Ribeiro

Ribeiro is a surname common in Galicia, Portugal and Brazil. It is also a wine-making region of Southeast central Galicia. In Portuguese, it literally means "small creek" or "by the river". In Galicia the surname was often Castilianized as Riveiro.

• Adriano Leite Ribeiro (born 1982), Brazilian football striker
• Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor/game show host
• Alexandre Ribeiro, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
• Ana Ribeiro (born 1955), Uruguayan historian, writer, and professor
• Anderson Ribeiro, Brazilian football player
• André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
• Antonio Ribeiro (soccer), Canadian football (soccer) player
• António Ribeiro, Catholic cardinal from Portugal
• Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, British surgeon
• Bernardim Ribeiro, 15th-century Portuguese poet
• Bruno de Paula Ribeiro Ingrácia, otherwise known as Bruno Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
• Bruno Ribeiro, Portuguese footballer
• Catherine Ribeiro, French singer
• Christian Ribeiro, Welsh footballer
• Diogo Ribeiro (or Diego Ribero), Portuguese cartographer and explorer
• Édson Ribeiro, Brazilian sprinter
• Edson Ribeiro, Brazilian musician
• Fernando Ribeiro, Portuguese singer
• Gilvan Ribeiro (born 1989), Brazilian canoeist
• Jorge Ribeiro (born 1981), Portuguese footballer
• Julio Francis Ribeiro, former Indian police officer and civil servant
• Lais Ribeiro, a Brazilian model
• Mike Ribeiro, Canadian Hockey player
• Pedro Júlio Marques Ribeiro, Portuguese footballer
• Pedro Manuel Mendes Ribeiro, Portuguese footballer
• Pedro Ribeiro (Brazilian footballer), Brazilian footballer
• Pery Ribeiro, Brazilian singer
• Robert Ribeiro, Hong Kong judge
• Sheila Ribeiro, artist
• Wladimir Ribeiro, Brazilian swimmer

See also

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