Tavares
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'''Tavares''' may refer to several things:
==Surname==
'''Tavares''' is a common [[surname]] in the [[Portuguese language]], namely in [[Portugal]] and [[Brazil]] and other places – especially very common in the [[Cape Verde]] islands{{Fact|date=February 2007}}. It was originally a [[toponym]]. It is a name associated with a great number of different people:
*[[Alda Bandeira]] (Alda Bandeira Tavares Vaz da Conceição), politician of São Tomé and Principe
*[[Antero Tavares de Carvalho]], Portuguese governor of Angola
*[[Aurélio de Lyra Tavares]], Brazilian general
*[[Charmaine Tavares]], current mayor of Maui, Hawaii
*[[Clodoaldo]] Tavares de Santana, Brazilian footballer
*[[Diogo Tavares]], a Portuguese footballer
*Diogo Tavares, a late 18th-century Portuguese (Algarve) master mason and builder
*[[Eugénio Tavares]], Cape Verdean writer
*[[Fernanda Tavares]], Brazilian supermodel
*[[Gonçalo M. Tavares]], Portuguese-Angolan fiction writer
*[[Hannibal Tavares]], mayor of Maui, Hawaii, in the late 1980s and early 1990s
*[[Horace Silver]] (Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver), American musician and composer
*[[Jimmy Tavares]], French figure skater and actor
*[[John Tavares (ice hockey)]], junior ice hockey player
*[[John Tavares (lacrosse player)]], professional lacrosse player
*[[Juan Tavares]], Mexican Tex-Mex singer
*[[Manuel José Tavares Fernandes]], Portuguese footballer and manager
*[[Manuel Tavares Espaillat]], politician from the Dominican Republic
*[[Miguel Sousa Tavares]], best-selling Portuguese novelist
*[[Rui Tavares]], Portuguese historian and writer
*[[Tatiana Tavares]], Belgian model
*[[Urbano Tavares Rodrigues]], Portuguese writer and journalist
==Places==
;Brazil
*[[Tavares, Paraíba]]
*[[Tavares, Rio Grande do Sul]]
*[[Rodovia Raposo Tavares]], the longest highway in São Paulo
;Jamaica
*[[Tavares Gardens]], Kingston
;Portugal
*[[Travanca de Tavares]], Mangualde
*[[Chãs de Tavares]], Mangualde
*[[Várzea de Tavares]], Mangualde
;United States
*[[Tavares, Florida]]
**[[Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad]]
==Other==
*[[Tavares (band)]], an American soul music group
*Tavares, a [[soil]] type
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[[Category:Portuguese surnames]]
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