France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

• Patricia Pellen
• Stéphane Fernandez Meca
• Richard Milian
• Jean Baptiste Jalabert - Juan Bautista
• Julien Lescaret
• Sébastien Castella
• André Viard
• Alain Montcouquiol - Nimeño 1
• Christian Montcouquiol ("Nimeño II")
  Nimeño II
  Christian Montcouquiol was a French matador.- Career highlights :* Public debut, March 30, 1967, in Tarascon, France...
  
  

Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

• Alejandro Amaya
  Alejandro Amaya
  Alejandro Amaya is one of Mexico's celebrity Matadors.Amaya resides in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, at the ranch of Matador Eloy Cavazos.His real name is Alejandro de la Vega Amaya....
  
  
• Valente Arellano
• Carlos Arruza
  Carlos Arruza
  Carlos Arruza , born Carlos Ruiz Camino, was one of the most prominent bullfighters of the 20th century. He was known as "El Ciclón" ....
  
  
• Ernesto Belmont
• Jaime Bravo
  Jaime Bravo
  Jaime Bravo was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. Bravo was known for death defying style and numerous relationships with women and Hollywood starlets.-Early life:...
  
  
• Guillermo Capetillo
  Guillermo Capetillo
  Guillermo Capetillo is a Mexican actor, singer and matador and bullfighter. He is a member of the Capetillo family. His father and his brother, actor Manuel Capetillo, Jr. are also matadors, his half-brother Eduardo Capetillo is a singer and actor...
  
  
• Manuel Capetillo
• Luis Castro El soldado
• Eloy Cavazos
  Eloy Cavazos
  also known as "The Little Giant"Born: August 25, 1949, Ciudad Guadalupe, Nuevo León, México.Resides in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, a suburb of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon México...
  
  
• Fermín Espinoza Armillita
• Miguel Espinoza Armillita chico
• Humberto Flores
• Rodolfo Gaona El Califa
• Alfredo Gomez El Brillante
• Jorge Gutiérrez
• Joselito Huerta
• Antonio Lomelín
• Eulalio López Zotoluco
• Arturo Macías
• Manolo Martínez
• Manolo Mejía
• Silverio Pérez
  Silverio Pérez (bullfighter)
  Silverio Pérez was a Mexican matador whose nickname was "The Pharaoh."Pérez began his career in 1931, after his brother, Carmelo Pérez, had been killed by a bull during a bullfight in Spain....
  
  
• Luis Procuna
• Rey Guevara-Vasquez, El Aleph
• Mariano Ramos
• Francisco Curro Rivera
• Alejandro Silveti
• David Silveti
• Hilda Tenorio
• Jose Ramon Tirado
• Carmelo Torres
  Carmelo Torres
  Bernardo del Carmen Fregoso Cázares, who worked and lived under the name Carmelo Torres Fregoso was a matador, businessman, journalist, author and TV producer. He lived in Venezuela from 1952...
  
  

Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

• Vasco Taborda, Jr.
• José Falcão- Deceased
• Joaquim Bastinhas
• Paulo Caetano
• João Moura
• Vitor Ribeiro
• Luis Rouxinol
  Luís Rouxinol
  Luis Rouxinol is a top bullfighter in Portugal and averages around 40–60 bullfights a year. He was born in Pegões, Montijo, with João Moura as his godfather...
  
  
• Joao Salgueiro
• Rui Salvador
• António Ribeiro Telles
• Mestre David Ribeiro Telles
• João Telles
• João Branco Núncio
  João Branco Núncio
  João Alves Branco Núncio was a Portuguese bullfighter. He was born in Alcácer do Sal, in a whitewashed house next to that of his uncle, the Viscount of Alcácer do Sal. Today it belongs to the Viscount's Philharmonic Friendship Society.He was the son and grandson of farm-hands...
  
  
• Rodolfo El Pana Rodgriguez
• Ricardo Teixeira Duarte

Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

• Antonio Ordóñez
  Antonio Ordóñez
  Antonio Ordóñez Araujo was a famous Spanish bullfighter.-Bullfighting career:Ordóñez was born Antonio Ordóñez Araujo in Ronda, Spain. He was one of the top bullfighters of his time. As a matador, Ordoñez came face to face with over 3000 bulls...
  
  
• Gomez Escorial
• Cayetano Ordóñez
  Cayetano Ordóñez
  Cayetano Ordóñez is the founder of the Ordóñez family of bullfighters.His parents owned a shoeshop called La Palma, which gave him his nickname . In 1917 he first began to perform as a bullfighter in the ranches of the area were he lived...
  
  
• El Yiyo, Jose Cubero, deceased 1985, fatally gored
• Cristina Sánchez
  Cristina Sánchez
  Cristina Sánchez de Pablos was one of the first female bullfighters to gain prominence.-Career:Sanchez enjoyed international fame. She was successful at bullrings in Ecuador and Mexico and is one of the most well-recognized bullfighters at home...
  
  
• Curro Romero
  Curro Romero
  Francisco Romero López Spanish bullfighter, known as Curro Romero. Born in Camas, near Seville.He started his professional career in La Pañoleta , on August 22, 1954 together with Limeño....
  
  
• El Soro
• El Fandi
  El Fandi
  El Fandi is statistically one of the most skilled matadors in the world. Currently, he is ranked number one among all bullfighters in Spain....
  
  
• Emilio Muñoz
  Emilio Muñoz
  Emilio Muñoz is a Spanish film and video actor; and bullfighter.-Acting:Muñoz has appeared in two Madonna music videos, Take a Bow and its sequel, You'll See ....
  
  
• Enrique Ponce
  Enrique Ponce
  Alfonso Enrique Ponce Martínez Chiva, Valencia, Spain, also known as Enrique Ponce, is a famous Spanish bullfighter.-Biography:He made his first public appearance on the August 10, 1986 in the Plaza De Toros in Baeza ....
  
  
• Enrique Robles
  Enrique Robles
  Enrique Robles of Madrid, Spain, also known as Chicorrito was a champion torero in Mexico and in Spain. By 1927 he killed over 1,000 bulls and had 70 scars from being gored.-Biography:...
  
  
• Francisco Camino Sánchez, "Paco Camino"
• Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez
  Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez
  Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, is a Spanish matador.-Early years:Rivera is the son of Francisco Rivera 'Paquirri' and Carmen Ordóñez along with his elder brother, the matador Francisco Rivera Ordóñez...
  
  
• Francisco Rivera Ordóñez
  Francisco Rivera Ordóñez
  Francisco de Asís Rivera Ordóñez is a Spanish bullfighter.He is the son of Francisco Rivera Paquirri and Carmen Ordóñez, and his brother is the matador Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez...
  
  
• Francisco Montes Reina, Paquiro
  Francisco Montes Reina
  Francisco Montes Reina , nicknamed Paquiro, was a famous matador, born in Chiclana, Cádiz Province, Spain....
  
  
• Cúchares
• Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
  Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
  Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was a famous Spanish bullfighter. He was also a writer. He enjoyed enormous popularity — he was attractive to women, admired by men, and a sympathetic personality to artists, especially those of the Generación del 27.When he died after a goring in the Plaza of...
  
  
• Isidro Ramirez
• Jairo Miguel
  Jairo Miguel
  Jairo Miguel is a bullfighter child prodigy.Miguel first began practicing bull fighting at the young age of six. He was signed to professionally fight bulls at the age of 12 in Mexico, because he could not compete in Spain, whose minimum age is 16...
  
  
• Javier Conde
  Javier Conde
  Javier Conde Becerra , better known as Javier Conde, is one of the most famous Spanish bullfighters to come from Malaga.-Biography:The Malagueño began bullfighting on June 4, 1989 in Benalmadena....
  
  
• Jesulín de Ubrique
• Jerónimo Pimentel Gomez
• José Antonio Morante Camacho, Morante de la Puebla
• José María Manzanares
• José Ortega Cano
  José Ortega Cano
  José Ortega Cano is a Spanish bullfighter. He was married to Spanish singer Rocío Jurado. They adopted two Colombian children, one boy one girl....
  
  
• Pepe-Hillo
• Joselito
  José Miguel Arroyo Delgado
  José Miguel Arroyo Delgado is a bullfighter from Spain. He is better known in bullfighting circles as Joselito, a nickname he shares with at least two other notables: José Gomez, the Josélito bullfighter of the 1910s, and Josélito, a teen idol singer from the 1960s.-Biography:Arroyo Delgado was...
  
  
• José Tomás Román Martín, José Tomás
• Juan José Padilla,
• Juan Belmonte
  Juan Belmonte
  Juan Belmonte García was a Spanish bullfighter, considered by many to have been the greatest matador of all time.-Life:...
  
  
• Julián López Escobar
  Julián López Escobar
  Julián López Escobar , commonly known as El Juli, is a Spanish bullfighter.-Biography:After he caped his first bull at the young age of nine, Julián's wealthy family enrolled him in the Madrid Academy of Tauromachy...
  
  , El Juli
• Julio Aparicio Díaz
  Julio Aparicio Díaz
  Julio Aparicio Díaz , also known as Julito Aparicio, is a Spanish bullfighter from Seville. Aparicio made his public début in bullfighting at the age of fourteen in 1984. He was confirmed as a torero, or matador, in 1994...
  
  
• Dominguín
  Luis Miguel González Lucas
  Luis Miguel González Lucas was a famous bullfighter from Spain, better known as Luis Miguel Dominguín. His father was the legendary Domingo Dominguín; he adopted his father's name to gain popularity....
  
  
• Manolete
• Manuel Benítez, El Cordobés
  El Cordobés
  Manuel Benítez Pérez , more commonly known as El Cordobés , is a famous matador of the 1960s who brought to the bullring an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style.-Career:...
  
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• Manuel Díaz González, El Cordobés
• Manuel García Cuesta, El Espartero
• Mario Cabré
• Manuel Jesús Cid, El Cid
• Matias Tejela
• Miguel Ángel Perera
• Paquirri
  Paquirri
  Francisco Rivera Pérez, known as Paquirri , was a Spanish bullfighter.- Death :Paquirri was gored by a bull named "Avispado" during a bullfight in Pozoblanco , and died while he was being transported to Córdoba Hospital.- Family :He was first married to Carmen Ordóñez, with whom he had two...
  
  
• Pedro Romero
  Pedro Romero
  Pedro Romero Martínez was a legendary bullfighter from the Romero family in Ronda, Spain. His grandfather Francisco is credited with advancing the art of using the muletilla; his father and two brothers were also toreros...
  
  
• Pepe Luís Vázquez
• Rafael Molina Sánchez, Lagartijo
  Rafael Molina Sánchez
  Rafael Molina Sánchez "Lagartijo", the son of "Niño de Dios", and nephew of "Poleo", was born in Cordoba on November 27, 1841. He fought in his home town on September 8, 1851 when he was nine years old. On September 29, 1865, he became a full bullfighter at Ubeda...
  
  
• Rafael Guerra Bejarano, Guerrita
  Rafael Guerra Bejarano
  Rafael Guerra Bejarano "Guerrita" was born in Cordoba, in the household of an employee of the slaughterhouse, one and half months before his side-whiskered uncle José "El Pepote" was killed in Madrid by "Jocinero", on March 6, 1862. In 1878 he started a long apprenticeship as banderillero and...
  
  
• Santiago Martín Sánchez, El Viti
• Frascuelo

United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

• Eduardo Paz-Martinez, featured in Mexico City
• Will McDonald
• Mario Carrión
• Sidney Franklin
  Sidney Franklin (bullfighter)
  Sidney Franklin was the first Jewish American to become a successful bullfighter.Sidney Frumkin was born in Brooklyn, New York to Orthodox Jewish parents. In 1922 he traveled to Mexico City, where he would begin a career in bullfighting...
  
  
• John Fulton (Short)
• Sean McSpadden

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

• Frank Evans
  Frank Evans (bullfighter)
  Francis "Frank" Evans is a British-born bullfighter, known as "El Inglés". He is reputed to be the only British bullfighter currently working professionally. He now holds Spanish citizenship.-Early career:...
  
  
• Vincent Hitchcock
• Henry Higgins
• Santiago Wealands Tapia Robson - the first Anglo-Spanish bullfighter

Fictional Bullfighters

• Raul Bourneau, a minor character in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
  Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
  -Life:She was born in Iveşti, Galaţi County, the daughter of General Dimitrie Bengescu and of Zoe . She attended high-school in Bucharest and, aged 20, she married the magistrate Nicolae Papadat but her literary career was delayed because her husband was transferred from town to town and because...
  
  's classic novel Fecioarele despletite (The Disheveled Maidens), inspired from a real life person
• Vega (Street Fighter)
  Vega (Street Fighter)
  Vega is a fictional character from the Street Fighter fighting game series. Vega is a masked, claw-wielding warrior from Spain who uses a personal fighting style combining Japanese Ninjutsu and Bullfighting, earning him the nickname the "Spanish Ninja".Vega first appears in the original Street...
  
  , one of the bosses
  Boss (video games)
  A boss is an enemy-based challenge which is found in video games. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight...
  
   of the Street Fighter fighting game series.
• Abe Simpson, in The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
   episode Million Dollar Abie
  Million Dollar Abie
  "Million Dollar Abie" is the sixteenth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons. This is the first episode to have a parody title of the film Million Dollar Baby, with the second being Million Dollar Maybe.-Plot:...
  
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• Don Flamenco from the Punch-Out!!
  Punch-Out!!
  is a 1983–1984 boxing arcade game by Nintendo. It was the first in a series of successful Punch-Out!! games that produced an arcade sequel known as Super Punch-Out!!, a spin-off of the series titled Arm Wrestling, a highly popular version for the NES originally known as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!,...
  
  series of video games.

External links

• ToroPedia.com The English-language encyclopedia of bullfighting