Borges (surname)
Borges (Spanish: [ˈboɾxes], Portuguese: [ˈbɔɾʒis], [ˈbɔχʒiʃ] or [ˈbɔɾʒɨʃ]) is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. Jorge Luis Borges, the most notable person with this name, notes that his family name, like Burgess in English, means "of the town", "bourgeois".[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- António Borges (1949–2013), Portuguese economist and banker
- António Borges (equestrian) (1906–2011), Portuguese horse rider
- Carlos Borges (1932–2014), Uruguayan footballer
- Celso Borges (born 1988), Costa Rican footballer
- Fernanda Borges, East Timorese politician
- Graciela Borges (born 1941), Argentine actress
- Gustavo Borges (born 1972), Brazilian swimmer
- Hernâni Borges (born 1981), Cape Verdean footballer
- Humberlito Borges Teixeira (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
- Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam, Argentine writer
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine writer
- José Borges, Cuban baseball player
- Julio Borges (born 1969), Venezuelan politician
- Lucas Borges (born 1980), Argentine rugby player
- Norah Borges (1901–1998), Argentine artist
- Phil Borges (born 1942), photographer
- Raúl Borges (1882–1967), Venezuelan pedagogue, guitarist and composer
- Ron Borges, American sportswriter
- Víctor Borges (born 1955), Cape Verdean foreign minister
- Wágner de Andrade Borges (born 1987), Brazilian footballer
- Willian Borges da Silva (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
See also
- Borges (disambiguation)
- Burges, English surname
- Burgess (surname), English surname
- Borge (surname), Danish surname
References
- ^ Richard Burgin (editor), Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations (Literary Conversations), 1998, page 227. "Now, the name Borges itself is not Jewish. Borges is the same as Burgess in English; it means "bourgeois," man of the burg, the town, as in Edinburgh, Hamburg, Rothenburg, Burgos in Spain..."
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