Maldonado (surname)
Maldonado is a Spanish surname. It may refer to:
- Abel Maldonado (born 1967), American politician, 47th Lieutenant Governor of California
- Alejo Maldonado (born 1938), Puerto Rican police officer, convicted of kidnapping
- Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Spanish explorer of the 16th century
- Ángel Maldonado (born 1973), Mexican football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Augusto Durand Maldonado, founder of the Liberal Party of Peru
- Brick Maldonado a.k.a. The Brickster, fictional antagonist of LEGO Island
- Candy Maldonado (Candido Maldonado Guadarrama) (born 1960), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Maldonado (born 1963), Venezuelan football (soccer) player
- Claudio Maldonado (born 1980), Argentinean composer-performer
- Claudio Maldonado (born 1980), Chilean football (soccer) player
- Estuardo Maldonado (born 1930), Ecuadorian sculptor and painter
- Fabio Maldonado (born 1980), Brazilian boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
- Francisco Maldonado (1480–1521), leader of the rebel Comuneros in the Revolt of the Comuneros, who was captured and beheaded at the Battle of Villalar
- Francisco José Maldonado (born 1981), Spanish football (soccer) player
- Francisco Maldonado da Silva (died 1639), Chilean physician and religious scholar, executed in the Inquisition
- Francisco Severo Maldonado (1775–1832), Mexican politician and reformer, and signatory to the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire
- Giancarlo Maldonado (born 1982), Venezuelan football (soccer) player
- Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968), Mexican / Italian composer
- Jesús E. Maldonado, American geneticist
- Juan Maldonado (1533-1583), Spanish Jesuit theologian
- Juan Maldonado Jaimez (born 1982), Brazilian footballer
- Juan L. Maldonado (born 1948), Texas educator
- Juan R. Maldonado, physicist
- Marisol Maldonado (born 1970[?]), American fashion model, wife of musician Rob Thomas
- Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768), indigenous Zapotec painter in New Spain (now Mexico)
- Norman Maldonado (contemporary), Puerto Rican hematologist, former president of the University of Puerto Rico
- Pastor Maldonado (born 1985), Venezuelan racing driver
- Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704–1748), Ecuadorian scientist
- Tomás Maldonado, Argentine painter, designer, and thinker, Scientific Design movement theorist
- Víctor Maldonado (born 1939), Venezuelan hurdler
- Abundio Maldonado (born 1924), Mayor of Guatemala City, ex Guatemalan ambassador to Washington