Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for '' Peter''. Its French equivalent is

Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic

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of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is

Pérez Pérez, or Perez as most commonly written in English, is a Castilian Spanish surname. Perez (pronounced Peretz, see below) is also common in people of Sephardic Jewish descent and is the 4th most common surname in Israel, most common surname not o ...

in Spanish, and

Peres Peres is a Portuguese, Galician, and Sephardic-Jewish surname. Its Spanish variant is Pérez. In the Hungarian language, it means litigant ("peres fél"). It is common in both forms Peres and Perez as well as Peretz among descendants of Sephar ...

in Galician and Portuguese,

Pires Pires is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a patronymic, meaning ''Son of Pedro'' or ''Son of Pero'' ( en, Peter). Its Spanish equivalent is ''Pérez''. It is a variant form of '' Peres'' ...

also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of

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(where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro". The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter itself is a translation of the

Aramaic The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in ...

''Kephas'' or '' Cephas'' meaning "stone". An alternate archaic spelling is ''Pêro''. Pedro may refer to:

Notable people

Monarchs, mononymously

Pedro I of Portugal Peter I (Portuguese: ''Pedro I'', ; 8 April 1320 – 18 January 1367), called the Just (''o Justiceiro'') or the Cruel (''o Cruel''), was King of Portugal from 1357 until his death. He was the third but only surviving son of Afonso IV of Portuga ...

Pedro II of Portugal ''Dom'' Pedro II (Peter II; 26 April 1648 – 9 December 1706), nicknamed "the Pacific", was King of Portugal from 1683 until his death, previously serving as regent for his brother Afonso VI from 1668 until his own accession. He was the fifth a ...

Pedro III of Portugal Dom Peter III ( pt, Pedro III, ; 5 July 1717 – 25 May 1786), nicknamed the Builder, was King of Portugal from 24 February 1777 to his death in 1786 as the co-ruler of his wife and niece, Queen Dona Maria I.David Birmingham ''A Concise History ...

Pedro IV of Portugal Dom Pedro I (English: Peter I; 12 October 1798 – 24 September 1834), nicknamed "the Liberator", was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil. As King Dom Pedro IV, he reigned briefly over Portugal, where he also became ...

, also Pedro I of Brazil *

Pedro V of Portugal , house = Braganza , house-type = House , father = Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry , mother = Queen Maria II of Portugal , birth_date = , birth_place = , death_date = , death_place = Necessida ...

Pedro II of Brazil Don (honorific), Dom PedroII (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed "the Magnanimity, Magnanimous" ( pt, O Magnânimo), was the List of monarchs of Brazil, second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. ...

Pedro of Castile Peter ( es, Pedro; 30 August 133423 March 1369), called the Cruel () or the Just (), was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea. He was excommunicated by Pope Urban V for ...

Peter I of Aragon and Navarre Peter I ( es, Pedro, an, Pero, eu, Petri; 1068 - 1104) was King of Aragon and also Pamplona from 1094 until his death in 1104. Peter was the eldest son of Sancho Ramírez, from whom he inherited the crowns of Aragon and Pamplona, and Isabella o ...

, also known as Pedro I *

Peter II of Aragon Peter II the Catholic (; ) (July 1178 – 12 September 1213) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213. Background Peter was born in Huesca, the son of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile. In 1205 he acknowled ...

Peter III of Aragon Peter III of Aragon ( November 1285) was King of Aragon, King of Valencia (as ), and Count of Barcelona (as ) from 1276 to his death. At the invitation of some rebels, he conquered the Kingdom of Sicily and became King of Sicily in 1282, pres ...

Peter IV of Aragon Peter IV, ; an, Pero, ; es, Pedro, . In Catalan, he may also be nicknamed ''el del punyalet'': "he of the little dagger". (Catalan: ''Pere IV''; 5 September 1319 – 6 January 1387), called the Ceremonious (Catalan: ''el Cerimoniós''), w ...

* Peter V of Aragon, also Pedro IV of Barcelona

In sports, mononymously

Pedro (footballer, born 1978) Pedro Hernández Martínez (born 2 October 1978 in Madrid), known simply as Pedro, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right back, currently assistant manager of CD Leganés Club Deportivo Leganés, S.A.D. is a footbal ...

, Pedro Hernández Martínez, Spanish football player, right-back *

Pedro (footballer, born 1984) Pedro Santa Cecilia García (born 10 March 1984), known simply as Pedro, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right midfielder. Club career Born in Gijón, Asturias, Pedro made his professional debut with hometown's Sporting de Gij� ...

, Pedro Santa Cecilia García, Spanish football player, midfielder *

Pedro (footballer, born 1986) Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

, Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino, Spanish footballer, forward * Pedro (footballer, born 1987), Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer, forward/winger * Pedro (footballer, born 1997), Pedro Guilherme Abreu dos Santos, Brazilian football player, forward *

Pedro (footballer, born 1999) Pedro Augusto Cabral Carvalho (born 26 March 1999), commonly known as Pedro, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Egnatia Rrogozhinë in Kategoria Superiore. Career Pedro came through the youth system at América Mineiro, featuri ...

, Pedro Augusto Cabral Carvalho, Brazilian football player, forward *

Pedro (footballer, born 2006) Pedro Henrique Silva dos Santos (born 5 February 2006) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Corinthians. Club career Pedro joined Corinthians at the age of nine, initially playing for the club's futsal team. He signed his first ...

, Pedro Henrique Silva dos Santos, Brazilian football player, forward

In sports

Pedró José Pedro Azevedo Ferreira (born 1 September 1987), known as Pedró, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for F.C. Amares as a midfielder. Club career Born in Braga, Pedró played lower league and amateur football until the age o ...

, José Pedro Azevedo Ferreira, Portuguese football player *

Pedro Acosta Pedro Acosta may refer to: * Pedro Acosta (footballer) (born 1959), Venezuelan football manager and former player * Pedro Acosta (motorcyclist) Pedro Acosta Sánchez (born 25 May 2004) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, competing in M ...

, 2021 Moto3 World Champion *

, Venezuelan football player *

Pedro Aroche Pedro Aroche de los Monteros (born March 14, 1946) is a retired male race walker from Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the no ...

, Mexican race walker * Pedro Casado (1937–2021), Spanish footballer * Pedro Chirivella, Spanish football player *

Pedro Collins Pedro Tyrone Collins (born 12 August 1976) is a cricket coach and former cricketer who played as a fast bowler for the West Indies. Collins also featured for Barbados, Surrey and Middlesex in his cricketing career. International career As a le ...

, West Indian cricketer * Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish racing driver * Pedro Diniz, Brazilian racing driver *

Pedro Gil Pedro Gil (November 13, 1889 – January 5, 1965) was a Filipino physician, journalist, and legislator. Gil served in different distinguished roles - as a labor leader, as a doctor of medicine, as a crusading newspaperman, as a social worker, and ...

, Spanish Roller hockey player * Pedro Gusmão, Brazilian football player *

Pedro Iznaga Pedro Iznaga Ortíz (born August 11, 1986) is a male indoor volleyball player from Cuba, who played for the Men's National Team. He was a member of the national squad that claimed the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games The 2007 ...

, Cuban volleyball player *

Pedro Jirón Pedro Jose Jirón Rugama "Peche Jirón" (18 December 1939 – 7 September 2018) was a Nicaraguan professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Pedro played in the First Division only with Diriangén for 15 years and was thei ...

, Nicaraguan footballer *

Pedro Lamy José Pedro Mourão Lamy Viçoso, OIH, known as Pedro Lamy (; born 20 March 1972) is a Portuguese professional racing driver currently racing in endurance races teaming up with Mathias Lauda and gentleman driver Paul Dalla Lana. He was the fir ...

, Portuguese Grand Prix driver *

Pedro Lima (swimmer) Pedro Manuel Barata de Macedo Lima (20 April 1971 – 20 June 2020) was a Portuguese-Angolan actor, appearing in telenovelas in Portugal. He was also an Olympic swimmer. Swimming He represented Angola in 1988 and 1992 at the Summer Olympics. ...

(born 1971), former Olympic swimmer from Angola *

Pedro Lima (boxer) Pedro Álvaro Santos de Lima (born 29 June 1983 in Riachão do Jacuípe, Bahia) is a Brazilian amateur boxer best known to win the 2007 PanAm welterweight (152 lbs) title in 2007. Career Lima fought in his home country and beat Jaim ...

(born 1983), Brazilian boxer * Pedro Martínez, American baseball player *

Pedro Miguel Pauleta Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes (born 28 April 1973), known as Pauleta (), is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker. During 18 years as a senior he never played in the Primeira Liga, having spent 12 of those ca ...

, Portuguese football player * Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler *

Pedro Pérez Pedro Damián Pérez Dueñas (; February 23, 1952 – July 18, 2018) was a Cuban triple jumper, who set the world record in the men's triple jump event on August 5, 1971, jumping 17.40 metres, while still a 19-year-old Junior athlete, in the fin ...

, Cuban triple jumper *

Pedro Pineda Pedro Pineda (born 30 November 1971) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was a member of the Mexico national football team competing at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Pineda was one of the firs ...

, Mexican football player * Pedro Rodríguez (disambiguation), multiple people * Pedro Senatore Ramos, Ecuadorian football referee *

Pedro da Silva (decathlete) Pedro Ferreira da Silva Filho (born October 24, 1966) is a former decathlon, decathlete from Brazil. He won the gold medal in the men's decathlon event at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba, and competed for his native country at the 1992 ...

, Brazilian decathlete * Pedro Botelho (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian footballer *

Pedro Zabála Pedro Zabála Pereira (born June 25, 1983 in Trinidad, Bolivia, Trinidad) is a Bolivian Association football, football Defender (association football), defender. He currently plays for Municipal Real Mamoré, Real Mamoré in the Liga de Fútbol ...

, Bolivian footballer

Politicians and leaders

* Pedro, Marshal of Navarre, 15th- and 16th-century nobleman *

Pedro Aguirre Cerda Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda (; February 6, 1879 – November 25, 1941) was a Chilean political figure, educator, and lawyer who served as the 22nd president of Chile from 1938 until his death in 1941. A member of the Radical Party since 1906, ...

, Chilean political figure *

Pedro Atacho Pedro José Atacho (born 20 September 1960) is a Curaçaoan politician. He was a member of the Party for the Restructured Antilles. During his political career he was Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles from 1994 to 1998. He served i ...

, Curaçaoan politician * Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, President of Argentina from 1955 to 1958 * Pedro Lascuráin, President of Mexico *

Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez Pedro Nel Ignacio Tomás de Villanueva Ospina Vásquez (18 September 1858 – 1 July 1927) was a Colombian general and political figure. He served as president of Colombia between 1922 and 1926. Biography Ospina was born in Bogotá, on ...

, Colombian general and political figure *

Pedro Pablo Ramírez Pedro Pablo Ramirez Menchaca (30 January 1884 – 12 May 1962) was the fascist-leaning President of Argentina from 7 June 1943, to 24 February 1944. He was the founder and leader of ''Guardia Nacional'', Argentina's fascist militia. Life an ...

, President of Argentina from 1943 to 1944 *

Pedro Rosselló Pedro Juan Rosselló González, (; born April 5, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. He was President of the New Progressive Party from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008, a ...

, Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001 * Pedro I. "Pete" Saenz, American politician *

José Pedro Pérez-Llorca José Pedro Pérez-Llorca (30 November 1940 – 6 March 2019) was a Spanish lawyer who served as the minister of foreign affairs from 1980 to 1982. He was also one of the Fathers of the Constitution and played a key role in the country's trans ...

, Spanish politician *

Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...

Prime Minister of Spain The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government ( es, link=no, Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain. The office was established in its current form by the Constitution of 1978 and it was first regula ...

since 2018 * Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, President of Peru from 2016 to 2018

Explorers

Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Álvares Cabral ( or ; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil. He was the first human in ...

, Portuguese navigator and explorer *

Pedro Escobar Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

, Portuguese explorer who discovered São Tomé and Príncipe * Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer

Other

Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; (often known simply as Almodóvar) born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. His films are marked by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narr ...

, Spanish filmmaker * Pedro de Ayala, Spanish diplomat *

Pedro Calungsod Pedro Calungsod ( es, Pedro Calúñgsod or archaically ; mid-1650s – April 2, 1672), also known as Peter Calungsod and Pedro Calonsor, was a Catholic Filipino-Visayan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish J ...

, Filipino saint * Pedro de San José de Betancur, Spanish saint and missionary in

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

. *

Pedro Alcantara de Souza Pedro Alcantara de Souza (died 1 April 2010) was a Brazilian land reform activist operating in the state of Pará. He was shot dead on April 1, 2010. Souza was a farmers' union president, and city councilor of Redenção. In 2008, 20 killings have ...

(died 2010), Brazilian land reform activist *

Pedro Dimas Don Pedro Dimas (born 1934) is a Mexican violinist, guitarist, composer, and preservationist of traditional music from the Purépecha, an indigenous culture in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Life and career Dimas was born in the village of Ichu ...

, Mexican musician *

Pedro Duro Pedro Duro Benito (1810–1886) was an important Spanish businessman of the 19th century; founder of the industrial group Duro Felguera and a pioneer of ironworking in Spain. Biography Duro was born in Brieva de Cameros, La Rioja, and he d ...

, Spanish businessman *

Pedro Gomez (dance instructor) Pedro Gomez (born c. 1963) is a Salsa dance instructor from Cuba. Biography After Gomez was born, his parents decided to abandon Cuba, perhaps to allow his son to live under better economic conditions. The Gomez family arrived in Puerto Rico. S ...

, Cuban Salsa dance instructor *

Pedro Gomez (journalist) Pedro Gomez (August 20, 1962 – February 7, 2021) was an American sports journalist. He worked as a reporter for ESPN from 2003 to 2021, contributing to the network's '' SportsCenter'' show. He was primarily a baseball reporter and was also a m ...

, American television reporter * Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña, Peruvian serial killer *

Pedro X. Molina Pedro Xavier Molina Blandón (born 1976) is a Nicaraguan political cartoonist who has worked for the news outlet ''Confidencial''. Molina was born in Estelí, Nicaragua, in 1976. He was forced to flee Nicaragua when he was ten years old, escapi ...

(born 1976), Nicaraguan caricaturist *

Pedro Nunes Pedro Nunes (; Latin: ''Petrus Nonius''; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family. Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, Nunes ...

, Portuguese mathematician * Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia *

Pedro Pascal José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born 2 April 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. He began his career guest-starring on various television shows before rising to prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell on the fourth season of the HBO fantasy ...

, Chilean-American actor *

Perucho Figueredo Pedro Felipe Figueredo, (born 18 February 1818 – 17 August 1870), mostly known as Perucho, was a Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century. In the 1860s, he was active in the planning of the Cuban uprising against the Sp ...

, Cuban poet *

Pedro Reyes (comedian) Pedro Reyes (8 May 1961 – 25 March 2015) was a Spanish comedian, humorist, actor and television presenter. He was known for his surreal humour and collaboration with in the 1980s. Biography Reyes was born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1961 but ear ...

, Spanish comedian * Pedro Rosa da Conceição (died 1919), Brazilian mass murderer * Pedro Rodriguez (scientist), Puerto Rican scientist and inventor * Pedro Sousa, Portuguese comedian *

Pedro López (serial killer) Pedro Alonso López (born 8 October 1948) is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young girls from 1969 to 1980 and claimed to have murdered over 300 victims across Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Released from a ...

, Colombian serial killer * Pedro Rodríguez (soldier), Puerto Rican Korean War hero * Pedro Trebbau, German-born, Venezuelan zoologist *

Pedro Yap Pedro L. Yap (July 1, 1918 – November 20, 2003) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1988. He briefly served for two and a half months from April 19, 1988 to June 30, 1988, the shortest in history until that record w ...

, former Philippine Chief Justice *

Pedro Zamora Pedro Pablo Zamora (born Pedro Pablo Zamora y Díaz, February 29, 1972 – November 11, 1994) was a Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality.''Pedro Zamora'', WPBT Channel 2-New Florida, November 11–17, 2004, Oscar Lopez Produce ...
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