Nando (name)
Encyclopedia
Nando is a name for males - often in Switzerland
(Graubünden
) and Italy
.
Other forms are Ferdinand
(male; Germanic) and Nándor (male; Hungarian) and Nanna/Nanda/Nande (female).
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
(Graubünden
Graubünden
Graubünden or Grisons is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. The canton shares borders with the cantons of Ticino, Uri, Glarus and St. Gallen and international borders with Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein...
) and Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
Other forms are Ferdinand
Ferdinand
Ferdinand is a Germanic male given name composed of the words for "prepared"/"protection"/"safety"/"peace" and "journey"/"boldness"/"recklessness"...
(male; Germanic) and Nándor (male; Hungarian) and Nanna/Nanda/Nande (female).
People named Nando
- Nando Maria NevesNando Maria NevesFernando "Nando" Maria Neves is a Cape Verdean football defender, plays for French club LB Châteauroux and Cape Verde national football team.-Biography:...
, Cape Verdean footballer - Fernando Martínez PeralesFernando Martínez PeralesFernando Martínez Perales , aka Nando, is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a left defender.In his career, the majority of which was spent at Valencia CF and Deportivo de La Coruña, he played in 412 games in 14 senior seasons in the top-two tiers of Spanish football.-Club career:Born in...
, Spanish footballer - Nando ParradoNando ParradoFernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay is one of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed...
, Uruguayan plane crash survivor - Nando RafaelNando RafaelNando Rafael is an Angolan-German football striker, currently playing for FC Augsburg.-Early life:He fled from the Angolan Civil War at the age of eight after both of his parents had been killed, and resided at first illegally in the Netherlands...
, German footballer
Other meanings
- Nando'sNando'sNando's is a casual dining restaurant group originating from South Africa with a Portuguese/Mozambican theme. Founded in 1987, Nando's operates in thirty countries on five continents....
— a South African fast foodFast foodFast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a...
company - NandoNandoIn the early 1990s, NandO or Nando.net was one of the first Internet newspaper sites.-Inception:Nando was produced by the New Media division of The News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina...
— an Internet newspaper site