Pinto

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Pinto means "painted" or something similar in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and also serves as a surname for people with links to those ethnicities. It can be also found among the Sephardi Jews descendants of the Jews expelled from Portugal that settled in Arab countries and the Netherlands. In England, the spelling was sometimes changed to Pinter.

In English, the word most commonly refers to either:

The Pinto horse, famous because it looks "painted", or
The Ford Pinto, named after the horse.

It may also be referring to:

Biology and engineering

Pinto bean, a type of mottled bean
Pinto horse, a horse coat color that consists of large patches of white and another color
Ford Pinto, a subcompact car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market
Temco TT Pinto, a jet-powered, tandem two-place primary trainer aircraft used by the United States Navy

Places

Pinto, Chile
Pinto, Magdalena, Colombia
Cittá Pinto or Qormi, Malta
Pinto, Madrid, Spain
Pinto, Maryland, United States
Pinto, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

People

Surname

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto) (1846–1900), Portuguese explorer of southern Africa and a colonial administrator
Aníbal Pinto Garmendia (1825–1884), president of Chile
Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz (1919–1996), Chilean economist
António Pinto (athlete), Portuguese long-distance runner
António Pinto Soares (1780–1865), Costa Rican military general and head of state
Carlos Mota Pinto, Portuguese politician
Chaim Pinto (1748–1845), rabbi in Essaouira, Morocco
Dan Pinto, American composer, keyboardist and drummer-percussionist
Diana Pinto, Miss India America 2009
Diana Pinto (historian) (born 1949), an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris
Fernão Mendes Pinto (c.1509 – 1583), Portuguese traveler and writer
Filipe Pinto, Portuguese singer and winner of 2009/2010 Ídolos
Francisco Antonio Pinto (1785–1858), Chilean politician, president of Chile (1827–1829)
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician and media entrepreneur
Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
George Pinto, English composer and keyboard virtuoso
Isaac de Pinto Portuguese moralist
Jane Engelhard (born Marie Annette Reiss) (1917–2004), American philanthropist
João Domingos Pinto (born 1961), former Portuguese football player, and current assistant coach of the FC Porto team
João Franco (1855–1929), Portuguese politician and prime minister in the last years of the Portuguese monarchy
João Vieira Pinto (born 1971), Portuguese footballer (soccer)
Joaquim Pinto (born 1957), Portuguese film director
Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa (born 1937), president of Portuguese sports club F.C. Porto
Jorge Pinto Rodríguez (born 1944), Chilean historian
José Antonio Pinto Castro (1817–1887), Costa Rican Vice President, politician, and judge
José Concepción Pinto Castro (1829–1898), Costa Rican judge and politician
José de Magalhães Pinto (1909–1996), Brazilian politician and banker
José Manuel Pinto (born 1975), Spanish footballer, former goalkeeper of FC Barcelona
José María Orellana Pinto (1872–1926), President of Guatemala (1921–1926)
José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, Portuguese politician, former prime-minister of Portugal
Josiah ben Joseph Pinto (1565–1648), Syrian rabbi
Keivi Pinto, Venezuelan judoka
Manuel Guillermo Pinto, Argentinian general
Manuel Pinto da Costa, São Tomé and Príncipe politician
Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1681–1773), Grandmaster of the Order of Saint John and sovereign over Malta
Maria Pinto (fashion designer), American fashion designer
Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician
Moragodage Christopher Walter Pinto, Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat
Pio Gama Pinto, Kenyan politician
Renyel Pinto (born 1982), baseball pitcher
Paulo Xisto Pinto, Jr., real name of Paulo Jr., Brazilian bassist of the heavy metal band Sepultura
Ricardo Pinto (born 1961), a UK-based fantasy writer
Ricardo Sá Pinto (born 1972), former Portuguese international footballer and present coach.
Ricardo Pinto (footballer), (born 1965), Brazilian footballer (soccer)
Sam Pinto (born 1989), Filipina model and actress
Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990), Portuguese writer of fiction and plays
Sérgio Sousa Pinto (born 1972), Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament
Silvia Corzo (born 1973), Colombian lawyer, journalist and newscaster
Thomas Pinto (c.1710–1773), British violinist
Vivian de Sola Pinto (1895–1969), British poet, literary critic and historian
Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (born 1973), Israeli Jewish spiritual leader and Kabbalist

First name

Pinto Colvig (1892–1967), U.S. vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer, best known as the voice of Disney's Goofy and the original Bozo the Clown

Films

Pinto (film), a 1920 American comedy western film directed by Victor Schertzinger