Ribeiro

Ribeiro is a Portuguese and Galician surname, also common in Brazil. Origin: Latin riparius, ("small stream" or "by the river"). It is also a wine-making region of central Galicia. In Galicia the surname may have been Castilianized as Riveiro.

  • Adriano Leite Ribeiro (born 1982), Brazilian football striker
  • Aguinaldo Ribeiro (born 1969), Brazilian politician
  • Alfonso Ribeiro (born 1971), American actor/game show host
  • Alexandre Ribeiro (born 1981), Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
  • Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro (1874–1939), Brazilian herpetologist and ichthyologist
  • Ana Ribeiro (born 1955), Uruguayan historian, writer, and professor
  • Anderson Ribeiro (born 1981), Brazilian football player
  • André Ribeiro (1966–2021), Brazilian racing driver
  • Antonio Ribeiro (soccer) (born 1980), Canadian football (soccer) player
  • António Ribeiro (1928–1998), Catholic cardinal from Portugal
  • Áureo Ribeiro (born 1979), Brazilian politician
  • Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro (born 1944), British surgeon
  • Bernardim Ribeiro (1482–1552), Portuguese poet
  • Bruno de Paula Ribeiro Ingrácia (born 1983), otherwise known as Bruno Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
  • Bruno Ribeiro (born 1975), Portuguese footballer
  • Catherine Ribeiro (born 1941), French singer
  • Christian Ribeiro (born 1989), Welsh footballer
  • Darcy Ribeiro, (1922–1997), Brazilian anthropologist
  • Diogo Ribeiro (cartographer) (or Diego Ribero) (16th century), Portuguese cartographer and explorer
  • Édson Ribeiro (born 1972), Brazilian sprinter
  • Edson Ribeiro, Brazilian musician
  • Fabian Defu Ribeiro (1933–1986), South African doctor and anti-apartheid activist
  • Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner
  • Fernando Ribeiro, Portuguese singer
  • Florence Ribeiro (1933–1986), South African anti-apartheid activist
  • Gilvan Ribeiro (born 1989), Brazilian canoeist
  • João Mário Ribeiro (born 1929), Portuguese chess master
  • Jorge Ribeiro (born 1981), Portuguese footballer
  • Julio Francis Ribeiro (born 1929), former Indian police officer and civil servant
  • Lais Ribeiro (born 1989), a Brazilian model
  • Miguel Ribeiro (born 1974), Portuguese screenwriter and filmmaker
  • Mike Ribeiro (born 1980), Canadian hockey player
  • Pedro Júlio Marques Ribeiro (born 1979), Portuguese footballer
  • Pedro Manuel Mendes Ribeiro (born 1983), Portuguese footballer
  • Pedro Ribeiro (Brazilian footballer) (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
  • Pery Ribeiro (1937–2012), Brazilian singer
  • Regina Lúcia Ribeiro (born 1961), Brazilian chess master
  • Robert Ribeiro (born 1949), Hong Kong judge
  • Sheila Ribeiro (born 1973), artist
  • Wladimir Ribeiro (born 1967), Brazilian swimmer
  • Zulaiê Cobra Ribeiro (born 1943), Brazilian lawyer and politician

See also

  • Ribeiro (DO), the Spanish wine-producing region in Galicia
Surname list
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