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Juan de Garay

Juan de Garay (1528–1583) was a Basque explorer who founded Santa Fe in 1573 and carried out the second foundation of Buenos Aires in 1580.

Juan de Grijalva

Juan de Grijalva was a Spanish conquistador from Cuéllar who commanded the 1518 expedition to Mexico, delivering the first European report of the Aztec empire; he died in Honduras in 1527.

Juan de la Cierva

Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu (1895–1936) was a Spanish civil engineer and pilot who invented the autogiro, first flown near Madrid in 1923; his hinged rotor made helicopters possible.

Sep 19, 2026

Juan de la Cruz Band

Juan de la Cruz Band is a Filipino rock band formed in Manila around 1970, regarded as the foundation of Pinoy rock and a root of OPM.

Juan de Matienzo

Juan de Matienzo (1520–1579) was a Spanish jurist and oidor of the Real Audiencia of Charcas in Upper Peru, serving under Philip II from 1561 to 1579.

Juan de Mendoza y Luna, Marquis of Montesclaros

Juan de Mendoza y Luna, Marquis of Montesclaros (1571–1628), was a Spanish nobleman who served as viceroy of New Spain from 1603 to 1607 and of Peru from 1607 to 1615.

Juan de Oñate (c. 1550–1626), Zacatecas-born Spanish conquistador, contracted in 1595 to settle New Mexico; founded San Juan de los Caballeros in 1598, punished Acoma by foot amputation, resigned 1607, banished 1609; his statues remain flashpoints.

Juan de Ovando

Juan de Ovando was a Spanish ecclesiastic, jurist, and royal minister under Philip II who served as president of the Council of the Indies from 1571 to 1575.

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600–1659) was a Spanish churchman who served as Bishop of Puebla, visitor-general, and interim viceroy of New Spain in 1642.

Juan de Saavedra

Juan de Saavedra was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the conquest of Chile with Diego de Almagro and named the bay Valparaíso in 1536.

Juan de Solórzano y Pereira

Juan de Solórzano y Pereira (1575–1655) was a Spanish jurist, judge in Lima and councillor of the Indies, whose works on colonial law remained authoritative into the nineteenth century.

Juan de Torquemada

Juan de Torquemada was a Franciscan missionary and historian of New Spain, author of the Monarquía indiana (1615), a monumental study of Mexico's ancient history.

Juan de Zumárraga

Juan de Zumárraga (c. 1468–1548) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who became the first bishop and archbishop of Mexico and served as Protector of the Indians from 1528.

Juan del Encina

Juan del Encina, born Juan de Fermoselle, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and composer of the late 1400s and early 1500s, called the father of Castilian drama.

Juan Díaz de Solís

Juan Díaz de Solís was a navigator and chief pilot of Castile who reached the Río de la Plata in 1516 and was killed there by indigenous people.

Juan Diego

Juan Diego, also known as Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, was a Nahua layman of Cuautitlán who reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Tepeyac Hill in 1531 and was canonized in 2002.

Juan Diego Botto

Juan Diego Botto, Spanish-Argentine actor, playwright, and director born in Buenos Aires in 1975; breakthrough in Historias del Kronen, Premio Nacional de Teatro 2021, directing debut En los márgenes.

Juan Dixon

Juan Dixon (born 1978) is a Baltimore-born former basketball player and coach; Maryland's all-time leading scorer (2,269 points), 2002 NCAA champion and Final Four MOP, 2002 Wizards first-round pick, later Coppin State head coach.

Sep 19, 2026

Juan Domingo Beckmann Legorreta

Juan Domingo Beckmann Legorreta is a Mexican businessman who has served as chief executive of Becle, the parent company of José Cuervo, since 2002 and chairs its board.

Juan Egaña

Juan Egaña (1768 to 1836) was a Peruvian-born Chilean jurist and political writer who drafted the 1823 Chilean Constitution, never applied and abolished in 1824.

Oct 21, 2026

Juan Esteban Curuchet

Juan Esteban Curuchet (born 1965), Argentine track cyclist, six-time Olympian, Madison gold with Walter Pérez at Beijing 2008, Argentina's first Olympic cycling medal, and 2004 Madison world champion.

Juan Estrada

Juan Estrada is an Argentine-born particle and astroparticle physicist at Fermilab who invented CCD-based dark matter detectors and won a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.

Oct 10, 2026

Juan Fernández

Juan Fernández was a Spanish Jesuit lay brother who joined Francis Xavier's first mission to Japan in 1549 and is credited with compiling the first Japanese grammar and lexicon.

Juan Fernández Islands

Juan Fernández Islands: Chilean volcanic archipelago 650 km offshore, three islands (Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk, Santa Clara), discovered 1574, famed for endemism, Selkirk castaway story, national park and biosphere reserve.

Juan Fernando Quintero

Juan Fernando Quintero Paniagua (Juanfer Quintero), Colombian attacking midfielder born 1993 in Medellín; Copa Libertadores 2018 winner with River Plate, scoring in the Madrid final, Copa Sudamericana 2024 with Racing Club, four World Cups with Colombia.