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Javier Bustinduy
Javier Bustinduy (Javier Bustinduy Fernández; Madrid, 1949 – March 2016) was a Spanish civil engineer who created the operating model of Renfe's Cercanías commuter networks and devised the "Solución Bustinduy" interchange used in the Málaga metro.
Javier Cervantes
Javier Loera Cervantes is an American Democratic politician serving in the Illinois Senate from the 1st district, appointed in 2022 after Tony Munoz resigned and re-elected in 2024.
Javier Cortés
Javier Cortés is a Spanish breast medical oncologist who led the phase 3 trials CLEOPATRA, KEYNOTE-355, DESTINY-Breast03, and ASCENT, and directs the International Breast Cancer Center in Barcelona.
Javier de Echevarria Carreres
Javier de Echevarria Carreres is a Spanish genomics entrepreneur who co-founded Veritas Intercontinental in Madrid in 2018 and has led it as chief executive since then.
Javier de Viana
Javier de Viana (1868–1926) was a Uruguayan writer, journalist, and politician of the Generación del Novecientos, known for naturalist stories of the gaucho in rural Uruguay.
Javier F. Cáceres
Javier F. Cáceres is an Argentine molecular biologist, Professor of RNA and Gene Expression at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on alternative splicing and microRNA biogenesis.
Javier Fernández (figure skater)
Javier Fernández López, born in Madrid in 1991, is a Spanish retired figure skater, the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist and two-time World champion, and a pioneer for Spanish skating.
Javier Garcia-Frias
Javier Garcia-Frias is an information theorist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, a 2001 NSF CAREER and PECASE award recipient.
Javier Hernández
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernández Balcázar (born 1988, Guadalajara) is a Mexican striker, Mexico's all-time top scorer with 52 goals in 109 caps, a scorer at the 2010, 2014, and 2018 World Cups, and formerly of Manchester United, Real Madrid, Leverkusen, West Ham, LA Galaxy, and Chivas.
Javier Luengo Egido
Javier Luengo Egido is a Spanish businessman, grandson of Grupo SAMCA's founder Ángel Luengo, who has presided the family industrial group from Ariño, Aragón since a 2010 succession pact.
Javier Manquillo
Javier Manquillo Gaitán (born 1994, Madrid) is a Spanish retired right-back: Atlético Madrid academy product and 2013-14 LaLiga winner, loans to Liverpool, Marseille and Sunderland, 110 Newcastle United appearances, then Celta Vigo until 2025.
Javier Martínez (New Mexico politician)
Javier Martínez is an American Democratic politician from Albuquerque who has represented District 11 in the New Mexico House since 2015 and serves as its 31st Speaker.
Javier Mascherano
Javier Mascherano (El Jefecito), Argentine midfielder/centre-back born 1984; River Plate, Corinthians, West Ham, Liverpool, Barcelona (334 games, 18 titles), 147 Argentina caps; later Argentina U20 coach and Inter Miami head coach, winning the 2025 MLS Cup before resigning in April 2026.
Javier Milei
Javier Gerardo Milei, Argentine libertarian economist and president since 10 December 2023; founder of La Libertad Avanza; won the 2023 runoff with 56% against Sergio Massa; applied 'chainsaw' austerity, achieving Argentina's first budget surplus in 16 years.
Javier Moreno Sánchez
Javier Moreno Sánchez is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician who has served in the European Parliament since 2004 and chairs its delegation for relations with Canada.
Javier Muñoz (actor)
Javier Muñoz, American Broadway actor, replaced Lin-Manuel Miranda as Usnavi in In the Heights (2009) and as Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton (2016–2018); also Shadowhunters, HIV activism, and 2026's Galileo.
Javier Pastore
Javier Matías Pastore is an Argentine retired attacking midfielder, born in 1989 in Córdoba, who moved from Palermo to Paris Saint-Germain for a then French record €42 million in 2011.
Javier Peña
Javier Peña, retired DEA Special Agent, worked in Bogota from 1988 against the Medellin cartel and Pablo Escobar; Narcos consultant with Steve Murphy, later Texas SAC, memoir Manhunters.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020), Peruvian diplomat and fifth UN Secretary-General (1982–1991), the first and only Latin American in the post; brokered the Iran-Iraq cease-fire, Afghan withdrawal, and El Salvador peace accord.
Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Javier Pérez-Ramírez, born 1974 in Benidorm, Spain, is a Spanish chemist and Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich, known for hierarchical zeolites and CO2-to-methanol catalysts.
Javier Poza
Javier Poza is a Mexican radio and television host whose entertainment newscast Javier Poza en Fórmula ran for 14 years on Grupo Radio Fórmula, ending in 2024.
Javier Read de Alaniz
Javier Read de Alaniz is an American organic chemist and professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts, visible-light photochromes his group first reported in 2014.
Javier Sanoja
Javier Ernesto Sanoja is a Venezuelan utility player for the Miami Marlins who debuted in September 2024 and won the 2025 National League Gold Glove at utility.
Javier Santaolalla
Javier Santaolalla, born in Burgos in 1982, is a Spanish physicist who worked at CERN on the CMS experiment and became a leading Spanish-language science communicator.
Javier Saviola
Javier Saviola (El Pibito, El Conejo), Argentine forward born 1981 in Buenos Aires; River Plate and Barcelona star of the 2001 World Youth Championship, later Real Madrid, Benfica, Málaga, Olympiacos, Verona; retired 2015.
Javier Solís
Javier Solís (Gabriel Siria Levario, 1931-1966), "El Rey del Bolero Ranchero", Mexican singer who fused Cuban bolero with mariachi ranchera; recorded 379 songs, member of the Tres Gallos with Infante and Negrete, died at 34 after gallbladder surgery.
Javier Sologuren
Javier Sologuren Moreno (1921–2004) was a Peruvian poet, essayist, translator, and artisan publisher, a central figure of twentieth-century Peruvian poetry and of the poetic group of 1945.
Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (born 1967), Cuban high jumper, world record holder at 2.45 m since 1993, 1992 Olympic champion, 1993 and 1997 world champion; banned after a 1999 cocaine test.
Javier Valdes Aleman
Javier Valdés-Aleman is a Drosophila neuroscientist and connectomics researcher, a postdoctoral associate at UCLA who worked on the 2023 mapping of an insect brain's complete connectome.
Javier Valdez
Javier Valdez is an American Democratic politician representing Washington State Senate district 46 since 2023, previously serving in the State House from 2017 to 2023.