Menezes
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Menezes, sometimes Meneses, is a common Portuguese
Portuguese language
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 and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 surname
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. It has its origins in the marriage of the French
France
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 crusader
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 Bertrand de Reynel with Elvira Perez de Lara, natural daughter of Queen Urraca of Castile
Urraca of Castile
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, in the 12th Century. Their grandson, Telo Perez, became 1st Lord of Menezes, a town in Castile
Castile (historical region)
A former kingdom, Castile gradually merged with its neighbours to become the Crown of Castile and later the Kingdom of Spain when united with the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Navarre...

 (Spain
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). The family wealth and power grew remarkably along the 13th and 14th Centuries, through several marriages with the Portuguese and Castilian royal families.

As a surname, Menezes may refer to:

General

  • Aleixo de Menezes
    Aleixo de Menezes
    Aleixo de Menezes was Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga, Portugal, and Viceroy of Portugal during the Iberian Union.-Biographical sketch:Aleixo was born in 1559. It is known that he joined the Augustinians...

    , Portuguese Archbishop of Braga
  • Alex Meneses
    Alex Meneses
    Alexandra Estella DeAnna "Alex" Meneses is an American television and film actress and model.She was born in Chicago of Mexican American descent on her father's side and Ukrainian American descent on her mother's. Meneses studied acting at Chicago's The Second City Improvisational Theater during...

    , United States actress and model
  • Alfred Menezes
    Alfred Menezes
    Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography, most notably the Handbook of Applied Cryptography.Menezes is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Managing Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic...

    , Canadian cryptographer
  • Amy Louise Meneses aka Amylulita, Cofounder and resident DJ to popular Latin Alternative party Nacotheque in NYC
  • António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquess of Marialva, Portuguese general in the Portuguese Restoration War
  • Antonio Martínez de Meneses
    Antonio Martínez de Meneses
    Antonio Martínez de Meneses was a playwright of the Spanish Golden Age....

    , Spanish playwright
  • Antonio Meneses
    Antonio Meneses
    Antônio Meneses Neto is a Brazilian cellist.He won the VI Tchaikovsky competition. A member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Meneses combines an intense soloist concert career with chamber music performances. He is a teacher at Bern's Hochschule der Künste.- References :* *...

    , Brazilian cellist
  • António José de Sousa Manoel de Menezes Severim de Noronha
    António Severim de Noronha
    Dom António José de Sousa Manoel e Meneses Severim de Noronha , 7th Count of Vila Flor, 1st Marquis of Vila Flor and 1st Duke of Terceira, was a Portuguese military officer, statesman and a leader of the Constitutionalist side in the Liberal Wars, as well as a Prime Minister of Portugal.He was born...

    , Portuguese soldier and statesman
  • Christianne Meneses Jacobs
    Christianne Meneses Jacobs
    Christianne Meneses Jacobs is a Nicaraguan American writer, editor, and teacher. She is also publisher of Iguana, the United States' only Spanish-language magazine for children.-Nicaragua :...

    , United States writer, editor, and teacher
  • Cynara Menezes, Brasil, journalist
  • Fradique de Menezes
    Fradique de Menezes
    Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes was the President of São Tomé and Príncipe from 2003 to 2011.-Early life:Menezes was born on the then Portuguese colony of São Tomé in 1942, the son of a Portuguese man and a local woman. He attended high school in Portugal...

    , President of São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Francisco de Meneses Brito
    Francisco de Meneses Brito
    Francisco de Meneses Brito was Royal Governor of Chile between 1664 and 1667.-Sources:...

    , Spanish Governor of Chile
  • Francisco Meneses Osorio
    Francisco Meneses Osorio
    Francisco Meneses Osorio was a Spanish painter.Osorio was born in Seville, and is thought to have died there. Very little is known of his life. He was a pupil and imitator of Murillo, and it has been suggested that some of the works attributed to the latter were painted by Osorio...

    , Spanish painter
  • Glória Menezes
    Glória Menezes
    Nicelde Soares Magalhães, known as Glória Menezes, is a Brazilian actress.- Filmography :* A Favorita - Irene*A estranha Clementine - Clementine...

    , Brazilian actress
  • Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses
    Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses
    Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses was a Spanish novelist.-Biography:He was born at Madrid about 1585. Nothing positive is known of him before the publication of his celebrated romance, the Poema trágico del español Gerardo, y desengaño del amor lascivo...

    , Spanish novelist
  • Guillermo Meneses
    Guillermo Meneses
    Guillermo Meneses , Venezuelan writer, playwright, journalist, author of La Balandra 'Isabel' llegó esta tarde and Campeones, among other works....

    , Venezuelan writer
  • Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto
    Heloísa Pinheiro
    Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto , better known as Helô Pinheiro , is a Brazilian model and businesswoman...

    , Brazilian real-life "Girl from Ipanema"
  • Holdemar Menezes
    Holdemar Menezes
    Holdemar Menezes was a Brazilian writer.He was born in Aracati, Ceará, Brazil, as the 3rd child of Ezequiel Silva de Menezes and Otília Oliveira de Menezes...

    , Brazilian writer
  • Jean Charles de Menezes
    Jean Charles de Menezes
    Jean Charles de Menezes was a Brazilian man shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by the London Metropolitan police, after he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts...

    , Brazilian killed by the London Metropolitan Police
  • Joao Costa Menezes
    Joao Costa Menezes
    Joao Costa Menezes is a London-based Portuguese film actor, film producer and film director.After a degree in Law by the University of Coimbra and three years working as a lawyer in Portugal, Joao decided to move to London in 1998, to follow an acting career. He got his first acting job in 1999, in...

    , Portuguese actor and filmmaker
  • Joao Mauro dos Santos Menezes, Brazilian Dental Surgeon MDS
  • Jorge de Menezes
    Jorge de Menezes
    Jorge de Menezes was a Portuguese explorer who in 1526-27 landed on Waigeo Island , taking shelter in the town of Wasai whilst he awaited the passing of the monsoon season...

    , Portuguese explorer
  • Jorge E. Meneses
    Jorge E. Meneses
    Jorge E. Meneses is a member of the City Council and current mayor of Hackensack, New Jersey.Meneses, a teacher in Colombia, emigrated to the United States in 1979. His first job in New Jersey was washing cars; he later took classes at New York University and worked in a bank and as a computer...

    , United States mayor
  • Joseph B. Menezes, Swedish inventor
  • Juan Francisco Meneses
    Juan Francisco Meneses
    Juan Francisco Meneses Echanes was a Chilean priest and political figure.-Early life:Meneses was born in Santiago, the son of José Ignacio Meneses and of Micaela Echanes...

    , Chilean priest and political figure
  • Leonor Telles de Menezes
    Leonor Telles de Menezes
    Leonor Telles de Menezes was a queen consort of Portugal and regent during the years 1383–1385. She was the wife of a Portuguese nobleman from whom she was forcibly divorced by King Ferdinand I, who afterward married her...

    , Queen Consort of Portugal
  • Luís Roberto S. Menezes, Brazilian, Marketing expert
  • Luís Filipe Menezes
    Luís Filipe Menezes
    Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes is a Portuguese politician.-Background:He is a son of José António Lopes , an Industrialist , and wife Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes (born Ovar, 2 November 1953) is a Portuguese politician.-Background:He is a son of José António Lopes (Porto, Alvar, 10 September 1925...

    , Portuguese politician
  • Mai Meneses
    Mai Meneses
    María Isabel González-Meneses García-Valdecasas commonly known as Mai Meneses , is a Spanish singer-songwriter.Mai Meneses, the youngest of six children, holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Universidad San Pablo CEU...

    , Spanish singer-songwriter
  • Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real
    Manuel de Menezes, Duke of Vila Real
    D. Manuel of Menezes was the second son of Pedro de Menezes 5th Marquis of Vila Real and of his wife, Beatrice of Lara ....

    , Portuguese Governor of Ceuta
  • Margareth Menezes
    Margareth Menezes
    Margareth Menezes is a Brazilian singer from Salvador, Bahia.Her style is considered axé but her music also steers into samba and MPB territory, at times drawing on African rhythms and reggae....

    , Brazilian singer
  • Maria Romero Meneses
    Maria Romero Meneses
    Blessed María Romero Meneses, was a Salesian Sisters, beatified by Pope John Paul II on the 14 April 2002.-Early life:...

    , Nicaraguan nun
  • Omar Fayad Meneses, Mexican politician
  • Tobias Barreto de Meneses
    Tobias Barreto de Meneses
    Tobias Barreto de Meneses was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and critic, famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry...

    , Brazilian critic and poet
  • Tobias Barreto de Meneses
    Tobias Barreto de Meneses
    Tobias Barreto de Meneses was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, jurist and critic, famous for creating the "Condorism" and revolutionizing Brazilian Romanticism and poetry...

    , Brazilian jurist, critic and poet
  • Victor Menezes
    Victor Menezes
    Victor J. Menezes is an engineer and banker, who acts as a top official in international financial organizations.-Early life:...

    , United States engineer and banker

Sports

  • Ademir Marques de Menezes
    Ademir Marques de Menezes
    Ademir Marques de Menezes , best known as Ademir , was a Brazilian footballer, regarded as one of the best centre forwards in the history of the Brazil national team. His prominent jawbone earned him the nickname Queixada, which means "Jaw".He is best known for his exploits in the World Cup 1950...

    , Brazilian footballer
  • Bruno Marques Menezes
    Bruno Marques Menezes
    Bruno Marques Menezes is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Cuiabá Esporte Clube. He formerly played with Major League Soccer side Chicago Fire. He is primarily utilized on the right side....

    , Brazilian footballer
  • Fernando Meneses
    Fernando Meneses
    Fernando Andrés Meneses Cornejo is a Chilean midfielder, who plays for Universidad Católica.-Club carrer:...

    , Chilean footballer
  • Henry Menezes
    Henry Menezes
    Henry Menezes is now the CEO Chief Executive Officer at the Western India Football Association which is the Governing body for Maharashtra State and is affiliated to the All India Football Federation. an Indian football manager...

    , Indian football manager
  • José Clayton Menezes Ribeiro, Brazilian-Tunisian footballer
  • Jude Menezes
    Jude Menezes
    Jude Menezes is a former field hockey goalkeeper from India who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1992 against South Korea. Menezes represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where India finished in seventh place...

    , Indian field hockey goalkeeper
  • Luís Vinícius de Menezes, Brazilian footballer
  • Luiz Antonio "Mano" Venker Menezes, Brazilian football manager
  • Paulo Menezes
    Paulo Menezes
    Paulo Menezes is a footballer from Brazil who plays as right back for Grasshopper Club Zürich in the Swiss Super League.-External links:*...

    , Brazilian footballer
  • Rildo da Costa Menezes
    Rildo da Costa Menezes
    Rildo da Costa Menezes, also known as Rildo was a former association footballer, one of the all-time best defender lateral for Santos F.C. with Dalmo and Geraldino.-Professional:...

    , Brazilian footballer
  • Tony Menezes
    Tony Menezes
    Anthony Santos Menezes is a naturalized Canadian professional soccer player.-Club career:A 6'1, 180 lb defender, Menezes immigrated to Brazil with his family at age 10. He played for Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro until 2001, then signed with Chinese team Nanjing Yoyo...

    , Canadian footballer
  • Valeska Menezes
    Valeska Menezes
    Valeska dos Santos Menezes is a female volleyball player from Brazil, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...

    , Brazilian volleyball player
  • Vergel Meneses
    Vergel Meneses
    Vergel Meneses - nicknamed "The Aerial Voyager" - is a retired Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Talk 'N Text Phone Pals in the Philippine Basketball Association. He was also a former PBA Most Valuable Player and a many-time member of the Philippine National team...

    , Filipino basketball player

See also

  • Meneses de Campos
    Meneses de Campos
    Meneses de Campos is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 142 inhabitants....

    , municipality in Spain
  • MQV
    MQV
    MQV is an authenticated protocol for key agreement based on the Diffie–Hellman scheme. Like other authenticated Diffie-Hellman schemes, MQV provides protection against an active attacker...

    (Menezes-Qu-Vanstone), cryptographic protocol
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