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Ribeiro is a Portuguese and Galician surname, also common in Brazil. It is also a wine-making region of central Galicia. Origin: Latin riparius, ("small stream" or "by the river". In Galicia the surname may have been Castilianized as Riveiro.

• Adriano Leite Ribeiro (born 1982), Brazilian football striker
• Aguinaldo Ribeiro (born 1969), Brazilian politician
• Alfonso Ribeiro (born 1971), American actor/game show host
• Alexandre Ribeiro (born 1981), Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
• Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro (1874–1939), Brazilian herpetologist and ichthyologist
• Ana Ribeiro (born 1955), Uruguayan historian, writer, and professor
• Anderson Ribeiro (born 1981), Brazilian football player
• André Ribeiro (1966–2021), Brazilian racing driver
• Antonio Ribeiro (soccer) (born 1980), Canadian football (soccer) player
• António Ribeiro (1928–1998), Catholic cardinal from Portugal
• Áureo Ribeiro (born 1979), Brazilian politician
• Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro (born 1944), British surgeon
• Bernardim Ribeiro (1482–1552), Portuguese poet
• Bruno de Paula Ribeiro Ingrácia (born 1983), otherwise known as Bruno Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
• Bruno Ribeiro (born 1975), Portuguese footballer
• Catherine Ribeiro (born 1941), French singer
• Christian Ribeiro (born 1989), Welsh footballer
• Darcy Ribeiro, (1922–1997), Brazilian anthropologist
• Diogo Ribeiro (cartographer) (or Diego Ribero) (16th century), Portuguese cartographer and explorer
• Édson Ribeiro (born 1972), Brazilian sprinter
• Edson Ribeiro, Brazilian musician
• Fabian Defu Ribeiro (1933–1986), South African doctor and anti-apartheid activist
• Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner
• Fernando Ribeiro, Portuguese singer
• Florence Ribeiro (1933–1986), South African anti-apartheid activist
• Gilvan Ribeiro (born 1989), Brazilian canoeist
• João Mário Ribeiro (born 1929), Portuguese chess master
• Jorge Ribeiro (born 1981), Portuguese footballer
• Julio Francis Ribeiro (born 1929), former Indian police officer and civil servant
• Lais Ribeiro (born 1989), a Brazilian model
• Miguel Ribeiro (born 1974), Portuguese screenwriter and filmmaker
• Mike Ribeiro (born 1980), Canadian hockey player
• Pedro Júlio Marques Ribeiro (born 1979), Portuguese footballer
• Pedro Manuel Mendes Ribeiro (born 1983), Portuguese footballer
• Pedro Ribeiro (Brazilian footballer) (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
• Pery Ribeiro (1937–2012), Brazilian singer
• Regina Lúcia Ribeiro (born 1961), Brazilian chess master
• Robert Ribeiro (born 1949), Hong Kong judge
• Sheila Ribeiro (born 1973), artist
• Wladimir Ribeiro (born 1967), Brazilian swimmer
• Zulaiê Cobra Ribeiro (born 1943), Brazilian lawyer and politician

See also

• Ribeiro (DO), the Spanish wine-producing region in Galicia