Celeste Caeiro

Celeste Martins Caeiro (; 2 May 1933 – 15 November 2024), also known as Celeste dos Cravos ("Celeste of the carnations"), was a Portuguese communist Her mother, Teodora de Viana Martins Caeiro, was from Galicia, northern Spain, and went to live first in Amareleja and then in Lisbon, while Celeste's father left the family when she was a child. The restaurant was opened on 25 April 1973 and for its first anniversary, on 25 April 1974, the owners planned to give out red and white carnations to all its customers and which were bought in Ribeira square by the owner of the restaurant. The pictures of the soldiers with carnations in their guns appeared on front pages all over the world and the coup became known globally as the Carnation Revolution and signalled the transition from a military coup to a peaceful and bloodless revolution. She lived on a pension of 370 euros in a small house a few metres from Avenida da Liberdade.

She was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party.

Caeiro died on 15 November 2024, at the age of 91 at Leiria Hospital due to respiratory problems. Her death was mourned by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro who stated that "in this hour of mourning, I leave a word of recognition for Celeste Caeiro", and the President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa expressed his sadness and announced that she would be decorated posthumously, while the Armed Forces published a message saying that "Celeste Caeiro, with an apparently simple gesture, became the symbol of a movement that changed Portugal forever" and "her legacy will remain alive in history and in the memory of all of us". Political parties including the Portuguese Communist Party and LIVRE also mourned her death.

Honors Medal of Honour of the City of Lisbon (2024)