Francisco Xavier do Amaral

Francisco Xavier do Amaral (3 December 1937 – 6 March 2012) was an East Timorese politician. Amaral was sworn in as the first President of East Timor when the country, then a Portuguese colony, made a unilateral declaration of independence on 28 November 1975. 
He was a member of the National Parliament for the Timorese Social Democratic Association from 2001 until his death.