the areas of Portuguese colonial and post-colonial anthropology and in the history of Lusophone Africa.
Manuel Viegas Carrascalão was a Portuguese journalist and trade union leader.
António Manuel Filipe Rocha Pimentel is a Portuguese academic and art historian currently the director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
Tiago da Mota Veiga Moreira de Sá is a Portuguese politician, from the Chega party. He is a professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations. Moreira de Sá was also a member of the Assembly of the Republic during the 15th legislature (2022–2024), elected for the Social Democratic Party.