Vargas (surname)
Vargas is a Spanish and Portuguese surname:
Actors and TV personalities
- Elizabeth Vargas, ABC News anchor
- Humberto de Vargas, Uruguayan actor and TV presenter
- Jacob Vargas, Mexican-American actor
- Sibila Vargas, CNN reporter
- Taliana Vargas, Colombian. First Runner up in Miss Universe 2008.
- Valentina Vargas, Chilean actress
- Vic Vargas, Filipino, film actor
Financiers
- María Margarita de Vargas y Santaella, daughter and heir of the above
- Victor Vargas, lawyer and owner of the Banco Occidental de Descuento
Musicians, writers and artists
- Alberto Vargas, Peruvian painter of pin-up girls and erotica
- Álvaro Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, son of Mario Vargas Llosa
- Andrés de Vargas, Spanish painter
- Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican singer
- Fred Vargas, French writer
- Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and cartoonist
- Jose Antonio Vargas, Filipino-American journalist
- Luis de Vargas (1502–1568), Spanish painter of the late-Renaissance period
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician and Nobel Prize laureate
- Mary Belle de Vargas, American artist
- Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer
- Wilfrido Vargas, Dominican musician
- Antonio Vargas, actor ("Strictly Ballroom")
- Antonio Vargas Cortés, Spanish male flamenco singer
- Aurora Vargas, Spanish female flamenco singer
Politicians
- Francisco de Vargas, Paraguayan lawyer and minister
- José Augusto Vargas, Peruvian congressman
- José María Vargas, Venezuelan president
- Juan Vargas, United States politician
- Julián García Vargas, Spanish politician
- Virgilio Barco Vargas, Colombian president
- Cortés Vargas (1883–1954), Colombian general
- Getúlio Vargas(1882–1954), Brazilian president
- Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Dominican politician
- Diego de Vargas, Spanish viceroy of New Spain
- Carlos Antonio Vargas Guatatuca, Antonio Vargas, Ecuatorian politician; Quechan
Sportspeople
- Annerys Vargas, Dominican Republic volleyball player
- Claudio David Vargas Villalba, Paraguayan footballer
- Claudio Vargas, Vaqueros Laguna pitcher
- Debbie Green-Vargas, women's volleyball setter
- Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
- Eleucadia Vargas, Dominican Republic judoka
- Fabián Andrés Vargas, Colombian footballer
- Fernando Vargas, boxer
- Freddy Vargas, Venezuelan road cyclist
- Gonzalo Vargas, Uruguayan footballer
- Gregorio Vargas, Mexican boxer
- Jason Vargas, Kansas City Royals pitcher
- Jefferson Vargas, Colombian road cyclist
- Jorge Francisco Vargas, Chilean footballer
- Miguel Rodrigo Vargas, Portuguese footballer
- Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
- Oscar Vargas (Panamanian footballer), Panamanian footballer
- Óscar Vargas (cyclist), Colombian road cyclist
- Nélson Vargas, Colombian road cyclist
- Rodrigo Vargas, Chilean-Australian footballer
- Ronald Vargas, Venezuelan footballer
- Tetelo Vargas, Dominican Republic baseball player
Fictional characters
- Maria Vargas, fictional actress played by Ava Gardner in "The Barefoot Contessa"
- Snake Vargas, desert ranger of Mexican descent in the videogame Wasteland
- Edgar Vargas, is a character from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
- Victor Vargas, is a fictional character from Raising Victor Vargas
- Pestario "Pest" Vargas, is a fictional character played by John Leguizamo in the 1997 comedy "The Pest"
Other
- Leonidas Vargas (1949–2009), Colombian drug lord
- Nabor Vargas García (born 1976), Mexican drug lord
See also
- Vargas (disambiguation)