The Lindo family was a

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merchant and

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, which rose to prominence in medieval Spain.

Portugal

Manuel Lindo was a

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and Chair of the

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department at the

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in the 16th century. He published a nautical guide in manuscript form in 1539. He was a dear friend of Amatus Lusitanus, who described him as the eminent astronomer. He worked with

Pedro Nunes Pedro Nunes (; Latin: ''Petrus Nonius''; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family. Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, Nunes ...

Abraham Zacuto Abraham Zacuto ( he, , translit=Avraham ben Shmuel Zacut, pt, Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto; 12 August 1452 – ) was a Castilian astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian who served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal. ...

José Vizinho José Vizinho, (also known in English as ''Joseph Vecinho''), was a Portuguese Jew, born in the town of Covilhã, court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, with whom he studied mathematics ...

João Faras Mestre João Faras, better known simply as Mestre João ('Master John"), was an astrologer, astronomer, physician and surgeon of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, and wrote a famous ...

to build instruments that made Europe's worldwide expansion possible. Francisco Lindo, was arrested for

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and

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, on the 12th of August 1644. Francisco's son Joao Rodrigues Lindo married Contance Nunes of Guarda and lived in Campo Maior. Their son, Isaac (Lourenco), was born in

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in 1638. He became a merchant in

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, where he and his wife arrested by the

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in 1656. After being held without trial for two years, Isaac and his wife were

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d and released. The family lived in France before settling in London in around 1670. His brother, Antonio Rodriguez Lindo, merchant at Lisbon , was arrested for Judaism Oct. 9 , 1660 , condemned to public

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at the

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, Sept. 17 , 1662.

United Kingdom

One of the oldest and most esteemed of London Sephardic families, it traces its descent to Isaac Lindo. Isaac visited

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in the early 1650's and was married there around 1653.

Antonio Fernandez Carvajal Antonio Fernandez Carvajal (c. 1590November 10, 1659)—in pt, António Fernandes Carvalhal—was a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first endenizened English Jew. Carvajal and Simon de Caceres, together with other prominent members ...

and Abraham Chilon, who commissioned one of the first brokers medals in 1655, were his maternal uncles. He settled in London around 1670 where he became an elder of

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, one of the first Jewish brokers of the

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in 1681 and a signatory of the *''Ascamot'' of 1694. His children included: * Alexander Lindo (1666-1727) became a sworn broker in 1683, married Rachel Lopes Pereira, who was a sister or cousin of Diego Pereira d'Aguilar, in 1708 and had six children. * Elias Lindo (1690-1727), sworn broker, commissioned the

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in 1708 to celebrate his marriage to Rachel Lopes Ferreira with whom he had six children. Elias Lindo Medal

For nine successive generations members of the family were sworn brokers of the city of London, until the registration of sworn brokers was abolished in 1886: # Issac Lindo (1638-1712): became a sworn broker in 1681, married Leah Lopes and had issue including: # Elias Lindo (1690-1727): sworn broker, married to Rachel Lopes Ferreira and had issue including: # Isaac Lindo (1709-1766): sworn broker, married Bathseba Abarbanel and had issue including: # Elias Lindo: sworn broker, married Grace Lumbroso de Mattos and had issue including: # Moses Lindo (1760-1837): sworn broker, married Sarah DaCosta and had issue including: # Moses DaCosta Lindo (1784-1866): Sworn broker, married Leah Norsa and had issue: # Sarah DaCosta Lindo (1814-) who married her cousin Nathaneel Lindo (1810-1889), sworn broker and solicitor, and had issue including: # Joseph Norsa Lindo (1837-), sworn broker, who the last member of the family to pay for a "Jew Broker medal" in 1858, married Esther Benoliel and had issue including: # Moses Albert Norsa Lindo (1862-1933): sworn broker Six of their brokers medals are on display at the

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The Lindos were closely related to many other "cousinhood" families of note in Britain, including the

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, Goldsmid and the Montefiores. Members of the family have been active in the affairs of the

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community. Moses Lindo (1760-1837) served as President of

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from 1817 to 1829. Moses' brother, David Abarbanel Lindo, married Sarah Lumbroso de Mattos and had no less than eighteen children, many of whom married into well known Sephardic families. David's son Nathaneel Lindo (1810-1889) was a City solicitor who operated the firm Lindo & Co., which had long acted as solicitors for the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue and the

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in London, a tradition which his sons: Gabriel (1838-1908) and Arthur Lindo (1839-1905) continued.

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, was President of

from 1903 to 1917. In 1937, Frank Charles Lindo (1872-1938), a great grandson of David Abarbanel Lindo, donated funds to build the Lindo Wing at

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Jamaica

Alexandre Lindo migrated to Kingston, Jamaica from Bordeaux in 1765 and became an important merchant, banker and planter. Per Stanley Mirvis' ''The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition'', Lindo "was perhaps the most notorious Jamaican Jewish slave trader, absentee planter, and moneylender at the end of the eighteenth century..." By 1780 he was operating Lindo's Wharf on Princess Street in Kingston. He owned multiple transatlantic vessels and traded in all types of merchandise. For example, one of his vessels, the Esther Lindo, described by

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as a constant trader on the London-Jamaica run, cleared Jamaica for London on May 28, 1790 laden with sugar, cotton, pimento, Nicaragua wood, coffee, ginger, rum, wine, silver, sweetmeats, tamarinds, balsam, copper, castor oil, and tortoise shell. He owned numerous properties including Greenwich Park (the first steam powered plantation in Jamaica) and Pleasant Hill, a large coffee plantation. He supplied

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during the

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and was close to a French jew who was executed while trying to spark a slave revolt in Jamaica in 1799. He made large loans to the

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during the

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, negotiated by

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, to finance the

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. When Britain declared war on France, on May 18, 1803, ending the

, Lindo attempted to draw a draft in

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, but the debt was dishonoured and Lindo was threatened with arrest. His eldest son Abraham Alexander Lindo, was put in charge of the family business in Jamaica and Alexandre moved to London, where he was involved in trading, banking and insurance. He leased part of Roehampton estate called Putney Spot from Benjamin Goldsmid while constructing a mansion in

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. He was elected Parnas of

in 1805. That year his sons subdivided Kingston Pen into small lots which then formed a mixed race working class township known as Lindo's Town. Lindo’s Town included areas now known as

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and Tivoli Gardens. He died at

on March 12, 1812. He had two wives and at least 26 children. His grandchildren included: * Alexander Joseph Lindo: Jamaican merchant, planter, Member of

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and

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of St. Mary * Frederick Lindo: Merchant and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica * David Lindo (chemist): Jamaican Merchant and Chemist * Charles McLarty Morales: Speaker of

(1849–61) * Isaac Mendes Belisario: a Jamaican artist *

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: a Dutch prose writer * Philip Moravier Lindo: a British portrait and genre painter of the Düsseldorf School and an entrepreneur in the Netherlands *

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: a Member of the

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and Minister of Mines & Agriculture

Prominent descendants of Isaac Lindo

Business, politics and law

Moses Lindo Moses Lindo was a British indigo sorter, merchant, planter and Inspector General of Indigo, Drugs & Dyes in the Province of South Carolina. Early life Moses Lindo was the son of Elias Lindo (1690-1727), a broker on the Royal Exchange, and Rac ...

: English planter and merchant in South Carolina, Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs, and Dyes *Elias Lindo: Royal Exchange Broker * Abraham Alexander Lindo: Jamaican merchant and planter *

: English barrister and community leader * Lionel Lindo Alexander: British political and communal worker *

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* Mattias Mackinlay Zapiola:

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of Santa Cruz, Argentina * Charles McLarty Morales: Speaker of

(1849–61) * Alexander Joseph Lindo: Jamaican merchant, planter, Member of

and

of St. Mary *

: Australian politician, a member of the

, Minister of Mines & Agriculture * Eduard and Franz Hernsheim: Founders of

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, a German trading company in the western Pacific * Cecil Vernon Lindo: Jamaican banker, industrialist, planter and philanthropist * Stanley Alexander Lindo: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist in

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: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica *

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: Jamaican industrialist, financier and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica *

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: was a British Judge *

Dean Lindo Dean Russel Lindo (4 September 1932 – 17 September 2018) was a Belizean attorney and politician. He was one of the principal founders of the United Democratic Party in 1973 and served as its first leader from 1974 to 1979.United Democratic Party *

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: 3rd

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* R. James de Roux: Jamaican Merchant and

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of Clarendon *

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from 2008 until 2020 and as leader of Belize's United Democratic Party *

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: pioneering Jamaican civil servant * Yarrow baronets: created by

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on 29 January 1916 for the shipbuilder and engineer

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, founding Chairman of Yarrow & Co *

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. *

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: was a British peer, landowner, and a

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owner/breeder *

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of Nevern Square *

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: British Conservative Peer and businessman * Valdemar Riise: Pharmacist *Lea Mendes (1809-1849) was the wife of Samuel Teixeira de Mattos, founder of Teixeira de Mattos (bank) * Louis Frederik Teixeira de Mattos: civil engineer, author in the field of water management and Co-Founder of the

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: was a Dutch prose writer * Philip Moravier Lindo: was a British portrait and genre painter of the Düsseldorf School and an entrepreneur in the Netherlands *

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: is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of

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: is a British

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and

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: was a British-born

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and

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expert. *

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Olga Lindo Olga Lindo (13 July 1899 – 7 May 1968) was an English actress. She was the daughter of Frank Lindo, a well-known actor, manager and author. She made her stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 26 December 1913. She later joined her ...

: was an English actress * Isaac Mendes Belisario: Jamaican artist *

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: is an English actor *

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Science, Medicine and Education

* Miriam Mendes Belisario: English writer and educator *

Abigail Lindo Abigail Lindo (3 August 1803 – 28 August 1848) was a British lexicographer. She was the first British Jew who compiled a Hebrew-English dictionary. She is considered to be the only woman to have made a significant contribution to philology in th ...

: British lexicographer *

Jacob Mendes Da Costa Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician. He is particularly known for discovering Da Costa's syndrome (also known as ...

: was an American physician *

Juda Lion Palache Juda Lion Palache (October 26, 1886 – October 18, 1944) was a professor of Semitic languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic) at the University of Amsterdam and a leader of the Portuguese Jewish community in that city. He came from the Pallache family ...

: was a professor of

Semitic languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigra ...

at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

and a leader of the Portuguese Jewish community *

Charles Gabriel Seligman Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS FRAI (24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) was a British physician and ethnologist. His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan. He was ...

: British Physician *

Sir Martyn Poliakoff Sir Martyn Poliakoff (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry, and on developing environmentally acceptable processes and materials. The core themes of his work are supercritical fluid ...

: is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry *

John Ziman John Michael Ziman (16 May 1925 – 2 January 2005) was a British-born New Zealand physicist and Humanism, humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author. Ziman was bo ...

: was a British-born New Zealand

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

and

humanist Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The meaning of the term "humani ...

who worked in the area of

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the sub ...

. * David Lindo (chemist): Jamaican Merchant and Chemist *

Arthur Lindo Patterson Arthur Lindo Patterson (23 July 1902, Nelson, New Zealand - 6 November 1966, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a pioneering British X-ray crystallographer. Patterson was born to British parents in New Zealand in 1902. Shortly afterwards the famil ...

: British

X-ray crystallographer X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...

* Lindo Ferguson: New Zealand ophthalmologist, university professor and medical school dean. * Elias Hayyim Lindo: English author and historian * Hector Lindo Fuentes: Salvadoran historian

Other

* David Abarbanel Lindo: English communal worker who performed the circumcision of

Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation o ...

* Isaac Juda Palache: was grand rabbi of the Portuguese Sephardic community of Amsterdam from 1900 to 1926 *

David Mocatta David Alfred Mocatta (1806–1882) was a British architect and a member of the Anglo-Jewish Mocatta family. Early career David Alfred Mocatta was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1806, the son of the licensed bullion broker Moses Mocatta ...

: British architect *

George Basevi Elias George Basevi FRS (1 April 1794 – 16 October 1845) was a British architect who worked in both Neoclassical and Gothic Revival styles. A pupil of Sir John Soane, his designs included Belgrave Square in London, and the Fitzwilliam Muse ...

: British architect *

J. P. Basevi James Palladio Basevi (23 February 1832 – 17 July 1871) was a British army engineer who conducted one of the first gravimetric surveys in India using a pendulum. He served as Deputy Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India and ...

: was a British army engineer who conducted one of the first gravimetric surveys in India using a pendulum *

Povl Baumann Povl Erik Raimund Baumann (9 November 1878 – 3 July 1963) was a Danish architect who was a central figure during the transition from Neoclassicism to Functionalism in Danish residential architecture. In 1910, he was one of the founders of ''De ...

: Danish Architect * Isaac Anne Lindo: Dutch engineer *

Iwan Serrurier Iwan Serrurier (21 September 1878 in Leiden – 1953) was a Dutch people, Dutch-born Electrical engineering, electrical engineer notable for inventing the Moviola. Career Iwan was the son of Lindor Serrurier, director of the ethnographic museu ...

: was a Dutch-American electrical engineer notable for inventing the Moviola *

Mark Serrurier Mark Serrurier (12 May 1904 in Pasadena, California – 14 February 1988) is the son of Dutch-born electrical engineer, Iwan Serrurier, who created the Moviola in 1924 which became the technology used for film editing. Mark was a graduate of Ca ...

: worked on designs for the Mt. Palomar 200 inch

Hale Telescope The Hale Telescope is a , 3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, he orchestrated the planning, de ...

* Marie-Louise Johanna Daisy Teixeira de Mattos: was the

Chief Court Mistress Court Mistress ( da, hofmesterinde; nl, hofmeesteres; german: Hofmeisterin; no, hoffmesterinne; sv, hovmästarinna) or Chief Court Mistress ( da, Overhofmesterinde; ('grand mistress'); ; no, overhoffmesterinne; sv, överhovmästarinna; russia ...

for

Juliana of the Netherlands Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Sh ...

Blanche Blackwell Blanche Blackwell (; 9 December 1912 – 8 August 2017) was a Jamaican heiress, mother of Chris Blackwell, and an inspirational muse to Ian Fleming and Noël Coward. Early life Blanche Lindo was born on 9 December 1912 in San José, Costa R ...

: Jamaican heiress * Norman Joseph Levien: New Zealand Army Officer and a foundation member of the

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps The New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps (NZAOC) was a Corps whose function was to provide, receive, store, repair, maintain, and issue: ordnance stores, vehicles, ammunition, foodstuffs, and ammunition. Ordnance Organisations had previously existed i ...

Edwin Louis Teixeira de Mattos Edwin Teixeira de Mattos (28 January 1898 – 15 January 1976) was a Dutch bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1928 Winter Olympics. At the last moment he was selected for the team, after Albert Levy Themans had to withdraw ...

: Dutch Bobsledder

Notable people with the surname include

: English planter and merchant in South Carolina, Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs, and Dyes * Abraham Alexander Lindo: Jamaican merchant and planter *

Juan Lindo Juan Nepomuceno Fernández Lindo y Zelaya (generally known as Juan Lindo) (16 May 1790, Tegucigalpa, Honduras – 23 April 1857, Gracias, Honduras) was a Conservative Central American politician, provisional president of the Republic of El S ...

: President of the Republic of

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

(1841-1842) and of the Republic of Honduras (1847-1852) * David Abarbanel Lindo: was an English communal worker * Elias Hayyim Lindo: was a British Sephardic Jewish merchant, author and historian *

: English barrister and community leader * Lionel Lindo Alexander: British political and communal worker * Cecil Vernon Lindo: Jamaican banker, industrialist, planter and philanthropist *

: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica *

: Jamaican industrialist, financier and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica * Stanley Alexander Lindo: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist in

: Jamaican heiress *

Archie Lindo Archie Lindo (20 January 1908 – 2 April 1990) was a Jamaican photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster.Dean Lindo Dean Russel Lindo (4 September 1932 – 17 September 2018) was a Belizean attorney and politician. He was one of the principal founders of the United Democratic Party in 1973 and served as its first leader from 1974 to 1979.United Democratic Party *

: pioneering Jamaican civil servant * Hugo Lindo: Salvadorian writer, diplomat, politician, and lawyer * Richard Lindo Fuentes: was a Salvadoran writer and poet * Hector Lindo Fuentes: Salvadoran historian *

Delroy Lindo Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is an English-American actor. He is the recipient of such accolades as a NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' Cho ...

(born 1952), British-American actor *Earl Lindo (1953–2017), Jamaican reggae musician *Elvira Lindo (born 1962), Spanish journalist and writer *

: was an English actress *

: was a Dutch prose writer * Philip Moravier Lindo: was a British portrait and genre painter of the Düsseldorf School and an entrepreneur in the Netherlands * Isaac Anne Lindo: Dutch engineer *José Alexandre Alves Lindo, (born 1973) Brazilian footballer *Jack Ruby (record producer) *Kashief Lindo (born c.1978), Jamaican reggae singer *Big Narstie: is a British rapper, comedian and television presenter *Jimena Lindo: is a Peruvian actress, dancer and TV presenter *Laura Mae Lindo: is a Canadian politician *Mónica de Greiff Lindo, Mónica de Greiff Lindo: is a Colombian lawyer and former Ministry of the Interior and Justice, Minister of Justice of Colombia *Larry Lindo, Larry Lindo: is a Bermudian sailor *Christabel Lindo: is a Kenyan rugby sevens player *Nishy Lee Lindo, Nishy Lee Lindo: is a Costa Rican taekwondo practitioner *David Lindo, David Lindo: is a British author, also known as the Urban Birder *Jaine Lindo, Jaine Lindo: is a Sint Maartener footballer who plays for the Sint Maarten national team *Matilde Lindo, Matilde Lindo: was a Nicaraguan feminist and activist *Screwdriver (musician): is a reggae artist active since the mid-1980s *:es:Cinthya Lindo Espinoza, Cinthya_Lindo Espinoza: former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru

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