Sarmento Explained

Sarmento is a Portuguese-language surname meaning "vine branch". Notable people with the surname include:

• Sarmento de Beires (born 1892), Portuguese Army officer and an aviation pioneer
• Henrique Sarmento Malvar (born 1957), Microsoft engineer and senior signal processing researcher
• Claudio Wanderley Sarmento Neto (born 1982), Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Sarmento Rodrigues (1899–1979), naval officer, colonist and professor
• Filipe Sarmento (born 1985), Portuguese footballer
• Jacob de Castro Sarmento (1692–1762), Portuguese estrangeirado, physician, naturalist, poet and Deist
• Julião Sarmento (1948–2021), Portuguese multimedia artist and painter
• Luis Sarmento, the Imperial ambassador to Portugal in 1536
• Maria do Céu Sarmento, East Timorese politician
• Matthew Sarmento (born 1991), Canadian male field hockey player
• Raimundo Sarmento (born 1994), also known as Jeca, football player
• Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira (1881–1948), Portuguese writer and feminist
• Nelson Sarmento Viegas (born 1999), football player

See also

• Ponte Almirante Sarmento Rodrigues, road bridge over the Douro, near the village of Barca d'Alva in Guarda District, Portugal
• Sarmentose (disambiguation)
• Sarmiento (disambiguation)
• Sarmientoia
• Sarmientola