1. Otelo Saraiva (1936)

War Hero

Portuguese Army Brigadier who was a strategist in the 1974 military coup known as the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon.

2. Eusébio (1942)

Footballer

Nicknamed the Black Panther, he was one of soccer's most prolific forwards; named European Footballer of the Year in 1965.

3. Mariza (1973)

Portuguese Singer

Popular fado singer who performed the Portuguese national anthem at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. She has had three number one albums, including Transparente, Terra and Mundo; she has sold...

4. Lizha James (1982)

Mozambican Singer

Mozambican singer known for the albums Rainha do Ragga and Sentimentos de Mulher. She won a Channel O Music Award every year from 2006-2009.

5. Leia Dongue (1991)

Mozambican Basketball Player

Leia Tânia do Bastião Dongue aka Tanucha born May 24 1991 in Maputo Mozambique is a Mozambican basketball player. She is 185 cm and plays as a Small Forward. On...

6. Momed Hagi (1985)

Footballer

Momed Hagi is a Mozambican footballer. He is playing for home town club Clube Ferroviário de Maputo in Moçambola. He is playing as a defenderHe played for Mozambique national football...

7. Kurt Couto (1985)

Mozambican Hurdler

Kurt Leonel da Rocha Couto is an athlete from Mozambique who specializes in 400 metres hurdles. His personal best in the 400 metres is 46. 50 and 49. 02 in...

8. João Rafael Kapango (1975)

Mozambican Footballer

João Rafael Kapango is a Mozambican football goalkeeper.

9. Armando Sá (1975)

Mozambican Footballer

Armando Miguel Correia de Sá is a Mozambican retired footballer who played usually a right defender. He also holds a Portuguese passport and played professionally in four different countries in...

10. Ilidio Matusse (1975)

Olympic Swimmer

Ilidio Salvador Matusse is a retired Mozambican swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Matusse competed for Mozambique in the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...

11. Jerry Sitoe (1990)

Mozambican Footballer

Jeremias Jorge Jerry Sitoe is a footballer from Mozambique who plays as a forward for Liga Muçulmana. He has also played for Académica in the Portuguese Primeira Liga who he...

12. Deolinda Gimo (1987)

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Deolinda Mulói Gimo born August 15 1987 is a Mozambican basketball player. She is 190cm tall and plays as a Power Forward/Center.

13. António Calvário (1938)

Portuguese Singer

António Calvário da Paz is a famous Portuguese singer and artist from the late 1950s and 1960s. He represented Portugal in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark with the...

14. Ivone Soares (1979)

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15. Lina Magaia (Unknow)

Mozambican Writer

Lina Magaia was a Mozambican writer journalist and veteran of the war for the independence of Mozambique. It was a woman of many facets which stood out during the life...

16. Mexer (1988)

Mozambican Footballer

Edson André Sitoe commonly known as Mexer is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays for C. D. Nacional in Portugal as a central defender.

17. Albino Cossa (1982)

Mozambican Footballer

Albino Cossa or Bino is a Mozambican goalkeeper. He represented Mozambique at the 2009 COSAFA Cup.

18. Fanuel Massingue (1982)

Mozambican Footballer

uel Massingue is Mozambican international footballer who plays for HCB Songo in Moçambola. He was called to Mozambique national football team at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

19. Telinho (1988)

Footballer

Stélio Marcelino Ernesto also known as 'Telinho' is a football midfielder who currently plays for Ajax Cape Town in the South African PSL on loan from Liga Muçulmana de Maputo...

20. Leonel Matonse (1988)

Olympic Swimmer

Leonel dos Santos Matonse is a Mozambican swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Matonse qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle as a 15-year-old at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

21. Teodato Hunguana (Unknow)

Mozambican Politician

Teodato Mondim da Silva Hunguana is the chairman of the boards of Telecomunicações de Moçambique and Mcel. He is a former Mozambican lawyer and politician. He was born in 1946...

22. Manuel de Jesus Lopes (1982)

Portuguese Footballer

Manuel de Jesus Lopes is a Mozambican footballer who currently plays for C. R. D. Libolo in Angola.

23. Campira (1982)

Footballer

Samuel Luis Chapanga better known simply as Campira is a Mozambican international football defender playing for Maxaquene.

24. Hélder Muianga (1976)

Mozambican Footballer

Hélder Carlos Mano-Mano Muianga is a retired Mozambican football player played in Mozambique for Costa do Sol and Desportivo de Maputo in South Africa for Manning Rangers Black Leopards Dynamos...

25. Abel Miglietti (1946)

Footballer

Abel Fernando Miglietti is a former Portuguese footballer who played as forward.

26. Aldino Muianga (1950)

Mozambican Writer

Aldino Muianga is a Mozambican physician and writer. He studied surgery and he is the national coordinator of Mozambican Community Work.

27. Pedro Xavier (1962)

Portuguese Footballer

Pedro Alexandre Marques Caldas Xavier is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a forward.

28. Amélia Muge (1952)

Musician

Amélia Muge is a Mozambiqua-born Portuguese singer instrumentalist composer and lyricist. She is noted for her fine fado voice and poetic lyrics.

29. Roger De Sá (1964)

Association Footballer

Roger De Sá is a South African football manager and the current head coach of Premier Soccer League club Ajax Cape Town. De Sá is a former footballer and played...

30. Jacinto Veloso (1937)

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31. Luís Carlos Patraquim (1953)

Mozambican Writer

Luís Carlos Patraquim is a poet playwright and journalist from Mozambique. He moved to Sweden as a refugee in 1973. In 1975 he moved back to Mozambique where he worked...

32. Ana Ribeiro (1967)

Actor

33. Lionel Bastos (1956)

Mozambican Musician

Leonel Levy Lopes Bastos better known as Lionel Bastos was born on 16 August 1956 in Maputo Mozambique) and is a singer songwriter and music producer. Lionel Bastos works mainly...

34. Orlando da Costa (Unknow)

Portuguese Writer

Orlando António Fernandes da Costa was a Portuguese writer of Goan descent on his father Luís Afonso Maria da Costa's side and of Portuguese and French on his mother Amélia...

35. Lucas Macie (1960)

Painter

Lucas Macie is a Mozambiquan-Swazi painter.

36. Mário Coluna (1935)

Football Player/director

Mário Esteves Coluna was a Portuguese footballer who played mainly as a central midfielder. He spent most of his career with Benfica appearing in 525 official games and scoring 127...

37. Danito Parruque (1983)

Mozambican Footballer

Carlos Danito Parruque is Mozambican footballer. He plays for Clube Ferroviário de Maputo as a midfielder. He was called to Mozambique national football team at the 2010 Africa Cup of...

38. Paulo Teixeira (footballer) (1980)

Portuguese Footballer

Paulo Alexandre Esteves Teixeira is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder.

39. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (1936)

Portuguese Politician

Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho GCL is a retired Portuguese military officer. He was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon.

40. Elisa Cossa (1980)

Mozambican Sprinter

Elisa Cossa is a retired Mozambican athlete who competed mostly in the sprinting events. She is Mozambican record holder in the 100 metres and the long jump.

41. Ximene Gomes (1989)

Olympic Swimmer

Ximene Gomes is a Mozambican swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Gomes competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing where she swam in the women's 50 m freestyle...

42. Carlos Fumo Gonçalves (1979)

Mozambican Footballer

Carlos Fumo Gonçalves known as Fumo is a Mozambican footballer who plays as a forward.

43. José Craveirinha (Unknow)

Mozambican Poet

José Craveirinha was born in Maputo Mozambique and is today considered the greatest poet of that country. The child of a Portuguese father and a black mother of the Ronga...

44. Eduardo Jumisse (1984)

Football Player

Eduardo Jumisse commonly known as Jumisse is a Mozambican footballer who plays for C. D. Primeiro de Agosto in Angola as an attacking midfielder.

45. Guilherme de Melo (1931)

Portuguese Writer

Guilherme de Melo is a Portuguese journalist novelist and activist. Melo lived through the protracted war of independence in the Portuguese colony in the 1960s and 1970s.

46. Eduardo Pitta (1949)

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Eduardo Pitta is a Portuguese poet fiction writer and essayist.

47. Francisco Massinga (1986)

Mozambican Footballer

sco Massinga better known as Whiskey is a Mozambican football defender.

48. Clésio Bauque (1994)

Footballer

Clésio Bauque is Mozambican footballer who plays for Harrisburg City Islanders in the USL Pro on loan from Benfica B and the Mozambique national football team.

49. Clarisse Machanguana (1976)

Basketball Player

Clarisse Machanguana is a professional women's basketball player from Mozambique. She has played internationally in both the United States and in Spain. She also represented Mozambique at the 2006 Lusophony...

50. Gerson Novela (1979)

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Gerson Orlando Novela is a Mozambique basketball player currently with Clube Ferroviário de Maputo of the Mozambique Professional Basketball League. He is also a member of the Mozambique national basketball...