Curro is an
Andalusia
Andalusia ( , ; , ) is the southernmost autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomou ...
n diminutive of the male name
Francisco
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Meaning of the name Francisco
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco (name), Paco". Francis of Assisi, San Francisco de A ...
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People with the given name
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Curro (footballer, born 1981)
Antonio José González García (born 27 November 1981), commonly known as Curro, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Don Benito as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Santa Amalia, Badajoz, Extremadura, Curro represented CF Extremadura as a y ...
(Antonio José González García), Spanish footballer
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Curro Montoya
Francisco José "Curro" Montoya Gómez (born 13 February 1977) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Montoya was born in Alicante, Valencian Community. After starting his development at Hércules CF ...
(born 1977), Spanish footballer
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Curro Romero
Francisco Romero López (; born 1 December 1933), better known as Curro Romero (), and nicknamed ''El Faraón de Camas'' ("The Pharaoh of Camas"), is a Spanish bullfighter. He began his professional career in his hometown's La Pañoleta neighbo ...
(born 1933), Spanish bullfighter
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Curro Sánchez
Francisco José "Curro" Sánchez Rodríguez (born 3 January 1996) is a Spanish footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Burgos CF.
Club career
Born in La Palma del Condado, Huelva, Andalusia, Curro joined Sevilla FC's youth setup i ...
(born 1996), Spanish footballer
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Curro Savoy Francisco Rodríguez Muñoz (b. Andújar, Jaén Province, 1948), known as Curro Savoy or Kurt Savoy, is a Spanish musician specialised in whistling who lives currently in France since 1981.
He was born in 1948, his mother worked selling candies, a ...
(born 1948), Spanish musician
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Curro Torres
Cristóbal Emilio "Curro" Torres Ruiz (born 27 December 1976) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right-back, currently manager of Estonian club FCI Levadia Tallinn.
In his professional career, whose later years were blighted by se ...
(born 1976), Spanish footballer
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Curro Vacas
Francisco Juan Vacas Navarro (born 21 November 1979 in Córdoba, Andalusia), commonly known as Curro Vacas, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder ...
(born 1979), Spanish footballer
People with the surname
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Jeff Curro
Jeff Curro (born May 2, 1967), also known as Jeff the Drunk and Jeff the Bore, is a member of the Wack Pack on ''The Howard Stern Show''.
Curro is a long-term chronic alcoholic and exhibits complications of chronic alcohol abuse. Long-term tobac ...
(born 1967), American radio personality
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John Curro
John Ronald Curro (6 December 1932 – 6 November 2019) was an Australian violinist, violist, conductor and music director.
Curro was the founder (1966) and Director of Music of the Queensland Youth Orchestras, with which he established the Nati ...
(1932–2019), Australian violist, conductor, and music director
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Tracey Curro
Tracey Ilana Curro (born 27 November 1963) is an Australian journalist.
Curro has previously been a news presenter on GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10 and a reporter on the Seven Network's ''Beyond 2000'', a science-technology show, and correspondent o ...
(born 1963), Australian journalist
Other
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Curro (South Africa) Curro is an Andalusian diminutive of the male name Francisco.
People with the given name
* Curro (footballer, born 1981) (Antonio José González García), Spanish footballer
* Curro Montoya (born 1977), Spanish footballer
* Curro Romero (born 193 ...
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Curro Jiménez
''Curro Jiménez'' was a successful Spanish television historical drama series that was first broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española from December 22, 1976 to March 25, 1978.
Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" (bandit ...
'', a Spanish television drama series
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Curro (mascot), the Seville Expo '92 mascot
See also
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