Top 30 most important and famous people from Portugal - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The most famous footballer, five times winner of Ballon d'Or, European champion with Portugal in 2016	Cristiano Ronaldo	92%
Explorer, the first European to reach India by sea	Vasco da Gama	82%
Explorer, who completed the first circumnavigation of Earth	Ferdinand Magellan	74%
Footballer, winner of Ballon d'Or in 1965 and legend of Benfica	Eusébio	73%
Footballer, winner of Ballon d'Or in 2000 and legend of Barcelona and Real Madrid	Luis Figo	70%
Dictator from 1932 to 1974	António de Oliveira Salazar	65%
One of the most famous football coach, two times winner of Champions League, legend of Inter Milan and Porto	José Mourinho	65%
Footballer, winner of Champions League in 2004 with Porto and in 2006 with Barcelona	Deco	52%
Explorer, discoverer of Brazil	Pedro Álvares Cabral	47%
Central figure of XV century European maritime discoveries and expansion	Henry the Navigator	45%
Writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, author The Gospel According to Jesus Christ	José Saramago	44%
The first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa	Bartolomeu Dias	40%
One of the most significant literary figures of the XX century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language, author The Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa	39%
The greatest Portuguese poet of all time, author of The Lusiads	Luís de Camões	39%
Female Fado singer, the best-selling Portuguese artist in history	Amália Rodrigues	31%
King known for re-establishing the power of the Portuguese monarchy, reinvigorating the Portuguese economy, and renewing his country's exploration of Africa and Asia, nicknamed the Perfect Prince	John II	23%
Playwright, considered the chief dramatist of Portugal, called the Portuguese Plautus and often referred to as the Father of Portuguese drama	Gil Vicente	21%
The first King of Portugal, who established a new kingdom with the Reconquista	Afonso the Conqueror	19%
Former President and Prime Minister, considered the father of Portuguese democracy	Mário Soares	19%
Marathon runner, first woman to win multiple Olympic marathon medals, and first Portuguese to win Olympic gold medal	Rosa Mota	18%
Neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949	António Egas Moniz	17%
The greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style	Eça de Queiroz	14%
Consul, who saved 10000 Jews during World War Two, recognized by Israel as one of the Righteous Among the Nations	Aristides de Sousa Mendes	13%
General, who expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander	Afonso de Albuquerque	12%
One of the greatest mathematicians of his time, the first to propose the idea of a loxodrome	Pedro Nunes	10%
General of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile	Nuno Álvares Pereira	9%
Visual artist known particularly for her paintings and prints based on storybooks	Paula Rego	9%
One of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party	Álvaro Cunhal	8%
Saint of Catholic Church, priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. Patron of Portugal	Saint Anthony of Padua/Saint Anthony of Lisbon	8%
Writer, author of Fado Alexandrino	António Lobo Antunes	3%

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