Teles (family name)
Teles is a Portuguese family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Teles is the last name form of the Portuguese male given name Telo. It is traced back to two medieval families: Meneses and Silva, who descend from a Don Telo, possibly Telo Perez, 1st señor de Menezes (1150-1230) and since then the names Teles de Meneses (also in the variation Telo de Menezes) and Teles da Silva lead. The coats of arms of these two families are identical: a helmet and a lion can be seen.
variants
- Telles (from a time when Portuguese spelling was not yet standardized)
- Telo (first name form, also used as a family name)
Name bearer
- Alex Telles (* 1992), Brazilian soccer player
- António da Cunha Telles (* 1935), Portuguese film director and producer
- António José Teles de Meneses , Portuguese colonial administrator in the 18th century
- Basílio Teles (1866–1923), Portuguese writer and politician of the Partido Republicano
- Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses (1739–1795), Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor
- David Carlos Teles Veloso (* 1988), Brazilian soccer player
- Edgard Telles Ribeiro (* 1944), Brazilian diplomat
- Emanuel Teles da Silva (1691–1771), Austrian politician and architect, Count of Silva-Tarouca, see Emanuel Silva-Tarouca
- Gonçalo Galvão Teles (* 1973), Portuguese director and screenwriter
- Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles (* 1922), Portuguese politician and landscape architect
- José Telles da Conceição (1931–1974), Brazilian athlete
- Julia Goldani Telles (* 1995), American actress and ballet dancer
- Leonore Teles de Menezes (around 1350 - 1386), Portuguese queen
- Luís Galvão Teles (* 1945), Portuguese film director and lawyer
- Lygia Fagundes Telles (actually: Lygia de Azevedo Fagundes * 1923), Brazilian writer
- Marcel Herrmann Telles (* 1950), Brazilian entrepreneur
- Ralf de Souza Teles (* 1984), Brazilian soccer player
- Sebastião Cústodio de Sousa Teles (1847–1921), Portuguese politician, head of government
- Sylvia Telles (1934–1966), Brazilian Bossa Nova singer
literature
- Entry Teles and Telo . In: D. Luiz de Lancastre e Tavora, Marquês de Abrantes: Dicionário das Famílias Portuguesas . Quetzal Editores, Lisbon 1989, p. 334, NQZ 04.007.72.89.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in geneall.net (Portuguese)