Contreras

People

• Pedro de Alvarado
  Pedro de Alvarado
  Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. He participated in the conquest of Cuba, in Juan de Grijalva's exploration of the coasts of Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and in the conquest of Mexico led by Hernan Cortes...
  
   (Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras), Spanish conquistador
• Carlos Contreras
  Carlos Contreras
  Carlos Contreras is the first Mexican-born driver in any NASCAR national series. He has competed in the Craftsman Truck Series and Busch Series .-Busch Series:...
  
  , Mexican NASCAR driver
• Carlos Alberto Contreras
  Carlos Alberto Contreras
  Carlos Alberto Contreras Caño is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:1996Carlos Alberto Contreras Caño is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:1996Carlos Alberto Contreras Caño is a retired male road...
  
  , Colombian road cyclist
• Eleazar López Contreras
  Eleazar López Contreras
  José Eleazar López Contreras was President of Venezuela . López was a general and one of Juan Vicente Gómez's collaborators.Eleazar López was the only child of Col. Manuel Maria López and Catalina Contreras...
  
  , Venezuelan politician and former president
• Gloria Contreras, Mexican dancer and choreographer
• Ivan Contreras
  Ivan Contreras
  Gerardo Iván Contreras Gámez is a Mexican professional volleyball player. He currently plays for Knack Roeselare in Belgium . His position on the field is outside hitter. Contreras has been voted player of the year in 2005 and 2007 in Belgium...
  
  , Mexican volleyball player
• José Contreras
  José Contreras
  José Ariel Contreras Camejo is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently with the Philadelphia Phillies...
  
  , Cuban baseball pitcher
• Joseph Contreras
  Joseph Contreras
  Joseph Contreras was born in about 1710, in Granada, Spain, hence his commonly used nickname 'el Granadino'. He probably lived in Italy during his early life, his style being Italian. He worked in Madrid from about 1745, as violin maker and repairer to the Spanish Court...
  
  , Spanish famous maker of violins, known as 'Granadino'
  • Joseph Contreras, son of the above, also violin maker. Label 'Matriti per filium Granadensis'
  • Joseph Contreras, son of the above, specialised in repairs and double-bass making
• María José Rienda
  María José Rienda
  María José Rienda Contreras is a former World Cup alpine ski racer.Rienda won the last two giant slaloms of the 2005 season, the first victory for a Spanish ski racer since Blanca Fernández Ochoa in December 1991. Rienda has 6 World Cup victories, all in giant slalom.María Rienda represented Spain...
  
   (Contreras), Spanish alpine skiier
• Manuel Contreras
  Manuel Contreras
  Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda is a Chilean military officer and the former head of DINA, Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. As head of DINA he was the most powerful and feared man in the country, after Pinochet...
  
   (Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda), Chilean head of intelligence during Pinochet's dictatorship.
• Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras
  Patricio Contreras is a well-known Chilean-Argentine film actor.-Life and work:Contreras was born in Santiago, Chile in 1947 and emigrated to neighboring Argentina following the 1973 coup d'état against left-wing President Salvador Allende, of whom Contreras was a vocal supporter...
  
  , Chilean actor
• Rey Paz Contreras
  Rey Paz Contreras
  Rey Paz Contreras is a prominent Filipino sculptor working with urban refuse and environmental materials as artistic media...
  
  , Filipino sculptor
• Pedro Contreras
  Pedro Contreras
  Pedro Contreras González, nicknamed El Koke , is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-Club career:...
  
  , Spanish football goalkeeper
• Paulo Garcés (Paulo Andrés Garcés Contreras), Chilean football goalkeeper
• Pablo Contreras
  Pablo Contreras
  Pablo Andrés Contreras Fica is a Chilean footballer who plays for PAOK F.C. in Greece. Primarily a central defender, he can also operate as a right back....
  
   (Pablo Andrés Contreras Fica), Chilean football defender

Places

• Magdalena Contreras
  Magdalena Contreras
  La Magdalena Contreras is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It had a 2010 census population of 239,086 inhabitants, and is the third-least populous of Mexico City's boroughs. It lies at an elevation of 2,365 m...
  
  , borough
  Boroughs of the Mexican Federal District
  Mexico City — politically and administratively constituted as the Federal District — is divided into sixteen boroughs for administrative purposes. They constitute second-level administrative divisions, on par with the municipalities of Mexico. However, unlike municipalities, they do not have...
  
   of the Mexican Federal District.
• Contreras, in Burgos Province, Spain.