Pires

Pires

Pires is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a patronymic, meaning "Son of Pedro" or "Son of Pero" (English: "Peter"). Its Spanish equivalent is "Pérez". Sometimes the archaic form "Peres" may occour. It may mean different things:

People

*A. M. Pires Cabral, Portuguese writer
*Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, Angolan-Portuguese writer
*Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer
*Álvaro Henrique Alves Pires, Brazilian footballer
*António Elísio Capelo Pires Veloso, Portuguese colonial Governor of São Tomé and Príncipe
*Arlindo do Carmo Pires Barbeitos, Angolan poet
*Carlos Lopes Pires, Portuguese writer
*Cléo Pires Brazilian actress
*Cornélio Pires, Brazilian journalist, writer and folklorist
*Diogo Pires, known as Solomon Molcho, a self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah
*Diogo Pires the Younger, Portuguese artist of the 16th century
*Fernão Pires de Andrade, Portuguese merchant and official
*Francisco António Pires Barata, Portuguese colonial Governor of São Tomé and Príncipe
*Francisco Fortunato Pires, São Toméan politician
*Gérard Pirès, French film director and writer
*Glória Pires Brazilian actress
*Jacinto Lucas Pires, Portuguese writer
*José Cardoso Pires, Portuguese writer
*José Mariano Rebelo Pires Gago, Portuguese high-energy physicist and Minister for Science
*Kyle Pires, Portuguese/Indian minister of finance in Goa
*Loick Pires, English footballer
*Lourenço Pires de Távora, Portuguese colonial Governor of São Tomé and Príncipe
*Luís Pires, Portuguese explorer
*Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira, São Toméan politician
*Maria João Pires, Portuguese pianist
*Mário Lemos Pires, last governor of Portuguese Timor
*Mário Pires, Guinea-Bissau politician and former Prime Minister
*Paulo Pires, Portuguese model and actor
*Pedro Pires, President of Cape Verde
*Pires de Saldanha, Portuguese colonial Governor of Angola
*Robert Pirès French footballer
*Rosemir Pires, Brazilian footballer

Other

*Autódromo Fernanda Pires da Silva, race course in Estoril, Portugal
*Music From Van Pires, John Entwistle's last studio solo album
*Pires (Monção), a village in Monção, Portugal
*Pires do Rio Microregion, a region of south-central Goiás state, Brazil
*Pires do Rio, city and municipality in Goiás state, Brazil
*Ribeirão Pires, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
*Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, a department of Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom


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