List of Portuguese people

The following is a list of notable and historically significant people from Portugal.

Vasco da Gama , discoverer of the sea route to India
Pedro Álvares Cabral , discoverer of Brazil
João Vaz Corte-Real , discoverer of Newfoundland.
Afonso de Albuquerque , naval admiral and viceroy of India.
Fernão Mendes Pinto , writer and one of the first to travel to Japan
Saint Anthony of Lisbon (or Padua)
Pope John XXI
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz , realist writer