Pimentel (surname)

Pimentel is a noble and distinguished Portuguese, Spanish, and (Sephardic) Jewish surname which denotes a 'buyer/seller of 'pepper' or 'field of peppers'. The inquisition in Portugal officially began in 1536. The Portuguese Jews were forcibly converted to Christianity and became New Christians. The tribunal records of the Portuguese Inquisition are kept in the Torre do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal, and contain the records of hundreds of New Christian Pimentels who were accused of heresy and of relapsing into Judaism. Portugal controlled the Spice trade during the 1500s, and the Sugar trade up until the mid-1700s, The New Christian Pimentels were well known and respected both in Portugal and abroad as :

From what appears in the archives, the Pimentel of Spain are descendants of D. João Afonso de Pimentel, a Portuguese knight who arrived at the court of Castile. This family's manor was Torre de Novaes, in the kingdom of Galicia, from where the conquest of Portugal passed during the time of the first kings.^[1]

Pimentel Jewish Sephardic origin can be traced to Spain, Portugal, Amsterdam, Sardinia (Italy), Brazil and Latin America.

Notable people with this surname include:

• Abraham Cohen Pimentel (died 1697), Portuguese Sephardic Dutch Rabbi
• Alejandro Sanchez Pimentel (born 1959), Dominican basketball-player
• Antonio Pimentel Tlahuitoltzin (16th century), ruler of Texcoco
• António de Serpa Pimentel (1825-1900), Portuguese Prime Minister
• Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. (1933-2019), Filipino human rights activist
  • Aquilino Pimentel III (born 1964), his son
• Daniel Kenedy Pimentel Mateus dos Santos (born 1974), Portuguese footballer
• David Pimentel (1925–2019), environmental science professor
• Diego Carrillo de Mendoza y Pimentel (died 1631), Spanish viceroy
• Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1752-1799), Italian poet and revolutionary)
• Eloá Pimentel, hostage victim
• Esmeralda Pimentel (born 1989), Mexican actress and model
• Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel (1507-1582), Spanish duke
• Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel (1587-1645), Spanish duke and prime minister
• Genaro Gongora Pimentel (born 1937), Mexican jurist
• George C. Pimentel (1922-1989), American inventor of Chemical laser
• Gerardo García Pimentel (1983-2007), Mexican journalist
• Isaías Pimentel (1933-2017), Venezuelan tennis player
• Jesús Pimentel (born 1940), Mexican boxer
• Joel Pimentel, member of CNCO
• Jose Pimentel Ejercito (born 1963), Filipino politician
• Luisa Pimentel-Ejercito (born 1930), Filipino politician and first spouse
• María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente (1752-1834)
• Mickey Pimentel (born 1985), American football player
• Miguel Jontel Pimentel (born 1985), American singer
• Osvaldo Lenine Macedo Pimentel, known as Lenine, (born 1959), Brazilian singer
• Richard Pimentel (born c. 1948), American disability rights activist
• Rodrigo P. Pimentel, American political analyst and DREAMer
• Rodrigo R. Pimentel (born 1972), Brazilian police officer
• Ronald Pimentel (born 1985), football player
• Sávio Bortolini Pimentel (born 1974), Brazilian footballer
• Stolmy Pimentel (born 1990), Dominican baseball player
• Thiago Pimentel Gosling (born 1979), Brazilian footballer
• Timothy Mark Pimentel Eigenmann (born 1981), Filipino actor
• Valentín Pimentel (born 1991), Panamanian footballer

Surname list

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