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Diego Aguado
Diego Aguado Facio (born 2007) is a Spanish left-footed defender for Real Madrid Castilla; LaLiga debut March 2026 vs Elche, 2026 UEFA Youth League winner, contract to 2029 with €60M clause.
Diego Alonso
Diego Martín Alonso López (born 1975, Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football manager and former forward; first Inter Miami CF head coach, two-time Concacaf Champions League winner with Pachuca and Monterrey, and Uruguay's coach at the 2022 World Cup.
Diego Alves
Diego Alves (Diego Alves Carreira), Brazilian goalkeeper born 1985 in Rio de Janeiro; played for Almeria, Valencia, Flamengo, and Celta; retired January 2025 holding the La Liga record for penalty saves and 11 titles with Flamengo.
Diego Andres Rodriguez
Diego Andres Rodriguez, also credited as Diego Rodriguez, is an American actor and writer from McAllen, Texas, a University of Michigan BFA musical theatre graduate (2024) who made his Broadway debut as Artie and understudy Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (2024-2025) and his West End debut as Che in Evita at the London Palladium (2025), earning an Olivier Award nomination.
Diego Aponte
Diego Aponte is Group President of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, the Geneva-based container line his father founded in 1970, which overtook Maersk in 2022 to become the world's largest.
Diego Aspiras
Jose Diego Aspiras (born 2004), Filipino defensive midfielder, son of Edu Manzano and Reggie Aspiras; turned pro with United City in 2024 and plays for Geylang International in the Singapore Premier League.
Diego Barros Arana
Diego Barros Arana (1830–1907) was a Chilean historian, diplomat, and educator who wrote the sixteen-volume Historia General de Chile and rector of the Universidad de Chile.
Diego Belloso
Diego Belloso, called Diogo Veloso in Portuguese accounts, was a Portuguese adventurer at the Cambodian court who helped kill King Preah Ram I in 1596.
Diego Bernal
Diego Bernal is an American Democratic politician, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 123 in San Antonio, elected in 2015 after serving on the city council.
Diego Bohorquez
Diego Bohorquez, also known as Diego V. Bohórquez, is a gut–brain neuroscientist at Duke University who studies neuropod cells and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Diego Boneta
Diego Boneta, full name Diego Andrés González Boneta, Mexican actor, singer, producer, writer; star of Rock of Ages and Luis Miguel: The Series; founder of Three Amigos with Amazon first-look deal; debut novelist.
Diego Botin Sanz de Sautuola
Diego Botín Sanz de Sautuola, Spanish 49er sailor born 1993 in Santander; Olympic gold Paris 2024 with Florian Trittel, 49er world champion 2025, SailGP Season 4 champion helming Spain's Los Gallos.
Diego Brandão
Diego Brandão (Diego Pereira Brandão, "DB", "Ceara"), Brazilian featherweight MMA fighter born 1987 in Fortaleza; TUF 14 winner, UFC 6-4, lost to McGregor in Dublin 2014, 2025 Tuff-N-Uff champion.
Diego Buonanotte
Diego Buonanotte (Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende), Argentine-born Chilean-naturalized attacking midfielder born 1988 in Teodelina; won the 2008 Clausura with River Plate and Olympic gold at Beijing 2008, later playing for Málaga, Granada, and Deportes Temuco.
Diego Caito
Diego Caito (Diego Caito Barcellos Oliveira dos Santos), born 2004, São Paulo, is a Brazilian right-back who debuted for Goiás in 2023, won the Copa Verde, and joined Grêmio on loan in July 2026, scoring on debut against Fluminense.
Diego Campillo
Diego Campillo (Diego Campillo del Campo, b. 19 Oct 2001, Durango), Mexican centre-back for Chivas Guadalajara in Liga MX; Chivas academy product, ex-Juárez, Mexico U23 international, contract to 30 Dec 2026.
Diego Carlos (footballer, born 1993)
Diego Carlos (Diego Carlos Santos Silva), Brazilian centre-back born 1993; Sevilla 2019-2022, Europa League and Tokyo Olympic gold winner, then Aston Villa and Fenerbahçe; strong, aggressive defender with noted decision-making lapses.
Diego Columbus
Diego Columbus (Diego Colón, ca. 1479-1526), eldest son of Christopher Columbus and Felipa Moniz, was admiral, governor, and nominal viceroy of the Indies, ruling Hispaniola from Santo Domingo 1509-1523 and litigating for his father's privileges until the 1536 settlement.
Diego Columbus (Lucayan)
Diego Columbus (Spanish: Diego Colón, before 1492–after 1514) was a Lucayan from Guanahani adopted by Christopher Columbus, renamed for his firstborn son, and employed as guide and interpreter; documented until 1514.
Diego Corrales
Diego "Chico" Corrales, American two-division boxing champion (junior lightweight and lightweight), famous for the 2005 tenth-round TKO of Jose Luis Castillo, a Fight of the Year classic; died in a 2007 motorcycle crash at 29.
Diego Costa
Diego Costa (Diego da Silva Costa), Brazilian-born Spanish centre-forward born 1988 in Lagarto; starred for Atletico Madrid (2014 La Liga, 27 goals) and Chelsea (two Premier League titles), switched from Brazil to Spain in 2014, retired February 2026.
Diego Cristóbal Túpac Amaru
Diego Cristóbal Túpac Amaru was an Andean rebel commander who led the second phase of the Túpac Amaru rebellion in Peru through 1781, and was executed in 1783.
Diego de Almagro
Diego de Almagro (ca. 1475/1479-1538), Spanish conquistador, Pizarro's partner in conquering Peru and leader of the 1535-1536 expedition that discovered Chile; executed at Cuzco after Las Salinas.
Diego de Almagro the Younger
Diego de Almagro the Younger (Diego de Almagro el Mozo), c. 1518–1542, was a mestizo conquistador, son of Diego de Almagro, whose party assassinated Francisco Pizarro in 1541.
Diego de Almagro's expedition to Chile
Diego de Almagro's expedition to Chile (1535–1537) was the first Spanish expedition from Peru into present-day Chile, finding little gold and returning to Peru in 1537.
Diego de Avendaño
Diego de Avendaño (1594–1688) was a Spanish Jesuit jurist and theologian who taught in Lima and wrote the six-tome Thesaurus Indicus on conscience in Spanish American affairs.
Diego de Benavides
Diego de Benavides, Count of Santisteban del Puerto, was a Spanish nobleman, soldier, and diplomat who served as the 18th viceroy of Peru from 1661 until his death in 1666.
Diego de Landa
Diego de Landa (1524–1579), Spanish Franciscan friar and Bishop of Yucatán, led the 1562 auto de fe at Maní, burning Maya codices, and is credited with the Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, whose glyph list later enabled Maya script decipherment.
Diego de Nicuesa
Diego de Nicuesa was a Spanish explorer and colonial governor of Veragua on the Isthmus of Panama who founded Nombre de Dios in 1510 and disappeared at sea in 1511.
Diego de Torres Rubio
Diego de Torres Rubio (1547 or 1548 – 1638) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and grammarian in colonial Peru whose grammars of Aymara and Quechua, published in Lima in 1616 and 1619, ran to four editions.