Ana Paula Mendes Vitorino (born 25 April 1962) is a Portuguese politician who most recently served as Minister of Maritime Affairs from 2015 to 2019, in the XXI Constitutional Government.

[2] Daughter to parents from Vila do Cano, in Sousel, she was born in Lourenço Marques (known as Maputo from 1976), having lived in Beira, a Mozambican city, until she was 12 years old.

She has a degree in Civil Engineering, specializing in Urbanization and Transport, from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1986 and a master's degree in Transport from the same institution in 1992, where she is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, since 1989.

[3] She is married to Eduardo Cabrita, a colleague in the Government as Minister of Internal Affairs and has no children by choice.

[5] She was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, when she was Secretary of State for Transport, and in January 2016, two months after she was sworn in as Minister of the Sea.