Academica

• Antonio Núñez Jiménez
  Antonio Núñez Jiménez
  Antonio Núñez Jiménez was a Cuban revolutionary and academic. He was born in Alquízar, Havana Province. Núñez received his first doctorate from the University of Havana in 1950, and would later receive a second from the Lomonosov University of Moscow...
  
  , Cuban revolutionary and academic
• Juan Núñez de la Peña
  Juan Núñez de la Peña
  Juan Núñez de la Peña was a Spanish historian. Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, he studied Latin and the humanities in the college of San Agustín de La Laguna and was subsequently ordained priest...
  
  , Spanish historian

Drama

• Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor
• Joseph Nunez
  Joseph Nunez
  Joseph Nunez is an American actor and comedian most notable for his recurring role as Manche Sanchez on the show Prison Break. He also played a cleaner in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and the man who ran over Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness...
  
  , United States actor
• Oscar Nunez
  Oscar Nunez
  Oscar Nunez , sometimes credited as Oscar Núñez, is a Cuban American actor and comedian.He currently appears as Dunder Mifflin's paper supply accountant, Oscar Martinez, on NBC's The Office.-Career:...
  
  , United States actor and comedian

Exploration

• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition...
  
  , Spanish explorer
• Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  Vasco Núñez de Balboa
  Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.He traveled to the New World in...
  
  , Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador

Authors

• Sigrid Nunez
  Sigrid Nunez
  -Biography:Sigrid Nunez is the daughter of a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. She was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Columbia University. After finishing school she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York...
  
  , United States writer
• Elizabeth Nunez
  Elizabeth Nunez
  Elizabeth Nunez is a United States novelist, and distinguished professor of English at Medgar Evers College–CUNY, in Brooklyn, New York. Nunez is also cofounder of the National Black Writers Conference. She emigrated to the United States from Trinidad, and received her Ph.D...
  
  , United States writer
• Hernán Núñez
  Hernán Nuñez
  Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán was a Spanish humanist, classicist, philologist, and paremiographer. He was called el Comendador Griego, el Pinciano or Fredenandus Nunius Pincianus. He earned his degree in 1490 from the Spanish College of San Clemente in Bologna...
  
   (1475–1553), Spanish
  Spanish people
  The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....
  
   writer and collector of proverbs

Music

• Alcide Nunez
  Alcide Nunez
  Alcide Patrick Nunez was an early United States jazz clarinetist. Also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, he was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana of an Isleño family and moved to New Orleans in his childhood.He initially played guitar, then switched to clarinet about 1902...
  
  , United States jazz clarinetist
• José Nunez
  José Nunez
  José Nunez is an American electronica and house music producer. In 1998, he appeared in the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice, first hitting #1 with "In My Life." It peaked at #56 in the UK Singles Chart in September that year. The follow-up "Hold On" peaked at #9 US Dance later...
  
  , United States electronica and house music producer
• Robert Nunez
  Robert Nunez
  Robert Nunez is a United States musician who has performed as Principal Tuba of both the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the New Orleans Opera since 1992. He has taught as Adjunct Professor of Tuba at the University of New Orleans and Tulane University. Mr...
  
  , United States musician
• Carlos Núñez
  Carlos Núñez
  Carlos Núñez is a Galician musician who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe.-Life and career:Nuñez was born in 1971 in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. He began playing the bagpipes when he was eight years old. In his early teens, he was invited to play with the Festival Orchestra of the...
  
  , Spanish musician from Galicia
• Carlos Núñez Cortés
  Carlos Núñez Cortés
  Carlos Núñez Cortés was born October 15, 1942, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1969.In the group, his functions include:* Creating new instruments ....
  
  , a member of Argentine comedy-musical group Les Luthiers
  Les Luthiers
  Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very...
  
  
• Jorge Núñez (singer), American Idol contestant
• Antonio Escobar Núñez, a Spanish composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
  , music producer and sound designer

Politics and military

• Fabian Núñez
  Fabian Núñez
  Fabian Núñez has been a labor union adviser and a Democratic politician. He served three two year terms as a member of the State Assembly, leaving office late in 2008...
  
   (born 1966), American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   politician
• José Núñez de Cáceres
  José Núñez de Cáceres
  José Núñez de Cáceres was a Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of Dominican independence when Spain ruled the country and he was also the first person in the country to use literature as weapon of social protest and politics.- Early years :José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor was born on...
  
   1772 - 1846) Dominican
  Dominican Republic
  The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
  
   politician and writer
• Blasco Núñez Vela
  Blasco Núñez Vela
  Blasco Núñez Vela y Villalba was the first Spanish viceroy of Peru, from May 15, 1544 to January 18, 1546. He was charged by King Charles I with the enforcement of the controversial New Laws, which dealt with the failure of the encomienda system to protect the indigenous people of America from the...
  
  , Spanish viceroy
  Viceroy
  A viceroy is a royal official who runs a country, colony, or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king. A viceroy's province or larger territory is called a viceroyalty...
  
   of Peru
  Peru
  Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  
  
• Samuel B. Nunez, Jr.
  Samuel B. Nunez, Jr.
  Samuel Bernard Nunez, Jr., known as Sammy Nunez , is a Louisiana politician and businessman from Chalmette, the seat of St. Bernard Parish in the New Orleans suburbs. He was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 to 1969. From 1969 to 1996, the Democrat Nunez was a state...
  
  , Louisiana politician
• Osvaldo Nunez
  Osvaldo Nunez
  Osvaldo Nunez was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. His career has been in law, arbitration and labour....
  
  , Canadian politician
• Corazon Nunez-Malanyaon
  Corazon Nunez-Malanyaon
  Corazon Nunez-Malanyaon is the governor of the Philippine province of Davao Oriental. She was first elected in 2007. She is Davao Oriental's third female governor....
  
  , Philippine politician
• Aaron Nunez Cardozo, 1762–1834, Gibraltarian consul for Tunis and Algie
• Casto Méndez Núñez
  Casto Méndez Núñez
  Casto Secundino María Méndez Núñez , Spanish military naval officer. Born in Vigo . In 1866 during the Chincha Islands War between Spain, Peru and Chile, he was General Commander of the Spanish fleet in the Pacific...
  
   (1824–1869), Spanish military naval officer
• Rafael Núñez (politician)
  Rafael Núñez (politician)
  Rafael Wenceslao Núñez Moledo was a Colombian author, lawyer, journalist and politician, who was elected President of Colombia in 1880 and in 1884. Rafael Núñez was born in Cartagena de Indias, on September 28, 1825. He died in Cartagena on September 18, 1894.-Early life:Little is known about the...
  
  , President of Colombia in the 1880s and 1890s

Baseball

• Abraham Núñez (baseball infielder), a Major League Baseball infielder for the New York Yankees
• Abraham Núñez (baseball outfielder), a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Caffè Danesi Nettuno of Italy's Serie A1
• Clemente Núñez
  Clemente Nunez
  Clemente Núñez Beltre is a former professional baseball pitcher who was the first player ever signed by the Florida Marlins...
  
  , United States baseball player
• Eduardo Núñez
  Eduardo Núñez
  Eduardo Michelle Núñez Mendez is a Major League Baseball infielder for the New York Yankees. He was a non-drafted signee with the Yankees in 2004. The Yankees view Núñez as a possible replacement at shortstop for Derek Jeter.Following the 2009 season, Núñez was added to the 40-man roster to...
  
  , a Major League Baseball infielder for the New York Yankees
• Leo Núñez
  Leo Núñez
  Juan Carlos Oviedo ) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Miami Marlins as the team's closer. He bats and throws right-handed.-Playing career:...
  
  , a pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Florida Marlins as the team's closer

Association football

• Álvaro Adrián Núñez
  Álvaro Adrián Núñez
  Álvaro Adrián Núñez Moreira is an Uruguayan footballer who plays for CD Guadalajara in Spain, as a goalkeeper.He also has a Spanish passport, having spent over a decade playing in the country.-Club career:...
  
  , Uruguayan goalkeeper
• Antonio Núñez
  Antonio Núñez
  Antonio Núñez Tena is a Spanish footballer who plays for Apollon Limassol, mainly as a right midfielder.-Club career:Núñez started his career with CD San Federico, before joining fourth level side CD Las Rozas...
  
  , Spanish footballer
• Gervasio Núñez
  Gervasio Núñez
  Gervasio Daniel Núñez is an Argentine footballer who plays for Wisła Kraków on loan from Quilmes.-Career:Núñez began his career at Academia Ernesto Duchini before moving to Rosario Central youth team. He progressed to make his first team debut on 9 March 2007 in a 2-0 away defeat to Independiente...
  
  , Argentine footballer
• Jorge Martín Núñez
  Jorge Martín Núñez
  Jorge Martín Núñez Mendoza is a football defender from Paraguay who plays for Club Rubio Ñu.He has scored 1 goal in 18 caps for Paraguay, as of July 2007. He started his career in Club Guaraní and then moved to Cerro Porteño. Afterwards he played for several Argentine teams such as Banfield,...
  
  , Paraguayan footballer
• Josep Lluís Núñez
  Josep Lluís Nuñez
  Josep Lluís Núñez i Clemente was president of FC Barcelona between 1978 and 2000. Núñez also owns the Núñez i Navarro construction company and Núñez i Navarro Hotels chain. He was elected club president on 1 July 1978 despite having no previous connection with the club...
  
  , former president of FC Barcelona
• Leonel Núñez
  Leonel Núñez
  Leonel Núñez is an Argentine football striker who plays for Independiente.-Argentinos Juniors:From 2004 to 2007 Núñez played for Argentinos Juniors in the Argentine Primera División. He finished the 2006 Apertura tournament with 8 goals, and was in the top ten goalscorers...
  
  , Argentine footballer
• Milton Núñez
  Milton Núñez
  Milton Omar Núñez García is a Honduran soccer player who currently plays as a striker playing for CSD Comunicaciones in Guatemala's top division.-Club career:...
  
  , Honduran footballer
• Nicolás Núñez
  Nicolás Núñez
  Nicolás Núñez Rojas nickname Nico is a Chilean football midfielder. In 2001 he joined the Universidad Católica in Chile...
  
  , Chilean footballer
• Ramón Núñez
  Ramón Núñez
  Ramón Núñez is a Honduran international footballer, currently playing for Leeds United. Núñez plays primarily as an attacking central midfielder playmaker. He can also play as a Winger or as a second striker. In his homeland he is nicknamed El Principito meaning The Little Prince...
  
  , Honduran-American footballer
• Rodrigo Núñez
  Rodrigo Núñez
  Rodrigo Fabián Núñez Ortiz is a Chilean football midfielder, who made his debut for the Chile national football team on 2000-02-09...
  
  , Chilean footballer

Other sport

• José María Núñez Piossek
  José María Núñez Piossek
  José María Núñez Piossek is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League. He has also represented the Argentina national team, including being a part of their 2003 Rugby World Cup squad...
  
  , Argentine rugby union player
• Sidarka Núñez
  Sidarka Núñez
  Sidarka De Los Milagros Núñez is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who played for the Women's National Team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan. There the team ended up in fourth place, and did not qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
  , Dominican Republic volleyball player

Science and medicine

• Samuel Nunez, United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   physician
  Physician
  A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
  
   and early Jewish settler in Georgia
• Rafael E. Núñez
  Rafael E. Núñez
  Rafael E. Núñez is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego and a proponent of embodied cognition. He co-authored Where Mathematics Comes From with George Lakoff.-External links:*...
  
  , cognitive scientist

Other

• Rafael Núñez (hacker)
  Rafael Núñez (hacker)
  Rafael Núñez is a white hat computer hacker who used to be a member of the World of Hell and a retired model from Venezuela....
  
  (also known as RaFa), a hacker/cracker and model from Venezuela