Vicente Alvares (c. 1680 – 19 November 1738) was a Portuguese man born in Belbatta, in the island of Chorão in 1680.
In 1713, he accompanied the General of the Arraial of Ponda, Antonio do Amaral Sarmento, to Sunda in Kanara.
He would supply medicines free of charge to all army men and auxiliaries in Salcette.
[2] He accompanied the General of the Arraial of Ponda, Antonio do Amaral Sarmento to Sunda in Kanara in 1713 in Salsette supplying medicines free of charge to all army men and auxiliaries.
His son, Manuel Caetano Alvares, was the first and only Goan to be given capelo gratuito of the Faculty of Medicine by an order issued by King Joseph I of Portugal.