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Santiago Cabrera

Santiago Cabrera (born 1978, Caracas) is a classically trained Chilean actor, son of a Chilean diplomat. Known for Isaac Mendez in Heroes, Lancelot in Merlin, Aramis in The Musketeers, and Captain Cristóbal Rios in Star Trek: Picard; films include Che: Part One and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava Valls, born 1951, is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, and sculptor known for the Alamillo Bridge in Seville and the Oculus in New York.

Santiago Cañizares

Santiago Cañizares (Santiago Cañizares Ruiz, born 1969), Spanish goalkeeper for Real Madrid and Valencia CF and 46-cap Spain international; won the 1998 European Cup, two LaLiga titles with Valencia, and later became a commentator and rally driver.

Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain: cathedral city holding the reputed tomb of Saint James and endpoint of the Camino de Santiago; UNESCO Old Town (1985), 530,987 pilgrims in 2025, Holy Year when 25 July falls on a Sunday.

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, or Catedral de Santiago de Compostela, is a Catholic cathedral in Galicia, Spain, built over the reputed tomb of Saint James.

Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second-largest city and capital of Santiago de Cuba province, founded 1514/1515 by Diego Velázquez; former colonial capital, site of the 1898 naval battle, the 1953 Moncada attack, and San Pedro de la Roca Castle.

Santiago de Liniers

Santiago de Liniers, Count of Buenos Aires, was a French-born naval officer in Spanish service who led the reconquest of Buenos Aires from the British in 1806.

Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic's second city, founded 1495 in the Cibao region; 561,005 residents (2022), Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration, and a new monorail carrying 20,000 passengers per hour per direction.

Santiago del Estero

Santiago del Estero, capital of its homonymous province in northern Argentina on the Río Dulce; officially founded 25 July 1553 by Francisco de Aguirre after Núñez de Prado's 1550 Ciudad del Barco; oldest Argentine city, 'Madre de Ciudades', 311,487 inhabitants (2022).

Santiago del Estero Province

Santiago del Estero Province, an autonomous province of northern Argentina in the Gran Chaco; capital Santiago del Estero, Argentina's oldest city (founded 1553 by Francisco de Aguirre); autonomous since 1820; about 998,000 inhabitants (2022).

Santiago Fossatti

Santiago Fossatti is an Argentine venture capital investor who joined Kaszek in 2011 as its first professional hire and leads the firm's São Paulo operations.

Santiago Giménez

Santiago Giménez (Santiago Tomás Giménez, born 2001, Buenos Aires) is a Mexican striker from Cruz Azul and Feyenoord (65 goals in 105 games) who signed for AC Milan in February 2025 for over €30 million and joined FC Porto on loan in August 2026.

Santiago Iglesias

Santiago Iglesias was a Spanish-born Puerto Rican labor leader who founded the island's Free Federation of Workers and Socialist Party and served in Congress from 1933 until his death in 1939.

Santiago Lange

Santiago Lange (Santiago Raúl Lange Roberti), Argentine Olympic sailor born 1961 in San Isidro; seven Games 1988–2020, Tornado bronzes 2004/2008, Nacra 17 gold Rio 2016 with Cecilia Carranza after lung cancer surgery, first Argentine sailing gold.

Santiago Mariño

Santiago Mariño (1788–1854) was a Venezuelan general and politician born on Margarita Island who liberated the eastern provinces during the War of Independence, launching his 1813 campaign from Trinidad and later fighting at Carabobo in 1821.

Santiago Menghini

Santiago Menghini, Canadian Montreal-based filmmaker, VFX artist, and Nemesis Film co-founder; directed award-winning shorts Milk (2018), Regret (2020), Rally (2024), and the Netflix horror feature debut No One Gets Out Alive (2021), and is directing Revenge of La Llorona for New Line Cinema.

Santiago Metropolitan

Santiago Metropolitan Region (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), Chile's most populous of 16 regions, capital Santiago; 15,403.2 km², 7,400,741 people (2024 census), six provinces, 52 comunas, created 1980, Área Metropolitana constituted 2024.

Santiago Peña

Santiago Peña, born in 1978 in Asunción, is a Paraguayan economist and politician serving as President of Paraguay since 2023, after serving as finance minister.

Santiago Ponzinibbio

Santiago Ponzinibbio, "Argentine Dagger" (Gente Boa), born 1986 in La Plata, is an Argentine UFC welterweight and the first Argentine in the Octagon; 30-10 record, seven-fight win streak peaked with 2018 KO of Neil Magny.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish histologist and father of modern neuroscience, established the neuron doctrine that neurons are independent cells communicating by contact, and shared the 1906 Nobel Prize with Camillo Golgi.

Santiago Sandoval (footballer)

Santiago Sandoval González, born 2007, is a Mexican footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and right winger for Liga MX club Guadalajara and the Mexico national team.

Santiago Schnell

Santiago Schnell is a Venezuelan mathematical biologist known for the Schnell–Mendoza equation, a 1997 closed-form solution in enzyme kinetics, and Dartmouth's provost since July 2025.

Santiago Solari

Santiago Hernán Solari Poggio (born 1976, Rosario), Argentine midfielder and coach; Real Madrid player 2000-05, 2002 Champions League winner; Real Madrid head coach 2018-19, Club América 2020-22, later Real Madrid director of football.

Santiago Sosa

Santiago Sosa is an Argentine engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nuvemshop, an e-commerce platform known as Tiendanube that was founded in 2011 in Buenos Aires and valued at US$3.1 billion in 2021.

Santiago Suárez

Santiago Suárez is a Colombian technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Addi, a buy now, pay later company in Bogotá that he founded in 2018 after a finance career at J.P. Morgan and Lending Club.

Santiago Vernia

Santiago Vernia is a cell biologist and Group Leader at the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (CSIC), known for research on autophagy in Lafora disease and cardiac glycosides as senolytics.

Santicum

Santicum, ancient settlement at Villach in Carinthia, Austria, in the Roman province of Noricum. Road station on the Aquileia to Virunum route via the Kanal valley; temple of the goddess Vibes at Warmbad; occupied roughly 30 BC to AD 640.

Santigold

Santigold, also known as Santi White and formerly Santogold, is a Philadelphia-based American singer, songwriter, and record producer who blends new wave, reggae, and hip-hop.

Santiniketan

Santiniketan (শান্তিনিকেতন), the Tagore ashram and school in Birbhum, West Bengal, founded 1863/1901, home of Visva-Bharati University, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023 under criteria (iv) and (vi).

Santiniketan school

The Santiniketan school was a group of artists active at Santiniketan in West Bengal from 1921, led by Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Benodebehari Mukherjee, and Ramkinkar Baij.