Garza is a Galician surname and the Spanish word for the heron. Garza has also become a part of many placenames.
The Garza Family originated from Galicia in The Kingdom of Spain in Europe, and first arrived in New Spain around 1514 (Particularly in modern day Mexico, then colonized Texas) with Juan de la garza, and Don Blas Maria Garza, both Spaniards. The Garza Family was among some of the First European Families to establish cities and settlements and live in the New World. More popular, the Garza family is common in Spain.
People bearing the name include:
- Aarón Sáenz Garza (1891–1983), Mexican politician
- Ale Garza (born 1977), American comic artist
- Alex Garza (born 1994), American politician
- Alicia Garza (born 1981), American civil rights activist known for co-founding Black Lives Matter
- Cayetano Garza (born 1972), American comic designer and illustrator
- Daniel Garza (born 1985), Mexican tennis player
- Daniel "Dani Doom" Garza, a former member of the band Design the Skyline
- Ed Garza (born 1969), former mayor of San Antonio, Texas
- Emilio M. Garza (born 1947), American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Eugenio Garza Lagüera (1923–2008), Mexican businessman and philanthropist
- Eugenio Garza Sada (1892–1973), Mexican industrialist and philanthropist, father of Garza Lagüera
- Jaime Garza (actor) (1954–2021), Mexican actor
- Jaime Garza (boxer) (born 1959), Mexican American boxer
- John Garza (born 1955), American politician
- José Garza, American lawyer and district attorney
- José María Garza Galán (1846–1902), Mexican politician and governor of Coahuila
- Juan Raul Garza (1956–2001), American murderer
- Justin Garza (born 1994), American baseball player
- Lázaro Garza Ayala (1830–1913), Governor of Nuevo León (1869)
- Luka Garza (born 1998), American basketball player
- Mariana Garza (born 1970), Mexican singer and actress
- Matt Garza (born 1983), American baseball player
- Mauricio Fernández Garza (born 1950), Mexican politician, businessman and collector
- Manuel Uribe Garza (1965–2014), one of the heaviest people who ever lived
- Pablo González Garza (1879–1950), a general during the Mexican Revolution, considered to be the main organizer of the assassination of Emiliano Zapata
- Pablo Garza (fighter) (born 1983), American lightweight mixed martial arts fighter
- Ralph Garza Jr. (born 1994), American baseball player
- Reynaldo G. Garza (1915–2004), the first Mexican American federal judge in the United States
- Roque González Garza (1885–1962), Mexican president
- Tony Garza (born 1959), Mexican-American politician, current ambassador of the United States to Mexico and husband of María Asunción Aramburuzabala, the richest woman in Mexico
- A family of professional wrestlers:
- Angel Garza (born 1992), known in the US as Angel Garza (without the acute accent)
- Héctor Garza (1969–2013), ring name of Héctor Solano Segura; uncle of Angel Garza and Humberto Carrillo
- Humberto Garza Carrillo (born 1995), known as Humberto Carrillo
- The three members of American band Los Lonely Boys:
- Henry Garza (born 1978), guitarist and vocalist
- Jojo Garza (born 1980), bass player and vocalist
- Ringo Garza (born 1981), drummer and vocalist
