Távora is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Fernando Távora
Fernando Luís Cardoso de Meneses de Tavares e Távora, ComSE, simply known as Fernando Távora (Porto, August 25, 1923 - Matosinhos, September 3, 2005), was a renowned Portuguese architect and professor.
Biography
The sixth of seven children ...
(1920-2005), Portuguese architect
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Francisco de Távora
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Meaning of the name Francisco
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comm ...
(1646–1710), Portuguese nobleman
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Franklin Távora
João Franklin da Silveira Távora (January 13, 1842 – August 18, 1888) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, politician, lawyer and dramatist, famous for his Regionalist romance '' O Cabeleira'', set in 18th-century Pernambuco. He wrote under t ...
(1842-1888), Brazilian novelist
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Luis Bernardo de Tavora
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...
(1723-1759), Portuguese nobleman
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Leonor Tomásia de Távora, 3rd Marquise of Távora
Leonor or Léonor is the Spanish form of the given name Eleanor.
People bearing the name include:
* Leonor Acevedo Suárez (1876–1975), Argentine translator and mother of Jorge Luis Borges
* Leonor Allende (1883–1931), Argentine writer and j ...
(1700-1759), Portuguese noblewoman
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Sahil Tavora
Dom Sahil Krishe de Noronha Tavora (born 19 October 1995) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Indian Super League club Goa.
Career Earlier career
Born in Goa, Tavora was a part of both the Brasil Futebol ...
(born 1995), Indian footballer
Portuguese-language surnames
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