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Melo may refer to:

People:

  • Fab Melo (born 1990), Brazilian basketball player
  • Felipe Melo, Brazilian football player
  • Marcelo Melo, Brazilian tennis player
  • Melus of Bari (Melo in Italian), 11th century Apulian aristocrat
  • Carmelo Anthony (born 1984), American basketball player nicknamed "Melo"
  • Melo, Portuguese Mythical character know for its tease

Places:

  • Melo, Córdoba, a settlement in the Presidente Roque Sáenz Peña Department, Argentina
  • Melo, Uruguay, the capital city of the Cerro Largo Department of north-eastern Uruguay
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Melo, Uruguay
  • Melo, a parish of Gouveia, Portugal

Other uses:

  • Melo (surname), a Portuguese surname
  • Mélo, a 1929 play by Henri Bernstein and two film adaptations
  • Melo language, spoken in Ethiopia
  • Melo (gastropod), a genus of very large sea snails
  • Cucumis or melo, a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants
Melo (gastropod)

Melo is a genus of extremely large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes. Because of their huge ovate shells, these snails are often known as "bailers" (the shells were sometimes used for bailing out canoes) or "melons" (because the shell resembles that fruit).

Species in this genus sometimes produce large pearls. The image in the taxobox shows a group of these pearls with a shell of the species Melo melo.

Melo (surname)

Melo is a Portuguese surname. Variants include Mello, de Melo or de Mello, D'Melo or D'Mello, De Melo and De Mello.

People with the surname include:

  • Andrés Granier Melo (born 1948), Mexican Governor of Tabasco
  • Anthony de Mello (1931–1987), Jesuit priest, psychotherapist and writer
  • António Barbosa de Melo (born 1932), Portuguese politician and lawyer
  • Araquem de Melo (1944–2001), Brazilian footballer
  • Beevan D'Mello (born 1987), Indian footballer
  • Carlos Melo (born 1982), Panamanian boxer
  • Carlos Galvão de Melo (1921–2008), Portuguese Air Force officer and member of the National Salvation Junta after the 1974 Carnation Revolution
  • Custódio José de Melo (1840–1902), Brazilian admiral, who led the Brazilian fleet in two revolts in 1891 and 1893-4.
  • Daniel Melo (born 1977), Brazilian former tennis player, brother of Marcelo Melo
  • Ernesto Melo Antunes (1933–1999), Portuguese military officer who played a major role in the Carnation Revolution
  • Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Brazilian historian and history writer
  • Fabricio "Fab" Paulino de Melo (born 1990), Brazilian basketball player who played for Syracuse University for two years.
  • Fatima Moreira de Melo (born 1978), Dutch field hockey player
  • Felipe Melo (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
  • Fernando Collor de Mello (born 1949), Brazilian politician
  • Fontes Pereira de Melo (1819–1887), Portuguese statesman, politician and engineer
  • Francisco de Melo (1597–1651), Portuguese-Spanish general and diplomat
  • Francisco Manuel de Mello (1608–1666), Portuguese writer
  • Froilano de Mello (1887–1955), Indo-Portuguese microbiologist, medical scientist, professor, author and independent Member of Parliament in the Portuguese parliament
  • Gilberto da Silva Melo (born 1976), Brazilian footballer
  • Jaime Melo (born 1980), Brazilian racing driver
  • Jeff DeMello (born 1956), Retired Information Security Professional
  • Jose Melo (born 1932), former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
  • Jose Afonso Xavier-de Melo (1918-1996), Boca de Vaca, Pangim, Goa - Portuguese police officer (His son is Stanislaus)
  • José Andrés Pacheco de Melo (1779-c. 1820), Argentine statesman and priest
  • José María Melo (1800–1860), Colombian president and general
  • José Artur de Melo Júnior (born 1987), Brazilian footballer
  • Leopoldo Melo (1869–1951), Argentine lawyer, diplomat and politician
  • Márcio Melo (1906–1991), Brazilian air force general
  • Marcelo Melo (born 1983), Brazilian tennis player
  • Pedro de Melo (1734–1797), Spanish soldier and Viceroy of the Rio de la Plata in South America
  • Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal (1699-1782), Portuguese statesman
  • Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948–2003), Brazilian diplomat
  • Suzanne D'Mello, Indian playback singer
  • Túlio de Melo (born 1985), Brazilian footballer
  • Welington de Melo (born 1946), Brazilian mathematician
  • Wélton Araújo Melo (born 1975), Brazilian former footballer
  • Zé Marco de Melo (born 1971), Brazilian beach volleyball player and silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Mario J. De Mello (born 1978), American comedian, bit actor

Usage examples of "melo".

Their bases are few, having only two planets, Melos and Illyria, neither of them as well defended as was Cadmus.

Lame Deer, and Marius walked abreast along one of the sidewalks of Melos, which was the name of the principle market city, as well as that of the planet itself.

Miles had expected a noisy, raucous spacer-town, but Melos was nearly silent, and rather picturesque in the cool evening.

Cimmerian Fleet to a banquet, to be held at my Melos villa this evening.

Ludmilla had, reluctantly, left behind the swashbuckling lady-pirate outfit she had worn on Melos and was now dressed in a demure belted gown, with all weapons tucked out of sight.

On Melos, he told me why he had chosen to follow you into the church service.

He was the young, handsome officer she had seen on Melos, the one who had been so objectionably familiar with her thigh.

In the room which he had rented in the city of Melos, he continued the task.

More mystery was awaiting me on the landing at Paphos harbour in the form of the jovial Mr Melos who stood on the wharf in his best blue suit, holding a card with my last name written on it.

Our greeter introduced himself and I understood at once why I had sweated and strained through the summer to learn the language: Mr Melos spoke no English.

The reason for my adventure remained obscure, and I had begun to wonder whether I ought to say something about it, when Mr Melos appeared as we were having breakfast one morning.

The statues, by a variety of hands in a variety of styles, had one element in common: their subjects were not ordinary humans and aliens and animals but idealized creatures like Michelangelos David or the Venus of Melos, as if Timshel City and its inhabitants were reaching for the perfection inherent in every being.

David or the Venus of Melos, as if Timshel City and its inhabitants were reaching for the perfection inherent in every being.

Mann was forced to perpetrate a hack job, a wallowing melo with the Spirit as twins, a good girl in a blonde wig and a bad girl in a black one, from which his career never recovered and her own survival truly miraculous.