title: Mateus (name)
text: # Mateus (name)
  
  Mateus is a Portuguese given name and surname, equivalent to the English Matthew. Notable people with the name include:
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Mateus (ambassador), Armenian ambassador of Emperor Dawit II of Ethiopia
  * Mateus Alves (born 2001), Brazilian tennis player
  * Mateus dos Anjos (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Asato (born 1993), Brazilian guitarist
  * Mateus Soares de Azevedo (born 1959), Brazilian historian
  * Mateus de Oliveira Barbosa (born 1987), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Borelli (born 1993), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Garcia Borges (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Caramelo (1994-2016), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Evangelista Cardoso (born 1994), Brazilian athlete
  * Mateus dos Santos Castro (born 1994), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Costa, Indian football head coach
  * Mateus Galiano da Costa (born 1984), Angolan footballer
  * Mateus Lima Cruz (born 1993), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Fernandes (died 1515), Portuguese architect
  * Mateus Aparecido de Oliveira Fonseca (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Fonseca (born 1993), Portuguese footballer
  * Mateus Alberto Contreiras Gonçalves (born 1983), Angolan footballer
  * Mateus Gregório (born 1993), Brazilian weightlifter
  * Mateus Alonso Honorio (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Facho Inocêncio (born 1981), Brazilian athlete
  * Mateus de Brito Júnior, Angolan minister
  * Mateus Versolato Júnior (born 1983), Brazilian goalkeeper
  * Mateus Levendi (born 1993), Albanian footballer
  * Mateus Lopes (born 1975), Cape Verdean footballer
  * Mateus Müller de Souza Lopes (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Alves Maciel (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Gonçalves Martins (born 1994), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus da Costa Meira (born 1975), perpetrator of the 1999 Morumbi Shopping shooting
  * Mateus Moreira (died 1645), Brazilian Catholic martyr
  * Mateus Norton (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Vicente de Oliveira (1706-1786), Portuguese architect
  * Mateus Paraná (born 1987), Brazilian football striker
  * Mateus Pasinato (born 1992), Brazilian goalkeeper
  * Mateus Mendes Ferreira Pires (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Meira Rita, São Toméan politician
  * Mateus de Sá (born 1995), Brazilian athlete
  * Mateus Shkreta (born 1994), Albanian footballer
  * Mateus da Silva (born 1991), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus de Oliveira Silva (born 1994), Brazilian football midfielder
  * Mateus Ferreira da Silva (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Solano (born 1981), Brazilian actor
  * Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás (1958-2010), Angolan Roman Catholic bishop
  * Mateus Uribe (born 1991), Colombian professional footballer
  * Mateus Vital (born 1998), Brazilian footballer
  * Mateus Viveiros (born 1966), Brazilian football player
  * Mateus Ward (born 1999), American actor
  * Mateus de Oliveira Xavier (1858-1929), Portuguese Roman Catholic Diocese
  
  ## Surname
  
  * David Mateus (born 1980), Portuguese rugby union footballer
  * Diogo Mateus (born 1980), Portuguese rugby union footballer
  * Octávio Mateus (born 1975), Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist
  