Félix Bermudes

{{short description|Portuguese sports shooter}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|7|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Porto, Portugal

| death_date = {{death date and age|1960|1|5|1874|7|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Lisbon, Portugal

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Félix Bermudes (4 July 1874 – 5 January 1960) was a Portuguese sports shooter.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/43785 |title=Félix Bermudes |work=Olympedia |access-date=3 November 2021}} He competed in the team free rifle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/felix-bermudes-1.html |title=Félix Bermudes |access-date=27 December 2014 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227162426/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/felix-bermudes-1.html |archive-date=27 December 2014 |df=dmy }} He was also a significant author and playwright.{{cite web |title=Félix. Um nome a vermelho |url=https://sol.sapo.pt/artigo/646278/felix-um-nome-a-vermelho |website=SAPO |accessdate=8 June 2020}}

In 1916, Bermudes became the 10th president of sports club S.L. Benfica; he had a second term between 1945 and 1946.{{cite web |url=http://www.slbenfica.pt/en-us/slb/historia/listapresidentes/f%C3%A9lixbermudes.aspx |title=Félix Bermudes |publisher=S.L. Benfica |access-date=11 February 2015}} He composed the anthem of Benfica in 1929,{{cite web |url=http://www.slbenfica.pt/pt-pt/slb/historia/decadaadecada/oestadiodasamoreiras.aspx |title=O Estádio das Amoreiras (1925 - 1940) |language=Portuguese |publisher=S.L. Benfica |access-date=11 February 2015}} called "Avante Benfica", which was censored by the Estado Novo.{{cite book|last=Pereira|first=Luís Miguel|date=November 2009|title=Bíblia do Benfica|trans-title=Benfica Bible|language=Portuguese|edition=7th|location=Portugal|publisher=Prime Books|page=191|isbn=978-989-655-005-9}}{{cite web |url=http://www.publico.pt/desporto/noticia/o-futebol-e-mais-instrumentalizado-hoje-do-que-foi-durante-o-estado-novo-1592434 |title=O futebol é mais instrumentalizado hoje do que foi durante o Estado Novo |language=Portuguese |trans-title=Football today is more orchestrated than it was during the Estado Novo |last1=Sousa |first1=Hugo Daniel |last2=Curado |first2=Paulo |date=25 April 2013 |publisher=Público |access-date=26 June 2015}}

Bermudes wrote many plays and film scripts, as well as magazine articles. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Portuguese Theater Writers and Composers and was its president from 1928 until his death in 1960. In 1925 he was made an Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword for Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit. He was the father of Cesina Bermudes, a prominent obstetrician and opponent of the Estado Novo.{{cite web |title=Cesina Bermudes |url=https://www.mdm.org.pt/cesina-bermudes/ |website=Movimento Democrático de Mulheres |accessdate=8 June 2020}}