List of Famous people named Jose

José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones de León was a Spanish politician, leader of the CEDA and a prominent figure in the period leading up to the Spanish Civil War. He served as Minister of War from May to December 1935. In the 1936 elections the CEDA was defeated, and support for Gil-Robles and his party evaporated. As Civil War approached, Gil-Robles was unwilling to struggle with Francisco Franco for power and in April 1937 he announced the dissolution of CEDA, and went into exile. Abroad, he negotiated with Spanish monarchists to try to arrive at a common strategy for taking power in Spain. In 1968 he was named a professor of the University of Oviedo and published his book No fue posible la paz . He was a member of the International Tribunal at the Hague. After the death of Franco and the end of his regime, Gil-Robles became one of the leaders of the "Spanish Christian Democracy" party, which however failed to win support in the Spanish general elections in 1977.

José María Basanta is a former Argentine professional footballer who played as a defender. Basanta holds Mexican citizenship.

José Luiz Carbone was a Brazilian football player and coach.

José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, the iv Marquis of Torre Tagle, was a Peruvian soldier and politician who served as the Interim President of Peru in 1823 as well as the fifth President of Peru from 1823 to 1824.

José Maurício Nunes Garcia was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas.

José Manuel Hernández was a popular Venezuelan caudillo, army general, congressman, presidential candidate and cabinet member who was also involved in numerous insurrections.

José Álvaro Machado Pacheco Pereira, GCL is a Portuguese political commentator, historian and politician. He is a member of the center-right Social Democratic Party.

José Manuel Moreiras was an Argentine footballer. He played for several clubs. His last team was Sport Huancayo of the Primera División in Peru. He was born in Rosario, Argentina.

José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez, nicknamed “Don Pepe”, was a prominent Uruguayan politician, who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. He was the son of a former president and was widely praised for his introduction of the political system Batllismo to South America, and his role in creating the modern Uruguay through his extensive welfare state reforms.

José Antonio Rodríguez Vega, nicknamed El Mataviejas, was a Spanish serial killer who raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria, between August 1987 and April 1988.