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Juan Rodríguez (footballer, born 2005)
Juan Martín Rodríguez Camejo (born 2005, San Ramón, Uruguay) is a left-footed defender for Cagliari in Serie A and Uruguay; Peñarol youth product, ex-Boston River loanee, €4M 2025 transfer, senior debut 2026 vs India.
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (died 1543), Iberian conquistador and explorer, led the first European expedition along the US West Coast, entering San Diego Bay September 28, 1542; birthplace disputed between Spain and Portugal.
Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca
Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca (1451–1524) was a Castilian churchman and bishop who directed Spain's colonial enterprise in the Americas from Spain, never crossing the Atlantic.
Juan Rodríguez Juárez
Juan Rodríguez Juárez (1675–1728) was a Novohispano painter of Mexico City known for portraits, religious works, and early casta paintings; with his brother Nicolás he led the era's stylistic renewal.
Juan Roig
Juan Roig, born in Valencia in 1949, is a Spanish businessman who has led Mercadona, Spain's largest supermarket chain, since 1981 and owns about 78% with his wife.
Juan Román Riquelme
Juan Román Riquelme, also called Román Riquelme, is an Argentine former footballer and creative playmaker best known for his two spells at Boca Juniors, where he won three Copa Libertadores.
Juan Ruiz
Juan Ruiz, known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a 14th-century Castilian cleric and poet, presumed author of the medieval masterpiece Libro de buen amor.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was a New Spain-born playwright of the Spanish Golden Age, best known for the comedy La verdad sospechosa, adapted by Corneille as Le Menteur.
Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) was a Mexican writer from Jalisco whose reputation rests on two books: the story collection El Llano en llamas and the novel Pedro Páramo.
Juan S. Bonifacino
Juan S. Bonifacino is an Argentine-born cell biologist who heads intracellular protein trafficking research at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and is known for discovering the AP-3, AP-4, and GGA adaptors.
Juan Saladino
Juan Manuel Saladino (born 1987, Quilmes, Argentina) is an Argentine field hockey midfielder, number 19 for Los Leones, who won gold with Argentina in men's hockey at the 2016 Rio Olympics; not the Panamanian long jumper Irving Saladino.
Juan Sánchez Cotán
Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627) was a Spanish Golden Age painter who created the characteristic Spanish still life, the bodegón, before becoming a Carthusian lay brother.
Juan Santamaría International Airport
Juan Santamaría International Airport, also known as SJO Airport, is Costa Rica's principal international airport, serving San José from Alajuela province since it opened in 1958.
Juan Santos Atahualpa
Juan Santos Atahualpa was an indigenous and mestizo leader who claimed descent from the last Inca emperor Atahualpa and led the longest indigenous rebellion of colonial Peru, beginning in 1742.
Juan Sebastián de Elcano
The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is the Spanish Navy's four-masted training ship, in service since 1928 and named for the navigator who first circumnavigated the globe.
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Juan Sebastián Elcano, also spelled Elkano or del Cano, was a Basque navigator who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, bringing the Victoria back to Spain in September 1522.
Juan Sebastián Verón
Juan Sebastián Verón, La Brujita, Argentine midfielder born 1975 in La Plata; starred for Lazio, Parma, Manchester United, and Inter, won the 2009 Copa Libertadores with Estudiantes, and is its president.
Juan Severino Mallari
Juan Severino Mallari (1785-1840), Filipino priest of Magalang, Pampanga; arrested 1825-26 over five documented murders, hanged 1840; popularly called the Philippines' first serial killer via Sinibaldo de Mas's 57-victim claim.
Juan Soto
Juan Soto, Dominican MLB outfielder (Nationals, Padres, Yankees, Mets), 2019 World Series champion, 2020 NL batting title, record $765M/15-year Mets contract, elite plate discipline.
Juan Sumuroy
Juan Sumuroy, a Palapag chieftain in Samar, began the 1649 revolt against Spanish forced labor by killing Father Miguel Ponce Barberan; he died in July 1650.
Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón
Juan Torres de Vera y Aragón was a Spanish jurist and the fourth and last adelantado of the Río de la Plata, who founded Corrientes, Argentina, in 1588.
Juan Toscano-Anderson
Juan Toscano-Anderson, Oakland-born Mexican-American forward, 2022 NBA champion with Golden State Warriors, fifth Mexican in NBA, LNBP MVP 2018, later Lakers, Jazz, Capitanes, Trieste.
Juan Trippe
Juan Trippe, also known as Juan Terry Trippe, was an American aviation entrepreneur who founded Pan American Airways in 1927 and led it for 41 years, pioneering transoceanic flight.
Juan Utthayi (สมเด็จพระสังฆราช (จวน อุฎฺฐายี))
Juan Utthayi (จวน อุฎฐายี) was the 16th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, a Thammayut monk and Pali scholar who headed the Thai Sangha from 1965 to 1971.
Juan Valcárcel
Juan Valcárcel is a Spanish molecular biologist known for work on the splicing factors Sex-lethal and U2AF and for the 2024 functional map of the human spliceosome.
Juan Valdez
Juan Valdez: fictional Colombian coffee farmer with mule Conchita, created in 1959 by the FNC via DDB New York; also the retail coffee brand run by Procafecol since 2002, with stores in 40 countries.
Juan Vargas
Juan Vargas, born in 1961, is an American Democratic politician who has represented California's 52nd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2023, after representing the 51st district from 2013 to 2023.
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general who seized power on 3 October 1968, ousting Fernando Belaúnde Terry, and led the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces until 1975, enacting Peru's radical agrarian reform, nationalizations, and nationalist cultural program.
Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez was a Venezuelan general and landowner who ruled Venezuela as dictator from 1908 to 1935, transforming it into the world's second largest oil producer.
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro, full name Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz, is a Mexican writer and journalist born in Mexico City in 1956, known for novels, essays, and football crónicas.