Ginés is a Spanish
personal name
A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...
. It is the form of the Roman name "
Genesius".
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People with this name include:
*Ginés de la Jara
Saint Ginés de la Jara (also known as Ginés de la Xara, Ginés el Franco, Genesius Sciarensis) is a semi-legendary saint of Spain. He is associated with the region surrounding Cartagena, of which he is co-patron. A hermitage was founded adjac ...
, Spanish saint of the Early Middle Ages
As a place name San Ginés can refer to:
*San Ginés, Madrid
The church of San Ginés (Spanish: ''iglesia de San Ginés de Arlés'') in Madrid, is one of the oldest churches in that city. It is situated on the Calle Arenal. References to it appear in documents dating from the ninth century. Originally bu ...
, church in Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
*San Ginés, Arrecife
San Ginés is a church in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Originally the location of a hermitage built in 1574 that contained images of Saint Peter and Saint Ginés, it was flooded and completely rebuilt in 1667. It was expanded in ...
, church in Arrecife
Arrecife (; ; ) is the capital city and a municipality of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. It was made the island's capital in 1852. The city owes its name to the rock reef ("arrecife" being Spanish for "reef") which covers its local beach. It als ...
, Lanzarote
Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the i ...
* San Ginés, Guadalajara, church in Guadalajara, Spain
Guadalajara (, ) is a city and municipality in Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. It is the capital of the Province of Guadalajara.
Lying on the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at roughly metres above sea ...
Other people with this personal name:
*Ginés González García
Ginés González García (born 31 August 1945) is an Argentine medical doctor who served twice as the country's Ministry of Health (Argentina), Minister of Health under President Alberto Fernández, from 2019 to 2021, and under the successive pres ...
(1945- ), Minister of Health and Environment of Argentina
*Ginés Pérez de Hita
Ginés Pérez de Hita (1544? – 1619?) was a Spanish novelist and poet, born at Mula (Murcia) about the middle of the 16th century.
It is likely that he joined the campaign against the "Moriscos" in the Alpujarra in 1560.
''Guerras civiles ...
(1544-ca. 1605), Spanish novelist and poet
*Ginés de Mafra
Ginés de Mafra (1493–1546) was a Portuguese or Spanish explorer who sailed to the Philippines in the 16th century. Mafra was a member of the expeditions of Fernão de Magalhães of 1519–1521 and Ruy López de Villalobos of 1542–1545.
Histo ...
(1493-1546), Spanish explorer
*Ginés Pérez de la Parra
Ginés Pérez de la Parra (c. 1548 – 25 November 1600), also known as Juan Ginés Pérez, was a Spanish composer during the Renaissance. He was born in Orihuela, a city in what is now the province of Alicante. His work and that of his contempor ...
(ca. 1548-1600), Valencian composer
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Spanish masculine given names