The Lindo family was a

Sephardic Jewish Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

merchant and banking family, which rose to prominence in medieval Spain.

Portugal

Manuel Lindo was a

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and Chair of the

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department at the

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in the 16th century. He published a nautical guide in manuscript form in 1539. He was a dear friend of

Amatus Lusitanus João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus (1511–1568), was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century. Like Herophilus, Galen, Ibn al-Nafis, Michael Servetus, Realdo Colombo and ...

, who described him as the eminent astronomer. He worked with

Pedro Nunes Pedro Nunes (; Latin: ''Petrus Nonius''; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, probably from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family.Leitão, Henrique, "Para uma biografia de Pedro Nunes: O ...

Abraham Zacuto Abraham Zacuto (, ; 12 August 1452 – ) was a Sephardic Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian. Born in Castile, he served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal before fleeing to Tunis. His astrolabe of cop ...

José Vizinho José Vizinho, (also known in English as ''Joseph Vecinho''), was a Portuguese Jew, born in the town of Covilhã, court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, with whom he studied mathematics ...

, João Faras to build instruments that made Europe's worldwide expansion possible. Francisco Lindo was arrested for

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and

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, on 12 August 1644. Francisco's son Joao Rodrigues Lindo married Contance Nunes of

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and lived in Campo Maior. Their son, Isaac (Lourenco), was born in

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in 1638. He became a merchant in

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, where he and his wife arrested by the

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in 1656. After being held without trial for two years, Isaac and his wife were

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d and released. The family lived in France before settling in London in around 1670. His brother, Antonio Rodriguez Lindo, a Lisbon merchant, was arrested on 9 October 1660 for Judaism and was condemned to public

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at the

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on 17 September 1662.

United Kingdom

One of the oldest and most esteemed of London Sephardic families, it traces its descent to Isaac Lindo. Isaac visited

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in the early 1650s and was married there around 1653.

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and Abraham Chilon, who commissioned one of the first brokers medals in 1655, were his maternal uncles. He settled in London around 1670 where he became an elder of

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, one of the first Jewish brokers of the

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in 1681 and a signatory of the *''Ascamot'' of 1694. His children included: * Alexander Lindo (1666-1727) became a sworn broker in 1683, married Rachel Lopes Pereira, a sister of Diego Pereira d'Aguilar, in 1708 and had six children. * Elias Lindo (1690-1727), sworn broker, commissioned the

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in 1708 to celebrate his marriage to Rachel Lopes Ferreira with whom he had six children. Elias Lindo Medal

For nine successive generations members of the family were sworn brokers of the

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, until the registration of sworn brokers was abolished in 1886: # Isaac Lindo (1638-1712): became a sworn broker in 1681, married Leah Lopes and had issue including: # Elias Lindo (1690-1727): sworn broker, married to Rachel Lopes Ferreira and had issue including: # Isaac Lindo (1709-1766): sworn broker, married Bathseba Abarbanel and had issue including: # Elias Lindo: sworn broker, married Grace Lumbroso de Mattos and had issue including: # Moses Lindo (1760-1837): sworn broker, married Sarah DaCosta and had issue including: # Moses DaCosta Lindo (1784-1866): sworn broker, married Leah Norsa and had issue: # Sarah DaCosta Lindo (born 1814) who married her cousin Nathaneel Lindo (1810-1889), sworn broker and solicitor, and had issue including: # Joseph Norsa Lindo (born 1837), sworn broker, who the last member of the family to pay for a "Jew Broker medal" in 1858, married Esther Benoliel and had issue including: # Moses Albert Norsa Lindo (1862-1933): sworn broker Six of their brokers medals are on display at the

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The Lindos were closely related to many other "cousinhood" families of note in Britain, including the

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, Goldsmid and the Montefiores. Members of the family have been active in the affairs of the

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community. Moses Lindo (1760-1837) served as President of

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from 1817 to 1829. Moses' brother,

David Abarbanel Lindo David Lindo (1772–1852) was an English Sephardi communal worker and elder of Bevis Marks Synagogue. He was born in London on 14 August 1772 to Elias Lindo (1740–1785), a Royal Exchange, London, Royal Exchange broker, and Grace Lumbroso de ...

, married Sarah Lumbroso de Mattos and had no less than eighteen children, many of whom married into well known Sephardic families. David's son Nathaneel Lindo (1810-1889) was a City solicitor who operated the firm Lindo & Co., which had long acted as solicitors for the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue and the Italian consulate in London, a tradition which his sons: Gabriel (1838-1908) and Arthur Lindo (1839-1905) continued.

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, a grandson of David Abarbanel Lindo, was President of

from 1903 to 1917. In 1937, Frank Charles Lindo (1872-1938), a great grandson of

, donated funds to build the Lindo Wing at

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Jamaica

Among the Jewish residents who made their mark on Kingston’s development, the Lindo family were outstanding. When Alexandre Lindo arrived in Kingston in 1765, he rented a house on Port Royal Street, and by 1769 he had relocated to a rented house on Peter’s Lane. Alexandre had many children, seven with his first wife, Hannah, and after her death, sixteen with his second wife, Esther Salome. From early, Alexandre set up business on Princess Street, where over time, he acquired several properties. In 1788, he bought a row of houses on Port Royal Street leading to the harbour and established Lindo’s Wharf there. Lindos earned the bulk of his fortune through the trade in enslaved Africans. Between 1782 and 1805, Lindos served as a factor for the sale of at least forty-two thousand enslaved Africans in Jamaica and surrounding Caribbean colonies. In 1802, he lent French Forces 500,000 British pounds to help finance French efforts to re-enslave Haitians in the former French slave colony of Saint-Domingue. Per Stanley Mirvis' ''The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition'', Lindo "was perhaps the most notorious Jamaican Jewish slave trader, absentee planter, and moneylender at the end of the eighteenth century..." He owned multiple transatlantic vessels and traded in all types of merchandise. For example, one of his vessels, the Esther Lindo, described by

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as a constant trader on the London-Jamaica run, cleared Jamaica for London on May 28, 1790 laden with sugar, cotton, pimento, Nicaragua wood, coffee, ginger, rum, wine, silver, sweetmeats, tamarinds, balsam, copper, castor oil, and tortoise shell. He owned numerous properties including Greenwich Park (the first steam powered plantation in Jamaica) and Pleasant Hill, a large coffee plantation. Lindo was a successful businessman who bought and traded goods captured by the British Royal Navy. He supplied

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during the

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and was close to a French jew who was executed while trying to spark a slave revolt in Jamaica in 1799. He made large loans to the

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during the

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, negotiated by

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, to finance the

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. When Britain declared war on France, on May 18, 1803, ending the

, Lindo attempted to draw a draft in

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, but the debt was dishonoured and Lindo was threatened with arrest. His eldest son, Abraham Alexander Lindo, was put in charge of the family business in Jamaica and Alexandre moved to London, where he was involved in trading, banking and insurance. He leased part of Roehampton estate called Putney Spot from Benjamin Goldsmid while constructing a mansion in

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. He was elected Parnas of

in 1805. That year his sons subdivided Kingston Pen into small lots which then formed a mixed-race working-class township known as Lindo's Town. Lindo’s Town included areas now known as

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and Tivoli Gardens. He died at

on March 12, 1812.

Prominent descendants of Isaac Lindo

Business, politics and law

* Moses Lindo: English planter and merchant in South Carolina, Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs, and Dyes *Elias Lindo: Royal Exchange Broker * Abraham Alexander Lindo: Jamaican merchant and planter *

: English barrister and community leader * Lionel Lindo Alexander: British political and communal worker * Elias Mocatta: British merchant and financier, significant in the early credit history of

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* Mattias Mackinlay Zapiola:

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of Santa Cruz, Argentina * Charles McLarty Morales: Speaker of

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(1849–61) * Alexander Joseph Lindo: Jamaican merchant, planter, Member of

and Custos rotulorum of St. Mary * Jonas Levien: Australian politician, a member of the

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, Minister of Mines & Agriculture * Eduard and Franz Hernsheim: founders of

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, a German trading company in the western Pacific * Cecil Vernon Lindo: Jamaican banker, industrialist, planter and philanthropist *

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: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist in

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: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica * Roy Lindo: Jamaican industrialist, financier and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica * Alan Mocatta: British judge *

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: 3rd

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* R. James deRoux: Jamaican businessman and Custos Rotulorum of Clarendon *

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from 2008 until 2020 and as leader of Belize's United Democratic Party * Henry Laurence Lindo: pioneering Jamaican civil servant * Yarrow baronets: created by

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on 29 January 1916 for the shipbuilder and engineer

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, founding Chairman of Yarrow & Co *

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. *

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owner/breeder *

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of Nevern Square *

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: British Conservative Peer and businessman * Valdemar Riise: pharmacist *Lea Mendes (1809-1849) was the wife of Samuel Teixeira de Mattos, founder of Teixeira de Mattos (bank) * Louis Frederik Teixeira de Mattos: civil engineer, author in the field of water management and Co-Founder of the

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Arts and entertainment

* Mark Prager Lindo: was a Dutch prose writer * Philip Moravier Lindo: was a British portrait and genre painter of the Düsseldorf School and an entrepreneur in the Netherlands *

Chris Blackwell Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ (born 22 June 1937) is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall ...

: is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of

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: is a British

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and

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* James Basevi: was a British-born

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and

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expert. * Henri Teixeira de Mattos: was a 19th-century Dutch sculptor * Joseph Mendes da Costa: was a Dutch sculptor and teacher * Joseph Teixeira de Mattos: was a Dutch painter * Carolina Anna Teixeira de Mattos: was a Dutch painter *

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: was an English actress * Isaac Mendes Belisario: Jamaican artist *

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: Jamaican photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster * David Yarrow: is a British

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, conservationist and author *

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: is an English actor *

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Science, Medicine and Education

* Miriam Mendes Belisario: English writer and educator * Abigail Lindo: British lexicographer * Jacob Mendes Da Costa: was an American physician * Juda Lion Palache: was a professor of

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at the

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and a leader of the Portuguese Jewish community *

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: British Physician *

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: is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry *

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and

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who worked in the area of

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. * David Lindo (chemist): Jamaican Merchant and Chemist *

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: British X-ray crystallographer * Lindo Ferguson: New Zealand ophthalmologist, university professor and medical school dean. * Elias Hayyim Lindo: English author and historian * Hector Lindo Fuentes: Salvadoran historian

Other

: English communal worker who performed the circumcision of

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* Isaac Juda Palache: was grand rabbi of the Portuguese Sephardic community of Amsterdam from 1900 to 1926 *

David Mocatta David Alfred Mocatta (1806–1882) was a British architect and a member of the Anglo-Jewish Mocatta family. Early career David Alfred Mocatta was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1806, the son of the licensed bullion broker Moses Mocatta ...

: British architect *

George Basevi Elias George Basevi FRS (1 April 1794 – 16 October 1845) was a British architect who worked in both Neoclassical and Gothic Revival styles. A pupil of Sir John Soane, his designs included Belgrave Square in London, and the Fitzwilliam Muse ...

: British architect * J. P. Basevi: was a British army engineer who conducted one of the first gravimetric surveys in India using a pendulum *

Povl Baumann Povl Erik Raimund Baumann (9 November 1878 – 3 July 1963) was a Denmark, Danish architect who was a central figure during the transition from Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassicism to Functionalism (architecture), Functionalism in Danish resi ...

: Danish Architect * Isaac Anne Lindo: Dutch engineer *

Iwan Serrurier Iwan Serrurier (September 21, 1878 – 1953) was a Dutch-American electrical engineer notable for inventing the Moviola. Career Iwan was born in Leiden, Netherlands to Lindor Serrurier, director of the city's ethnographic museum, and Martina L ...

: was a Dutch-American electrical engineer notable for inventing the Moviola *

Mark Serrurier Mark Serrurier (12 May 1904 in Pasadena, California – 14 February 1988) is the son of Dutch-born electrical engineer, Iwan Serrurier, who created the Moviola in 1924 which became the technology used for film editing. Mark was a graduate of ...

: worked on designs for the Mt. Palomar 200 inch

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* Marie-Louise Johanna Daisy Teixeira de Mattos: was the

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for

Juliana of the Netherlands Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Sh ...

Blanche Blackwell Blanche Blackwell (; 9 December 1912 – 8 August 2017) was a Jamaican heiress, mother of Chris Blackwell, and an inspirational muse to Ian Fleming and Noël Coward. Early life Blanche Lindo was born on 9 December 1912 in San José, Costa R ...

: Jamaican heiress * Norman Joseph Levien: New Zealand Army Officer and a foundation member of the

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* Edwin Louis Teixeira de Mattos: Dutch Bobsledder

Notable people with the surname include

* Moses Lindo: English planter and merchant in South Carolina, Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs, and Dyes * Abraham Alexander Lindo: Jamaican merchant and planter *

Juan Lindo Juan Nepomuceno Fernández Lindo y Zelaya, generally known as Juan Lindo (16 May 1790 – 23 April 1857), was a conservative Central American politician, provisional president of the Republic of El Salvador from 1841 to 1842, and President ...

: President of the Republic of

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(1841-1842) and of the Republic of Honduras (1847-1852) *

: was an English communal worker * Elias Hayyim Lindo: was a British Sephardic Jewish merchant, author and historian *

: English barrister and community leader * Lionel Lindo Alexander: British political and communal worker * Cecil Vernon Lindo: Jamaican banker, industrialist, planter and philanthropist *

: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica * Roy Lindo: Jamaican industrialist, financier and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica *

: Jamaican banker, planter, industrialist in

: Jamaican heiress *

: Jamaican photographer, actor, author, playwright, and radio show broadcaster *

Dean Lindo Dean Russel Lindo (4 September 1932 – 17 September 2018) was a Belizean attorney and politician. He was one of the principal founders of the United Democratic Party in 1973 and served as its first leader from 1974 to 1979.United Democratic Party * Henry Laurence Lindo: pioneering Jamaican civil servant * Hugo Lindo: Salvadorian writer, diplomat, politician, and lawyer * Richard Lindo Fuentes: was a Salvadoran writer and poet * Hector Lindo Fuentes: Salvadoran historian *

Delroy Lindo Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is an English-American actor. He is the recipient of such accolades as an NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' ...

(born 1952), British-American actor *

Earl Lindo Earl Wilberforce "Wire" Lindo (7 January 1953 – 4 September 2017), sometimes referred to as Wya (the way it is pronounced), was a Jamaican reggae musician. He was a member of Bob Marley and the Wailers and collaborated with numerous reggae ar ...

(1953–2017), Jamaican reggae musician *

Elvira Lindo Elvira Lindo (born 23 January 1962) is a Spanish journalist and writer. Biography Lindo was born in Cádiz. At the age of 12 Lindo moved to Madrid, where she studied journalism at Complutense University of Madrid. She did not get her degree, ...

(born 1962), Spanish journalist and writer *

: was an English actress * Mark Prager Lindo: was a Dutch prose writer * Philip Moravier Lindo: was a British portrait and genre painter of the Düsseldorf School and an entrepreneur in the Netherlands * Isaac Anne Lindo: Dutch engineer * José Alexandre Alves Lindo, (born 1973) Brazilian footballer *

Jack Ruby (record producer) Lawrence Lindo (1943 – 7 April 1989), better known as Jack Ruby, was a Jamaican record producer and sound system operator, best known for his 1970s productions of artists such as Burning Spear. Ruby was based in Ocho Rios and during his time wa ...

* Kashief Lindo (born c.1978), Jamaican reggae singer *

Big Narstie Tyrone Mark Lindo (born 16 November 1985), known by his stage name Big Narstie, is a British MC, author, rapper, singer, songwriter, comedian and television presenter. He started his career in 2002 as a member of grime crew "N Double A," thoug ...

: is a British rapper, comedian and television presenter * Jimena Lindo: is a

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actress, dancer and TV presenter *

Laura Mae Lindo Laura Mae Monique Lindo (born 1976) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Kitchener Centre as a member of the Ontario New Democ ...

: is a Canadian politician * Mónica de Greiff Lindo: is a Colombian lawyer and former Minister of Justice of Colombia * Larry Lindo: is a Bermudian sailor * Christabel Lindo: is a Kenyan rugby sevens player * Nishy Lee Lindo: is a Costa Rican taekwondo practitioner * David Lindo: is a British author, also known as the Urban Birder * Jaine Lindo: is a Sint Maartener footballer who plays for the Sint Maarten national team * Matilde Lindo: was a Nicaraguan feminist and activist *

Screwdriver (musician) Screwdriver (born Dalton Lindo, 1960, Saint James Parish, Jamaica) is a reggae artist active since the mid-1980s. Biography Born Dalton Lindo in Saint James Parish in 1960, in the mid-1980s, Lindo travelled to Kingston, where he met and was enc ...

: is a reggae artist active since the mid-1980s * Cinthya_Lindo Espinoza: former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru

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