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Diego (given name)

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Diego is a very common male given name of Spanish origin – also used in Portuguese-speaking countries, Italy and France. It may refer to:

  • Diego (footballer), a variety of Association football players with the given name Diego (see article);
  • Diego de Oviedo, 10th-century Asturian prelate;
  • Diego de León, 12th-century Leonese prelate;
  • Diego de Ourense, 12th-century Galician prelate;
  • Diego de Asturias, 16th-century Spanish Royal heir who died at age 7;
  • Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor and screenwriter;
  • Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador;
  • Diego Aventín, Argentine race car driver;
  • Diego Buñuel, French journalist;
  • Diego Camacho, Bolivian tennis player;
  • Diego Colón, 4th viceroy of New Spain;
  • Diego Corrales, American boxer;
  • Diego D'Ambrosio, Italian-American businessman;
  • Diego Deza, Spanish theologian and inquisitor;
  • Diego Domínguez (disambiguation)
  • Diego Durán, Spanish Dominican friar;
  • Diego Gelmírez, first archbishop of Compostela;
  • Diego Gonzalez, Mexican singer, musician and actor – often known simply as Diego; also is known as Diego Boneta in the U.S.)
  • Diego Hartfield, Argentine tennis player;
  • Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast;
  • Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán;
  • Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor;
  • Diego Luna, Mexican actor;
  • Diego Masson, French music conductor and composer;
  • Diego Morales (disambiguation)
  • Diego Nargiso, Italian tennis player;
  • Diego Pérez, Uruguayan tennis player;
  • Diego Portales, Chilean politician;
  • Diego Rivera, Mexican painter;
  • Diego Sanchez, American mixed martial artist;
  • Diego Sebastián Schwartzman, Argentine tennis player
  • Diego Seguí, Cuban baseball pitcher;
  • Diego Silang, Philippine revolutionary leader;
  • Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor;
  • Diego Torres, Argentine singer and composer;
  • Diego Vargas, Venezuelan singer and composer;
  • Diego de Vargas, governor of New Spain;
  • Diego Villanueva, Brazilian singer-songwriter;
  • Diego Velázquez, 17th-century Spanish painter;
  • Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador.
  • Fictional characters

  • Diego, a saber-toothed tiger of the film series Ice Age;
  • Diego Alcazar, a character in the TV series General Hospital;
  • Diego Márquez, cousin of Dora the Explorer with his own spinoff TV show Go, Diego, Go!;
  • Diego Armando, the defence attorney from Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, who is mostly seen under the name Godot (who becomes a prosecutor).
  • References

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