Celeste Caeiro

Celeste Caeiro
Born	2 May, 1933
Nationality	Portugal
Employer	Lisbon restaurant
Known for	handing out flowers to soldiers

Celeste Caeiro or Celeste Martins Caeiro; Celeste dei garofani; Celeste dos cravos (born 2 May, 1933) is a Portuguese pacifist restaurant worker. Her actions led to a 1974 coup being known as the Carnation Revolution.

Caeiro was born in 1933. She came to notice during the revolution to overthrow Marcelo Caetano. She gave out flowers to the soldiers leading to the action of 25 April 1974 being known as the "Carnation Revolution". She was working in a new restaurant in Lisbon called Rua Braancamp. The restaurant had planned to give out flowers to all its new customers on 25 April but this had to be cancelled because of the coup. She was sent home and told that she could take the wasted red and white flowers.

She offered the flowers to the tanks involved with the coup and they placed the flowers in the muzzle of their guns. The idea was copied and flower sellers donated more flowers to decorate the mutinous soldiers and their weapons.

The anniversary of the Carnation Revolution is a national holiday in Portugal.

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