Mateus is a Portuguese given name and surname, equivalent to the English Matthew. Notable people with the name include:

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* Mateus (ambassador), Armenian ambassador of Emperor

Dawit II of Ethiopia Dawit II (; – 2 September 1540), also known by the macaronic name Wanag Segad (ወናግ ሰገድ, ''to whom the lions bow''), better known by his birth name Lebna Dengel (, ''essence of the virgin''), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 150 ...

* Mateus Aleluia (born 1943), Brazilian musician and ethnomusicologist *

Mateus Alves Mateus de Carvalho Cardoso Alves (born 23 January 2001) is a Brazilian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 271 achieved on 18 November 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 205 achieved on 20 May ...

(born 2001), Brazilian tennis player * Mateus dos Anjos (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Asato (born 1993), Brazilian guitarist * Mateus Soares de Azevedo (born 1959), Brazilian historian * Mateus de Oliveira Barbosa (born 1987), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Borelli (born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Garcia Borges (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Caramelo (1994-2016), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Evangelista Cardoso (born 1994), Brazilian athlete * Mateus dos Santos Castro (born 1994), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Costa, Indian football head coach * Mateus Galiano da Costa (born 1984), Angolan footballer * Mateus Lima Cruz (born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Fernandes (died 1515), Portuguese architect * Mateus Fonseca (born 1993), Portuguese footballer * Mateus Alberto Contreiras Gonçalves (born 1983), Angolan footballer *

Mateus Gregório Mateus Filipe Gregório Machado (born 5 July 1993) is a Brazilian Olympic weightlifter. He has qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio ...

(born 1993), Brazilian weightlifter * Mateus Alonso Honorio (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Facho Inocêncio (born 1981), Brazilian athlete * Mateus de Brito Júnior, Angolan minister * Mateus Versolato Júnior (born 1983), Brazilian goalkeeper * Mateus Levendi (born 1993), Albanian footballer * Mateus Lopes (born 1975), Cape Verdean footballer * Mateus Müller de Souza Lopes (born 1995), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Alves Maciel (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Gonçalves Martins (born 1994), Brazilian footballer * Mateus da Costa Meira (born 1975), perpetrator of the 1999 Morumbi Shopping shooting * Mateus Moreira (died 1645), Brazilian Catholic martyr *

Mateus Norton Mateus Norton Gomes Chaves (born 19 July 1996), simply known as Mateus Norton, is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder (association football), midfielder for Clube Esportivo Bento Gonçalves, Bento ...

(born 1996), Brazilian footballer *

Mateus Vicente de Oliveira Mateus Vicente de Oliveira (1706–1786) was a Portugal, Portuguese architect. He studied under the architects João Frederico Ludovice and Jean Baptiste Robillon during the construction of the Mafra National Palace, royal palace at Mafra – Por ...

(1706-1786), Portuguese architect * Mateus Paraná (born 1987), Brazilian football striker * Mateus Pasinato (born 1992), Brazilian goalkeeper * Mateus Mendes Ferreira Pires (born 1992), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Meira Rita, São Toméan politician * Mateus de Sá (born 1995), Brazilian athlete * Mateus Shkreta (born 1994), Albanian footballer * Mateus da Silva (born 1991), Brazilian footballer * Mateus de Oliveira Silva (born 1994), Brazilian football midfielder * Mateus Ferreira da Silva (born 1995), Brazilian footballer * Mateus Solano (born 1981), Brazilian actor * Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás (1958-2010), Angolan Roman Catholic bishop * Mateus Uribe (born 1991), Colombian professional footballer * Mateus Vital (born 1998), Brazilian footballer *

Mateus Viveiros Mateus Viveiros Andrade (born 17 January 1998) is a Brazilian association football, footballer who plays as a right-back. Club career Born in Brasília, Viveiros started playing futsal when he was 6. When he was 11 he started playing football ...

(born 1966), Brazilian football player * Mateus Ward (born 1999), American actor * Mateus de Oliveira Xavier (1858-1929), Portuguese Roman Catholic Diocese

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* David Mateus (born 1980), Portuguese rugby union footballer * Diogo Mateus (born 1980), Portuguese rugby union footballer *

Octávio Mateus Octávio Mateus (born 1975) is a Portugal, Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist Professor of Paleontology at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da NOVA University Lisbon, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He graduated in University of � ...

(born 1975), Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist

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