University of Porto

The University of Porto (Portuguese: Universidade do Porto, U.Porto) is a public research university in Porto, Portugal, created by decree of the provisional government of the First Portuguese Republic on 22 March 1911 and placed 255th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.波尔图大学（葡萄牙语：Universidade do Porto，简称 U.Porto）是葡萄牙波尔图的一所公立研究型大学，由葡萄牙第一共和国临时政府于 1911 年 3 月 22 日颁令设立，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 255 名。

It grew out of schools founded in the city from 1762 onwards, above all the Polytechnic Academy of 1837 and the Medical-Surgical School of 1836, and its creation ended the monopoly on university education long held by the University of Coimbra.该校源于波尔图自 1762 年起陆续创办的多所学校，其中最重要的是 1837 年的理工学院与 1836 年的内外科学校；它的设立终结了科英布拉大学长期垄断葡萄牙高等教育的局面。

The university comprises fifteen constituent units, thirteen faculties together with the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences and the Nursing School, and counted 35,815 students in degree programmes in 2024/25, among them 4,536 doctoral candidates and students of 119 nationalities.学校由十五个组成单位构成，即十三个学院加上阿贝尔·萨拉萨尔生物医学科学研究所与护理学院；2024 至 2025 学年在读学位生 35815 人，其中博士生 4536 人，学生来自 119 个国家。

History

• Public instruction in Porto began with the Nautical Class established by King Joseph I in 1762 and continued with the Drawing Class created by Queen Maria I in 1779.波尔图的公立教育始于 1762 年若泽一世设立的航海班，其后又有 1779 年玛丽亚一世设立的绘画班。
• The university rests mainly on two institutions created under the reforms of Passos Manuel, the Medical-Surgical School of 1836, successor to the Royal School of Surgery of 1825, and the Polytechnic Academy of 1837, successor to the Royal Academy of the Navy and Commerce of 1803.该校主要建立在帕索斯·曼努埃尔改革中设立的两所机构之上，即 1825 年皇家外科学校之后的 1836 年内外科学校，以及 1803 年皇家海军与商业学院之后的 1837 年理工学院。
• The university was created by decree on 22 March 1911 at the same time as the University of Lisbon, breaking the monopoly of the University of Coimbra.1911 年 3 月 22 日，该校与里斯本大学同时由法令设立，打破了科英布拉大学的垄断。
• It opened with the Faculty of Sciences, which absorbed the engineering chairs of the Polytechnic Academy, and the Faculty of Medicine, to which a School of Pharmacy was attached.建校之初设理学院（吸纳了理工学院工程教席）与医学院，并附设药学院。
• The first rector was the mathematician Francisco Gomes Teixeira, who had written a catalogue of more than a hundred plane and space curves published in 1905.首任校长是数学家弗朗西斯科·戈梅斯·特谢拉，他著有收录百余种平面与空间曲线的目录，1905 年出版。
• The Technical Faculty followed in 1915 and later became the Faculty of Engineering, with the Faculty of Letters in 1919, the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1921 and the Faculty of Economics in 1953.1915 年设技术学院（后为工程学院），1919 年设文学院，1921 年设药学院，1953 年设经济学院。
• The first Faculty of Letters, where the philosopher Leonardo Coimbra taught students such as Agostinho da Silva, Delfim Santos and Álvaro Ribeiro, was abolished in 1928 and re-established in 1961.首代文学院中，哲学家莱奥纳多·科英布拉执教，学生包括阿戈什蒂纽·达席尔瓦、德尔芬·桑托斯与阿尔瓦罗·里贝罗；该院于 1928 年被撤销，1961 年重建。
• Under the military dictatorship and the Estado Novo the university lost teachers in the dismissal waves of 1935 and 1947, among them Abel Salazar and the mathematician Ruy Luís Gomes.在军事独裁与新国家体制下，学校在 1935 年与 1947 年的两波解聘中失去教师，其中包括阿贝尔·萨拉萨尔与数学家鲁伊·路易斯·戈梅斯。
• After the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, Ruy Luís Gomes returned to the university to serve as its rector.1974 年 4 月 25 日康乃馨革命之后，鲁伊·路易斯·戈梅斯回到学校出任校长。
• Between 1975 and 1996 the university added the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences and the faculties of Sport, Architecture, Psychology and Education Sciences, Dental Medicine, Fine Arts, Law, and Nutrition and Food Sciences to its six existing faculties.1975 至 1996 年间，学校在原有六个学院之外增设阿贝尔·萨拉萨尔生物医学科学研究所，以及体育、建筑、心理与教育科学、牙科医学、美术、法律和营养与食品科学等学院。
• From the 1990s the faculties gradually moved into new buildings on the Asprela and Campo Alegre campuses, the Faculty of Medicine having entered the São João Hospital complex in 1959.自 20 世纪 90 年代起，各学院陆续迁入阿斯普雷拉与坎波阿莱格里校区的新楼；医学院则早在 1959 年就进入了圣若昂医院建筑群。
• In 2009 the university became a public higher education institution with the status of a foundation, governed by the statutes annexed to Decree-Law 96/2009 of 27 April.2009 年，学校成为具有基金会地位的公立高等教育机构，受 4 月 27 日第 96/2009 号法令所附章程治理。
• In its centenary year of 1911 plus one hundred, in 2011, the university was made an Honorary Member of the Order of Saint James of the Sword.2011 年建校一百周年之际，学校获授圣剑圣雅各骑士团荣誉成员称号。
• The university began to incorporate the Porto Nursing School in 2024, a process completed in December 2025, and its statutes were amended in 2025 to reflect the change.学校自 2024 年开始并入波尔图护理学院，这一进程于 2025 年 12 月完成，章程也在 2025 年作出相应修订。
• The motto Virtus unita fortius agit was inherited from the Polytechnic Academy, and the university's emblem is the figure of Minerva, reserved for formal uses such as diplomas of merit and official paper watermarks.校训「Virtus unita fortius agit」承自理工学院，校徽形象为弥涅耳瓦，仅用于正式场合，如优秀文凭与公文纸水印。
• A sphragistic emblem was approved in 1925, and the medal designed by the sculptor João da Silva for the centenaries of 1937 became the university symbol in 1940 and its doctoral medal in 1994.1925 年通过了印玺纹章；雕塑家若昂·达席尔瓦为 1937 年百年纪念设计的奖章于 1940 年成为学校象征，1994 年起用作博士奖章。
• In January 2003 the Senate approved the doctoral dress and old gold replaced pink as the university colour, and a new visual identity introduced in March 2004 added the U.Porto logotype with the dates 1762 and 1911.2003 年 1 月，校务委员会通过博士礼服方案，并以古金色取代粉色作为校色；2004 年 3 月启用的新视觉识别加入 U.Porto 标识与 1762、1911 两个年份。
• University Day, instituted in 1999, is celebrated each year on 22 March, the anniversary of the university's foundation.1999 年设立的大学日定在每年 3 月 22 日，即建校纪念日。
• The portraits of the rectors of the first century, a series of oil paintings begun in 1950 under the rector Amândio Tavares, were inaugurated in January 1954 in the Council Room of the Rectorate.首任百年校长肖像油画系列始于 1950 年阿曼迪奥·塔瓦雷斯任内，1954 年 1 月在校长楼议事厅揭幕。
• Since 22 June 2026 the rector has been Pedro Nuno Teixeira, a full professor at the School of Economics and Management and the twenty-first rector in the university's history.自 2026 年 6 月 22 日起，校长由经济与管理学院正教授佩德罗·努诺·特谢拉担任，他是该校历史上第二十一位校长。

Academics

• The university comprises fifteen teaching and research units, thirteen faculties plus the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences and the Nursing School, and runs the Porto Business School in Matosinhos.学校共有十五个教学与研究单位，即十三个学院加阿贝尔·萨拉萨尔生物医学科学研究所与护理学院，并在马托西纽什设有波尔图商学院。
• In 2024/25, excluding the Nursing School, it had 35,815 students in degree programmes, 55 per cent of them women, with 15,859 in bachelor's programmes, 5,667 in integrated master's programmes, 9,753 in master's programmes and 4,536 in doctoral programmes.2024 至 2025 学年，不计护理学院，该校有学位生 35815 人，女性占 55%，其中学士 15859 人、本硕连读 5667 人、硕士 9753 人、博士 4536 人。
• The 5,171 foreign students in degree programmes held 119 nationalities and, together with a record 2,741 incoming exchange students in 2024/25, made up about 20 per cent of the student body.5171 名外籍学位生来自 119 个国家；加上 2024 至 2025 学年创纪录的 2741 名入校交换生，国际学生约占全校学生的 20%。
• Degree programmes follow the three-cycle structure of the Bologna Process, with integrated master's programmes combining the first two cycles in architecture, medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine and pharmaceutical sciences.学位项目遵循博洛尼亚进程的三阶段结构；建筑、医学、牙科医学、兽医学与药学等专业以本硕连读形式合并前两阶段。
• For 2026/27 the university offered 62 bachelor's and integrated master's programmes and more than 280 master's and doctoral programmes.2026 至 2027 学年，学校开设 62 个学士与本硕连读项目，以及 280 多个硕士与博士项目。
• In the first phase of the 2026 national admissions competition the university filled 5,064 of its 5,111 places, or 99.1 per cent, the highest rate among Portuguese universities.在 2026 年全国招生第一阶段，学校 5111 个名额中录满 5064 个，达 99.1%，为葡萄牙各大学中最高。
• The average entry score of admitted students was 163.4 points on a scale of 0 to 200, the highest among public universities, and 45 of the 62 programmes had the highest entry scores in the country in their fields.录取学生平均入学分为 163.4 分（满分 200 分），为公立大学最高；62 个项目中有 45 个在其领域内居全国最高分。
• The bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering recorded the highest last-admitted score in the country at 195.0 points.航空航天工程学士专业的最后录取分数为 195.0 分，为全国最高。
• Research is organised in 45 research and development units, 11 associated research institutes, 16 associate laboratories and 21 collaborative laboratories, and 93 per cent of the units in the university's ecosystem were rated Excellent or Very Good in the 2023/24 evaluation by the Foundation for Science and Technology.科研组织为 45 个研发单位、11 个附属研究所、16 个合作实验室与 21 个协同实验室；在 2023 至 2024 年度科学技术基金会的评估中，学校科研生态内 93% 的单位被评为优秀或很好。
• The i3S Institute for Research and Innovation in Health opened in 2016 as what the Lusa news agency then described as the largest Portuguese research institute in the health sciences, and its building also houses the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology and the National Institute of Biomedical Engineering.健康研究与创新研究所 i3S 于 2016 年启用，被卢萨社称为当时葡萄牙最大的健康科学研究机构；其大楼内还设有分子与细胞生物学研究所和国立生物医学工程研究所。
• Between 2020 and 2024 university researchers published about 31,000 documents indexed in the Web of Science, 24 per cent of the citable Portuguese documents in that database, of which 12 per cent ranked among the 10 per cent most cited and 58 per cent came from international collaboration.2020 至 2024 年间，该校研究人员发表约 31000 篇被 Web of Science 收录的文献，占该库葡萄牙可被引文献的 24%；其中 12% 进入全球引用前 10%，58% 来自国际合作。
• By May 2026 researchers of the university and its associated institutes had obtained 26 grants from the European Research Council.截至 2026 年 5 月，该校及其附属研究所的研究人员共获得 26 项欧洲研究理事会资助。
• The 2025 update of the list of the world's top 2 per cent scientists compiled for Stanford University and Elsevier included 205 of the university's teachers and researchers, more than a fifth of the Portuguese scientists listed.斯坦福大学与爱思唯尔联合编制的 2025 年版全球前 2% 科学家榜单收录该校教师与研究人员 205 人，占上榜葡萄牙科学家的五分之一以上。
• At the end of 2025 the university had 742 active patent processes, 427 of them international, and counted 3,567 jobs created by the start-ups and spin-offs linked to it, having filed the most European Patent Office applications of any Portuguese university in 2024.截至 2025 年底，该校有 742 项在办专利，其中 427 项为国际专利；其关联初创与衍生企业创造就业 3567 个；2024 年该校是向欧洲专利局提交申请最多的葡萄牙大学。
• The university's budget for 2026 was set at 356.8 million euros, while in 2025 transfers from the state budget for current expenditure amounted to 169 million euros and covered 84 per cent of staff costs.学校 2026 年预算定为 3.568 亿欧元；2025 年国家预算经常性拨款为 1.69 亿欧元，覆盖 84% 的人员支出。
• The university has 19 libraries with more than 800,000 publications in their catalogue, and the Casa dos Livros, opened in 2022, keeps the libraries and archives of the writers Vasco Graça Moura, Eugénio de Andrade and Ana Luísa Amaral.学校有 19 所图书馆，目录收录出版物 80 万余种；2022 年开放的书籍之家收藏作家瓦斯科·格拉萨·莫拉、欧热尼奥·德安德拉德与安娜·路易莎·阿马拉尔的藏书与档案。
• Corino de Andrade described familial amyloid polyneuropathy in 1952, Maria João Saraiva characterised the valine-to-methionine substitution at position 30 of transthyretin in 1984, and teams at Ipatimup showed in 2009 that large deletions of the CDH1 gene occur in about 4 per cent of affected families.科里诺·德安德拉德于 1952 年描述家族性淀粉样多发性神经病；玛丽亚·若昂·萨赖瓦于 1984 年确定甲状腺素转运蛋白第 30 位缬氨酸被甲硫氨酸取代；分子病理与免疫学研究所团队在 2009 年证明 CDH1 基因大片段缺失见于约 4% 的患病家系。

Campus

• The university is distributed across three campuses in Porto, the city centre as Pole 1, Asprela as Pole 2 and Campo Alegre as Pole 3, with further facilities in Vila do Conde, Vila Nova de Gaia and Matosinhos.该校分布在波尔图的三个校区，即市中心的第一极、阿斯普雷拉的第二极与坎波阿莱格里的第三极，并在孔迪镇、盖亚新城与马托西纽什设有其他设施。
• The Rectorate building faces Praça de Gomes Teixeira, named in 1933 after the first rector and popularly called Praça dos Leões after the fountain standing there since 1886, and houses the Casa Comum cultural centre and the central unit of the Museum of Natural History and Science.校长楼面向戈梅斯·特谢拉广场，该广场 1933 年以首任校长命名，又因 1886 年起伫立的喷泉被俗称为狮子广场；楼内设有公共之家文化中心与自然史与科学博物馆主馆。
• The Abel Salazar Building, former seat of the Medical-Surgical School and later of the Faculty of Medicine and ICBAS, was refurbished and reopened in 2026.阿贝尔·萨拉萨尔楼曾为内外科学校及后来的医学院与生物医学科学研究所所在地，2026 年修缮后重新启用。
• Since 2012 the ICBAS and the Faculty of Pharmacy have shared a complex designed by José Manuel Soares on the site of the former Quartel da Torre da Marca barracks on Rua de D. Manuel II, next to the Santo António Hospital.自 2012 年起，生物医学科学研究所与药学院共用由若泽·曼努埃尔·苏亚雷斯设计的建筑群，场址为曼努埃尔二世街原托雷达马尔卡兵营，紧邻圣安东尼奥医院。
• The Faculty of Law has occupied since 2004 the building on Rua dos Bragas originally built for the Faculty of Engineering, and the Faculty of Fine Arts centres on the Palacete Braguinha, whose gardens hold sculptures by António Soares dos Reis.法学院自 2004 年起使用布拉加斯街上原为工程学院建造的大楼；美术学院以布拉吉尼亚宫为核心，其花园中陈列安东尼奥·苏亚雷斯·多斯雷斯等人的雕塑。
• Asprela, in the parish of Paranhos on the northern edge of the city, gathers the faculties of Engineering, Economics, Medicine, Dental Medicine, Sport, and Psychology and Education Sciences, the Nursing School headquarters and the research institutes i3S, INESC TEC and INEGI.位于城市北缘帕拉尼奥斯堂区的阿斯普雷拉校区聚集了工程、经济、医学、牙科医学、体育、心理与教育科学等学院，护理学院总部，以及 i3S、INESC TEC 与 INEGI 三个研究所。
• The Faculty of Economics building was completed in 1974, followed by Dental Medicine in 1997, Engineering in 2000 and Psychology and Education Sciences in 2005, and the campus is served by line D of the Porto Metro.经济学院大楼 1974 年建成，其后依次为 1997 年的牙科医学院、2000 年的工程学院与 2005 年的心理与教育科学学院；波尔图地铁 D 线通达该校区。
• Campo Alegre occupies the slope above the mouth of the Douro in Lordelo do Ouro next to the Arrábida Bridge, where the Quinta do Campo Alegre was acquired by the state in 1949 and became the Botanical Garden in 1951.坎波阿莱格里位于杜罗河口上方洛尔德洛多乌罗的坡地，紧邻阿拉比达大桥；坎波阿莱格里庄园 1949 年被国家收购，1951 年辟为植物园。
• The campus brings together the Faculty of Sciences concentrated there since 2007, Arts and Humanities since 1995, Nutrition and Food Sciences since 2020, Architecture, the Porto Planetarium, the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences and the University Stadium of 1953.该校区汇集了 2007 年起集中于此的理学院、1995 年起迁入的人文学院、2020 年起迁入的营养与食品科学学院、建筑学院、波尔图天文馆、天体物理与空间科学研究所，以及 1953 年的大学体育场。
• The Faculty of Architecture building by Álvaro Siza, built between 1986 and 1993, is one of eight works in a nomination for the UNESCO World Heritage List coordinated by the faculty since 2021, whose decision the World Heritage Committee deferred in July 2025.阿尔瓦罗·西扎设计的建筑学院大楼建于 1986 至 1993 年，是自 2021 年起由该学院牵头申报世界遗产的八件作品之一；世界遗产委员会于 2025 年 7 月推迟了决定。
• Elsewhere the university runs the Augusto Nobre Marine Zoology Station at Foz do Douro, the Marques da Silva Foundation, the Geophysical Institute and Astronomical Observatory in Vila Nova de Gaia, CIIMAR at the Port of Leixões Cruise Terminal and the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at Vairão.此外，学校还在杜罗河口设有奥古斯托·诺布雷海洋动物研究站，设有马克斯·达席尔瓦基金会，在盖亚新城设有地球物理研究所与天文台，在莱索伊斯港邮轮码头设有海洋与环境研究跨学科中心，在瓦伊朗设有生物多样性与遗传资源研究中心。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Porto is placed 255th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，波尔图大学位列全球并列第 255 名。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 401-450 band.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于 401 至 450 名区间。
• U.S. News and World Report ranked the university 290th in the world in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列全球第 290 名。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places the university in the 301-400 band, sharing the leading position in Portugal with the University of Lisbon, and ranks it 202nd worldwide for scientific output.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 301 至 400 名区间，与里斯本大学并列葡萄牙第一，科研产出指标位列全球第 202 名。
• In the QS World University Rankings 2026 the university stood 255th-256th in the world, second in Portugal, fourteenth in Ibero-America and 104th in Europe.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列全球第 255 至 256 名、葡萄牙第 2 名、伊比利亚美洲第 14 名、欧洲第 104 名。
• QS placed the university 69th in the world in pharmacy and pharmacology in its 2026 subject rankings, with architecture, sports and library management in the 51-100 band.在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中，该校药学与药理学位列全球第 69 名，建筑学、体育学与图书馆管理位于 51 至 100 名区间。
• ShanghaiRanking's 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects placed the university 47th in the world in marine and ocean engineering and between 51st and 75th in food science and technology, biotechnology and civil engineering.软科 2026 年世界一流学科排名将该校海洋工程列为全球第 47 名，食品科学与技术、生物技术与土木工程位于第 51 至 75 名区间。
• In the 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking the university was 162nd in the world and the Portuguese institution with the most publications among the 10 per cent most cited in their fields.在 2025 年 CWTS 莱顿排名中，该校位列全球第 162 名，并且是进入各领域引用前 10% 论文数最多的葡萄牙机构。
• In the Nature Index covering June 2025 to May 2026 the university ranked third in Portugal and first in the health sciences, and in the 2026 QS sustainability ranking it stood 150th-152nd in the world and second in Portugal.在 2025 年 6 月至 2026 年 5 月的自然指数中，该校位列葡萄牙第三、健康科学第一；在 2026 年 QS 可持续发展排名中位列全球第 150 至 152 名、葡萄牙第 2 名。
• The Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education accredited the university without conditions for six years in 2023, and OpenAlex credits it with 156,326 works and 8,873,445 citations.高等教育评估与认证署于 2023 年对该校作出六年无条件认证；OpenAlex 记录其论文 156326 篇、被引 8873445 次。

Student life

• The Queima das Fitas, held in early May, grew out of the Festa da Pasta of final-year medical students first celebrated in 1920 and became a single celebration for all faculties in the 1940s.每年五月初举行的烧丝带节源于 1920 年首次举办的医学毕业班公文包庆典，到 20 世纪 40 年代成为各学院共同的庆典。
• It was suspended in 1971, when its parade gave way to a student demonstration, and resumed in 1978, and in the Academic Parade final-year students march in top hats with canes and ribbons in the colour of their degree.该节日 1971 年因游行变为学生示威而中断，1978 年恢复；学术游行中毕业生戴高礼帽、持手杖，佩与本学位颜色相同的绶带。
• For the 2022 edition the organisers estimated about 400,000 people at the parade and 200,000 at the concert nights.2022 年那一届，主办方估计游行现场约有 40 万人，音乐之夜约有 20 万人。
• According to the Faculty of Engineering, the black academic dress was worn only by men until 1937, and the women students of the University of Porto were the first to adopt it.据工程学院记载，黑色学术礼服在 1937 年之前只有男生穿着，波尔图大学的女学生是最先采用它的。
• The faculties' students' associations belong to the Federação Académica do Porto, which organises the freshers' welcome, and a student protest against the International Festival of University Choirs ended with 325 arrests in 1973.各学院学生会隶属波尔图学术联合会，该会组织新生欢迎活动；1973 年一场针对大学生合唱团国际艺术节的学生抗议以 325 人被捕告终。
• The Orfeão Universitário do Porto, founded in 1912, brings together about 200 students in choirs, tunas, fado and folk groups and organises the International Festival of University Tunas.成立于 1912 年的波尔图大学合唱团汇集约 200 名学生，组成合唱队、学生乐队、法多与民间音乐小组，并主办大学生乐队国际艺术节。
• The Teatro Universitário do Porto, founded in 1948, is the oldest independent theatre group in the city, and the Coral de Letras da Universidade do Porto, founded in 1966, has won fourteen prizes at international festivals.成立于 1948 年的波尔图大学剧团是该市历史最悠久的独立剧团；成立于 1966 年的波尔图大学文学院合唱团在国际艺术节上获十四项奖。
• Student media include the newspaper JUP, founded in 1987, and the online newspaper JPN, published since 2004 by students of communication sciences.学生媒体包括 1987 年创刊的《JUP》报纸，以及 2004 年起由传播学学生运营的网络报纸《JPN》。
• In 2025 the Social Services served 572,715 meals and the university's ten halls of residence offered 1,073 beds, while the University Stadium of 1953 at Campo Alegre was the first university stadium in Portugal.2025 年，社会服务部门供餐 572715 份，学校十处学生公寓提供 1073 个床位；坎波阿莱格里 1953 年建成的大学体育场是葡萄牙第一座大学体育场。

Notable people

• Francisco Gomes Teixeira, the mathematician who wrote a prize-winning treatise on remarkable special curves, was the university's first rector after its creation in 1911.数学家弗朗西斯科·戈梅斯·特谢拉著有获奖的特殊曲线专著，1911 年建校后出任首任校长。
• Abel Salazar, professor of histology at the Faculty of Medicine, developed a tannin and iron staining method that brought him international recognition and gives his name to the biomedical sciences institute.医学院组织学教授阿贝尔·萨拉萨尔发明了单宁—铁染色法，因此获得国际声誉，生物医学科学研究所即以其命名。
• The philosopher Leonardo Coimbra taught at the first Faculty of Letters, whose abolition in 1928 and restoration in 1961 shaped the history of philosophy teaching in Porto.哲学家莱奥纳多·科英布拉任教于首代文学院；该院 1928 年被撤销、1961 年重建，塑造了波尔图哲学教育的历史。
• Ruy Luís Gomes, dismissed in one of the purges under the Estado Novo, returned after the revolution of 1974 to serve as rector of the university.在新国家体制下的清洗中被解聘的数学家鲁伊·路易斯·戈梅斯，于 1974 年革命后回校出任校长。
• Corino de Andrade described familial amyloid polyneuropathy in 1952 from patients at the Santo António General Hospital and became a full professor in 1976 after helping to found the ICBAS.科里诺·德安德拉德于 1952 年根据圣安东尼奥总医院的患者描述家族性淀粉样多发性神经病，并在参与创建生物医学科学研究所后于 1976 年成为正教授。
• Álvaro Siza won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1992 and Eduardo Souto de Moura won it in 2011, both formed in the Porto school of architecture continued by the Faculty of Architecture from 1979.阿尔瓦罗·西扎于 1992 年获普利兹克建筑奖，爱德华多·索托·德莫拉于 2011 年获该奖；两人均出自 1979 年起由建筑学院承续的波尔图建筑学派。
• The architect Fernando Távora designed the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences building completed in 2005, while Carlos Ramos led the reform of architecture teaching from 1952.建筑师费尔南多·塔沃拉设计了 2005 年建成的心理与教育科学学院大楼；卡洛斯·拉莫斯则自 1952 年起领导建筑教学改革。
• Writers associated with the university include Camilo Castelo Branco, Júlio Dinis, Jorge de Sena and Ana Luísa Amaral, who received the Queen Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry in 2021.与该校相关的作家包括卡米洛·卡斯特洛·布兰科、儒利奥·迪尼斯、若热·德塞纳与安娜·路易莎·阿马拉尔，后者于 2021 年获伊比利亚美洲诗歌索菲娅王后奖。
• Two presidents of Portugal, Manuel Teixeira Gomes and Francisco da Costa Gomes, are counted among its alumni, as are the heads of government António Teixeira de Sousa, Alberto Vaquina of Mozambique and Jorge Bom Jesus of São Tomé and Príncipe.两位葡萄牙总统曼努埃尔·特谢拉·戈梅斯与弗朗西斯科·达科斯塔·戈梅斯均为其校友；政府首脑中则有葡萄牙的安东尼奥·特谢拉·德索萨、莫桑比克的阿尔贝托·瓦基纳与圣多美和普林西比的若热·邦·热苏斯。
• Other public figures educated at the university include Augusto Santos Silva, President of the Assembly of the Republic, Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner, and Carlos Costa, Governor of the Bank of Portugal.在该校接受教育的其他公共人物包括共和国议会议长奥古斯托·桑托斯·席尔瓦、欧盟委员埃莉萨·费雷拉与葡萄牙银行行长卡洛斯·科斯塔。
• The astronomer Teresa Lago initiated the Porto Planetarium opened in 1998, the physicist Maria Helena Braga works on solid-state batteries, and the engineer Edgar Cardoso designed the Arrábida Bridge.天文学家特雷莎·拉戈倡导并于 1998 年建成波尔图天文馆；物理学家玛丽亚·海伦娜·布拉加从事固态电池研究；工程师埃德加·卡多佐设计了阿拉比达大桥。
• The university has awarded more than a hundred honorary doctorates, including six to Nobel laureates, among them Paul Sabatier in 1923, James M. Buchanan in 1995, Sydney Brenner in 2003 and Anne L'Huillier in 2024.该校已授予百余名荣誉博士学位，其中六位为诺贝尔奖得主，包括 1923 年的保罗·萨巴捷、1995 年的詹姆斯·M·布坎南、2003 年的悉尼·布伦纳与 2024 年的安娜·吕利耶。