List of Famous people named Carlos

Carlos Salvador Bilardo Digiano is an Argentine former football player and manager.

Carlos Vinícius Alves Morais is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, on loan from Benfica. He was awarded the Bola de Prata for his 19 goals in the 2019–20 Primeira Liga.

Carlos Sadness is a Spanish singer, songwriter and illustrator.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his widely influential poem "Canção Amiga" has been featured on the 50-cruzado novo bill.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a native Venezuelan convicted of terrorist crimes, and currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counter-intelligence agents. While in prison he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional life term in 2011, and then to a third life term in 2017.

Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio, also known as El Pibe, is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. A creative playmaker, he is regarded as one of the best Colombian footballers of all time, and by some as Colombia's greatest player ever. His distinctive hairstyle, as well as his precise passing and technical skills made him one of South America's most recognisable footballers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won the South American Footballer of the Year award in 1987 and 1993, and in 1999, he was also named one of the top 100 players of the 20th century by World Soccer. In 2004, he was included in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 "greatest living footballers" chosen by Pelé to celebrate the 100th anniversary of FIFA.

Carlos Eccehomo Cuesta Figueroa is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Belgian Pro League club Genk and the Colombia national team.

Carlos Dawon Hyde is an American football running back for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Ohio State University and was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

Carlos Athié is a Mexican actor, model and TV presenter.

Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán audio (help·info) is a Mexican and American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock 'n' roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured his melodic, blues-based lines set against Latin and African rhythms played on percussion instruments not generally heard in rock, such as timbales and congas. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine listed him at No. 20 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists. He has received 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.