List of Famous people named Miguel
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, commonly referred to by his alias El Jefe de Jefes, is a convicted Mexican drug lord. He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s, the cartel controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border.
Miguel Angel Garcia
Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez, best known as Mikey Garcia, is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including the lineal junior welterweight title from 2018 to 2020; previously he held the WBO and Ring magazine featherweight titles in 2013, the WBO junior lightweight title from 2013 to 2014, the WBC and IBF lightweight titles between 2017 and 2019, and the IBF junior welterweight title in 2018. He has also challenged once for the IBF welterweight title in 2019.
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Orejuela is a Colombian drug lord, formerly one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, based in the city of Cali. He is the younger brother of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. He married Miss Colombia 1974, Marta Lucía Echeverry.
Miguel Herrán
Miguel Herrán is a Spanish actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Aníbal "Río" Cortés in Money Heist and Christian Varela in Élite. In 2016, he won the Goya Award for Best New Actor for his role in the film Nothing in Return.
Miguel Bosé
Luis Miguel González Bosé, usually known as Miguel Bosé, is a Spanish pop new wave musician and actor.
Miguel Ángel Silvestre
Miguel Ángel Silvestre Rambla is a Spanish actor. He is best known for playing the role of Alberto Márquez in Velvet, as well as Lito Rodríguez and Franklin Jurado in the Netflix original series Sense8 and Narcos respectively. He is also known for playing El Duque in the Spanish television show Sin tetas no hay paraíso. He is starring in the HBO limited series 30 Coins.
Miguel Baeza
Miguel Angel Baeza is an American mixed martial artist, currently competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Miguel Díaz-Canel
Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez is a Cuban politician serving as the President of Cuba since 10 October 2019. He was previously President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2018 to 2019 and First Vice President from 2013 to 2018. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2003, and he served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 to 2012; he was promoted to the post of Vice President of the Council of Ministers in 2012. A year later, on 24 February 2013, he was elected as First Vice President of the Council of State.
Miguel Cotto pepe
Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez is an American-born Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017. He is a multiple-time world champion, and the first Puerto Rican boxer to win world titles in four weight classes. In 2007 and 2009, he reached a peak active pound for pound ranking of seventh by The Ring magazine. Cotto started out his career as a hard-hitting pressure fighter, but evolved over the years into a more refined boxer-puncher as he moved up in weight.
Miguel Ángel Revilla
Miguel Ángel Revilla Roiz is a Spanish politician, economist and bank employee serving as the 9th President of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. Before this, Revilla has served as the 7th President between 2003 and 2011, being the person who has been the longest time in the Presidency of Cantabria. He has also served as the 5th Vice President of Cantabria from 1995 to 2003 and Minister of Public Works, Housing and Urbanism in the same period.
Miguel Bernardeau
Miguel Bernardeau Duato is a Spanish actor.
Miguel Almirón
Miguel Ángel Almirón Rejala is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Newcastle United and the Paraguay national team.
Miguel Borja
Miguel Ángel Borja Hernández is a Colombian footballer who plays as a forward for Colombian club Junior on loan from Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras and the Colombian national team.
Miguel Torres Gómez
Miguel Torres Gómez is a Spanish former professional footballer. Usually a right-back, he was equally at ease on the other flank.
Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.
Miguel Layún
Miguel Arturo Layún Prado is a Mexican professional footballer who plays for Liga MX club Monterrey and the Mexico national team.
Miguel Ángel Russo
Miguel Ángel Russo is an Argentine former football player and manager of Boca Juniors, who played as a midfielder.
Miguel Sapochnik
Miguel Sapochnik is an English film and television director and former storyboard artist. For his work as a director on the HBO epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, he won the award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series at the 69th Directors Guild of America Awards.
Miguel Herrera
Miguel Ernesto Herrera Aguirre is a Mexican former professional footballer and current manager, most recently of Liga MX club América. He is commonly referred to by his nickname Piojo (Louse).
Miguel Ríos
Miguel Ríos Campaña is a Spanish singer, composer, actor. He is one of the pioneers of rock and roll in Spain.