List of Famous people with last name Marquez
Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez Alentà is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with eight Grand Prix world championships to his name – six of which are in the premier MotoGP class. Márquez races for Honda's factory team since his MotoGP debut in 2013. He is nicknamed the 'Ant of Cervera' worldwide and 'el tro de Cervera' in his hometown, meaning the 'Thunder of Cervera'. He is one of four riders to have won world championship titles in three different categories, after Mike Hailwood, Phil Read and Valentino Rossi. Márquez is often considered one of the greatest innovators of modern MotoGP racing, due to his comparatively exaggerated cornering technique of leaning so far over the bike he seems to be “in constant danger of sliding out”. He is also the youngest ever champion in MotoGP history.
Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez Álvarez is a Mexican former footballer and currently the youth coach of Spanish Tercera División club Alcalá. Nicknamed El Káiser, Márquez is regarded as the best defender in Mexico's history and one of the best Mexican players of all time. He played as a central defender, sweeper, or defensive midfielder.
Iván Duque
Iván Duque Márquez is a Colombian politician and lawyer who has been the president of Colombia since 7 August 2018. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. Backed by his mentor, former president and powerful senator Alvaro Uribe, he was elected despite having been relatively unknown a year before the election. He ran on a platform that included opposing Juan Manuel Santos' peace agreement with the FARC guerilla group.
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2014. He is the third Mexican boxer to become a world champion in four weight classes, having held nine world championships including the WBA (Super), IBF and WBO featherweight titles between 2003 and 2007; the WBC super featherweight title from 2007 to 2008; the WBA (Super), WBO, Ring magazine and lineal lightweight titles between 2008 and 2012; and the WBO junior welterweight title from 2012 to 2013.
Gorka Márquez
Gorka Márquez is a Spanish dancer and choreographer, best known for appearing on the live dance show, Burn the Floor and BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
Ramona Marquez
Ramona Marquez is an English actress, best known for her childhood role as Karen Brockman in the BBC One sitcom Outnumbered.
Luz Márquez
Luz Márquez, is a Spanish actress whose brief but intense acting career lasted ten years from 1956 to 1966. She appeared in more than 35 films, including Manolo Guardia Urbano (1956), 15 Bajo la Lona (1959), Adventures of the Bengal Lancers (1964), and the Audie Murphy film The Texican (1966). Marquez is best known for her role as Julia in the popular 1958 musical romance Las chicas de la Cruz Roja.
Wynwyn Marquez
Teresita Ssen Lacsamana Marquez, also known as Winwyn Marquez, is a Filipino actress, model, dancer and beauty queen who was crowned the first Reina Hispanoamericana Filipinas title in the Miss World Philippines 2017 pageant and eventually won the Reina Hispanoamericana 2017 title in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 4, 2017.
Álex Márquez
Álex Márquez Alentà is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, and the younger brother of Marc Márquez, who also competes at Grand Prix level. Márquez was the 2012 Spanish Moto3 Championship winner, and won the 2014 Moto3 World Championship at the last round in Valencia. In the process, he and Marc became the first brothers to win world motorcycle racing titles in the same year, a feat that was repeated in 2019 when Alex won the Moto2 championship and Marc the MotoGP championship.
Julian Marquez
Julian Marquez is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.