Álvarez (surname)
Álvarez is a Spanish surname of Germanic origin, a patronymic meaning "son of Álvaro". Its Portuguese equivalent is Álvares. Notable people with the surname include:
Actors, singers, musicians
- Ana Álvarez, Spanish model and actress
- Andreína Álvarez, Venezuelan actor
- Angela Alvarez, Cuban-born American singer
- Carlos Álvarez (baritone), Spanish opera singer
- Cristian Álvarez (musician), Argentine musician
- David Alvarez, Canadian dancer and actor
- Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor
- Francisco Álvarez (actor), Argentine actor
- George Alvarez, Cuban/American actor
- Germán Álvarez Beigbeder, Spanish composer
- Ian Antonio Alvarez, also known as Bunji Garlin, Trinidadian male soca singer
- Izabella Alvarez, American actress
- Javier Álvarez, Mexican composer
- Julión Álvarez, Mexican musician
- Karl Alvarez, American musician
- Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Spanish composer
- Roy Alvarez, Filipino actor, director and screenwriter
- Zayra Alvarez, Puerto Rican musician
Military figures
- Ochoa de Alvarez de Isásaga, Spanish nobleman, Chief of the Supreme Council of the Indies, Order of Santiago
- Casta Álvarez, Spanish soldier
- Everett Alvarez Jr., American naval officer and prisoner of war
- Mariano Álvarez de Castro, Spanish brigadier
- Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general, statesman, and teacher
- Vicente Álvarez (general), Filipino revolutionary
Painters, sculptors
- Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez, Cuban artist
- Celia Álvarez Muñoz, American artist
- José Álvarez Cubero, Spanish sculptor in the neoclassical style
- Mabel Alvarez, American oil painter, daughter of Luis F. Álvarez
- Negra Álvarez, Salvadoran visual artist
- Pedro Álvarez Castelló, Cuban painter
Politicians
- Amy Alvarez, Filipino politician
- Carlos Álvarez (American politician), Cuban-American politician from Florida
- Eugenio Alvarez, New York assemblyman
- Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Uruguayan general and dictator
- José Manuel Álvarez, Argentine politician
- Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president
- Julián Álvarez (lawyer), Argentine politician
- Maira Mariela Macdonal Alvarez, Bolivian diplomat
- María Carmen Castilla Álvarez, Spanish politician
- Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero, Argentine politician
- Pedro de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Mancera, Spanish viceroy of Peru
- Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples
- Vicente Álvarez Travieso, Spanish judge and politician
Sports figures
Baseball
- Abe Alvarez, American baseball player
- Armando Alvarez (baseball), American baseball player
- Clemente Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
- Eddy Alvarez, American baseball player
- Francisco Álvarez (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- Hayden Alvarez, Dominican baseball player
- Henderson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
- Jose Alvarez (baseball, born 1956), American baseball player
- José Álvarez (baseball, born 1989), Venezuelan baseball player
- Juan Alvarez, American baseball player
- Pedro Alvarez (baseball), Dominican baseball player
- Rafael Álvarez (baseball), Venezuelan baseball player
- R. J. Alvarez, American baseball player
- Tony Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
- Veronica Alvarez, American baseball catcher
- Wilson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
- Yadier Álvarez, Cuban baseball pitcher
- Yordan Alvarez, Cuban-born baseball player
Basketball
- Lester Alvarez, Filipino basketball player
- Miguel Álvarez Pozo, Cuban basketball player
- Paul Alvarez, Filipino basketball player
- Rich Alvarez, Filipino basketball player
Football (soccer)
- Arturo Alvarez, American footballer
- Carlos Alvarez, American soccer player
- Cristian Darío Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Cristian Osvaldo Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- David Álvarez Aguirre, see Kily Álvarez
- Edson Álvarez, Mexican footballer
- Julián Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Kevin Álvarez (footballer, born 1996), Honduran footballer
- Kevin Álvarez (footballer, born 1999), Mexican footballer
- Kily Álvarez, Equatoguinean footballer
- Leonel Álvarez, Colombian footballer
- Leonel Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Leonel Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Lorgio Álvarez, Bolivian footballer
- Luciano Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Óscar Marcelino Álvarez, Argentine football player
- Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentine footballer
- Quique Álvarez, Spanish footballer
- Ricardo Gabriel Álvarez, Argentine footballer
Other sports
- Almudena Álvarez, Spanish boxer
- Barry Alvarez, American football coach and sports administrator
- Bernard Alvarez, American NASCAR Cup Series driver
- Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and journalist
- Canelo Álvarez, Mexican boxer
- Eddie Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
- Francisco Álvarez, Cuban beach volleyball player
- José Álvarez de Bohórquez, Spanish equestrian
- José Luis Álvarez, Spanish fencer
- José Marcelo Álvarez, Paraguayan fencer
- Lynn Alvarez, American mixed martial artist
- María Fernanda Álvarez Terán, Bolivian tennis player
- Nancy Alvarez, Argentine Olympic athlete
- Oscar Álvarez, Colombian road cyclist
- Rafael Álvarez (diver), Spanish diver
- Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, Argentine rugby player
- Robin Álvarez, Swedish ice hockey player
- Tania Alvarez, Spanish boxer
- Tania Álvarez, Spanish marathon canoeist
- Wilson Alvarez, Bolivian player of American football
Writers, novelists, poets
- Al Alvarez, English writer
- Emilio Álvarez Lejarza, Nicaraguan jurist and political writer
- Emilio Álvarez Montalván, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and political writer
- José María Álvarez de Sotomayor, Spanish playwright and poet
- José Sixto Álvarez, aka Fray Mocho, Argentine writer
- Julia Alvarez, American writer
- Severiano Álvarez, Spanish writer
- Rogerio Alvarez, Brazilian writer
Others
- Ada Álvarez, Cuban-Mexican operations researcher
- Onion News Network's Brooke Alvarez, played by Suzanne Sena
- Ciriaco Álvarez, Chiloé businessman
- Fede Álvarez, Uruguayan filmmaker
- Felix Alvarez, Gibraltar human and civil rights activist and defender
- Gabriela Álvarez (engineer), Mexican mechanical engineer
- Gregorio Álvarez (historian), Argentine physician and historian
- José Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, Spanish patron of painter Goya
- José Antonio Álvarez Sánchez, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
- Juan Álvarez (historian), Argentine judge and historian
- Juan Manuel Alvarez, man convicted of causing the 2005 Glendale train crash
- Luis F. Álvarez, American physician, father of Mabel Alvarez and Walter C. Alvarez
- Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, son of Walter C. Alvarez, father of Walter Alvarez
- Mayra Álvarez, Mexican nanoscientist
- Melania Alvarez, Mexican mathematics educator in Canada
- Nancy Alvarez (psychologist), Dominican psychologist and TV presenter
- Pedro J. J. Alvarez, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University
- Pero Alvarez, 15th-century freed Portuguese slave
- Robert Alvarez, American animator, television director, and writer
- Rosendo Álvarez Gastón, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
- Thalía Álvarez, Ecuadorian anthropologist and activist
- Vincent Alvares, Indian doctor and clergyman
- Virginia Pereira Álvarez Venezuelan physician
- Walter Alvarez, American geologist responsible for discovering the reasons behind Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, son of Luis Walter Alvarez
- Walter C. Alvarez, American physician, son of Luis F. Álvarez, father of Luis Walter Alvarez
Fictional characters
- Dr Alvarez, criminal in James Bond
- Judy Alvarez, a braindance editor in Cyberpunk 2077