Álvarez (surname)

Álvarez
Language(s)	Spanish
Origin
Meaning	Son of Álvaro; alternatively, from Arabic al-faris, a knight or cavalryman,[1] from which was derived the Medieval Iberian rank Alférez.
Region of origin	Spain

Álvarez (sometimes Alvarez) is a Spanish surname. Among those with the surname are:

Actors, singers, musicians

Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez (born 1963), Cuban artist
Celia Álvarez Muñoz (born 1932), American artist
José Álvarez Cubero (23 April 1768 - 26 November 1827), Spanish sculptor in the neoclassical style
Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985), U.S. oil painter, daughter of Luis F. Álvarez
Pedro Álvarez Castelló (1967-2004), Cuban painter

Carlos Álvarez (mayor) (born c.1952), U.S. politician
Eugenio Alvarez (1918–1976), New York assemblyman
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925-2016), Uruguayan general and dictator
José Manuel Álvarez, Argentine politician
Juan Álvarez (1790-1867), Mexican general and president
Julián Álvarez (1788-1843), Argentine politician
Pedro de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Mancera (c.1585-1654), Spanish viceroy of Peru
Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca (1484-1553), Spanish viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples

Al Alvarez (1929-2019), English writer
Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884-1969), Nicaraguan jurist and political writer
Emilio Álvarez Montalván (1919-2014), Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and political writer
José María Álvarez de Sotomayor, Spanish playwright and poet
José Sixto Álvarez, aka Fray Mocho, Argentine writer
Julia Alvarez (born 1950), U.S. writer
Severiano Álvarez (1933–2013), Spanish writer

Onion News Network's Brooke Alvarez, played by Suzanne Sena
Ciriaco Álvarez (born 1873), Chiloé businessman
Fede Álvarez (born 1978), Uruguyan filmmaker
Felix Alvarez (born 1951), Gibraltar human and civil rights activist and defender
Gregorio Álvarez (historian) (1889-1986), Argentine physician and historian
José Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba (1756-1796), Spanish patron of painter Goya
Juan Álvarez (historian), Argentine judge and historian
Juan Manuel Alvarez, man convicted of causing the 2005 Glendale train crash
Luis F. Álvarez (1853-1937), U.S. physician, father of Mabel Alvarez and Walter C. Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988), U.S. physicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, son of Walter C. Alvarez, father of Walter Alvarez
Melania Alvarez, Mexican mathematics educator in Canada
Nancy Alvarez (psychologist) (born 1950), Dominican psychologist and TV presenter
Pero Alvarez, 15th-century freed slave
Robert Alvarez (born 1948), U.S. animator, television director, and writer
Rosendo Álvarez Gastón (1926–2014), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
Vincent Alvares (1680-1738), Indian doctor and clergyman
Virginia Pereira Álvarez (1888-1947) Venezuelan physician
Walter Alvarez (born 1940), U.S. geologist responsible for discovering the reasons behind Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, son of Luis Walter Alvarez
Walter C. Alvarez (1884-1978), U.S. physician, son of Luis F. Álvarez, father of Luis Walter Alvarez

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