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João Bonança
João Bonança (1836–1924) was a Portuguese journalist, politician, and writer, an ordained priest who left the Church to become an anticlerical republican polemicist and historian of Iberia.
João Bosco
João Bosco (João Bosco de Freitas Mucci), born 1946 in Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais, is a Brazilian singer, composer, and guitarist known for his 1970s partnership with lyricist Aldir Blanc.
João Cabral de Melo Neto
João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, considered the most important Brazilian poet of the second half of the twentieth century.
João Cancelo
João Pedro Cavaco Cancelo, Portuguese full-back born 1994 in Barreiro; Benfica, Valencia, Inter, Juventus, Manchester City, Bayern, Al-Hilal, Barcelona. First player to win all four major leagues; famed inverted full-back under Guardiola.
Joao Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira, known as João do Pulo, Brazilian triple jumper (born 1954) who set a 17.89 m world record at the 1975 Pan Am Games, won Olympic bronze in 1976 and 1980, and died in 1999.
João Carlos Martins
João Carlos Martins, Brazilian pianist and conductor born 1940 in São Paulo, famed Bach interpreter who recorded Bach's complete piano works on 20 CDs, lost hand movement to focal dystonia, injuries, and a 1995 Bulgaria attack, then returned via conducting and bionic gloves.
João Carlos Teixeira
João Carlos Teixeira (João Carlos Vilaça Teixeira, born 1993, Braga) is a Portuguese attacking midfielder, ex-Sporting CP youth player and Liverpool FC midfielder (2014-16, 8 apps, 1 goal), now at Shanghai Shenhua since April 2023, winner of the 2023 Chinese FA Cup.
João Costa (footballer, born 2005)
João Costa (João Gabriel e Costa Cesco), born 2005 in Umuarama, is a Portuguese-Brazilian left-footed winger; Palmeiras and Corinthians youth, Roma debutant, Al-Ettifaq player (44 matches, 4 goals), loaned to Cruzeiro in August 2026.
João Cruz (footballer, born 2006)
João Cruz, full name João Victor Machado Cruz, is a Brazilian attacking midfielder for Athletico Paranaense who has been capped by Brazil at under-15, under-17, and under-20 levels.
Joao Curado
Joao Curado is a Portuguese biotechnology entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Flomics Biotech, a Barcelona company developing an RNA-based blood test for early cancer detection.
João de Barros
João de Barros (c. 1496–1570) was a Portuguese historian and royal official who wrote the Décadas da Ásia, one of the earliest accounts of the Portuguese empire in Asia.
João de Castro
João de Castro (1500–1548) was a Portuguese naval commander, navigator, and scientist who served as governor of Portuguese India from 1545 and relieved the siege of Diu in 1546.
João Del Valle
João Del Valle is a Brazilian software engineer turned fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of EBANX, a cross-border payments company founded in Curitiba in 2012.
João F. Mano
João F. Mano (João Filipe Colardelle da Luz Mano) is a Portuguese researcher in biomaterials and tissue engineering, a full professor at the University of Aveiro since 2016.
João Félix
João Félix, Portuguese forward from Viseu; Benfica breakthrough and 2019 Golden Boy; €126m record move to Atlético Madrid; later Chelsea, Barcelona, Milan, now Al-Nassr.
João Fernandes Vieira
João Fernandes Vieira was a Madeiran-born sugar planter and military commander in Pernambuco who led the 1645 insurrection against Dutch rule in Brazil and later governed Angola.
João Figueiredo
João Figueiredo (João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo), 1918–1999, was a Brazilian army general who served as Brazil's last military president from 1979 to 1985, handing power to José Sarney after president-elect Tancredo Neves fell ill.
João Gilberto
João Gilberto (João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, 1931–2019), Bahia-born Brazilian singer-guitarist who, with Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, created bossa nova; his 1958 "Chega de Saudade" and 1964 Getz/Gilberto defined the genre.
João Gomes
João Gomes is a Brazilian forró and piseiro singer from Serrita, Pernambuco, born in 2002, whose TikTok-driven hits made him Brazil's most viral artist at 18.
João Gonçalves Zarco da Câmara
João Gonçalves Zarco da Câmara, known as D. João da Câmara, was a Portuguese playwright and journalist, Portugal's outstanding dramatist of the late 19th century.
João Goulart
João Goulart (Jango), Brazilian president 1961–1964, PTB leader and Vargas heir; deposed by the US-backed military coup of 31 March 1964 after proposing the Reformas de Base; died in exile in Argentina in 1976.
João Guilherme Ávila
João Guilherme Ávila (João Guilherme de Ávila Costa), Brazilian actor, singer, and influencer born 2002 in São Paulo, son of singer Leonardo; known for Cúmplices de um Resgate, As Aventuras de Poliana, De Volta aos 15, and the 2026 films O Rei da Internet and Corrida dos Bichos.
João Guimarães Rosa
João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967), Brazilian physician, diplomat, and author of Sagarana and Grande sertão: Veredas (1956), his only novel; famed for linguistic invention rooted in the Minas Gerais sertão.
João H. Morais‐Cabral
João H. Morais-Cabral is a Portuguese structural biochemist at i3S in Porto known for crystal structures of the hERG potassium channel and bacterial KtrAB transporter.
João Havelange
João Havelange (Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid de Havelange), Brazilian Olympic swimmer and lawyer, was FIFA president 1974–1998, the first non-European; he expanded the World Cup from 16 to 32 teams and was found to have taken ISL bribes.
Joao I of Kongo
Joao I of Kongo, born Nzinga a Nkuwu, was king of Kongo when the Portuguese arrived; he converted to Christianity in 1491 and later renounced it.
João Lourenço
João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço (born 1954, Lobito) is Angola's president since 26 September 2017, reelected in 2022; former MPLA secretary-general, defense minister, and general known for an anti-corruption campaign against the dos Santos network.
João Marinho Neto
João Marinho Neto (born 5 October 1912, Maranguape, Ceará) is a Brazilian supercentenarian, validated by LongeviQuest and Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man since 25 November 2024, and the first Brazilian to hold that title.
João Mário (footballer, born 1993)
João Mário Naval da Costa Eduardo, born 1993 in Porto, Portuguese attacking midfielder; Euro 2016 winner with 56 caps, €45m Inter signing, later Benfica, Besiktas, and AEK Athens.
João Moreira Salles
João Moreira Salles is a Brazilian billionaire investor and documentary filmmaker, son of Unibanco founder Walther Moreira Salles, whose family fortune rests on the niobium miner CBMM.