Diogo
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Diogo is a Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 male name. Originally, this name comes from James
James (name)
The name James is derived from the same Hebrew name as Jacob, meaning "Supplanter" ....

which in turn is derived from the Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

 Yaʻăqōbh
Jacob (name)
Jacob is a common male first name and a less well-known surname. Since 1999 and through 2010, Jacob has been the most popular baby name for newborn boys in United States. It is a cognate of James....

 (Jacob), via the name of Saint James the Great
Saint James the Great
James, son of Zebedee was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of John the Apostle...

, to Santo Iago (or Sant'Iago), re-analysed as Santiago
Santiago (name)
Santiago, is a Spanish name that derives from the Hebrew name Jacob via "Sant Iago," "Sant Yago," "Santo Iago," or "Santo Yago," first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of John the Apostle...

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Other possible origin is the Latin form: Didacus, or the Greek form: Didaskein.

People

  • Diogo of Portugal
    Diogo of Portugal
    Diogo of Portugal was a Portuguese infante, son of John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, infante of Portugal, and of his wife Isabella of Braganza...

    , infante and Constable of Portugal
    Constable of Portugal
    Constable of Portugal or Constable of the Kingdom was a title created by the King of Portugal Ferdinand I in 1382, to substitute the title Alferes Mór do Reino. The constable was the second most powerful person in the kingdom, after the King of Portugal...

  • Diogo I Nkumbi a Mpudi
    Diogo I Nkumbi a Mpudi
    Diogo I Nkumbi a Mpudi was manikongo in 1545–1561. King Diogo was the grandson of king Afonso I of Kongo and won the throne after overthrowing his uncle Pedro Nkanga a Mvemba and forcing him to take refuge in a church in São Salvador. Diogo's early struggles are documented in a legal inquest he...

    , king of Kongo
  • Diogo Abreu
    Diogo Abreu
    Prof. Diogo José Brochado de Abreu is a Portuguese geographer.After his basic and secondary education at Colégio Militar, he graduated in geography in 1978 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he also took a Doctorate in Geography in 1989.He is known for his research,...

     (born 1947), Portuguese geographer
  • Diogo Cão
    Diogo Cão
    Diogo Cão was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most remarkable navigators of the Age of Discovery, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa to Namibia in the 1480s.-Early life and family:...

    , Portuguese Navigator who discovered the Congo river
    Congo River
    The Congo River is a river in Africa, and is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of . It is the second largest river in the world by volume of water discharged, though it has only one-fifth the volume of the world's largest river, the Amazon...

     and consequently Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

    .
  • Diogo Infante
    Diogo Infante
    Diogo Nuno Infante de Lacerda, born 28 May 1967, in Lisbon, is a Portuguese theatre, cinema and television actor and television presenter. He is the natural son of Maria Infante de Lacerda by an Englishman named Jonathan and maternal grandson of Renée Lance Infante de Lacerda , daughter of the 5th...

    , Portuguese actor
  • Diogo Matos
    Diogo Matos
    Diogo Maria de Sousa Franco de Matos is a retired Portuguese footballer.-Biography:A youth product of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Diogo spent most of his career with Alverca...

    , (born 1975), former Portuguese footballer
  • Diogo Paranaiba (born 1980), Brazilian footballer currently working at Wells Fargo
  • Diogo Silvestre Bittencourt
    Diogo Silvestre Bittencourt
    Diogo Silvestre Bittencourt or simply Diogo , is a Brazilian left back. -External links: -References:...

     (born 1989), Brazilian footballer currently playing for São Paulo
    São Paulo Futebol Clube
    São Paulo Futebol Clube , commonly known as São Paulo, is a professional football club based in São Paulo, Brazil. They play in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league, and are one of the only five clubs to...

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