Tamayo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942), Cuban cosmonaut
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Francisco Tamayo (1902-1985), Venezuelan botanist
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Franz Tamayo (1878–1956), Bolivian intellectual
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Gustavo Tamayo
Gustavo E. Tamayo is a Colombian ophthalmologist known for developing a refractive surgery method known as Contoured Ablation Patterns (CAP), which enables doctors to make surgeries faster and at an easier rate. Tamayo has also developed and pat ...
, Colombian ophthalmologist
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Jeff Tamayo
Col. Antonio "Jeff" De Lara Tamayo was the chef-de-mission of the Philippine delegate to 27th SEA Games in Myanmar in 2013. He is the second vice president of the Philippine Olympic Committee and board of director of Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, ...
, pioneer of Taekwondo and military officer in the Philippines
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José Luis Tamayo
José Luis Tamayo Terán (29 July 1858 – 7 July 1947) was President of Ecuador from 1 September 1920 to 31 August 1924.
He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party
The Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party ( es, Partido Libe ...
(1858–1947), Ecuadorian president
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Juan José Tamayo (born 1946), Spanish theologian
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Manuel Tamayo y Baus (1829–1898), Spanish dramatist
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María Fernanda Tamayo, Ecuadorian police official
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Misael Tamayo Hernández (1952–2006), Mexican journalist
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Rufino Tamayo
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, ...
(1899–1991), Mexican painter
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Spanish-language surnames