Menezes, sometimes Meneses, was originally a Portuguese toponymic surname which originated in Montes Torozos, a region in Tierra de Campos, northeast of Valladolid and southeast of Palencia. The ancestor of the Meneses lineage was Tello Pérez de Meneses. The family wealth and power grew remarkably in the 13th and 14th centuries, through several marriages with the Castilian and Portuguese royal families.

Menezes is also a surname used by some members of the christian community in India.

As a surname, Menezes/Meneses may refer to:

• Alex Meneses, United States actress and model
• Alexandre Menezes, Brazilian guitarist
• Alfred Menezes, Canadian cryptographer
• Ana Lúcia Menezes, Brazilian voice actress
• Antonio Martínez de Meneses, Spanish playwright
• Antônio Meneses (born 1957), Brazilian cellist
• Armando Menezes (1902–1983), Goan poet, writer, academic and civil servant
• Artur Menezes (born 1997), Brazilian blues and blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Bernardino Meneses y Bracamonte, Count of Peñalba, Spanish nobleman and military leader
• Buwi Meneses, Filipino musician
• Christianne Meneses Jacobs, United States writer, editor, and teacher
• Daiana Menezes (born 1987), Brazilian actress, model and television host
• Fernão Teles de Meneses, Portuguese fidalgo and soldier
• Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Portuguese historian
• Francisco Meneses Osorio, Spanish painter
• Frutos Saavedra Meneses, Spanish soldier, geodesist and politician
• Geo Meneses, Mexican singer and producer
• Glória Menezes (born 1934), Brazilian actress
• Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
• Guillermo Meneses, Venezuelan writer
• Heloísa Pinheiro, Brazilian real-life "Girl from Ipanema"
• Herbert Meneses, Guatemalan actor
• Holdemar Menezes, Brazilian writer
• Icarius De Menezes, Brazilian creative director
• Ivan Menezes, Indian-born American/British business executive
• Janis Meneses, Chilean constituent
• Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian killed by London police officers who mistook him for a terrorist
• João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, Brazilian poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician
• João Costa Menezes, Portuguese actor and filmmaker
• Joana Josefa de Meneses, Portuguese writer
• Jorge de Menezes, Portuguese explorer
• Laura Meneses, first Latin American in 1920 to be accepted into Radcliffe College, the women's educational institution affiliated with Harvard University
• Luís de Meneses, 2nd Viscount of Meneses, Portuguese artist
• Luís de Menezes Bragança (1878–1938), Indian journalist, writer, politician and anti-colonial activist
• Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, Brazilian geologist, mineralogist and mineral dealer
• Mai Meneses, Spanish singer-songwriter
• Manuel Menezes, Indian business executive, chairman of the Indian Railway Board
• María Elena Meneses Rocha, Mexican journalist
• Maria Emilia Menezes, Indian industrialist
• Mario Menezes, Indian director, triatist and vice president of Tiatr Academy Goa
• Margareth Menezes, Brazilian singer
• Monsueto Menezes, Brazilian sambista, singer, composer and drummer
• Paulo Barreto Menezes (1925–2016), Brazilian civil engineer and politician
• Philadelpho Menezes, Brazilian poet, visual poet, pioneer of new media poetry
• Porfirio Meneses Lazón, Peruvian poet
• Ricardo Meneses, Portuguese actor
• Simone Menezes, Brazilian conductor
• Tobias Barreto de Meneses (1839–1889), Brazilian critic, poet, jurist
• Tyler Menezes, Canadian-American computer programmer and businessperson
• Victor Menezes, United States engineer
• Vidaluz Meneses (1944–2016), Nicaraguan librarian, poet, dean, and social activist
• Zaira Meneses, Mexican guitarist

• Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito, Brazilian movie
• Colonel Luis Arturo Rodríguez Meneses Air Base, Colombian military air base
• Hospital Ayres de Menezes, main hospital in the capital city of São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe
• Institute Menezes Braganza, cultural institution in Goa
• Meneses de Campos, municipality in Spain
• MQV (Menezes-Qu-Vanstone), cryptographic protocol
• Orlando Bezerra de Menezes Airport, airport serving Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil. It is named after a local politician and entrepreneur.

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