List of Famous people with last name Tavares

Patrícia Tavares is a Portuguese actress with a long-standing career.

Raquel Filipa Tavares is a Portuguese former Fado singer. In January 2020 she decided to end her professional career to pursue a life away from the stage.

Rodrigo Tavares is a Portuguese-born academic, finance professional, and public administrator. Previously, he was Head of Foreign Affairs of the São Paulo state government.

António Raposo Tavares o Velho (1598–1658) was a Portuguese colonial bandeirante who explored mainland eastern South America and claimed it for Portugal, extending the territory of the colony beyond the limits imposed by the treaty of Tordesillas. He also led the largest expedition ever made in the Americas, covering over 10,000 kilometres around South America, unifying completely the two large South American river basins and the Andes in a single voyage. Raposo Tavares departed from São Paulo towards the rivers of the Río de la Plata Basin and the Andean slopes, and from there to Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon. Raposo Tavares was partly of Jewish origin according to the Jewish historian Anita Novinsky.

Fernanda Tavares is a Brazilian model.

Júlio Tavares is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays as a striker for Saudi Professional League club Al-Faisaly and the Cape Verde national team.

André Luiz Tavares, commonly known as Andrezinho or even Tavares in South Korea, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. Mainly an attacking midfielder, he was also capable to play in other midfield positions, as a wide midfielder or central midfielder. He also has four caps with the Brazil U-23 and has one goal.

Rui Tavares is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He was elected in 2009 for the Left Bloc. In June 2011, Tavares became an independent within the Greens–European Free Alliance group. In 2014, he founded the new party LIVRE.

Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares is a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composes African, Portuguese and North American influenced world music. She composes in Portuguese and Portuguese-based creole languages. Although Portuguese is the main language of her songs, it's not rare to find in her repertoire multilingual songs mixing Portuguese with Portuguese creole and even English in the same song.

Marcos Magno Morales Tavares is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Maribor as a striker. He was also part of the Brazilian youth national teams. He gained Slovenian citizenship on 16 September 2013. Tavares is Maribor's all-time most capped player and top goalscorer. He is also the all-time top goalscorer of Slovenian PrvaLiga with 150 goals.