?–1610 Capitão-mor who destroyed the Madre de Deus, 1610 Also written: André Pessoa · アンドレ・ペソア
The captain-major of the 1609 Japan voyage, cornered at Nagasaki over a brawl in Macau and ordered seized by Ieyasu. After four days' fighting he fired the powder magazine and sank the Madre de Deus — and himself — rather than surrender the ship.