SANTOS

'Santos', originally Portuguese or Spanish for ''Saints'' (singular ''Santo''), may mean a great number of different things:

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People

Places

Football teams

Other

People

'Santos' is a common surname in Spanish, as well as Portuguese. Sometimes it can be the final part of a given name, generally preceded by the particle ''dos'' or ''de los'' (''of the'', meaning ''of the Saints'', as in ''Miguel dos Santos'', ''Michael of the Saints''). It is a name associated with a great number of different people:

★ Santos (Sante Pucello), Italian DJ

★ Álvaro Santos, Brazilian footballer

★ Ahmed Santos, Mexican newspaper columnist and former boxer

★ Ahmed Santos, Phillipino convert to Islam and militant.

★ Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer

★ Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer

★ Antonio da Costa Santos, Brazilian architect and politician

★ António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician

★ Ary dos Santos, Portuguese poet

★ Conrad Santos, Canadian politician

★ Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, Portuguese footballer

★ Daniel Santos a Puerto Rican boxer

★ Daniel Santos a Puerto Rican singer and composer

★ Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer.

★ Domingo Santos, Spanish writer.

★ Domitila, Marchioness of Santos, Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil.

★ Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentinian musician.

★ Erik Ramos Santos, Filipino singer.

★ Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian footballer.

★ Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia, heir to the Spanish throne

★ Fernando Santos, Brazilian footballer

★ Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Angolan politician

★ Fernando Victor Emanuel Costa Santos, Portuguese football manager

★ Georges Santos, French-born, Cape Verdean footballer

★ Hélio de Oliveira Santos, Brazilian physician and politician

★ Jimmy Santos, Filipino comedian

★ Joe Santos, American actor

★ Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor

★ Jonny Santos, American musician

★ José Eduardo dos Santos, Angolan politician

★ José Santos Guardiola, Honduran politician

★ José Santos Zelaya, Nicaraguan politician

★ José dos Santos Ferreira, Portuguese-Macanese writer

★ Jovino Santos-Neto, Brazilian musician

★ Judy Ann Santos, Filipino actress

★ Leslie George Santos, Hong Kong footballer

★ Lucélia Santos, Brazilian actress, director and producer

★ Lúcia dos Santos, known as Sister Lúcia of Jesus, Portuguese Roman Catholic Carmelite nun and seer of Our Lady of Fatima

★ Manuel António dos Santos, Portuguese politician

★ Matt Santos, fictional character of the American series The West Wing

★ Mayra Santos-Febres, Puerto-Rican writer

★ Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director

★ Nílton Santos, Brazilian football (soccer) player

★ Pablo Santos, Mexican actor

★ Paulo Jorge dos Santos Futre, Portuguese football (soccer) player

★ Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, known as ''Pepetela'', Angolan writer

★ Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player

★ Roberto Santos, Brazilian film director

★ Rufino Jiao Santos, Filipino Archbishop of Manila

★ Santos Acosta, Colombian general and political figure

★ Santos Benavides, American military

★ Santos Ortega, American actor

★ Vicente Abad Santos, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

★ Victor Irving Santos, American baseball player

★ Vilma Santos, Filipino actress

★ José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as ''Zeca Afonso'', Portuguese singer, composer and poet

Places

★ Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.

★ General Santos City, South Cotabato, Philippines.

★ Santos Michelena, Aragua State, Venezuela.

★ Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

★ Los Santos Province, Panama.

★ Los Santos, San Andreas, a fictional city within the video game ''.

★ Santos Dumont Regional Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

★ Baía de Todos os Santos, Bahia, Brazil.

★ Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

★ Santos-Dumont, small lunar impact crater.

★ Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

★ Rodovia Santos Dumont, highway in São Paulo, Brazil.

★ Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí, railway line in São Paulo, Brazil.

★ Sántos, a village in Hungary

Football teams

★ Pro Santos FC, English Football Club

★ Santos Futebol Clube, Brazilian football team.

★ Club Santos Laguna, Mexican football team.

★ Santos de Guápiles Fútbol Club, Costa Rican football club.

★ Santos F.C. (England), English football club

★ Santos Football Club (Belfast), Northern Ireland football club [1]

★ Santos Football Club (South Africa)

★ Santos Futebol Clube de Angola, Angolan football team.

★ Santos Football Club (Burkina), Burkinabé football team

★ Santos, Jamaican football club

Other

★ Santos Limited, a large Australian oil company.

★ Santos-Dumont 14-bis, known as ''Oiseau de proie'', early airplane designed and built by Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont.

★ Santos, A wooden carving tradition begun by Jesuit priests in Spain in the 16th century, then imported to the New World and still made in Northern New Mexico.