Mateus (name)
Mateus is a Portuguese given name and surname, equivalent to the English Matthew. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Mateus (ambassador), Armenian ambassador of Emperor Dawit II of Ethiopia
 - Mateus Aleluia (born 1943), Brazilian musician and ethnomusicologist
 - Mateus Alves (born 2001), Brazilian tennis player
 - Mateus dos Anjos (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Asato (born 1993), Brazilian guitarist
 - Mateus Soares de Azevedo (born 1959), Brazilian historian
 - Mateus de Oliveira Barbosa (born 1987), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Borelli (born 1993), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Garcia Borges (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Caramelo (1994-2016), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Evangelista Cardoso (born 1994), Brazilian athlete
 - Mateus dos Santos Castro (born 1994), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Costa, Indian football head coach
 - Mateus Galiano da Costa (born 1984), Angolan footballer
 - Mateus Lima Cruz (born 1993), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Fernandes (died 1515), Portuguese architect
 - Mateus Fonseca (born 1993), Portuguese footballer
 - Mateus Alberto Contreiras Gonçalves (born 1983), Angolan footballer
 - Mateus Gregório (born 1993), Brazilian weightlifter
 - Mateus Alonso Honorio (born 1983), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Facho Inocêncio (born 1981), Brazilian athlete
 - Mateus de Brito Júnior, Angolan minister
 - Mateus Versolato Júnior (born 1983), Brazilian goalkeeper
 - Mateus Levendi (born 1993), Albanian footballer
 - Mateus Lopes (born 1975), Cape Verdean footballer
 - Mateus Müller de Souza Lopes (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Alves Maciel (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Gonçalves Martins (born 1994), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus da Costa Meira (born 1975), perpetrator of the 1999 Morumbi Shopping shooting
 - Mateus Moreira (died 1645), Brazilian Catholic martyr
 - Mateus Norton (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Vicente de Oliveira (1706-1786), Portuguese architect
 - Mateus Paraná (born 1987), Brazilian football striker
 - Mateus Pasinato (born 1992), Brazilian goalkeeper
 - Mateus Mendes Ferreira Pires (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Meira Rita, São Toméan politician
 - Mateus de Sá (born 1995), Brazilian athlete
 - Mateus Shkreta (born 1994), Albanian footballer
 - Mateus da Silva (born 1991), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus de Oliveira Silva (born 1994), Brazilian football midfielder
 - Mateus Ferreira da Silva (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Solano (born 1981), Brazilian actor
 - Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás (1958-2010), Angolan Roman Catholic bishop
 - Mateus Uribe (born 1991), Colombian professional footballer
 - Mateus Vital (born 1998), Brazilian footballer
 - Mateus Viveiros (born 1966), Brazilian football player
 - Mateus Ward (born 1999), American actor
 - Mateus de Oliveira Xavier (1858-1929), Portuguese Roman Catholic Diocese
 
Surname
- David Mateus (born 1980), Portuguese rugby union footballer
 - Diogo Mateus (born 1980), Portuguese rugby union footballer
 - Octávio Mateus (born 1975), Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist