What is "mascarenhas"

Mascarenhas may refer to:

• Mascarenhas (surname), people named Mascarenhas
• Mascarenhas Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean
• Mascarenhas (Dili), a suco of Dili, East Timor

Mascarenhas is a Portuguese-language surname. The Mascarenhas name is a habitational name taken on from a civil parish in Portugal called Mascarenhas. This name is branched to Spain and is also found in India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists, like Goa and Mangalore. It may refer to these persons:

• Dimitri Mascarenhas, English cricketer
• Francisco de Mascarenhas, 13th vice-regent of Portuguese controlled India, 1581–1584
• Cecilia Mascarenhas, Retired Goan cultural historian
• Mascarenhas de Moraes, Brazilian field marshal and commander of Brazilian Expeditionary Force
• Mascarenhas, Portuguese footballer
• Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator
• António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cape Verdean politician
• Rodrigo Mascarenhas, Cape Verdean basketball player
• Mark Mascarenhas, high profile sports agent from India, promoted career of (and launched commercial contracts for) India's cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar
• Charlie Mascarenhas, a fictional character from the film Players
• Fr Oswald Mascarenhas SJ, Chairman St aloysius college, Mangalore
• Family Mascarenhas from Cape Verde, Santa Catarina de Santiago.

See also Administrative divisions of Portugal

Domingos António da Silva (28 April 1937 – 25 August 2015), known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.