Filipe is a common first name in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

-speaking countries. It is a Portuguese and Galician

Galician language

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...

 spelling of the name Philip

Philip (name)

Philip is a given name, derived from the Greek Philippos , meaning "friend of horses". A common mistake is to translate the name as "lover of horses". From φίλος "lover" and ίππος "horse". While the literal translation, in Ancient Greece, the ownership of horses was available only to those rich...

 (aka Phillip) (the name is spelled Felipe

Felipe

Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective Philippos "friend of horses". Felipe is also used in Portuguese.Noteworthy people with this name include:-Politics:* Felipe Agoncillo, Filipino diplomat...

 in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and in archaic Portuguese orthography).

Royalty

There are several Spanish

Spain

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 kings who were named Felipe

Felipe

Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective Philippos "friend of horses". Felipe is also used in Portuguese.Noteworthy people with this name include:-Politics:* Felipe Agoncillo, Filipino diplomat...

. The three Felipes that also ruled over Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 were known in Portugal as Filipe (with an "i"):

• Filipe I of Portugal
  Philip II of Spain
  Philip II was King of Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sicily, and, while married to Mary I, King of England and Ireland. He was lord of the Seventeen Provinces from 1556 until 1581, holding various titles for the individual territories such as duke or count....
  
   (II of Spain)
• Filipe II of Portugal
  Philip III of Spain
  Philip III , also known as Philip the Pious, was the King of Spain and King of Portugal and the Algarves, where he ruled as Philip II , from 1598 until his death...
  
   (III of Spain)
• Filipe III of Portugal
  Philip IV of Spain
  Philip IV was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, and King of Portugal until 1640...
  
   (IV of Spain)

Footballers

• Filipe Luís Kasmirski
  Filipe Luís Kasmirski
  Filipe Luís Kasmirski, known as Filipe Luís , is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid in La Liga....
  
   Brazilian left-sided defender, playing for Atlético Madrid.