Santos - Places, Other

23°56S 46°22W, pop (2000e) 561 800. Port in São Paulo state, SE Brazil; 63 km/39 mi SE of São Paulo and 5 km/3 mi from the Atlantic coast, on an island; founded in 1534; railway; the most important Brazilian port, handling over 40% of all imports, and about half of all exports; major industrial area around the steelworks, oil refinery and hydroelectric plant at Cubatão, known locally as the Valley of Death because of chemical factory pollution; railway.

It is a name associated with a great number of different people:

Jeffrey Santos, Portuguese politician. Roberto Santos, Brazilian film director. Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer. Lucélia Santos, Brazilian actress, director and producer. Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer. Daniel Santos a Puerto Rican singer and composer. Daniel Santos a Puerto Rican boxer. Santos Acosta, Colombian general and political figure. Álvaro Santos, Brazilian footballer. Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer. Santos Ortega, American actor. Ary dos Santos, Portuguese poet. Conrad Santos, Canadian politician. José Santos Zelaya, Nicaraguan politician. José Eduardo dos Santos, Angolan politician. Manuel António dos Santos, Portuguese politician. Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Angolan politician. Leslie George Santos, Hong Kong footballer. Antonio da Costa Santos, Brazilian architect and politician. Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director. Fausto dos Santos, Brazilian footballer. José Santos Guardiola, Honduran politician. Domitila, Marchioness of Santos, Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil. José dos Santos Ferreira, Portuguese-Macanese writer. Hélio de Oliveira Santos, Brazilian physician and politician. Lúcia dos Santos, known as Sister Lúcia of Jesus, Portuguese Roman Catholic Carmelite nun and seer of Our Lady of Fatima. Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor. António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician. Paulo Jorge dos Santos Futre, Portuguese footballer. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos, known as Pepetela, Angolan writer. José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as Zeca Afonso, Portuguese singer, composer and poet. Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia, heir to the Spanish throne. Nora Keahi Santos, singer of nontraditional, or "auana", Hawaiian music and 2002 Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Places

Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. General Santos City, South Cotabato, Philippines. Los Santos, San Andreas, a fictional city within the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Santos Dumont Regional Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Baía de Todos os Santos, Bahia, Brazil. Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Rodovia Santos Dumont, highway in São Paulo, Brazil. Club Santos Laguna, Mexican football team. Santos de Guápiles Fútbol Club, Costa Rican football club. (England), English football club Santos Football Club (Belfast), Northern Ireland football club Santos Football Club (South Africa) Santos Futebol Clube de Angola, Angolan football team. Santos Football Club (Burkina), Burkinabé football team Santos, Jamaican football club Santos, a dance group who had a one hit wonder with the track "Camels"

Other

Santos Limited, a large Australian oil company. Santos House, the tallest building in Adelaide, South Australia and current HQ of Santos Ltd. Santos, A wooden carving tradition begun by Jesuit priests in Spain in the 16th century, then imported to the New World and still made in Northern New Mexico.