Gomez

Gomez or Gómez is a common Spanish surname. The Portuguese and Old Galician is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis.

It is derived from the given name Gomes which is a loanword of the Visigothic word guma "man". It is itself related to the Common Germanic word guma (Old English guma "man", Middle English gome^[1]) / gomo (High Old German gomo "man", Middle High German gome) related to Latin homo "man".^[2]

People

• Arthur Gómez (born 1984), Gambian football (soccer) player
• Bolívar Gómez (born 1977), Ecuadorian football (soccer) player
• Camilo Gómez (born 1984), Colombian road cyclist
• Carlos Gómez (born 1985), Dominican baseball player
• Emmanuel Gómez (born 1990), Gambian football (soccer) player
• Francis Gómez (born 1968), Venezuelan judoka
• Francisco Javier Gómez Noya, a Spanish triathlete
• Jaime Luis Gomez (born 1975), American rapper & actor
• Jill Gomez (born 1942), British soprano
• Jorge Gómez (born 1968), Chilean football (soccer) player
• Joseph Gómez (born 1987), Gambian football (soccer) player
• Joshua Gomez (born 1975), American actor
• Juan Vicente Gómez (1857–1935), ruler of Venezuela in 1908–35
• Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), American baseball player
• María Cristina Gómez (1938–1989), Salvadoran murder victim
• Mariano Gómez (1799–1872), Filipino martyr and priest and member of Gomburza
• Mario Gómez (born 1985), German footballer
• Máximo Gómez (1836–1905), Dominican military who helped to lead Cuba independence from Spain
• Oscar Gómez (born 1975), Argentine light-middleweight boxer
• Rick Gomez (born 1972), American actor
• Richard Gomez (born 1966), Filipino actor
• Ron Gomez (born 1934), Louisiana journalist and former state representative
• Selena Gomez (born 1992), American actress and singer
• Tamara Gómez Garrido (born 1991), a Spanish triathlete
• Ulysses Gomez (born 1983), Mexican-American mixed martial arts fighter

Places

• Gómez, Buenos Aires
• Estadio Manuel Gómez Arellano, a multi-use stadium in Ancash, Peru
• Máximo Gómez, Cuba
• Sala y Gómez, a small uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean
• Gómez Palacio, Durango, a city in northern Mexico

Media

• Gomez Addams, the cigar-smoking, eccentric millionaire patriarch of the Addams family
• "Gomez", a Hard SF short story by C.M. Kornbluth

Music

• Gomez (band), an English indie rock band

References

1. ^ Fernand Mossé, Manuel de l’anglais du moyen-âge, Tomes I, Aubier Montaigne, 1945. p. 475.
2. ^ Duden, Das Herkunftswörterbuch : Etymologie der deutschen Sprache, Band 7, Duden Verlag 1989. p. 96. Bräutigam.