List of Famous people with last name Cruz

Léodegario Santa Cruz is a Mexican professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including bantamweight, super bantamweight, featherweight, and super featherweight. He is the fifth Mexican boxer to become a world champion in four weight classes. He currently holds the WBA (Super) featherweight title since 2017.

Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Díaz is a Cuban-American Protestant preacher and father of Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. He regularly serves as a surrogate in his son's political campaigns.

Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto is a Puerto Rican politician who served as mayor of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico from 2013 to 2020. From 2009 through 2013, Cruz served in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico.

Mónica Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress, dancer, and fashion designer. She is the younger sister of actress Penélope Cruz. She has appeared in the films The Inquiry (2006), Last Hour (2008), Jerry Cotton (2010) and Iron Cross (2011).

Arlindo Cruz is a Brazilian musician and songwriter, working in the genre of samba and pagode. Arlindo took part in the most important formation of Grupo Fundo de Quintal, and is considered one of the most important figures of the pagode movement.

Manuel Cruz Rodríguez is a Spanish philosopher and politician who served as the 60th President of the Senate from May to December 2019. Prior to this, between 2016 and 2019, Cruz served as member of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Barcelona. He is a member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia.

Cláudia Cordeiro Cruz is a Brazilian journalist. She was an anchor on Fantástico, Jornal Hoje and RJTV. Claudia is married to politician Eduardo Cunha, former president of the Chamber of Deputies, with whom he has a daughter and three stepsons. Claudia provides services to various companies and has been questioned in personal spending function. Claudia is an associate of Cunha in some companies, including Jesus.com and C3 productions.

Divisional general Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz is a Brazilian military officer who previously held the post of Force Commander of the United Nations' peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 17 May 2013 and replaced by Derrick Mbuyiselo Mgwebi on 29 December 2015. He was Minister-Secretary of Government of Brazil, nominated by President Jair Bolsonaro, from 1 January 2019 to 13 June 2019.

Julio César La Cruz Peraza is a Cuban amateur boxer. He won the light heavyweight world title in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, Gold at the Pan American Games in 2011, 2015, and 2019, as well as the Olympic gold medal in 2016.

Roque Luis Santa Cruz Cantero is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a striker for, and captains both Paraguayan club Club Olimpia and Paraguay national team. He is the record goal scorer and has earned over 100 caps for the Paraguay national team, thus he is regarded as one of the best players in the nation's history.