List of Famous people named Alvaro
Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz
Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, was a Spanish admiral and landlord.
Álvaro Morales
Álvaro Enrique Morales Rojas is a Chilean theater and television actor. For his interpretations, he has been the recipient of several awards, among them being the winner of an APES for best leading actor for his role as Martín Ortúzar in the telenovela Los Pincheira.
Álvaro Cejudo
Álvaro Cejudo Carmona is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Racing de Santander mainly as a right winger.
Álvaro de Córdoba
Álvaro of Córdoba (c.1350–c.1430) was born at Zamora in Spain and entered the Order of Preachers in 1368. He preached throughout Spain and Italy and also established the priory of Scala Caeli at Córdoba where he promoted the regular life. By his preaching and contemplation of the Lord's Passion he spread the practice of the Way of the Cross throughout the West. He died on 19 February 1430. Pope Benedict XIV beatified him in 1741.
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, GCIP, is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.
Álvaro Cunhal
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal was a Portuguese communist revolutionary and politician. He was one of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) from 1961 to 1992. He was one of the most pro-Soviet of all Western Europe communist leaders, often supporting the Soviet Union's foreign policies, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. During the 1970s Cunhal supported Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s political agenda, although he strongly opposed Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika policies in the 1980s.
Álvaro Lapuerta
Álvaro de Lapuerta Quintero was a Spanish politician who sat on the Congress of Deputies between 1977 and 2004, and served as treasurer of the People's Party from 1993 to 2008. He was questioned regarding his role in the Bárcenas affair and excused after a diagnosis of dementia.
Álvaro Fernández
Álvaro Fernández Llorente is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for RCD Espanyol, on loan from SD Huesca, and the Spain national team.
Álvaro Medrán
Álvaro Medrán Just is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire.
Álvaro Noboa
Álvaro Fernando Noboa Pontón is an Ecuadorian businessman and politician.