List of Famous people named Carlos

Carlos María Javier de la Torre y Nieto was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop of Quito, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII, the first Ecuadorian to be admitted to the College of Cardinals.

Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini, was an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist.

Carlos Humberto Lehman de Almeida Benholiel Lisboa Santos, known as Carlos Lisboa, is a former Portuguese basketball player and the current head coach of Benfica of the Portuguese Basketball League. He is usually considered the best Portuguese basketball player of all-time. He played as a guard and as a forward. As a head coach, he most notably led Benfica from 2011 to 2017, winning 21 major titles. He returned to the team in 2019.

Carlos Rodríguez is an Argentinian tennis coach. Although he has coached several players both on the ATP and the WTA tour, Rodríguez is most notable for his long-time collaboration with the former World No. 1 and multiple grand slam winner Justine Henin. As of 2011, the pair had been together for 15 years, but a portion of that span includes Henin's brief retirement from the pro circuit. Upon Henin's comeback, she insisted that she could not have any other coach than Rodriguez. Rodriguez obliged. He has since commented that her aspiration to return to the highest echelon of the women's game – and rankings, as she retired while holding the No. 1 ranking – has as much to do with factors off the court, that is, mental preparedness and her private life, as it does with her physical fitness or shot-making abilities.

Carlos Astrada was an Argentine philosopher.

Carlos Alberto Souza dos Santos, best known as Santos is a retired Brazilian football retired player and manager.

Don Carlos II Coloma y de Saa, knight of Santiago, 1st Marquess of Espinar was a Spanish military commander, diplomat and author. He is also known as a translator of Tacitus.