Famous People with Name Nuncio

João Branco Núncio            Origin/Culture/Country: Portuguese

João Branco Núncio: was a Portuguese bullfighter born in Alcácer do Sal (Santiago), Alcácer do Sal, in a whitewashed house next to his uncle's Viscount of Alcácer do Sal. Today it belongs to the Philharmonic Friendship Society of the Viscount de Alcácer do Sal.He was a both a rider and bullfighter whose bullfighting lasted up to the hour of his death, on January 26 of 1976 in Golegã. At the time he was considered by many people as the greatest horserider and bullfighter of all. He was called the "Master". He graduated in Commerce at the "Academic School" and dedicated himself to tiling in the rural properties of Alcácer do Sal. Son and Grandson of farm-hand, his grandfather, Joaquim Mendes Núncio who had come from the Golegã to Alcácer do Sal in 1878.