Zé Povinho is the cartoon character of a Portuguese everyman created in 1875 by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. He became first a symbol of the Portuguese working-class people, and eventually into the unofficial personification of Portugal.^[1]

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2017)

• First apparition of Zé Povinho in A Lanterna Mágica magazine, 12 June 1875
• Zé Povinho in A Lanterna Mágica, 1875
• Zé Povinho in the O António Maria magazine, 1880
• Colour drawing of Zé Povinho, 1882
• Zé Povinho and his creator caricatured in the Airport Station of the Lisbon Metro, 2012