Sebastião is a

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

male given name, descending from the Latin

Sebastianus Sebastianus (died 413), a brother of Jovinus, was an aristocrat of southern Gaul. After Jovinus usurped the throne of the western Roman Emperor Honorius in Gaul in 411, he named Sebastianus as Augustus (co-emperor) in 412. Coins bearing Sebastia ...

and equivalent to the English name Sebastian.

Notable people

Notable people with this name include:

Art

Sebastião Alba Sebastião Alba (11 March 1940 – 14 October 2000) was a Portuguese poet, born in Braga who lived a long period of his life in former Portuguese colony Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or ...

, Portuguese poet *

Sebastião Tapajós Sebastião Tapajós (April 16, 1943 – October 2, 2021) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer from Santarém (Pará). He began learning guitar from his father when he was nine years old, and later studied at the Conservatório de Lisboa and a ...

, Brazilian guitarist *

Sebastião Salgado Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press pu ...

, Brazilian photographer

Politics

* Sebastião Custódio de Sousa Teles, Portuguese politician * Sebastião Fernandes da Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician *Sebastião I, also known as

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 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz. He was the son of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and hi ...

, Portuguese king *

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras (13 May 1699 – 8 May 1782), known as the Marquis of Pombal (''Marquês de Pombal''; ), was a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who effectively ruled the Po ...

, Portuguese statesman

Religion

* Sebastião Barradas, Portuguese preacher *

Sebastião da Silveira Cintra Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra (January 20, 1882 – October 17, 1942) was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro from 1930 until his death, and was elevated to the ...

, Brazilian cardinal *

Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado Msgr Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (8 May 1855 – 4 April 1922) ( Romanised Konkani: ''Sebastianv Rodolf Dalgad'') was a Catholic priest, academic, university professor, theologian, orientalist, and linguist from Goa, ''Estado da Índ ...

, Indo-Portuguese priest * Sebastião Soares de Resende, Portuguese Catholic bishop

Sport

Football

* Sebastião Gilberto, Angolan footballer *

Sebastião Lazaroni Sebastião Barroso Lazaroni, (born 25 September 1950) is a Brazilian football manager who last coached Qatar Stars League club Qatar SC. He was born in Muriaé, Minas Gerais state. He is well known in Brazil as the manager who tried to intr ...

, Brazilian football manager * Sebastião Loureiro da Silva, Portuguese footballer * Sebastião Matateu, Portuguese footballer *

Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho, usually called Mirandinha, (born 26 February 1952) is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a forward. At international level, he was included in the Brazilian squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Clu ...

, Brazilian footballer * Sebastião Nogueira, Portuguese footballer * Sebastião Pereira do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer

Other

* Sebastião Amorim Gimenez, Brazilian basketball player *

Sebastião Herédia Sebastião de Herédia (20 March 1903 – 2 February 1983) was a Portuguese modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angele ...

, Portuguese fencer *

Sebastião Wolf Sebastião Wolf (5 February 1869 – 15 March 1936) was a Brazilian sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team in the team 50 metre free pistol competition. In the 1920 Su ...

, Brazilian sport shooter

Other

* Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho, Portuguese explorer

References

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