•
Vasco da Gama (c.1460s – 1524) the Portuguese navigator, was made
Count of Vidigueira by King
Manuel I on the return from his discovery of the maritime route from Europe to India •
Achilles Statius (1524 in Vidigueira – 1581) humanist poet and commentator • Forebears of radical Dutch philosopher
Baruch Spinoza (1662-1677) lived in Vidigueira since at least the 16th century, before escaping from the
Portuguese Inquisition to the
Dutch Republic. A number of them were employed in service to the counts of Vidigueira. ==See also==