Germán () is a male given name in Spanish speaking countries. It is a cognate to French
Germain
Germain may refer to:
* Germain (name), including a list of people with the name
* Germain Arena, the former name of an arena in Estero, Florida
* Germain Racing, a NASCAR racing team
* Germain Amphitheater, a concert venue in Columbus, Ohio
*Pari ...
, and is a variant of Latin
Germanus
Germanus or Germanos ( Greek) may refer to:
People
*Lucius Trebius Germanus, governor of Roman Britain around 126
*Germanus (died c. 290), possibly apocryphal martyr-saint tortured at the Pula Arena
*Germanus (4th century), Spanish martyr-saint ...
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Surname
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Domingo Germán
Domingo Germán Polanco (; born August 4, 1992) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). Germán was signed by the Florida Marlins as an international free agent in 2009. He made ...
(born 1992), baseball player
* Esteban Germán (born 1978), Dominican professional baseball second baseman
* Franklyn Germán, relief pitcher
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Javier Germán
Javier Germán Cruz (born 15 June 1971), known as Javi Germán, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent the majority of his career with his hometown club Cádiz, making 226 appearances and scoring seven goals, inc ...
(born 1971), Spanish footballer
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Tamás Germán
Tamás Germán (born 26 March 1987) is a Hungarian professional footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American ...
Germán Gedovius
Germán Gedovius (1867–1937) was a Mexican painter.
Biography
Gedovius was born in Mexico City in 1867 before moving as an infant with his family to San Luis Potosí. When he was sixteen years old he returned to Mexico City to attend the Acade ...
, Mexican painter
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Germán Pedro Ibáñez Germán Pedro Ibáñez (October 11, 1928 in Las Villas, Cuba – August 9, 2007 in Havana, Cuba) was the musical director of one of the oldest musical groups from Cuba, the Septeto Habanero
A septet is a formation containing exactly seven member ...
, Cuban musical director
* Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican actor
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Germán Londoño
Germán Londoño is a Colombian artist from Medellín. He is mostly known as a painter but recently has begun sculpting. He has exhibited in museums in Lisbon and Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbrevia ...
, Colombian painter and sculptor
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Germán Magariños Germán Magariños (born 13 May 1978) is an Argentine film director, film producer, screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing ...
, Argentine film director and screenwriter
* Germán Robles, Mexican actor
* Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer, and comedian
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Germán Villar
Germán Villar (born 1975) is a Spanish tenor.
Biography
Germán Villar was born in Valencia, Spain. The roots of his musical education lay in Madrid, where he started his education with Inés Ribanedeira. At the age of 20 he joined the Joaquim Ro ...
Germán Carrera Damas
Germán Carrera Damas (Cumaná, Sucre (state), Sucre, 28 May 1930), is a Venezuelan historian, professor and retired ambassador, author of important works of Venezuela's historiography such as ''El Culto a Bolívar'' (1969) and ''Una nación lla ...
, Venezuelan historian
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Germán Castro Caycedo
Germán Castro Caycedo (3 March 1940 – 15 July 2021) was a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters of the cultural identity and its social and economic phenomena.
Born ...
, Colombian writer and journalist
* Germán Espinosa, Colombian novelist and poet
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Germán Gullón
Germán Gullón (Santander, May 21, 1945), literary critic and writer, is a professor of Spanish literature and member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He has authored, beside his scholarly works and ...
, Spanish literary critic
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Germán Nogueira Gómez
Germán Nogueira Gómez (born October 8, 1961), is a Cuban author, composer and producer. He was born in Havana, Cuba. He has been the winner of several national and international music events. He is the author of many popular songs included in s ...
, Cuban author
Politics
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Germán Busch
Víctor Germán Busch Becerra (23 March 1903 – 23 August 1939) was a Bolivian military officer and statesman who served as the 36th president of Bolivia from 1937 to 1939. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Chief of the General Staff ...
, President of Bolivia from 1937 to 1939
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Germán List Arzubide
Germán List Arzubide (31 May 1898 – 17 October or 19 October 1998) was a Mexican poet and revolutionary.
Born in Puebla, he was an active participant in the Revolution, fighting alongside Emiliano Zapata as well as extolling him and other re ...
, Mexican revolutionary
* Germán Martínez, Mexican politician
* Germán Riesco, President of Chile from 1901 to 1906
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Germán Ignacio Riesco Errázuriz
Germán () is a male given name in Spanish speaking countries. It is a cognate to French Germain, and is a variant of Latin Germanus.
Surname
* Domingo Germán (born 1992), baseball player
* Esteban Germán (born 1978), Dominican professional ...
, Chilean politician, son of the above
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Germán Sequeira
Germán Sequeira Aguilera (1884 – January 19, 1951) was a Nicaraguan politician. He was the 79th and 82nd mayor of El Sauce, León
El Sauce () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. Located in the foothills of t ...
, Nicaraguan politician
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Germán Serrano Pinto
Germán Serrano Pinto (30 March 1940 – 21 May 2016) 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 region of No ...
, Costa Rican politician
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Germán Suárez Flamerich
Germán Suárez Flamerich (10 April 1907 – 24 June 1990) was the president of Venezuela from 1950 to 1952. Flamerich was a lawyer, college professor, diplomat, and politician. He was president of the Government Junta from 1950 to 1952, after the ...
, former president of Venezuela
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Germán Trejo
German Trejo is a Mexican-American political consultant and president of Battleground Solutions. The company serves Democratic candidates and progressive non-profit organizations.Germán Vargas Lleras, Colombian politician and presidential candidate
Germán Arangio
Carlos Germán Arangio (born 23 May 1976, in Buenos Aires) is a retired professional football player from Argentina who last played for Albinegros de Orizaba in Mexico's Primera Division A.
Playing for Racing Club de Avellaneda, Arangio made his ...
Germán Carty
Luis Germán del Carmen Carty Monserrate (Born July 16, 1968 in Cañete) is a former Peruvian professional football (soccer) player.
Club career
Carty most prominently played for Cienciano. He was the top goalscorer as Cienciano won the 2003 C ...
Germán Leguía
Germán Carlos Leguía Dragó, also known as ''Cocoliche'', (born January 2, 1954 in Lima) is a retired professional soccer, football Striker (association football), striker and midfielder from Peru.
He competed for the Peru national football t ...
, Peruvian footballer
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Germán Lauro
Germán Luján Lauro (born 2 April 1984) is an Argentine shot putter and discus thrower. He is the South American record holder in the shot put both indoors and outdoors with marks of 21.04 m and 21.26 m, respectively. His personal b ...
, Argentine shotputter
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Germán Leonforte
Germán Gabriel Leonforte (born 12 January 1981 in Rosario) is an Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This conne ...
, Argentine footballer
* Germán Lux, Argentine footballer
* Germán Montoya, Argentine footballer
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Germán Pacheco
Germán Ezequiel Pacheco González (born 19 May 1991) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays for Deportivo Morón as a Forward (association football), forward. He also holds Spanish nationality law, Spanish citiz ...
, Argentine footballer
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Germán Pietrobon
Germán Ariel Pietrobon (born 1 April 1983, in Rosario) is an Argentine football striker.
Club career
Pietrobon came through the youth system of Rosario Central, but before making his first team debut, he was transferred to CA San Martín, he ...
, Argentine footballer
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Germán Pinillos
Germán Ernesto Pinillos Rioja (born 6 April 1972) is a Peruvian football manager and former footballer. He currently manages Cobresol in the Torneo Descentralizado.
Club career
Pinillos played for a number of clubs in Peru, including Sportin ...
, Peruvian footballer
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Germán Ré
Germán David Ré (born 2 November 1981) is an Argentine football defender currently playing for Villa San Carlos.
Career
Ré made his debut for Newell's Old Boys in 2002, and went on to make over 150 appearances for the club. In 2004, he was ...
Germán Villa
Germán Villa Castañeda (; born 2 April 1973) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
German made his debut in the 1991-92 season with América against Leon. Villa played regularly with América until 1998 whe ...
, Mexican footballer
* Germán Voboril, Argentine footballer
Other sports
* Germán Barranca, Mexican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
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Germán Chiaraviglio
Germán Pablo Chiaraviglio Ermácora (born 16 April 1987 in Santa Fe) is an Argentine pole vaulter.
Biography
His personal best of 5.71 metres was achieved at the World Junior Championships in Beijing on August 19, 2006, when he beat th ...
, Argentine pole vaulter
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Germán Durán
Germán Durán (born August 3, 1984) is a Mexican-American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers.
Early life
Durán grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended Paschal High Sc ...
German Glessner
Germán Glessner (born 8 March 1974 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine/German Olympian who represented Argentina in the Winter Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, in the ice sport of Skeleton.
Glessner is a multilingual businessman who speaks Span ...
, Argentine skeleton racer
* Germán González, Venezuelan baseball player in the U.S. Major League
* Germán Jiménez, Mexican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
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Germán López
Germán López Montoya (born 29 December 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Spain.
Career
Lopez was runner-up in the 18 and Under category of the 1989 Orange Bowl, losing the final to Fernando Meligeni.
The Spaniard made his fir ...
, former Spanish professional tennis player
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Germán Martínez (swimmer)
Germán Elberto Martínez Díaz (born June 5, 1979) is a backstroke swimmer from Colombia who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New So ...
, Colombian swimmer
* Germán Mesa, Cuban baseball player
* Germán Orozco, Argentine field hockey player
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Germán Ospina
Germán Alirio Ospina Castro (born March 28, 1972, in La Unión, Valle del Cauca) is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional rider from 1996 to 1997.
Career
;1996
:1st in Stage 3 Clásico Mundo Ciclistico (COL)
:1st i ...
, Colombian cyclist
* Germán Quiroga, Mexican NASCAR Corona Series race car driver
* Germán Recio, Dominican Republic volleyball player
* Germán Rieckehoff, Puerto Rican swimmer and president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee
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Germán Rivera
Germán Rivera Díaz (born July 6, 1960) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball third baseman. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 1980s.
Career
Rivera was signed as an undraf ...
, Puerto Rican baseball player in the U.S. Major League
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Germán Sánchez (racewalker)
Germán Fortino Sánchez Cruz (born July 31, 1967 in Zimatlán, Oaxaca) is a Mexican race walker.
Personal bests
*20 km: 1:25:05 hrs – A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and ...
, Mexican race walker
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Germán Sánchez (racing driver)
Germán Sánchez Flor (born 4 July 1989 in Alicante) is a Spanish racing driver.
Career
Formula Three
Sánchez made his car racing debut aged just sixteen, when he took part in the 2006 European F3 Open Championship, Spanish Formula Three Champ ...
, Spanish racing driver
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Germán Silva
Germán Silva Martínez (born 9 January 1968 in Zacatlán, Puebla) is a Mexican former long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon. His foremost achievements were back-to-back victories at the New York City Marathon in 1994 and 1995. He ...
, retired Mexican long-distance runner
* Germán Torres, Mexican boxer
Other
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Germán Abad Valenzuela
Germán Abad Valenzuela (August 10, 1919 – October 16, 2008) was an Ecuadorian radiologist. He served as the doctor to 20 Ecuadorian presidents including Mariano Suárez Veintimilla
Abad was born August 10, 1919 in Guayaquil to Juana Valenz ...
, Ecuadorian radiologist
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Germán Busch
Víctor Germán Busch Becerra (23 March 1903 – 23 August 1939) was a Bolivian military officer and statesman who served as the 36th president of Bolivia from 1937 to 1939. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Chief of the General Staff ...
, Bolivian military officer
* Germán Efromovich, South American entrepreneur
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Germán Frers (disambiguation) Germán Frers may refer to:
* Germán Frers (born 1941), Argentine naval architect
* Germán Frers (sailor) (1899–1986), Argentine sailor
{{Hndis, Frers, Germán ...
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Germán Garmendia
Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (; born April 25, 1990) is a Chilean YouTuber, singer-songwriter, comedian and writer. He became famous for his YouTube channel HolaSoyGerman, which uploaded humorous videos about everyday situations. In 2013, ...
, Chilean YouTube comedian
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Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco
Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco (born 1953/1954) is a Mexican billionaire businessman. He is the CEO of Grupo México, Mexico's largest mining corporation, and the third largest copper producer in the world. As of July 2022, his net worth was estimate ...
, Mexican businessman
* Germán Martínez Hidalgo, American scientist
* Germán Olano Moreno, for whom the
Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base
Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base ( es, Base Aérea Capitán Germán Olano Moreno) is a Colombian military base assigned to the Colombian Air Force (''Fuerza Aérea Colombiana'' or FAC) Combat Air Command No. 1 (''Comando Aéreo de Combate No ...
Germán Sánchez (disambiguation) Germán Sánchez may refer to:
* Germán Sánchez (racewalker) (born 1967), Mexican race walker
* Germán Sánchez (footballer) (born 1986), Spanish footballer
* Germán Sánchez (racing driver)
Germán Sánchez Flor (born 4 July 1989 in Alican ...
:* Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, for whom the
Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation The Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation is a non-profit Spanish institution, constituted in October 1981 and recognized by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
Its general mission is the creation, promotion and development of all types of cultural ...