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Pedro de Mendoza
Pedro de Mendoza was a Spanish explorer who served Emperor Charles V as first adelantado of the Río de la Plata and founded Buenos Aires in 1536.
Pedro de Oña
Pedro de Oña (1570–c. 1643) was a Chilean-born colonial poet, regarded as the first poet born on Chilean soil, best known for the epic poem Arauco domado, printed in Lima in 1596.
Pedro de Osma
Pedro de Osma is the name shared by two medieval Spanish churchmen: Pedro Martínez de Osma, a Salamanca theology professor condemned in 1479, and Saint Pedro de Osma, bishop of Osma.
Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo
Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo was a Peruvian colonial polymath born in Lima, known as a poet, historian, mathematician, and cosmographer major of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
Pedro de Ribadeneira
Pedro de Ribadeneira, also spelled Ribadeneyra (1526–1611), was a Spanish Jesuit hagiographer and historian who wrote the first biography of Ignatius of Loyola and the widely read Flos Sanctorum.
Pedro de Valdivia
Pedro de Valdivia was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Chile, leading its conquest from 1540 under Francisco Pizarro and founding Santiago, La Serena, and Concepción before his death in 1553.
Pedro de Villagómez
Pedro de Villagómez y Vivanco was a Spanish churchman who served as Bishop of Arequipa and then Archbishop of Lima from 1641 to 1671, directing Peru's second great extirpation-of-idolatry campaign.
Pedro de Villagra
Pedro de Villagra (1513–1577) was a Spanish soldier who took part in the conquest of Chile and served as its royal governor from 1563 to 1565.
Pedro Domingo Murillo
Pedro Domingo Murillo was a patriot of La Paz in Upper Peru, present-day Bolivia, who led the 1809 uprising against Spanish rule and was executed in 1810.
Pedro Felipe (footballer, born 2004)
Pedro Felipe de Jesus Gomes, Brazilian centre-back born 2004 in Itajuípe, Bahia. Vitória and Palmeiras youth, Juventus Next Gen, Sassuolo loan, Racing Santander from August 2026, contract to 2030.
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, also known as Pedro Fernández de Quirós, was a Portuguese navigator in Spanish service who searched for Terra Australis and reached Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu in 1606.
Pedro Fernandes Sardinha
Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, also written Pero Fernandes Sardinha, was a Portuguese bishop who became the first bishop of Salvador da Bahia, serving from 1551 to 1556.
Pedro Fernández de Quirós
Pedro Fernández de Quirós was a Portuguese navigator in Spanish service, chief pilot of Mendaña's 1595 Pacific voyage, who led his own expedition seeking Terra Australis.
Pedro Franceschi
Pedro Franceschi is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the San Francisco fintech company Brex in 2017 and has been its sole CEO since June 2024.
Pedro Gallese
Pedro Gallese (El Pulpo), born 1990, Peruvian goalkeeper for Deportivo Cali and captain of Peru; first Peruvian keeper with 100 caps, 129 caps, 41 clean sheets, 2018 World Cup starter, Orlando City 2020–2025.
Pedro Garcia
Pedro Garcia (Pedro Francisco Garcia Aguado, Toto), Spanish water polo player born 1968 in Madrid; Olympic gold 1996, silver 1992, four Games 1988-2000, world champion 1998, later TV presenter of Hermano Mayor.
Pedro Gonçalves
Pedro Gonçalves (Pote), Portuguese attacking midfielder born 1998 in Vidago; Sporting CP number 8 since 2020, three league titles, 2020/21 Primeira Liga top scorer, Portugal Euro 2020 squad member.
Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884–1946) was a Dominican philologist, literary critic, and essayist who spent most of his life in Mexico and Argentina and wrote Seis ensayos en busca de nuestra expresión (1928).
Pedro I of Brazil
Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro de Alcântara; Pedro IV of Portugal), 1798-1834, first emperor of Brazil from independence on 7 September 1822 to abdication 7 April 1831 in favor of the five-year-old Pedro II; granted the 1824 Constitution with the Moderating Power and lost the Cisplatine War.
Pedro Ibarra
Pedro Ibarra, Argentine field hockey defender, captain of Los Leones, born 1985 in San Fernando. Olympic gold at Rio 2016 (scored equalizer in 4-2 final win over Belgium), 303 caps, Tokyo 2020 closing flagbearer.
Pedro II of Brazil
Pedro II (Dom Pedro II, 1825–1891), second and last emperor of Brazil, reigned 1840–1889 under the 1824 Constitution's moderating power, patronized science, oversaw abolition via the 1888 Lei Áurea, and was deposed by Deodoro da Fonseca's 1889 military coup.
Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante (Pedro Infante Cruz) was a Mexican actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, appearing in about 60 films and recording some 310 songs.
Pedro IV of Kongo
Pedro IV of Kongo, also known as Pedro IV Nusamu a Mvemba, was king of Kongo who reunified the fractured kingdom in the early 1700s after four decades of civil war.
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro (1818–1890) was a Nicaraguan soldier, merchant, and Conservative politician who was president of Nicaragua from 1875 to 1879, having fought William Walker in 1857.
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was a Nicaraguan lawyer, journalist, and politician who owned La Prensa and led opposition to the Somoza dictatorship until his 1978 assassination.
Pedro Jose Alvarez
Pedro Jose Alvarez, also known as Pedro J.J. Alvarez, is a Nicaraguan-born environmental engineer at Rice University elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Pedro Knight
Pedro Knight (Gerónimo Pedro Knight Caraballo, 1921-2007), Cuban trumpeter of La Sonora Matancera and husband, manager, and musical director of Celia Cruz from 1962 until her 2003 death.
Pedro L. Alonso
Pedro L. Alonso is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist who led the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials and directed the WHO Global Malaria Programme from 2014 to 2022.
Pedro Lamy
Pedro Lamy (José Pedro Lamy Viçoso, born 1972) is a Portuguese racing driver, Portugal's second F1 driver (32 starts, 1993–1996, Lotus and Minardi), later a sports car champion with Viper, Peugeot, and Aston Martin.
Pedro León Azofeifa
Pedro León Azofeifa is a Costa Rican molecular geneticist, a Catedrático at the Universidad de Costa Rica who mapped and cloned the gene behind the Monge family's hereditary deafness.