Carvajal (also spelled Carbajal) is a surname and place name of Spanish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Ailem Carvajal Gómez (born 1972), Cuban composer and pianist * Alfonso Carvajal (writer) (born 1958), Colombian writer and editor * Andarín Carvajal (1875–1949), Cuban athlete * Antonio Fernandez Carvajal (c.1590–1659), Portuguese Jewish merchant, and the first naturalized English Jew * Beatriz Carvajal (born 1949), Spanish actress * Bernardino López de Carvajal (1455–1523), Spanish cardinal *

Dani Carvajal Daniel "Dani" Carvajal Ramos (; born 11 January 1992) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spain national team. Having risen through the Real Madrid youth ranks, he spent a sea ...

(born 1992), Spanish footballer *

Francisco de Carvajal Francisco de Carvajal (1464 – 10 April 1548) was a Spanish military officer, conquistador, and explorer remembered as ''"the demon of the Andes"'' due to his brutality and uncanny military skill in the Peruvian civil wars of the 16th centur ...

(1464–1548), Spanish military officer, conquistador, and explorer * Francisco Fernández Carvajal (born 1938), Spanish priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books * Francisco S. Carvajal (1870–1932), Mexican president in 1914 *

Gaspar de Carvajal Gaspar de Carvajal ( 1500–1584) was a Spanish Dominican missionary to the New World, known for chronicling some of the explorations of the Amazon. Biography Arrival in the New World and the Amazonian Expedition De Carvajal was born in Truji ...

(c.1500–1584), Spanish Dominican missionary to the New World * Iván Carvajal (born 1948), Ecuadorian poet, philosopher and writer * José de Carvajal y Hué (1835–1899), Spanish lawyer, economist and politician * José de Carvajal y Lancáster (1698–1754), Spanish statesman *

Juan Carvajal (cardinal) Juan Carvajal (Carvagial) (c. 1400 in Trujillo, Cáceres – 6 December 1469, in Rome) was a Spanish Cardinal. Though he began his career as a lawyer and judge in the papal administration, he spent most of his active life travelling as a dip ...

(1400–1469), Spanish cardinal *

Juan de Carvajal Juan de Carvajal was a Spanish conquistador and one of the first governors of Venezuela Province. Carvajal was born in Spain in 1509. He was in Venezuela in the 1540s, a time when territory there had been assigned to the Welser family by the E ...

, Spanish conquistador, founder of El Tocuyo in 1545 * Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (1566–1614), Spanish religious poet and writer *

Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva Luis de Carvajal (sometimes Luis de Carabajal y de la Cueva) ( – 13 February 1591) was governor of the Spanish province of Nuevo León in present-day Mexico, slave trader, and the first Spanish subject known to have entered Texas from Mexico ...

(c. 1539–1595), Spanish-Portuguese adventurer, slave-trader and governor ** Luis de Carvajal the Younger (c. 1566-1596), nephew of the above, wrote under the name José Lumbroso and was burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City for Judaizing * Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal (1944–2003), popularly known as Inday Badiday, a Filipino TV host and journalist *

Marcos Carvajal Marcos José Carvajal (; August 19, 1984 – January 24, 2018) was a Venezuelan relief pitcher who played for the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 4", , 175 lb. , Carvajal batted and threw right-han ...

(1984–2018), Venezuelan baseball player * Máximo Carvajal (1935–2006), Chilean comic book artist *

Melitón Carvajal Manuel Melitón Carvajal Ambulodegui (March 10, 1847 in Lima – September 19, 1935 in Lima), was a Peruvian naval commander and government official who was part of the crew of the ironclad ''Huáscar'' during the War of the Pacific. He was ...

(1847–1935), Peruvian naval officer *

Patricio Carvajal Vice Admiral Patricio Carvajal Prado (16 July 1916 – 15 July 1994), was a Chilean admiral, several times Minister and one of the principal leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état that ousted President Salvador Allende. Military career He jo ...

(1916–1994), Chilean admiral *

Rafael Carvajal Rafael Carvajal Guzmán (1818–1881) was the vice president of Ecuador from 1864 to 1865 and the acting president from 31 August 1865 to 7 September 1865. He was Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in ...

(1818–1881), President of Ecuador in 1865 * Tomás José González-Carvajal (1753–1834), Spanish poet and statesman

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