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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jorge Sampaio | Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio | 1939 | 2021 | Portuguese | lawyer and politician who was the 18th President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Sampaio |
| Menasseh Ben Israel | Manoel Dias Soeiro | 1604 | 1657 | Portuguese | rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menasseh_Ben_Israel |
| Pedro Nunes | Pedro Nunes | 1502 | 1578 | Portuguese | mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Nunes |
| Ricardo Salgado | Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado | 1944 | n/a | Portuguese | economist and banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Salgado |
| Isaac Abarbanel | Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel | 1437 | 1508 | Portuguese | Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Abarbanel |
| Joseph Nasi | Joseph Nasi | 1524 | 1579 | Portuguese | Sephardi diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes/Benveniste, nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and an influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II. He was a great benefactor of the Jewish people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nasi |
| Uriel da Costa | Uriel da Costa | 1585 | 1640 | Portuguese | philosopher and skeptic who was born Christian, but reverted to Judaism and ended up questioning the Catholic and rabbinic institutions of his time | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel_da_Costa |
| Garcia de Orta | Garcia de Orta (or Garcia d'Orta) | 1501 | 1568 | Portuguese | Renaissance Sephardi Jewish physician, herbalist and naturalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcia_de_Orta |
| Moisés Bensabat Amzalak | Moisés Bensabat Amzalak | 1892 | 1978 | Portuguese | scholar and economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisés_Bensabat_Amzalak |
| Solomon Molcho | Solomon Molcho | 1500 | 1532 | Portuguese | Jewish mystic and messiah claimant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Molcho |
| Antonio Fernandez Carvajal | Antonio Fernandez Carvajal | 1590 | 1659 | Portuguese | Jewish merchant, who became the first endenizened English Jew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Fernandez_Carvajal |
| João Ramalho | João Ramalho | 1493 | 1582 | Portuguese | explorer and adventurer known as the first bandeirante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Ramalho |
| Gracia Mendes Nasi | Gracia Mendes Nasi | 1510 | 1569 | Portuguese | intellectual and one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracia_Mendes_Nasi |
| Judah Leon Abravanel | Leo the Hebrew, pen name of Judá Abravanel | 1460 | 1530 | Portuguese | Jewish philosopher, physician and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Leon_Abravanel |
| Jacob Lumbrozo | Jacob Lumbrozo | unkn | 1665 | Portuguese | physician, farmer, and trader resident in the British colony of Maryland in the middle of the 17th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lumbrozo |
| António José da Silva | António José da Silva Coutinho | 1705 | 1739 | Portuguese | dramatist born in colonial Brazil, known as "the Jew" (O Judeu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_José_da_Silva |
| David Pacifico | David Pacifico | 1784 | 1854 | Portuguese | Jewish merchant and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pacifico |
| António da Cunha Telles | António da Cunha Telles | 1935 | n/a | Portuguese | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_da_Cunha_Telles |
| António Raposo Tavares | António Raposo Tavares o Velho | 1598 | 1658 | Portuguese | colonial bandeirante who explored mainland eastern South America and claimed it for Portugal, extending the territory of the colony beyond the limits imposed by the treaty of Tordesillas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Raposo_Tavares |
| Jacob de Castro Sarmento | Jacob Henriques de Castro Sarmento | 1690 | 1762 | Portuguese | estrangeirado, physician, naturalist, poet and Deist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_de_Castro_Sarmento |
| Isaac Orobio de Castro | Balthazar (Isaac) Orobio de Castro | 1617 | 1687 | Portuguese | Jewish philosopher, physician and religious apologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Orobio_de_Castro |
| Henrique Henriques | Henrique Henriques | 1520 | 1600 | Portuguese | Jesuit priest and missionary who spent most of his life in missionary activities in South India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Henriques |
| Fernão Nunes | Fernão Nunes | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish traveler, chronicler and horse trader who spent three years in Vijayanagara, capital of the Vijayanagara Empire in the time period 1535-1537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_Nunes |
| Gaspar Castaño de Sosa | Gaspar Castaño de Sosa | 1550 | 1595 | Portuguese | settler, colonist, explorer, and reputed slaver who was among the founders of the towns of Saltillo and Monclova, in Coahuila, Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_Castaño_de_Sosa |
| Antonio de Montezinos | Antonio de Montezinos | null | null | Portuguese | traveler and a Marrano Sephardic Jew who in 1644 persuaded Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi of Amsterdam, that he had found one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel living in the jungles of the "Quito Province" (that is, the Pichincha Province) of Ecuador | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_de_Montezinos |
| Carlos Lisboa | Carlos Humberto Lehman de Almeida Benholiel Lisboa Santos | 1958 | n/a | Portuguese | former basketball player who played as a guard and forward | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lisboa |
| Samuel Nunez | Samuel Nunez | 1668 | 1744 | Portuguese | physician and among the earliest Jews to settle in North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Nunez |
| Samuel Usque | Samuel Usque | 1500 | 1555 | Portuguese | converso Jewish author who settled in Ferrara | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Usque |
| Diego Pereira d'Aguilar | Baron Diego Lopes Pereira d'Aguilar | 1699 | 1759 | Portuguese | London-based Jewish businessman, community leader and philanthropist, originally a Portuguese converso, who lived in the 18th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Pereira_d'Aguilar |
| Daniel Blaufuks | Daniel Blaufuks | 1963 | n/a | Portuguese | photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Blaufuks |
| Joshua Benoliel | Joshua Benoliel | 1873 | 1932 | Portuguese | photojournalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Benoliel |
| David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia | David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish philosopher who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_ben_Yom_Tov_ibn_Bilia |
| Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques | Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques, GCTE GCC | 1853 | 1922 | Portuguese | politician who once served as Prime Minister of Portugal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Alberto_de_Campos_Henriques |
| Yahia Ben Rabbi | Yahia Ben Rabbi | 1150 | 1222 | Portuguese | nobleman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahia_Ben_Rabbi |
| Ilse Losa | Ilse Losa | 1913 | 2006 | Portuguese | writer and translator, of German-Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Losa |
| Immanuel Aboab | Immanuel Aboab | 1555 | 1628 | Portuguese | Jewish scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Aboab |
| Bento Teixeira | Bento Teixeira | 1561 | 1618 | Portuguese | poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_Teixeira |
| Jao de la Porta | João da Porta | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish merchant important in the early settlement of the Texan coast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_de_la_Porta |
| Fernando Ulrich | Fernando Maria Costa Duarte Ulrich | 1952 | n/a | Portuguese | economist and banking administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Ulrich |
| David de Castro Tartas | David ben Abraham de Castro Tartas | 1630 | 1698 | Portuguese | Jewish printer in Amsterdam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_de_Castro_Tartas |
| Francisca Duarte | Francisca Duarte | 1595 | 1640 | Portuguese | singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca_Duarte |
| Manuel Rodrigues Lamego | Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego | 1590 | n/a | Portuguese | merchant and slave trader active in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rodrigues_Lamego |
| Luis de Almeida (missionary) | Luis de Almeida | 1525 | 1583 | Portuguese | surgeon, merchant and missionary of the Society of Jesus in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Almeida_(missionary) |
| Eugénia Melo e Castro | Eugénia Melo e Castro | 1958 | n/a | Portuguese | singer-songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugénia_Melo_e_Castro |
| Henrique Ben David | Henrique de Sena Ben David | 1926 | 1978 | Portuguese | footballer who played as a striker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Ben_David |
| Hieronima de Paiva | Hieronima de Paiva | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish diamond and coral merchant from Amsterdam belonging to Amsterdam Sephardic community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronima_de_Paiva |
| José Maria Espírito Santo Silva Ricciardi | José Maria Ricciardi | 1954 | n/a | Portuguese | economist and banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Maria_Espírito_Santo_Silva_Ricciardi |
| António Fernandes de Elvas | António Fernandes de Elvas | 1623 | n/a | Portuguese | merchant, including investor in pepper tax farm and Asian spices | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Fernandes_de_Elvas |
| Solomon Alami | Solomon Alami | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish ethical writer of the 14th and 15th centuries, contemporary of Simon ben Ẓemaḥ Duran (רשב"ץ) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Alami |
| José Vizinho | José Vizinho | null | null | Portuguese | Jew, born in the town of Covilhã, court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Vizinho |
| Jacques de Paiva | Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish diamond and coral merchant from Amsterdam belonging to the Amsterdam Sephardic community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Paiva |
| Adam Almiliby | Adam Almiliby | null | null | Portuguese | Jew who, together with Isaac Belamy, was appointed a farmer of the royal taxes in 1353 by King Alfonso IV. By virtue of this office both were exempted from wearing the Jew-badge, and were endowed with power to enforce the collection of the royal customs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Almiliby |