José Albino Silva Peneda

José Albino da Silva Peneda (born 6 June 1950) is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament[1] for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

On 8 June 2010 he was made a knight of the Order of Prince Henry, awarded the senior class of Grand Cross.

[2] Silva Peneda was the president of the 2010 Organizing Committee of Portugal Day.

[3] Silva Peneda is one of the signatories of the Petition in Defense of the Portuguese Language (Manifesto em Defesa da Língua Portuguesa [pt]), standing against the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990.

Silva Peneda is the brother of Juvenal da Silva Peneda, who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Internal Affairs; Juvenal died in Porto on 6 January 2015.