Branco

Branco

Branco (meaning "White" in Portuguese) may mean different things:

People

"Branco" is a common surname in Portugal and Brazil. It is a name associated with a great number of different people:

General

*Barão do Rio Branco, Brazilian politician.
*Branco Mello, Brazilian musician and actor.
*Camilo Castelo Branco, Portuguese writer and poet.
*Cassiano Branco, Portuguese architect.
*Cristina Branco, Portuguese fado singer.
*Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazilian military leader and politician and former President of Brazil.
*João Ferreira Franco Pinto Castelo-Branco, Portuguese politician and former prime minister.
*João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, known as Amato Lusitano, Portuguese Jewish physician.
*Joaquim Rafael Branco, São Toméan politician.
*Jorge Branco de Sampaio, Portuguese lawyer, politician, and the former President of the Republic.
*Luís de Freitas Branco, Portuguese composer and an academic.
*Marcelo Branco, Brazilian bridge player.
*Paulo Branco, Portuguese film producer.

ports

*Branco — Cláudio Ibrahim Vaz Leal, (born 1964) Brazilian international footballer.
*Branco — Daniel Alexandre Morales Batagello (born 1975) Brazilian footballer
*Serge Branco, Cameroonian footballer.
*Silvio Branco, Italian boxer.

Places

Brazil

*Branco River, a river in Brazil.
*Cape Branco, cape on the coast of Paraíba, Brazil.
*Castelo Branco, a district in Central Portugal.
*Ouro Branco, a municipality in the state of Alagoas, Brazil.
*Pato Branco, a city in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
*Ribeirão Branco, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
*Rio Branco, capital-city of the state of Acre, Brazil.
*Rodovia Castelo Branco, highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
*Visconde do Rio Branco, city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Portugal

*Castelo Branco, a parish in the district of Horta, Portugal.
*Castelo Branco, a parish in the district of Mogadouro, Portugal.
*Castelo Branco, a city and a municipality in Portugal.

Cape Verde

*Branco, an island in Cape Verde.
*Monte Branco, a settlement in Cape Verde.
*Morro Branco, a cape in Cape Verde.

Italy

*Zero Branco, a comune in Veneto, Italy.

Football clubs & related

*Sport Benfica e Castelo Branco, Portuguese football club.
*Castelo Branco Football Association, Football association in the district of Castelo Branco, Portugal.
*Clube Esportivo Rio Branco, Brazilian football club.
*Rio Branco Atlético Clube, Brazilian football club.
*Rio Branco Esporte Clube, Brazilian football club.
*Rio Branco Football Club, Brazilian football club.
*Rio Branco Sport Club, Brazilian football club.

Other

*Caruru-branco, species of annual flowering plant.
*Castelo Branco cheese, Portuguese cheese.
*Muscatel Branco, white wine grape, member of the Muscat family Vitis vinifera.
*Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, polytechnic institute of higher education in Portugal.
*Rio Branco Law, Brazilian Law of 1871, designed to provide freedom to all newborn children of slaves, and slaves of the state or crown.

ee also

*Blanco, the Spanish equivalent


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