Matos
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Matos is a common Portuguese family name
Matos can also refer to:
[edit] Things
- Matot or matos or (Hebrew מטות), the 42nd weekly parshah] in the cycle of Torah reading
- Matorral or mato, the scrublands, or heaths, of Portugal
[edit] Places
- Matos Costa, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina
- Salir de Matos, a parish in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
[edit] People
(in chronological order)
- Francisco de Matos (fl. 1575-1600), Portuguese tile maker.
- Gregório de Matos e Guerra (1636-1695), a Brazilian poet
- Francisco Vieira de Matos (= Vieira Lusitano) (1699-1783), royal painter to King John V of Portugal
- Manuel Vieira de Matos (1861–1932), archbishop of Braga, Portugal
- José Norton de Matos (1867-1955), a general and a Portuguese politician
- Antun Gustav Matos (1873-1914) a Croatian poet and writer
- Luis Palés Matos (1898-1959), a poet from Puerto Rico
- Gustavo Palés Matos (1907- ) a poet laureate of Puerto Rico
- Huber Matos (born 1918), a cuban dissident
- Roy Chaderton Matos (1942- ), a Venezuelan diplomat
- André Matos (1972- ), a Heavy Metal rock musician
- Luis Matos (1978- ), a baseball player
- Dina Matos McGreevey (1966- ), former First Lady of New Jersey