Tavares 3191136 215555458 2008-05-28T18:47:41Z Ron B. Thomson 6795223 Added names '''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 {{Disambig}} [[Category:Portuguese surnames]] [[de:Tavares (Begriffsklärung)]] [[fr:Tavares]] [[pt:Tavares]] [[vo:Tavares]]