Virgínia de Bivar Robertes Rau (4/9 December 1907 – 2 November 1973) was a Portuguese archaeologist and historian.
[1] In 1939, due to the beginning of the Second World War, she returned to Lisbon, where she joined the Historical and Philosophical Sciences of the Faculty of Arts.
A member of the Academia Portuguesa da História, Rau published a vast collection of works on Portuguese and colonial medieval and modern history.
[2] On 2 July 1969 she was awarded the rank of Grand Officer of the Order of Public Instruction.
Portuguese Studies Review cites her as a pioneer of the historiographical research of Timor governor António Coelho Guerreiro [de], after a work she published in 1956.