Cristóvão is the Portuguese version of the name

Christopher Christopher is the English language, English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek language, Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or ''Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Jesus ...

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Cristóvão de Aguiar Luís Cristóvão Dias de Aguiar (8 September 1940 – 5 October 2021), commonly known as Cristóvão de Aguiar, was a Portuguese writer. His most significant work is the novel trilogy A trilogy is a set of three distinct works that are conn ...

(born 1940), Portuguese writer * Cristóvão Borges (born 1959), Brazilian former footballer *

Cristóvão Colombo Christopher Columbus (; between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Mon ...

(Christopher Columbus) (1451–1506), Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist * Cristóvão da Costa, 16th-century Portuguese civil lawyer * Cristóvão da Costa (botanist) (1525–1594), Portuguese doctor and natural historian * Cristóvão Falcão (1512–1557), Portuguese poet * Cristóvão Ferreira (1580–1650), Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Japan who became an apostate just to save his life and his fellow priests. He later recante

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Cristóvão de Figueiredo Cristóvão de Figueiredo (died ) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter. Like many other important painters of the time, Cristóvão de Figueiredo was a pupil of Master Jorge Afonso, in Lisbon, in the early 16th century. He later worked together w ...

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Cristóvão da Gama Cristóvão da Gama ( 1516 – 29 August 1542), anglicised as Christopher da Gama, was a Portugal, Portuguese military commander who led a Portuguese army of 400 musketeers to assist Ethiopia that faced Islamic Jihad from the Adal Sultanate led ...

(1516–1542), Portuguese military commander who led a crusade in Ethiopia and Somalia *

Cristóvão Jacques Cristóvão Jaques (Christopher Jaques), also known as Cristóvão Valjaques (c. 1480 in Algarve, Kingdom of Portugal – after 1530), was a Portuguese noble of Aragonese descent. He was the illegitimate son of Pero Jaques, and was legitimized ...

(c. 1480 – after 1530), Portuguese noble of Aragonese descent * Cristóvão Jacques (astronomer), minor planet discoverer *

Cristóvão Lopes Cristóvão Lopes () was a Portuguese painter. Cristóvão Lopes was the son and disciple of royal painter Gregório Lopes, who died in 1550. Cristóvão succeeded his father as the royal painter of King John III in 1551. Since no works are kno ...

(1516–1594), Portuguese painter * Cristóvão Soares de Melo (died 1584), Portuguese colonial administrator *

Cristóvão de Mendonça Cristóvão de Mendonça ( Mourão, 1475 – Ormus, 1532) was a Portuguese noble and explorer who was active in South East Asia in the 16th century. Mendonça in João de Barros's Décadas da Ásia Mendonça is known from a small number of Por ...

(1475–1532), Portuguese noble and explorer in South East Asia *

Cristóvão de Morais Cristóvão de Morais was a 16th-century Portugal, Portuguese court painter for the kings John III of Portugal and Sebastian of Portugal, Sebastian I of Portugal. He painted numerous portraits for the kings, queens, and princes of Portugal. Lif ...

, Portuguese court painter for the kings John III and Sebastian I of Portugal * Cristóvão Ramos (born 1983), Portuguese footballer *

Cristóvão de Moura, 1st Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo D. Cristóvão de Moura e Távora (1538 in Lisbon – 1613 in Madrid) was a Portuguese nobleman who led the Spanish party during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580. Biography He was the son of D. Luís de Moura, Chief Equerry (''estrib ...

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Luís Cristóvão dos Santos Luíz Cristóvão dos Santos was born in Pesqueira, Brazil on 25 December 1916. He was a sociologist, anthropologist, folklorist, columnist, writer, advocate, and journalist. He was also known by the nicknames ''Ziul'' and ''Pajeú''. Luíz C ...

(born 1916), Brazilian journalist and writer *

Cristóvão Swingue Cristóvão João Swingue (born 11 November 1976 in Luanda) is an Angolan former basketball player. Swingue, a 6' 10" point guard, played for Angola at the 1999 AfroBasket. On the club level, he played for Petro Atlético and Primeiro de Agosto ...

(born 1976), former Angolan basketball player *

Cristóvão de Távora Cristóvão de Távora was a Portuguese colonial administrator. He was granted the captaincy of the Fortress of Sofala in Portuguese Mozambique Portuguese Mozambique () or Portuguese East Africa () were the common terms by which Mozambique was ...

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Cristóvão Tezza Cristóvão Tezza (born 21 August 1952) is a Brazilian novelist and university professor. Biography Cristóvão Tezza was born in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil in 1952, but moved to Curitiba in Paraná by the time he was ten. This city would ...

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Alexandre Cristóvão Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander * Alexandra (disambiguation) * Xano (disambiguation) Xano is the name of: * Xano, a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name " Alexandre (di ...

(born 1993), Angolan footballer *

Hélder Cristóvão Hélder is a given name in Portuguese. The unrelated German-Jewish surname "Helder" is also given the accent in Portuguese, such as the Portuguese poet Herberto Hélder (1930-). The name is sometimes confused with Heitor. People named Hélder incl ...

(born 1971), Portuguese footballer * Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Cristóvão (born 1965), Portuguese footballer *

Pedro Cristóvão Pedro Cristóvão (born 4 June 1965) is a Portuguese judoka. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barce ...

(born 1965), Portuguese judoka