WAfonso de Albuquerque, Duke of Goa was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman. He served as Governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander.
WMatias de Albuquerque, the first and only Count of Alegrete, was a Brazilian colonial administrator and soldier. He was nicknamed "Hero of Two Continents" for his performance, beginning in 1624, against the Dutch invaders of colonial Brazil and for his role, beginning in 1641, as a general in Portugal, fighting for João IV during the Portuguese Restoration War, where he won the battle of Montijo over the Spaniards (1644). For this victory he was rewarded by the King with the title of Count of Alegrete.
WD. Pedro de Almeida Portugal, 3rd Marquis of Alorna was a Portuguese general who served in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
WKaúlza de Oliveira de Arriaga, OA, GCC, OC, OIH was a Portuguese General, writer, professor and politician. He was Secretary of State of the Air Force between 1953 and 1955 and commander of the Terrestrial Forces in Mozambique from 1969 until 1974 during the Mozambican War of Independence.
WLuís do Rego Barreto, Viscount Geraz Lima, better known as General Luis Rego, was a military and Portuguese colonial administrator who distinguished himself in the fight against the French invasion.
WFrancisco de Paula Bastos or Viscount Bastos was a Portuguese noble, military and political figure.
WFrancisco Maria da Cunha GCA • ComTE • ComC was a military, political and Portuguese colonial administrator. Among other prominent roles, he was Governor of Portuguese India and Governor-general of Portuguese Mozambique, deputy and Peer of the realm.
WBernardim Freire de Andrade, was a Portuguese Army general officer who was assigned to command the forces of the Porto Junta in 1808 during the Peninsular War.
WGomes Freire de Andrade, ComC was a field marshal and officer of the Portuguese army who served France at the end of his military career.
WJosé Vicente de Freitas, 2nd Baron of Freitas GCTE was a Portuguese military officer and politician.
WTomás António Garcia Rosado, was an infantry officer and general of the Portuguese Army.
WJosé César Ferreira Gil was a Portuguese Army general and a military historian.
WGeneral Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves OA was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as the 104th Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975.
WSir John Scott Lillie was a decorated officer of the British Army and Portuguese Army who fought in the Peninsular War (1808–1814). He was a landowner, entrepreneur and inventor. He was Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex and Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, a freemason, a radical politician and supporter of the great Irish statesman Daniel O'Connell. He was an early antivivisectionist and writer.
WJoaquim José Machado, locally known as Conselheiro (Councillor) Joaquim Machado or Major Machado GCC • GOA • ComA • OSE, was a military officer, engineer and a Portuguese politician.
WFernando de Magalhães e Menezes. ComTE, CvC, CvA, OSE was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military personnel, he was also Chief of Staff during the 31 January 1891 republican revolution.
WAntónio Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva and 3rd Count of Cantanhede was a member of the Forty Conspirators and a Portuguese general who fought in the Portuguese Restoration War, that ended the Iberian Union between Portugal and Spain.
WBrigadier General Francis McLean was a British army officer, one of two sons of Captain William Maclean and Anne Kinloch. He became famous for defending New Ireland (Maine) against the Penobscot Expedition during the American Revolution. The defeat of the Expedition was a noted British victory of the American Revolution. He was in command of the 74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot and 82nd Regiment of Foot (1778). He died 4 May 1781 at Halifax, Nova Scotia and is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church (Halifax). McLean never married.
WFrancisco Barreto de Meneses was a military officer and a colonial administrator in the Portuguese colonies of São Tomé and Príncipe and Brazil.
WJosé Maria Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Matos, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese general and politician.
WJosé Augusto Alves Roçadas was an officer of the Portuguese Army and a colonial administrator.
WFrancisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira, was the 1st Count of Amarante, who joined the Portuguese army and fought in the War of Oranges and other campaigns of the Peninsular War, as an offshoot of the Napoleonic Wars.
WChristopher Fleming, 1st Viscount Longford and 17th Baron Slane (1669–1726), was a member of the Irish parliament of 1689.
WFernando Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva was a cavalry officer and general of the Portuguese Army.
WSancho Manuel de Vilhena, 1st Count of Vila Flor (1610–1677), was a remarkable Portuguese aristocrat and military leader, of royal background.