Januário Agostinho de Almeida (b. 1887, Macau; d. 1954, Macau)

Macau-born Januário Almeida worked as a clerk for the Hongkong Post Office, teaching Portuguese in his spare time alongside his wife, Corina Sara Antunes de Almeida. In 1929, he founded Liga Portuguesa de Hongkong, a nationalistic organization meant to reinvigorate the Portuguese sentiments of Macanese youth and encourage the teaching and learning of the Portuguese language. Almeida left Hong Kong in 1937 for Japan. He later returned to Macau and lived at 11 Rua de Padre Antonio. He passed away at St. Rafael Hospital in 1954 at the age of sixty-seven.

João António Gonçalves Barretto (b. 1824, Macau; d. 1881, Zambales)

Often referred to as J.A. Barretto in records, Barretto was from the fifth generation of a family of traders, businessmen and philanthropists from Goa. With both his father and brother working for Scottish trading firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. in Macau and Canton, Barretto joined its Hong Kong branch in 1841 and stayed with the company for three decades. Barretto was best known as one of the two founders of Club Lusitano and served as its first president. He departed for the Philippines in the late 1870s to invest in tobacco plantations and passed away in Zambales, Luzon in 1881.

Clotilde Belmira Barretto (b. 1908, Hong Kong; d. 2005, Cascais)

Clotilde ‘Tilly’ Barretto attended the Diocesan Girls’ School. In 1933, she married Leo d’Almada e Castro and subsequently became more involved with Hong Kong affairs. In 1939, she headed a team of Macanese women in raising funds for England under the auspices of the British War Organisation Fund (BWOF). In 1941, she received the St. John Ambulance Association Certificate and became a certified nurse. Alongside Leo, Tilly joined the Hong Kong Planning Unit in Park Street, London shortly before the surrender of the Japanese and the re-establishment of British colonial rule over Hong Kong. For her contributions, she was appointed a Justice of the Peace.

José Pedro Braga (b. 1871, Hong Kong; d. 1944, Macau)

Known more commonly as J.P., Braga was raised in the household of his maternal grandfather, Delfino Noronha. He studied in St. Joseph's College and later attended St. Xavier's College and Roberts College in Calcutta.