Vasconcelos (also Vasconcellos) is a

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surname. Today it can be found in Portugal, Brazil, and elsewhere in the Portuguese-speaking world.

People

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos (18 September 1837 – 28 November 1880) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa. He was born September 18, 1837, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, a son of Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Esmeraldo Rolim de Moura ...

(1837–1880), Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, India, in the 19th century. *

Ana Vasconcelos Ana Carolina Vasconcelos (born November 7, 1981) is a female water polo Player (game), player from Brazil, who won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national water polo team at the 2003 Pan American Games. She also competed at the 2007 Pan ...

(born 1981), Brazilian water polo player. *

António-Pedro Vasconcelos António-Pedro Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos GCIH (born 10 March 1939 in Leiria) is a Portuguese film director. Personal life Vasconcelos is the middle of three sons of Guilherme de Barros e Vasconcelos (Celorico de Basto, Britelo, 28 Decembe ...

(born 1939), Portuguese film director. *

Augusto de Vasconcelos Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia, Order of Saint James of the Sword, GCSE (24 September 1867 – 27 September 1951), better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos () was a Portuguese people, Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat, ...

(1867–1951), Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat. *

Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta (16 July 1890 – 18 September 1982) was a long-serving cardinal. Until Eugênio de Araújo Sales surpassed him in 2005, he was the longest-serving Brazilian cardinal, and during his cardinalate the Church in Br ...

(1890–1982), Brazilian cardinal. *

Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos Carolina may refer to: Geography * The Carolinas, the U.S. states of North and South Carolina ** North Carolina, a U.S. state ** South Carolina, a U.S. state * Province of Carolina, a British province until 1712 * Carolina, Alabama, a town in ...

(1851–1925), Portuguese philologist. *

Doroteo Vasconcelos Doroteo Vasconcelos Vides y Ladrón de Guevara (February 6, 1803–March 10, 1883) was President of El Salvador 7 February 1848 - 1 February 1850 and 4 February 1850 – 1 March 1851. Vasconcelos was close friend of Honduran general Francisco ...

(1803–1883), President of El Salvador in the 19th century. *

Fernanda Vasconcellos Fernanda de Vasconcellos Galvez (born 14 September 1984) is a Brazilian actress and voice actress. Career Vasconcellos worked as a model starring in several TV commercials and as a dancer in SBT's Domingo Legal show before becoming an act ...

(born 1984), a Brazilian movie, theater and television actress. * Fernando De Almeida Vasconcellos (1919–1996), Brazilian chess master. * Gabriel Monteiro Vasconcelos (born 1996), Brazilian footballer * Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira (born 1992), Brazilian footballer * Héctor Vasconcelos, Mexican diplomat *

John Vasconcellos John Bernard Vasconcellos Jr. (May 11, 1932 – May 24, 2014) was an American politician from California and member of the Democratic Party. He represented Silicon Valley as a member of the California State Assembly for 30 years and a Californi ...

(born 1932), American politician. * José Leite de Vasconcelos Cardoso Pereira de Melo (1858–1941), Portuguese linguist, philologist and ethnographer. *

José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos is an Angolan politician. He was the Minister of Petroleum. Career Vasconcelos was Minister of Petroleum from 1999 to 2002. In the latter year, he was replaced as Minister of Petroleum by Desiderio Costa Desi ...

, Angolan politician. * José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920–1984), Brazilian writer. *

José Vasconcelos José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the "cultural " of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician. He is one of the most influential and controversial personalities ...

(1882–1959), Mexican writer, philosopher and politician. *

Josefina de Vasconcellos Josefina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos (26 October 1904 – 20 July 2005) was an English sculptor who worked in bronze, stone, wood, lead and perspex. She was at one time the world's oldest living sculptor. She lived in Cumbria much of her wor ...

(1904–2005), English sculptor. * Júlia Vasconcelos (born 1992), Brazilian taekwondo competitor. *

Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor Dom Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor (1636 – 15 August 1720) was a Portuguese politician and prime minister. Career Portuguese royal favourite who, as effective governor of Portugal from 1662 to 1667 during the reign o ...

(1636–1720), Portuguese politician and prime minister. * Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, known as Mary Astor (1906–1987), American actress. * Luis Mendez de Vasconcellos (c.1542-1623), Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. *

Marco Vasconcelos Marco Paulo Pereira Vasconcelos (born 7 November 1971) is a male badminton player from Portugal. Vasconcelos played a big role in helping the Portuguese team to win bronze at the Helvetia Cup in 2005. In his home country he won 15 titles at the ...

(born 1971), Portuguese badminton player. *

Maria de Vasconcelos Maria de Vasconcelos (born 1970) is a Portuguese psychiatrist, singer and songwriter. As well as being a practising psychiatrist, she has worked as a fashion model, a television and radio presenter, and as a performer, mainly of didactic music fo ...

(born 1970), Portuguese psychiatrist, singer and songwriter *

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos or Mário Cesariny (August 9, 1923 – November 26, 2006) was a Portuguese surrealist poet and painter. He published several major works of poetry during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but hi ...

(1923–2006), Portuguese surrealist poet. * Marta Teresa Smith de Vasconcellos Suplicy (born 1945), Brazilian politician and psychologist. *

Martha Vasconcellos Martha Maria Cordeiro Vasconcellos (born June 18, 1948) is a Brazilian beauty queen who became her country's second Miss Universe winner, after Ieda Maria Vargas first achieved the feat in 1963. She also became the fifth Latin American to win ...

(born c.1948), Brazilian model and

Miss Universe 1968 Miss Universe 1968, the 17th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 13 July 1968 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil was crowned by Sylvia Hitchcock of the United States at the end of t ...

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Miguel de Vasconcelos Miguel de Vasconcelos (or Vasconcellos) e Brito (; – 1 December 1640) was the last Secretary of State (Prime Minister) of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Philippine Dynasty, in which both kingdoms of Portugal and Spain remained separated ...

(c.1590-1640), Prime Minister of Portugal in the 17th century. *

Naná Vasconcelos Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician wi ...

(1944-2016), Brazilian percussionist. *

Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos Pedro Martins, Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, was a Portuguese 12th century noble knight, son of Martim Moniz (legendary figure of the Siege of Lisbon in 1147) and Teresa Afonso. He was the Lord of the Tower of Vasconcelos, located in the pa ...

, 12th-century Portuguese nobleman, son of

Martim Moniz Martim Moniz (; died 1147) was a Portugal, Portuguese knight of Nobility, noble birth, and famous figure in the Siege of Lisbon in 1147. According to the legend, Martim Moniz was a knight participating in the Christians, Christian invasion force, ...

and the first to use the name Vasconcelos. *

Pedro Vasconcellos Pedro Vasconcelos (born October 25, 1974 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian director and television actor. Selected filmography * ''Império'' (2014) * ''A Teia'' (2014) * ''O Concurso'' (2013) * ''Amor Eterno Amor'' (2012) * ''Escrito nas Estrel ...

(born 1974), Brazilian television actor. * Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, known as Lio (born 1962), Belgian singer and actress

Other

* Alfredo Vasconcelos, city in Minas Gerais, Brazil. *

Diogo de Vasconcelos Diogo de Vasconcelos is a city in the microregion of Ouro Preto in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020, the estimated population was 3,790. See also * List of municipalities in Minas Gerais References

Municipalities in Mi ...

, city in Minas Gerais, Brazil. * Countess de Vasconcellos, fictional characters of the video game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. * Eduardo Vasconcelos Stadium, stadium in Oaxaca, Mexico. *

Ferraz de Vasconcelos Ferraz de Vasconcelos is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 196,500 (2020 est.) in an area of 29.56 km². History and the City Ferraz de Vasconcelos i ...

, suburban municipality in São Paulo, Brazil. * Estádio Dr. João Cláudio Vasconcelos Machado, multi-use stadium in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. *

José Vasconcelos Library Mexico City's Biblioteca Vasconcelos (''Vasconcelos Library''), also known as Biblioteca Vasconcelos or else ''la Biblioteca Vasconcelos'' or ''la Vasconcelos'' and labeled by the press as the ''Megabiblioteca'' ("megalibrary"), is a library ...

, in Mexico City, Mexico. * Senador Vasconcelos, neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

References

External links

Origin of the Vasconcelos surname in a Portuguese genealogical site

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