Vasco

Vasco is a first name and surname.

Origin and Meaning

Vasco has a borrowed in the 1970s, male first name of Spanish or Portuguese origin, from Velasco / Belasco, a frequent in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages the name Basque origin ( to bask well. Belatz "crow " ), developed. The form of the name is not " basque, Basque " from the homonymous adjective vasco derive. The name was known by Vasco da Gama. It is widely used as first and last name. In patronymic derived formation of Vasco, the Spanish family name Vásquez and Vázquez.

Well-known bearers of the name

First name

  • Vasco Bergamaschi (1909-1979), Italian racing cyclist
  • Vasco Gonçalves (1921-2005), Portuguese general and politician
  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519), Spanish explorer
  • Vasco regini (* 1990), Italian footballer
  • Vasco Rossi ( born 1952 ), Italian singer
  • Vasco da Gama ( 1469-1524 to ), Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route to India
  • Vasco Fernandes (probably 1480-1543 ) called " Grão Vasco ", Portuguese Renaissance painters
  • Vasco Santana, (1989 - 1958), Portuguese actor
  • Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira ( b. 1939 ), the last Portuguese governor of Macao
  • Vasco Graça Moura ( b. 1942 ), Portuguese writer
  • Vasco Pulido Valente ( b. 1941 ), Portuguese intellectuals (author, political commentator )
  • Vasco Pratolini (1913 - 1991), Italian novelist and screenwriter
  • Vasco de Lima Couto (1923 - 1980), Portuguese poet and actor
  • Vasco Evtimov ( b. 1977 ), actually Vassil Evtimov, French - Bulgarian basketball player
  • Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli (1924-2013), Italian retired bishop of Volterra
  • Vasco Lourenço ( b. 1942 ), Portuguese officer of the Carnation Revolution
  • Vasco Regaleira (1897 - 1968), Portuguese architect
  • Vasco Ugo Finni, pseudonym of the Italian composer, director, pianist and conductor Giovanni Fusco (1906 - 1968)
  • Vasco de Quiroga (147 - 1565), first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico

Family name

  • Grão Vasco, Portuguese painter
  • María Vasco ( b. 1975 ), Spanish race walker

Other

  • Vasco SC, Indian Football Club from Goa
  • Vasco da Gama, South African football club from Cape Town
  • Vasco Esporte Clube, the Brazilian football club
  • VASCO - Vietnam Air Service COmpany, a South Vietnamese regional airline
  • VASCO Data Security International, a U.S. company
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