List of Famous people with last name Mendez

Martín Méndez is an Uruguayan Swedish Bassist of progressive death metal band Opeth and second longest serving member of the band, behind lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt.

Sergio de Jesús Méndez Bolanos was a football player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Wilfredo Méndez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who has held the WBO mini flyweight title between August 2019 to December 2021.

Denny Andreína Méndez de la Rosa is a Dominican-Italian actress, model and beauty queen who represented Italy in the Miss Universe 1997 and placed Top 6.

Norberto Doroteo Méndez, nicknamed Tucho, was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder. Internationally, he played 33 games for the Argentina national team and won 3 Copa América titles. He is most famous for being the all-time top scorer in the history of the tournament with 17 goals.

Aparicio Méndez Manfredini was a Uruguayan political figure. He was a de facto President of Uruguay from 1976–1981 as a non-democratically elected authority of the civic-military dictatorship.

A. Marten Mendez (1916–1994) was an American badminton player of Mexican descent who won national titles and represented his country internationally in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Known for his swift court coverage and stamina, Mendez won the U.S. men's singles title in 1949, 1950, and 1952, and reached the final in 1948 and 1951. He was a member of the 1948-1949 and 1951-1952 U.S. Thomas Cup teams which made strong runs at the world championship. In the '51-'52 series, at the age of 36, Mendez won three of his four singles matches against India and Malaya in Singapore's equatorial heat, losing only to the great Wong Peng Soon. Mendez was elected to the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame in 1967.