List of Guinea-Bissau nationals
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A list of people from Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

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  • Rafael Barbosa
  • Amílcar Cabral
    Amílcar Cabral
    Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...

  • Luís Cabral
    Luís Cabral
    Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980, when a military coup d'état led by João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira deposed him...

  • Francisco Costa
  • Francisco Fadul
    Francisco Fadul
    Francisco José Fadul is a Guinea-Bissau politician who was Prime Minister from 3 December 1998 to 19 February 2000. He led the United Social Democratic Party , one of the country's main political parties, from 2002 to 2006....

  • Inacio Fernandes
  • Fidelis Forbs
  • Walkid Furtado
  • Antonieta Rosa Gomes
  • Aristides Gomes
    Aristides Gomes
    Aristides Gomes is the President of the Republican Party of Independence for Development in Guinea-Bissau. He was the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 2 November 2005 until 13 April 2007....

  • Carlos Gomes Júnior
    Carlos Gomes Júnior
    Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior is the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau. He was previously Prime Minister from 10 May 2004 to 2 November 2005, and he was again appointed to that post on 25 December 2008...

  • Kumba Ialá
    Kumba Ialá
    Kumba Ialá, also spelled Yalá , is a Guinea-Bissau politician who was President of Guinea-Bissau from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a military coup on 14 September 2003. He belongs to the Balanta ethnic group and is the President of the Social Renewal Party...

  • Tanunde Keita
  • Ansumane Mané
    Ansumane Mané
    Ansumane Mané was a Guinea-Bissau soldier who led a 1998 uprising against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira, which caused a brief, but bloody Civil War....

  • Sérgio Mané
  • Bruno Medina
  • Moacir Mota
  • Luis Pinhel
  • Francisco Rodrigues
    Francisco Rodrigues
    Francisco Rodrigues may be:*Francisco Rodrigues *Francisco Rodrigues *Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet...

  • Henrique Rosa
    Henrique Rosa
    -Interim President of Guinea-Bissau:He was interim President of Guinea-Bissau from 28 September 2003 to 1 October 2005. His appointment came following a 14 September military coup that deposed the elected government of President Kumba Ialá and subsequent talks between political officials, civil...

  • Malam Bacai Sanhá
    Malam Bacai Sanhá
    Malam Bacai Sanhá is a Guinea-Bissau politician who has been President of Guinea-Bissau since 8 September 2009. A member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde , Sanhá was President of the National People's Assembly from 1994 to 1999 and then served as acting President...

  • Alda Maria Silva
  • Anire Silva
  • Holder Ocante Silva
  • Geremias Jorge Silva
  • Nilson Teixeira
  • Domingas Togna
    Domingas Togna
    Domingas Togna is a track and field athlete from Guinea-Bissau. At the 2008 Olympics she competed in the 1500m heats finishing 33rd in the heats.-References:...

  • Marciano Vaz
  • Augusto Bernardo Viegas
  • Danilson Vieira
  • João Bernardo Vieira
    João Bernardo Vieira
    João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was the President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2009. After seizing power in 1980, Vieira ruled for 19 years, and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994. He was ousted at the end of the 1998–1999 civil war and went into exile...

  • Romualdo Vieira


In 2007, DNA tests indicated that actress Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...

was descended from the Papel and Bayote people of Guinea-Bissau. http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=6a68fc12-9e7d-4f3f-8de4-0f08f69d0a95&k=80727
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