Fonseca (surname)
Fonseca is a surname of Portuguese origin, that can be found in Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as in Spanish-speaking countries and among Sephardic Jews. A feudal lordship name from a place named for a spring that dried up during the summer months, it comes from Latin fons sicca, meaning "dry fount".
Fonseca or Fonseka may refer to:
People
- Alonso III Fonseca, Galician archbishop and politician
- Andrea Fonseka, Malaysian actor, television presenter and model and winner of Miss Malaysia Universe 2004
- Angelo da Fonseca, Indian artist
- Antônio Joao da Fonseca, Brazilian footballer
- Bruno Fonseca, American painter and sculptor
- Carlo Fonseka, Sri Lankan medical academic
- Carlos Fonseca Amador, Nicaraguan founder of the Sandinistas
- Carlos Fonseca (boxer), Brazilian boxer
- Carolyn De Fonseca, American film and voice actress
- Casto Fonseca, Nicaraguan military dictator
- Celso Fonseca, Brazilian samba, bossa nova and música popular brasileira guitarist and vocalist
- Cholomondeley de Fonseka Goonewardene, Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist politician
- Cleonâncio Fonseca, Brazilian politician
- Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan football player
- Daniel de Fonseca, Jewish court physician and courtier in Europe
- Daniele Fonseca, birth name of Italian unification leader Daniele Manin
- Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican football player
- David Fonseca, Portuguese singer
- Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of the Republic of Brazil
- Duduka da Fonseca, Brazilian jazz drummer and band leader
- Édgar Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
- Edison Fonseca, Colombian football player
- Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Neapolitan poet and revolutionary
- Enrique Fonseca,, Venezuelan baseball player
- Eugene Reginald de Fonseka, puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- Flor Isava Fonseca, Venezuelan sportswoman and writer
- Francisco Fonseca, Mexican football player
- Fumilay Fonseca, São Toméan race walker
- Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan film actor and politician
- Gampalage Shehan Naveendra De Fonseka Gunawarna Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
- Gonzalo Fonseca, Uruguayan sculptor
- Graciano Fonseca, Colombian road cyclist
- Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez, Mexican politician
- Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, President of Brazil
- Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, rabbi, scholar, kabbalist and writer in Europe and South America
- Isabel Fonseca, American writer
- J. P. de Fonseka, Sri Lankan essayist
- João Fonseca, Brazilian tennis player
- Juan Fernando Fonseca, Colombian singer better known under his stage name Fonseca
- Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca,, Spanish archbishop, courtier and bureaucrat
- Lew Fonseca, American baseball player
- Luis Fonseca (runner), Venezuelan long-distance runner
- Luis Fonseca (United States Navy), a United States Navy hospital corpsman and hero of the Iraq War
- Luis Fonseca (weightlifter), Costa Rican weightlifter
- Lyndsy Fonseca, American television and film actress
- Malini Fonseka, Sri Lankan film actress
- Mary L. Fonseca, American politician and Massachusetts state senator
- Melquises Fonseca, Cuban runner
- Mervyn Fonseka, Sri Lankan lawyer
- Morawakkorakoralege Walter Fonseka Abeykoon, Ceylonese civil servant
- Mohotti Arachchilage Sriyani Kulawansa-Fonseca, Sri Lankan Olympic hurdler
- Paulo Fonseca, Portuguese football soccer manager
- Peter Fonseca, Canadian politician
- Ralph Fonseca, Belizean politician
- Ramón Fonseca Mora, Panamanian novelist and attorney
- Ray Fonseca (dancer), American professional hula dancer
- Ray Fonseca (politician), a US Virgin Island senator
- Roberto Fonseca, Cuban jazz pianist
- Roberto Fonseca (football manager), Brazilian football manager
- Rolando Fonseca, Costa Rican football player
- Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan politician and senior military officer
- Susantha de Fonseka, Sri Lankan statesman
- Todd A. Fonseca, American author of juvenile fiction