Peres

Peres is a Portuguese and Galician surname. Originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Pedro or Son of Pero (English: Peter), it has another version: Pires. Its Spanish equivalent is Pérez.

People with the surname Peres

• Vimara Peres, Galician medieval count and first Count of Portucale.
• Adans Lopez Peres, Portuguese second husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
• Asher Peres, Israeli physicist
• Cristiana Peres, Brazilian actress
• Fernão Peres de Trava, Galician medieval nobleman
• Javier Peres, American art dealer
• Jean-Baptiste Pérès, French physicist
• Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer
• Paio Peres Correia, Portuguese medieval nobleman
• Peres De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister and current President of Israel
• Valdir Peres, Brazilian footballer
• Vímara Peres, founder of the First County of Portugal in the 9th century
• Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only native governor of Portuguese India

See also

• Des Peres (disambiguation)
• Pérez (disambiguation)
• Pires (disambiguation)
• Peres-Horodecki criterion, a necessary condition in Quantum information theory
• Peres-Hussein London Agreement, between King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres
• River des Peres, an urban river in St. Louis, United States