Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

* Afonso de Albuquerque ( 1453 – 1515 ) was a Portuguese nobleman, naval general officer whose military and administrative activities conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian ocean.

** Tomé de Sousa, Portuguese nobleman, first general-governor of Brazil ( d. 1573 or 1579 )

Bartolomeu Dias (; Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz ; c. 1451 – 29 May 1500 ), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer.

His father Giovanni Antonio Carafa died in West Flanders in 1516 and his mother Vittoria Camponeschi was the daughter of Pietro Lalle Camponeschi, 5th Conte di Montorio, a Neapolitan nobleman, and wife Dona Maria de Noronha, a Portuguese noblewoman of the House of Pereira Senhores dos Lagares de El-Rei and Senhores de Paiva, Baltar e Cabeceiras de Basto.

Pedro Álvares Cabral ( ; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520 ) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil.

Santos (, Saints ) is a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas.

In 1503 Lopes, a minor nobleman and soldier, accompanied the Portuguese naval general Afonso de Albuquerque on his first voyage to Goa on the west coast of India.

Another relative, Catalina Capa-Yupanqui, who died in 1580, married a Portuguese nobleman named António Ramos, son of António Colaço and wife Violante Fernandes Veloso.

Their daughter was Francisca de Lima, who married Álvaro de Abreu de Lima, another Portuguese nobleman, and had issue in Portugal.

Her political and amorous affairs with Galician nobleman Fernando Pérez de Traba led to her ouster by her son, Afonso Henriques, who with the support of the Portuguese nobility and clergy defeated her at the Battle of São Mamede in 1128.

* Diogo Gil Moniz, Portuguese nobleman, son of Gil Aires Moniz

1580 ), Portuguese nobleman

* Febo Moniz de Lusignan, Portuguese nobleman, grandfather of Febo Moniz

* Gil Aires Moniz, Portuguese nobleman

* Pedro Moniz da Silva, Portuguese nobleman, son of Diogo Gil Moniz

* Rui Gil Moniz, Portuguese nobleman, son of Gil Aires Moniz

* Vasco Gil Moniz ( died 1497 ), Portuguese nobleman, son of Gil Aires Moniz

* Capitão-Mor, the hereditary title and office given by the Portuguese Crown to nobleman granted the rule of Capitanias

* Paio Peres Correia, Portuguese medieval nobleman

* Ephraim Lópes Pereira d ' Aguilar, 2nd Baron d ' Aguilar was an eccentric Jewish Portuguese nobleman who lived a life of privation, while amassing a secret fortune.

In a documentary chronicling the making of the first three Indiana Jones films, John Rhys-Davies stated that his character of Sallah was meant to be a cross between his character in Shogun, Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues, and Falstaff.

* 1920 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress ( d. 1999 )

** Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese Fado legend ( b. 1920 )

Many family names in Maluku are derived from the Portuguese including da Lima, da Costa, Dias, da Freitas, Gonsalves, Mendoza, Rodrigues, and da Silva.

In fact, the Portuguese cinema showed particular interest in the fado universe in 1947 with O Fado, História de uma Cantadeira, starred by Amália Rodrigues or in 1963, with O Miúdo da Bica, starred by Fernando Farinha.

They travel by one of Toranaga ’ s galleys piloted by the Portuguese pilot Rodrigues.

The Portuguese pilot Rodrigues — whose life was saved by Blackthorne earlier in a storm — repays his debt to Blackthorne by having him thrown overboard to swim back to Toranaga's ship instead.

Blackthorne's plans to attack the Black Ship are complicated by his respect and friendship for that vessel's Portuguese pilot, Rodrigues.

** Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet ( died 1621 )

The Portuguese Diego Rodrigues explored the Indian Ocean in 1528, he explored the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues, naming it the Mascarene or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman Pedro Mascarenhas, who had been there before.

The city is the birthplace of several leading Portuguese poets, such as Afonso Lopes Vieira and Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, after whom the central square is named.

It was first discovered by the Arabs but named after Portuguese navigator Diogo Rodrigues.

A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Pedro de Escobar, Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães, Carlos Seixas, Diogo Dias Melgás, João Domingos Bomtempo, Marcos Portugal, José Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, Joly Braga Santos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, António Fragoso and Emmanuel Nunes ; organists such as António Carreira or Manuel Rodrigues Coelho ; singers such as Luísa Todi, Elisabete Matos or José Carlos Xavier ; pianists such as Maria João Pires or Sequeira Costa ; cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia ;

Although his father was simply García Rodríguez Francia ( or Garcia Rodrigues França in Portuguese ), the dictator inserted the particle de to style himself " Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ".

Famous professors at the faculty include the first President of the Portuguese Republic, Teófilo Braga and writers Vitorino Nemésio and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

Francisco José Rodrigues da Costa, ( born 1 December 1974 ), aka Costinha (), is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues ( born in Lisbon, 3 November 1949 ) is a Portuguese politician and economist.

Sashti became part of the northern province of Portuguese India, which was governed from Baçaím ( present-day Vasai ) on the north shore of Vasai Creek, it was leased to Dom Diogo Rodrigues also called as Mestre Diego from 25 October 1535 to 1548.

Simão Rodrigues de Azevedo ( 1510, Viseu, Portugal-15 June 1579, Lisbon ), was a Portuguese Jesuit priest,, one of the co-founders of the Society of Jesus.

The family names in the community come from Armenian ( the Galistan, the Dragon and the Avakian families ), British ( the Batchelor, the Branson, the Caine, the College, the Edwards, the Goodenough, the Hogan, the Philips, the Reeves, the Hale and the Smith families ), Danish ( the Lange, the Olsen, the Rasmussen and the Jensen families ), Dutch ( the Marbeck, the Ess ( formerly, " van Es "), the Hoeden ( or " van Hoeden "), the Van Cuylenberg, the De Bakker, the Westenra, the Ten Haken, the Feenstra, the Gronloh and the Vanderstraaten families ), French ( the Longue, the Poulier and the Cherbonnier families ), German ( the Hochstadt, the Oehlers, the Keller, the Kaiser and the Roelcke families ), Italian ( the Marini, the De Luca, the Esposito, the Angelucci and the Scarpa families ), Portuguese ( the Aeria, the Coelho, the Carvalho, the Conceicao, the de Almeida, the de Rosa, the de Silva, the de Souza ( or d ' Souza ), the de Cruz ( or D ' Cruz ), the de Cotta, the Nonis ( or " Nunis "), the Gomez ( or " Gomes "), the Lazaroo, the Monteiro, the Oliveiro, the Palmer, the Pereira, the Pestana, the Rodrigues and the Theseira families ), Spanish ( the Castellano, the Fernandez, the Lopez, the Zuniga, the Ferdinands and the Hernandez families ) and Swedish ( the Holmberg, the Johansson and the Lindblom families ) backgrounds.

Américo de Deus Rodrigues Tomás, GCC, GOA, GOSE (), archaic spelling: Americo Thomaz, ( Lisbon, November 19, 1894-Cascais, September 18, 1987 ) was a Portuguese admiral and politician.

The first firm attempts of having a Brazilian science establishment were made around 1783, with the expedition of Portuguese naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, who was sent by Portugal's prime minister, the Marquis of Pombal, to explore and identify Brazilian fauna, flora and geology.

The Theater of Nelson Rodrigues I / text selected and arranged by Joffre Rodrigues and translated from Portuguese by Jofre Rodrigues, Toby Coe.