Teresa Cupertino de Miranda
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14 August 1946
Teresa Cupertino de Miranda | |
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| Born | Maria Teresa de Queiroz Cupertino de Miranda 14 August 1946 Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal |
| Died | 30 June 2025 (aged 78) Lisbon District, Portugal |
| Occupation | Motor rally driver |
Maria Teresa de Queiroz Cupertino de Miranda (1946–2025) was a motor sports enthusiast who was, together with Berta Assunção, the first Portuguese woman to compete in the Dakar Rally, the endurance event for off-road vehicles. In a discipline dominated by men she paved the way for future generations of female rally drivers in Portugal.
Cupertino was born in the parish of Louro in Vila Nova de Famalicão on 14 August 1946 into one of the ten richest families in Portugal at the time. She was the granddaughter of a wealthy farming couple, Francisco Cupertino de Miranda and Joaquina Nunes de Oliveira. Her father, the youngest of four siblings, was Artur Cupertino de Miranda (1892–1988), founder of the defunct Banco Português do Atlântico. Her mother was Isabel Queiroz. Cupertino married João Cândido Furtado de Antas, with whom she had three daughters. Following the 1974 Carnation Revolution she went to live in Brazil for a decade before returning to Portugal, "determined to travel the world". Her daughter, Maria Madalena, also became a competitive driver, participating with her mother in the 2007 Dakar Rally, which began in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, and in the Rally of Tunisia in 2008.[1][2][3][4]