List of Portuguese people. Jump to navigation Jump to search. The following is a list of notable and historically significant people from Portugal Navigators, explorers and pioneers 15th century. Vasco da Gama, discoverer of the sea route to India. Pedro Álvares Cabral, discoverer of Brazil. João Vaz Corte-Real, discoverer ...

Name. The term "澳門人" (meaning Macanese) and "土生葡人" (meaning native-born Portuguese people) in Chinese (Cantonese), the lingua franca of Macau, refers to the Macau people and the Macanese people, respectively. Although there have been attempts by the Portuguese Macau government in the mid-1990s to redefine the Portuguese and English term "Macanese" as …