- Tavares
Tavares may refer to several things:
urname
Tavares is a common
surname in thePortuguese language , namely inPortugal andBrazil and other places – especially very common in theCape Verde islandsFact|date=February 2007. It was originally atoponym . It is a name associated with a great number of different people:
*Alda Bandeira (Alda Bandeira Tavares Vaz da Conceição), politician of São Tomé and Principe
*Antero Tavares de Carvalho , Portuguese governor of Angola
*Aurélio de Lyra Tavares , Brazilian general
*Charmaine Tavares , current mayor of Maui, Hawaii
*Clodoaldo Tavares de Santana, Brazilian footballer
*Diogo Tavares , a Portuguese footballer
*Diogo Tavares, a late 18th-century Portuguese (Algarve) master mason and builder
*Eugénio Tavares , Cape Verdean writer
*Fernanda Tavares , Brazilian supermodel
*Gonçalo M. Tavares , Portuguese-Angolan fiction writer
*Hannibal Tavares , mayor of Maui, Hawaii, in the late 1980s and early 1990s
*Horace Silver (Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver), American musician and composer
*Jimmy Tavares , French figure skater and actor
*John Tavares (ice hockey) , junior ice hockey player
*John Tavares (lacrosse player) , professional lacrosse player
*Juan Tavares , Mexican Tex-Mex singer
*Manuel José Tavares Fernandes , Portuguese footballer and manager
*Manuel Tavares Espaillat , politician from the Dominican Republic
*Miguel Sousa Tavares , best-selling Portuguese novelist
*Rui Tavares , Portuguese historian and writer
*Tatiana Tavares , Belgian model
*Urbano Tavares Rodrigues , Portuguese writer and journalistPlaces
;Brazil
*Tavares, Paraíba
*Tavares, Rio Grande do Sul
*Rodovia Raposo Tavares , the longest highway in São Paulo;Jamaica
*Tavares Gardens , Kingston;Portugal
*Travanca de Tavares , Mangualde
*Chãs de Tavares , Mangualde
*Várzea de Tavares , Mangualde;United States
*Tavares, Florida
**Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad Other
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Tavares (band) , an American soul music group
*Tavares, asoil type
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