Agapito is both a given name and a surname. It is the Spanish and Italian version of
Agapitus.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
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Pope Agapetus I (490-536), Bishop of Rome, known as Agapetos in contemporary sources.
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Agapito Aquino
Agapito "Butz" Aquino (May 20, 1939 – August 17, 2015) was a Senator of the Philippines from 1987 to 1995, congressman from Makati and a part-time film and television actor. He was born to former senator Benigno S. Aquino Sr. and Aurora Aq ...
(1939-2015), Filipino politician
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Agapito Conchu, Filipino film director
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Agapito Gómez
Agapito Gómez Álvarez (born January 30, 1963) is a retired boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles ...
(born 1963), Spanish boxer
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Agapito Jiménez Zamora
Agapito Jiménez Zamora (May 24, 1817 – September 17, 1879) was a Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American regi ...
(1817–1879), Costa Rican politician
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Agapito Lozada
Agapito Lozada (1938 – 29 July 2011) was a Filipino swimmer. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbour ...
(1938–2011), Filipino swimmer
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Agapito Mayor
Eleno Agapito Mayor Valenzuela (August 18, 1915 – April 18, 2005) was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher. Listed at 5' 11", 185 lb., he batted and threw left handed.
Early life
Born in Sagüa la Grande, Villa Clara Province, Mayor ...
(1915–2005), Cuban baseball player
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Agapito Sánchez
Agapito Sánchez (February 14, 1970 – November 14, 2005) was a boxer from the Dominican Republic, nicknamed "El Ciclón" and "Dirty Sanchez" (due to his constant application of unsportsmanlike tactics in the ring), in the Super Bantamweig ...
(1970–2005), Dominican Republic boxer
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Julio García Agapito
Don Julio Gualberto García Agapito (c. February 1, 1964 – February 26, 2008) was a Peruvian environmentalist who was murdered on February 26, 2008 after reporting a shipment of illegally harvested mahogany in Peru. Don Julio was Lieutenant Go ...
(died 2008), Peruvian environmentalist
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Lourdes Agapito
Lourdes de Agapito Vicente is the Professor of 3D Vision in the department of computer science at University College London (UCL) where she leads a research
group with a focus on 3D dynamic scene understanding from video. Agapito is an elected ...
, Spanish computer scientist
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Oliver Agapito
Victor Oliver Agapito (born October 6, 1973) is a Filipino former professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association. He also briefly played in the Metropolitan Basketball Association.
References
*Hardcourt: The Official ...
(born 1973), Filipino basketball player
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Alejandro Garcia Padilla
Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander.
Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander (Czech, Polish), Alexandre ( French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander (Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr (Rus ...
(1971-), Puerto Rican politician (nickname given to him by the Puerto Rican media)
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Spanish masculine given names