López is a common surname

Surname

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 in the Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 (it can also lack the acute accent in a not purely hispanophone

Hispanophone

Hispanophone or Hispanosphere denotes Spanish language speakers and the Spanish-speaking world. The word derives from the Latin political name of the Iberian Peninsula, Hispania, which comprised basically the territory of the modern states of Spain and Portugal.Hispanophones are estimated at...

 context). It was originally a patronymic

Patronymic

A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

, meaning Son of Lope

Lope

Lope is an old Spanish given name, derived from Latin lupus, meaning "wolf". Lope may refer to:*Félix Lope de Vega , Spanish poet;*Lope de Aguirre...

, Lope itself being a Spanish given name

Given name

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 deriving from Latin

Latin

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 lupus, meaning wolf. The surname is first attested in Old Castile

Old Castile

Old Castile is a historic region of Spain, which included territory that later corresponded to the provinces of Santander , Burgos, Logroño , Soria, Segovia, Ávila, Valladolid, Palencia....

 in the heart of Spain

Spain

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, where the name originated in Visigothic times, however the name is not of Germanic language origin, but from Latin. Its Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 equivalent is Lopes

Lopes

Lopes is a common surname in the Portuguese language and Old Galician namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a Patronymic, meaning Son of Lopo . Its Spanish equivalent is López. 'Lopes' may be less frequently seen as a given name...

, its Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 equivalent is Lupo

Lupo (surname)

Lupo is a surname of Italian origin, meaning wolf. The name refers to:Persons*Alberto Lupo , Italian film actor*Francis Lupo , American soldier killed in World War I; remains recovered in 2003 in France...

, its Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 equivalent is Lupescu

Lupescu

Lupescu is a Romanian surname, deriving from the Romanian word lup , from Latin lupus . Its Spanish equivalent is López, its Italian equivalent is Lupo. Lupescu may refer to:* Magda Lupescu* Ioan Lupescu* Nicolae Lupescu...

, its Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

 equivalent is Llopis. López is the most common Spanish surname in the United Kingdom.

Politicians

• Adolfo López Mateos
  Adolfo López Mateos
  Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964...
  
  , Mexican president
• Alfonso López Caballero
  Alfonso López Caballero
  Alfonso López Caballero is a Colombian economist and diplomat, the son and grandson of former Presidents of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen and Alfonso López Pumarejo respectively, and former congressman, government minister, ambassador to France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and presidential...
  
  , Colombian politician
• Alfonso López Michelsen
  Alfonso López Michelsen
  Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist. Lopez Michelsen was President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was the son of Alfonso López Pumarejo, who was also president of Colombia from 1934 to 1938, and once again from 1942 to 1945...
  
  , President of Colombia
• Alfonso López Pumarejo
  Alfonso López Pumarejo
  Alfonso López Pumarejo was a two-time Colombian president and political figure, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as president of Colombia for the first time between 1934 and 1938 and again between 1942 and 1945....
  
  , President of Colombia
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador , also known as AMLO or El Peje, is a Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District from 2000 to 2005, before resigning in July 2005 to contend the 2006 presidential election, representing the unsuccessful Coalition for the Good...
  
  , Mexican politician
• Antonio López de Santa Anna
  Antonio López de Santa Anna
  Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón , often known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna, known as "the Napoleon of the West," was a Mexican political leader, general, and president who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government...
  
   (1794–1876), Mexican general and dictator
• Antonio López-Istúriz White
  Antonio López-Istúriz White
  Antonio López-Istúriz White is a Spanish politician andMember of the European Parliament with the People's Party, Secretary-General of the European People's Party as well as member of the executive committe of the Spanish People's Party, Executive Secretary of the Christian Democrat International...
  
  , Spanish politician member of the European Parliament
• Carlos Antonio López, Paraguayan president
• Fernando Lopez
  Fernando Lopez
  Fernando López,Sr. was a Filipino statesman. A member of the influential López Family of Iloilo, Fernando López served as Vice President for three terms, under President Elpidio Quirino for the Liberals and Ferdinand Marcos for the Nacionalistas.-Early life and career:López was born on April 13,...
  
  , Filipino politician
• Francisco Solano López
  Francisco Solano López (politician)
  Francisco Solano López Carrillo was president of Paraguay from 1862 until his death in 1870. He was officially the eldest son of president Carlos Antonio López, whom he succeeded...
  
  , Paraguayan president
• Hermógenes López
  Hermógenes López
  Hermógenes López was a Venezuelan soldier, farmer and acting president of his country between 1887 and 1888, after the resignation of General Antonio Guzmán Blanco as cause of his voluntary exile in Paris.There is no such information about his childhood, only that was limited to elementary...
  
  , Venezuelan president
• James Lopez Watson
  James Lopez Watson
  James Lopez Watson was a judge of the United States Customs Court and of its successor, the United States Court of International Trade....
  
  , American judge and politician
• José López Portillo
  José López Portillo
  José López Portillo y Pacheco was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.Born in Mexico City, López Portillo studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1959.He held several positions in the...
  
  , Mexican president
• Juan Fernando López Aguilar
  Juan Fernando López Aguilar
  Juan Fernando López Aguilar is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician, and former Minister of Justice in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. He also represented Las Palmas in the congress between 2000 and 2004....
  
  , Spanish politician
• Marco Lopez
  Marco Lopez
  Marco Antonio Lopez is an Arizona politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices, including Mayor of Nogales, Arizona, Executive Director of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, Policy Adviser to Governor Janet Napolitano for Mexico and Latin America, and Senior Adviser for...
  
  , American politician
• Oswaldo López Arellano
  Oswaldo López Arellano
  Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano was a two-time President of Honduras, first from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1972 to 1975. He gained power both times via military force....
  
  , President of Honduras from 1963–1971 and 1972–1975
• Patxi Lopez
  Patxi López
  Francisco Javier López Álvarez is a Spanish socialist politician and the current president of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country...
  
  , Basque socialist politician
• Pero López de Ayala
  Pero López de Ayala
  Don Pero López de Ayala was a Castilian statesman, historian, poet, chronicler, chancellor, and courtier. Ayala were one of the major aristocratic families of Castile; they were later claimed to be of the Jewish converso descent, but Pero's own father composed a genealogy tracing the family from...
  
  , Spanish statesman
• Ricardo López Murphy
  Ricardo López Murphy
  Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist and politician.-Career:López Murphy was born in Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province. He attended the National University of La Plata, where he was awarded the title of "Licenciado en Economía" in 1975...
  
  , Argentine economist and politician

Sportspeople

• Al Lopez
  Al Lopez
  Alfonso Ramon "Al" Lopez was an American catcher and manager in Major League Baseball, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977....
  
  , American baseball catcher and manager
• Albie Lopez
  Albie Lopez
  Albert Anthony "Albie" Lopez is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He graduated from Mesa Community College. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 20th round of the 1991 Major League Baseball Draft. Lopez was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the second round of the expansion...
  
  , American baseball pitcher
• Alejandro Lopez
  Alejandro López
  Alejandro López is a Mexican race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  , Mexican race walker
• Aliuska López
  Aliuska López
  Aliuska López is a Spanish athlete of Cuban origin. She competes mostly in hurdling. The world junior champion from 1988, she is still the world junior record holder at 100 metres hurdles...
  
  , Cuban-Spanish athlete
• Ángel López
  Ángel López
  Ángel Domingo López Ruano, simply Ángel , is a Spanish footballer who plays for Villarreal CF. An offensive right back, he can also operate as a midfielder.-Club career:...
  
  , Spanish football (soccer) player
• Antonio López Guerrero
  Antonio López Guerrero
  Antonio López Guerrero is a Spanish footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid of the Spanish first division, mainly as a left defender.-Club career:...
  
  , Spanish football player
• Brook Lopez
  Brook Lopez
  Brook Lopez is a 7'0" American basketball center who plays for the New Jersey Nets of the NBA. He is the twin brother of fellow basketball player Robin Lopez...
  
  , American basketball player, twin of Robin Lopez
  Robin Lopez
  Robin Byron Lopez is an American professional basketball player. On June 26, 2008 he was drafted by the NBA's Phoenix Suns as the 15th overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft...
  
  
• Carlos López de Silanes
  Carlos López de Silanes
  Carlos López de Silanes is a retired professional footballer from Mexico, who played as a defender during his career. He was a member of the Mexico national football team competing at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain...
  
  , Mexican football (soccer) player
• Claudio López, Argentine footballer
• Daniel López
  Daniel López
  Daniel Fernando López Rojas is a retired Chilean footballer. He played as a defender during his career.López also obtained a total number of three caps for the Chilean national side, making his debut with the squad on 22 March 1994.-References:**...
  
  , Chilean football (soccer) player
• Danny Lopez
  Danny Lopez
  Danny Lopez is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was world Featherweight champion, and a very popular fighter both in television and Southern California, during the 1970s. His nickname is Little Red.-Background:...
  
  , U.S. boxer
• David López-Zubero
  David López-Zubero
  David López-Zubero Purcell is a former college an international swimmer who competed in three Summer Olympics and won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980...
  
  , Spanish Olympic swimmer
• Diego López Rodríguez
  Diego López Rodríguez
  Diego López Rodríguez |Lugo]], Galicia) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Villarreal CF as a goalkeeper.-Club career:A youth graduate from hometown's CD Lugo, López moved to Real Madrid at almost 19...
  
  , Spanish football (soccer) player
• Federico Lopez
  Federico Lopez
  Federico López Camacho was a Puerto Rican basketball player. He was a member of the Guaynabo Mets....
  
  , Puerto Rican basketball player
• Feliciano López
  Feliciano López
  Feliciano López Diaz-Guerra is a Spanish professional male tennis player. He was born in Toledo and now lives in the Spanish capital Madrid....
  
  , Spanish tennis player
• Felipe López (basketball)
  Felipe López (basketball)
  Luis Felipe López is a retired Dominican professional basketball player.He starred in United States high school and university basketball. López then played for four seasons in the National Basketball Association , but with far less success...
  
  
• Felipe López (baseball player)
  Felipe López (baseball player)
  Felipe López is a Puerto Rican professional baseball infielder who is a free agent.-High school career:...
  
  
• Gustavo Adrián López, Argentine football player
• Hector Lopez
  Héctor López
  Héctor Headley López Swainson is a former left fielder and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees from to...
  
  , Panamanian baseball player
• Israel López (footballer), Mexican football player
• Javy López
  Javy López
  Javier López Torres is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Atlanta Braves , Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox . He batted and threw right-handed...
  
  , Puerto Rican baseball player
• José Luis López Ramírez
  José Luis López Ramírez
  José Luis López Ramírez is a Costa Rican footballer.-Club career:With Saprissa he has already won five national championships, a UNCAF Cup and a CONCACAF Champions Cup title, in less than four years, and was part of the team that played the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship Toyota Cup, where...
  
  , Costa Rican football player
• Juan Antonio Lopez
  Juan Antonio Lopez
  Juan Antonio López was a Mexican professional boxer.López was best known for fighting Wilfredo Gómez twice for the WBC Super Bantamweight title. Most importantly, he is credited with introducing Julio César Chávez to the sport...
  
  , Mexican boxer
• Lisandro López
  Lisandro López
  Lisandro López , sometimes known as Lisandro, is an Argentine footballer who plays for Olympique Lyonnais in France.Primarily a striker, he is also capable of playing on the wings....
  
  , Angentinian footballer
• Lucía López
  Lucía López
  Lucía López Martínez is a former female field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She played club hockey for Real Club de Polo in Barcelona.-References:*...
  
  , Spanish field hockey player
• Marisa López
  Marisa López
  Marisa A. López is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that finished in seventh place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea after having won the gold medal the previous year at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.-...
  
   Argentine field hockey player
• Martín López-Zubero
  Martin López-Zubero
  Martín López-Zubero Purcell , also known as Martin Zubero, is a former college and international swimmer who was an Olympic gold medalist. López-Zubero was born in the United States, swam in international competition for Spain, and holds dual Spanish-American citizenship.- Family background...
  
   Spanish-American backstroke swimmer
• Maxi López
  Maxi López
  Maximiliano Gastón López is an Argentine football player who currently plays as a striker for Calcio Catania in the Italian Serie A. López also holds Italian nationality.-River Plate:...
  
  , Argentine football player
• Nancy Lopez
  Nancy Lopez
  Nancy Marie Lopez is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events during her LPGA career, including three major championships.-Amateur career:...
  
  , American golf player
• Pablo Darío López
  Pablo Darío López
  Pablo Darío López is an Argentine football midfielder his currently playing for Santiago Wanderers of the Primera Divisíon de Chile.-Career:...
  
  , Argentine footballer
• Raúl López
  Raül López
  Raül López i Molist is a Spanish professional basketball player. He has previously played for the NBA's Utah Jazz. López is a native of Vic, Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. At 6 ft 0 in tall, he plays the point guard position...
  
  , Spanish basketball player
• Ricardo López, Mexican boxer
• Ricardo López Felipe
  Ricardo López Felipe
  Ricardo López Felipe , simply Ricardo, is a Spanish footballer who plays for CA Osasuna as a goalkeeper.-Club career:...
  
  , Spanish football player
• Robin Lopez
  Robin Lopez
  Robin Byron Lopez is an American professional basketball player. On June 26, 2008 he was drafted by the NBA's Phoenix Suns as the 15th overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft...
  
  , American basketball player, twin of Brook Lopez
  Brook Lopez
  Brook Lopez is a 7'0" American basketball center who plays for the New Jersey Nets of the NBA. He is the twin brother of fellow basketball player Robin Lopez...
  
  
• Rodrigo Muñoz López, a major league starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies
• Rodrigo López
  Rodrigo Lopez (soccer)
  Rodrigo López is a Mexican-born American soccer player who is currently without a club.-Youth:López grew up in Harbor City, California, and began his career in 2003 when he joined the Chivas de Guadalajara youth system, where he played for a year and a half.-Professional:López turned professional...
  
  , a Mexican-American soccer player
• Sergio López Miró
  Sergio López Miró
  Sergio López Miró is a former international top swimmer from Spain, who won the bronze medal in the 200 meters breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....
  
  , Spanish swimmer
• Steven López
  Steven López
  Steven López is a 2000 and 2004 Olympic Gold medalist and a 2008 Olympic Bronze medalist in taekwondo. In 2001, he won the Lightweight Taekwondo World Championship, and in 2003 he won the Welterweight Taekwondo World Championship which he has since won in 2005, 2007 and 2009 making him the first...
  
  , 2000 and 2004 USA Olympic Tae Kwon Do Gold Medalist
• Sue Lopez
  Sue Lopez
  Sue Lopez MBE has been one of the most prominent figures in England’s women's football for the last three decades. Lopez had an amazing playing career of 20 years and is now prominent as one of the leading authorities and advocates of the women’s game in the UK....
  
  , English women-footballer, manager, coach and advocate of the women's game
• Yeimer López
  Yeimer López
  Yeimer López García is a middle distance runner from Cuba, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 800 metres at the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil. López is the twin brother of female...
  
  , Cuban middle distance runner

Film

• Adamari López
  Adamari López
  Adamari López Torres is a Puerto Rican actress famous for participating in several Puerto Rican and Mexican soap operas.-Early career:...
  
  , Puerto Rican actress
• Alexander Lopez
  Alexander López
  Alexander Agustín "Alex" Lopez is a Honduran footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Liga Nacional de Honduras club Olimpia and the Honduran national team.-Early career:...
  
  , belgian actor
• George Lopez
  George Lopez
  George Lopez is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is mostly known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including the Mexican American culture...
  
  , American comedian
• Gerry Lopez
  Gerry Lopez
  Gerry Lopez , aka Mr. Pipeline, is an American surfer, shaper, journalist, and film actor.-Early life:Lopez was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up in East Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii and attended Punahou School. He frequented the semi secret reefs in and around Aina Haina as well as better known surf...
  
  , American surfer and occasional film actor
• Jade Lopez
  Jade Lopez
  Jade Hanzel Lopez is a Filipina actress. A former Seventeen Best Female Model, She entered Philippine showbiz through the first wave of StarStruck, the reality-based star search of GMA-7. She is one of finalists, dubbed as the Final 14...
  
  , Filipina actress
• Jennifer Lopez
  Jennifer Lopez
  Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
  
  , American actress, singer, dancer and designer
• Mara Lopez
  Mara Lopez
  Mara Lopez is a Filipina actress and champion surfer. She is a member of Star Magic Batch 13.- Biography :...
  
  , Filipina actress
• Marga López
  Marga López
  Marga López , born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.-Biography:...
  
  , Argentine-Mexican actress
• Mario López
  Mario López
  Mario Michael Lopez, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared on several television series, in films, and on Broadway. He is best known for his portrayal of the character A.C. Slater on Saved By The Bell, which he also portrayed as a regular on Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
  
  , American actor
• Leon Lopez
  Leon Lopez
  -Biography:Leon Lopez is an English actor, singer-songwriter and occasional model, best known for playing the role of "Jerome Johnson" in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside from 1998 to 2002. He is a former student of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, established by Sir Paul McCartney...
  
  , British actor
• Polyana López
  Polyana Lopez
  Polyana López is an Argentine actress who gained fame as "Mora" in Telefe's acclaimed program, "Chiquititas".It shall be noted that López is a black actress,daughter of afro-brazilian father and Argentine] mother...
  
  , Argentine actress
• Priscilla Lopez
  Priscilla Lopez
  Priscilla Lopez is an American singer, dancer, and actress.-Early life:Lopez was born in the Bronx, New York to Francisco Lopez, a hotel banquet foreman and Laura , who were moved to New York from their native Puerto Rico...
  
  , American singer, dancer, and actress
• Sergi López, Spanish actor
• Sky Lopez
  Sky Lopez
  Corrie Floris professionally known as Sky Lopez, is a former American pornographic actress and model.Since entering the porn industry in 1999, Lopez has both acted and directed pornographic films, as well as being employed under exclusive contracts with Vivid Entertainment and Shane's World Studios...
  
   Former American adult actress and director

Other people

• Aaron López
  Aaron Lopez
  Aaron Lopez , born Duarte Lopez, was a Jewish merchant and philanthropist. He became the wealthiest person in Newport, Rhode Island, in British America. In 1761 and 1762, Lopez unsuccessfully sued the Colony of Rhode Island for citizenship....
  
  , Voice actor
• Alfonso López Trujillo
  Alfonso López Trujillo
  Alfonso López Trujillo was a Colombian Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.-Youth:...
  
  , Colombian Cardinal
• Alejandro López Maciel, Mexican Songwriter and Producer
• Alma Lopez
  Alma Lopez
  Alma Lopez is a Mexican-born artist. She was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa and is married to Alicia Gaspar de Alba.-Heaven 2 mural:Heaven 2 was a mural displayed outside La Galería de la Raza from November 2000 to January 2001. It portrays a woman on her deathbed thinking of herself and her lover...
  
  , artist
• Andrés Rodrigo López, Italian cellist
• António López García
  Antonio López García
  Antonio López García is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style. He is criticized by some art critics for neo-academism, but praised by others, like Robert Hughes, who consider him a master realist. His style sometimes is deemed hyperrealistic...
  
  , Spanish painter and sculptor
• Awilda Lopez
  Awilda Lopez
  Awilda Lopez gained infamy in late 1995 as the mother and killer of her daughter, 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo.When Elisa was born addicted to cocaine on February 11, 1989, she was placed in the custody of her father, Gustavo Izquierdo. It has been the source of much debate whether Lopez initially...
  
  , American criminal
• Barry Lopez
  Barry Lopez
  Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.-Biography:...
  
  , American writer
• Cachao López
  Cachao López
  Israel "Cachao" López , often known as Cachao, was a Cuban musician and composer who helped popularize mambo in the United States in the early 1950s....
  
  , Cuban mambo musician and composer
• Carlos Lopez-Barillas
  Carlos Lopez-Barillas
  Carlos Lopez-Barillas is a Guatemalan-born photographer who has been living and working in the United Kingdom since 1996. His work appears regularly in publications like The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News...
  
  , Guatemalan Photographer Lopez-barillas
• Donald Lopez
  Donald Lopez
  Donald S. Lopez, Sr. was a former U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force fighter and test pilot and until his death the deputy director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. His son, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lopez showed an...
  
  , American Air Force fighter and test pilot
• Eugenio Lopez
  Eugenio Lopez
  -Philippines:*Eugenio Lopez, Sr., original owner of the Manila Chronicle and founder of Chronicle Broadcasting Network, see DWWX-TV*Eugenio Lopez, Jr., former CEO and president of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation...
  
  , Filipino patriarch, founder of the Lopez Group of Companies (one of the Philippines largest business conglomerates)
• Felipe López (archer)
  Felipe López (archer)
  Felipe López Garrido is an athlete from Spain, who competes in archery. López competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 40th overall....
  
  
• Fernão Lopez
  Fernão Lopez
  Fernão Lopes was the first known permanent inhabitant of the remote Island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, an island that later became famous as the site of Napoleon's exile and death....
  
  , first permanent resident of the island of Saint Helena
• Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artist
• Gabe Lopez
  Gabe Lopez
  Gabe Lopez is an American pop-rock singer/songwriter and producer. He is of Hispanic and Irish descent.- Artist career :Known in Los Angeles for performing in noted venues such as The Roxy Theatre, The House of Blues, and The Derby and voted one of Music Connection Magazine's Hot 100 Artists,...
  
  , American singer-songwriter and producer
• García López de Cárdenas
  García López de Cárdenas
  García López de Cárdenas, , is credited with the first European discovery of the Grand Canyon.- Life :Cárdenas was born in Llerena, Spain, son to Alonso de Cárdenas y doña Elvira de Figueroa and Maria García Osorio. He was the comendador of Caravaca.López de Cárdenas was conquistador attached to...
  
  , Spanish conquistador
• George A. Lopez
  George A. Lopez
  George A. Lopez is a founding faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame where he holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies...
  
  , American academic
• Gerardo I. Lopez
  Gerardo I. Lopez
  Gerardo I. Lopez, also known as Gerry Lopez, is CEO and President of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., Marquee Holdings Inc., and AMC Entertainment Inc...
  
  , CEO and President, AMC Theaters
• Graciano Lopez Jaena
  Graciano López Jaena
  Graciano López Jaena was a Filipino journalist, orator, and revolutionary from Iloilo, well known for his written work, La Solidaridad....
  
  , Filipino hero
• Inaki López (José Ignacio López de Arriortúa), automotive executive, accused by General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
   of stealing intellectual property
  Intellectual property
  Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
  
   when hired by Volkswagen
  Volkswagen
  Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
  
   in 1992
• Jennifer Lopez (meteorologist)
  Jennifer Lopez (meteorologist)
  Jennifer Lopez is an American on-camera meteorologist for KXAS-TV and formerly for The Weather Channel.-Education:Lopez graduated with a Bachelor of Science in telecommunications from the University of Florida in Gainesville....
  
  , meteorologist for KXAS-TV
• Jesús López-Cobos
  Jesús López-Cobos
  Jesús López-Cobos is a Spanish conductor.López-Cobos was born in Toro, Zamora, Castile-León, Spain. He studied at Complutense University of Madrid and graduated with a degree in philosophy...
  
  , Spanish conductor
• Jimmy Lopez
  Jimmy Lopez
  Jimmy Lopez is a classical music composer from Lima, Peru. He has won several international awards and pieces composed by him have been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of...
  
  , Peruvian composer
• Jose M. Lopez
  Jose M. Lopez
  Jose Mendoza Lopez was a United States Army soldier who was awarded the United States' highest military decoration for valor in combat — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic actions during the Battle of the Bulge, in which he single-handedly repulsed a German infantry attack, killing at...
  
  , American Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   recipient
• Kathryn Jean Lopez
  Kathryn Jean Lopez
  Kathryn Jean Lopez, is an American conservative columnist who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate.She is also the editor of National Review Online...
  
  , American conservative columnist
• Lourdes Lopez, New York City Ballet principal dancer
• Luis A. López
  Luis A. López
  Luis A. López is an American poet from San Jose, California. He has won numerous writing awards for his poetry and short stories.His book, Warrior-Poet of the Fifth Sun is currently available....
  
  , American poet
• Luscious Lopez
  Luscious Lopez
  Luscious Lopez is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. Lopez entered the industry in 2005 at the age of 24.-Biography:...
  
  , American pornographic actress
• Lynda Lopez
  Lynda Lopez
  Lynda López is an Emmy Award-winning Puerto Rican American journalist and the youngest sister of actress and singer Jennifer Lopez.-Early years:...
  
  , American news anchor
• Manuel Isaias Lopez
  Manuel Isaias Lopez
  Manuel Isaias Lopez, MD is a prominent child psychiatrist, trained in Philadelphia, who currently lives and has a practice in Barcelona, Spain. He founded the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry subspecialty program at National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1972. He also founded and was the first...
  
  , Mexican child psychiatrist
• Martin Lopez
  Martin Lopez
  Martin Lopez is a drummer, known best for his nine years with the Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth.Lopez was born in Sweden to Uruguayan settler parents, later moving to Uruguay, then back to Sweden.-With Soen :...
  
  , Swedish heavy metal drummer
• Martín López-Vega
  Martín López-Vega
  Martín López-Vega is a Spanish and Asturian poet.-Asturian:*Esiliu *Les coraes de la roca *La visita...
  
  , Spanish Asturian language writer
• Michael Lopez-Alegria
  Michael Lopez-Alegria
  Michael Eladio "LA" López-Alegría b. May 30, 1958, is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission...
  
  , American astronaut
• Miguel López de Legaspi, Spanish explorer
• Nadia López
  Nadia López
  Nadia Yvonne López Ayuso , is a Grammy Award nominated Mexican singer and reality television star.-Early life:...
  
  , Mexican singer and reality television star
• Narciso López
  Narciso López
  Narciso López was a Venezuelan adventurer and soldier, best known for an expedition aimed at liberating Cuba from Spain in the 1850s..- Life in Venezuela, Cuba, and Spain:...
  
  , Venezuelan soldier and Cuban independence fighter
• Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez
• Nicolás Lindley López
  Nicolás Lindley López
  Nicolás Lindley López was a Peruvian military commander who headed the military government in Peru for several months in 1963.- Biography :...
  
  , Peruvian military commander
• Noelia López
  Noelia López
  Noelia López Vidal is a Spanish model known for winning the second cycle of the Spanish TV Contest 'Supermodelo 2007'.-Biography:...
  
  , Spanish model
• Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez
  Oscar Lopez is a Chilean-Canadian folk and nouveau flamenco guitarist. He has won many awards from the Latino community....
  
  , Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist
• Pedro Lopez (serial killer), Colombian serial killer accused of killing more than 300 people
• R. Edward Lopez
  R. Edward Lopez
  R. Edward "Bob" Lopez was a newsman and morning radio personality on Baltimore's 98Rock. Joining the station in 1978, Lopez participated in 13 morning radio shows during his 27 years at the station. He was known for his humor, thoughtful opinions, and dogged liberal views.In the late 1980s, he...
  
  , American newsman and morning radio personality
• Renato López
  Renato López
  Renato López is a Mexican television show host and musician.He was a guitarist for the rock band The Prom Kings and previously hosted music shows on Mun2, such as El show and Vivo....
  
  , Mexican musician
• Ricky Lopez
  Ricky Lopez
  Ricky López is a Mexican American professional boxer in the Super Bantamweight division.-Professional career:On May 9, 2009 López took out the veteran Nick Arellano by K.O. to win his professional debut....
  
  , Puerto Rican singer, ex-Menudo
• Robert Lopez
  Robert Lopez
  Robert Lopez is an American composer and lyricist of musicals best known for co-writing the Broadway musical Avenue Q and for co-creating the musical The Book of Mormon, receiving Tony Awards for both works....
  
  , composer and lyricist of musicals
• Rodrigo Lopez
  Rodrigo Lopez (physician)
  Rodrigo Lopez was physician to Queen Elizabeth, and may have been an inspiration for Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.He was born in Crato, Portugal and raised as a New Christian...
  
  , physician to Queen Elizabeth I
• Rosa López
  Rosa López
  Rosa López, , is a Spanish singer. She came to fame in 2001 as part of the reality show "Operación Triunfo", she represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. She has subsequently released five studio albums, an album on DVD and ten singles.She has been awarded several times throughout her...
  
  , Spanish singer and dancer of Operación Triunfo
• Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest after whom the Ruy López opening is named
• Ruy López de Villalobos
  Ruy López de Villalobos
  Ruy López de Villalobos was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Pacific from Mexico to establish a permanent foothold for Spain in the East Indies, which was near the Line of Demarcation between Spain and Portugal according to the Treaty of Saragossa in 1529...
  
  , Spanish explorer
• Santos López Pelegrín
  Santos López Pelegrín
  Santos López Pelegrín was a Spanish journalist and author whose work is associated with Romanticism....
  
  , Spanish journalist
• Steve Lopez
  Steve Lopez
  Steven M. Lopez is an American journalist who has been a columnist for The Los Angeles Times since 2001. He is the son of Spanish and Italian immigrants.-Life and cars:...
  
   American journalist for the Los Angeles Times and author
• Trini Lopez
  Trini Lopez
  Trini Lopez is an American singer, guitarist and actor.-Career:Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, on Ashland Street in the Little Mexico neighborhood. He began his entertainment career in Dallas playing at the Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby...
  
  , American musician
• Vincent Lopez
  Vincent Lopez
  Vincent Lopez was an American bandleader and pianist.Vincent Lopez was born of Portuguese immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York and was leading his own dance band in New York City by 1917...
  
  , American bandleader and pianist
• Yolanda Lopez
  Yolanda Lopez
  Yolanda M. López is an American painter, printmaker, educator, and film producer. Her work focuses on the experience of Mexican American women and often challenges ethnic stereotypes associated with them. According to López, "It is important for us to be visually literate; it is a survival skill....
  
  , American artist
• Lester Lopez Big Boss
• Romualdo Lopez Citizen

Places and other uses

• Lopez, Cauca
  Lopez, Cauca
  Lopez is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia....
  
  , town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia
• Lopez, Quezon
  Lopez, Quezon
  Lopez is a 1st class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. It is located in the southern part of the province, 220 kilometers away from Manila, 83 kilometers away from Lucena City, 25 kilometers to Camarines Norte, 3 nautical kilometers to Alabat Island and bordered by the...
  
  , a municipality in the Philippines
• Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental
  Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental
  Lopez Jaena is a 4th class municipality in the Province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2000 Philippine census, it has a population of about 20,948 people in 4,308 households.-History:*To be constructed...Natural/Man Made...
  
  , a municipality in the Philippines
• López, Chihuahua
  López, Chihuahua
  López is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Villa López. The municipality covers an area of 1,317.1 km².As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,914.-Towns and villages:...
  
  , one of the Municipalities of Chihuahua
  Municipalities of Chihuahua
  The Mexican state of Chihuahua is divided into 67 municipalities :...
  
  , Mexico
• United States v. Lopez
  United States v. Lopez
  United States v. Alfonso Lopez, Jr., was the first United States Supreme Court case since the New Deal to set limits to Congress's power under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.-Background:...
  
  , a United States Supreme Court case
• Lopez, a character in Red vs. Blue; see
• López (portrayed by Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
  Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
  Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. is a Mexican actor.- Life and career :Armendáriz Jr. was born in Mexico City, the son of actors Carmelita and Pedro Armendáriz. He has been married to actress Ofelia Medina....
  
  ), a character and antagonist in the 1999 film Herod's Law
• Lopez Island
  Lopez Island
  Lopez Island is the third largest of the U.S. San Juan Islands. Lopez Island is in land area. The 2000 census population was 2,177.-History:...
  
  , San Juan Islands, Washington, USA
• Lopez River in Monroe County, Florida
  Monroe County, Florida
  Monroe County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 79,589. The U.S. Census Bureau 2006 estimate for the county was 74,737....