Salvador

Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese) is normally an indirect way of naming a Messiah. In Spanish, a nickname for Salvador is Chava. It can be:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Given name 1.2 Family name 2 Places 2.1 Argentina 2.2 Brazil 2.3 El Salvador 2.4 Paraguay 2.5 Philippines 2.6 United States 2.7 United Kingdom 3 Other uses 4 See also

People

Given name

• Salvador Allende (1908−1973), deposed president of Chile
• Salvador Bacarisse (1898−1963), Spanish composer
• Salva Ballesta (born 1975), Spanish footballer
• Salvador Dalí (1904−1989), Spanish surrealist painter
• Salvador Espriu (1913−1985), Spanish poet
• Salvador Gómez (water polo) (born 1968), Spanish water polo player
• Salvador Gonzáles Escalona (born 1948), Cuban artist
• Salvador González Marco (born 1963), Spanish footballer
• Salvador Laurel (1928−2004), Philippine politician
• Salvador Luria (1912−1991), Italian-American scientist
• Salvador de Madariaga (1886−1978), Spanish writer
• Salvador Novo (1904−1974), Mexican writer
• Salvador Pineda (born 1952), Mexican actor
• Salvador Puig Antich (1948−1974), Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
• Salvador Sánchez (1959−1982), Mexican boxer

Family name

• António Salvador (athlete) (born 1966), Portuguese long-distance runner
• Bryce Salvador (born 1976), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
• Francis Salvador (1747−1776), Jewish-American patriot
• Gregorio Salvador Caja (born 1927), Spanish linguist
• Henri Salvador (1917−2008), French singer and jazz guitarist
• Joseph Salvador (1716−1786), head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
• Dr. Salvador, fictional character in Resident Evil 4

Places

Argentina

• Salvador Mazza, Salta, a city in the province of Salta
• Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a Jesuit university in Buenos Aires

Brazil

• Salvador, Bahia, a municipality in the State of Bahia

El Salvador

• El Salvador, a Central American country
  • San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador

Paraguay

• Tevego, known as Villa del Divino Salvador in 1843, a settlement in the Concepción Department

Philippines

• El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, a city in the province of Misamis Oriental
• Salvador, Lanao del Norte, a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte
• Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental

United States

• Lake Salvador, a lake in the State of Louisiana
• Salvador, California, an unincorporated community in Napa County, California

United Kingdom

• Salvador Settlement, a community in the Falkland Islands

Other uses

• Salvador (film), a 1986 motion picture about the Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s
• Salvador (Puig Antich), a 2006 Spanish film about Salvador Puig Antich
• Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music
  • Salvador (Salvador album)
• Salvador (Ricardo Villalobos album)
• "Salvador", a song by Jamie T from Panic Prevention
• Salvador (book), a book by Joan Didion
• "Salvador" (story), a science fiction short story by Lucius Shepard
• Salvador (grape)

See also

• El Salvador (disambiguation)
• San Salvador (disambiguation)
• Salvatore (disambiguation), an Italian word also meaning "saviour"

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