Rosendo is a Spanish male given name. The name comes from St.
Rudesind
Saint Rudesind ( gl, San Rosendo, Rudesindo; pt, São Rosendo lat, Rudesindus) (November 26, 907 – March 1, 977) was a Galician bishop and abbot. He was also a regional administrator and military leader under his kinsmen, the Kings of León. ...
, San Rosendo, in Spanish (907–977) who was
Bishop of Iria Flavia at the time of
Rodrigo Velázquez Rodrigo Velázquez (died 977/8) was an important magnate of Kingdom of Galicia, Galicia during the reigns of Ramiro II of León, Ramiro II, Ordoño III, Sancho I of León, Sancho I, and Ramiro III. He used the title ''dux'' (duke), the highest in Ga ...
. Places named after the saint include
San Rosendo
San Rosendo () is a Chilean city and commune in Bío Bío Province, Bío Bío Region.
The city of San Rosendo lies on the gentle slopes of a hill overlooking the confluence of the rivers Bío Bío and Laja, which respectively bound the city ...
, a town in Chile.
The best-known individual with the name today is
Rosendo Mercado
Rosendo Mercado Ruiz (born 23 February 1954, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish rock singer and songwriter. He was a member of bands Ñu and Leño, and is a prominent exponent of the so-called urban rock in Spain.
Biography First steps
His fami ...
, known simply as "Rosendo" in Spain, a Spanish singer.
Other notable people with the name include:
*
Rosendo Salvado
Rosendo Salvado Rotea OSB (1 March 1814 – 29 December 1900) was a Spanish Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, author, founder and first abbot of the Territorial Abbey of New Norcia in Western Australia.
Early life and background
Salvado was ...
(1814–1900), Spanish bishop in Australia
*
Rosendo Mercado
Rosendo Mercado Ruiz (born 23 February 1954, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish rock singer and songwriter. He was a member of bands Ñu and Leño, and is a prominent exponent of the so-called urban rock in Spain.
Biography First steps
His fami ...
, Spanish musician
* Rosendo Fernández (
es), Spanish painter
* Rosendo Huguet Peralta (
es), Spanish missionary and philosopher
* Rosendo Mendizábal (
es), Argentine musician
* Rosendo Radilla (
es), Mexican politician
* Rosendo Canto (
es), Cuban essayist
* Rosendo Salazar (
es), Mexican writer
* Rosendo López, after whom a barrio(
es) in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina is named
* Rosendo Hernández, after whom Autódromo Rosendo Hernández (
es), Argentina is named
See also
* ''
Rosendo pascuali
''Rosendo'' is an extinct genus of notohippid notoungulates that lived during the Early Oligocene in what is now Argentina and Chile. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Sarmiento Formation and the Abanico Formations of Argentina and Ch ...
'', a
notohippid notoungulate
Notoungulata is an extinct order of mammalian ungulates that inhabited South America from the early Paleocene to the Holocene, living from approximately 61 million to 11,000 years ago. Notoungulates were morphologically diverse, with forms resemb ...
named in 2018
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Spanish masculine given names