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José Cecilio del Valle

José Cecilio del Valle (1777 or 1780 – 1834) was a Honduran lawyer and independence politician who drafted the Act of Independence of Central America in 1821.

José Celestino Mutis

José Celestino Mutis (José Celestino Bruno Mutis y Bosio) was a Spanish-born physician and botanist who led the Royal Botanical Expedition of New Granada from 1783 until his death in 1808.

José Celso Barbosa

José Celso Barbosa (1857–1921) was a Puerto Rican physician and political leader who founded the Republican Party of Puerto Rico and the island's statehood movement.

Jose Charles Martin, son of lottery magnate Santiago Martin, is an Indian businessman and founder-president of the Latchiya Jananayaka Katchi, elected in May 2026 from Kamaraj Nagar in Puducherry by 10,205 votes with declared assets of about Rs 609 crore.

José Chávez Morado

José Chávez Morado (1909–2002) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, and muralist of the Escuela Mexicana de Pintura, known for murals at Ciudad Universitaria and Guanajuato.

José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) was a Mexican painter, one of Los Tres Grandes muralists with Rivera and Siqueiros, known for expressionist murals on human suffering.

José Condessa

José Condessa (José Jorge Esteves Condessa) is a Portuguese actor born 1997 in Lisbon, known as Eduardo in Netflix's Turn of the Tide, the young Silva in Almodóvar's Strange Way of Life, and a 2023 Golden Globe winner for O Crime do Padre Amaro.

Oct 21, 2026

Jose Contreras

Jose Contreras (Jose Ariel Contreras Camejo), Cuban pitcher born 1971 in Las Martinas; Olympic baseball gold 1996 and silver 2000 for Cuba, defected 2002, pitched for Yankees and 2005 World Series champion White Sox.

Sep 19, 2026

José Coppel Luken

José Coppel Luken is a Mexican billionaire who co-owns Grupo Coppel with four brothers, serving as a patrimonial director on the board of the Culiacán-based retail and banking group.

Oct 20, 2026

Jose Corona

Jose Corona (José de Jesús Corona Rodríguez, Chuy Corona), Mexican goalkeeper born 1981 in Guadalajara; won Olympic football gold at London 2012, played for Atlas, Tecos, Cruz Azul, and Tijuana, 54 Mexico caps, retired 2025.

José Coronel Urtecho

José Coronel Urtecho (1906–1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, and diplomat born in Granada who founded the Vanguardia movement and introduced North American poetry into Central American literature.

José Correia da Serra

Abbé José Correia da Serra (Serpa, Portugal, 1750/1751–1823), Portuguese botanist, geologist, and diplomat; co-founded the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, refined Jussieu's natural method, and served as Portuguese minister to the USA and adviser to Jefferson.

José Craveirinha

José Craveirinha, full name José João Craveirinha (1922 to 2003), was a Mozambican poet regarded as his country's greatest; imprisoned from 1964 to 1969 for anti-colonial activity, he won the Camões Prize in 1991.

Jose Cuervo

Jose Cuervo is the world's best-selling tequila brand, produced in Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, since a 1758 land grant and the 1795 royal tequila license. Owned by the Beckmann family's Becle, it spans Especial, Tradicional, 1800, Gran Centenario, and Reserva de la Familia.

José de Acosta

José de Acosta (1540–1600) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and missionary in Peru who drafted the Third Lima Council and wrote the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590).

José de Alencar

José de Alencar (José Martiniano de Alencar, 1829–1877) was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and Conservative politician who served as Minister of Justice from 1868 to 1870.

Oct 21, 2026

Jose de Amezola

José de Amézola y Aspizúa (1874–1922), Spanish businessman and Basque pelota player; with Francisco Villota won gold in two-man cesta punta at Paris 1900 without playing, Spain's first Olympic medal.

José de Anchieta

José de Anchieta was a Spanish-born Jesuit missionary, grammarian, and poet who spent 44 years in Brazil, helped found São Paulo in 1554, and was canonized in 2014.

José de Canterac

José de Canterac was a French-born Spanish general, chief of staff and commander in chief of the royalist army in Peru during the Spanish American wars of independence.

José de Diego

José de Diego y Martínez (1866–1918) was a Puerto Rican poet, lawyer, and orator known as the Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and Speaker of the legislature from 1907.

José de Escandón

José de Escandón was a Spanish military officer and colonizer who founded and governed Nuevo Santander, the province that became the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

José de Espronceda

José de Espronceda (José de Espronceda y Delgado, 1808–1842) was a Spanish Romantic poet, playwright, and liberal politician, often called the Spanish Byron, best known for El estudiante de Salamanca and Canción del pirata.

José de Gálvez

José de Gálvez, the Marqués de Sonora, was a Spanish lawyer and colonial administrator who served as Minister of the Indies from 1776 until his death in 1787.

José de Garro

José de Garro (Marcos José de Garro Senei de Artola, 1623–1702) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator who governed Tucumán, the Río de la Plata, and Chile.

José de Iturrigaray

José de Iturrigaray (1742–1815) was a Spanish lieutenant-general and viceroy of New Spain from 1803 to 1808, deposed by force of arms in Mexico City during the 1808 succession crisis.

José de la Cuadra

José de la Cuadra was an Ecuadorian short-story writer, novelist, and essayist of the Grupo de Guayaquil, known for Los Sangurimas and his writing on the coastal montuvio peasant.

José de la Mar

José de la Mar was a military and political leader who served twice as president of Peru, in 1822–1823 and 1827–1829, before his overthrow by Agustín Gamarra.

José de la Serna

José de la Serna (1770–1832) was a Spanish lieutenant general and the last viceroy of Peru, from 1821 until his defeat and capture at Ayacucho in 1824.

José de Ribas

José de Ribas, in Russian Иосиф Михайлович Дерибас, was a Neapolitan-born admiral who served Catherine II, took Hadjibey in 1789, and founded Odessa in 1794.