- José Sócrates
José Sócrates de Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (pron. IPA ; born in Porto (officially in Vilar de Maçada), 6 September 1957) is a Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Socialist Party and the current prime minister of Portugal, since March 12 2005. - José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso, GCC (born in Lisbon, March 23, 1956) is a Portuguese politician and the 11th President of the European Commission. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 April 2002 until 29 June 2004, when he resigned to become President-designate of the European Commission. The appointment was formally endorsed by the European Parliament on July 22, and he was due to take over officially from Romano Prodi on 1 November 2004. - António Guterres
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, GCC is a Portuguese politician, a former prime minister and president of the Socialist International. Currently he is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. António Guterres was born and raised in Portugal's capital, Lisbon. As a young child he already showed the abilities which would later garner him the award for Best High School Student for the year of 1965. - Pedro Santana Lopes
Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes, born June 29, 1956, a Portuguese lawyer and politician, was Prime Minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005. He is currently a Member of the Portuguese Parliament. Santana Lopes is twice divorced, with three children of two ex-wives and two more twin children from a relationship. - Francisco Sá Carneiro
Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro, GCTE, GCC, GCL, was Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months in 1980. A lawyer by training, he became a member of the puppet National Assembly, where he became one of the leaders of the "Liberal Wing", which attempted to work for the gradual transformation of António de Oliveira Salazar's dictatorship into a normal Western European democracy. In May 1974, a month after the Carnation Revolution, … - António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar, pron., (April 28, 1889 - July 27, 1970) was the President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal (Prime Minister) and the "de facto" dictator of the Portuguese Republic from 1932 to 1968. He was the founder and leader of the Estado Novo (New State), the authoritarian right-wing regime that presided over and controlled Portugal's social, economic, cultural and political life from 1933 to 1974. - Mário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE, Portuguese politician, was born in Lisbon, and graduated in history, philosophy and law from the University of Lisbon. He became a university lecturer in 1957, but his activities in opposition to the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar led to repeated arrests. He was active in resistance groups such as the Movement for Anti-Fascist National Unity and the Movement for Democratic Unity. - Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC is the President of the Portuguese Republic, having won the Portuguese presidential election on January 22, 2006. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on March 9, 2006. He was previously Prime Minister of Portugal from November 6, 1985 to October 28, 1995. His tenure of ten years was the longest of any democratically elected Prime Minister in Portuguese history, … - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo
Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo, GCC, GCIH (pron. IPA ; (full name "Maria de Lurdes Ruivo da Silva Matos Pintasilgo") (January 18, 1930-July 10, 2004) was the first woman (and the only, to date) to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal. A left-wing Catholic, she was close to the Socialist Party and was Minister of Social Affairs and then Ambassador to UNESCO before briefly serving as Prime Minister in 1979-1980. - Marcelo Caetano
Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano, also spelled Marcello Caetano, was a Portuguese politician and scholar, who was prime minister from 1968 until his overthrow in the Carnation Revolution of 1974. Graduated in Law, Caetano was a professor at the Law School of the University of Lisbon. An ultraconservative politician, by 1940 Caetano started his political career under the authoritarian dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar. - Gomes da Costa
Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa, or just Gomes da Costa (Lisbon, January 14 1863-Lisbon, December 17 1929), was a Portuguese army officer and politician, tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the Military dictatorship. He began his military career by joining Colégio Militar at age 10. As a soldier he stood out in pacification campaigns in the African and Indian colonies, … - Sidónio Pais
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais was a Portuguese politician, President in 1918. He was known as the "President-King". He was an army officer and taught mathematics at the Army school, and later, at the University of Coimbra. He became a member of Parliament in 1911, and was Minister of Finance for a short period. He was ambassador in Berlin from 1912 until 1916, when Portugal joined the First World War on the Allied side. - Bernardino Machado
Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães, <small>GCL</small> (* 28 March 1851 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; † 29 April 1944 in Oporto), was a famous Portuguese political figure, and twice president of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26). - José Mendes Cabeçadas
José Mendes Cabeçadas Júnior, commonly known as Mendes Cabeçadas, (Loulé, August 19, 1883-Lisbon, June 11, 1965), was a Portuguese Marine officer, free mason and republican, having a major role in the preparation of the revolutionary movements that created and ended the Portuguese First Republic: the 5 October revolution in 1910 and the 28 May coup d'état of 1926. - Vasco Gonçalves
General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as Prime Minister from July 18, 1974, to September 19, 1975. He was best known for his controversial left-wing positions, including nationalization of banks and insurance companies after the events of March 11, 1975. He joined the Portuguese Communist Party after leaving office. - António José de Almeida
António José de Almeida was a Portuguese political figure. He served as the president of Portugal from 1919 until 1923. He studied medicine at the University of Coimbra and was the founder of the Lisbon and Porto universities. He was one of the most eloquent republican tribunes, and, after the Republic proclamation, as interior minister he led the moderate wing of the Portuguese Republican Party, that opposed Afonso Costa. - António Óscar Carmona
António Óscar Fragoso Carmona was the tenth President of Portugal, having been Minister of War in 1923 and then General Dictator (officially Prime Minister) of Portugal. He was born in Lisbon in 1869, and died in the same city on 18 April 1951. He was General Dictator of Portugal and then President. Carmona saw his chance of rising in power after the 28th May revolution of 1926. A series of temporary rulers were elected by the military, with the first, … - Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Francisco José Pereira Pinto de Balsemão, GCC, (b.September 1 1937), is a former Prime Minister of Portugal, who served from 1981 to 1983. His mother was a granddaughter in male line of an adulterine son of King Pedro IV of Portugal. Being a graduate in law from the University of Lisbon, Pinto's pre-political career was in newspaper publishing. - António Maria da Silva
António Maria da Silva, pron., (1872- Lisbon, 14 October, 1950) was a Portuguese politician. An engineer, he was a prominent member of the Portuguese Republican Party. He was Prime Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) for four times, during the Portuguese First Republic. After his party victory in the legislative elections of 8 November 1925, he was invited to form government. He led a great campaign against President Manuel Teixeira Gomes, … - Pinheiro Chagas
João Pinheiro Chagas, pron., was a Portuguese journalist and politician. He was born in Brazil, from Portuguese parents who soon moved back to Portugal. He was an editor at the newspapers "O Primeiro de Janeiro", "Correio do Norte", "O Tempo" and "O Dia". After becoming a republican, he also founded the "República Portuguesa" and was the director of "O País" (1898). - Duarte Leite
Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva, pron., was a Portuguese historian, mathematician, journalist, diplomat and politician. He graduated in Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, in 1885. He taught at the Politecnic Academy of Porto, from 1886 a 1911. He was also the director of the newspaper diary "A Pátria". As a historian, he published many studies, later compiled in "História dos Descobrimentos" (History of the Discoveries), in 2 volumes. - Manuel Maria Coelho
António Manuel Maria Coelho was a Portuguese military officer of the Portuguese Army and politician during the period of the Portuguese First Republic. Among other posts, he served as governor of Angola and President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) after the "Noite Sangrenta" (Bloody Night) terrorist assassinations of prominent state figures (including Prime Minister António Granjo) on 19 October 1921. - Afonso Costa
Afonso Augusto da Costa, <small>GCL</small> was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and republican politician. He was the leader of the Portuguese Republican Party, and was one of the major figures of the Portuguese First Republic. He was a republican deputy at the Chamber of Deputies, during the last years of the Monarchy. After the proclamation of the republic, he was Justice Minister, during Teófilo Braga's Provisional Government (5 October1910 - 3 September 1911). - Augusto de Vasconcelos
Augusto César de Almeida e Vasconcelos Correia, better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos (pron.), was a Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat. He graduated at the Lisbon Medic-Cirurgical School, in 1891, were he also taught. A republican since his youth, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the first Constitutional Government of the 1st Republic, whose President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) was João Pinheiro Chagas. - Álvaro de Castro
Álvaro Xavier de Castro (pron. ; was Prime Minister of Portugal from November 20 to November 30, 1920 and from December 18, 1923 to July 6, 1924. - António Maria Baptista
António Maria Baptista, <small>GCTE</small>; (Beja, 5 January 1866 - Lisbon, 6 June 1920), pron., was a Portuguese military officer and politician. When he was lieutenant, he fought in Mozambique, during the wars of pacification against the Vátuas, lead by Gungunhana. He was promoted to colonel in 1917. He fought the monarchist uprising of 1919, and was nominated Minister of War in the same year. He, then, distinguished himself during a series of violent strikes, … - Liberato Pinto
Liberato Damião Ribeiro Pinto was a Portuguese lieutenant-colonel of the Republican National Guard ("Guarda Nacional Republicana", GNR), politician and President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) of one of the governments of the Portuguese First Republic. He was the Portuguese head of governmen for a short time from 1920 to 1921. - António Granjo
António Joaquim Granjo, pron., was a Portuguese lawyer and politician. He was a republican from his youth, and was a member of the National Constituent Assembly, elected on 28 May 1911. He fought during Portuguese participation in World War I, and wrote a book about his experiences. After President Sidónio Pais was shot dead, Granjo took action against the "North Monarchy", an attempt to restore a royalist regime in the north of Portugal, in 1919. - José de Castro
José Ribeiro de Castro, pron., was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician. He graduated in Law at the University of Coimbra, and was a lawyer in Lisbon and Guarda. A member of freemasonry, since 1868, he was originally a monarchist and a member of the liberal Progressist Party, but he joined the Portuguese Republican Party, in 1881. He was the main redactor of the newspaper "O Districto da Guarda", since its foundation in 1878, … - José Relvas
José Maria Mascarenhas Relvas, pron., was a Portuguese politician. A historic republican, it was him who proclaimed the republic in the balcony of Municipal Chamber of Lisbon, in 5 October 1910. He was Minister of Finances during the Provisional Government, lead by Teófilo Braga, from 5 October 1910 to 3 September 1911. After that, he served as minister (ambassador) of Portugal in Madrid, from 1911 to 1914. He was President of the Ministry (Prime Minister), … - Diogo Freitas do Amaral
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral, GCC, GCSE, GCIH, usually referred to as either Freitas do Amaral or simply Freitas, is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 March 2005 to 1 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s. In 1974, some months after the Carnation Revolution, … - Joaquim António de Aguiar
Joaquim António de Aguiar. He was for three times the prime minister of Portugal, from 1841 to 1842, then in 1860 and lastly from 1865 to 1868, this time in a coalition with the "Partido Progressista" (English: Progressist Party), in what is known as the "Governo de Fusão" (English: Fusion Government). He also served as the justice minister during the Peter IV regency. It was while holding this office that he issued the May 30, 1834 law, … - Alfredo de Sá Cardoso
Alfredo Ernesto de Sá Cardoso, commonly known as Alfredo de Sá Cardoso (pron.), or just Sá Cardoso, was a Portuguese republican politician of the Portuguese First Republic, who served twice as Prime Minister of Portugal. - João Franco
João Franco Ferreira Pinto Castelo Branco was a Portuguese politician and prime minister in the last years of the Portuguese monarchy. Facing republican dissent, João Franco (who had become prime minister in 1906) established an authoritarian government in 1907. He was still in office when the King of Portugal, Carlos I of Portugal, and his son and heir to the throne, Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza, were killed by republican revolutionaries on February 1, 1908. - Fontes Pereira de Melo
António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo (pron. IPA ; (Lisbon, 1819 - Lisbon, 1887) was a Portuguese statesman, politician, and engineer. Historically, he was a very important political figure, deputy, and in several occasions minister. He is mostly remembered for conducting dynamic industrial and public infrastructure policy which become known as "Fontismo" (after his name). - Artur Ivens Ferraz
General Artur Ivens Ferraz (Lisbon, 1 December 1870-Lisbon, 16 January 1933), pron, was a Portuguese military officer and politician. He served in the Portuguese Expeditionary Force during the Portuguese participation in World War I, in France. He was later general-governor of Mozambique, at the time a Portuguese colony, and was Minister of Trade, Colonies and Finances. He also served as Prime Minister from 8 July 1929 to 21 January 1930. - Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar
Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar (1865 - Lisbon, 1 December 1938) was Portuguese military officer and politician. Rodrigues Gaspar was President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) of one of the many governments of the Portuguese First Republic. - Domingos Oliveira
Domingos Augusto Alves da Costa e Oliveira (pron.) (31 July 1873, Lisbon -24 December 1957, Lisbon) was a Portuguese politician and general. He was nominated, on January 21 1930, Prime Minister of Portugal (President of the Council of Ministers) during the period of the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) that preceded the Estado Novo (New State). A conservative, he opposed all the attempts to restore democracy, … - Adelino da Palma Carlos
Adelino da Palma Carlos, GCC, GCIH, GOL, pron., (Faro, May 3, 1905- Lisbon, October 27, 1992) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician. He was an opponent of the fascist regime of the Estado Novo (New State) of António de Oliveira Salazar (and later Marcelo Caetano) since his youth, and, being a liberal, rather than a socialist, was chosen by President António de Spínola, as the first prime-minister, after the April 25, 1974 revolution. - José Vicente de Freitas
José Vicente de Freitas, <small>GCTE</small>;, pron., (Calheta, Madeira, 22 January 1869-Lisbon, 6 September 1952) was a Portuguese military officer and politician. He fought in Flanders, during Portuguese participation in World War I, and was awarded the Grand-Cross of the Torre e Espada Order, the highest Portuguese decoration. He was a colonel, when the 28 May 1926 movement took place. He totally supported the Military Dictatorship (Ditadura Nacional), …
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