Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander.[1]
| Pronunciation | [aleˈxandɾo] |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | 'Defender of Mankind' |
| Region of origin | Greece |
| Other names | |
| See also | Alejandra, Alexandra, Alexander, Alex, Alessandro, Alexandru, Alexandre |
Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre (French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander (Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr (Russian), and Alasdair (Gaelic).
People with the given name Alejandro edit
- Alejandro Alvizuri, Peruvian backstroke swimmer
- Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-born Spanish director
- Alejandro Aranda, American singer, musician, and reality television personality
- Alejandro Arguello, Mexican footballer
- Alejandro Avila, Mexican TV actor
- Alejandro Awada, Argentine actor
- Alejandro Betts, Argentine historian
- Alejandro Bermúdez, Colombian swimmer
- Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine architect
- Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and novelist
- Alejandro Casañas, Cuban hurdler
- Alejandro Castillo, Mexican footballer
- Alejandro Cercas, Spanish politician
- Alejandro Chataing, Venezuelan architect
- Alejandro Cichero, Venezuelan footballer
- Alejandro Corichi, Mexican theoretical physicist
- Alejandro Cortés, Colombian road cyclist
- Alejandro Cruz (disambiguation), several people
- Alejandro Diz, Argentine volleyball player
- Alejandro Doherty, Argentine field hockey player
- Alejandro Dolina, Argentine broadcaster
- Alejandro Domínguez, former chief of police in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
- Alejandro Edda, Mexican-American actor
- Alejandro Escovedo, American singer-songwriter
- Alejandro Falla, Colombian tennis player
- Alejandro Felipe Paula, Netherlands Antilles politician and historian
- Alejandro Fernández, Mexican singer
- Alejandro Fernández Sordo, Spanish politician
- Alejandro Freire, Venezuelan-American baseball player
- Alejandro García (disambiguation), several people
- Alejandro Garnacho, Argetine footballer
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican director
- Alejandro Walter González, Argentine road cyclist
- Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military
- Alejandro Herrera (Heroes), fictional character in NBC's Heroes
- Alejandro Herrera (athlete) (born 1958), Cuban athlete
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean actor and director
- Alejandro Kirk, Mexican baseball player
- Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, former Argentine President
- Alejandro Lazo, Cuban-American dancer
- Alejandro Lerner, Argentine musician
- Alejandro Lerroux, Spanish politician
- Alejandro González Malavé, Puerto Rican undercover police agent
- Alejandro Martinez, Andorran punk rock guitarist and back-up singer in Anonymous
- Alejandro Manzano, lead singer in Puerto Rican-American alternative rock band Boyce Avenue
- Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
- Alejandro Meloño, Uruguayan footballer
- Alejandro Moreno, Venezuelan footballer
- Alejandro Muñoz-Alonso, Spanish politician
- Alejandro Naif, Palestinian footballer
- Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor, and engraver
- Alejandro O'Reilly, Irish-born Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana
- Alejandro Orfila, Argentine diplomat
- Alejandro Ortuoste, Filipino boxer
- Alejandro Padilla, American politician
- Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Pérez, president of the Korean Friendship Association
- Alejandro Planchart, Venezuelan-American musicologist and composer
- Alejandro Portes, Cuban-American sociologist
- Alejandro Pozuelo, Spanish footballer
- Alejandro Ramírez (chess player), Costa Rican international grandmaster of chess
- Alejandro Ramírez Calderón, Colombian road cyclist
- Alejandro Rebollo Álvarez-Amandi, Spanish lawyer, civil servant and politician
- Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor
- Alejandro Rivera, NCIS character
- Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Puerto Rican poet and writer
- Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Mexican politician
- Alejandro Rossi, Mexican writer
- Alejandro Saab, American voice actor
- Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer
- Alejandro Salazar, American footballer
- Alejandro Sanz, Spanish pop musician
- Alejandro Siqueiros, Mexican freestyle swimmer
- Alejandro Severo, the Spanish version of Alexander Severus, former Roman emperor
- Alejandro M. Sinibaldi, President of Guatemala
- Alejandro Siri, Argentine field hockey player
- Alejandro Sosa, fictional drug lord from the 1983 film Scarface
- Alejandro Spajic, Argentine volleyball player
- Alejandro de la Sota, Spanish architect
- Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian politician, ex-president
- Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine auto racing driver
- Alejandro Trujillo, Chilean footballer
- Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
- Rey Alejandro Conde Valdivia, Mexican conductor
- Alejandro Velasco Astete, Peruvian pilot
- Alejandro Villanueva, NFL Offensive tackle, and former Army Ranger
- Alejandro Zaera, Spanish architect
- Alejandro Zohn, Mexican architect
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Grégoire, L. (1874). Diccionario enciclopédico de historia, biografía, mitología y geografía (in Spanish). Garnier Hermanos. p. 42. Retrieved 20 September 2018.