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Pedro Alonso
Pedro Alonso O'choro, Spanish actor born 1971 in Vigo, Galicia; plays Berlin in Money Heist (La casa de papel) and its Netflix spin-off Berlin; also Grand Hotel, Awareness, El Juicio, and the documentary En la nave del encanto.
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467–c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman and naval commander who commanded the second expedition to India and made the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil in 1500.
Pedro Arispe
Pedro Arispe, nicknamed El Indio, was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a central defender for Rampla Juniors and won Olympic gold medals in 1924 and 1928.
Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz (Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, 1912–1963), Mexican Golden Age film star, Emilio Fernández's favorite actor (María Candelaria, Enamorada), two-time Ariel winner, Kerim Bey in From Russia with Love; distinct from his son Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Pedro Avilés Pérez
Pedro Avilés Pérez, El León de la Sierra, was Mexico's first wholesale drug smuggler, active in Sinaloa in the 1960s-1970s, pioneer of air smuggling and mentor of Félix Gallardo; killed 15 September 1978.
Pedro Beltrão
Pedro Beltrão, born 1979, is a Swiss-based computational systems biologist who studies genetic variation and post-translational modification, and is an Associate Professor at ETH Zurich since 2022.
Pedro Berruguete
Pedro Berruguete (c. 1450–1503) was a Spanish painter who worked for Duke Federico da Montefeltro at Urbino and became the leading Castilian painter under the Catholic Monarchs.
Pedro Bohórquez
Pedro Bohórquez (born Pedro Chamijo, styled Inca Hualpa) was a Spanish adventurer who claimed to be the Inca and led a rebellion in the Calchaquí Valleys of colonial Argentina, and was hanged in Lima in 1667.
Pedro Bohórquez uprising
The Pedro Bohórquez uprising was the last of the Calchaquí wars, a 1656 to 1660s indigenous rising in Argentina's Calchaquí Valleys led by a Spaniard posing as an Inca heir.
Pedro Caixinha
Pedro Caixinha (Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha, born 1970, Beja) is a Portuguese football manager who won three Mexican titles with Santos Laguna, managed Rangers, Cruz Azul, Talleres, Bragantino, Santos, and FC Juárez.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), Spanish Baroque playwright and priest of the Golden Age, successor to Lope de Vega; wrote over 120 comedias including La vida es sueño and 80 autos sacramentales.
Pedro Calungsod
Pedro Calungsod, also known as Pedro Kalungsud, was a young Visayan catechist martyred in Guam in 1672 while assisting Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, canonized in 2012.
Pedro Camejo
Pedro Camejo, known as Negro Primero, was a Venezuelan cavalry officer who rose from slavery to fight for independence and died at the Battle of Carabobo in 1821.
Pedro Capó
Pedro Capó (Pedro Francisco Rodríguez Sosa) is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and actor, grandson of Bobby Capó, whose 2018 hit "Calma" won a Latin Grammy.
Pedro Carvalho (cell biologist)
Pedro Carvalho is a Portuguese cell biologist who has been EP Abraham Professor at the University of Oxford since 2016, known for work on ER-associated protein degradation.
Pedro Casas
Pedro Casas is an American politician and clinical, forensic psychologist who is the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 38th Congressional District in the November 2026 election.
Pedro Castillo
Pedro Castillo Terrones, Peruvian rural teacher and SUTEP union leader, president 2021-2022 for Perú Libre; removed 7 December 2022 after attempting to dissolve Congress, later convicted of rebellion and sentenced to over 11 years.
Pedro Cea
Pedro Cea, known as El Vasco, was a Uruguayan footballer who won Olympic gold in 1924 and 1928 and the first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
Pedro Cieza de León
Pedro Cieza de León was a Spanish soldier and chronicler of the Indies, author of the Crónica del Perú and a leading authority on Inca history.
Pedro Cuatrecasas
Pedro Cuatrecasas (1936–2025) was a Spanish-born American biochemist and pharmacologist who co-invented affinity chromatography, won the 1987 Wolf Prize, and helped develop more than 40 medicines.
Pedro Cutillas
Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas, born in 1970, is a Spanish and British proteomics scientist who co-founded the UK phosphoproteomic diagnostics company Kinomica and teaches at Barts Cancer Institute in London.
Pedro de Almeida Portugal, 2nd Count of Assumar
Pedro de Almeida Portugal, 2nd Count of Assumar, was a Portuguese nobleman and soldier who governed São Paulo e Minas do Ouro and crushed the Vila Rica revolt of 1720.
Pedro de Alvarado
Pedro de Alvarado, called Tonatiuh by Indigenous peoples for his blond coloring, was a Spanish conquistador who conquered Guatemala in 1523–24 and governed it under Charles V.
Pedro de Calatayud
Pedro de Calatayud (1689–1773) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and prolific religious writer who preached interior missions across Spain and Portugal from 1718 until the Jesuits' expulsion in 1767.
Pedro de Candía
Pedro de Candía was a Greek-born conquistador and artilleryman who served Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of the Inca Empire, one of the Thirteen of Fame of 1527.
Pedro de Castro y Figueroa
Pedro de Castro y Figueroa (1678–1741) was a Spanish soldier and nobleman who served as the 39th viceroy of New Spain, from 1740 until his death.
Pedro de Cevallos
Pedro de Cevallos (Pedro Antonio de Cevallos) was a Spanish general who served as the first viceroy of the Río de la Plata from 1776 to 1778.
Pedro de Córdoba
Pedro de Córdoba (1482–1521) was a Spanish Dominican friar who led the first Dominican mission to the Americas and wrote the first New World catechism.
Pedro de Godoy Bueno
Pedro de Godoy Bueno, also known as Pedro Bueno, is a Brazilian healthcare executive who led diagnostics company Dasa as CEO from 2015, starting at age 24.
Pedro de la Gasca
Pedro de la Gasca was a Spanish cleric and royal official who ended Gonzalo Pizarro's rebellion in Peru and governed Lima from 1546 to 1550.