Tavares
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Tavares may refer to several things:
[edit] Surname
Tavares is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil and other places – especially very common in the Cape Verde islands[citation needed]. It was originally a toponym. It is a name associated with a great number of different people:
- Alda Bandeira (Alda Bandeira Tavares Vaz da Conceição), politician of São Tomé and Principe
- Antero Tavares de Carvalho, Portuguese governor of Angola
- Aurélio de Lyra Tavares, Brazilian general
- Charmaine Tavares, current mayor of Maui, Hawaii
- Clodoaldo Tavares de Santana, Brazilian footballer
- Diogo Tavares, a Portuguese footballer
- Diogo Tavares, a late 18th-century Portuguese (Algarve) master mason and builder
- Eugénio Tavares, Cape Verdean writer
- Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
- Gonçalo M. Tavares, Portuguese-Angolan fiction writer
- Hannibal Tavares, mayor of Maui, Hawaii, in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- Horace Silver (Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver), American musician and composer
- Jimmy Tavares, French figure skater and actor
- John Tavares (ice hockey), junior ice hockey player
- John Tavares (lacrosse player), professional lacrosse player
- Juan Tavares, Mexican Tex-Mex singer
- Manuel José Tavares Fernandes, Portuguese footballer and manager
- Manuel Tavares Espaillat, politician from the Dominican Republic
- Miguel Sousa Tavares, best-selling Portuguese novelist
- Rui Tavares, Portuguese historian and writer
- Tatiana Tavares, Belgian model
- Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Portuguese writer and journalist
[edit] Places
- Brazil
- Tavares, Paraíba
- Tavares, Rio Grande do Sul
- Rodovia Raposo Tavares, the longest highway in São Paulo
- Jamaica
- Tavares Gardens, Kingston
- Portugal
- Travanca de Tavares, Mangualde
- Chãs de Tavares, Mangualde
- Várzea de Tavares, Mangualde
- United States
[edit] Other
- Tavares (band), an American soul music group
- Tavares, a soil type
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