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

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.
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 |
| Eduardo Fernandes de Oliveira | 30 January 1928 | |
| João Coelho da Mota Prego | 30 January 1931 | Engineer |
| Francisco Maria Martinho de Almeida Manoel de Vilhena | 2 January 1964 | Engineer |
| António Pereira Sousa da Câmara | 28 May 1969 | Engineer |
| Domingos Rosado Vitória Pires | 9 August 1973 | Engineer |
| Joaquim António Rosado Gusmão | 4 February 1989 | Engineer |
| Professor Dr Carlos Manuel Leitão Baeta Neves | 26 March 1991 | |
| Professor Dr Apolinário José Barbosa da Cruz Vaz Portugal | 20 November 1991 | |
| Professor Dr Raúl Rosado Fernandes | 4 May 2001 | |
| José Manuel Rodrigues Casqueiro | 4 May 2001 | |
| Tomaz Pedro Ribeiro Corrêa | 4 May 2001 | Engineer |
| Andrade José Joaquim Lima Monteiro | 4 May 2001 | Engineer |
| Fernando Lobo Guedes | 9 June 2001 | Businessman |
| Fernando da Silva Mendonça | 9 October 2005 | |
| Dr Fernando Manuel Van-Zeller Gomes da Silva | 17 January 2006 | |
| Dr Luís Manuel Capoulas Santos | 17 January 2006 | |
| João Pedro Gorjão Cyrillo Machado | 17 January 2006 | |
| Dr Arlindo Marques da Cunha | 9 June 2015 | |
| Manuel Efigénio Cano de Castro e Brito | 10 May 2016 | Engineer |

### Foreign recipients

| Name | Date | Note | Country |
| Thomás de Allende y Garcia Baxter | 30 December 1970 | | Spain |
| Baron Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarie | 17 September 1963 | | France |
| Manuel Trucco Gaete | 5 August 1950 | | Chile |
| Cirilo Cánovas Garcia | 27 December 1960 | Engineer | Spain |
| Dr Hermann Hãcherl | 31 March 1969 | | Germany |
| Dr Adolfo Diaz Ambrona Moreno | 6 December 1966 | | Spain |

## Industrial class
### Portuguese recipients

| Name | Date | Note |
| General José Maria de Oliveira Simões | 29 March 1927 | |
| Pedro Gomes da Silva | 31 December 1927 | |
| João de Fontes Pereira de Melo Ferreira de Mesquita | 10 May 1929 | Engineer |
| Brigadier-General Manuel Gonçalves da Silveira Azevedo e Castro | 20 May 1929 | |
| General Teófilo José da Trindade | 11 July 1929 | |
| José Maria Alvares | 6 November 1929 | |
| Narciso Ferreira | 21 March 1930 | |
| Fausto Cardoso de Figueiredo | 22 September 1930 | |
| Colonel Júlio César de Carvalho Teixeira | 5 October 1930 | |
| Professor Dr Moisés Bensabat Amzalak Amzalak | 5 October 1930 | |
| Jaime de Vasconcelos Thompson | 30 January 1931 | |
| Cidade da Covilhã | 3 December 1931 | |
| Alfredo da Silva | 31 December 1932 | |
| Pedro Joyce Diniz | 20 January 1934 | |
| António de Oliveira Calem | 1 August 1934 | |
| Joaquim Roque da Fonseca | 18 December 1940 | |
| António Teófilo de Araújo Rato | 5 December 1942 | |
| António de Almeida Vasconcelos Correia | 14 February 1945 | Engineer |
| Delfim Ferreira | 20 June 1951 | |
| Câmara Portuguesa de Comércio e Indústria do Rio de Janeiro | 17 May 1958 | |
| Manuel Augusto José de Melo | 4 August 1959 | |
| António de Sommer Champalimaud | 15 September 1961 | |
| Carlos Alfredo Garcia Alves | 5 July 1968 | |
| Dr Jorge Augusto Caetano da Silva José de Mello | 2 July 1969 | |
| José Manuel da Silva José de Mello | 2 July 1969 | |
| António de Medeiros e Almeida | 8 October 1969 | |
| Lúcio Tomé Feteira | 30 June 1970 | |
| Mário Drumond Borges | 30 June 1973 | Engineer |
| Artur Cupertino de Miranda | 17 March 1983 | |
| Jorge Rocha de Matos | 21 August 1990 | |
| Angelo Ludgero da Silva Marques | 9 June 1995 | Engineer |
| Joaquim Augusto Coelho Ferreira da Bernarda | 22 September 1998 | |
| Dr Adalberto Manuel da Fonseca Neiva de Oliveira | 22 September 1998 | |
| Salvador Fernandes Caetano | 18 February 2000 | |
| Fortunato Oliveira Frederico | 9 June 2005 | |
| Francisco Xavier Bello Van Zeller | 17 January 2006 | Engineer |
| João Augusto Sanguinetti da Costa Carvalho Talone | 17 January 2006 | Engineer |
| Álvaro Pinho da Costa Leite | 17 January 2006 | |
| Pedro Mendonça de Queiroz Pereira | 6 November 2009 | |
| Dr Paulo Jorge dos Santos Fernandes | 2 July 2010 | |
| Dr Alexandre Carlos de Melo Vieira da Costa Relvas | 30 April 2014 | |
| Dr António Luís Teixeira Guerra Nunes Mexia | 30 April 2014 | |
| Dr Filipe Maurício de Botton | 30 April 2014 | |
| João Manuel Resende Picoito | 26 February 2016 | Engineer |

### Foreign recipients

| Name | Date | Notes | Country |
| Maurice Despret | 20 August 1928 | Senator | Belgium |
| Pablo Verdaguez Gomes | 30 December 1929 | | Spain |
| Germain Martin | 2 September 1930 | | France |
| Alexandre Zeuceano | 2 September 1930 | Minister Pleniopotentary | Romania |
| Frederico Jarach | 16 March 1932 | | Italy |
| Ildefonso Gonzoly Fierro y Ordonez | 21 March 1934 | | Spain |
| Hans Eltze | 7 June 1943 | | Germany |
| Alexander Roger | 7 February 1946 | | United Kingdom |
| Don Fernando Guijarro Alconcer | 17 November 1949 | | Spain |
| Axel Axson Johnson | 25 April 1950 | | Sweden |
| Hermann Reinhardt | 29 May 1951 | | Germany |
| Thomás Sunez y Ferrer | 8 August 1951 | | Spain |
| José Navarro Revertez y Gomis | 14 May 1953 | | Spain |
| Juan António Suances Fernandez | 18 July 1953 | | Spain |
| Joaquim Planell Riera | 18 July 1953 | | Spain |
| Edmundo Penna Barbosa da Silva | 3 February 1956 | | Brazil |
| Jacques Van Offelen | 5 July 1960 | | Belgium |
| Dr Otto Stalmann | 29 May 1961 | | Germany |
| Dr Gunther Serres | 29 May 1961 | | Germany |
| Konsul Manfres von Mautnez Markhof | 3 February 1966 | | Austria |
| Francisco Giménez Torres | 20 April 1978 | | Spain |
| António Gomes da Costa | 22 September 1981 | | Brazil |
| António Garrigues Diaz Cauabate | 16 February 1982 | | Spain |
| Curt Nicolin | 11 December 1990 | | Sweden |
| Peter Wallenberg | 11 December 1990 | | Sweden |
| Abraham Kasinsky | 25 March 1996 | | Brazil |
| Dr Reinfried Franz Pohl | 22 December 1998 | | Germany |
| Josef Käser | 13 May 2015 | | Germany |
| Fernando da Cruz Souza Pinto | 12 January 2018 | Engineer | Brazil |

## Commercial class (since 1991)
### Portuguese recipients

| Name | Date | Note |
| Dr Manuel Eduardo de Noronha Gamito | 10 June 1991 | |
| Dr Manuel Ricardo Pinheiro Espirito Santo Silva | 31 October 1991 | |
| Dr Ma Man Kei | 30 March 1995 | |
| Dr Ruy Octávio Matos de Carvalho | 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 |
| Tasuku Takagaki | 22 February 1994 | Japan |