Mário Ferreira

{{Short description|Portuguese businessman and entrepreneur (Born 1968)}}

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| image = Mario Ferreira (cropped).JPG

| caption = Ferreira in 2015

| birth_name = Mário Nuno dos Santos Ferreira

| birth_date = 1968 (54–55 years old)

| nationality = Portuguese

| occupation = Businessman and entrepreneur

| known_for = First Portuguese to enter space

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Mário Nuno dos Santos Ferreira (born 1968) is a Portuguese businessman and entrepreneur.{{cite web|title=Cruzeiros no rio Douro - Douroazul - A Douroazul|url=http://www.douroazul.com/Grupo_Douroazul-46.aspx|website=douroazul.com|access-date=2021-05-15|publication-date=|archive-date=2012-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310031011/http://douroazul.com/Grupo_Douroazul-46.aspx|url-status=dead}}. He is the chairman of Media Capital, a major Portuguese media company with holdings including CNN Portugal.{{cite web | url=https://www.mediacapital.pt/en/p/577/article/5194/mario-ferreira-appointed-as-chairman-of-media-capital-group/ | title=Mário Ferreira appointed as Chairman of Media Capital Group - Mediacapital }}{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/cnn-battle-david-zaslav-jeff-zucker-chris-licht-backstabbing-1235679182/ | title=Inside the Battle for CNN: Jeff Zucker, David Zaslav, Chris Licht and 18 Months of Crazy Backstabbing | date=25 July 2023 }} In March 2024, he acquired a 4.6% stake in Savannah Resources which is developing Europe’s largest lithium mine in northern Portugal.

On 4 August 2022, as part of the Blue Origin NS-22 mission, Mário Ferreira lifted off from Corn Ranch, Texas to space on board of New Shepard. He became the first Portuguese person to travel to space.{{cite web|title=Nave espacial com Mário Ferreira aterrou com sucesso|date=4 August 2022 |url=https://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/vida/2022/08/04/nave-espacial-com-mario-ferreira-aterrou-com-sucesso/294752/}}