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Ignatius Ignatius is a male given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Religious
* Ignatius of Antioch (35–108), saint and martyr, Apostolic Father, early Christian bishop
* Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, Ignati ...
" from ''ignis'' "fire". This was the name of several saints, including the
third bishop of Antioch (who was thrown to wild beasts by emperor Trajan) and
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basques, Basque Spaniard Priesthood in the Catholic Church, Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six compa ...
. Variants include the archaic Iñacio, the Italian
Ignazio, the German
Ignatz
Ignatz is a masculine given name. It may refer to:
People
* Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), German Jewish leader
* Ignatz Greenberg, birth name of Ukrainian baritone and music teacher Igor Gorin (1904–1982)
* Ignatz Gresser (1835–1919), American ...
, the Catalan Ignasi, the Basque
Iñaki,
Iñigo,
Eneko, and the
hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' fo ...
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Nacho/Natxo,
Iggy, and Iggie.
Ignacio can refer to:
People
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Ignacio Chávez (disambiguation) Ignacio Chávez may refer to:
* Ignacio Chávez (politician), president of Nicaragua in 1891
* Ignacio Chávez Sánchez (1897–1979), Mexican physician, founding member of the Colegio Nacional
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Ignacio González (disambiguation) Ignacio González or Nacho González may refer to:
Footballers
* Ignacio González (footballer, born 1944), Guatemalan goalkeeper
* Nacho González (footballer, born 1971), Argentine goalkeeper
* Nacho González (footballer, born 1982), Urugua ...
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Ignacio López (disambiguation) Ignacio López or Nacho López may refer to:
* Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and t ...
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Ignacio Rodríguez (disambiguation) Ignacio or Nacho Rodríguez may refer to:
* Ignacio Rodríguez Galván (1816–1842), Mexican romantic writer
* Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe (1942–2022), Venezuelan hydrologist
* Ignacio Rodríguez (footballer, born 1956) (1956–2025), Mexican footb ...
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Ignacio Aldecoa
José Ignacio Aldecoa e Isasi (24 July 1925 – 15 November 1969) was a Spanish writer. He was the nephew of the painter .
Biography
José Ignacio de Aldecoa e Isasi was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 24 July 1925, the first child of Simón de Alde ...
, 20th-century Spanish author
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Ignacio Berroa
Ignacio Berroa (born July 8, 1953, in Havana, Cuba) is a jazz drummer.
In 1980 Berroa left his country during the Mariel Boatlift, moved to New York and joined Dizzy Gillespie’s quartet in 1981, becoming the drummer of the band Gillespie formed ...
, 20th-21st-century Cuban jazz drummer
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Ignacio Cervantes
Ignacio Cervantes Kawanag (Havana, 31 July 1847 – Havana, 29 April 1905) was a Cuban pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music.
A child prodigy, he was taught by pianist Juan Miguel Joval, later by composer ...
Kawanagh, 19th-20th-century Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer
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Ignacio Figueredo
Ignacio Ventura Figueredo (July 31, 1899, in Algarrobito, Apure – September 3, 1995, in San Fernando de Apure), was a Venezuelan folk musician and harpist.
See also
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*Venezuela
*Venezuelan music
Several styles of the traditional ...
, 20th-century Venezuelan folk musician
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Ignacio Merino
Ignacio Merino Muñoz (30 January 1817–17 March 1876) was a Peruvian painter notable for historical and costumbrista works, and considered the founder of the Peruvian school of painting. Beginning at age 6, he spent much of his life in Paris.
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, 19th-century Peruvian painter
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Ignacio Piñeiro
Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez (May 21, 1888 – March 12, 1969) was a Cuban musician, bandleader and composer whose career started in rumba and flowered in the rise of the son. He was one of the most important composers of son music; in total h ...
Martínez, 19th-20th-century black Cuban musician and composer
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Ignacio Serricchio
Ignacio Ariel Serricchio (born April 19, 1982) is an Argentine actor. He is known for his role as Diego Alcazar on ''General Hospital'' and as Alejandro "Alex" Chavez on ''The Young and the Restless''. Other roles include Lifetime's '' Witches ...
, 21st-century Argentinian-American actor
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Ignacio Zuloaga
Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar, Guipuzcoa, near the monastery of Loyola.
Family
He was the son of metalworker and damascening, damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the orga ...
y Zabaleta, 19th-20th-century Spanish painter
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Ignacio Allende
Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga (, , ; January 21, 1769 – June 26, 1811), commonly known as Ignacio Allende, was a captain of the Spanish Army in New Spain who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement. He attended the secre ...
(Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga), 19th-century captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico
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Ignacio Elizondo
Francisco Ignacio de Elizondo Villarreal, (born Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of León, New Spain, March 9, 1766 - died San Marcos, Texas, New Spain, c. September 12, 1813), was a royalist military officer during the Mexican war of independence ag ...
, 18th-19th-century New Leonese royalist general of Spanish and Basque ancestry
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Ignacio Zaragoza
Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (March 24, 1829 – September 8, 1862) was a Mexican Army officer and politician. He is best known for leading a Mexican army of 3,791 men which defeated a 5,730-strong force of French troops at the battle of Puebla ...
Seguín, 19th-century general in the Mexican army
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Chief Ignacio
Chief Ignacio (c. 1828–1913) was a chief of the Weeminuche band of the Ute tribe of American Indians, also called the Southern Utes, located in present-day Colorado north of the San Juan River.
He led the band through many difficult years i ...
, a 19th-20th-century leader of the Ute tribe
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Ignacio Bunye, 20th-21st-century Filipino politician
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Ignacio Comonfort
Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Ríos (; 12 March 1812 – 13 November 1863), also known as Ignacio Comonfort, was a Mexican politician and soldier who was also president during La Reforma.
He played a leading role in the liberal movement und ...
, 19th-century Mexican politician and military officer
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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (; 13 November 1834 – 13 February 1893) was a Mexican radical liberal writer, journalist, teacher and politician. He wrote ''Clemencia'' (1869), which is often considered to be the first modern Mexican novel ...
Basilio, 19th-century Mexican writer, journalist, teacher and politician
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Ignacio Mier Velazco (born 1961), Mexican politician
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Ignacio Romaní Cantera, Spanish politician
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Ignacio Walker
Ignacio Walker Prieto (born 7 January 1956) is a Chilean lawyer, politician, and, author who was Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile), Foreign Minister of Chile (2004–2006).
Academic, legal, and political history
Upon Walker's graduation from t ...
, Chilean politician
; Religion
* Ignacio López de Loyola or
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the S ...
(1491–1556), founder of the Jesuits
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Ignacio Ellacuría
Ignacio Ellacuría (November 9, 1930 – November 16, 1989) was a Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit, philosopher, and theology, theologian who worked as a professor and Rector (academia), rector at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Ca� ...
, 20th-century Jesuit priest
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Ignacio Martín-Baró
Ignacio Martín-Baró (November 7, 1942 – November 16, 1989) was a scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest who was born in Valladolid, Castilla y Leon, Spain and died in San Salvador, El Salvador. He was one of the vi ...
, 20th-century Spanish scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest
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Ignacio Bernal
Ignacio Bernal (February 13, 1910 in Paris - January 24, 1992 in Mexico City) was an eminent Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist.
Bernal excavated much of Monte Albán, originally starting as a student of Alfonso Caso, and later led major a ...
, 20th-century Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist
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Ignacio Bolívar
Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (; 9 November 1850 – 19 November 1944) was a Spanish natural history, naturalist and entomologist, and one of the founding fathers of Spanish entomology. He helped found the ''Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natu ...
y Urrutia, 19th-20th-century Spanish naturalist and entomologist
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Ignacio Rodríguez (programmer), Uruguayan programmer
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Ignacio Prati (it project manager), Argentinian IT guru
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Ignacio Ambríz, 20th-21st-century Mexican football defender
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Ignacio Arroyo (basketball), Chilean basketball player
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Ignacio Camacho
Ignacio Camacho Barnola (; born 4 May 1990) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
An academy graduate at Atlético Madrid, he made his senior debut at the age of 17. He spent the next three years at ...
, 21st-century Spanish footballer for Atlético Madrid
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Ignacio Corleto
Ignacio Saul ("Nani") Corleto (born June 21, 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine rugby union player.
Club career
He began his rugby career in the local Club Universitario de Buenos Aires, known as CUBA, where he played from 1997 to 2000. ...
, 21st-century Argentine Rugby Union footballer
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Ignacio Escamilla, 20th-century Mexican freestyle swimmer
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Ignacio Fragoso, 20th-century Mexican long-distance runner
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Ignacio Gabari, 21st-century Spanish professional racecar driver
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Ignacio Garrido
Ignacio Garrido (born 27 March 1972) is a Spanish professional golfer who won twice on the European Tour.
Garrido was born in Madrid. He is the eldest son of Antonio Garrido who won five times on the European Tour and also played in the 1979 R ...
, 20th-century Spanish professional golfer
* Ignacio Javier Gómez Novo, or
Nacho Novo
Ignacio Javier Gómez Novo (; born 26 March 1979) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward. Novo was an assistant coach and served as the interim head coach for the final 5 matches of the 2023 season for USL League O ...
, 20th-21st-century Spanish footballer
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Ignacio Risso
Ignacio Risso Thomasset (born 8 October 1977 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Albion.
Coaching career Defensor Sporting
After retiring, Risso immediately bec ...
Thomasset, 20th-21st-century Uruguayan footballer
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Ignacio Rodríguez (footballer, born 1956)
Ignacio Rodríguez Bahena (12 July 1956 – 19 May 2025) was a Mexican professional football player and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He died from cancer on 19 May 2025, at the age of 68.
See also
* Li ...
, 20th-century Mexican football goalkeeper
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Ignacio Rodríguez (basketball)
Ignacio "Nacho" Rodríguez Marín (born 2 September 1970) is a former Spain, Spanish professional basketball player.
Professional career
Born in Málaga, Rodríguez played most of his career with the teams Spanish professional Liga ACB teams Balo ...
Marín, 20th-21st-century Spanish basketball player
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Ignacio Scocco, 21st-century Argentine footballer
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Ignacio Fernández (footballer), 21st-century Argentine footballer
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Ignacio Trelles
Ignacio Trelles Campos (31 July 1916 – 24 March 2020) was a Mexican football player and manager. As a player with Club Necaxa, they won three Mexican championships. Later he coached amongst others the Mexico national team.
A seasoned and d ...
, 20th-century Mexican football player and coach
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Ignacio Vázquez (footballer, born 1971)
Ignacio Vázquez Barba (born July 31, 1971) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Vázquez made his league debut with Chivas in the 1991–92 season.MedioTiempo"Ignacio Vázquez - Veracruz". Retrieved on ...
, 20th-century Mexican footballer
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Ignacio Vázquez (footballer, born 1971)
Ignacio Vázquez Barba (born July 31, 1971) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Vázquez made his league debut with Chivas in the 1991–92 season.MedioTiempo"Ignacio Vázquez - Veracruz". Retrieved on ...
Barba, 20th-21st-century Mexican footballer
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Ignacio Zoco
Ignacio Zoco Esparza (31 July 1939 – 28 September 2015) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
He spent 12 years of his professional career with Real Madrid, appearing in 434 competitive matches and winning ten major t ...
Esparza, 20th-century Spanish footballer
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Ignacio Anaya
Ignacio Anaya García (August 15, 1895 – November 9, 1975) was a Mexican maître d'hotel who invented the popular Tex-Mex dish nachos at the Victory Club restaurant a couple miles from the border of Texas in Mexico in 1943. After nachos ...
, 20th-century inventor of nachos
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Ignacio Peralta, 18th-19th-century Spanish settler in California
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Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet Miguez (born 5 May 1943) is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career. After becoming first known for writing on film and media, he became editor-in-chief of ''Le Monde diplomati ...
, 20th-century Spanish journalist and writer
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Ignacio Ramos, 20th-21st-century former United States Border Patrol Agent
Fictional characters
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Ignacio Suarez
This article lists the characters featured in the American ABC comedy-drama series ''Ugly Betty''.
Overview
Main characters Betty Suarez
Betty Suarez, played by America Ferrera, is the main protagonist. Aims to run her own magazine in the f ...
, on the television show ''
Ugly Betty
''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010. It is based on the Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la fea' ...
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Nacho Varga
Ignacio "Nacho" Varga () is a fictional character who appears in the AMC television series ''Better Call Saul'', a prequel spin-off of ''Breaking Bad''. He is portrayed by Michael Mando and was created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.
Di ...
, on the television show ''
Better Call Saul
''Better Call Saul'' is an American legal crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould for AMC. Part of the ''Breaking Bad'' franchise, it is a spin-off of Gilligan's previous series, ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–201 ...
''
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Friar Ignacio, from the movie ''
Nacho Libre
''Nacho Libre'' is a 2006 sports comedy family film written by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, and Mike White, and directed by Jared Hess. It stars Jack Black as Ignacio, a Catholic friar and secret lucha libre fan who moonlights as a luchador to ...
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