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Pires Jorge
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'' ( en, Peter). Its Spanish equivalent is ''Pérez''. It is a variant form of '' Peres''. It may mean different things: People * Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque (1930-1962), Angolan-Portuguese writer * Alfredo Pires (born 1964), Timor-Leste politician *Aloísio Pires Alves (born 1963), Brazilian footballer * Álvaro Henrique Alves Pires (born 1985), Brazilian footballer *Anabela Braz Pires (born 1976), Portuguese singer and actress * Arlindo do Carmo Pires Barbeitos (born 1940), Angolan poet *Cléo Pires (born 1982), Brazilian actress *Cornélio Pires (1884–1958), Brazilian journalist, writer and folklorist * Diogo Pires (1500–1532), known as Solomon Molcho, a self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah *Emília Pires, Timor-Leste Minister of Finance *Felipe Pires (born 1995), Brazilian footballer *Fernão Pires de An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Pires
Felipe Augusto Rodrigues Pires (born 18 April 1995) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Dnipro-1. Club career Pires made his European debut for Red Bull Salzburg on 19 February 2015 in a 1–2 away defeat to Villarreal in the last 32 first leg of the UEFA Europa League, replacing Massimo Bruno after 64 minutes. A week later in the second leg, he came on at half time for Takumi Minamino in a 1–3 defeat which eliminated his club. On 6 June, he scored the latter goal as Salzburg defeated Austria Vienna 2–0 in the Austrian Cup title to win the double. On 25 August 2015, it was announced that Pires had signed with Hoffenheim for an undisclosed fee. The next day, he was loaned to FSV Frankfurt of the 2. Bundesliga. On 24 June 2016, Pires was loaned to Austria Wien until the end of the season. On 12 September 2020, Pires signed with Moreirense F.C. Career statistics Honours Liefering *Austrian Football First League: 2014–15 Red B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mário Lemos Pires
Mário Lemos Pires (30 June 1930 – 22 May 2009) was a major-general of the Portuguese Army and the last colonial governor of Portuguese Timor. Biography Born in Lamego, Portugal in 1930, Lemos Pires moved to Lisbon at age 18 to commence his studies at the Portuguese Military Academy. Following his graduation as an officer, he took up various overseas postings in the Portuguese Overseas Empire. In the 1960s, Lemos Pires was posted to Algeria (then a French colony), where he studied French military counter-guerrilla techniques. After Algeria he was posted as part of the 114th Battalion to Portuguese Angola, which was in the midst of a Angolan War of Independence, conflict for independence, and where he took part in the early stages of the early Portuguese Colonial War, colonial war. By the late 1960s, he was posted back to Portugal, where he administered physical education programs for the army, but was soon sent to Portuguese Guinea, under the command of Military Governor Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria João Pires
Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires (; born 23 July 1944) is a Portuguese classical pianist, widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. Early life and education Pires was born in Lisbon, Portugal, a posthumous daughter of João Baptista Pires and his wife Alzira dos Santos Alexandre Barbosa. She has three siblings: Hugo Alexandre Barbosa Pires, Maria Regina Alexandre Barbosa Pires and Maria Helena Alexandre Barbosa Pires. Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart piano concertos publicly. Two years later she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Campos Coelho at the Lisbon Conservatory, taking courses in composition, theory, and history of music. She continued her studies in Germany, first in the Musikakademie of Munich with Rosl Schmidt and then in Hanover with Karl Engel. Career International fame came in 1970, when she won the Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Do Carmo Silveira
Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira (born 14 February 1961) served as the 13th prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 8 June 2005 to 21 April 2006. Background She was educated as an economist at the Donetsk National University (Ukraine), Master of Public Administration from the National School of Administration in Strasbourg and was the third governor of São Tomé and Príncipe's Central Bank from 1999 to 2005, she succeeded Carlos Quaresma Batista de Sousa and was succeeded by Arlindo Afonso Carvalho and again from 2011 to 2016 as the sixth governor succeeding Luís Fernando Moreira de Sousa. Prime minister She served as Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Finance São Tomé and Príncipe from 8 June 2005 to 21 April 2006. Silveira, the country's second female Prime Minister, is a member of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD) and was a member of the party executive board. Silveira d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís Pires
Luís Pires (15th-16th century CE) was a Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one of the captains of the fleet. On leaving the Cape Verde Islands, Pires was forced by a storm to return to Lisbon, never having reached Brazil or India (the initial and official destination of the journey). See also *Exploration of Asia This is a chronology of the early European exploration of Asia. First wave of exploration (mainly by land) Antiquity * 515 BC: Scylax explores the Indus and the sea route across the Indian Ocean to Egypt. * 330 BC: Alexander the Great conquers ... Portuguese explorers Maritime history of Portugal Year of birth missing Year of death missing 15th-century births 15th-century explorers {{Portugal-explorer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loick Pires
Loick Barros Paiva Pires (born 20 November 1989) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who last played for VCD Athletic. He played as a winger and centre forward. Career Born in Sevran, Paris, to a Congolese mother and a Portuguese father before moving to London aged 7, Pires' previous clubs include Stoke City and Alexandra Park. Leyton Orient Pires had been a regular for both youth and reserves teams for Orient since joining in 2006 and earned his first full professional contract in April 2008. He made great strides in the 2008–09 season making a total of seven appearances in his first season as a professional, making his debut as a substitute for Orient in a home game against Doncaster Rovers on 19 April 2008. He was offered a new contract on 4 May 2009. On 11 May 2009, at the annual Leyton Orient awards dinner, Pires was awarded the inaugural Leyton Orient Community Player of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the club's community sports programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Mariano Rebelo Pires Gago
José Mariano Rebelo Pires Gago, ComSE (16 May, 1948 – 17 April, 2015), commonly referred to as Mariano Gago, was a Portuguese physicist and politician, mostly known for his tenures as Minister for Science and Higher Education. He held government offices for a total of 13 years, more than any other person since 1976. He graduated as an electrical engineer by the University of Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, and did advanced research work in Paris at the École Polytechnique as a high-energy physicist. Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, he worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva for several years. He was a member of the CERN Council (1985–1990), the EC Joint Research Centre Board of Governors (1986–1989), President of the Portuguese National Board for Science and Technology (1986–1989), and was chair of the European EUREKA initiative from July 1997 to June 1998. Prof. Gago was the Minister for Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Cardoso Pires
José Cardoso (2October 192526October 1998) was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire. Life and career Early life Pires was born in the Portuguese village of São João do Peso, which is within the district of Castelo Branco near the border of Spain. His father was in the merchant navy and his mother was a homemaker. Pires studied mathematics at the University of Lisbon, where he published his first short story. He left university to join the Portuguese Navy, from which he was later discharged for disciplinary issues. His writing was greatly influenced by the city of Lisbon, the streets of which are described in great detail in his novels and short stories. Some of his paternal family members immigrated to the United States. Pires connected to American writing styles at a time when Portugal looked to France (and somewhat to north-eastern Brazilian regionalism) for its narrative models. In a documentary produced for Portuguese television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Costa Pires
Jorge da Costa Pires (born 1 April 1981) is a Portuguese former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker. He spent most of his career in LigaPro, totalling over 324 matches and a record 113 goals for six teams and being top scorer three times. Additionally, he played 42 Primeira Liga games and scored 11 goals in two spells with Portimonense S.C., Portimonense. Club career Born in Amares, Braga District, Pires spent his youth career with FC Amares and S.C. Braga. He made his senior debut with the former in the Terceira Divisão, fourth division before moving into the latter's S.C. Braga B, reserve team in Portuguese Second Division, the third. He then had brief lower league spells at C.D. Portosantense, Amares again, A.D. Pontassolense and G.D. Ribeirão. In 2008, Pires joined F.C. Vizela of the LigaPro, second level and a year later Portimonense S.C., Portimonense SC, whom he helped to promotion as runners-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Murça Pires
João Murça Pires (1917-1994) was a Brazilian botanist, who worked principally at the Instituto Agronômico do Norte. Life Pires was born in Bariri, Brazil on June 27, 1917. He received both his undergraduate (1942) and doctoral (1983) degrees from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo. He was a member of the Linnean Society of London and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in. He served twice as the President of the Botanic Society of Brazil. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982 in the field of plant sciences. Work He initiated the herbarium and botanical section at the Instituto Agronômico do Norte and founded the Department of Botany and the herbaria at the Universidade de Brasília. He also helped restructure the Department of Botany at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Belém, and the herbaria there is named after him. He collected, and described plants from the Amazon. Legacy He is the authority for at least ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glória Pires
Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais (; born 23 August 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her roles in TV Globo telenovelas such as '' Dancin' Days'', ''Vale Tudo'', ''Mulheres de Areia'' and ''O Rei do Gado''. She is also known for starring in films such as Academy Award-nominated '' O Quatrilho'', box-office hit '' If I Were You'' and its sequel, and ''Lula, Son of Brazil'', which is the second most expensive Brazilian film of all time, after ''Nosso Lar''. In 2013, she starred in the movie '' Reaching for the Moon'' along with Miranda Otto, and directed by Bruno Barreto. In 2013, she was also honoured by ''Forbes'' Brazil as one of Brazil's most influential persons being ranked in the 28th position out of the 30 short-listed. Biography Pires was born on 23 August 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. She is the daughter of producer Elza Pires and actor Antônio Carlos Pires. She has a sister named Linda Pires, a therapist. She is of Native Brazilian and Portuguese des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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