Pires
Pires is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Pedro or Son of Pero. Its Spanish equivalent is Pérez. It is a variant form of Peres. It may mean different things:
People
- Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, Angolan-Portuguese writer
- Alfredo Pires, Timor-Leste politician
- Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer
- Álvaro Henrique Alves Pires, Brazilian footballer
- Anabela Braz Pires, Portuguese singer and actress
- Arlindo do Carmo Pires Barbeitos, Angolan poet
- Cléo Pires, Brazilian actress
- Cornélio Pires, Brazilian journalist, writer and folklorist
- Diogo Pires, known as Solomon Molcho, a self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah
- Emília Pires, Timor-Leste Minister of Finance
- Felipe Pires, Brazilian footballer
- Fernão Pires de Andrade, Portuguese merchant and official
- Francisco Fortunato Pires, São Toméan politician
- Gérard Pirès, French film director and writer
- Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
- Hilda Pires dos Reis, Brazilian composer
- Isabel Cristina Torreão Pires, Brazilian serial killer and cannibal
- Isabel Pires, Portuguese politician
- João Murça Pires, Brazilian botanist
- Jorge Costa Pires, Portuguese footballer
- José Cardoso Pires, Portuguese writer
- José Mariano Rebelo Pires Gago, Portuguese high-energy physicist and Minister for Science
- Loick Pires, English footballer
- Luís Pires, Portuguese explorer
- Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira, São Toméan politician
- Maria João Pires, Portuguese pianist
- Mário Lemos Pires, last governor of Portuguese Timor
- Mário Pires, Guinea-Bissau politician and former Prime Minister
- Nuno Pires, South African bioinformatician
- Paulo Pires, Portuguese model and actor
- Pedro Pires, President of Cape Verde
- Robert Pires, French footballer
- Rosemir Pires, Brazilian footballer
- Tomé Pires, first Portuguese envoy to China