List of recipients of the Grand Cross of the Order of Entrepreneurial Merit

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The Order of Entrepreneurial Merit (Portuguese: Ordem do Mérito Empresarial) is the most junior of the Portuguese civil orders of merit, and is intended to distinguish those who have rendered, as an entrepreneur or worker, outstanding service in promoting appreciation or services in an economic sector. The Order has three classes: Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial. The order was established in 1893 by King Carlos I as the Civil Order of Agricultural and Industrial Merit; the commercial class was added in 1991, and the order given its present name in 2011.[1]

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.

Agricultural class[]

Portuguese recipients[]

Name Date Notes
30 January 1928
30 January 1931 Engineer
2 January 1964 Engineer
28 May 1969 Engineer
9 August 1973 Engineer
4 February 1989 Engineer
Professor Dr 26 March 1991
Professor Dr 20 November 1991
Professor Dr 4 May 2001
4 May 2001
4 May 2001 Engineer
4 May 2001 Engineer
9 June 2001 Businessman
9 October 2005
Dr 17 January 2006
Dr Luís Manuel Capoulas Santos 17 January 2006
17 January 2006
Dr 9 June 2015
10 May 2016 Engineer

Foreign recipients[]

Name Date Note Country
30 December 1970 Spain
Baron Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarie 17 September 1963 France
Manuel Trucco Gaete 5 August 1950 Chile
27 December 1960 Engineer Spain
Dr Hermann Hãcherl 31 March 1969 Germany
Dr 6 December 1966 Spain

Industrial class[]

Portuguese recipients[]

Name Date Note
General 29 March 1927
31 December 1927
10 May 1929 Engineer
Brigadier-General 20 May 1929
General 11 July 1929
6 November 1929
Narciso Ferreira 21 March 1930
22 September 1930
Colonel 5 October 1930
Professor Dr 5 October 1930
30 January 1931
3 December 1931
31 December 1932
20 January 1934
1 August 1934
18 December 1940
5 December 1942
14 February 1945 Engineer
Delfim Ferreira 20 June 1951
17 May 1958
4 August 1959
António de Sommer Champalimaud 15 September 1961
5 July 1968
Dr 2 July 1969
2 July 1969
António de Medeiros e Almeida 8 October 1969
30 June 1970
30 June 1973 Engineer
17 March 1983
21 August 1990
9 June 1995 Engineer
22 September 1998
Dr 22 September 1998
18 February 2000
9 June 2005
17 January 2006 Engineer
17 January 2006 Engineer
17 January 2006
6 November 2009
Dr 2 July 2010
Dr 30 April 2014
Dr 30 April 2014
Dr 30 April 2014
26 February 2016 Engineer

Foreign recipients[]

Name Date Notes Country
20 August 1928 Senator Belgium
30 December 1929 Spain
2 September 1930 France
2 September 1930 Minister Pleniopotentary Romania
16 March 1932 Italy
21 March 1934 Spain
7 June 1943 Germany
7 February 1946 United Kingdom
Don 17 November 1949 Spain
25 April 1950 Sweden
Hermann Reinhardt 29 May 1951 Germany
8 August 1951 Spain
14 May 1953 Spain
Juan António Suances Fernandez 18 July 1953 Spain
18 July 1953 Spain
3 February 1956 Brazil
Jacques Van Offelen 5 July 1960 Belgium
Dr 29 May 1961 Germany
Dr 29 May 1961 Germany
3 February 1966 Austria
20 April 1978 Spain
22 September 1981 Brazil
16 February 1982 Spain
Curt Nicolin 11 December 1990 Sweden
Peter Wallenberg 11 December 1990 Sweden
25 March 1996 Brazil
Dr 22 December 1998 Germany
13 May 2015 Germany
12 January 2018 Engineer Brazil

Commercial class (since 1991)[]

Portuguese recipients[]

Name Date Note
Dr 10 June 1991
Dr 31 October 1991
Dr Ma Man Kei 30 March 1995
Dr 4 March 1998
Dr António Mota de Sousa Horta Osório 9 June 2014
Zeinal Abedin Mohamed Bava 9 June 2014 Engineer
Elísio Alexandre Soares dos Santos 17 March 2017

Foreign recipients[]

Name Date Country
22 February 1994 Japan

References[]

  1. ^ "History: Orders of Entrepreneurial Merit", Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas" (Office of the President of Portugal; in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 February 2019.
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