Saldanha
Saldanha is a Portuguese surname. Saldanha may refer to:
Places
Portugal
- Saldanha (Mogadouro), a civil parish in the municipality of Mogadouro, Portugal
South Africa
- Saldanha Bay, a natural bay in Western Cape, South Africa
- Saldanha, Western Cape, a town on the northern shore of the bay
- Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, the unit of government that administers the Saldanha Bay region
People
- António de Saldanha, a Portuguese explorer after whom the bay was named
- Carlos Saldanha, a Brazilian movie director
- Duke of Saldanha, a Portuguese title granted by royal decree
- João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha, a Portuguese marshal and statesman
- Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse for King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes, prank call victim
- João Saldanha, a Brazilian journalist and football manager
- José Pintos Saldanha, a Uruguayan footballer
- Lawrence Saldanha, Indian Catholic priest, 10th Archbishop of Lahore
- V. J. P. Saldanha, Indian litterateur, dramatist, musician, and poet
- Josh Saldanha, an Indian Drummer and multi-instrumentalist
Other
- Saldanha Steel, a South African steel company
- Beals v. Saldanha, a Supreme Court of Canada decision
- Saldanha catshark, Apristurus saldanha
- Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781), in which a large squadron of the Royal Navy captured five Dutch East Indiamen.
- Capitulation of Saldanha Bay, the surrender of a navy of the Batavian Republic squadron to a Royal Navy squadron at Saldanha Bay on 17 August 1796
- 1456 Saldanha, an asteroid
- Saldanha, a former genus in the plant family Rubiaceae.
- HMS Saldanha - either of two vessels of the Royal Navy
See also
- Saldaña (disambiguation), the Spanish form of this name
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