Cristóvão is the Portuguese version of the name

Christopher Christopher is the English language, English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek language, Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or ''Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Jesus ...

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Cristóvão de Aguiar Luís Cristóvão Dias de Aguiar (8 September 1940 – 5 October 2021), commonly known as Cristóvão de Aguiar, was a Portuguese writer. His most significant work is the novel trilogy A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connect ...

(born 1940), Portuguese writer *

Cristóvão Borges Cristóvão Borges dos Santos (born 9 June 1959) is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current head coach of Figueirense. Playing career Born in Salvador, Cristóvão played for Flum ...

(born 1959), Brazilian former footballer *

Cristóvão Colombo Christopher Columbus * lij, Cristoffa C(or)ombo * es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón * pt, Cristóvão Colombo * ca, Cristòfor (or ) * la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...

(Christopher Columbus) (1451–1506), Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist * Cristóvão da Costa, 16th-century Portuguese civil lawyer * Cristóvão da Costa (botanist) (1525–1594), Portuguese doctor and natural historian *

Cristóvão Falcão Cristóvão Falcão (c. 1512 – c. 1557), sometimes ''Cristóvão Falcão de Sousa'' or ''Cristóvão de Sousa Falcão'', was a Portuguese people, Portuguese poet, that came of a noble family settled at Portalegre, Portugal, Portaleg ...

(1512–1557), Portuguese poet *

Cristóvão Ferreira 170px, Ferreira was interred in the gravesite of his son-in-law Sugimoto Chūkei's family. Cristóvão Ferreira (c. 1580–1650) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary who committed apostasy after being captured and tortured ...

(1580–1650), Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Japan *

Cristóvão de Figueiredo Cristóvão de Figueiredo (died ) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. Like many other important painters of the time, Cristóvão de Figueiredo was a pupil of Master Jorge Afonso, in Lisbon, in the early 16th century. He later worked together wi ...

(died 8201), Portuguese Renaissance painter *

Cristóvão da Gama Cristóvão da Gama ( 1516 – 29 August 1542), anglicised as Christopher da Gama, was a Portuguese military commander who led a Portuguese army of 400 musketeers on a crusade in Ethiopia (1541–1543) against the Adal Muslim army of Imam Ahmad ...

(1516–1542), Portuguese military commander who led a crusade in Ethiopia and Somalia *

Cristóvão Jacques Cristóvão Jaques (Christopher Jaques), also known as Cristóvão Valjaques (c. 1480 in Algarve, Kingdom of Portugal – after 1530), was a Portuguese noble of Aragonese descent. He was the illegitimate son of Pero Jaques, and was legitimized ...

(c. 1480 – after 1530), Portuguese noble of Aragonese descent * Cristóvão Jacques (astronomer), minor planet discoverer *

Cristóvão Lopes Cristóvão Lopes (c.1516–1594) was a Portuguese painter. Cristóvão Lopes was the son and disciple of royal painter Gregório Lopes, who died in 1550. Cristóvão succeeded his father as the royal painter of King John III in 1551. Since ...

(1516–1594), Portuguese painter * Cristóvão Soares de Melo (died 1584), Portuguese colonial administrator * Cristóvão de Mendonça (1475–1532), Portuguese noble and explorer in South East Asia * Cristóvão de Morais, Portuguese court painter for the kings John III and Sebastian I of Portugal * Cristóvão Ramos (born 1983), Portuguese footballer *

Cristóvão de Moura, 1st Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo D. Cristóvão de Moura e Távora (1538 in Lisbon – 1613 in Madrid) was a Portuguese nobleman who led the Spanish party during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580. Biography He was the son of D. Luís de Moura, Chief Equerry (''estribe ...

(1538–1613), Portuguese nobleman * Luís Cristóvão dos Santos (born 1916), Brazilian journalist and writer * Cristóvão Swingue (born 1976), former Angolan basketball player *

Cristóvão de Távora Cristóvão de Távora was a Portuguese colonial administrator. He was granted the captaincy of the Fortress of Sofala in Portuguese Mozambique Portuguese Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique) or Portuguese East Africa (''África Oriental Portuguesa'') ...

, Portuguese colonial administrator * Cristóvão Tezza (born 1952), Brazilian novelist and university professor Surname: * Alexandre Cristóvão (born 1993), Angolan footballer *

Hélder Cristóvão Hélder is a given name in Portuguese. The unrelated German-Jewish surname "Helder" is also given the accent in Portuguese, such as the Portuguese poet Herberto Hélder (1930-). The name is sometimes confused with Heitor. People named Hélder incl ...

(born 1971), Portuguese footballer * Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Cristóvão (born 1965), Portuguese footballer * Pedro Cristóvão (born 1965), Portuguese judoka

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