Cardenal is a surname of Spanish origin. People with that name include: *

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

(1925–2020), Nicaraguan cleric and liberation theologian * Fernando Cardenal (1934–2016), Nicaraguan cleric and liberation theologian * José Cardenal (born 1943), Cuban-American former baseball player *

José Francisco Cardenal José Francisco Cardenal (born 1940) was a Nicaraguan businessman who became known as one of the most pugnacious opponents of the Somoza and then the Sandinista regimes of Nicaragua, and played an important role in the early days of the Contras, ...

(born 1940), Nicaraguan businessman and rebel * Juan Pablo Cardenal (born 1968), Spanish journalist and sinologist * Katia Cardenal (born 1963), Nicaraguan singer/songwriter *

Peire Cardenal Peire Cardenal (or Cardinal) (c. 1180 – c. 1278) was a troubadour (floruit, fl. 1204 – 1272) known for his satirical ''sirventes'' and his dislike of the clergy. Ninety-six pieces of his remain, a number rarely matched by other poets of the age ...

(1180–1278), Occitan troubadour * Salvador Cardenal (1960–2010), Nicaraguan singer/songwriter * Xavier Chamorro Cardenal (1932–2008), Nicaraguan editor of ''El Nuevo Diario'', a Nicaraguan newspaper

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