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Alves
Alves is a surname that appears to originate both from Portugal and Scotland (in Scotland where a variation of the name can appear as ''Alvis''). It is debatable whether the surname appeared first in one country or the other, since it is more prevalent in Portugal, but registered as far back as the 13th century in the church records at Alves, Moray, Northern Scotland. If from Portugal, it will have originated from the Germanic patronym ''son of Álvaro'' (Alvar, Alvarus). Notable people with the surname include: *Adriana Alves (born 1995), Angolan sprinter *Adriana Alves (actress) (born 1976), Brazilian actress * Afonso Alves (born 1981), Brazilian footballer * Anastácio Alves (born 1963), missing Madeiran Roman Catholic priest *Bruno Alves (born 1981), Portuguese footballer * Camila Alves (born 1982), Brazilian model and television performer *Carlos Alberto Alves Garcia (born 1982), Portuguese footballer known as "Carlitos" * Dani Alves (born 1983), Brazilian footballer *Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Alves
Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves (; born 27 November 1981) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a central defender, currently being sporting director of Super League Greece club AEK Athens. He began and spent most of his professional career at Porto, where he won a total of nine titles and appeared in 171 official games. He also won trophies in Russia with Zenit Saint Petersburg, and in Turkey with Fenerbahçe. A senior Portugal international since 2007, Alves represented the country in three World Cups, three European Championships and one Confederations Cup, winning Euro 2016 and earning 96 caps in the process. Club career Porto Alves was born in Póvoa de Varzim, and grew up in the Caxinas fishing neighbourhood of bordering Vila do Conde, as did his long-time international teammates Hélder Postiga and Fábio Coentrão. He started playing football for local club Varzim SC, before joining the youth ranks of FC Porto at the age of 17. After three consecutive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliciano Alves Diniz Filho
Feliciano Alves Diniz Filho (born 6 December 1956), simply known as Alves, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right back. Career A strong-willed full-back, Alves was two-time champion of the Copa SP de Juniores with Atlético Mineiro. He was promoted to the main team by Telê Santana, and played 210 matches for the club, scoring 19 goals. He later played for Portuguesa, where he made 140 appearances, but there he became involved in controversy when he was barred by the club's president, Osvaldo Teixeira Duarte, from participating in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He transferred to Internacional in the same year, and was champion of Rio Grande do Sul. He still played for São José and Francana, until arriving at Náutico, where he was runner-up in Série B in 1988. After an episode of violence where his house was robbed in Recife, he ended his career with Aimoré, in São Leopoldo. Honours ;Atlético Mineiro *Campeonato Mineiro: 1976, 1979, 1980 *Cop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastácio Alves
José Anastácio Alves (born 1963) is a missing Madeiran Roman Catholic priest who exercised ecclesiastical functions in the Portuguese Parish of Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, from 2012 until 2018, before being removed from office in June that year by the Bishop of Funchal due to allegations of child abuse. Priesthood Anastácio Alves was ordained in the Cathedral of Funchal by Bishop Teodoro Faria, on 28 July 1990, along with José Tolentino Mendonça. After his ordination as priest, he was assigned to the Parish of Quinta Grande, where he exercised his office between 1992 and 1999. In 1999 he was transferred to Parish Nazaré, in São Martinho, where he worked until 2008. In 2008, Alves requested to be transferred to Portuguese Catholic Mission in Switzerland, in order to provide "spiritual support" to the Portuguese community living in that country and to further pursue his Theology studies in the University of Fribourg. Bishop Carrilho approved the transfer. Alves' parishione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regiane Alves
Regiane Kelly Lima Alves (born 31 August 1978) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known by her role as Dóris in TV Globo's telenovela ''Mulheres Apaixonadas''. Biography Born in Santo André, São Paulo metropolitan region. She is the daughter of the sales supervisor José Monteiro Alves and stay-at-home Maria Aparecida Alves Lima. From an early age became interested in the artistic career. In Children participated in poetry contests and dance festivals in college, always among the first three places. Personal life Between 1996 and 1999 was married to Carlos Augusto Nogueira advertising, but divorced. In 2000 she married assistant director André Felipe Binder, this marriage, but lasted until 2004, when the couple divorced. In 2005 began a love affair with the musician Thiago Antunes and October 10, 2009, after four years together, the actress married him in Barra da Tijuca, west of the City of Rio de Janeiro. In May 2010 the actress confirmed her divorce from musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magno Alves
Magno Alves de Araújo (born 13 January 1976) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Career Magno Alves was born in Aporá, Bahia, Brazil. Between 1998 and 2003 he made 265 appearances and scored 111 goals for Fluminense as a striker, winning the Rio State Championship in 2002. Alves' most famous match was against Santa Cruz. as he scored 5 goals, earning the nickname ''Magnata''. After a short stint in the Korean Professional Football League (K-League), Alves joined Oita Trinita of the Japan Professional Football League (J1 League). In 2006, he joined J1 League champion, Gamba Osaka, as a replacement for the team's former ace striker Clemerson de Araújo Soares, who left the team for family reasons. He joined Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad after being sent away by Gamba Osaka due to disciplinary problems. In July 2010, he signed a contract with Brazilian club Ceará. He scored overall for Ceará 103 times in 224 matches, becoming the club's 6th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Domingas Alves
Maria Domingas Fernandes Alves (born 28 November 1959), nickname Mana (sister) Micato or Mikato, resistance name Beta Mau, is a women's rights activist, former resistance fighter, civil servant and non-party politician from East Timor. From 2007 to 2012 she was Minister of Social Solidarity. Early life Alves was born in Laclo, Manatuto. Her father was chief of a sub-district in Portuguese Timor, and then a member of the parliament of Manatuto during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Alves attended the Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado, Dili. She is married to Jacinto Alves, with whom she had four daughters and a son. Resistance careers During the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999), Alves was one of the main female leaders of the resistance movement, especially around Laclubar and Laclo. She participated actively in the ''Organização Popular de Mulheres Timorense'' (Popular Organisation of East Timorese Women) (OPMT), the women's organization of FRETILIN. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Thereza Alves
Maria Thereza Alves (born 1961) is a Brazilian-born American and German installation artist, video artist, activist, filmmaker, and writer. She lives in Berlin. Early life and education Maria Thereza Alves was born in São Paulo in 1961. When she was a child, her family moved to New York City to escape the dictatorship in Brazil. She attended Cooper Union, and graduated in architecture (BFA 1985). Career In 1978, Alves presented at the United Nations Human Rights Committee meeting in Geneva on the indigenous population human rights abuses in Brazil. She is a co-founder of the Partido Verde (or Green Party) of São Paulo in 1987. Her long-term art project ''Seeds of Change'' studies colonialism, slavery, migration, and the global commerce. The series was started in 1999 and focuses on displaced plant seeds used to balance shipping vessels during the colonial period. It has been held in port cities such as Marseille, Reposaari, Liverpool, Exeter– Topsham, Dunkirk, Bristol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurício Alves Peruchi
Maurício is the Portuguese variant of Mauricio (given name). The diminutive is Maurinho. Sportspeople with the name include: *Maurício José da Silveira Júnior, Brazilian footballer in Greece *Maurício Copertino, Brazilian footballer *Maurício de Oliveira Anastácio, Brazilian footballer *Maurício dos Santos Nascimento, Brazilian footballer *Maurício Fernandes, Brazilian footballer * Maurício Ramos, Brazilian footballer *Maurinho, Brazilian footballer *Maurício Lima, Brazilian volleyball player LGBT community members with the name include: *Mauricio De Andrade Filho (Kakito) Mauricio may refer to: *Mauricio (given name) *Maurício José da Silveira Júnior (born 1988), Brazilian footballer known by the mononym Maurício *Maurício (footballer) (Maurício dos Santos Nascimento, born 1988), Brazilian footballer *216428 M ..., President of the LGBT community of Salvador. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mauricio Portuguese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Alves
Robert Alves (1745–1794), was a Scottish poet and prose writer. Alves was born in Elgin on 11 December 1745. His father's circumstances were humble, but as a boy of promise he was placed at the Elgin grammar school, where he made such good use of his opportunities that when sent to Aberdeen he took at Marischal College the highest bursary of the year in which he competed. An ‘Elegy on Time’, written while he was at Aberdeen, procured him the friendship of Br. Beattie, then one of the professors of Marischal College. On leaving Aberdeen Alves was successively master of a Banffshire parish school and tutor in the family of a gentleman who offered him a living in the Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t .... But he preferred the head-mastership, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Alves
William "Jock" Alves ( 1909 – 10 February 1979) was a Scottish-born Rhodesian physician and politician who served as mayor of Salisbury (now Harare) from 1972 to 1974. He later served as a member of the Senate of Rhodesia until his death. An epidemiologist by profession, he directed a bilharzia research laboratory in Salisbury and later worked with the World Health Organization on parasitic disease projects. Medical career Alves was of Scottish origin. Alves earned his Bachelor of Arts from a South African university. He pursued his doctorate at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, but had to return to Southern Rhodesia in 1947 before completing his degree. He later returned and was awarded a PhD in 1953. Alves was a physician and was the director of the Bilharzia and Malaria Research Laboratory in Salisbury from 1944 into the 1950s. He also belonged to the department of parasitology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He was considered an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Alves (other)
Thiago Alves may refer to: *Thiago Alves (tennis) (born 1982), Brazilian tennis player *Thiago Alves (fighter) (born 1983), Brazilian mixed martial artist *Thiago Soares Alves Thiago Soares Alves (born July 26, 1986) is a Brazilian volleyball player, who is a wing spiker and has competed for Fenerbahçe Grundig and the national team. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officiall ... (born 1986), Brazilian volleyball player See also * Tiago Alves (other) {{hndis, Alves, Thiago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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