Vasco

Vasco may refer to:

People

Given name

Middle Ages

• Vasco da Gama (c. 1460s–1524), Portuguese explorer
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), Spanish conquistador
• Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, captain of Espírito Santo (1490–1561), Portuguese nobleman and first donatary of the Captaincy of Espírito Santo
• Vasco Fernandes (artist) (1475–1540), Portuguese painter
• Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78–1565), Spanish bishop and judge, first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico
• Vasco Martins de Sousa (1320s–1387), Lord of Mortágua and Chancellor mor under King Peter I of Portugal

Modern world

• Vasco Cordeiro (born 1973), Portuguese politician
• Vasco da Gama Fernandes (1908–1991), Portuguese politician, Chairman of the Portuguese Parliament
• Vasco Fernandes (footballer) (born 1986), Portuguese footballer
• Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese army officer and Prime Minister of Portugal from 1974 to 1975
• Vasco Lopes (born 1999), Portuguese footballer
• Vasco Oliveira (footballer, born 1922), Portuguese deceased footballer
• Vasco Oliveira (footballer, born 2000), Portuguese footballer
• Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, last Portuguese governor (1991–1999) of Macau
• Vasco Rossi (born 1952), Italian singer-songwriter
• Vasco Santana (1898–1958), Portuguese actor
• Vasco Sousa (footballer) (born 2003), Portuguese footballer

Surname

• André Vasco (born 1984), Brazilian actor and television presenter
• Giambattista Vasco (1733–1796), Italian economist and abbot
• María Vasco (born 1975), Spanish race walker
• Maurizio Vasco (born 1955), American television presenter

Nickname or stage name

• Vassil Evtimov (born 1977), French-Bulgarian former professional basketball player and head coach nicknamed "Vasco"
• Bill Stax, South Korean rapper Shin Dong-yeol (born 1980), former stage name Vasco

Sports clubs

• CR Vasco da Gama, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a sports club also known simply as Vasco
• Vasco Esporte Clube, Sergipe, Brazil, a football club
• Vasco SC, Goa, India, a sports club

Other uses

• Basque language, called vasco in Spanish
• Vasco da Gama, Goa, a city in India, often called simply Vasco
• Vasco Road, California, United States
• Vasco (album), a two-part EP by Ricardo Villalobos
• Jane Vasco, the lead character in the Painkiller Jane TV series
• × Vascostylis or Vasco, an orchid genus
• Vasco Data Security International, a corporate security firm now known as OneSpan
• Vietnam Air Services Company, a regional airline in southern Vietnam, a subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines

See also

• Vasco da Gama (disambiguation)