Pereira (surname)

Pereira is a Portuguese name meaning " pear ".

Bearers of the name

A

• Adaílson Pereira Coelho ( born 1986 ), Brazilian footballer
• Adriana Pereira (born 1964 ), Brazilian swimmer
• Agio Pereira, East Timorese politicians
• Agostinho Martins Pereira (* 1924), Portuguese filmmaker
• Alexander Pereira ( b. 1947 ), Austrian opera director
• Alexander Salvator of Pereira (1850-1917), German military
• Alexis Pereira (born 1978 ), Puerto Rican soccer player
• Álvaro Pereira ( born 1985 ), Uruguayan football player
• Álvaro Santos Pereira (born 1972 ), Portuguese economist, politician and journalist
• Anthony Pereira ( b. 1982 ), Indian football players
• António Pereira ( 1888 -? ), Portuguese weightlifter
• Antonio Pereira y Ruiz ( politician ) ( 1729 - about 1821), Spanish politician
• Antonio Pereira -Pacheco y Ruiz (1790-1858), Spanish clergyman and writer
• António Pereira Lima ( born 1952 ), Portuguese footballer
• António de Oliveira Pereira ( b. 1975 ), Portuguese Athlete
• Aristides Pereira (1923-2011), Cape Verde politicians, president from 1975 to 1991

C

• Caito Pereira (born 1969 ), Mozambican footballer
• Carlos Martins Pereira (1937-2013), Portuguese painter, writer, illustrator and translator
• Carmen Pereira ( b. 1937 ), Guinea-Bissau politician, President 1984
• Casimir Pereira (born 1954 ), Seychelles Athlete
• Cássio Pereira (born 1971 ), Brazilian volleyball player
• César Pereira (born 1962 ), Uruguayan football player
• Cipriana da Costa Pereira ( b. 1963 ), East Timorese politician
• Cris Pereira ( b. 1980 ), Togolese football player
• Cristina Pereira (1968-2009), Portuguese volleyball and beach volleyball player

D

• Davis Pereira (born 1958 ), Brazilian cyclists
• Delmino Pereira ( born 1967), Portuguese cyclist and sports official
• Domingos Leite Pereira (1882-1956), Portuguese priests and politicians
• Duarte Pacheco Pereira ( † 1533), Portuguese navigator, astronomer and geographer

E

• Eddie Esteves Pereira ( b. 1939 ), Brazilian botanist
• Eduardo Pereira (born 1954 ), Uruguayan football player
• Egídio de Araújo Pereira Júnior ( born 1986 ), Brazilian footballer
• Enrique Pereira ( 1909 -? ), Uruguayan water polo players
• Ernani Pereira (born 1978 ), Azerbaijani football player

F

• Fabio Pereira de Azevedo ( born 1977 ), Togolese football player
• Fábio Júnior Pereira ( born 1977 ), Brazilian footballer
• Fabio de Matos Pereira ( b. 1982 ), Brazilian footballer
• Fernando Pereira (1950-1985), Dutch photographer Portuguese origin and Greenpeace activist
• Fernando Pereira ( football player, 1959) ( born 1959 ), Venezuelan football player
• Fernando Pereira (officer ) ( Cobo; ? B. 1963 ), Major of the Army of São Tomé and Príncipe and coup leader
• Fernando Pereira ( football player, 1973) (born 1973 ), Angolan footballer
• Fernando Pereira de Pinho Júnior (born 1966 ), Brazilian footballer
• Florentina da Conceição Pereira Martins Smith (born 1958 ), East Timorese politician
• Fortunato Pereira Gamba (1866-1936), a Colombian engineer and university teacher
• Francisco José Pereira ( Chico Pereira; 1933-2012 ), Brazilian writer
• Francisco Silvério Pereira (1913-1991), Brazilian entomologist
• Fred Pereira (born 1954 ), American football player

G

• Gabriel Antonio Pereira (1794-1861), Uruguayan politician, President in 1838 and 1856 to 1860
• Gladstone Pereira della Valentina ( born 1985 ), Brazilian footballer
• Gómez Pereira (1500-1567), Spanish philosopher and physician
• Gonçalo Pereira Pimenta de Castro (1868-1952), Portuguese officer and colonial administrator
• Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles (* 1922), Portuguese politician and landscape architect, Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles see
• Guzmán Pereira (* 1991), Uruguayan football player

B

• Hal Pereira (1905-1983), American film set designer
• Heitor Pereira, Brazilian musician and film composer
• Henriette von Pereira - Arnstein (1780-1859), Austrian pianist
• Hermenegildo Pereira, East Timorese politicians
• Hetzón Pereira ( b. 1980 ), the Guatemalan football player

I

• Izilda Pereira Soares (born 1958 ), East Timorese politician

J

• Jacinta Abucau Pereira ( b. 1973 ), East Timorese politician
• Jacinto Pereira ( born 1974 ), Angolan footballer
• Jackie Pereira ( b. 1964 ), Australian hockey player
• Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715-1780), Portuguese teacher

• João Pereira ( float ) (1905 -? ), Brazilian swimmer
• João Pereira (Governor ), Portuguese governor of Macao
• João Pereira ( Carambolagespieler ), Portuguese Carambolagespieler
• João Pereira Jamba ( born 1977 ), Angolan footballer
• João Carlos Pereira Brenha Alves (born 1970 ), Portuguese beach volleyball player
• João José Pereira (* 1987), Portuguese triathlete
• João Pedro da Silva Pereira ( born 1984 ), Portuguese footballer

• Joaquín Pereira Becerra (1816-1923), Ecuadorian military
• Joércio Gonçalves Pereira ( born 1953 ), Brazilian religious cleric
• Jonathan Pereira (* 1987), Spanish footballer
• José Pereira ( football goalkeeper) ( born 1931 ), Portuguese football goalkeeper
• José Pereira ( footballer ) (born 1972 ), Puerto Rican soccer player
• José Pereira da Silva Barros (1835-1898), Roman Catholic Archbishop
• José de Almeida Pereira Batista (1917-2009), Brazilian priest, Roman Catholic bishop
• José Pereira de Aquino (1920-2011), Portuguese priest, Roman Catholic bishop
• José Gomes Pereira ( b. 1955 ), Portuguese swimmer
• José João Pereira ( b. 1981 ), Timorese footballer
• José María Pereira ( born 1932 ), Brazilian fencer
• José Olivio Andrade Pereira ( born 1985 ), Angolan footballer
• José Giral Pereira (1879-1962), Spanish politician and Prime Minister of Spain
• José Serra Pereira ( born 1918 ), Portuguese Modern pentathlete
• Josefa Álvares Pereira Soares ( born 1953 ), East Timorese politician
• Júlio Pereira ( b. 1953 ), Portuguese musician and musicologist
• Júlio Cernadas Pereira (1929-2007), Portuguese football player and coach

K

• Ken Pereira (born 1973 ), Canadian hockey player
• Kléber Pereira ( b. 1975 ), Brazilian footballer

L

• Lawrence Pereira (1876-1938), Indian clergyman, Bishop of Kottar
• Leobaldo Pereira (born 1972 ), Cuban canoeist
• Leonardo de Miranda Pereira ( b. 1936 ), Brazilian clergyman, Bishop of Paracatu
• Longinus Gabriel Pereira (1911-2004), Indian clergyman, Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay
• Luis Pereira ( b. 1949 ), Brazilian footballer
• Luiz Augusto Pereira Souto Maior (* 1927), Brazilian diplomat

M

• Mafalda Pereira ( b. 1976 ), Portuguese freestyle skier
• Maicon Pereira de Oliveira (1988-2014), Brazilian footballer
• Maicon Pereira Roque (* 1988), Brazilian footballer
• Thiago Pereira de Souza Maicón ( born 1985 ), Brazilian footballer
• Manuel Pereira ( b. 1961 ), Spanish fencer
• Manuel de Castro Pereira ( born 1961 ), East Timorese politicians
• Marcela Pereira, Chilean biathlete
• Marcelo Pereira Moreira ( born 1974 ), Brazilian footballer
• Marcos Pereira ( b. 1943 ), Brazilian footballer
• Marlon Pereira (* 1987), Dutch footballer
• Max Pereira (born 1970 ), Brazilian volleyball player
• Maximiliano Pereira ( born 1984 ), Uruguayan football player
• Maximiliano Pereira ( football player, 1993) ( * 1993), Uruguayan football player
• Michael Pereira, Kenyan hockey player
• Michel Garbini Pereira ( born 1981 ), Brazilian footballer
• Miguel Pereira ( football player, 1949) ( born 1949 ), Brazilian footballer
• Miguel Pereira ( director) ( born 1957 ), Argentine film director
• Miguel Pereira ( football player, 1975) ( born 1975 ), Angolan footballer

N

• Natália Pereira (* 1989), Brazilian volleyball player
• Nélson Alexandre Gomes Pereira ( Nelson, born 1975 ), Portuguese football goalkeeper
• Nicolás Pereira (born 1970 ), Venezuelan tennis players
• Nuno Álvares Pereira ( Nuno de Santa Maria, 1360-1431 ), Portuguese commander
• Nuno Miguel Pereira Diogo ( born 1981 ), Portuguese footballer
• Nuno Teotónio Pereira ( * 1922 ), Portuguese architect

O

• Pereira Osório (1905 -? ), Brazilian rower

P

• Pablo Pereira ( b. 1974 ), Argentine volleyball player
• Patrick Pereira, Antiguan footballer
• Paula Pereira (* 1988), Brazilian badminton player
• Paulo de Sousa Pereira ( b. 1969 ), Portuguese Promoter
• Pedro Pereira Mesa ( * 1979 ), Cuban football players
• Pedro Silva Pereira (born 1962 ), Portuguese lawyer and politician (PS )
• Polycap Pereira ( b. 1932 ), Ugandan hockey player

R

• Raimundo Pereira ( b. 1956 ), Guinea-Bissau politician
• Regina Pereira ( born 1959 ), Brazilian volleyball player
• Reynold Pereira ( born 1948 ), Kenyan hockey player
• Ricardo Pereira ( b. 1976 ), Portuguese footballer
• Roberto Pereira ( b. 1952 ), Cuban football players
• Rodolfo Pereira ( b. 1959 ), Chilean rowers
• Rodrigo Castro Pereira ( 1899 -? ), Portuguese Tennis Player
• Roniéliton Pereira Santos ( born 1977 ), Brazilian footballer
• Rubén Pereira ( b. 1968 ), Uruguayan football player
• Rui Pereira ( b. 1956 ), Portuguese politician

S

• Sandra Pereira, Portuguese singer
• Sebastian Pereira (born 1976 ), Brazilian judoka
• Sebastião Pereira do Nascimento (born 1976 ), Brazilian footballer
• Silvana Pereira da Silva ( born 1948 ), Brazilian athlete
• Silvestre Pereira ( b. 1971 ), Portuguese canoeist
• Sílvio Manuel Azevedo Ferreira Sá Pereira (* 1987), Portuguese footballer
• Soeiro Pereira Gomes (1909-1949), Portuguese writer and politician (PCP )

T

• Teliana Pereira (* 1988), Brazilian tennis player
• Thiago Pereira ( born 1986 ), Brazilian swimmer
• Thomas Pereira (born 1973 ), Norwegian football player
• Tomás Romero Pereira ( politician ) ( 1886-1982 ), Paraguayan politician, President 1954

U

• Ubiratan Pereira (1944-2002), Brazilian basketball player

V

• Valdemir Pereira ( b. 1974 ), Brazilian boxer
• Valdir Pereira ( Didi; 1928-2001 ), Brazilian footballer
• Vinício Pereira ( † 2007), Portuguese sports official
• Vítor Pereira ( b. 1968 ), Portuguese football coach
• Vítor Pereira Gomes Júnior (* 1989), Brazilian footballer
• Vitor Melo Pereira ( born 1957 ), Portuguese football referee

W

• Waltencir Pereira Serna (1946-1979), Brazilian footballer
• Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (1869-1957), Brazilian politician, president from 1926 to 1930
• William Pereira (1909-1985), American architect

Z

• Zeni Pereira (1924-2002), Brazilian actress