Diego (given name)
Diego is a very common male given name of Spanish origin – also used in Portuguese-speaking countries, Italy and France. It may refer to:
- Diego (footballer), a variety of Association football players with the given name Diego (see article);
- Diego de Oviedo, 10th-century Asturian prelate;
- Diego de León, 12th-century Leonese prelate;
- Diego de Orense, 12th-century Galician prelate;
- Diego de Asturias, 16th-century Spanish Royal heir who died at age 7;
- Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor and screenwriter;
- Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador;
- Diego Aventín, Argentine race car driver;
- Diego Buñuel, French journalist;
- Diego Camacho, Bolivian tennis player;
- Diego Colón, 4th viceroy of New Spain;
- Diego Corrales, American boxer;
- Diego D'Ambrosio, Italian-American businessman;
- Diego Deza, Spanish theologian and inquisitor;
- Diego Domínguez, Italian-Argentine rugby union player;
- Diego Durán, Spanish Dominican friar;
- Diego Gelmírez, first archbishop of Compostela;
- Diego Gonzalez, Mexican singer, musician and actor – often known simply as Diego; also is known as Diego Boneta in the U.S.)
- Diego Hartfield, Argentine tennis player;
- Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast;
- Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán;
- Diego Luna, Mexican actor;
- Diego Masson, French music conductor and composer;
- Diego Morales, Mexican boxer;
- Diego Nargiso, Italian tennis player;
- Diego Pérez, Uruguayan tennis player;
- Diego Portales, Chilean politician;
- Diego Rivera, Mexican painter;
- Diego Sanchez, American mixed martial artist;
- Diego Sebastián Schwartzman, Argentine tennis player
- Diego Seguí, Cuban baseball pitcher;
- Diego Silang, Philippine revolutionary leader;
- Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor;
- Diego Torres, Argentine singer and composer;
- Diego de Vargas, governor of New Spain;
- Diego Villanueva, Brazilian singer-songwriter;
- Diego Velázquez, 17th-century Spanish painter;
- Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador.
Fictional characters
- Diego, a saber-toothed tiger of the film series Ice Age;
- Diego Alcazar, a character in the TV series General Hospital;
- Diego Márquez, cousin of Dora the Explorer with his own spinoff TV show Go, Diego, Go!;
- Diego Armando, the defence attorney from Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, who is mostly seen under the name Godot (who becomes a prosecutor).