Sebastião is a Portuguese male given name, descending from the Latin Sebastianus and equivalent to the English name Sebastian.

Notable people

Notable people with this name include:

Art

* Sebastião Alba, Portuguese poet * Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer and photojournalist * Sebastião Tapajós, Brazilian guitarist

Politics

* Sebastião Custódio de Sousa Teles, Portuguese politician * Sebastião Fernandes da Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician *Sebastião I, also known as

Sebastian of Portugal Sebastian ( ; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz. He was the son of João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, and his wife, Joanna of Aus ...

, Portuguese king *

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal Dom (honorific), D. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal and 1st Count of Oeiras (13 May 1699 – 8 May 1782), known as the Marquis of Pombal ( ), was a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who Despotism, despotically ruled ...

, Portuguese statesman

Religion

* Sebastião Barradas, Portuguese preacher * Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, Brazilian cardinal * Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado, Indo-Portuguese priest * Sebastião Soares de Resende, Portuguese Catholic bishop

Sport

Football

* Sebastião Gilberto, Angolan footballer * Sebastião Lazaroni, Brazilian football manager * Sebastião Loureiro da Silva, Portuguese footballer * Sebastião Matateu, Portuguese footballer * Sebastião Mendes, Brazilian footballer * Sebastião Miranda da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer *

Sebastião Nogueira Sebastião José Lopes de Melo e Nogueira (born 9 September 1988) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Oriental. Club career He made his professional debut in the Cypriot First Division for Nea Salamina Nea Salamis Famag ...

, Portuguese footballer * Sebastião Pereira do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer

Other

* Sebastião Amorim Gimenez, Brazilian basketball player * Sebastião Herédia, Portuguese fencer * Sebastião Wolf, Brazilian sport shooter

Other

* Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho, Portuguese explorer

References

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