Quevedo
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Quevedo is a Spanish surname. It most frequently refers to:
- Francisco de Quevedo, the leading baroque poet of Spain's Siglo de Oro (Golden Century)
Other uses of Quevedo include:
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- Places
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- People
- José Quevedo, major in the Cuban army, fought Battle of La Plata during the Cuban Revolution
- Juan de Quevedo, 16th century Spanish Franciscan bishop and missionary
- El Mami Quevedo, a Spanish footballer (soccer player)
- Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, Mexican botanist
- Oswaldo Quevedo, Venezuelan Olympic swimmer
- Pedro Quevédo y Quintano
- Raymond Quevedo, birth name of Trinidadian calypsonian "Attila the Hun"
- Rubén Quevedo, Venezuelan baseball player
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, a Spanish engineer and mathematician, would be called "Torres"
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- Other
- Club Deportivo Quevedo, football (soccer) club in Ecuador
- Metro Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, on the Mexico City Metro
- Quevedo (Madrid Metro), a station on the Madrid Metro
[edit] See also
- Quevedos, a municipality in the west-central part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul