Salgado (name)
Salgado is a Galician and Portuguese surname.
Etymology
The surname Salgado, in Galician and Portuguese, is a nickname for a witty person, coming from salgado 'salty', figuratively 'witty', 'piquant'.People with the surname include:
Politicians
Equatorial Guinea
- Alejandro Arias Salgado, colonial governor
Honduras
- Juan Ramón Salgado, member of the Liberal Party
Brazil
- Clóvis Salgado da Gama, governor of Minas Gerais
- Plínio Salgado, founder of Brazilian Integralism
Mexico
- Alvárez Salgado Roberto, member of the LVI Legislature
- Juan Salgado Brito, politician
- Salgado Delgado Fernando, member of the LVI Legislature
- Zeferino Salgado
Peru
Portugal
- Salgado Zenha, founding member of the Socialist Party
Spain
- Fernando Arias-Salgado, television personality and diplomat
- Gabriel Arias-Salgado
- Rafael Arias-Salgado, member of the People's Party
- Elena Salgado
Sports personalities
- Belarmino Salgado, a Cuban judoka
- Carolina Solberg Salgado, a Brazilian beach volleyball player
- Dilhara Salgado, Sri Lankan Sinhala archer
- Eloy Salgado, footballer for the Houston Force
- Javier Alvarez Salgado, a Spanish athlete
- Jorge Sánchez Salgado, a Cuban volleyball player
- José Luis Salgado, a Mexican footballer
- Mario Salgado, a Chilean footballer
- Michel Salgado, a Spanish footballer
- Rafael Salgado Torres, president of Deportivo de La Coruña
- Omar Salgado, an American soccer player
Musicians
- Luis Humberto Salgado Torres, an Ecuadorian musician
- Curtis Salgado, an American musician
- Gugut Salgado, member of Moonpools & Caterpillars
- Johnny Salgado, member of Proyecto Uno
- Michael Salgado, a Tejano musician
Other
- Aaron J. Salgado, film director of Jamaica Motel
- Andrés Salgado Tous, colombian screenwriter
- Carlos Salgado, Honduran radio journalist and comedian
- Carolina Salgado, former partner of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
- James Salgado, Spanish refugee and pamphleteer
- José Salgado, founder of Lobos, Argentina
- Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Brazilian filmmaker, director, and writer
- Lélia Wanick Salgado, Brazilian author, film producer and environmentalist
- Leonardo Salgado, Argentine paleontologist
- M. P. Salgado, 40th Surveyor General of Sri Lanka
- Minoli Salgado, Malaysian-born British writer and academic
- Ranji Salgado, Sri Lankan Sinhala economist and civil servant
- Ricardo Salgado, Portuguese economist and banker
- Rob Salgado, Golden Knights chess champion: 1975, 1983
- Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist
- Silvia Salgado (model), Mexican model
Extended names
- Diego Salgado Costa de Menezes, a Brazilian footballer
- Estéfano, a Colombian musician
- Francisco Franco, Spanish head of state
- Ramón Franco, a Spanish aviator and political activist
- José Lind, a Puerto Rican baseball player
- Maria do Carmo Roma Machado Cardoso Salgado, a member of the Portuguese nobility; great-grandmother of Maria Roma
- Ruth Zavaleta, a Mexican politician
Fictional people
- Ligia Salgado, Brazilian version of ''Desperate Housewives''
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- Isabel Illutre de Salgado
- Juan Salgado
- Raphael Salgado
- Regina Salgado
- Rosella Salgado
- Socorro Salgado