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List of Portuguese-language poets
Last updated
July 31, 2025
The following is a list of famous or notable
Portuguese language
poets
:
Contents
Angola
Brazil
Cape Verde
East Timor
Galicia (Spain)
Goa (India)
Guinea-Bissau
Macau (China)
Mozambique
Portugal
São Tomé and Príncipe
See also
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Angola
Agostinho Neto
Alda Lara
António Jacinto
Ondjaki
Pepetela
Viriato da Cruz
Tomaz Vieira da Cruz
Brazil
Adalgisa Nery
Adélia Prado
Alberto de Oliveira
Alice Sant'Anna
Alphonsus de Guimaraens
Alvarenga Peixoto
Álvares de Azevedo
Ana Cristina César
Ana Estaregui
Ana Martins Marques
Angélica Freitas
Antônio Gonçalves Dias
António Vieira
Arnaldo Antunes
Augusto de Lima
Augusto dos Anjos
Bernardo Guimarães
Bruna Beber
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Casimiro de Abreu
Castro Alves
Cazuza
Cecília Meireles
Cláudio Manuel da Costa
Clarice Lispector
Cora Coralina
Cruz e Sousa
Cyro dos Anjos
Dante Milano
Fabiano Calixto
Fabrício Carpi Nejar
Fabrício Corsaletti
Ferreira Gullar
Gilberto Mendonça Teles
Gregório "Boca do Inferno" de Matos Guerra
Gonçalves Dias
Haroldo de Campos
Henriqueta Lisboa
Hilda Hilst
Hilda Machado
Ismar Tirelli Neto
João Cabral de Melo Neto
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
José de Alencar
Jorge de Lima
José de Mesquita
José de Santa Rita Durão
Julia de Souza
Junqueira Freire
Laura Liuzzi
Ledusha Spinardi
Leonardo Gandolfi
Mário de Andrade
Manuel Bandeira
Manuel de Abreu
Marília Garcia
Mário de Andrade
Menotti del Picchia
Murilo Mendes
Olavo Bilac
Oswald de Andrade
Paulo Leminski
Pedro Kilkerry
Raimundo Correia
Ricardo Domeneck
Rodrigo Lobo Damasceno
Santa Rita Durão
Tarso de Melo
Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
Victor Heringer
Vinicius de Moraes
Cape Verde
Aguinaldo Fonseca
Arménio Vieira
Jorge Barbosa
Osvaldo Alcântara
Ovídio Martins
East Timor
Fernando Sylvan
Francisco Borja da Costa
Galicia
(
Spain
)
Eduardo Blanco Amor
Xohán de Cangas
Luisa Castro
Rosalía de Castro
Martín Codax
Álvaro Cunqueiro
Manuel Curros Enríquez
Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Airas Nunes
Eduardo Pondal
Eladio Rodríguez
Claudio Rodríguez Fer
Ramón Sampedro
Goa
(
India
)
Adeodato Barreto
Laxmanrao Sardessai
Vimala Devi
R. V. Pandit
Guinea-Bissau
Abdulai Silá
Vasco Cabral
Macau
(
China
)
José dos Santos Ferreira
(Adé)
Mozambique
Armando Guebuza
Eduardo Mondlane
Eduardo White
José Craveirinha
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Marcelino dos Santos
Mia Couto
Noémia de Sousa
Sebastião Alba
Teodomiro Leite de Vasconcelos
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Portugal
Al Berto
Alberto de Lacerda
Alexandre O'Neill
Almada Negreiros
Almeida Garrett
Antero de Quental
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva
António Duarte Gomes Leal
António Ferreira (poet)
António Gedeão
António Nobre
António Reis
Ary dos Santos
Augusto Gil
Bernardim Ribeiro
Caetano da Costa Alegre
Camilo Pessanha
Carlos de Oliveira
Cesário Verde
Christovão Falcão
David Mourão-Ferreira
King Denis of Portugal
Eugénio de Andrade
Fernando Pessoa
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão
Florbela Espanca
Francisco Manoel de Nascimento
, aka Filinto Elysio
Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
Francisco de Sá de Miranda
(1481–1558)
Garcia de Resende
Gil Vicente
Guerra Junqueiro
Hélia Correia
Herberto Helder
Ibn Bassam
Jerónimo Corte-Real
João de Deus
João-Maria Nabais
Jorge de Sena
José Agostinho de Macedo
José António Camões
José Carlos Ary dos Santos
José dos Santos Ferreira
José Gomes Ferreira
José Régio
José Saramago
Judah Leon Abravanel
Luís de Camões
Luís Soares Eusébio
Manuel Alegre
Manuel António Pina
Manuel da Fonseca
Manuel de Faria e Sousa
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho
(1847–1921)
Maria Teresa Horta
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Matilde Campilho
Miguel Torga
Natália Correia
Orlando da Costa
Pedro Correia Garção
Raul de Carvalho
Rui Knopfli
Ruy Belo
Sérgio Godinho
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Vasco da Gama Rodrigues
Vasco Graça Moura
Vitorino Nemésio
Zeca Afonso
São Tomé and Príncipe
Alda do Espírito Santo
Caetano da Costa Alegre
See also
Poetry portal
Portuguese language literature
Portuguese literature
Portuguese poetry
Literature of Brazil
List of Portuguese people
List of poets
Instituto Camões
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