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Fernando José de Portugal e Castro
Fernando José de Portugal e Castro, Marquis of Aguiar (1752–1817), was a Portuguese magistrate who governed Bahia and served as the penultimate viceroy of Brazil.
Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha
Fernando Lazaro Aenlle-Rocha, born in 1961 in Havana, Cuba, is a United States district judge for the Central District of California, appointed by President Trump in 2020.
Fernando Lamas
Fernando Lamas, born Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos, was an Argentine-born actor and director who played suave Latin lover leads in Hollywood from 1951 and later directed TV series.
Fernando León
Fernando León Boissier, Spanish Olympic sailor from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, gold medalist in the Tornado class at Atlanta 1996 with José Luis Ballester; competed in four Games (1988–2000) and later a professional cruiser racer.
Fernando Llorente
Fernando Llorente (Fernando Javier Llorente Torres), born 1985, is a retired Spanish striker who played for Athletic Club and Juventus and won the 2010 World Cup with Spain.
Fernando López Miras
Fernando López Miras is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular who has served as President of the Region of Murcia since 2017 and leads the party's regional branch.
Fernando Lozada
Fernando Lozada (Fernando Lozada Zúñiga, "Koko"), born 1989, is a Mexican-Colombian reality TV personality, host, and fitness influencer, an original Acapulco Shore cast member (2014), winner of La Isla 2024, host of Al Extremo, and a La Granja VIP 2 contestant.
Fernando M. Olguin
Fernando Manzano Olguin is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2013, after serving as a magistrate judge there from 2001.
Fernando Martín
Fernando Martín García, born in Madrid in 1961, is a Spanish theoretical physicist at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid known for founding theoretical attochemistry.
Fernando Meirelles
Fernando Meirelles (Fernando Ferreira Meirelles), Brazilian director born 1955 in São Paulo, co-directed City of God (2002) with Kátia Lund, directed The Constant Gardener, Blindness, The Two Popes, and the Rio 2016 Olympic opening ceremony, and co-founded O2 Filmes.
Fernando Morientes
Fernando Morientes (Fernando Morientes Sánchez, born 1976), Spanish centre forward; three-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid (1997–2005), Monaco loan star of 2004, later Liverpool, Valencia, Marseille; 47 caps, 27 goals for Spain; retired 2010.
Fernando Muslera
Fernando Muslera (Néstor Fernando Muslera Micol), Uruguayan goalkeeper born 1986 in Buenos Aires; Lazio 2007–2011, Galatasaray 2011–2025 with 19 trophies and 535 matches, Estudiantes since 2025; 92 Uruguay caps, 2011 Copa América winner, five World Cups.
Fernando Namora
Fernando Namora, full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora (1919–1989), was a Portuguese physician and writer, a leading neo-realist novelist and one of Portugal's most translated authors.
Fernando Nottebohm
Fernando Nottebohm, born in Buenos Aires in 1940, is a Rockefeller University neuroscientist who mapped the songbird song system and gave the first solid evidence that adult warm-blooded brains add new neurons.
Fernando P. Polack
Fernando P. Polack is an Argentine pediatric infectious disease researcher at Vanderbilt University known for RSV research and leading the Pfizer–BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trial in Argentina.
Fernando Patolsky
Fernando Patolsky (פרננדו פטולסקי) is an Israeli chemist and nanobiotechnologist, a Full Professor in the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University known for label-free nanowire sensors.
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) was a Portuguese poet and prose writer who became central to modernism by inventing literary identities, most famously Alberto Caeiro, and co-found the 1915 magazine Orpheu.
Fernando Poe Jr.
Fernando Poe Jr. (FPJ, Da King; Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, 1939–2004), Filipino action film actor, director, producer; starred in nearly 300 films, founded FPJ Productions, lost the 2004 presidential race, named National Artist for Film 2006.
Fernando Rabat
Fernando Rabat is a Chilean lawyer and Independent politician who has served as Minister of Justice and Human Rights under President José Antonio Kast since March 2026.
Fernando Redondo
Fernando Redondo (Fernando Carlos Redondo Neri), Argentine midfielder born 1969 in Adrogué; starred for Tenerife and Real Madrid (two leagues, two Champions Leagues, 1998 Intercontinental Cup), won the 2003 Champions League with Milan, and earned 29 Argentina caps.
Fernando Rey
Fernando Rey (Fernando Casado D'Arambillet, 1917–1994) was a Spanish actor from A Coruña, star of four Buñuel films including Viridiana and That Obscure Object of Desire, and Alain Charnier in The French Connection.
Fernando Ricksen
Fernando Ricksen (1976-2019), Dutch midfielder for Fortuna Sittard, AZ Alkmaar, Rangers and Zenit St Petersburg; Rangers captain and 2005 joint SPFA Player of the Year who raised MND awareness after his 2013 motor neurone disease diagnosis.
Fernando Rodney
Fernando Rodney (La Flecha), born 1977 in Samaná, Dominican Republic, is a former MLB relief pitcher (2002-2019, 11 teams) with 327 saves, a record 0.60 ERA in 2012, and 48-save seasons in 2012 and 2014.
Fernando Rodriguez, Jr.
Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. (born 1969) is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting in Brownsville since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
Fernando Roig Alfonso
Fernando Roig Alfonso, born 1947 in Valencia, is a Spanish businessman who owns the Pamesa ceramic tile group, presides over Villarreal CF, and holds 9% of the Mercadona supermarket chain.
Fernando Sabino
Fernando Sabino (Fernando Tavares Sabino, 1923–2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Belo Horizonte, best known for the crônica and the novel O Encontro Marcado.
Fernando Samaniego
Fernando Samaniego is a Mexican petroleum engineer and UNAM professor known for mathematical models of flow to hydraulically fractured wells and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Fernando Sanford
Fernando Sanford was an American physicist who headed Stanford's physics department from its 1891 founding until 1919 and is remembered for his early electric photography work.
Fernando Santos (footballer, born 1954)
Fernando Santos, born Fernando Manuel Fernandes da Costa Santos in 1954, is a Portuguese football manager who won Portugal its first major titles: Euro 2016 and the 2019 UEFA Nations League.
Fernando Scheffer
Fernando Scheffer (Fernando Muhlenberg Scheffer, born 1998, Canoas, Brazil) is a Brazilian freestyle swimmer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200 m freestyle (1:44.66) and 2018 short-course 4x200 m relay world champion; retired 2026.