Saldanha

Saldanha may refer to:

Places

South Africa

  • Saldanha Bay, a bay in Western Cape
  • Saldanha, Western Cape, a town on the bay
  • Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, the unit of government that administers the Saldanha Bay region

Other countries

  • Saldanha (Lisbon Metro), a railway station in Lisbon, Portugal
  • Saldanha, a civil parish in Mogadouro, Portugal
  • Saldaña de Burgos, Castile and León, Spain

People

  • Saldanha (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian football right-back
  • Saldanha (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian football forward
  • Saldanha da Gama (1846–1895), Brazilian admiral
  • António de Saldanha (fl. 16th century), Castilian-Portuguese explorer for whom the South African bay is named
  • Carlos Saldanha (born 1965), Brazilian film director
  • Jacintha Saldanha (1966–2012), Indian nurse in London who committed suicide after a prank call
  • João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha (1790–1876), Portuguese marshal and statesman
  • João Saldanha (1917–1990), Brazilian journalist and football manager
  • José Pintos Saldanha (born 1964), Uruguayan footballer
  • Josh Saldanha, former drummer for the German metal band Disillusion
  • Lawrence Saldanha (born 1936), Indian Catholic priest, 10th Archbishop of Lahore
  • V. J. P. Saldanha (1925–2000), Indian Konkani-language writer

Military history

  • Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781), a naval action of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
  • Capitulation of Saldanha Bay, the 1796 surrender of a Dutch expeditionary force to the British Royal Navy
  • HMS Saldanha, two vessels of the Royal Navy

Science

  • Saldanha (plant genus), a former genus in the plant family Rubiaceae
  • Saldanha catshark, Apristurus saldanha
  • 1456 Saldanha, an asteroid

Other uses

  • Saldanha Steel, a South African steel company
  • Beals v. Saldanha, a Supreme Court of Canada decision
  • Duke of Saldanha, a Portuguese title

See also

  • Saldaña (disambiguation), the Spanish form of this name
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