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Menezes, sometimes Meneses, is a common Portuguese

Portuguese language

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and Spanish

Spanish language

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. It has its origins in the marriage of the French

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Bertrand de Reynel with Elvira Perez de Lara, natural daughter of Queen Urraca of Castile

Urraca of Castile

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, in the 12th Century. Their grandson, Telo Perez, became 1st Lord of Menezes, a town in Castile

Castile (historical region)

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(Spain

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). The family wealth and power grew remarkably along the 13th and 14th Centuries, through several marriages with the Portuguese and Castilian royal families.

As a surname, Menezes may refer to:

General

Aleixo de Menezes
Aleixo de Menezes
Aleixo de Menezes was Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga, Portugal, and Viceroy of Portugal during the Iberian Union.-Biographical sketch:Aleixo was born in 1559. It is known that he joined the Augustinians...

, Portuguese Archbishop of Braga
Alex Meneses
Alex Meneses
Alexandra Estella DeAnna "Alex" Meneses is an American television and film actress and model.She was born in Chicago of Mexican American descent on her father's side and Ukrainian American descent on her mother's. Meneses studied acting at Chicago's The Second City Improvisational Theater during...

, United States actress and model
Alfred Menezes
Alfred Menezes
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the Handbook of Applied Cryptography.Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic...

, Canadian cryptographer
Amy Louise Meneses aka Amylulita, Cofounder and resident DJ to popular Latin Alternative party Nacotheque in NYC
António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquess of Marialva, Portuguese general in the Portuguese Restoration War
Antonio Martínez de Meneses
Antonio Martínez de Meneses
Antonio Martínez de Meneses was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age....

, Spanish playwright
Antonio Meneses
Antonio Meneses
Antônio Meneses Neto is a Brazilian cellist.He won the VI Tchaikovsky competition. A member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Meneses combines an intense soloist concert career with chamber music performances. He is a teacher at Bern's Hochschule der Künste.- References :* *...

, Brazilian cellist
António José de Sousa Manoel de Menezes Severim de Noronha
António Severim de Noronha
Dom António José de Sousa Manoel e Meneses Severim de Noronha , 7th Count of Vila Flor, 1st Marquis of Vila Flor and 1st Duke of Terceira, was a Portuguese military officer, statesman and a leader of the Constitutionalist side in the Liberal Wars, as well as a Prime Minister of Portugal.He was born...

, Portuguese soldier and statesman
Christianne Meneses Jacobs
Christianne Meneses Jacobs
Christianne Meneses Jacobs is a Nicaraguan American writer, editor, and teacher. She is also publisher of Iguana, the United States' only Spanish-language magazine for children.-Nicaragua :...

, United States writer, editor, and teacher
Cynara Menezes, Brasil, journalist
Fradique de Menezes
Fradique de Menezes
Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes was the President of São Tomé and Príncipe from 2003 to 2011.-Early life:Menezes was born on the then Portuguese colony of São Tomé in 1942, the son of a Portuguese man and a local woman. He attended high school in Portugal...

, President of São Tomé and Príncipe
Francisco de Meneses Brito
Francisco de Meneses Brito
Francisco de Meneses Brito was Royal Governor of Chile between 1664 and 1667.-Sources:...

, Spanish Governor of Chile
Francisco Meneses Osorio
Francisco Meneses Osorio
Francisco Meneses Osorio was a Spanish painter.Osorio was born in Seville, and is thought to have died there. Very little is known of his life. He was a pupil and imitator of Murillo, and it has been suggested that some of the works attributed to the latter were painted by Osorio...

, Spanish painter
Glória Menezes
Glória Menezes
Nicelde Soares Magalhães, known as Glória Menezes, is a Brazilian actress.- Filmography :* A Favorita - Irene*A estranha Clementine - Clementine...

, Brazilian actress
Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses
Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses
Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses was a Spanish novelist.-Biography:He was born at Madrid about 1585. Nothing positive is known of him before the publication of his celebrated romance, the Poema trágico del español Gerardo, y desengaño del amor lascivo...

, Spanish novelist
Guillermo Meneses
Guillermo Meneses
Guillermo Meneses , Venezuelan writer, playwright, journalist, author of La Balandra 'Isabel' llegó esta tarde and Campeones, among other works....

, Venezuelan writer
Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto
Heloísa Pinheiro
Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto , better known as Helô Pinheiro , is a Brazilian model and businesswoman...

, Brazilian real-life "Girl from Ipanema"
Holdemar Menezes
Holdemar Menezes
Holdemar Menezes was a Brazilian writer.He was born in Aracati, Ceará, Brazil, as the 3rd child of Ezequiel Silva de Menezes and Otília Oliveira de Menezes...

, Brazilian writer
Jean Charles de Menezes
Jean Charles de Menezes
Jean Charles de Menezes was a Brazilian man shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by the London Metropolitan police, after he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts...

, Brazilian killed by the London Metropolitan Police
Joao Costa Menezes
Joao Costa Menezes
Joao Costa Menezes is a London-based Portuguese film actor, film producer and film director.After a degree in Law by the University of Coimbra and three years working as a lawyer in Portugal, Joao decided to move to London in 1998, to follow an acting career. He got his first acting job in 1999, in...

, Portuguese actor and filmmaker
Joao Mauro dos Santos Menezes, Brazilian Dental Surgeon MDS
Jorge de Menezes
Jorge de Menezes
Jorge de Menezes was a Portuguese explorer who in 1526-27 landed on Waigeo Island , taking shelter in the town of Wasai whilst he awaited the passing of the monsoon season...

, Portuguese explorer
Jorge E. Meneses
Jorge E. Meneses
Jorge E. Meneses is a member of the City Council and current mayor of Hackensack, New Jersey.Meneses, a teacher in Colombia, emigrated to the United States in 1979. His first job in New Jersey was washing cars; he later took classes at New York University and worked in a bank and as a computer...

, United States mayor
Joseph B. Menezes, Swedish inventor
Juan Francisco Meneses
Juan Francisco Meneses
Juan Francisco Meneses Echanes was a Chilean priest and political figure.-Early life:Meneses was born in Santiago, the son of José Ignacio Meneses and of Micaela Echanes...

, Chilean priest and political figure
Leonor Telles de Menezes
Leonor Telles de Menezes
Leonor Telles de Menezes was a queen consort of Portugal and regent during the years 1383–1385. She was the wife of a Portuguese nobleman from whom she was forcibly divorced by King Ferdinand I, who afterward married her...

, Queen Consort of Portugal
Luís Roberto S. Menezes, Brazilian, Marketing expert
Luís Filipe Menezes
Luís Filipe Menezes
Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes is a Portuguese politician.-Background:He is a son of José António Lopes , an Industrialist , and wife Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes (born Ovar, 2 November 1953) is a Portuguese politician.-Background:He is a son of José António Lopes (Porto, Alvar, 10 September 1925...

, Portuguese politician
Mai Meneses
Mai Meneses
María Isabel González-Meneses García-Valdecasas commonly known as Mai Meneses , is a Spanish singer-songwriter.Mai Meneses, the youngest of six children, holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Universidad San Pablo CEU...

, Spanish singer-songwriter
Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real
Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real
D. Manuel of Menezes was the second son of Pedro de Menezes 5th Marquis of Vila Real and of his wife, Beatrice of Lara ....

, Portuguese Governor of Ceuta
Margareth Menezes
Margareth Menezes
Margareth Menezes is a Brazilian singer from Salvador, Bahia.Her style is considered axé but her music also steers into samba and MPB territory, at times drawing on African rhythms and reggae....

, Brazilian singer
Maria Romero Meneses
Maria Romero Meneses
Blessed María Romero Meneses, was a Salesian Sisters, beatified by Pope John Paul II on the 14 April 2002.-Early life:...

, Nicaraguan nun
Omar Fayad Meneses, Mexican politician
Tobias Barreto de Meneses
Tobias Barreto de Meneses
Tobias Barreto de Meneses was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and critic, famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry...

, Brazilian critic and poet
Tobias Barreto de Meneses
Tobias Barreto de Meneses
Tobias Barreto de Meneses was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and critic, famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry...

, Brazilian jurist, critic and poet
Victor Menezes
Victor Menezes
Victor J. Menezes is an engineer and banker, who acts as a top official in international financial organizations.-Early life:...

, United States engineer and banker

Sports

Ademir Marques de Menezes
Ademir Marques de Menezes
Ademir Marques de Menezes , best known as Ademir , was a Brazilian footballer, regarded as one of the best centre forwards in the history of the Brazil national team. His prominent jawbone earned him the nickname Queixada, which means "Jaw".He is best known for his exploits in the World Cup 1950...

, Brazilian footballer
Bruno Marques Menezes
Bruno Marques Menezes
Bruno Marques Menezes is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Cuiabá Esporte Clube. He formerly played with Major League Soccer side Chicago Fire. He is primarily utilized on the right side....

, Brazilian footballer
Fernando Meneses
Fernando Meneses
Fernando Andrés Meneses Cornejo is a Chilean midfielder, who plays for Universidad Católica.-Club carrer:...

, Chilean footballer
Henry Menezes
Henry Menezes
Henry Menezes is now the CEO Chief Executive Officer at the Western India Football Association which is the Governing body for Maharashtra State and is affiliated to the All India Football Federation. an Indian football manager...

, Indian football manager
José Clayton Menezes Ribeiro, Brazilian-Tunisian footballer
Jude Menezes
Jude Menezes
Jude Menezes is a former field hockey goalkeeper from India who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1992 against South Korea. Menezes represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where India finished in seventh place...

, Indian field hockey goalkeeper
Luís Vinícius de Menezes, Brazilian footballer
Luiz Antonio "Mano" Venker Menezes, Brazilian football manager
Paulo Menezes
Paulo Menezes
Paulo Menezes is a footballer from Brazil who plays as right back for Grasshopper Club Zürich in the Swiss Super League.-External links:*...

, Brazilian footballer
Rildo da Costa Menezes
Rildo da Costa Menezes
Rildo da Costa Menezes, also known as Rildo was a former association footballer, one of the all-time best defender lateral for Santos F.C. with Dalmo and Geraldino.-Professional:...

, Brazilian footballer
Tony Menezes
Tony Menezes
Anthony Santos Menezes is a naturalized Canadian professional soccer player.-Club career:A 6'1, 180 lb defender, Menezes immigrated to Brazil with his family at age 10. He played for Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro until 2001, then signed with Chinese team Nanjing Yoyo...

, Canadian footballer
Valeska Menezes
Valeska Menezes
Valeska dos Santos Menezes is a female volleyball player from Brazil, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...

, Brazilian volleyball player
Vergel Meneses
Vergel Meneses
Vergel Meneses - nicknamed "The Aerial Voyager" - is a retired Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Talk 'N Text Phone Pals in the Philippine Basketball Association. He was also a former PBA Most Valuable Player and a many-time member of the Philippine National team...

, Filipino basketball player

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