Germano Almeida is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer.
João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho is a Portuguese film director.
George Agostinho Baptista da Silva,GCSE was a Portuguese philosopher,essayist,and writer. His thought combines elements of pantheism and millenarism,an ethic of renunciation,and a belief in freedom as the most important feature of man. Anti-dogmatic,he asserts that truth is only found in the sum of all conflicting hypothesis. He may be considered a practical philosopher,living and working for a change in society,according to his beliefs.
Lídia Jorge is a prominent Portuguese novelist and author whose work is representative of a recent style of Portuguese writing,the so-called "Post Revolution Generation".
Tomaz Emídio Leopoldo de Carvalho Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Schiappa Pectra Sousa Ribas was a professor,writer,ethnologist and critic of theatre and dance.
Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra was a prominent figure in Portuguese philology and linguistics. A prolific writer with over 80 published works. Another special interest was the relationship between Galician and Portuguese,as evinced by his study of the dialects of Madeira (1990) and his plan,together with Manuel de Paiva Boléo and JoséG. Herculano de Carvalho,for a linguistic-ethnographic atlas of Portugal and Galicia (1960). He is also co-author,with Celso Ferreira da Cunha,of a major work on Portuguese grammar,the Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo.
Albuquerque Mendes is a Portuguese artist. He works in the fields of painting,performance art and installation.
Adriano JoséAlves Moreira,ComC GCC GOIH GCSE was a Portuguese lawyer,professor and a leading political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century.
ISCTE –Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is a Portuguese public tertiary education institution. It is located in the city centre of Lisbon,in Cidade Universitária,adjoining the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) and Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) of the University of Lisbon. ISCTE was founded in 1972,starting with three degrees and 296 studentes. Formerly called Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa,its full name was dropped in 2009 when it became a university institute of foundational nature.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a sociologist,Professor emeritus at the Department of Sociology of the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC),Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School,and Director Emeritus of the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra. A Marxist,outspoken sympathizer and avowed supporter of the Bloco de Esquerda party,he is regarded as one of the most prominent Portuguese living left-wing intellectuals. In 2023,after a sexual harassment scandal,the University of Coimbra suspended his academic positions. The final report of the independent commission set up to assess the accusations of harassment against Boaventura Sousa Santos and other members of the institution confirmed the unethical and unlawful situations described by victims.
Maria Keil was a Portuguese visual artist. She was born in Silves and died in Lisbon.
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.
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.
Irene do Céu Vieira Lisboa was a Portuguese novelist,short story writer,poet,essayist and educational writer. Especially for her fictional work,she has achieved a special place in modern Portuguese literature.
Francisco Caldeira CabralGCIH •GOIP was a Portuguese landscape architect. He was an active and internationally reputed landscape architect from the 1940s to the 1980s. He was a pioneer in the practice,study and teaching of Landscape Architecture,and he was a pioneer of the Portuguese environmental movement.
Miguel Augusto Bombarda was a Portuguese physician,psychiatrist,and politician. He is perhaps most widely remembered as one of the major conspirators of the 5 October 1910 revolution,although he was shot and killed the day before the coup took place by one of his patients,Aparício Rebelo dos Santos.
The 28 de Novembro Public Secondary School is a Timorese educational institution based in Becora,in Dili,the country's capital. It is one of the largest educational institutions in East Timor.
Augusto Brázio,is a Portuguese photographer with a long consolidated career in photography since the 90's,has had more than 10 books published.
The Mirandela railway station,was a station on the Tua line,which served the town of Mirandela,in the Bragança District of Portugal.
