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Sousa () or de Sousa (literally, ''from Sousa'') is a common Portuguese-language surname, especially in Portugal, Brazil, East Timor, and India (among Catholics in Bombay, Mangalore and Goa), and Galicia.〔http://ilg.usc.es/cag/Controlador_ing?busca=sousa〕 In Africa, the name is common among people with Portuguese and Brazilian roots in Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. During the colonial era, the Portuguese stayed at the coast and built many forts along the coastal areas for trade which was later used for the slave trade. They also had children with the women and the children automatically were given their fathers' last names. Afro Brazilians who came back to Africa also carry this last name. Among some of those people are the Tabom people, descendants of Francisco Félix de Sousa, a white man from Salvador, Bahia in Brazil, once known to be the richest man in west Africa due to his involvement in the slave trade in West Africa. A prominent family carrying the spelling de Sousa emigrated from Portugal to Goa during mid 1956, before leaving to Hong Kong. This was followed by a third relocation in the mid 1960s, where they now reside in Melbourne, Australia. The family donated their property in Hong Kong to Franciscan nuns. The name was originally a toponym, denoting a river in Northern Portugal, from the Latin ''Saxa'', meaning ''rocks''. Sometimes the spelling is in the archaic form Souza or de Souza, which has occasionally been changed to D'Souza. The Spanish equivalent of this surname is Sosa. As a name, it may refer to: ==General== * John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), American composer * Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887–1918), Portuguese painter * Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885–1954), Portuguese diplomat * Aurélia de Souza (1867–1922), Portuguese painter. * Felipa de Souza (1556–1600), Portuguese-Brazilian lesbian convicted and tortured by the Inquisition * Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza (1944–), British scientist * Francis Newton Souza (1924–2002), Indian artist from Goa * Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas (1876–1954), Brazilian diplomat * Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos (1914–2009), Brazilian physicist * Martim Afonso de Sousa (ca 1500–1571), Portuguese explorer * Maurício de Sousa (1935–), Brazilian comic book artist * Dona Ana de Sousa (c. 1583–1663), aka Ngola Ann Nzinga Mbande, Angolan queen * Roland deSouza, Pakistani consultant engineer and activist * Sabrina De Sousa (ca 1956–1985), American diplomat * Teotonio R. de Souza (1947–), Indian historian * Tomé de Sousa (1503–1579), Portuguese nobleman and first governor-general of Brazil * Aloysius Paul D’Souza (1941–), Bishop of the Mangalore Diocese, India * Basil Salvadore D’Souza (1926–1996), Bishop of the Mangalore Diocese, India * Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1915–1983), Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sousa (surname)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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