Giron or Girón may refer to:

People

Girón or Giron is a Spanish and French surname and refer to the following people: *

Alicia Girón García Alicia Girón García (1938 – 22 February 2020) was a Spanish librarian. She began working in the Madrid public library system in 1969 where she helped plan expansion and digitisation and eventually became its director. From 1983 Girón was d ...

(1938-2020), Spanish librarian *

Charles Giron Charles Alexandre Giron (2 April 1850 – 9 June 1914) was a Swiss painter and art critic. He specialized in portraits and scenes with figures; some of them mildly humorous. Biography Giron was born on 2 April 1850 in Geneva. His father, Antoine ...

(1850-1914), Swiss painter *

Francisco Hernández Girón Francisco Hernández Girón, born in Cáceres, Spain, Cáceres, Extremadura, died in Lima on December 7, 1554, was a Spanish conquistador. Hernández Girón arrived in Peru in 1535 with, among others, the future governor Blasco Núñez Vela. In ...

(died 1554), Peruvian conquistador and rebel * Gabriel Girón (born 1988), Mexican basketball player * José Antonio Girón (1911-1995), Falangist politician *

Marcos Giron Marcos Andres Giron ( ; born July 24, 1993; ) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 37 achieved on August 5, 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 194 achieved on August 1, 2022. Giron won the s ...

(born 1993), American tennis player * Pedro Girón (disambiguation), several people with this name * Socorro Girón (1919-2004), Puerto Rican historian

Places

* Giron, France * Girón, Santander, a town in Colombia *

Playa Girón :''Note: "Playa Girón" is also the title of a song included in the album " Días y Flores", by Silvio Rodriguez.'' Playa Girón (; "Girón beach") is a beach and village on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located ...

, location of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion *

Girón, Azuay Girón is a town and parish in Azuay Province, Ecuador. The town has a population of 4,353, and Girón parish as a whole has a population of 8,441. History Girón was initially occupied by the Leoquina culture. During the Inca Empire, the area w ...

, a town and canton in Ecuador *

Kiruna (; ; ; ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The c ...

(Giron in Northern Sámi), northernmost city in Sweden

Others

* ''Girón'' (newspaper), official organ of the Communist Party provincial committee in Matanzas, Cuba * Girón Formation, a geological formation in the Andes {{disambig, geo, surname