Miguel
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Miguel, the Spanish and Portuguese form of the name Michael
, may refer to the following:
Michael
Michael is a given name that comes from the , derived from the Hebrew question מי כמו אלוהים? meaning "Who is like God?" In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, or, especially in Ireland, Mick...
, may refer to the following:
Portuguese Royalty
- Miguel of PortugalMiguel of PortugalDom Miguel I, sometimes Michael , was the King of Portugal between 1828 and 1834, the seventh child and second son of King John VI and his queen, Charlotte of Spain....
(1802–1866), King of Portugal; - Miguel II, Duke of BraganzaMiguel II, Duke of BraganzaMiguel II of Braganza was the Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920. He used the title Duke of Braganza.-Biography:...
(1853–1927), Portuguese pretender, son of King Miguel I - Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu (1878–1923), Portuguese prince, older son of Miguel II
- Miguel da Paz (1498–1500), older son of King Manuel I of Portugal
- Infante Miguel de BragançaMiguel de BragançaDom Michael of Braganza was a Portuguese nobleman, illegitimate son of King Pedro II of Portugal and Ana Armanda Pastre de Verger...
(1699–1724), natural son of King Pedro II of Portugal - Infante Miguel, Duke of ViseuInfante Miguel, Duke of ViseuThe Infante Miguel, Duke of Viseu is the second son of Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza and his wife Princess Maria Francisca of Orleans-Braganza...
(born 1946), brother of Duarte Pio, current Duke of Braganza - Miguel, Prince of BeiraMiguel, Prince of BeiraInfante Miguel of Portugal, Prince of Beira was the stillborn son of Portuguese heir to the throne Pedro, Prince of Brazil and Maria Leopoldina of Austria and was a member of the Braganza house.Prince Miguel was named thus, in honor of his father's younger brother Miguel of Portugal...
Others
- Luís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro (born 1980), Portuguese footballer, usually known simply as Miguel
- Miguel (singer)Miguel (singer)Miguel Jontel Pimentel, who performs under the mononym Miguel, is an American recording artist, songwriter and producer. Signed to Jive Records in 2007, Miguel released his debut album, All I Want Is You, in November 2010. The album was preceded by the release of the single "All I Want Is You",...
(born 1986), American recording artist - Miguel CabreraMiguel CabreraJosé Miguel Cabrera Torres nicknamed "Miggy", is a Venezuelan professional baseball first baseman with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed....
(born 1983), Venezuelan baseball player - Miguel CommingesMiguel CommingesMiguel Comminges is a football defender from Guadeloupe currently playing for Major League Soccer club Colorado Rapids...
(born 1982), Guadeloupean footballer - Miguel CórcegaMiguel CórcegaMiguel Córcega was a Mexican telenovela actor and director. Córcega started his career in acting and directing during the 1940s....
(1929–2008), Mexican actor and director - Miguel CottoMiguel CottoMiguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and the reigning WBA light middleweight champion. He is the younger brother of contender Jose Miguel Cotto and cousin of Abner Cotto...
(born 1980), Puerto Rican professional boxer - Miguel de CervantesMiguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...
(1547–1616), Spanish author - Miguel DelibesMiguel DelibesMiguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied chair "e". He studied commerce and law and began his career as a columnist and later journalist at the El Norte de Castilla...
(1920–2010), Spanish novelist - Miguel DuhamelMiguel DuhamelMiguel Duhamel is a Canadian motorcycle racer, the son of Canadian Motorsport Hall of Famer Yvon Duhamel. He is the second winningest rider in the AMA Superbike series at 32 wins and most wins in the with AMA SuperSport series...
(born 1968), Canadian motorcycle racer - Miguel FerrerMiguel FerrerMiguel José Ferrer is an American actor and voice actor who is often cast as a villain. His notable roles include Bob Morton, a supporting character in RoboCop , the short tempered FBI agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks, and Dr...
(born 1955), American actor - Miguel GalvanMiguel GalvanMiguel Galván was a Mexican actor and comedian born in Juan Aldama, Zacatecas. He rose to fame in a TV commercial where he was a filthy but comic prison inmate, earning him the nickname of "La tartamuda"....
(1957–2008), Mexican actor - Miguel HidalgoMiguel HidalgoMiguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor , more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.In 1810 Hidalgo led a group of peasants in a revolt against the dominant...
(1753–1811), Mexican priest and revolutionary rebel leader - Miguel de IcazaMiguel de IcazaMiguel de Icaza is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.-Early years:Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his...
(born 1972), Mexican software developer and GNOME founder - Miguel IndurainMiguel IndurainMiguel Ángel Indurain Larraya is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. He won five consecutive Tour de Frances from 1991 and 1995, the first to do so, and the fourth athlete to win five times. He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of only seven people in history to achieve the Giro Tour...
(born 1964), Spanish cyclist - Miguel MaiaMiguel MaiaLuis Miguel Barbosa Maia is a beach volleyball player from Portugal, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996...
(born 1971), Portuguese beach volleyball player - Miguel MonteiroMiguel MonteiroLuís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro, simply Miguel , OIH , is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Valencia CF in Spain, mainly as a right defender.-Early years / Benfica:...
(born 1980), Portuguese footballer, known as "Miguel" - Miguel MihuraMiguel MihuraMiguel Mihura Santos was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa , a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre.Miguel Mihura was born in Madrid in 1905...
(1905–1977), Spanish absurdist playwright - Miguel MontesMiguel MontesMiguel Ángel Montes Moreno is a Salvadoran footballer who is signed with Isidro Metapán in the Salvadoran First Division....
(born 1980), Salvadoran footballer - Miguel Ángel NiñoMiguel Ángel NiñoMiguel Ángel Niño Corredor is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:19961997...
(born 1968), Colombian road cyclist - Miguel PonceMiguel PonceMiguel Andrés Ponce Torres is a retired football defender from Chile, who made his debut for the Chile national football team on 1991-04-09 in a friendly match against Mexico. He obtained a total number of eighteen caps during his professional career.-References:*...
(born 1971), Chilean footballer - Miguel SanabriaMiguel SanabriaMiguel Ángel Sanabria is a retired football midfielder from Paraguay. He played professional football for clubs like Club Olimpia in Paraguay, and also had a spell in Bolivia, playing for Club Bolívar....
(born 1964), Paraguayan footballer - Miguel Ángel SanabriaMiguel Ángel SanabriaMiguel Ángel Sanabria Acevedo was a male road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional from 1990 to 1998...
(1967–2006), Colombian road cyclist - Miguel SánchezMiguel SánchezMiguel Sánchez was a Novohispanic priest, writer and theologian. He is most renowned as the author of the 1648 publication Imagen de la Virgen María, a description and theological interpretation of an apparition to Juan Diego of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe which is the first published...
(1594–1674), novohispanic priest, writer and theologician - Miguel UbetoMiguel UbetoMiguel Armando Ubeto Aponte is a male professional road racing cyclist from Venezuela. In 2011 he won the UCI America Tour. -Career:2001...
(born 1976), Venezuelan road cyclist - Miguel Angel SanoMiguel Angel SanoMiguel Angel Sano is a shortstop from the Dominican Republic in the Minnesota Twins organization.- Background :Sano was born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, to a poor family. He was discovered at a young age, and worked with scouts to develop his talent...
, Dominican baseball player - Miguel de UnamunoMiguel de UnamunoMiguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.-Biography:...
(1864–1936), Spanish Philosopher
Fictional
- Miguel, protagonist in the DreamWorks animated film The Road to El DoradoThe Road to El DoradoThe Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure comedy film by DreamWorks. The soundtrack features songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, the music team from Disney's The Lion King....
- Miguel Santos, Maya's brother in the PBS animated series Maya & MiguelMaya & MiguelMaya & Miguel is a children's television animated series for children aged 6-12 produced by Scholastic Studios. It appears on PBS as part of the PBS Kids GO! lineup and on the CBBC channel in the UK...
- Miguel Lopez-FitzgeraldMiguel Lopez-FitzgeraldMiguel Lopez-Fitzgerald is a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions. The youngest son of the once-missing Martin Fitzgerald and Mexican immigrant Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald, the character as played by Jesse Metcalfe was caught in a love triangle with true love Charity Standish and...
, regular character on the soap opera Passions - Miguel Caballero Rojo, character from the Tekken video game series
- Miguel Prado, character played by Jimmy Smits during the third season of the TV series Dexter
- Miguel, a bullfighter in the fighting game Human Killing MachineHuman Killing MachineHuman Killing Machine, commonly abbreviated as HKM, is a 2D fighting game developed by Tiertex and published by U.S. Gold, released in March 1989. It was touted as a sequel to Tiertex's home computer conversion of Street Fighter...
Places
- Pedro MiguelPedro MiguelPedro Miguel is a parish in the northeastern part of the municipality of Horta on the island of Faial in the Azores. Pedro Miguel is located 6 km north of the city of Horta on the main regional road that encircles the island...
, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands - São Miguel (disambiguation), various locations in Azores, Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde
Books
- Miguel StreetMiguel StreetMiguel Street is a semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper."...
, semi-autobiographical novel by V. S. Naipaul, published in 1959
Music
- Miguel (Dalida album), 1957
- Miguel (Miguel Bosé album)Miguel (Miguel Bosé album)Miguel is an album By Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor, Miguel Bosé, It was released in 1980.-Track listing:# "Morir De Amor"# "Give Me Your Love"# "Te Amare"# "Senor Padre"# "Ensayo"# "Voy A Ganar"# "Girls,Girls,Girls"...
, 1980