Peres

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Peres is a Portuguese, Galician, and Judaeo-Spanish surname. Its Spanish variant is Pérez. It is common in both forms Peres, Perez, and Peretz among descendants of Sephardic Jews in Puerto Rico.

Hebrew: פרס, romanized: ˈperes is the name of the Bearded vulture or Gypaetus barbatus, commonly known as the lammergeier). However, the surname is from the son of Tamar and Judah, whose name means "bearded vulture". In the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Daniel, 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 and Persians".^[1]

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
Christiana Ubach, née Peres (born 1987), Brazilian actress
Fernando Pérez de Trava (c.1090-1155), Galician medieval nobleman
Javier Peres (born 1972), American art dealer
Marinho Peres (born 1947), Brazilian footballer
Paio Peres Correia (born c. 1205), Portuguese medieval nobleman
Shimon Peres (1923–2016), Israeli politician (born Szymon Perski)
Sonia Peres (1923–2011), Israeli first lady
Valter Peres (born 1954), Brazilian footballer
Waldir Peres (1951–2017), Brazilian footballer
Vimara Peres (died 873), Galician medieval count and first Count of Portucale
Peres (Portuguese footballer) (born 1939), full name António Francisco de Jesus Moreira, Portuguese football midfielder
Peres (Brazilian footballer) (born 1974), full name Peres Spíndula de Oliveira, Brazilian football forward

References

^ Daniel 5:28

Pérès, French surname
Des Peres (disambiguation)
Pérez (disambiguation)
Pires (disambiguation)
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

Surname list

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Surnames associated with the given name Peter

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