Peres
Encyclopedia
Peres is a Portuguese
and Galician
surname. Originally a patronymic
, meaning Son of Pedro or Son of Pero (Peter), it has another version: Pires
. Its Spanish
equivalent is Pérez
.
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
and Galician
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
surname. Originally a patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
, meaning Son of Pedro or Son of Pero (Peter), it has another version: 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 . Its Spanish equivalent is Pérez. It is a variant form of Peres. It may mean different things:-People:*A. M...
. Its Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
equivalent is Pérez
Pérez
Pérez is a surname with at least two distinct origins. One is a Spanish surname meaning "son of Pero, Pedro, or Peter." In Castilian Spanish, the name is pronounced ; in Latin America, . In American English, it is often the hyperforeign ....
.
People with the surname Peres
- Vimara PeresVímara PeresVímara Peres, Count of Portugal was a Galician Christian duke of the 9th century in west Iberia. He was a vassal of the King of Asturias, Léon and Galicia, Alfonso III, and was sent to reconquer and secure from the Moors , in the west coastal fringe of Gallaecia, the area from the Minho River to...
, Galician medieval count and first Count of Portucale. - Adans Lopez PeresAdans Lopez PeresAdans Lopez Peres was born in Crema, Italia in 1974, son of Portuguese Salvador Peres and his wife Spanish Carmen López-Calderón and brother of Ivan Lopez Peres...
, Portuguese second husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco - Asher PeresAsher PeresAsher Peres was an Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory. According to his autobiography, he was born in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne in France, where his father, a Polish electrical engineer, had found work laying down power lines...
, Israeli physicist - Cristiana PeresCristiana PeresCristiana Monteiro Peres is a Brazilian actress. She played the lead role in a telenovela.- Biography :Cristiana Peres was born in Rio de Janeiro, but she moved to Itaipava, a district of Petrópolis when she was still a child. She returned to her home city when she was 14 years-old to study...
, Brazilian actress - Fernão Peres de TravaFernão Peres de TravaFernando or Fernán Pérez de Traba , also Fernão Peres de Trava in Galician-Portuguese, was a nobleman and count of the Kingdom of León who for a time held power over all Galicia. He became the lover of Countess Teresa of Portugal, through whom he attained great influence in that realm, and was de...
, Galician medieval nobleman - Javier PeresJavier PeresJavier S. Peres is a contemporary art dealer who operates Peres Projects which currently has 2 locations in Berlin and previously had locations in Los Angeles, California; Athens, Greece; and a project space in New York which he operated in conjunction with Terence KOH named Asia Song...
, American art dealer - Jean-Baptiste PérèsJean-Baptiste PérèsJean-Baptiste Pérès was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum - a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted "in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative tendencies of the rationalistic...
, French physicist - Marinho PeresMarinho PeresMarinho Peres, real name Mário Peres Ulibarri, was an association footballer. He played centre-back, in particular with Sport Club Internacional and the Brazilian national team...
, Brazilian footballer - Paio Peres CorreiaPaio Peres CorreiaD. Paio Peres Correia, a notable medieval Christian conqueror, who was born c. 1205, in Monte de Fralães, in the district of Barcelos in Portugal....
, Portuguese medieval nobleman - Peres De OliveiraPeres de OliveiraPeres De Oliveira, also known as Peres , is a Brazilian professional football player who last played for Home United FC in S.League...
, Brazilian footballer - Shimon PeresShimon PeresGCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister and current President of Israel - Valdir PeresValdir PeresValdir Peres, real name Valdir Peres de Arruda, , was an association footballer. He played goalkeeper, in particular with São Paulo FC and the Brazilian national team...
, Brazilian footballer - Vímara PeresVímara PeresVímara Peres, Count of Portugal was a Galician Christian duke of the 9th century in west Iberia. He was a vassal of the King of Asturias, Léon and Galicia, Alfonso III, and was sent to reconquer and secure from the Moors , in the west coastal fringe of Gallaecia, the area from the Minho River to...
, founder of the First County of Portugal in the 9th century - Bernardo Peres da SilvaBernardo Peres da SilvaBernardo Peres da Silva was a governor of Portuguese India. He was the first and only native Goan to be appointed to this post in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule...
, the only native governor of Portuguese India
See also
- Des Peres (disambiguation)
- Pérez (disambiguation)Pérez (disambiguation)-Places:*Perez, Quezon, a municipality in the Philippines*Pérez, Santa Fe, Argentina*Perez, California, United States-Biblical:*Pharez, son of Judah and Tamar from the Old Testament of the Bible...
- Pires (disambiguation)
- Peres-Horodecki criterionPeres-Horodecki criterionThe Peres-Horodecki criterion is a necessary condition, for the joint density matrix \rho of two quantum mechanical systems A and B, to be separable. It is also called the PPT criterion, for positive partial transpose. In the 2x2 and 2x3 dimensional cases the condition is also sufficient...
, a necessary condition in Quantum information theory - Peres-Hussein London AgreementPeres-Hussein London AgreementThe London Agreement between King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres, was signed during a secret meeting held at the residence of Lord Mishcon in London on April 11, 1987...
, between King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres - River des PeresRiver des PeresThe River des Peres is a metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and stormwater systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County...
, an urban river in St. Louis, United States