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masculine given name and surname.


People with the first name


Artists and entertainers

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Diogo Amaral Diogo Maria Mendes Leal Pereira do Amaral (born 26 November 1981) is a Portuguese actor and model who voices foreign media in the European Portuguese language.http://pt.hukol.net/themenreihe.p?c=Dubladores%20por%20nacionalidade Voice roles ...
(born 1981), Portuguese actor *
Diogo de Macedo Diogo de Macedo (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, 22 November 1889 – Lisbon, Portugal, 19 February 1959) was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, and writer. Sculpture Sculpted, among others, the busts of: *Antero de Quental ( 1929 ) * Sara Afonso ( ...
(1889–1959), Portuguese painter, sculptor, and writer *
Diogo Dias Melgás Diogo Dias Melgás (often ''Melgaz'') ( Cuba (Portugal), 1638 - Évora, 1700) was a Portuguese composer of late-Renaissance sacred polyphony. Life Diogo Dias Melgás was born in Cuba, Alentejo, on 14 April 1638. He was a choirboy at the Colégio da ...
(1638–1700), Portuguese composer *
Diogo Dória Diogo Dória (born 16 April 1953) is a Portuguese film actor who has worked in France and Portugal and is most associated with his films for director Manoel de Oliveira. Selected filmography * 1981 '' Francisca'' * 1985 '' The Satin Slipper'' * ...
(born 1953), Portuguese actor * Diogo Infante (born 1967), Portuguese actor * Diogo Morgado (born 1981), Portuguese actor *
Diogo Nogueira Diogo Nogueira (born Rio de Janeiro, 1981) is a singer and songwriter from Brazil. He is the son of composer João Nogueira and Ângela Maria Nogueira. He was a samba musician throughout childhood and adolescence, but became a football player. A ...
(born 1981), Brazilian singer-songwriter


Sportsmen

* Diogo Amado (born 1990), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Andrade (born 1985), Portuguese footballer * Diogo António Alberto (born 1989), Mozambican footballer * Diogo Antunes de Oliveira (born 1986), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Barbosa Mendanha (born 1992), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Campos Gomes (born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Caramelo (born 1992), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Carreira (born 1978), Portuguese basketball player * Diogo Carvalho (born 1988), Portuguese swimmer * Diogo Castro Santos (born 1969), Brazilian racing driver * Diogo Correa de Oliveira (1984–2021), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Coutinho (born 1977), Portuguese rugby union player * Diogo da Costa Oliveira (born 1988), Brazilian footballer *
Diogo Dalot José Diogo Dalot Teixeira (; born 18 March 1999) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a full-back for club Manchester United and the Portugal national team. Dalot is a product of the Porto youth system and made his professio ...
(born 1999), Portuguese footballer *
Diogo da Silva Farias Diogo da Silva Farias also known as Diogo Acosta (born 13 June 1990) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Emirates as a forward. Career Incheon United signed him in January 2013. During the 2013 season, he has scored 7 goals in 32 games. He r ...
(born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Diogo de Lima Barcelos (born 1985), Brazilian footballer * Diogo dos Santos Lima (born 1985), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Douglas Santos Andrade Barbosa (born 1984), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Fernandes (born 1985), Brazilian footballer *
Diogo Ferreira Diogo Alexandre Alves Ferreira (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays as a midfielder. Early career At the age of 16, Ferreira completed a successful trial with FC Porto and was signed to the club's youth academy. Whilst ...
(born 1989), Australian footballer *
Diogo Figueiras Diogo José Rosário Gomes Figueiras (born 1 July 1991) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back. Club career Early years Born in Castanheira do Ribatejo e Cachoeiras, Vila Franca de Xira, Figueiras spent six years in ...
(born 1991), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Fonseca (born 1984), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Galvão (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Gama (born 1981), Portuguese rugby union player * Diogo Gaspar (born 1992), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Gonçalo Baptista Pires (born 1993), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Jefferson Mendes de Melo (born 1984), Brazilian footballer *
Diogo Jota Diogo José Teixeira da Silva (born 4 December 1996), known as Diogo Jota (), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward or a winger for Premier League club Liverpool and the Portugal national team. Jota started his car ...
(born 1996), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Lamelas (born 1990), Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Leite (footballer, born 1989) Diogo Carvalho Pereira Leite (born 29 April 1989) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks ...
, Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Leite (footballer, born 1999) Diogo Filipe Monteiro Pinto Leite (born 23 January 1999) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club 1. FC Union Berlin on loan from FC Porto. Club career Born in Porto, Leite joined FC Porto's youth ...
, Portuguese footballer * Diogo Lézico da Silva (born 1983), Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Luís Santo Diogo Luís Santo (born 26 May 1987), known simply as Diogo, is a Brazilian professional footballer as a striker. After starting out at Portuguesa, he spent most of his professional career in the Super League Greece with Olympiacos – having ...
(born 1987), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Malaquías da Silva (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Manuel Gonçalves Coelho (born 1992), Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Mateus Diogo Pereira Mateus (born Lisbon, February 7, 1980) is a Portuguese rugby union player. He played as a centre. He came through the ranks at Belenenses (after a stint at "Clube dos TLP"), he was on the books with Heineken Cup champions Munste ...
(born 1980), Portuguese rugby union player * Diogo Matos (born 1975), former Portuguese footballer * Diogo Miguel Alves Luís (born 1980), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Moniz (born 1993), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Orlando (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Pinheiro (born 1990), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Pinto (footballer) (born 1999), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Pires (Brazilian footballer) (born 1981) * Diogo Ramos (born 1986), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Rincón (born 1980), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Rodrigues Siston (born 1981), Brazilian-Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Rosado Diogo Jorge Rosado (born 21 February 1990) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Lusitânia F.C. as a midfielder. Formed at Sporting CP, he made 32 Primeira Liga appearances with Feirense, Vitória de Setúbal and Paços de Fe ...
(born 1990), Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Salomão Diogo Ferreira Salomão (born 14 September 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for C.F. Estrela da Amadora. Club career Born in Amadora, Lisbon District, Salomão played for three teams as a youth, includi ...
(born 1988), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Santos Rangel (born 1991), Brazilian-born East Timorese footballer * Diogo Santos (born 1984), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Sclebin (born 1982), Brazilian Olympic triathlete * Diogo Silva (footballer, born 1986) (born 1986), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Silva (taekwondo) (born 1982), Brazilian taekwondo practitioner * Diogo Silvestre Bittencourt (born 1989), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Soares Gomes (born 1985), Brazilian footballer * Diogo Sousa Ribeiro (born 1991), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Tavares (born 1987), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Valente (born 1984), Portuguese footballer *
Diogo Viana Diogo Filipe Guerreiro Viana (born 22 February 1990) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Trofense. Formed at Sporting CP and Porto, he played 129 Primeira Liga games for Gil Vicente, Belenenses, B-SAD and ...
(born 1990), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Vila (born 1990), Portuguese footballer * Diogo Yabe (born 1980), Brazilian swimmer


Explorers, settlers, and colonial administrators

* Diogo Álvares Correia (aka Caramuru) (1475-1557), Portuguese settler in the colony of Brazil *
Diogo Cão Diogo Cão (; -1486), anglicised as Diogo Cam and also known as Diego Cam, was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery. He made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s, explori ...
(1452–1486), Portuguese navigator who discovered the Congo River and Angola *
Diogo da Rocha Diogo da Rocha was a captain who sailed for the Portuguese in 1525. He is credited as being the first to encounter the islands "to the Eastwards of Mindanao, and the islands of St. Lazarus" ( possibly Ulithi in the Caroline Islands The Caro ...
(fl. 1525), Portuguese explorer *
Diogo de Melo Diogo de Melo was the 9th Captain-major of Portuguese Ceylon. Melo was appointed in 1565 under Sebastian of Portugal Sebastian ( pt, Sebastião I ; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 a ...
(fl. 1565–1568), Captain-major of Portuguese Ceylon * Diogo de Melo Coutinho (fl. 1552–1572), Captain-major of Portuguese Ceylon * Diogo de Melo de Castro (fl. 1633–1638), Governor of Portuguese Ceylon *
Diogo de Silves Diogo de Silves ( fl. 15th century) is the presumed name of an obscure Portuguese explorer of the Atlantic who allegedly discovered the Azores islands in 1427. He is only known from a reference on a chart drawn by the Catalan cartographer, Gabr ...
(fl. 1427), Portuguese explorer *
Diogo de Teive Diogo de Teive () was a maritime captain and squire to the House of Infante D. Henrique (1394-1460) during the Portuguese period of discovery. Following his exploration into the western Atlantic in the area of Newfoundland, in 1452 he discovere ...
(fl. 1451–1474), Portuguese explorer *
Diogo Dias Diogo Dias, also known as Diogo Gomes, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands together with António Noli. Serving with da Gama In 1497 on the first Portugu ...
(fl. 1497–1501), Portuguese explorer * Diogo Fernandes Pereira (fl. 1503–1507), Portuguese navigator and explorer *
Diogo Gomes Diogo Gomes () was a Portuguese navigator, explorer and writer. Diogo Gomes was a servant and explorer of Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator. His memoirs were dictated late in his life to Martin Behaim. They are an invaluable (if sometimes in ...
(1420–1500), Portuguese navigator, explorer and writer *
Diogo Homem Diogo Homem (1521–1576) was a Portuguese cartographer, son of Lopo Homem and member of a family of cartographers. Due to a crime of murder, in which he was connivent, he was forced to exile from Portugal, first in England, and then in Venice ...
(1521–1576), Portuguese cartographer *
Diogo Ribeiro Diogo Ribeiro (d. 16 August 1533) was a Portuguese cartographer and explorer who worked most of his life in Spain where he was known as Diego Ribero. He worked on the official maps of the ''Padrón Real'' (or ''Padrón General'') from 1518 to 1 ...
(fl. 1518–1533), Portuguese cartographer and explorer *
Diogo Rodrigues Dom Diogo Rodrigues, Dom Diogo Roiz (; Lagos, Portugal – 21 April 1577; Colvá, Goa) was a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean who sailed as an ordinary helmsmanAuguste Toussaint, ''History of the Indian Ocean'' (Chicago: University Pre ...
(1490–1577), Portuguese explorer


Nobles

* Diogo de Azambuja (1432–1518), Portuguese noble * Diogo Fernandes (count) (fl. 928), count in the Kingdom of León *
Diogo I Nkumbi a Mpudi Nkumbi-a-Mpudi Diogo I was manikongo in 1545–1561. King Diogo was the grandson of king Afonso I of Kongo and won the throne after overthrowing his uncle Pedro Nkanga a Mvemba and forcing him to take refuge in a church in São Salvador. Diogo's ...
(fl. 1545–1561), king of Kongo *
Diogo Lopes de Sequeira D.Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530) was a Portuguese fidalgo, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca. He arrived at Malacca on 11 September 1509 and left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah was plan ...
(1465–1530), Portuguese noble * Diogo, Constable of Portugal (1425–1443), Portuguese royal prince *
Diogo, Duke of Viseu Infante Diogo of Viseu (1450–1484) was the second son of Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, and his wife Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu. History In 1472, when his older brother John, Duke of Viseu, died without issue, Diogo inherited his titles and estat ...
(1450–1484), Portuguese noble


Politicians

* Diogo Antônio Feijó (1784–1843), Brazilian regent and Catholic priest * Diogo de Barcelos Machado Bettencourt (1847–1922), Portuguese politician and judge *
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral (; 21 July 1941 – 3 October 2019), known as Freitas do Amaral, was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 ...
(born 1941), Portuguese politician *
Diogo Pinto (activist) João Diogo Pinto, ComIH (born 16 November 1974 in Nampula, Mozambique) is an activist, advocate, and expert in International Relations and Politics of the European Union. Having served two terms as the youngest ever Secretary General of the E ...
(born 1974), Mozambican Secretary General of the EMI * Diogo Vasconcelos (1968–2011), Portuguese politician


Others

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Diogo Abreu (geographer) Prof. Diogo José Brochado de Abreu (born 24 July 1947, Alguber) is a Portuguese geographer. After his basic and secondary education at Colégio Militar, he graduated in geography in 1978 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon ...
(born 1947), Portuguese geographer *
Diogo das Chagas Diogo das Chagas, O.F.M. (Diogo of the Holy Wounds); (c. 1584 in Santa Cruz das Flores – c. 1661 in Angra do Heroísmo) was a Portuguese Franciscan friar and historian. He is best known as the author of ''Espelho Cristalino em Jardim de ...
(1584–1661), Portuguese Franciscan friar and historian *
Diogo de Arruda Diogo de Arruda (before 1490 – 1531) was a noted Portuguese architect that was active during the early years of the 16th century. He had some other important family members including his brother, Francisco de Arruda and his uncle, Miguel d ...
(fl. 1490–1531), Portuguese architect * Diogo de Boitaca (1460–1528), Portuguese architect and engineer *
Diogo de Couto Diogo do Couto (Lisbon, c. 1542 – Goa, 10 December 1616) was a Portuguese historian. Biography He was born in Lisbon in 1542 to Gaspar do Couto and Isabel Serrão Calvos. He studied Latin and Rhetoric at the College of Saint Anthony the Grea ...
(1542–1616), Portuguese historian * Diogo de Gouveia (1471–1557), Portuguese theologian and diplomat *
Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real (17 June 1658 – 9 May 1736) was an accomplished Portuguese diplomat and statesman, and Secretary of State to King Peter II and John V. Biography Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real was born in 1658, in Tavira, t ...
(1658–1736), Portuguese diplomat and statesman *
Diogo de Teive (humanist) Diogo de Teive (Braga, c.1514 - after 1569) was a Portuguese humanist during the Renaissance. Diogo de Teive was a humanist, a latinist and a typical scholar of his day: a traveller, who spent most of his formative years abroad, in Europe. He wo ...
(1514–1569), Portuguese humanist * Diogo Mónica, Portuguese-American engineer and entrepreneur * Diogo Ortiz de Villegas, (1457-1519) Castilian priest


People with the surname


Sportsmen

* Carlos Diogo (born 1983), Uruguayan footballer * Igor Diogo Moreira Araújo (born 1987), Portuguese footballer * Ivo Diogo (1935–2009), Brazilian footballer * João Diogo Serpa Meira (born 1987), Portuguese footballer * João Diogo (born 1988), Portuguese footballer * Jordão Diogo (born 1985), Portuguese footballer *
Márcio Diogo Márcio Diogo Lobato Rodrigues (born September 22, 1985), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Moto Club. Honours ;Cruzeiro * Campeonato Mineiro: 2005, 2006 ;Ceará * Campeonato Cearense The Campeonato Ceare ...
(born 1985), Brazilian footballer * Nuno Diogo (born 1981), Portuguese footballer * Paulo Diogo (born 1975), Swiss footballer * Víctor Diogo (born 1958), Uruguayan footballer * Zé Diogo (born 1994), Portuguese footballer


Others

* José Diogo Quintela, Portuguese comic actor, from the group Gato Fedorento *
Luísa Diogo Luísa Dias Diogo (born 11 April 1958) is a Mozambican politician who served as Prime Minister of Mozambique from February 2004 to January 2010. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been Prime Minister for the previous nine years. Before bec ...
(born 1958), Prime Minister of Mozambique from 2004 to 2010


See also

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Diego Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. ...
* Diogo (disambiguation) {{Given name, type=both Portuguese masculine given names