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17 unusual facts about Portuguese people


Ana Guiomar

Ana Guiomar (born 1988-08-26) is a Portuguese actress, known for her character Marta Navarro in the youthful series, "Morangos com Açúcar" (2004–2006).

Dina Matos

They moved to the United States from Portugal when she was still young and settled in the heavily Portuguese Ironbound section of Newark.

Diogo Morgado

Diogo Miguel Morgado Soares (born January 17, 1980) is a Portuguese actor and former model.

Francisco Ribeiro

Francisco Ribeiro (March 15, 1965 – September 14, 2010) was a Portuguese cellist, composer, lyricist, vocalist, arranger and record producer.

George Marcus

He has researched and written about nobility in Tonga, an upper-class group with family fortunes in Galveston, Texas, and a Portuguese nobleman.

Isidro Casanova

The town was renamed in his honor following his death, and one of its main streets would later be named República de Portugal in honor of the town's distinction as the home of the largest Portuguese community in Argentina.

Kaaren de Zilva

Her parents were born in Sri Lanka and throughout the family tree the predominant ethnicities are Portuguese and Dutch.

Manuel Buíça

Manuel dos Reis da Silva Buíça (30 December 1876 — 1 February 1908) was a Portuguese schoolteacher, former cavalry Sergeant, and excellent marksman involved with Alfredo Costa in the regicide of King Carlos I of Portugal and the Prince Royal, Luis Filipe, during the events that became known as the 1908 Lisbon Regicide (on February 1, 1908).

Manuela Couto

Manuela Couto (born on February 17, 1964 in Setúbal) is a Portuguese actress.

Poetas de Karaoke

In general, the lyrics say that Portuguese musicians only sing in English to earn more money.

Sá Nogueira

Rolando Sá Nogueira, (Lisbon, May 19, 1921 – November 18, 2002), was one of the most important painters of his generation; according to José Augusto França, he belongs to the third wave of 20th Century modern Portuguese painters 1.

Sebastiano Ximenes

Sebastiano Ximenes (c. late 16th century) was an Italian banker of Portuguese origin in Florence, and noted patron of the Arts.

Tai O

In early 16th century, Tai O was once occupied shortly by Portuguese during the Battle of Tamao.

Tarzan Taborda

Tarzan Taborda (Albano Taborda Curto Esteves) (May 27, 1935 - September 9, 2005), was a Portuguese professional wrestler.

The Abstinence

George calculates the odds of having sex with a Portuguese waitress, and concludes that statistically, he has to do it.

Thumpoly

During the period of Portuguese, the place was also called 'Thompolis' which means 'The town of St. Thomas'.

Walkeshwar Temple

The temple was destroyed by the Portuguese during their reign over Mumbai (Portuguese Bom Bahia) in the 16th century.


Alberto Seidi

Alberto Adulai Seidi (born 20 November 1992) is a Guinea-Bissau-born Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward and is currently a free agent after being released by Premier League club Southampton.

All-on-4

The concept was developed, institutionalized and systematically analyzed in the 1990s through studies funded by Nobel Biocare in collaboration with a Portuguese dentist Paulo Maló.

António Arnault

António Duarte Arnault, GOL (born 1936 in Cumieira, Penela, Portugal) is a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician.

Caaguazú Department

In the 16th and 17th centuries, European settlers in the present-day department of Caaguazú were threatened by the Portuguese Bandeirant and Guaicurú Indians, preventing permanent settlement of the land for many years.

Carlos Andrade

Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Vieira de Andrade (born April 27, 1978, Sal, Cape Verde) is a Portuguese basketball player.

Cartoon Noir

The short films brought together for this anthology were Gentle Spirit (1987) by Polish animator Piotr Dumala, Club of the Laid Off (1989) by the Czech artist Jiri Barta, Abductees (1995) from England’s Paul Vester, The Story of the Cat and the Moon (1995) from Portuguese animator Pedro Serrazina, and a pair of shorts from American filmmakers: Suzan Pitt's Joy Street (1996) and Julie Zammarchi's Ape (1992).

Chakma people

The Arakan king Meng Rajagri (1593–1612) conquered this land, and in a 1607 letter to a Portuguese merchant, Philip de Brito Nicote addressed himself as the highest and most powerful king of Arakan, of Chacomas and of Bengal.

Channii

Channii is a Dutch singer/songwriter born May 27, 1991 in the capital of Holland, Amsterdam, she's a mix of different cultures: Dutch, Portuguese and Asian.

Chica da Silva

She lived mainly in Arraial do Tijuco (nowadays known as Diamantina) and was the daughter of a Portuguese man, Antônio Caetano de Sá and his black enslaved lover, Maria da Costa, who was probably from the Gulf of Guinea or Bahia.

Christianity in Delhi

Sir Thomas Roe, King James I's ambassador to India during Jahangir's reign tells the story of two princes' conversion to Christianity including his nephew only to enable Jahangir's demand to Portuguese women for himself, which was unsuccessful.

Church of Our Lady of Light

A Church in Chennai, India locally called as Luz Church where it is believed that Portuguese friars were miraculously saved by a bright light after praying to Mother Mary.

Dramatis personæ

Fernando Pessoa, the Anglo-Portuguese writer, created about 80 pen names he called heteronyms or dramatis personæ interrelated in a «drama in people».

Francisco Maria da Veiga

Francisco Maria da Veiga, GCNSC, KCVO was a Portuguese judge and pro-monarchist.

Golconda, Nevada

The town was a diverse society including both native-born European Americans as well as other groups including individuals of French, Portuguese, Paiute, and Chinese descent who all lived and worked in the small community.

Grand Desert, Nova Scotia

It is known that Vikings traveled in this part of the world in the year 1000 and that Portuguese, French and Basque fishermen were frequenting these shores in search of the plentiful cod in the late 1400s and early 1500s.

Hélio Roque

Born in Huambo, Angola, to Portuguese settlers, Roque returned to his country and started his football career at Amora FC, moving at age 17 to Benfica and having no impact whatsoever with its first team.

Itsekiri language

It has also been very heavily influenced by Edo (Bini), Portuguese and English and has taken in loan words from neighbouring Ijo and Urhobo languages.However its basic structure, grammar and vocabulary is essentially Yoruboid with its closest relatives being the south-eastern family of Yoruba dialects - Ijebu, Ilaje-Ikale, Ondo, Akure and Owo.

Jorge Alberto Hagedorn Rangel

Jorge Alberto da Conceição Hagedorn Rangel was a Portuguese civil servant in Macau and served in the post of Secretary for Public Administration, Education and Youth.

Juliana Dias da Costa

Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.

Leonardo Jardim

Born in Barcelona, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, to Portuguese parents who had settled in the country, Jardim returned to Portugal at a very young age, relocating to the island of Madeira.

Loutolim

The original idol of Shree Ramnathi (see picture) now stands in an 18th-century temple of Indo-Portuguese architecture in Bandivade, Ponda, Goa.

Manuel de Sá

Manuel de Sá (b. at Vila do Conde, Province Entre-Minho-e-Douro, 1530; d. at Arona, Italy, 30 December 1596) was a Portuguese Jesuit theologian and exegete.

Mariana Alcoforado

Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun (comprising five letters).

Mato Grosso do Sul

In the Cerrado areas, mostly in the south, central and east, there is a predominance of Southern Brazilian farmers of German, Portuguese and Italian descent.

Maurizio Bensaude

Maurício (Moisés) Bensaúde (also known professionally as Maurizio Bensaude) (13 February 1863 in Ponta Delgada – 22 December 1912 in Lisbon), was a Portuguese operatic baritone.

Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares

Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares (1585 — Madrid, 1647) was a Portuguese noble and military, loyal to King Philip III of Portugal (Philip IV of Spain).

Paulo Figueiredo

Figueiredo was born in Malanje, Portuguese Angola to Portuguese settlers, moving to the land of his parents at the age of three.

Rui Bandeira

Rui Pedro Neto de Mello Bandeira (born July 25, 1973, Nampula) is a Portuguese singer.

São Caetano do Sul

Immigrants from many nationalities have settled in São Caetano but the most significant groups are Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Japanese.

Soledad Miranda

The first child of Portuguese parents, Soledad (whose name translates as solitude or loneliness) was the niece of the famous Spanish singer-actress-flamenco dancer Paquita Rico.

Szilvia Freire

She is of mixed Hungarian and Portuguese heritage; her mother is Hungarian and her father was born in Mozambique to Portuguese parents.

The Magic Numbers

The Stodarts are the children of a Scottish father and a Portuguese mother and were born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, where their mother was an opera singer and had her own TV show.

Tiago Apolónia

Tiago Apolónia (born July 28, 1986 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese table tennis player, who is currently playing for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen.

Tonicha

Tonicha (born Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha on 8 March 1946, in Beja, Alentejo) is a Portuguese Popular music / folk singer.

Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro

Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro (Green outside, red inside) is a 1979 Portuguese feature film directed and produced by Ricardo Costa.