The Order of Entrepreneurial Merit () 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."History: Orders of Entrepreneurial Merit", Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas (Office of the President of Portugal; in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 February 2019.
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 NameDateNotesEduardo Fernandes de Oliveira30 January 1928João Coelho da Mota Prego30 January 1931EngineerFrancisco Maria Martinho de Almeida Manoel de Vilhena2 January 1964EngineerAntónio Pereira Sousa da Câmara28 May 1969EngineerDomingos Rosado Vitória Pires9 August 1973EngineerJoaquim António Rosado Gusmão4 February 1989EngineerProfessor Dr Carlos Manuel Leitão Baeta Neves26 March 1991Professor Dr Apolinário José Barbosa da Cruz Vaz Portugal20 November 1991Professor Dr Raúl Rosado Fernandes4 May 2001José Manuel Rodrigues Casqueiro4 May 2001Tomaz Pedro Ribeiro Corrêa4 May 2001EngineerAndrade José Joaquim Lima Monteiro4 May 2001EngineerFernando Lobo Guedes9 June 2001BusinessmanFernando da Silva Mendonça9 October 2005Dr Fernando Manuel Van-Zeller Gomes da Silva17 January 2006Dr Luís Manuel Capoulas Santos17 January 2006João Pedro Gorjão Cyrillo Machado17 January 2006Dr Arlindo Marques da Cunha9 June 2015Manuel Efigénio Cano de Castro e Brito10 May 2016Engineer
Foreign recipients NameDateNoteCountryThomás de Allende y Garcia Baxter30 December 1970SpainBaron Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarie17 September 1963FranceManuel Trucco Gaete5 August 1950ChileCirilo Cánovas Garcia27 December 1960EngineerSpainDr Hermann Hãcherl31 March 1969GermanyDr Adolfo Diaz Ambrona Moreno6 December 1966Spain
Industrial class
Portuguese recipients NameDateNoteGeneral José Maria de Oliveira Simões29 March 1927Pedro Gomes da Silva31 December 1927João de Fontes Pereira de Melo Ferreira de Mesquita10 May 1929EngineerBrigadier-General Manuel Gonçalves da Silveira Azevedo e Castro20 May 1929General Teófilo José da Trindade11 July 1929José Maria Alvares6 November 1929Narciso Ferreira21 March 1930Fausto Cardoso de Figueiredo22 September 1930Colonel Júlio César de Carvalho Teixeira5 October 1930Professor Dr Moisés Bensabat Amzalak Amzalak5 October 1930Jaime de Vasconcelos Thompson30 January 1931Cidade da Covilhã3 December 1931Alfredo da Silva31 December 1932Pedro Joyce Diniz20 January 1934António de Oliveira Calem1 August 1934Joaquim Roque da Fonseca18 December 1940António Teófilo de Araújo Rato5 December 1942António de Almeida Vasconcelos Correia14 February 1945EngineerDelfim Ferreira20 June 1951Câmara Portuguesa de Comércio e Indústria do Rio de Janeiro17 May 1958Manuel Augusto José de Melo4 August 1959António de Sommer Champalimaud15 September 1961Carlos Alfredo Garcia Alves5 July 1968Dr Jorge Augusto Caetano da Silva José de Mello2 July 1969José Manuel da Silva José de Mello2 July 1969António de Medeiros e Almeida8 October 1969Lúcio Tomé Feteira30 June 1970Mário Drumond Borges30 June 1973EngineerArtur Cupertino de Miranda17 March 1983Jorge Rocha de Matos21 August 1990Angelo Ludgero da Silva Marques9 June 1995EngineerJoaquim Augusto Coelho Ferreira da Bernarda22 September 1998Dr Adalberto Manuel da Fonseca Neiva de Oliveira22 September 1998Salvador Fernandes Caetano18 February 2000Fortunato Oliveira Frederico9 June 2005Francisco Xavier Bello Van Zeller17 January 2006EngineerJoão Augusto Sanguinetti da Costa Carvalho Talone17 January 2006EngineerÁlvaro Pinho da Costa Leite17 January 2006Pedro Mendonça de Queiroz Pereira6 November 2009Dr Paulo Jorge dos Santos Fernandes2 July 2010Dr Alexandre Carlos de Melo Vieira da Costa Relvas30 April 2014Dr António Luís Teixeira Guerra Nunes Mexia30 April 2014Dr Filipe Maurício de Botton30 April 2014João Manuel Resende Picoito26 February 2016Engineer
Foreign recipients NameDateNotesCountryMaurice Despret20 August 1928SenatorBelgiumPablo Verdaguez Gomes30 December 1929SpainGermain Martin2 September 1930FranceAlexandre Zeuceano2 September 1930Minister PleniopotentaryRomaniaFrederico Jarach16 March 1932ItalyIldefonso Gonzoly Fierro y Ordonez21 March 1934SpainHans Eltze7 June 1943GermanyAlexander Roger7 February 1946United KingdomDon Fernando Guijarro Alconcer17 November 1949SpainAxel Axson Johnson25 April 1950SwedenHermann Reinhardt29 May 1951GermanyThomás Sunez y Ferrer8 August 1951SpainJosé Navarro Revertez y Gomis14 May 1953SpainJuan António Suances Fernandez18 July 1953SpainJoaquim Planell Riera18 July 1953SpainEdmundo Penna Barbosa da Silva3 February 1956BrazilJacques Van Offelen5 July 1960BelgiumDr Otto Stalmann29 May 1961GermanyDr Gunther Serres29 May 1961GermanyKonsul Manfres von Mautnez Markhof 3 February 1966AustriaFrancisco Giménez Torres20 April 1978SpainAntónio Gomes da Costa22 September 1981BrazilAntónio Garrigues Diaz Cauabate16 February 1982SpainCurt Nicolin11 December 1990SwedenPeter Wallenberg11 December 1990SwedenAbraham Kasinsky25 March 1996BrazilDr Reinfried Franz Pohl22 December 1998GermanyJosef Käser13 May 2015GermanyFernando da Cruz Souza Pinto12 January 2018EngineerBrazil
Commercial class (since 1991)
Portuguese recipients NameDateNoteDr Manuel Eduardo de Noronha Gamito10 June 1991Dr Manuel Ricardo Pinheiro Espirito Santo Silva31 October 1991Dr Ma Man Kei30 March 1995Dr Ruy Octávio Matos de Carvalho4 March 1998Dr António Mota de Sousa Horta Osório9 June 2014Zeinal Abedin Mohamed Bava9 June 2014EngineerElísio Alexandre Soares dos Santos17 March 2017
Foreign recipients NameDateCountryTasuku Takagaki22 February 1994Japan
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