Quevedo is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Carla Quevedo
Carla Quevedo (born 23 April 1988) is an Argentine actress. She is most known for her limited but crucial role in ''The Secret in Their Eyes'', in which she played Liliana Coloto.
Career
Her acting debut was in the year 2009 in Argentina film ...
(born 1988), Argentine actress and designer
*General Silvestre Quevedo Rico, a General in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico
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Fernando Quevedo Rodríguez, a Guatemalan physicist
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Fernando Quevedo Salazar, a Spanish racing cyclist
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Francisco de Quevedo, a leading baroque poet of Spain's ''Siglo de Oro'' (Golden Century)
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Gabriella Evelina Quevedo (born 1997), Swedish guitarist
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Joaquim Amado Quevedo (1946–2022), Brazilian politician
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José Quevedo, major in the Cuban army, fought
Battle of La Plata
The Battle of La Plata ''(11-21 July 1958)'' was part of Operation Verano, the summer offensive of 1958 launched by the Batista government during the Cuban Revolution. The battle resulted from a complex plan created by Cuban General Cantillo to d ...
during the Cuban Revolution
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Juan de Quevedo, 16th-century Spanish Franciscan bishop and missionary
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Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer and mathematician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Torres was a pioneer in the development of the radio control and automated ...
, Spanish engineer and mathematician, would be called "Torres"
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Mami Quevedo, Spanish footballer (soccer player)
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Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo (September 27, 1862 – July 15, 1946) was a Mexican architect, engineer, and environmentalist who founded Mexico City's Viveros de Coyoacán arboretum, as well as numerous other construction projects in Mexico Cit ...
, Mexican botanist
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Nuria Quevedo
Nuria Quevedo Teixidó (born 18 March 1938) is a Spanish painter and graphic artist, affiliated with the Communist Party, who has lived in Berlin since age 15.
Biography
Nuria Quevedo's father, José Quevedo Fernández, was an aviator of the Spa ...
(born 1938), Spanish-German painter
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Orlando Quevedo, a Filipine Roman Catholic prelate
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Óscar González-Quevedo
Óscar González-Quevedo Bruzón (December 15, 1930 – January 9, 2019) was a Spain, Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest. He was an investigator in the field of parapsychology.Oswaldo Quevedo
Oswaldo Jose Quevedo Boschetti (born August 4, 1976 in Maracay) is a former Butterfly stroke, butterfly and Freestyle swimming, freestyle swimmer from Venezuela, who won the 50m and 100m Butterfly at the 2000 South American Swimming Championships ...
, Venezuelan Olympic swimmer
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Pedro de Quevedo y Quintano
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Raymond Quevedo, birth name of Trinidadian calypsonian "Attila the Hun"
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Reynaldo Vera González-Quevedo
Reynaldo Vera González-Quevedo (born 7 January 1961) is a Cuban chess Grandmaster (GM) (1988), two-times Cuban Chess Championship winner (1997, 2001), Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1998).
Biography
First international success R ...
(born 1961), Cuban chess grandmaster
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Rubén Quevedo
Rubén Eduardo Quevedo (; January 5, 1979 – June 7, 2016) was a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs (2000) and Milwaukee Brewers (2001–03).
Career
Quevedo was signed as an in ...
, Venezuelan baseball player
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Samuel Alejandro Lafone Quevedo (1835–1920) an Argentinian archaeologist and author, son of
Samuel Fisher Lafone
Samuel Fisher Lafone (Liverpool, 1805 – Buenos Aires, April 30, 1871) was a British-born Uruguayan businessman.
Lafone developed an important economic activity in Montevideo and Argentina. He established a settlement at Hope Place on the sou ...
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Spanish-language surnames