Araújo

Araújo or Araujo or Arauxo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾɐˈuʒu], Galician pronunciation: [aɾaˈuʃʊ], Spanish: [aɾaˈuxo]) is a Galician and Portuguese surname. The surname Araújo is of toponymic origin derived from a place in the Province of Ourense which is part of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in North Western Spain next to the Portuguese border where a Crusader Knight of French Noble descent, Don Rodrigo Anes, was rewarded with reconquered Iberian lands during the Reconquista. Don Rodrigo Anes de Araújo lived in the 14th century during the reign of King Ferdinand I of Portugal (1367-1383). Don Rodrigo Anes de Araújo built a Castle and named it Araújo which can be found in all the ancient Galician maps.

"Araujo" redirects here. For the Napa winery, see Araujo Estate Wines.
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Closeup of Araujia sericifera.

Later Pedro Anes de Araújo decided to move from Galicia to live in Portugal and because of this the surname Araújo seems to be a habitational name in Portugal and can be found in and around Portuguese cities such as Coimbra, Elvas, Estremoz, Lisbon, Torre de Moncorvo, Monção, Serpa, Setúbal, and Vila Verde.

The poisonous plant with white fragrant flowers known in Latin as Araujia sericifera was named after the botanist António de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca (1754–1817), who was a descendant of Rodrigo Anes de Araújo.

History

The progenitor of this surname Araújo is Rodrigo Anes, who was lord of the lands known as Araúxo located in Southern Kingdom of Galicia in modern NW Spain in the Galician Province of Ourense close to the Miño/Minho river. This river marked the border between Kingdom of Galicia and Northern Portugal, which had been a part of the Kingdom of Galicia in the 12th century.

Rodrigo Anes, better known as Rodrigo Anes de Araújo, was descended from members of the royal families of the kingdom of France and the kingdom of Burgundy via a noble Knight named Jean Tiranoth.

Rodrigo Anes de Araújo constructed the Castle of Araújo in the Kingdom of Galicia and married Doña Mayor Alvares de Aza, who was the daughter of a noble family which was somehow related to Rodrigo Anes de Araújo. Doña Mayor Alvares de Aza was the daughter of Don Rodrigo Alvares de Aza and Doña Maria Pires de Ambia. From this marriage descended the Araújo family of Kingdom of Galicia, who were lords of many houses in that Kingdom through marriage.

The Bishop of Malaca, João Ribeiro Gaio, wrote about the location of the ancient Araújo family cemetery in the following manner:

Através de Bitorinho

tem sepulcros já gastados

Araújos afamados

na terra que rega o Minho,

antigos, abalisados.

English Translation

Across the Bitorinho

in the land watered by the Miño River

there are now-worn graves of

famous Araújos,

ancient and magnified.

Later, in 1492, the Kingdom of Galicia along with other Kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula were united to become the Kingdom of Spain. Throughout Spain's colonial period between the 16th and 19th century a number of Galician Spaniards bearing the surname Araújo in the service of the King of Spain moved to colonize the territories of the Spanish Empire in North America and South America.

One of the grandchildren of Rodrigo Anes de Araújo known in Portuguese chronicles as Vasco Rodriguez de Araújo, decided to leave Spain and settle in Portugal, where he entered the service of the Kings of Portugal. Throughout Portugal's colonial period a number of Portuguese bearing the Araújo surname moved to settle Portugal's overseas empire.

Notable people with the surname

Church
  • Antonio de Araujo (d. 1632), Brazilian Jesuit missionary
  • Eugênio de Araújo Sales (born 1920), longest-serving cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church
  • Serafim Fernandes de Araújo (born 1924), cardinal archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Arts and humanities
  • Francisco Correa de Araujo (1584-1654) Spanish renaissance organist, composer, and theorist.
  • Cândido José de Araújo Viana (1793-1875), Brazilian writer
  • Norberto de Araújo (1889—1952), Portuguese writer, journalist, and geographer of Lisbon
  • César Calvo de Araujo (1910-1970), Peruvian writer and painter
  • Cristiano Araújo (born 1986-2015), was a Brazilian singer, performer and songwriter in Sertanejo music style.
  • Juan de Araujo (1646-1712), Spanish-Peruvian Musician
  • Loipa Araújo (born 1943), Cuban prima ballerina
  • Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo (1806-1876), Brazilian poet and playwright
  • Nelson de Araújo (1926-1993), renowned author
  • Taís Araújo (born 1978), Brazilian actress
  • Sonia Araujo (born 1970), Portuguese TV presenter
  • Kate DeAraugo (born 1985), Australian singer
  • Arturo Araujo (born 1967), Colombian Artist
  • Heriberto Araújo (born 1983), Spanish journalist and writer
  • Mia Araujo (born 1986), Argentine-American painter

Science and Technology
  • Orestes Araújo (1853-1915), Uruguayan scholar
  • Jorge Quina Ribeiro de Araújo (born 1941), Portuguese academic and three times rector of the University of Évora
  • Emanuel Araújo (born 1942), history professor
  • Miguel Bastos Araújo (born 1969), Highly-cited, several times awarded, Portuguese Scientist
  • Carlos Ernesto Araujo M.D (Born 1968), pulmonologist Doctor

Politicians

Sports people
  • Araujo (footballer) (born 1998), Brazilian football player, full name Araujo de Oliveira Henrique
  • Napoleon Araújo Doffigny (born 1929), South American pole-vaulting champion, Bolivian national fencing, track and football champion
  • George Araujo (1931 - 1997), American boxer
  • Eronilde de Araújo (born 1970), Brazilian athlete
  • Marcelo Araujo, Argentine sports journalist
  • Márcio Araújo (born 1973), beach volleyball player
  • Mário de Araújo Cabral (born 1934), former racing driver
  • Rafael Paulo de Lara Araújo (born 1980), Brazilian professional basketball player
  • Armindo Araujo (born 1977), Portuguese rally driver
  • Pedro Araújo (born 1993), Dominican professional baseball pitcher

Footballers

Fictional
  • Araújo family, Portuguese Americans in the film Mystic Pizza
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