Santa Comba Dão
António de Oliveira Salazar, who was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 and leader of the "Estado Novo", was born in Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão on 28 April 1889.
Antón Losada Diéguez
Antón Losada Diéguez (b. , (Boborás), Spain, 22 December 1884 - d. Pontevedra, Spain, 15 October 1929) was a writer, Spanish politician, member of the Irmandades da Fala of Ourense, impulsor of the magazine "Nós" and correspondent of the Royal Galician Academy. He was author of half a dozen books of poetry, seven books, two political writings, the incomplete work "A domeadora" and the speech "Ouservacións encol da prosa galega". He became a member in the Seminar of Galician Studies. He was honoured on the Day of the Galician Letters of 1985.