Oñate

Oñate is an older spelling of Oñati, a town in Gipuzkoa, Spain.

It is also a Basque^[1] surname and may refer to:

• Juan de Oñate, an explorer and early governor of the New Spain province of New Mexico
• Cristóbal de Oñate, a conquistador and father of Juan de Oñate
• Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 7th Count of Oñate
• Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 8th Count of Oñate
• Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 10th Count of Oñate
• Santiago Oñate Laborde, a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
• Jorge Oñate
• Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra, a Spaniard engineer and a leading figure in computational mechanics.

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