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Peres

family name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ21449104 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peres is a patronymic Portuguese and Galician surname. Its modern variant is Pires.

There exists also a branch among Jewish people, not related with the first ones. In this case 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".

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 (1947–2023), Brazilian footballer

Paio Peres Correia (c. 1205–1275), 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

See also

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.

Editorial summary

“Peres” enters the record as family name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peres, family and name can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1934, 2005, 1775—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peres, family and name.
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Why this record matters

“Peres” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Peres, family and name provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21449104. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1934, 2005 and 1775.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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