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 Portuguese-language surnames de:Sarmento fr:Sarmento it:Sarmento