Santos
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Santos, originally Portuguese or Spanish for Saints (singular Santo), may mean a great number of different things:
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[edit] Surname
Santos is a common surname in Spanish, not so much in Portuguese. Sometimes it can be the final part of a given name, generally preceded by the particle dos or de los (of the, meaning of the Saints, as in Miguel dos Santos, Michael of the Saints). It is a name associated with a great number of different people:
- Jeffrey Santos, Portuguese politician.
- Roberto Santos, Brazilian film director.
- Victor Irving Santos, American Baseball player.
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer.
- Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer.
- Matt Santos, fictional character of the American series The West Wing.
- Lucélia Santos, Brazilian actress, director and producer.
- Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer.
- Erik Ramos Santos, Filipino singer.
- Daniel Santos a Puerto Rican singer and composer.
- Daniel Santos a Puerto Rican boxer.
- Daniel Santos a Venezuelan TV host.
- Santos Acosta, Colombian general and political figure.
- Pablo Santos, Mexican actor.
- Álvaro Santos, Brazilian footballer.
- Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer.
- Domingo Santos, Spanish writer.
- Santos Ortega, American actor.
- Joe Santos, American actor.
- Ahmed Santos, Mexican newspaper columnist and former boxer.
- Ary dos Santos, Portuguese poet.
- Jonny Santos, American musician.
- Conrad Santos, Canadian politician.
- Santos Benavides, American military.
- Vilma Santos, Filipino actress.
- José Santos Zelaya, Nicaraguan politician.
- José Eduardo dos Santos, Angolan politician.
- Manuel António dos Santos, Portuguese politician.
- Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Angolan politician.
- Mayra Santos-Febres, Puerto-Rican writer.
- Rufino Cardinal Santos, Filipino Archbishop of Manila.
- Leslie George Santos, Hong Kong footballer.
- Antonio da Costa Santos, Brazilian architect and politician.
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director.
- Vicente Abad Santos, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
- Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.
- José Santos Guardiola, Honduran politician.
- Domitila, Marchioness of Santos, Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil.
- José dos Santos Ferreira, Portuguese-Macanese writer.
- Hélio de Oliveira Santos, Brazilian physician and politician.
- Lúcia dos Santos, known as Sister Lúcia of Jesus, Portuguese Roman Catholic Carmelite nun and seer of Our Lady of Fatima.
- Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentinian musician.
- Jovino Santos-Neto, Brazilian musician.
- Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor.
- António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician.
- Paulo Jorge dos Santos Futre, Portuguese footballer.
- Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, known as Pepetela, Angolan writer.
- José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as Zeca Afonso, Portuguese singer, composer and poet.
- Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia, heir to the Spanish throne.
- Nora Keahi Santos, singer of nontraditional, or "auana", Hawaiian music and 2002 Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
[edit] Places
- Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- General Santos City, South Cotabato, Philippines.
- Santos Michelena, Aragua State, Venezuela.
- Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
- Los Santos Province, Panama.
- Los Santos, San Andreas, a fictional city within the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Santos Dumont Regional Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Baía de Todos os Santos, Bahia, Brazil.
- Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Santos-Dumont, small lunar impact crater.
- Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
- Rodovia Santos Dumont, highway in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí, railway line in São Paulo, Brazil.
[edit] Football teams
- Santos Futebol Clube, Brazilian football team.
- Club Santos Laguna, Mexican football team.
- Santos de Guápiles Fútbol Club, Costa Rican football club.
- Santos F.C. (England), English football club
- Santos Football Club (Belfast), Northern Ireland football club [1]
- Santos Football Club (South Africa)
- Santos Futebol Clube de Angola, Angolan football team.
- Santos Football Club (Burkina), Burkinabé football team
- Santos, Jamaican football club
- Santos, a dance group who had a one hit wonder with the track "Camels"
[edit] Other
- Santos Limited, a large Australian oil company.
- Santos House, the tallest building in Adelaide, South Australia and current HQ of Santos Ltd.
- Santos-Dumont 14-bis, known as Oiseau de proie, early airplane designed and built by Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont.
- Santos, A wooden carving tradition begun by Jesuit priests in Spain in the 16th century, then imported to the New World and still made in Northern New Mexico.
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