Gonçalo
Gonçalo [gõˈsɑːlu] is a Portuguese male given name, which corresponds to the Spanish Gonzalo and goes back to the Latin name Gundisalvus .
Well-known representatives of the name are:
in the history:
- Gonçalo Trastamires (1000-1039), Portuguese knight and regent
- Gonçalo Mendes, conde de Portucale , count and member of the Galician-Portuguese aristocracy
- Gonçalo de Amarante (1187–1262), Catholic blessed
- Gonçalo Peres Pereira called " o Liberal " (before 1298), Portuguese nobleman, son of Pedro Rodrigues Pereira
- Gonçalo Gonçalves Pereira († December 22, 1348), Portuguese prelate , Bishop of Évora and Lisbon , Archbishop of Braga , son of Gonçalo Peres Pereira
- Gonçalo de Lagos (1360–1422), Catholic blessed
- Gonçalo de Sintra († 1444–45 in Africa), Portuguese explorer
- Gonçalo Velho Cabral (c. 1400 - c. 1460), Portuguese navigator
- Gonçalo Coelho (probably 1451–1512), Portuguese explorer
- Gonçalo Anes Bandarra (around 1500–1556), Portuguese poet, prophet and shoemaker
- Gonçalo Monteiro (16th century), Portuguese priest and one of the first missionaries in Brazil, under Martim Afonso de Sousa
- Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso (c. 1520–1596), Portuguese writer and narrator, published the Contos e Histórias de Proveito e Exemplo collection in 1575
- Gonçalo Garcia (1556–1597), Catholic saint and missionary born in Portuguese India and executed in Nagasaki
- Gonçalo Mendes Saldanha (approx. 1580–1645), Portuguese composer
- Gonçalo Inácio de Loyola Albuquerque e Mello (1774–1825), known as Padre Mororó , Brazilian priest, journalist and revolutionary
- Gonçalo Batista Vieira (1819–1896), Brazilian lawyer and politician under Pedro II.
- Gonçalo Sampaio (1865–1937), Portuguese botanist
- Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro (1868–1952), Portuguese officer and colonial administrator
- Gonçalo Rodrigues Paredes (1873–1915), Portuguese guitarist and composer, father of Artur Paredes and grandfather of Carlos Paredes
in modern times:
- Gonçalo Amorim (September 30, 1972 - May 1, 2012 in Santarém), Portuguese cyclist
- Gonçalo Brandão (born October 9, 1986), Portuguese football player
- Gonçalo Byrne (* 1941 in Alcobaça), Portuguese architect
- Gonçalo Cadilhe (born May 24, 1968 in Figueira da Foz), Portuguese travel writer
- Gonçalo Cardoso (* 2000), Portuguese football player
- Gonçalo Dumas Diniz , also: Gonçalo Diniz (born October 1, 1972 in Luanda), Portuguese designer and LGBT activist
- Gonçalo Ferreira da Silva (December 20, 1937, Ipu), Brazilian writer and poet of the Literatura de Cordel
- Gonçalo Galvão Teles (* 1973 in Lisbon), Portuguese director, screenwriter and film producer
- Gonçalo Gonçalves , called Gonçalito (born November 8, 1935 in São Vicente), Brazilian football player
- Gonçalo Guedes (born November 29, 1996 in Benavente), Portuguese footballer
- Gonçalo Junior (* 1967), Brazilian journalist and writer
- Gonçalo Oliveira (born February 17, 1995 in Porto), Portuguese tennis player
- Gonçalo Paciência (born August 1, 1994 in Porto), Portuguese football player
- Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles (born May 24, 1922 in Lisbon), Portuguese politician and landscape architect
- Gonçalo Salvado (born May 19, 1967 in Lisbon), Portuguese poet and writer
- Gonçalo M. Tavares (* 1970 in Luanda, Angola), Portuguese writer
- Gonçalo Waddington (born September 25, 1977), Portuguese actor and director
Gonçalo refers to the following places in Portugal:
- Gonçalo (Guarda) , place in the Guarda district
- Gonçalo Bocas , another location in the Guarda district
Gonçalo-alves is the Portuguese name for Astronium fraxinifolium , a tree in the Anacardiaceae family .
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