Sanches Explained

Sanches is a Portuguese surname. The Spanish version of this name is Sánchez. Notable people with the surname include:

• Afonso Sanches (1289–1329), Portuguese nobleman
• António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699–1783), Portuguese physician and philosopher
• Brian Sanches (born 1978), American baseball player
• Francisco Sanches (c.1550–1623), Portuguese-Galician philosopher
• Manuel Estêvão Sanches (born 1979), Portuguese-Cape Verdean footballer
• Renato Sanches (born 1997), Portuguese footballer
• Simon Sanches, Dutch navy nurse and laboratory technician who planned to commit a coup d'état in Suriname