Lourenço is a Portuguese surname and masculine

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origin. It is used in

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. The name was derived from the Roman surname

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, which meant "from Laurentum".

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, on the west coast of the Italian peninsula southwest of

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Notable people named Lourenço

Given name

* Lourenço Andrade (born 1979), Brazilian footballer * Lourenço da Silva de Mendouça (died 1698), Mbundu nobleman and abolitionist * Lourenço da Veiga (born 1979), Portuguese auto racing driver *

Lourenço de Almeida Lourenço de Almeida ( – March 1508) was a Portuguese explorer and military commander. He was born in Martim, Portugal, the son of Francisco de Almeida, first viceroy of Portuguese India. Acting under his father, Lourenço distinguished hims ...

(c. 1480–1508), Portuguese explorer and military commander *

Lourenço Filho Manoel Bergström Lourenço Filho (March 10, 1897, Porto Ferreira, Brazil – August 3, 1970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian educator and education theorist. He was heavily criticized for collaborating with Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo. ...

(1897–1970), Brazilian educator and education theorist * Lourenço José Boaventura de Almada, 13th Count of Avranches (1758–1815), Portuguese politician *

Lourenço Marques (explorer) Lourenço Marques was a 16th-century Portuguese trader and coloniser. Biography Lourenço Marques explored the area that is now Maputo Bay in 1544 and settled permanently in present-day Mozambique, where he spent most of his life with his in ...

, Portuguese trader and colonizer * Lourenço Martins (born 1997), Portuguese volleyball player * Lourenço Mutarelli (born 1964), Brazilian comic book artist, writer and actor * Lourenço Ortigão (born 1989), Portuguese actor *

Lourenço Soares de Valadares Lourenço is a town and district in the Brazilian municipality of Calçoene, in the interior of the state of Amapá. The main economic activities of the town is gold mining. It is one of the oldest mines in Brazil. History Gold mining in Lourenç ...

(c. 1230–1298), Portuguese nobleman

Surname

Agostinho Lourenço Agostinho Lourenço da Conceição Pereira (5 September 1886 – 2 August 1964) was a Portuguese soldier, best known for founding and running the Portuguese political police under the '' Estado Novo''. Lourenço fought in World War I for the Briti ...

(1886–1964), Portuguese soldier *

Aleixo Lourenco Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, also known as Reginaldo, is an Indian politician who is a four term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly for Curtorim. He has been Chairman of the Goa Industrial Development Corporation since 2022. In 2022, he len ...

, Indian politician *

Ana Dias Lourenço Ana Afonso Dias Lourenço, GCIH (born 13 April 1957) is an Angolan economist, politician and former government minister. She has served as the First Lady of Angola since September 2017 as the wife of President João Lourenço. Early and perso ...

(born 1957), Angolan economist, politician and government minister *

Bruno Lourenço Bruno Miguel Ponces Lourenço (born 2 February 1998) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for TFF First League club Amedspor. Club career Aves Lourenço was born in Lisbon. He played youth foot ...

(born 1998), Portuguese footballer *

Carlos Lourenço Carlos Lourenço (26 March 1923 – 2008) was a Portuguese sailor. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and o ...

(1923–2008), Portuguese sailor *

Denílson Lourenço Denílson Moraes Lourenço (born May 11, 1977 in Tupã, São Paulo) is a male judoka from Brazil. He won the silver medal in the men's extra-lightweight division (– 48 kg) at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. H ...

(born 1977), Brazilian judoka *

Didier Lourenço Didier Lourenço (1968 – 27 July 2023) was a Catalan-Spanish painter. Biography His origins as an artist can be found in the lithograph studio of his father, Fulvio, where he began working as an artist at an early age. There, he learned all ...

(1968–2023), Catalan-Spanish painter * Eduardo Lourenço (1923–2020), Portuguese essayist, professor, critic, philosopher and writer *

Fausto Lourenço Fausto Jorge Dias Lourenço (born 19 January 1987), known simply as Fausto, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Académica de Coimbra as a forward. Club career Fausto was born in Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra District. An unsuccessful youth g ...

(born 1987), Portuguese footballer * Hélder Lourenço (born 1954), Portuguese footballer * Ivone Dias Lourenço (1937–2008), Portuguese communist *

Januário Lourenço Januário Lourenço (born 29 January 1974) is a Portuguese Jurist who has promoted the first Internet domain seizure on a debt collection lawsuit, and also invented the Electronic Power of Attorney and the Electronic Divorce. Furthermore, was no ...

(born 1974), Portuguese jurist * João Lourenço (disambiguation), multiple people *

José Lourenço José Lourenço, sometimes credited as José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço, is a Canadian filmmaker based in Toronto, Ontario, whose debut feature film ''Young Werther'' premiered in 2024.Corey Atad"This former Toronto Star columnist has directe ...

, Canadian filmmaker * Joyner Lourenco (born 1991), Indian footballer * Lourenço (footballer) (born 1997), Brazilian footballer * Lucas Lourenço (born 2001), Brazilian footballer * Luís Lourenço (born 1983), Angolan footballer * Miguel Lourenço (disambiguation), multiple people *

Orlando Lourenco Orlando Lourenco (born 15 September 1964 in Gwelo) is a former tennis player from Zimbabwe. Lourenco represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he was defeated in the first round by France's Guy Forget. Lo ...

(born 1964), Zimbabwean tennis player * Patrick Lourenço (born 1993), Brazilian amateur boxer * Rodolfo Lourenço (born 1991), Portuguese footballer *

Rogério Lourenço Rogério Moraes Lourenço (born March 20, 1971, in Rio de Janeiro), is a Brazilian football manager and former centre back. He has managed Saudi Arabia Under-20 team since 28 March 2011. Honours Player Flamengo *Taça Guanabara: 1988, 1989, ...

(born 1971), Brazilian football manager and player *

Ruy Lourenco Ruy Valentim Lourenco (March 25, 1928 – August 15, 2021) was an American physician, academic administrator, researcher and professor who was Dean of the New Jersey Medical School from 1989 to 1999. He led medicine at the University of Illino ...

(1928–2021), American physician, academic administrator, researcher and professor *

Teresa Lourenço Teresa Lourenço (Lisbon, 1330 – ?), was the lover of King Peter I of Portugal and mother of King John I of Portugal. Life According to Fernão Lopes, a 15th-century Portuguese chronicler, she was a noble called Dona Tareija Lourenço from the K ...

(1330–????), Portuguese noblewoman *

Wilson R. Lourenço Wilson R. Lourenço is a French-Brazilian arachnology, arachnologist specializing in scorpions. Biography Wilson R. Lourenço is a French-Brazilian arachnologist who has specialized in the study of scorpions. He obtained his PhD in evolutionary ...

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