List of people from Lisbon

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Bronze statue of poet Fernando Pessoa in the Café A Brasileira, in the Chiado neighbourhood

Early times

15 Century

16 Century

  • João de Castro (1500–1548), naval officer, notable scientist, writer and cartographer. He was also the fourth viceroy of Portuguese India. He was called Castro Forte ("Strong Castro") by poet Luís de Camões. He undertook many observations and can in a way be considered as one of the discoverers of crustal magnetism. He also discovered spatial variations of Declination in some points of the globe (as in Baçaim, India), which he attributed to the disturbing effects of underwater rock masses. Castro was one of the most important representative of scientific maritime investigations of the time
  • humanist and painter. Considered to be one of the most important figures of the Portuguese Renaissance, he was also an essayist, architect, and historian. He was a maternal nephew of Pope Adrian VI and a remote uncle of Deodoro da Fonseca, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and his namesake Chico Buarque
  • António Ferreira (1528 – 1569), poet and the foremost representative of the classical school, founded by Francisco de Sá de Miranda. His most considerable work, Castro, is the first tragedy in Portuguese, and the second in modern European literature. known as the Portuguese Horace, he was an ardent defender of the Portuguese language.
  • Diogo do Couto (ca.1542–Goa - 1616), notable historian who continued the Decades of Asia of the great historian João de Barros. Couto was a close friend of the poet Luís de Camões.

17 Century

18 Century

19 Century

  • Alexandre Herculano (Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo; (1810–1877 in Santarém), novelist and historian
  • Camilo Castelo Branco (Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco, 1st Viscount de Correia Botelho; (1825 –1890), prolific and notable writer, having authored over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is, overall, considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of bitterness, dark humour of sarcasm
  • Cesário Verde (1855–1886), poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools. This is partly due to his being championed by many other authors after his death, notably Fernando Pessoa
  • Lucinda do Carmo (1861–1922), actress and poet
  • Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro (1861–1944), son of a Portuguese father and an Irish mother, was a soldier, colonial governor, monarchist politician and counter-revolutionary; he was notable for his role during the colonial occupation of Angola and Mozambique
    and for his dedication to the monarchist cause during the period of the First Portuguese Republic
  • Gago Coutinho or Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (1869–1959), aviation pioneer who, together with Sacadura Cabral (1881–1924), was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, from March to June 1922 (some sources wrongly claim 1919), from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro. Gago Coutinho invented a type of sextant incorporating two spirit levels to provide an artificial horizon. This adaptation of the traditional marine sextant allowed navigation without visual reference to the real horizon.
  • Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), poet, writer, literary critic and translator, considered one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century
  • Sarah Affonso (1899–1983), modernist painter and illustrator remembered for rural scenes and portraits of peasant women
  • Raquel Gameiro (1889–1970), watercolour painter and illustrator or books, newspapers and magazines
  • Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890–1916), poet and writer. He is one of the most well known of the "Geração D'Orpheu" and friend of Fernando Pessoa and Almada Negreiros

20 Century

See also

References

  1. ^ Purcell, Mary (1960). Saint Anthony and His Times. Garden City, New York: Hanover House. pp. 19, 275–6.