31 Notable alumni of Catholic University of Portugal
Updated: June 01, 2026 EliteDegrees
Catholic University of Portugal is ranked #1,141 in the world and #7 in Portugal by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 notable alumni from Catholic University of Portugal sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Catholic University of Portugal won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Hélder Sousa Silva
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Hélder António Guerra de Sousa Silva is a Portuguese engineer and politician, from the Social Democratic Party. Between 2013 and 2024, he served as Mayor of Mafra. He was also a member of the Assembly of the Republic, between 2011 and 2013, elected by the Lisbon constituency.
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2. Maria de Jesus dos Reis Ferreira
diplomat
Maria de Jesus dos Reis Ferreira is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations. She was also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia, while serving as Permanent Representative of Angola to the Office of the United Nations in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations Industrial...
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3. António José Cavaco Carrilho
1942-. (aged 84)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Dom António José Cavaco Carrilho GOIH who identifies himself as António Carrilho and is officially António III, is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Funchal between 2007 and January 2018.
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4. Moisés de Lemos Martins
1953-. (aged 73)
academic
Moisés de Lemos Martins is a full professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, University of Minho. He is the Director of CECS – the Communication and Society Research Centre, which he founded in 2001, and of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, which he set up in 2017. He is also the director of the scientific journals Comunicação e Sociedade...
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5. Patrícia Dantas
1972-. (aged 54)
politician
economist
Patrícia Dantas is a Mozambique-born Portuguese economist and politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in January 2022, as a representative of the Madeira constituency.
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6. Margarida Balseiro Lopes
1989-. (aged 37)
jurist
tax advisor
politician
Ana Margarida Balseiro de Sousa Lopes is a Portuguese jurist and politician. She was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal as a member of the liberal-conservative Social Democratic Party (PSD) and a former president of Social Democratic Youth (JSD), the youth wing of the PSD. Following the 2024 national election she was appointed as Minister of...
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7. Edgar Silva
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Edgar Freitas Gomes da Silva is a Portuguese politician and former Catholic priest. He is known for having been a bitter dissident from the Portuguese Catholic hierarchy.
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8. Manuel Lobo Antunes
1958-. (aged 68)
diplomat
politician
Manuel Lobo Antunes ComIH GCIH ComM is a Portuguese lawyer and diplomat. He was Portugal's Ambassador in London from 2016 to 2022. He is currently Portugal's Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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9. Paulo Núncio
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Paulo de Faria Lynce Núncio is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who was Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs of Portugal from 2011 and 2015.
10. Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho
1960-. (aged 66)
university teacher
politician
Maria do Rosário Valente Rebelo Pinto Palma Ramalho is a Portuguese professor of law, and politician. She has been Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by Luís Montenegro.
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11. Zacarias da Costa
1964-. (aged 62)
diplomat
politician
Zacarias Albano da Costa is an East Timorese politician and diplomat. On 8 August 2007, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs following the 2007 parliamentary election. Before being appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Minister da Costa was a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Bench at the Parliament....
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12. Joana Vicente
1963-. (aged 63)
film producer
actor
film director
Joana Vicente is an American film producer and executive.
13. Nuno Brás da Silva Martins
1963-. (aged 63)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Dom Nuno Brás da Silva Martins, most often referred to simply as Dom Nuno Brás, is a Portuguese Catholic bishop and current bishop of Funchal, Madeira.
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14. Nuno da Silva Gonçalves
1958-. (aged 68)
Catholic priest
teacher
writer
historian
Nuno da Silva Gonçalves, S.J. is a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Jesuits. On September 1, 2016 he succeeded François-Xavier Dumortier as rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In October 2023, he succeeded Antonio Spadaro as editor of the Jesuit periodical La Civiltà Cattolica. He is the first non-Italian to hold this post.
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15. Miguel Frasquilho
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
economist
Miguel Reis Antunes Frasquilho is a Portuguese economist, politician, and executive, currently serving as Chairman of the Board of TAP Air Portugal, Portugal's flag carrier airline. He also serves on the Olympic Committee of Portugal.
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16. Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente
1948-. (aged 78)
patriarch
priest
Catholic priest
historian
university teacher
Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente, GCC, officially Manuel III, is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Metropolitan Patriarch of Lisbon from 2013 to 2023 and a cardinal since 14 February 2015. He has been a bishop since 1999 and was Bishop of Porto from 2007 to 2013.
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17. Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar
1973-. (aged 53)
Catholic priest
journalist
Catholic bishop
politician
Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Setúbal since 2023. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Lisbon from 2019 to 2023 and headed the organization responsible for planning World Youth Day in August 2023.
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18. Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
1977-. (aged 49)
jurist
politician
Adolfo Miguel Baptista Mesquita Nunes is a Portuguese jurist and politician. While part of CDS – People's Party, he served as Member of the Assembly of the Republic from 2011 to 2013, and as Secretary of State for Tourism in Pedro Passos Coelho's first and second governments from 2013 to 2015.
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19. José Pinto Coelho
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
José de Almeida e Vasconcelos Pinto Coelho is a Portuguese far-right and nationalist politician, who was president of the Rise Up (former National Renewal Party) from 2005 to 2024.
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20. Domingos Simoes Pereira
1963-. (aged 63)
minister
civil engineer
politician
Domingos Simões Pereira is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 2014 to August 2015. He previously served as Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, from 2008 to 2012.
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21. Kumba Ialá
1953-2014 (aged 61)
politician
Kumba Yalá Embaló, also spelled Ialá, was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was president from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003. He belonged to the Balanta ethnic group and was President of the Social Renewal Party (PRS). In 2008 he converted to Islam and took the name Mohamed Yalá Embaló. He...
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22. Vítor Gaspar
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
economist
Vítor Louçã Rabaça Gaspar, GCIH is a Portuguese economist and former politician, who served as Minister of Finance and Minister of State in the XIX Constitutional Government of Portugal from 21 June 2011 until his resignation on 2 July 2013.
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23. António Pires de Lima
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
economist
António de Magalhães Pires de Lima, usually known as António Pires de Lima, is a Portuguese economist, business administrator and politician. He served as Minister of Economy of Portugal between 2013 and 2015 in the Pedro Passos Coelho cabinet. He was CEO of Sumol + Compal and Unicer. He is a founding partner of Horizon Equity Partners, a Portuguese investment...
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24. António Leitão Amaro
1980-. (aged 46)
politician
António Egrejas Leitão Amaro is a Portuguese jurist and politician. He has been Minister of Presidency since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by Luís Montenegro.
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25. José Alberto Azeredo Lopes
1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher
politician
José Alberto de Azeredo Lopes is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of National Defence from November 2015 to October 2018.
26. Vasco Palmeirim
1979-. (aged 47)
announcer
radio personality
television presenter
Vasco Maria Palmeirim Peres Gomes is a Portuguese radio announcer and television presenter.
27. Ricardo Araújo Pereira
1974-. (aged 52)
comedian
screenwriter
writer
Ricardo Artur de Araújo Pereira is a Portuguese comedian, political commentator and journalist. Pereira first rose to national notoriety in the early 2000s as a member of the Portuguese comedy group Gato Fedorento.
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28. José Tolentino de Mendonça
1965-. (aged 61)
Latin Catholic priest
theologian
writer
Catholic bishop
poet
José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça TOSD, ComSE, ComIH is a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church. A theologian and university professor, he is also regarded as one of the most original voices of modern Portuguese literature and a Catholic intellectual. His work includes poetry, essays and plays that he signs José Tolentino Mendonça.
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29. Paulo Portas
1962-. (aged 64)
television presenter
politician
journalist
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been one of Portugal's leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal's right-wing parties, the CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP) from 1998 to 2005 and 2007–2016, on whose lists he was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in every legislative election...
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30. Paulo Rangel
1968-. (aged 58)
writer
politician
Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by Luís Montenegro.
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31. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1948-. (aged 78)
Catholic bishop
Catholic priest
politician
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, SDB, commonly known as Carlos Belo or Ximenes Belo is an East Timorese prelate of the Catholic Church. He became a bishop in 1988 and served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Díli from 1988 to 2002. In 1996, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with José Ramos-Horta for working "towards a just and...
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