The following is a list of notable
East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...
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Marí Alkatiri
Mari bin Amude Alkatiri, GCIH ( ar, مرعي بن عمودة الكثيري '; born 26 November 1949) is a Timorese politician. He was Prime Minister of East Timor from May 2002 until his resignation on 26 June 2006 following weeks of politica ...
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Maria Domingas Alves
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Francisco Xavier do Amaral
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Norberto Do Amaral
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Aliança de Araújo
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Aicha Bassarewan
Aicha Binte Umar Bassarewan is an East Timorese politician who was Vice-Minister of Planning and Finance in the National Parliament of East Timor from 2002 to 2007. She is a member of the FRETILIN party. Career
Bassareawan attended 28 de Novembro ...
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Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB, commonly known as Carlos Belo or Ximenes Belo (born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese prelate of the Catholic Church. He became a bishop in 1988 and served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of D ...
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Madalena Boavida
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Rosa Bonaparte Rosa Muki Bonaparte (died December 8, 1975) was a Timorese politician and independence and women's rights activist. She was a member of FRETILIN National Committee in the mid 1970s.
On 28 November 1975 she gave birth to the East Timor Popular Women ...
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Maria Ângela Carrascalão
Maria Ângela Guterres Viegas Carrascalão (born 10 April 1951) is an East Timorese journalist, author, university teacher and former Minister of Justice. She is a member of the Timorese Democratic Union ( pt, União Democrática Timorense (UDT ...
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Avelino Coelho
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Ilda Conceição
Ilda Maria da Conceição (born 23 November 1957), whose resistance names were Lalo Imin (independence or death, never integration) and Wairaha Gae Imin (a big star that rises before the sun in the morning), is a politician from East Timor. She is ...
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Rosária Corte-Real
Rosária Maria Corte-Real (also Rosalia Maria Corte-Real) was the Minister of Education and Culture in East Timor from 2006 to 2007. She was also responsible for youth and sports. She is a member of FRETILIN. Education and career
Corte-Real grew ...
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Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz
Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz is an East Timorese Roman Catholic woman dedicated to the service of the poor.
Biography
She was born in Liquica, East Timor in 1962. After an education interrupted by the independence struggle, she joined the Can ...
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Alberto Ricardo da Silva
Alberto Ricardo da Silva (4 April 1943 – 2 April 2015) was the Roman Catholic bishop of Dili, East Timor.
Early life
He was born in Aileu, in East Timor when it was still a Portuguese colony. He studied in the minor seminary of Dili and was s ...
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Fernando de Araújo
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Xanana Gusmão
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Eurico Guterres
Eurico Barros Gomes Guterres (born in Waitame, Uatolari, Viqueque, Portuguese Timor, 4 July 1969) is a pro-Indonesian, anti-Timorese independence militiaman recruited by the Indonesian military during East Timor's bid for independence between 1 ...
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Francisco Guterres
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Nicolau dos Reis Lobato
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Martinho da Costa Lopes
Martinho da Costa Lopes (11 November 1918 – 27 February 1991) was an East Timorese religious and political leader. He was a priest of the Catholic Church, the highest-ranking official of the Church in East Timor from 1977 to 1983, and a member ...
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Olinda Morais
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Basilio do Nascimento
Basilio is a name of Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese origin. It is a cognate of the English name Basil. The name may refer to:
Given name
* Basilio Augustín (1840–1910), Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines briefly in 1898
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Anna Pessoa Pinto
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José Ramos-Horta
José Manuel Ramos-Horta (; born 26 December 1949) is an East Timorese politician currently serving as president of East Timor since May 2022. He previously served as president from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012. Previously he was Minister of Fore ...
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Alfredo Reinado
Alfredo Alves Reinado (11 November 1968 in Dili – 11 February 2008), sometimes spelled Reinhado, was a major in the military of Timor-Leste, the Timor Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL). He deserted on 4 May 2006 to join approximately 600 for ...
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Taur Matan Ruak
José Maria Vasconcelos (born 10 October 1956), popularly known as Taur Matan Ruak (Tetum for "Two Sharp Eyes"), is an East Timorese politician who has served as the prime minister of East Timor since 22 June 2018. He was also President of Ea ...
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Kirsty Sword Gusmão
Kirsty Sword Gusmão, (born Kirsty Sword; 19 April 1966) is an Australian-East Timorese activist who served as the First Lady of East Timor from 2002 until 2007. She is married to Xanana Gusmão, former prime minister and president of East Tim ...
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Fernando Sylvan
Fernando Sylvan (Díli, 26 August 1917—Cascais, 25 December 1993) was a poet and a writer from East Timor.
He spent almost all his life in Portugal. The distance between Portugal and Timor didn't prevent him writing about the traditions, the le ...
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Gil da Cruz Trindade
Gil da Cruz Trindade (born 1 March 1982) is an athlete from East Timor. He was the first, along with Aguida Amaral, to represent East Timor at the Olympics, competing in the marathon of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Trindade en ...
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Maria Terezinha Viegas
Maria Terezinha Viegas (born October 3, 1964) was an East Timorese worker in agriculture who became a politician in the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction party. From 2012 to 2017 she was Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and ...
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Aurora Ximenes
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