Carvajal (also spelled Carbajal) is a surname and place name of Spanish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfonso Carvajal (writer) (born 1958), Colombian writer and editor *

Andarín Carvajal Félix de la Caridad Carvajal y Soto, known as Andarín Carvajal (18 March 1875 – 27 January 1949) was a Cuban mailman and long-distance runner who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Career Carvajal was born in San Antonio de los Baños ...

(1875–1949), Cuban athlete *

Antonio Fernandez Carvajal Antonio Fernandez Carvajal (c. 1590November 10, 1659)—in pt, António Fernandes Carvalhal—was a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first endenizened English Jew. Carvajal and Simon de Caceres, together with other prominent members ...

(c.1590–1659), Portuguese Jewish merchant, and the first naturalized English Jew *

Beatriz Carvajal Beatriz Pla Navarro (born 24 December 1949) better known as Beatriz Carvajal is a Spanish theatre, television and film actress. Career She wanted to be an actress since she was a child and she took part in some theatre plays (''La zapatera pr ...

(born 1949), Spanish actress *

Bernardino López de Carvajal Bernardino López de Carvajal (8 September 1456, in Plasencia, Extremadura – 16 December 1523, in Rome) was a Spanish Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal. He was a nephew of Juan Carvajal (cardinal), Cardinal Juan Carvajal, and advanced rapidly ...

(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 Francisco Fernández Carvajal or Francis Fernandez (born 1938 in Granada) is a Spanish Roman Catholic priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books. He is best known for his seven volume work ''Hablar con Dios'' (''In Conversation ...

(born 1938), priest in the Opus Dei Prelature and author of several books *

Francisco S. Carvajal Francisco Sebastián Carvajal y Gual, sometimes spelled Carbajal (December 9, 1870 – September 30, 1932) was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served briefly as president in 1914. In his role as foreign minister, he succeeded Victoriano Hue ...

(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 José de Carvajal y Hué (8 October 1835 in Málaga, Spain – 4 June 1899 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish lawyer, economist, writer and politician who served as Minister of State from 1873 to 1874, during the presidency of Emilio Castelar y R ...

(1835–1899), Spanish lawyer, economist and politician *

José de Carvajal y Lancáster José de Carvajal y Lancáster (1698–1754) was a Spanish statesman. Biography He was son of the Duke of Liñares and his mother was descendant of infante Jorge de Lancastre, a natural son of King John II of Portugal. After graduating at the ...

(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 dipl ...

(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 Emp ...

, 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 ** (c. 1566-1596), nephew of the above, changed his name to José Lumbroso and was burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquicition in Mexico City for Judaizing * Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal (1944–2003), popularly known as

Inday Badiday Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal (August 6, 1944 – September 26, 2003), popularly known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino TV host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "queen of intrigues". B ...

, 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-hand ...

(1984–2018), 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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