Cristina Sampaio (born 1960) is a Portuguese children's book illustrator and newspaper, magazine and animated cartoonist who has won many awards for her work.
In 1998, she created the set design for the children's musical Bom Dia, Benjamim!, a theatrical presentation performed at the Belém Cultural Centre near Lisbon, based on a successful television series.
In 2009, the Amadora Comic Strip Festival awarded her the prize for best children's illustration for the book Canta o Galo Gordo (The Fat Rooster sings).
The intention of the cartoon, inspired by events in France when a young Frenchman was killed by the police, leading to civil disturbances, was to criticise the racism of the security forces.
She was condemned by both the left and right of the Portuguese political spectrum and received "dozens of threats and hate messages".