Alcantara (surname)
Alcántara (Spanish), Alcàntara (Catalan), Alcântara (Portuguese), and Alcantara (Sicilian) are surnames, related to the Andalusian place name Alcántara (derived from Arabic for "the bridge").
There are several related place names Alcantara, with the most noted being Alcántara, Spain, the birthplace of Saint Peter of Alcantara, the Franciscan Saint.
The surname has royal connections and the emperors of Brazil, such as Pedro II had the surname Alcántara y Silva. Consequently, the surname Alcántara is also found among freed slaves of the Brazilian household.[1]
Spanish
- Arismendy Alcántara – Dominican baseball player
- Francisco Linares Alcántara – Venezuelan statesman
- Izzy Alcántara – Dominican baseball player
- Paulino Alcántara – Filipino footballer who made much of his career in Spain
- Pedro Alcántara Herrán – Colombian statesman
- Peter of Alcantara [Spanish : San Pedro de Alcántara] (1499–1562) – canonized Spanish saint
- Reinier Alcántara – footballer born in Cuba who fled to the United States in 2008
- Ricardo Alcántara Sgarbi (1946) – Uruguayan writer
- Roberto Alcántara – Mexican CEO of Viva Aerobus, a Mexican low-cost airline.
Catalan
- Manuel Alcàntara i Gusart (1892-1981) — Catalan (Spanish) professor, journalist and artistic promoter
- Pere d'Alcàntara Penya i Nicolau (1823-1906) — Majorcan (Spanish) writer
Portuguese
- Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado — Brazilian journalist, politician and writer
- Alcântara de Mello (or Alcântara de Melo) — Portuguese family with ties to Portugal's colonies between 1400 and 1974
- Fabrício Lopes Alcântara — Brazilian footballer
- Fernando Lopes Alcântara — Brazilian footballer
- Fábio Lopes Alcântara — Brazilian footballer
- Hugo Alcântara — Brazilian footballer
- Iuri Alcântara (born 1980) — Brazilian mixed martial artist
- José Pedro de Alcântara — Brazilian founder Conceição de Ipanema town, in Minas Gerais stateremover
- Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão Para (1875–1940) — member of the Brazilian imperial family
- Roberto Alcântara Ballesteros — Brazilian footballer
- Thiago Alcântara — Spanish-Brazilian footballer
- Rafa Alcântara — Brazilian-Spanish footballer, younger brother of Thiago Alcântara
- Baltasar Lopes da Silva — writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde who sometimes used the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara
References
- ↑ Historias de Exclusión: Afrodescendientes en el Uruguay - Page 48 Teresa Porzecanski, Beatriz Santos - 2006 "Entonces había unos negros de apellido Alcántara, brasileños, que habían sido servidores de la casa imperial. Porque los emperadores de Brasil, Don Pedro II, no tienen el apellido de Braganza, sino que tienen el apellido Alcántara y Silva."
See also
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