Pinto
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Pinto, Portuguese or Spanish for "motley"[1] and also for Baby chick, may mean a number of different things.
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[edit] General
- Conspiracy Of The Pintos, rebellion against Portuguese rule in Goa, India.
- Ford Pinto, a car.
- Ford Pinto engine, engine built by the Ford Motor Company in Europe.
- Pinto beans.
- Pinto horse.
- Gallo Pinto, a Nicaraguan dish.
[edit] Surname
Pinto is a common surname in the Portuguese, Italian and Spanish languages. It is a name associated with a great number of different people:
- Joanna Pinto, British playwright.
- Fernão Mendes Pinto, Portuguese adventurer, explorer and writer.
- George Pinto, English composer and keyboard virtuoso.
- João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer.
- Sérgio Sousa Pinto, Portuguese politician.
- Carlos Mota Pinto, Portuguese politician.
- Aníbal Pinto, Chilean politician.
- Manuel Pinto da Costa, politician from São Tomé and Príncipe.
- Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator.
- Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Canadian female boxer.
- José de Magalhães Pinto, Brazilian politician and banker.
- Pinto Colvig, American actor.
- Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician and media entrepreneur.
- Isaac de Pinto Portuguese moralist.
- Francisco Antonio Pinto, Chilean politician.
- Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician.
- Vivian de Sola Pinto, British poet, literary critic and historian.
- José María Orellana Pinto, Guatemalan politician.
- João Domingos Pinto, Portuguese footballer and coach.
- Manuel Guillermo Pinto, Argentine general.
- Sara Pinto Coelho, Portuguese writer.
- Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, president of Portuguese club FC Porto.
- Pio Gama Pinto, Kenyan politicians.
- José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, Portuguese politician.
- Jane Pinto Reis Engelhard, American philanthropist.
- João Ferreira Franco Pinto Castelo Branco, Portuguese politician.
- Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, the real-life Brazilian Girl from Ipanema.
- Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto, Colombian lawyer, journalist and newscaster.
- David Pinto, baseball blogger
[edit] Places
- Pinto, near Madrid, Spain.
- Pinto, an unincorporated community in Maryland
- Palo Pinto County, Texas, United States.
- Pinto Martins International Airport, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
- Rodovia Carvalho Pinto, highway in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Estádio Magalhães Pinto, football stadium in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Cittá Pinto, in Malta.
- Pinto, Chile