Carlos Aboim Inglez

Carlos Hahnemann Saavedra Aboim Inglez (January 5, 1930 – February 13, 2002) was a Portuguese communist intellectual, militant and leader of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), entering the party in 1946 (at age 16).

His wife was Maria Adelaide Aboim Inglez, who was also a communist militant who lived clandestinely with her husband.

He was sentenced to eight years in Caxias prison by the Estado Novo regime.

He was interested in the relations between materialistic thought and the medieval controversy between realism and nominalism.

He asked that when he died he would be cremated to the sound of the Chorus of the Slaves of the opera Nabucco by Verdi.