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.
Ferreira de Castro
He returned to Portugal in 1919, and started working as a journalist. He was a noted opponent of António de Oliveira Salazar, the Portuguese Prime Minister under the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.