List of Famous people with last name Castillo

Ana Castillo is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist. Her works offer pungent and passionate socio-political comment that is based on established oral and literary traditions. Castillo's interest in race and gender issues can be traced throughout her writing career. Her novel Sapogonia was a 1990 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her text So Far from God was a 1993 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the editor of La Tolteca, an arts and literary magazine. Castillo held the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University. She has attained a number of awards including a 1987 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry and in 1998 Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago.

Jaime García Márquez Patricio Castillo San Juan, better known as Patricio Castillo was a Chilean born Mexican actor.

Joaquin Maria López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo was the diocesan bishop of Getafe, Spain from December 19, 2004 to September 13, 2017.

Jorge José Castillo Casalderrey is a Spanish-born painter and sculptor.

Jorge Alfonso Alejandro Del Castillo Gálvez is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career, he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies, in the unicameral Congress of the Republic for six non-consecutive terms between 1995 and 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019, and as Mayor of Lima and the Barranco during the 1980s.

Mauro Castillo is a Colombian singer, composer, trombonist, performer, and music producer. He became known mainly for his role as Wilson Manyoma in the telenovela series El Joe: The Legend and for being a former singer of Grupo Niche. He has a successful career within the musical and interpretive field in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. He has prepared songs for works by Oscar D 'León, Joe Arroyo, and Naty Botero. As a composer, Mauro Castillo has written songs for important orchestras and singers such as Oscar de León, Joe Arroyo, Titanes de la salsa, and Hermanos Moreno among others. He has also participated as a trombonist, percussionist, producer, and mixing engineer in projects such as Yuri Buenaventura, Charlie Zaa, Ismael Miranda, Calambuco, Mojarra Eléctrica, Julio Nava, Tito Nieves, and N'Klabe.