Peres is a Portuguese, Galician, and Sephardic-Jewish surname. Its

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: ** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...

variant is Pérez. In the Hungarian language, it means litigant ("peres fél"). It is common in both forms Peres and Perez as well as Peretz among descendants of

Sephardi Jews Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), ...

in Puerto Rico. In

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

( ), it is the name of the bird species " Gypaetus barbatus" ( lammergeier). However, Peres, Perez, and Peretz are the transliteration of the Hebrew פרץ son of Tamar and Judah. In the

biblical The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...

Book of Daniel The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology ...

, the words which form the "writing on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast are recorded initially as ''mene, mene, tekel, upharsin'' (Daniel 5:25) but the final word is given as ''peres'' in verse 28, where its meaning is said to be "Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the

Medes The Medes (Old Persian: ; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, th ...

and

Persians The Persians are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian. ...

". People with the surname Peres include: * Adans Lopez Peres (born 1975), Portuguese second husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco * Asher Peres (1934-2005), Israeli physicist (born Aristide Pressman) * Bernardo Peres da Silva (1775-1844), the only native governor of Portuguese India *

Cristiana Peres Cristiana Monteiro Peres (born April 14, 1987), known professionally as Christiana Ubach, is a Brazilian actress. She played the lead role in a telenovela. Biography Christiana Ubach was born in Rio de Janeiro, but she moved to Itaipava, a ...

(born 1987), Brazilian actress * Fernão Peres de Trava (c.1090-1155), Galician medieval nobleman *

Javier Peres Javier S. Peres is a contemporary art dealer and gallery owner. His gallery, Peres Projects, is in the Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin, and has offices in Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its ini ...

(20th-21st century), American art dealer * Marinho Peres (born 1947), Brazilian footballer * Paio Peres Correia (born c. 1205), Portuguese medieval nobleman *

Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of ...

(1923-2016), Israeli politician (born Szymon Perski) * Sonia Peres (1923-2011), Israeli first lady * Valdir Peres (1951-2017), Brazilian footballer * Vimara Peres (died 873), Galician medieval count and first Count of Portucale *

Peres (Portuguese footballer) António Francisco de Jesus Moreira (born 3 February 1939) is a former Portuguese professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are ass ...

(born 1939), full name António Francisco de Jesus Moreira, Portuguese football midfielder *

Peres (Brazilian footballer) Peres Spíndula de Oliveira (born 7 November 1974), also known as Peres , is a Brazilian professional football player who last played for Home United FC in S.League. He retired at the end of the 2010 season. Club career Peres was born in Cont ...

(born 1974), full name Peres Spíndula de Oliveira, Brazilian football forward

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* Peiris. Sri Lankan version of Peres * Peres-Horodecki criterion, a necessary condition in Quantum information theory * Peres-Hussein London Agreement, between King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres * River des Peres, an urban river in St. Louis, United States * Peres Jepchirchir (born 1993), Kenyan runner and half marathon world champion {{Peter-surname Portuguese-language surnames Galician-language surnames Sephardic surnames Jewish surnames Surnames from given names

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