People

• Antawn Cortez Jamison (born 1976), Professional NBA power forward
• Dave "Baby" Cortez (born 1938), American pop music and R&B musician
• Gregorio Cortez
  Gregorio Cortez
  Gregorio Cortez Lira was a Mexican American outlaw in the American Old West who became a folk hero to Mexicans living in South Texas. He was known for his ability to evade authorities as well as his impassioned words in court.- Background :Cortez's parents were itinerant laborers who brought...
  
   (1875–1916), Mexican folk hero
• Hernán Cortés
  Hernán Cortés
  Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century...
  
   (or Hernando Cortés) (1485–1547), Spanish conquistador
• Jayne Cortez
  Jayne Cortez
  Jayne Cortez is an American poet, and performance artist.-Biography:She grew up in California. She is the author of ten books of poems and performer of her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral...
  
   (born 1936), American poet
• José Cortéz (born May 1975), professional NFL place-kicker
• Page Cortez
  Page Cortez
  Patrick Page Cortez, known as Page Cortez , is a Lafayette, Louisiana, businessman and a departing one-term Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives...
  
   (born 1961), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lafayette
• Paul E. Cortez, American soldier convicted of war crimes
• Raul Cortez (1932–2006), Brazilian actor
• Ricardo Cortez
  Ricardo Cortez
  Jacob Krantz , known by his stage name Ricardo Cortez, was an American film actor who began his career during the silent era.-Life and career:...
  
   (1899–1977), silent film star

Fictional

• Ana Lucia Cortez
  Ana Lucia Cortez
  Ana Lucia Cortez is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Michelle Rodriguez. Ana Lucia made her first appearance as a guest star in the first season finale, and became part of the main cast for season two. After Oceanic Flight 815 splits in mid-air, the tail section...
  
  , a character from the American Broadcasting Company's popular TV drama, Lost
• Cortez, alias Manny Chavez (Red Kin), a fictional character from The Longest Journey and Dreamfall
• Cortez the Pirate King from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Fabian Cortez
  Fabian Cortez
  Fabian Cortez is a fictional character, a mutant comic book supervillain from the Marvel Comics universe and an adversary of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and writer/illustrator Jim Lee, he first appeared in X-Men #1 ....
  
  , a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Sergeant Cortez, protagonist of the TimeSplitters video game series
• Ian Cortez, a Cuban intelligence agent working for the Colombian Cartel in the novel/film Clear And Present Danger
  Clear and Present Danger
  Clear and Present Danger is a novel by Tom Clancy, written in 1989, and is a canonical part of the Jack Ryan universe. In the novel, Jack Ryan is thrown into the position of CIA Acting Deputy Director and discovers that he is being kept in the dark by his colleagues who are conducting a covert war...
  
  

Places

• The Sea of Cortez, another name for the Gulf of California
  Gulf of California
  The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland...
  
  
• United States:
  • Cortez, California
    Cortez, California
    Cortez is an unincorporated community in Merced County, California. It is located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad northwest of Atwater, at an elevation of 141 feet .Founding...
    
    , an unincorporated community in Merced County
  • Cortez, Colorado
    Cortez, Colorado
    The city of Cortez is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 8,482 at the 2010 census...
    
    , a city and county seat of Montezuma County
  • Cortez, Florida
    Cortez, Florida
    Cortez, a census-designated place in Manatee County, Florida, United States, is a small Gulf coast commercial fishing village that was founded by settlers from North Carolina in the 1880s. The population was 4,491 at the 2000 census...
    
    , a census-designated place

Other uses

• Cortez, alias of trance music duo Agnelli & Nelson
  Agnelli & Nelson
  Agnelli & Nelson is the collective name of Northern Irish music producers Christoper James Agnew and Robert Frederick Nelson, writers and producers of dance music who have worked in the genre of trance music since 1997...
  
  
• Cortez Motor Home
  Cortez Motor Home
  Cortez Motor Home, also commonly called a Clark Cortez, is a Class-A motor coach made in the United States between 1963 and 1979. Only 3211 of the units were built in this period. The Clark Forklift Company began making these small motorhomes in 1963 in Battle Creek, Michigan...
  
  , a Class-A motor coach made in the U.S. from 1963-1979
• Nike
  Nike, Inc.
  Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
  
  Cortez, a type of running shoe