List of Famous people named Jose

José Mentor Guilherme de Mello Netto, better known simply as José Mentor, was a Brazilian lawyer and politician from the state of São Paulo who served as a Federal Deputy.

José Antonio Hermida Ramos is a Spanish cyclist of Galician origin specializing in competitive mountain biking. He won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece after having finished in fourth place in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

José Mariano Benincá Beltrame is a Brazilian federal police commissioner and former Secretary of Security of Rio de Janeiro.

José Manuel García Naranjo is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot side AEK Larnaca FC, on loan from CD Tenerife.

José Lewgoy was a Brazilian actor. He is recognizable to many art-house cinema fans as the man who played Don Aquilino in Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo.

José Juan Bautista Pampuro was an Argentine politician. He was a member of the Justicialist Party, a Defense Minister and a senator for Buenos Aires Province. From 2006 to 2011 he served as the Provisional President of the Senate.

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros was a Portuguese artist. He was born in the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and a Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral. Besides literature and painting, Almada developed ballet choreographies, and worked on tapestry, engraving, murals, caricature, mosaic, azulejo and stained glass.

José Benito Barros or simply José Barros was a Colombian musician, composer of more than 800 songs in the musical genres of cumbia, porro, merengue, currulao, paseo, bolero, tango, etc. Considered one of the most ingenious and versatile Colombian musical composers.

José Alejandro Vega Antonio is a Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Lima since 2020. He was previously congressman for the 2006-2011 term representing Lima. He was First Vice President of the Congress between 2006 and 2007 under the leadership of Mercedes Cabanillas. In the 2020 snap parliamentary election, after a nine-year absence, he was once again elected as Congressman representing the same constituency to complete the 2016-2021 term that was interrupted following to the dissolution of the Congress. Vega belongs to the Union for Peru party in which, he is the party's Secretary General. He is running for President in the 2021 elections.

José Campeche y Jordán, is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenced the landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème.