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- Classicist Joachim Camerarius, the Elder, 1500
- Poet José Gautier Benítez, 1851
- President of Portugal Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes da Silva de Tovero, 1894
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Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes da Silva de Tovero, 6th Viscount de Molenos - Craveiro, GCTE, ComC, GCA, decorated with the Order of the Bath and the Royal Victorian Chain, born in Lisbon on 12 April 1894, was a Portuguese politician and military man, having been the 12th President of the Portuguese Republic, between 1951 and 1958.
He was a son of João Carlos Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese army general and 122nd Governor - General of Portuguese India (1929 – 1936) and wife Júlia Clotilde Cristiano Salinas.
He concluded his Colégio Militar studies
by 1911, having then entered the Escola Politécnica de Lisboa,
in the same year he joined a cavalry regiment. He succeeded his father
as the 123rd General Governor of the Portuguese India (1936 – 1938). Salazar chose him as the regime's presidential candidate in 1951 to succeed the late Oscar Carmona. As the electoral system was heavily rigged in favour of Salazar's National Union, this made Craveiro Lopes' election a foregone conclusion. However, he was not content to be a mere puppet, as Carmona had been. As a result, Salazar picked the seemingly more pliant Américo Thomaz as
the regime's candidate in 1958. The Democratic Opposition then invited
Craveiro Lopes to be their candidate, but he knew he stood no chance of
winning and refused. The regime, however, as compensation promoted him
to Marshal. He was involved in the failed military attempt to overthrow Salazar, in 1961, led by the Defence Minister, general Júlio Botelho Moniz. He died in Lisbon on 2 September 1964.
He married Berta Ribeiro Artur (Lisbon, Pena, October 15, 1899 - Lisbon, Santa Maria de Belém, July 5, 1958), natural daughter of Engineer Sezinando Ribeiro Artur (Lisbon, 1875 - Lourenço Marques, 1918) by Maria Clara Pereira, by whom he had four children.
