Pedro
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Pedro or the archaic Pêro is a masculine given name. It is a 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...

, Galician
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...

 and Spanish
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...

 form of the name Peter
Peter (given name)
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived, via Latin "petra", from the Greek word πέτρος meaning "stone" or "rock"....

, which is derived, via Latin "petra", from the Greek word "η πετρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic
Aramaic language
Aramaic is a group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic language phylum. The name of the language is based on the name of Aram, an ancient region in central Syria. Within this family, Aramaic belongs to the Semitic family, and more specifically, is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily,...

 Kephas or Cephas meaning "stone".

Pedro may refer to:

Monarchs

  • Pedro I of Portugal
  • Pedro II of Portugal
  • Pedro III of Portugal
  • Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil
  • Pedro V of Portugal
    Pedro V of Portugal
    * Duke of Barcelos* Marquis of Vila Viçosa* Count of Ourém* Count of Barcelos* Count of Arraiolos* Count of Guimarães-Honours:* Knight of the Garter* Knight of the Golden Fleece-Ancestry:...

  • Pedro II of Brazil
    Pedro II of Brazil
    Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of...

  • Pedro of Castile
    Pedro of Castile
    Peter , sometimes called "the Cruel" or "the Lawful" , was the king of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. He was the son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Maria of Portugal, daughter of Afonso IV of Portugal...

  • Peter I of Aragon and Navarre
    Peter I of Aragon and Navarre
    Peter I was the King of Aragon and Navarre for a decade from 1094 until his death. He was the son and successor of Sancho V Ramírez by his first wife, Isabella of Urgell. He was named in honour of Saint Peter, because of his father's special devotion to the Holy See, to which he had made his...

    , also known as Pedro I
  • Peter II of Aragon
    Peter II of Aragon
    Peter II the Catholic was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213.He was the son of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile...

  • Peter III of Aragon
    Peter III of Aragon
    Peter the Great was the King of Aragon of Valencia , and Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. He conquered Sicily and became its king in 1282. He was one of the greatest of medieval Aragonese monarchs.-Youth and succession:Peter was the eldest son of James I of Aragon and his second wife...

  • Peter IV of Aragon
    Peter IV of Aragon
    Peter IV, , called el Cerimoniós or el del punyalet , was the King of Aragon, King of Sardinia and Corsica , King of Valencia , and Count of Barcelona Peter IV, (Balaguer, September 5, 1319 – Barcelona, January 6, 1387), called el Cerimoniós ("the Ceremonious") or el del punyalet ("the one...

  • Peter V of Aragon
    Peter V of Aragon
    Peter V of Aragon , Infante of Portugal, Constable of Portugal and Grand Master of the Order of Aviz.He was son of Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, and Isabella of Aragon, Countess of Urgel, and grandson of John I of Portugal.During the War Against John II, between 1463 and 1466 Peter was King of...

    , also Pedro IV of Barcelona

Politicians and leaders

  • Pedro Aguirre Cerda
    Pedro Aguirre Cerda
    Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure. A member of the Radical Party, he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was triumphally elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941...

    , Chilean political figure
  • Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
    Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
    Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Silveti was an Argentine Army General. Born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba on May 21, 1903. He was a major figure behind the military coup against Juan Perón in 1955. He became de facto president of Argentina from November 13, 1955 to May 1, 1958...

    , President of Argentina from 1955 to 1958
  • Pedro Lascuráin
    Pedro Lascuráin
    Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes was both Mexico's and the world's briefest-ever serving president....

    , President of Mexico
  • Pedro Nel Ospina
    Pedro Nel Ospina
    Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez was a Colombian general and political figure. He served as president of Colombia between 1922 and 1926.- Biography:...

    , Colombian general and political figure
  • Pedro Pablo Ramírez
    Pedro Pablo Ramírez
    General Pedro Pablo Ramírez was de facto President of Argentina from June 7, 1943 to February 24, 1944. He was the founder and leader of the Guardia Nacional, Argentina's Fascist militia....

    , President of Argentina from 1943 to 1944
  • Pedro Rosselló
    Pedro Rosselló
    Pedro Juan Rosselló González, M.D., , is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served as the sixth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001...

    , Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001

In sports

  • Pedro Acosta
    Pedro Acosta
    Pedro Javier Acosta Sánchez is a retired Venezuelan football defender.-Club career:Acosta played for Deportivo Galicia, C.S...

    , Venezuelan football player
  • Pedro Aroche
    Pedro Aroche
    Pedro Aroche de los Monteros is a retired male race walker from Mexico.-Achievements:-References:*...

    , Mexican race walker
  • Pedro Collins
    Pedro Collins
    Pedro Tyrone Collins is a West Indian cricketer.He is the half brother of Fidel Edwards. He is one of the very few left-handed seam bowlers who have had a chance to represent the West Indies cricket team...

    , West Indian cricketer
  • Pedro de la Rosa
    Pedro de la Rosa
    Pedro Martínez de la Rosa is a Formula One driver who has participated in 87 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren and Sauber teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race...

    , Spanish racing driver
  • Pedro Diniz
    Pedro Diniz
    Pedro Paulo Diniz is a racing driver from Brazil. He participated in 99 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 26, 1995...

    , Brazilian racing driver
  • Pedro Hernández Martínez
    Pedro Hernández Martínez
    Pedro Hernández Martínez, simply Pedro , is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for CD Leganés as a right defender.-External links:** *...

     (born 1978), Spanish football player
  • Pedro Iznaga
    Pedro Iznaga
    Pedro Iznaga Ortíz is a male indoor volleyball player from Cuba, who played for the Men's National Team. He was a member of the national squad that claimed the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....

    , Cuban volleyball player
  • Pedro Lima
    Pedro Lima
    Pedro Manuel Barata Lima is a former Olympic swimmer from Angola. He represented Angola in 1988 and 1992.Lima participated in several swimming contests but never advanced past preliminaries. In 1988, he was disqualified from the Men's 50 m Freestyle, finished 62nd in the Men's 100 m Freestyle,...

    , Angolan swimmer
  • Pedro Martínez
    Pedro Martínez
    Pedro Jaime Martínez is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and 2004 World Series champion...

    , American baseball player
  • Pedro Miguel Pauleta, Portuguese football player
  • Pedro Morales
    Pedro Morales
    Pedro Morales is a retired Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He began his wrestling career as a teenager in 1959 and continued through to the late 1980s...

    , Puerto Rican professional wrestler
  • Pedro Pérez
    Pedro Pérez
    Pedro Pérez Dueñas is a retired triple jumper from Cuba. He set the world record in the men's triple jump event on August 5, 1971, jumping 17.40 metres in the final of the Pan American Games.-Achievements:-References:* *...

    , Cuban triple jumper
  • Pedro Pineda
    Pedro Pineda
    Pedro Pineda is a retired professional footballer from Mexico. He played as a forward during his career...

    , Mexican football player
  • Pedro Rodríguez (cyclist)
    Pedro Rodríguez (cyclist)
    Pedro Álvaro Rodríguez Rosero is a retired male road cyclist from Ecuador, who was a professional from 1992 to 1995. Nicknamed "El Aguila de Tulcán" he competed for his native South American country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia in the men's road race, alongside Héctor Chiles and...

    , Ecuadorian cyclist
  • Pedro Rodriguez (racing driver)
    Pedro Rodriguez (racing driver)
    Pedro Rodríguez was a Mexican Grand Prix motor racing driver. He was born in Mexico City and was the older brother of Ricardo Rodríguez.-Career:...

    , Mexican Grand Prix racer
  • Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma
    Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma
    Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma , commonly known as Pedro or Pedrito, is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team, as a forward or winger....

    , Spanish football player
  • Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino
    Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino
    Pedro Antonio Sánchez Moñino, simply Pedro , is a Spanish footballer who plays for Real Murcia as a forward.-External links:** *...

     (born 1987), Spanish football player
  • Pedro Santa Cecilia (born 1984), Spanish football player
  • Pedro Senatore Ramos
    Pedro Senatore Ramos
    Pedro Senatore Ramos is an Ecuadorian football referee, best known for having supervised one match during the 2004 Copa América in Peru. He also refereed at the Copa Libertadores 2006.-References:**...

    , Ecuadorian football referee
  • Pedro da Silva (athlete)
    Pedro da Silva (athlete)
    Pedro Ferreira da Silva Filho is a former decathlete from Brazil. He won the gold medal in the men's decathlon event at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba, and competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics....

    , Brazilian decathlete
  • Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho
    Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho
    Pedro Roberto da Silva Botelho is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Rayo Vallecano on loan from Arsenal. Mainly a left defender, he can also play as a midfielder.-Football career:...

    , Brazilian footballer
  • Pedro Zabála
    Pedro Zabála
    Pedro Zabála Pereira is a Bolivian football defender. He currently plays for Real Mamoré in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.-National team:...

    , Bolivian footballer

Explorers

  • Pedro Álvares Cabral
    Pedro Álvares Cabral
    Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese noble, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. While details of Cabral's early life are sketchy, it...

    , Portuguese navigator and explorer
  • Pedro Escobar
    Pedro Escobar
    Pedro Escobar, also known as Pêro Escobar, was a 15th century Portuguese navigator who discovered São Tomé and Príncipe together with João de Santarém and Fernão do Pó circa 1470. He is then recorded sailing with Diogo Cão on his first voyage in 1482, and as the pilot of the famous Bérrio caravel...

    , Portuguese explorer who discovered São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Pedro Teixeira
    Pedro Teixeira
    Pedro Teixeira was a Portuguese explorer who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up the entire length of the Amazon River....

    , Portuguese explorer

Other

  • Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

    , Spanish filmmaker
  • Pedro Dimas
    Pedro Dimas
    Don Pedro Dimas is a Mexican violinist, guitarist, composer, and preservationist of traditional music from the Purépecha, an indigenous culture in the Mexican state of Michoacán.-Life and career:...

    , Mexican musician
  • Pedro Duro
    Pedro Duro
    Pedro Duro Benito was an important Spanish businessman of the 19th century, founder of current industrial Group Duro Felguera and impeller of the siderurgy in Spain....

    , Spanish businessman
  • Pedro Gomez (dance instructor)
    Pedro Gomez (dance instructor)
    Pedro Gomez is a Salsa dance instructor from Cuba.-Biography:After Gomez was born, his parents decided to abandon Cuba, perhaps to allow his son to live under better economic conditions.The Gomez family arrived in Puerto Rico...

    , Cuban Salsa dance instructor
  • Pedro Gomez (sports reporter), American television reporter
  • Pedro López
    Pedro López
    Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian-born confessed serial killer, accused of raping and killing more than 300 girls across South America...

    , South American serial killer
  • Pedro Nunes
    Pedro Nunes
    Pedro Nunes , was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian family. Nunes, considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time , is best known for his contributions in the technical field of navigation, which was crucial to the Portuguese period of...

    , Portuguese mathematician
  • Pedro Páez
    Pedro Páez
    Pedro Páez Jaramillo was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be the most effective Catholic missionary in Ethiopia...

    , Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia
  • Pedro Rodriguez (NASA)
    Pedro Rodriguez (NASA)
    Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Ph.D., , is the Director of a test laboratory at NASA and inventor of a portable, battery-operated lift seat for people suffering from knee arthritis.-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican scientist and inventor
  • Pedro Rodriguez (soldier)
    Pedro Rodriguez (soldier)
    Rodríguez, PedroOrganization:HEADQUARTERS 3D INFANTRY DIVISION G.O. # 261 – 8 July 19512nd Citation:-Later years:Sgt. Rodríguez retired from the Army with the rank of Master Sergeant and went to work as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Puerto Rico. In 1979, Rodríguez went to live at...

    , Puerto Rican Korean War hero

Fictional characters

  • Pedro, from The Power of Five
    The Power of Five
    The Power of Five is a series of fantasy and suspense novels, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. Four installments have been published to date but another one is to be released...

    novel series by Anthony Horowitz
  • Pedro, a character from the Excel Saga
    Excel Saga
    is a manga series written and illustrated by Rikdo Koshi. It has been serialized in Young King OURs since 1996, with individual chapters collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Shōnen Gahosha. The series follows the attempts of Across, a "secret ideological organization", to conquer the city...

    manga series
  • Don Pedro, a character from Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....

    , a comedy by William Shakespeare
  • Pedro the Mail Burro, mascot of the Boy Scouting magazine Boys' Life
    Boys' Life
    Boys' Life is the monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America . Its targeted readership is young American males between the ages of 6 and 18.Boys' Life is published in two demographic editions...

  • Pedro Sanchez, a main character from the film Napoleon Dynamite
    Napoleon Dynamite
    Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess' first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca....

  • Pedro, another name of Panama Joe, a character from Montezuma's Revenge (video game)
    Montezuma's Revenge (video game)
    Montezuma's Revenge is a video game for Atari home computers, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Sega Master System, and ZX Spectrum . It was created by Robert Jaeger and published in 1984 by Parker Brothers. The game's title references a colloquial American...

  • Pedro, in the Sam & Max Season Two
    Sam & Max Season Two
    Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, originally released as Sam & Max: Season Two, is an episodic series of adventure games by Telltale Games based around the characters of the Sam & Max comic series created by Steve Purcell and follows from Sam & Max Save the World.Season Two builds on Season One with...

    video game series
  • Pedro, mascot of South of the Border
    South of the Border
    - Music :* "South of the Border" , popular song, notably recorded by Frank Sinatra* "South of the Border" , 1997* South of the Border , 1964...

     roadside attraction
    Roadside attraction
    A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road, that is frequently advertised with billboards to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere else, rather than being a final or primary destination in and of themselves. The modern...

  • Pedro, a Red-crested Cardinal from "Rio (film)
    Rio (film)
    Rio, often promoted as Rio: The Movie, is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, in which the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne...

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