Miguel Corte-Real (approx. 1448 - 1502?) explorateur Portuguese of the 15th century was a .

It was wire of João Vaz Corte-Real, and brother of Gaspar (he also exploring) and Vasco Anes.

After the voyage of Gaspar in 1500, Miguel and Gaspar Corte-Real undertake on May 15th, 1501 a new forwarding towards the Greenland with three ships. Vis-a-vis the weather conditions and with the Iceberg S, they cannot follow the road used by Gaspar any more the previous year, and take a course in the south more, and reach the ground, probably with the Labrador and Newfoundland. They there capture an about sixty natives Béothuks and at the beginning of September separate, Miguel returning to Portugal with two of the ships, Gaspar continuing towards the south. There does not exist any trace of Gaspar after this separation.

May 10th, 1502, without news of Gaspar, Miguel undertakes a forwarding with her research with three new boats. Arrived at Newfoundland at the end of June, where they had left Gaspar, they separate to facilitate their research, and give each other appointment on August 20th. Only two of the boats reach that point; that of Miguel found forever, and it was probably carried by a Tempête. The two other boats return to Portugal.

According to certain historians whose Edmund B. Delabarre, Miguel Corte-Real would have reached the American continent, and would have engraved inscriptions with Dighton Rock, which is today in the territory of the Massachusetts. The inscriptions would be a coarse padrão , a stele indicating the Portuguese claim of this territory. This assumption meets little support in the historians.

The only brother surviving, Vasco Corte-Real Asses, try to assemble a new forwarding of research, but does not obtain the permission of the king to leave itself. The king affrête however two ships to seek the missings, but they return bredouilles.

Newfoundland was called a long time “Ground of Corte-Real” in their honor.