List of Famous people with last name Tavares

Edson Araujo Tavares is a Brazilian football manager.

Frederick Theodore Tavares was an American musician and inventor. Born in Hawaii, Tavares is perhaps best known for his role in designing the Fender Stratocaster and other Fender instruments and amplifiers. He was also a virtuoso on the steel guitar, playing on many hundreds of recording sessions, radio broadcasts and movie soundtracks. The signature steel guitar swoop at the beginning of every Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical short was played by Tavares. His other credits include work with Ray Conniff, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, The Sons of the Pioneers, "Tennessee" Ernie Ford, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Lawrence Welk, and Henry Mancini.

Marcílio Henrique Tavares Gonçalves, better known as Ricky Tavares, is a Brazilian actor and model.

Teodoro Mendes Tavares is a Cape Verdean clergyman and the first and only Cape Verdean-born bishop of any diocese in Brazil, he is currently the third Catholic bishop of Ponta de Pedras, covering the Marajó Archipelago in Pará

Arthur Tavares (1884–1954) was an American actor and film editor. He was born as Arturo Tavares in San Francisco in 1884. During the 1910s Tavares appeared as an actor in silent films in Hollywood. During the 1920s he switched to become an editor. At the beginning of the sound era, Tavares worked on Spanish language versions of American films. He also made a number of films in Britain, including The Wrecker, The First Born and Song of Freedom.

Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares is an Angolan poet.