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Rodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
. It was originally a Patronymic
Patronymic

A patronym or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor....
, meaning Son of Rodrigo
Rodrigo

Rodrigo is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian name derived from the Germanic name Roderick . It can refer to:*King Roderic, the last Visigothic king ...
 or Son of Rui. Its Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 equivalent is Rodríguez.

It may refer to:






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Rodrigues is a common surname in the Portuguese language
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
. It was originally a Patronymic
Patronymic

A patronym or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor....
, meaning Son of Rodrigo
Rodrigo

Rodrigo is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian name derived from the Germanic name Roderick . It can refer to:*King Roderic, the last Visigothic king ...
 or Son of Rui. Its Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 equivalent is Rodríguez.

It may refer to:
  • Amália Rodrigues
    Amália Rodrigues

    Am?lia da Piedade Rebord?o Rodrigues, Order of St. James of the Sword, Order of Infante D. Henrique, Pronunciation , was a Portugal singer and actress....
    , Portuguese Fado singer
  • Américo de Deus Rodrigues Thomaz, Portuguese admiral and politician
  • Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues, French mathematician
  • Carmona Rodrigues
    Carmona Rodrigues

    Ant?nio Pedro Nobre Carmona Rodrigues , grand-nephew of ?scar Carmona, is a university professor and a Portugal politician. He was mayor of Lisbon , and Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Habitation and the Minister of Cities in the 15th Constitutional Government of Portugal....
    , Portuguese politician
  • Diogo Rodrigues
    Diogo Rodrigues

    Diogo Rodrigues was a Portugal explorer of the Indian Ocean, after whom the island of Rodrigues is named. He named the islands of R?union, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the Mascarene or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman Pedro Mascarenhas....
    , Portuguese explorer
  • Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portuguese politician
  • Ernesto Rodrigues
    Ernesto Rodrigues

    Ernesto Rodrigues is a Portugal composer, violinist, violist and electronic musician. Rodrigues has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, in the studio and live around the world....
    , Portuguese composer
  • Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
    Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves

    Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves,Privy Councillor was a Brazilian politician who first served as President of S?o Paulo in 1887, and as Treasury minister in the 1890s....
    , Brazilian politician
  • Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
    Francisco Rodrigues Lobo

    Francisco Rodrigues Lobo , was a Portugal poet and bucolic writer.He was born of rich and noble parents but of Sephardi Jews Portuguese Jews ancestry in Leiria, reading philosophy, poetry and writing of shepherds and shepherdesses by the rivers Liz and Lena....
    , Portuguese poet
  • Guilherme Rodrigues
    Guilherme Rodrigues

    Guilherme Rodrigues is a Portugal jazz musician.Rodrigues was born in Lisbon, the son of improvising violinist Ernesto Rodrigues, with whom he records and performs....
    , Portuguese jazz musician
  • Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca
    Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca

    Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was a Brazilian soldier and politician. The nephew of Deodoro da Fonseca, the first Brazilian President of Brazil, he was War Minister of Brazil in 1906....
    , Brazilian politician
  • Ivo Rodrígues
    Ivo Rodrígues

    Ivo Machado Rodr?gues is a former marathon runner from Brazil. He won the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games and competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 56th place....
    , Brazilian long-distance runner
  • Jan Rodrigues
    Jan Rodrigues

    Juan "Jan" Rodrigues, born in Santo Domingo, was the first man of African descent to live in what would become New York City, spending the winter, without the support of anchored ship, at a Dutch people fur trading post on Lower Manhattan that had been set-up by Christiaan Hendricksen in 1613....
    , the first free black man to live in New York City
  • João Rodrigues Cabrilho, Portuguese explorer
  • João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, known as Amato Lusitano, Portuguese physician
  • Karin Rodrigues
    Karin Rodrigues

    Karin Rodrigues is a female volleyball player who competed for Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics. There she won the bronze medal with the Brazil women's national volleyball team....
    , Brazilian volleyball player
  • Keri Rodrigues, American talk show host
  • Manuel Sarmento Rodrigues, Portuguese marine official, colonist and professor
  • Mônica Rodrigues
    Monica Rodrigues

    M?nica Rodrigues is a Brazilian volleyball player, who won the silver medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Adriana Samuel....
    , Brazilian volleyball player
  • Nélson Rodrigues
    Nélson Rodrigues

    Nelson Falc?o Rodrigues was a Brazilian Dramaturgy, Journalism and writer. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog....
    , Brazilian writer
  • Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, Cape Verdean politician
  • Rodrigues Ottolengui
    Rodrigues Ottolengui

    Rodrigues Ottolengui was an United States writer and dentist of Sephardic descent. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to New York, where he would spend most of his adult life, in 1877....
    , American writer and dentist.
  • Simão Rodrigues
    Simão Rodrigues

    Sim?o Rodrigues de Azevedo , was a Portuguese Jesuit Catholic priesthood, , one of the co-founders of the Society of Jesus.A Portuguese nobleman, Rodrigues was one of the six very first companions of Ignatius of Loyola at the University of Paris who took vows of poverty and chastity at the chapel of Montmartre, on the 15 August 1534....
    , Portuguese Jesuit
  • Sunith Francis Rodrigues
    Sunith Francis Rodrigues

    Gen. S.F Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, formerly Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army. Currently Governor, Punjab, and Administrator, UT of Chandigarh....
    , Indian military and politician
  • Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
    Urbano Tavares Rodrigues

    Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Order of Infante D. Henrique was a Portugal professor of literature, literary critic and fiction writer....
    , Portuguese writer
  • Vasco Rodrigues Santana, Portuguese actor
  • Paul-G. Rodrigues Milhano, French Psychologist


See also

  • Portuguese name
  • Rodriguez
    Rodríguez

    Rodr?guez is a Spanish language Patronymic and a common family name in Spain, Latin America, The Philippines and Portugal. The "ez" or "es" signifies "son of"....
    , a disambiguation page