Alejandro
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Alejandro is the Spanish
form of the name Alexander
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It may also refer to:
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
form of the name Alexander
Alexander
Alexander is a common male first name, and less common surname. The most famous is Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.- Origin :...
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It may also refer to:
- Alejandro de Humboldt National ParkAlejandro de Humboldt National ParkParque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt is a national park in the Cuban provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo. It is named after the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt who visited the island in 1800 and 1801...
(Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt), a national park in Cuba - Alejandro Selkirk IslandAlejandro Selkirk IslandAlejandro Selkirk Island, previously known as Isla Más Afuera and renamed after Alexander Selkirk, is the second largest and most westernly island of the Juan Fernández Islands archipelago of the Valparaíso Region of Chile...
, an island in the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of South America - "Alejandro" (song)Alejandro (song)"Alejandro" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga. It was released as the third single from her third extended play and second major release The Fame Monster...
, a song by Lady Gaga
People with the given name Alejandro
- Alejandro AlvizuriAlejandro AlvizuriAlejandro Luis Alvisuri Mack is a retired backstroke swimmer from Peru, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984 . His biggest success was winning the bronze medal in the men's 100 m backstroke at the 1987 Pan American Games. He currently works...
, Peruvian backstroke swimmer - Alejandro AmenábarAlejandro AmenábarAlejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Spanish- Chilean film director. Amenábar was born in Santiago, Chile to a Spanish mother and Chilean father, but the family moved to Spain just one year after his birth...
, Chilean-born Spanish director - Alejandro ArguelloAlejandro ArgüelloAlejandro Argüello Roa is a retired Mexican footballer who last played for Puebla.Argüello made his debut against Dorados de Sinaloa in the Apertura 2004 season...
, Mexican footballer - Alejandro Velasco AsteteAlejandro Velasco AsteteAlejandro Velasco Astete was a Peruvian pilot, most recognizable for being the first man to fly over the Andes. He was 28 years old upon his death....
, Peruvian pilot - Alejandro AvilaAlejandro AvilaAlejandro Ávila is a Mexican actor starring as Doctor Pablo Miranda in the 2009 adaptation of the Televisa soap opera Corazon Salvaje.He was born on June 2 in Magdalwna, Jalisco, Mexico in a bed....
, Mexican TV Actor, not related to the murderer. - Alejandro BermúdezAlejandro BermúdezAlejandro Bermúdez Tamayo is a retired backstroke and medley swimmer from Colombia. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. His best result was the 13th place in the Men's 400 metres Individual Medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,...
, Colombian swimmer - Alejandro BustilloAlejandro BustilloAlejandro Bustillo was an Argentine painter and architect who left his mark in various tourist destinations in Argentina, especially in the Andean region of the Patagonia....
, Argentine architect - Alejandro CarriónAlejandro CarriónAlejandro Carrión Aguirre was born in Loja, Ecuador. A poet, novelist and enthusiastic journalist, he published two important novels, La manzana dañada and La espina, many books of short stories, and numerous poetry books...
, Ecuadorian poet and novelist - Alejandro CasañasAlejandro CasañasAlejandro Francisco Casañas Ramírez is a former Cuban hurdler....
, Cuban hurdler - Alejandro CercasAlejandro CercasAlejandro Cercas Alonso is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Cercas began his political career in 1982 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Caceres and was...
, Spanish politician - Alejandro ChataingAlejandro ChataingAlejandro Chataing was an important Venezuelan architect. Chataing was known as the "great constructor of the regime of Cipriano Castro." He was a prolific architect who helped give Caracas a new face.-Introduction:In general, his projects demonstrated a remarkable eclecticism, with tendencies...
, Venezuelan architect - Alejandro CicheroAlejandro CicheroAlejandro Enrique Cíchero Konarek is a Venezuelan football defenderof Polish descent, he plays for club Millonarios-Career:...
, Venezuelan footballer - Alejandro CorichiAlejandro CorichiAlejandro Corichi is a theoretical physicist working at the Quantum Gravity group of the National Autonomous University of Mexico . He obtained his bachelor degree at UNAM and his PhD at Pennsylvania State University ....
, Mexican theoretical physicist - Alejandro CortésAlejandro CortésAlejandro Iván Cortés Llano is a male professional road racing cyclist from Colombia.-Career:20002001...
, Colombian road cyclist - Alejandro CruzAlejandro CruzAlejandro Cruz was a Puerto Rican athlete and politician who was mayor of the city of Guaynabo during the 1980s and early 1990s. He became known across Puerto Rico also as Junior Cruz.-Biography:...
, Puerto Rican athlete and politician - Alejandro DizAlejandro DizAlejandro Diz is a former volleyball player from Argentina, who represented his native country in two Summer Olympics. After having finished in sixth place at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California he was a member of the men's national team four years later in Seoul, South Korea,...
, Argentine volleyball player - Alejandro DohertyAlejandro DohertyAlejandro L. Doherty Horan is a former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he finished in ninth place with the national squad. He made his Olympic debut at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-References:**...
, Argentine field hockey player - Alejandro DolinaAlejandro DolinaAlejandro Ricardo Dolina is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer.-External links:* at AlejandroDolina.com.ar * : listen to La venganza será terrible online...
, Argentine broadcaster - Alejandro DomínguezAlejandro Domínguez CoelloAlejandro Domínguez Coello was the chief of police in Nuevo Laredo, a city on the Mexican side of the United States–Mexico border....
, former chief of police in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico - Alejandro EscovedoAlejandro EscovedoAlejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
, American singer-songwriter - Alejandro FallaAlejandro FallaAlejandro Falla Ramirez is a professional male tennis player from Colombia. He turned pro in 2000, plays left-handed, weighs 169 lb and measures 6'1" . At the 2006 Wimbledon tournament, Falla upset 9th seed Nikolay Davydenko and at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open he beat 9th seed Tommy Haas in...
, Colombian tennis player - Alejandro FernándezAlejandro FernándezAlejandro Fernández is a Mexican singer. Nicknamed as "El Potrillo" by the media and his fans, he has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. Alejandro is the son of the ranchera singer Vicente Fernández. He originally specialized in traditional, earthy forms of Mexican folk music, such as...
, Mexican singer - Alejandro FinisterreAlejandro FinisterreAlexandre Campos Ramírez was a poet, inventor and editor.He was born in Fisterra in 1919. When his father's shoemaking business failed, the director of his school made Finisterre pay his tuition by correcting the homework of lower grades...
, Spanish inventor and poet - Alejandro FischerAlejandro FischerAlejandro Fischer is a figurative Colombian artist.-Early life and education:He was born in Bogotá. In 1989 he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1994–1995 the Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, 1995 the B.F.A...
, Contemporary Figurative Artist Colombian artists - Alejandro FreireAlejandro FreireAlejandro Freire is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Baltimore Orioles during the season. Listed at 6' 2", 220 lb., Freire batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela....
, Venezuelan-American baseball player - Alejandro González IñárrituAlejandro González IñárrituAlejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...
, Mexican director - Alejandro Walter GonzálezAlejandro González (cyclist)Alejandro Walter González is a male professional racing cyclist from Argentina, who is nicknamed "El Ñoqui".-Career:2003Alejandro Walter González is a male professional racing cyclist from Argentina, who is nicknamed "El Ñoqui".-Career:2003Alejandro Walter González is a male professional racing...
, Argentine road cyclist - Alejandro GorostiagaAlejandro GorostiagaAlejandro Gorostiaga Orrego , was a Chilean military officer born in La Serena. He joined the Escuela Militar de Chile in 1857 till his retirement in 1878. Alejandro Gorostiaga was of Basque descent....
, Chilean military - Alejandro Herrera, fictional character in NBC's HeroesHeroes (TV series)Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
- Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
, Chilean actor and director - Alejandro Agustín LanusseAlejandro Agustín LanusseAlejandro Agustín Lanusse Gelly was the 38th president of the Argentine Republic between March 22, 1971 and May 25, 1973, during the penultimate military dictatorship.- Career :...
, former Argentine President - Alejandro LazoAlec LazoAlejandro "Alec" Lazo is a Cuban-American professional dancer, instructor, and choreographer based in Palm Beach, Florida. Lazo was the US International Rising Star Latin Champion in 1990 and went on through over twenty years of successful DanceSport competition. This cumulated in 1999 when he...
, Cuban-American dancer - Alejandro LernerAlejandro LernerAlejandro Federico Lerner is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sang countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America....
, Argentine musician - Alejandro LerrouxAlejandro LerrouxAlejandro Lerroux y García was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party during the Second Spanish Republic...
, Spanish politician - Alejandro González MalavéAlejandro González MalavéAlejandro González Malavé was a Puerto Rican undercover agent who gained infamy with the Cerro Maravilla case scandal.González Malavé, an outspoken university political leader, graduated as a policeman in 1979, the same year he went to work undercover...
, Puerto Rican undercover police agent - Alejandro MartinezAnonymous (band)Anonymous is a band from Andorra that in 2007 represented the country with the song "Salvem el món" in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 after winning the national selection. The song, however, failed to make it through past the semi-final stage....
, Andorran punk rock guitarist and back-up singer in AnonymousAnonymous (band)Anonymous is a band from Andorra that in 2007 represented the country with the song "Salvem el món" in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 after winning the national selection. The song, however, failed to make it through past the semi-final stage.... - Alejandro MeloñoAlejandro MeloñoAlejandro Gabriel Meloño Botta is a football player from Uruguay who currently plays for Boca Unidos.Meloño is a left sided central defender. He started his career in 1997 with Rentistas in Uruguay. In 1998 he moved to Argentina where he played for San Lorenzo, Nueva Chicago and Almagro...
, Uruguayan footballer - Alejandro MorenoAlejandro MorenoAlejandro Moreno is a Venezuelan footballer. He played for the Dallas Texans Soccer Club before attending UNC Greensboro. He currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer.-College:...
, Venezuelan footballer - Alejandro NaifAlejandro NaifAlejandro Naif is a naturalized Palestinian former footballer.Naif has played club football in Argentina, Honduras, Chile and Colombia as well as playing for the Palestine national football team.-External links:...
, Palestinian footballer - Alejandro ObregónAlejandro ObregónDaniel Alberto Alejandro María de la Santísima Trinidad Obregón Roses commonly known as Alejandro Obregón was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.-Career:...
, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor, and engraver - Alejandro O'ReillyAlejandro O'ReillyAlejandro O'Reilly , was a military reformer and Inspector-General of Infantry for the Spanish Empire in the second half of the 18th century...
, Irish-born Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana - Alejandro OrfilaAlejandro OrfilaAlejandro Orfila was an Argentine career diplomat.-Early career:Born to Catalan immigrants who had become moderately successful Mendoza Province vintners, Alejandro Orfila received a Law Degree at the University of Buenos Aires in 1945...
, Argentine diplomat - Alejandro OrtuosteAlejandro OrtuosteAlejandro Ortuoste is a retired amateur boxer from the Philippines. He won the gold medal at the 1954 Asian Games in the men's bantamweight division. He represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, failing to reach the third round.-References:*...
, Filipino boxer - Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y PérezAlejandro Cao de Benos de Les y PerezAlejandro Cao de Benós de Les y Pérez is a communist and the president of the Korean Friendship Association and has been an advocate of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since 1990...
, president of the Korean Friendship Association - Alejandro PlanchartAlejandro PlanchartAlejandro Enrique Planchart is a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars on the music of Guillaume Dufay, and in general he is a specialist on music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.He was born in Caracas,...
, Venezuelan-American musicologist and composer - Alejandro PortesAlejandro PortesAlejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970. He is currently chair of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science, and of the Board of Trustees...
, Cuban-American sociologist - Alejandro Ramírez (chess player), Costa Rican international grandmaster of chess
- Alejandro Ramírez CalderónAlejandro Ramírez (cyclist)Alejandro Ramírez Calderón is a male professional road racing cyclist from Colombia.-Career:2002Alejandro Ramírez Calderón is a male professional road racing cyclist from Colombia....
, Colombian road cyclist - Alejandro ReyAlejandro ReyAlejandro Rey was an Argentine actor. He immigrated to the United States in 1960, later became a U.S. citizen and gained his widest acclaim there.-Career:...
, Argentine actor - Alejandro Tapia y RiveraAlejandro Tapia y RiveraAlejandro Tapia y Rivera was a Puerto Rican poet, dramaturg, essayist and writer. Tapia is considered to be the father of Puerto Rican literature and as the person who has contributed the most to the cultural advancement of Puerto Rico's literature...
, Puerto Rican poet and writer - Alejandro Encinas RodríguezAlejandro Encinas RodríguezAlejandro Encinas Rodríguez is a left-wing Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He served as the 4th Head of Government of the Federal District from 2005 to 2006....
, Mexican politician - Alejandro RossiAlejandro RossiAlejandro Rossi was a Mexican writer....
, Mexican writer - Alejandro SabellaAlejandro SabellaAlejandro Sabella is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is currently the coach of the Argentina national football team.-Early career:...
, Argentine footballer - Alejandro SalazarAlejandro SalazarAlejandro Salazar is an American soccer player.-Biography:Salazar played college soccer at the University of Portland from 2002 to 2004, where he was named WCC Freshman of the Year as a freshman, and was the Conference Player of the Year as a sophomore...
, American footballer - Alejandro SanzAlejandro SanzAlejandro Sanz , is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician. For his work, Sanz has won a total of fifteen Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He has won the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times, more than any other artist...
, Spanish pop musician - Alejandro SiqueirosAlejandro SiqueirosAlejandro Siqueiros Quiroz is a male freestyle swimmer from Mexico. He represented his native country at the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
, Mexican freestyle swimmer - Alejandro Severo, the Spanish version of Alexander Severus, former Roman emperor
- Alejandro M. SinibaldiAlejandro M. SinibaldiAlejandro M. Sinibaldi was acting President of Guatemala from April 2, 1885 to April 5, 1885....
, President of Guatemala - Alejandro SiriAlejandro SiriAlejandro Daniel Siri Pérez is a male former field hockey player from Argentina. He competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. Siri twice won a medal at the Pan American Games for his native South American country.-References:*...
, Argentine field hockey player - Alejandro Sosa, fictional drug lord from the 1983 film Scarface
- Alejandro SpajicAlejandro SpajicAlejandro Spajić is an Argentine volleyball player. Spajić is clearly a volleyball player both for Argentina and his club...
, Argentine volleyball player - Alejandro de la SotaAlejandro de la SotaAlejandro de la Sota Martínez was a Spanish architect. He was born in Pontevedra in Galicia. He graduated from the university in Madrid in 1941 and, from 1956 to 1972 was a professor there....
, Spanish architect - Alejandro ToledoAlejandro ToledoAlejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a politician who was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in April 2001, defeating former President Alan García...
, Peruvian politician, ex-president - Alejandro de TomasoAlejandro de TomasoAlejandro de Tomaso was a racing driver and industrialist from Argentina. His name is sometimes seen in an Italianised form as Alessandro de Tomaso. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1957...
, Argentine auto racing driver - Alejandro ValverdeAlejandro ValverdeAlejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish road racing cyclist currently under suspension. He last rode for UCI ProTour team . Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a España, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008 and 2006 UCI ProTour series championship...
, Spanish cyclist - Rey Alejandro Conde ValdiviaRey Alejandro Conde ValdiviaRey Alejandro Conde Valdivia is a Mexican conductor who has conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa since 1977. He is a native of Xalapa, Veracruz...
, Mexican conductor - Alejandro ViñaoAlejandro ViñaoAlejandro Viñao is an Argentinian composer currently living in the United Kingdom.Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Fischer . In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Music and later on at the City...
, Argentine composer - Alejandro ZaeraAlejandro ZaeraAlejandro Zaera Polo is a contemporary architect and founder of London and Barcelona-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture. He is also a Visiting Professor in Princeton and Yale Schools of Architecture, and is a prolific theorist, widely published in different professional media.-Career:Alejandro...
, Spanish architect - Alejandro ZohnAlejandro ZohnAlejandro Zohn was a Mexican architect. He was a Holocaust survivor who grew up in Western Mexico....
, Mexican architect