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Lourenço (name)
Lourenço is a Portuguese surname and masculine given name of Latin origin. It is used in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries. The name was derived from the Roman surname Laurentius, which meant "from Laurentum". Laurentum was an ancient Roman city of Latium situated between Ostia and Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian peninsula southwest of Rome. Notable people named Lourenço Given name * Lourenço Andrade (born 1979), Brazilian footballer * Lourenço da Silva de Mendouça (died 1698), Mbundu nobleman and abolitionist * Lourenço da Veiga (born 1979), Portuguese auto racing driver * Lourenço de Almeida (c. 1480–1508), Portuguese explorer and military commander * Lourenço Filho (1897–1970), Brazilian educator and education theorist * Lourenço José Boaventura de Almada, 13th Count of Avranches (1758–1815), Portuguese politician * Lourenço Marques (explorer), Portuguese trader and colonizer * Lourenço Martins (born 1997), Portuguese volleyball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male
Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and Asexual reproduction, asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineage (evolution), lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamy, isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço Da Silva De Mendouça
Lourenço da Silva Mendouça was a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Ndongo in what is now Angola. An abolitionist, he was probably the first person to successfully convince authorities to end slavery in Europe. A Catholic, his dealings were mostly with Church authorities and those with whom they were associated. His historical achievement had been largely forgotten and obfuscated until work by the historian Richard Gray in the 1980s and 1990s (who initially only had three or so sources to rely on), and the scholar José Lingna Nafafé, who discovered many new sources and details of the history of his life in the 2010s—including confirmation that he was an African prince. Biography Lourenço da Silva Mendouça was a member of the Mbundu people from the city of Pedras. His date of birth is unknown, but he may have been 22 or 23 years old when he left Angola in 1671. His grandfather, known as either King Hari or Philipe I, was the second ruler of the Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Lourenço
Bruno Miguel Ponces Lourenço (born 2 February 1998) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for TFF First League club Amedspor. Club career Aves Lourenço was born in Lisbon. He played youth football with S.L. Benfica, from ages 10 to 19. In the summer of 2017, Lourenço signed with Primeira Liga club C.D. Aves, being immediately loaned to lowly C.D.C. Montalegre. After his return to the former he made his league debut on 18 May 2019, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–1 away loss against C.D. Feirense. Lourenço was mainly associated to the under-23 team during his spell at the Estádio do CD Aves. Estoril On 27 July 2020, Lourenço joined G.D. Estoril Praia of the Liga Portugal 2 on a three-year contract. He scored three goals in 23 matches in his first season, in a return to the top division as champions. Lourenço scored his first goal in the Portuguese top tier on 23 August 2021, equalising an eventual 3– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Dias Lourenço
Ana Afonso Dias Lourenço, GCIH (born 13 April 1957) is an Angolan economist, politician and former government minister. She has served as the First Lady of Angola since September 2017 as the wife of President João Lourenço. Early and personal life Lourenco was born on 13 April 1957 in Luanda in Angola. She had her primary education in Primary School No. 83 in Luanda from 1962 to 1966. She attended Preparatory School Marta Rescue Salazar, Luanda from 1966 to 1968. She attended General Course of High Schools and High School Dona Guiomar of Lancaster Luanda from 1968 to 1974. She completed her Degree in Economics (Planning) in the University of Angola in Luanda from 1979 to 1983. She completed her course on Analysis Course and Project Evaluation by African Development Bank Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire in 1984 and a course on Macroeconomic Policy Management Institute World Bank Economic development (IDE), in Portugal during 1992. Lourenco completed her graduation from the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleixo Lourenco
Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, also known as Reginaldo, is an Indian politician who is a four term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly for Curtorim. He has been Chairman of the Goa Industrial Development Corporation since 2022. In 2022, he lent his support as an Independent politician, Independent to the Bharatiya Janata Party to form the Government in Goa. Committees in the Goa Legislative Assembly He was member of the following committees in the house till 2021 * Seventh Legislative Assembly 2017 * Sixth Legislative Assembly 2012 * Member, Estimates Committee * Member, Committee On Petitions * Member, Select Committee on The Goa Succession, Special Notaries and Inventory * Fifth Legislative Assembly 2007-2012 * Member, Committee On Delegated Legislation * Member, Estimates Committee * Member, Committee On Public Undertakings * Member, Select Committee On The Goa Agricultural Tenancy (Amendment) * Member, Select Committee On The Goa Land Use (Regulation, Amendment) * Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agostinho Lourenço
Agostinho Lourenço da Conceição Pereira (5 September 1886 – 2 August 1964) was a Portuguese soldier, best known for founding and running the Portuguese political police under the '' Estado Novo''. Lourenço fought in World War I for the British. After the war, he acted briefly as governor of Leiria. He was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for services to the future Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, who was visiting Lisbon in 1931. In 1933, in the early days of the Salazar regime, Lourenço founded the PVDE, Portugal's security and immigration police. According to Professor Douglas Wheeler, "an analysis of Lourenco's career suggests strongly that British Intelligence Services' influence had an impact on the structure and activity of PVDE". Lourenço had earned a reputation with British observers, recorded in a confidential print generated at the British embassy, which suggested a "pro-British" bias on his part. He always kept a good relationship with the MI6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço Soares De Valadares
Lourenço is a town and district in the Brazilian municipality of Calçoene, in the interior of the state of Amapá. The main economic activities of the town is gold mining. It is one of the oldest mines in Brazil. History Gold mining in Lourenço began in the 19th century. In 1894, at the height of the gold rush, there were 6,000 to 10,000 gold miners in the area around the Calçoene River. In 1984, Mineração Novo Astro (MNA) and Mineração Yukio Yoshidome (MYYSA) were awarded concessions for mining on an industrial scale. This resulted in conflicts with the ''garimpeiros'' (illegal gold prospectors). In 1992, the Mining Cooperative of Garimpeiros of Lourenço (COOGAL) was founded, and the concessions were transferred to COOGAL in 1994. As of 2014, COOGAL operates five mining concessions and employs 1,100 ''garimpeiros''. The official census figures for the district are an underestimation, and the actual population is estimated at 4,500 people. Lourenço is located in an are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço Ortigão
Lourenço Osório de Aragão Ortigão Pinto, known as Lourenço Ortigão (born 9 August 1989) is a Portuguese actor. Filmography TV Cinema References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ortigão, Lourenço 1989 births 21st-century Portuguese male actors Portuguese male film actors Living people Male actors from Lisbon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço Mutarelli
Lourenço Mutarelli (born April 18, 1964) is a Brazilian comic book artist, writer and actor who became well regarded in the Brazilian underground comics scene in the late 1980s and 1990s. In addition to comic books, Mutarelli has also created plays, books, and all the illustration and animated sequences of the 2004 motion picture '' Nina'', which was based on the novel ''Crime and Punishment'' by Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influenti .... '' Drained'', released in 2006, is a movie adaptation of Mutarelli's first literary work, ''O Cheiro do Ralo''; and he plays a minor role in the film. He also made a guest appearance in the 2014 film '' Quando Eu Era Vivo'', based on his novel ''A Arte de Produzir Efeito Sem Causa''. He also starred in '' The Second Mother'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço Martins .
Lourenço Martins (born ) is a Portuguese male volleyball player. He is part of the Portugal men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, References External links profile at ''FIVB.org'' 1997 births Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço Marques (explorer)
Lourenço Marques was a 16th-century Portuguese trader and coloniser. Biography Lourenço Marques explored the area that is now Maputo Bay in 1544 and settled permanently in present-day Mozambique, where he spent most of his life with his indigenous wife and their children. By order of King John III, Maputo Bay was named Baía de Lourenço Marques in his honour, but this name was never in common use among the foreign community. Other uses Maputo, the capital city of Portuguese Mozambique since 1898, was founded as Lourenço Marques before this Overseas Province of Portugal, the so-called Portuguese East Africa where was the seat of the governor-general Governor-general (plural governors-general), or governor general (plural governors general), is the title of an official, most prominently associated with the British Empire. In the context of the governors-general and former British colonies, ..., became independent from the colonial power in 1975: the city got its pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourenço José Boaventura De Almada, 13th Count Of Avranches
Lourenço José Boaventura de Almada (1758–1815), 13th Count of Avranches and 1st Count of Almada (created by Queen Maria I of Portugal), by regal charter on 29 April 1793 (and confirmed by letter on 4 May 1793) to him and his descendants. Biography He was born in Lisbon, on 14 July 1758 (the feast day of São Boaventura), in the Senhorio dos Lagares d’El-Rei, which at the time belong to the parish of Anjos, and baptized on 10 August (feast day of São Lourenço). He was the son of Antão de Almada (14th master of Lagares d´El-Rei) and his cousin D. Violante Josefa de Almada Henriques (11th Countess of Avranches and 10 master of Pombalinho), daughter of D. Lourenço de Almada (9th master of Pombalinho). Lourenço was educated in Terceira, during his father's governorship of the Captaincy of the Azores.Carlos Melo Bento (2008), p.76 He was the Grand Master of Ceremonies to the Royal House, deputy of the Estates-General (), and president of the ''Royal Treasury's Board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
