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José A. Muguerza
José A. Muguerza (1858–1939) was a Monterrey merchant, banker, and industrialist who co-founded the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc brewery in 1890 and founded the hospital now called Christus Muguerza.
José Á. Obeso
José A. Obeso is a Spanish neurologist at CEU San Pablo University Madrid known for continuous dopaminergic stimulation in Parkinson's disease and a 2020 focused ultrasound subthalamotomy trial.
Jose A. Pagan
Jose A. Pagan, also known as José A. Pagán, is an American health economist who chairs public health policy at NYU and the board of NYC Health + Hospitals.
José Abad Santos
José Abad Santos (1886–1942), Filipino jurist and martyr, sixth Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and wartime acting President of the Commonwealth; executed by the Japanese at Malabang, Lanao in 1942 for refusing to collaborate; portrait on the 1,000-peso note.
José Adolfo Macías Villamar
José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias 'Fito' (born 1979), Ecuadorian leader of Los Choneros prison gang; escaped prison twice (2013, 2024), recaptured in Manta in June 2025 and extradited to the US on drug and weapons charges.
José Agustín
José Agustín, full name José Agustín Ramírez Gómez, was a Mexican novelist and counterculture chronicler whose debut novel La tumba (1964) helped found the literary movement La Onda.
José Agustín Arrieta
José Agustín Arrieta (1803–1874) was a Mexican painter who spent his career in Puebla, known for costumbrista scenes of everyday life and dining-room still lifes.
José Aldo
José Aldo (born 1986, Manaus, Brazil), 'King of Rio,' retired Brazilian MMA fighter, Nova União; WEC and two-time UFC featherweight champion (2,037 days), 32-10 record, UFC Hall of Famer, retired after UFC 315 in 2025.
José Alfredo Jiménez
José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval, El Rey, El Hijo del Pueblo (1926–1973), Mexican singer-composer from Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, and the leading composer of canción ranchera; author of "El Rey", "Ella", "Si nos dejan"; no musical training, whistled melodies to Mariachi Vargas arranger Rubén Fuentes.
Jose Alonso
José M. Alonso is a plant developmental geneticist at North Carolina State University who built a genome-wide Arabidopsis mutant collection and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Jose Alvarado (basketball)
Jose Alvarado (born 1998), nicknamed Grand Theft Alvarado, is an American NBA guard from Brooklyn, undrafted in 2021 from Georgia Tech, known for corner-sneak steals, a 38-point bench game with New Orleans, and the Knicks' 2026 NBA championship.
Jose Alvarez (Florida politician)
Jose Alvarez is an American Democratic politician representing Florida House District 46, elected in 2024, who previously served as Mayor of Kissimmee and as a regional administrator for HUD.
José Andrés
José Andrés (José Ramón Andrés Puerta), Spanish-American chef born 1969 in Mieres, Asturias; elBulli-trained, popularized tapas in America via Jaleo, runs José Andrés Group (~40 restaurants), and founded World Central Kitchen, serving hundreds of millions of meals.
José Ángel Valente
José Ángel Valente (1929–2000) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and translator of the Generation of the 50 who evolved from social poetry toward an introspective writing of silence and mysticism.
José Antonio Aponte
José Antonio Aponte (José Antonio Aponte y Ulabarra) was a free Black Cuban carpenter, sculptor, and militia veteran who led the 1812 Aponte Rebellion against slavery.
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (1737–1799) was a Novohispano priest, journalist, cartographer, and naturalist, the first editor of scientific periodicals in colonial Mexico and an Enlightenment figure.
José Antonio de Mendoza
José Antonio de Mendoza, third Marqués de Villagarcía, was a Spanish nobleman and colonial administrator who served as the 29th viceroy of Peru from 1736 to 1745 under Philip V.
José Antonio Echeverría
José Antonio Echeverría (1932 to 1957) was a Cuban architecture student who led the university student federation against Fulgencio Batista and founded the Revolutionary Directorate.
José Antonio Enríquez
José Antonio Enríquez, born 1963 in Santiago de Compostela, is a Spanish molecular biologist who leads the GENOXPHOS laboratory at the CNIC in Madrid, studying mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and was elected to EMBO in 2021.
José Antonio Galán
José Antonio Galán (c. 1749–1782) was a mestizo commander from Charalá who led the guerrilla phase of the Comunero revolt of 1781 in New Granada.
José Antonio Kast
José Antonio Kast is a Chilean politician and lawyer who has served as President of Chile since 2026, after founding the Republican Party in 2019.
José Antonio Kast Adriasola
José Antonio Kast Adriasola ("Toño"), born 1993 in Santiago, is a Chilean Republican Party lawyer and deputy for District 10 (2026–2030), second of the nine children of President José Antonio Kast Rist and First Lady María Pía Adriasola.
José Antonio Manso de Velasco
José Antonio Manso de Velasco, Count of Superunda (1688–1767), was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Chile and Viceroy of Peru.
José Antonio Morante (footballer, born 2007)
José Antonio Morante Antúnez, Spanish right winger born 2007 in La Puebla del Río, plays for Real Betis and Betis Deportivo; son of bullfighter Morante de la Puebla, 2026 U19 European champion and Golden Boot winner, renewed to 2030.
José Antonio Páez
José Antonio Páez was a Venezuelan caudillo and independence commander who led the llanero cavalry, won the battle of Carabobo in 1821, and became Venezuela's first president.
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936), eldest son of dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, founded Spain's fascist Falange Española de las JONS in 1933, was executed in Alicante in November 1936, and became Francoism's mythologised martyr "El Ausente".
José Antonio Ramos Sucre
José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890, Cumaná – 1930, Geneva) was a Venezuelan prose poem writer, largely ignored in life, now seen as the country's finest twentieth-century poet.
José Antonio Reyes
José Antonio Reyes (1983–2019), Spanish winger from Utrera; Sevilla's youngest-ever La Liga debutant at 16, Arsenal 'Invincible' and first Spaniard to win the Premier League, record five-time Europa League winner; died in a 2019 car crash.
José Antonio Saco
José Antonio Saco (1797–1879) was a Cuban writer, historian, and statesman, an early critic of the slave trade and opponent of annexing Cuba to the United States.
José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva (1865–1896) was a Colombian poet and prose writer, a pioneer of modernismo whose musical, pessimistic Nocturnos influenced Rubén Darío and Spanish American literature.