Agostinho Neto

António Agostinho da Silva Neto was an Angolan politician and poet who died on September 10, 1979. He was Angola's first president from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the country's independence war (1961-1974). He led the MPLA in the civil war until his death (1975-2002). He is also well-known for his literary activities and is regarded as Angola's foremost poet. In Angola, his birthday is observed as National Heroes' Day, a public holiday.

Neto was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1975-1976. Agostinho Neto University, a public university in Luanda, is named after him. In his honor, Chinua Achebe wrote the poem Agostinho Neto. An airport in Santo Anto, Cape Verde, is named after him in honor of the beloved work he did there as a doctor. For the same reason, Cape Verde's main hospital in Praia is known as "Hospital Agostinho Neto" (HAN). There is also a morna in his honor. Dr Agostina Neta street in New Belgrade, Serbia, is named after him.

In Ghana, a street named after him (Agostinho Neto Road) can be found in the capital's Airport City. During one of his few unofficial visits to Bulgaria in 1973, Neto met the woman with whom he had a daughter, Mihaela Radkova Marinova, who was raised in Bulgarian orphanages. Neto's family has not acknowledged the child's existence. A DNA test conducted in 2013 revealed that she is Neto's daughter with 95% certainty.