List of recipients of the Grand Cross of the Order of Public Instruction

The Order of Public Instruction is a Portuguese order of civil merit. Established in 1927, it is conferred upon deserving individuals for "high services rendered to education and teaching."

The following is a list of recipients of the order's highest grade, Grand Cross.

Source for the list: "Entidades Nacionais Agraciadas com Ordens Portuguesas", Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas (Office of the President of Portugal). Retrieved 19 February 2019.

Portuguese recipients

Name	Date	Academic rank or profession
Dr Pedro José da Cunha	24 May 1927
José Caeiro da Mata	13 January 1930	Professor Doutor
Alexandre Alberto de Sousa Pinto	21 March 1930	Architect
Guilhermina Bataglia Ramos	10 April 1930
Dr Domingos Fezas Vital	22 September 1930
José Leite de Vasconcelos Pereira de Melo	22 October 1930
Gustavo Cordeiro Ramos	31 December 1930	Professor Doutor
Aquiles Alfredo da Silveira Machado	20 March 1931	Professor
Colégio Militar	26 August 1931
Count José Capelo Franco Frazão	5 October 1931
António Faria Carneiro Pacheco	5 October 1933	Professor
Dr João Duarte de Oliveira	1 August 1934
Abel Pereira de Andrade	20 June 1936	Professor
Major Victor Hugo Duarte de Lemos	11 February 1937
José Pereira Salgado	28 May 1937
Luis Wittnich Carrisso	3 September 1937	Professor
Dr Angelo Rodrigues da Fonseca	2 June 1938
João Alberto Pereira de Azevedo Neves	2 June 1938	Senator
Francisco José Nobre Guedes	18 July 1938	Engineer
Agostinho Celso de Azevedo Campos	14 February 1940	Professor
Bishop José Alves Matoso	25 May 1940
António Luis de Morais Sarmento	21 August 1940	Senator
António Augusto Esteves Mendes Correia	26 July 1941	Professor
Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano	31 October 1944	Professor Doutor
José Gabriel Pinto Coelho	3 March 1945
General José Justino Teixeira Botelho	10 May 1945
Moisés Bensabat Amzalak Amzalak	15 May 1945	Professor Doutor
Liceu Literário Português do Rio de Janeiro	25 September 1945
Dr Amândio Joaquim Tavares	10 March 1947
Mário de Figueiredo	22 March 1948	Professor Doutor
Sociedade de Geografia de Libboa	24 November 1950
Luiz da Câmara Pinto Coelho	24 January 1952	Ambassador
Elisa Batista de Sousa Pedroso	16 November 1954
Fernando Duarte Silva de Almeida Ribeiro	4 January 1955	Professor
António Augusto Gonçalves Rodrigues	23 May 1957
Maximino José de Morais Correia	26 August 1957
Francisco de Paula Leite Pinto	5 July 1960	Professor Engenheiro
Maria Batista dos Santos Guardiola	2 January 1967
Inocêncio Galvão Teles	8 February 1967	Professor Doutor
José Hermano Saraiva	14 February 1970	Professor Doutor
João de Castro Mendes	4 May 1983	Professor Doutor
Jacinto Almeida do Prado Coelho	3 August 1983	Professor Universitário
Fernando José Maria de Melo Manuel da Câmara de Moser	29 August 1984	Professor Doutor
Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto	24 August 1985	Professor Doutor
Dr António Augusto Ferreira de Macedo	16 May 1986
António Simões Lopes	13 November 1987	Professor Doutor
Luis António de Oliveira Ramos	25 January 1988	Professor Doutor
Adérito de Oliveira Sedas Nunes	6 April 1988	Professor Doutor
José Sebastião da Silva Dias	28 June 1988	Professor Doutor
Luis Filipe Lindley Cintra	28 June 1988	Professor Doutor
António Manuel Pinto Barbosa	4 February 1989	Professor Doutor
Óscar Luso de Freitas Lopes	12 April 1989	Professor Doutor
Carlos Manuel Leitão Baeta Neves	13 July 1990	Professor Doutor
António Arruda Ferrer Correia	30 August 1990	Professor Doutor
José Veiga Simão	26 March 1991	Professor Doutor
Abílio Dias Fernandes	10 June 1992	Professor Doutor
José Augusto Rodrigues França	10 November 1992	Professor Doutor
Fernando Nunes Ferreira Real	19 May 1994	Professor Doutor
Manuel Bernardo Barbosa Soeiro	9 June 1995	Professor Doutor
Fernando Vieira Gonçalves da Silva	9 June 1995	Professor Doutor
Sérgio Machado dos Santos	9 June 1995	Professor Doutor
Manuel Jacinto Nunes	23 January 1996	Professor Doutor
João Evangelista Loureiro	8 June 1996	Professor Doutor
Joaquim José Barbosa Romero	22 December 1997	Professor Doutor
Carlos Alberto Lloyd Braga	29 October 1998	Professor Doutor
Manuel Gomes Guerreiro	28 March 2000	Professor Doutor
Dr Arquimedes da Silva Santos	1 October 2001
António Manuel Sampaio de Araújo Teixeira	19 October 2001	Professor Doutor
Virgílio Alberto Meira Soares	28 May 2002	Professor Doutor
Joaquim Cerqueira Gonçalves	9 June 2002	Professor Doutor
Rogério António Fernandes	9 June 2002	Professor Doutor
Dr António Carvalho de Almeida Coimbra	2 October 2002
Maria Beatriz Pinto de Sousa Amorim Rocha Trindade	8 March 2003	Professora Doutora
Alberto José Nunes Correia Ralha	27 August 2003	Professor Doutor
João Manuel Cotelo Neiva	17 October 2003	Professor Doutor
Fernando Roldão Dias Agudo	1 March 2004	Professor Doutor
Aloísio Coelho	5 April 2004	Professor Doutor
Joaquim Augusto Ribeiro Sarmento	31 May 2004	Professor Doutor
Eduardo da Cruz Gomes Cardoso	9 June 2004	Professor Doutor
Francisco Xavier Miranda de Avillez	9 June 2004	Professor Doutor
Vitor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva	4 October 2004	Professor Doutor
Manuel Rodrigues Gomes	9 March 2005	Professor Doutor
Stephen Ronald Stoer	4 October 2005	Professor Doutor
António Manuel Seixas Sampaio da Nóvoa	4 October 2005	Professor Doutor
António Francisco de Carvalho Quintela	17 January 2006	Professor Engenheiro
José Henrique da Costa Ferreira Marques	17 January 2006	Professor Doutor
Manuel Leal da Costa Lobo	17 January 2006	Professor Doutor
Júlio Domingos Pedrosa da Luz Jesus	8 June 2009	Professor Doutor
Major-General Cândido Manuel Passos Morgado	6 February 2010
Fernando Manuel Ramôa Ribeiro	10 June 2011	Professor Doutor
Fernando Seabra Santos	10 June 2011	Professor Doutor
Manuel José dos Santos Silva	10 June 2011	Professor Doutor
Avelino de Freitas de Meneses	10 June 2011	Professor Doutor
António Manuel da Cruz Serra	7 June 2013	Professor Doutor
Joaquim Pedro Pereira Amaro	7 June 2013	Professor Doutor
Luís Francisco Valente de Oliveira	28 June 2013	Professor Doutor
Jorge Quina Ribeiro de Araújo	9 June 2014	Professor Doutor
José Carlos Diogo Marques dos Santos	20 June 2014	Professor Doutor
Maria Helena Vaz de Carvalho Nazaré	14 April 2015	Professora Doutora
Maria da Glória Ferreira Pinto Dias Garcia	14 October 2016	Professora Doutora
Daniel José Branco Sampaio	26 October 2016	Professor Doutor
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira	6 April 2017	Architect
José António Rebocho Esperança Pina	19 April 2017	Professor Catedrático
Jorge Manuel Moura Loureiro de Miranda	20 April 2017	Professor Doutor
Roberto Artur da Luz Carneiro	10 May 2017	Professor Doutor
António Manuel Bensabat Rendas	21 November 2017	Professor Doutor
Maria Odette Santos Ferreira	21 December 2017	Professora Doutora
Nuno Tornelli Cordeiro Ferreira	15 January 2018	Professor Doutor
José Manuel Sérvulo Correia	7 February 2018	Professor Doutor
Rómulo Vasco da Gama de Carvalho	26 February 2018
Manuel de Jesus Antunes	20 July 2018	Professor Doutor
António Augusto Magalhães Cunha	30 July 2018	Professor Doutor
Manuel António Cotão de Assunção	30 July 2018	Professor Doutor
Sabastião José Cabral Feyo de Azevedo	30 July 2018	Professor Doutor
Walter Friedrich Alfred Osswald	24 October 2018	Professor Doutor