Vilar (surname)

Last updated June 28, 2023

Vilar is a Portuguese, Galician and Catalan surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Alberto Vilar (a.k.a. Albert Vilar; 1940–2021), American investment banker
António Vilar (1912–1995), Portuguese-born Spanish actor
Audric del Vilar (fl.12th-cent.), French Provençal lord and troubadour
Carlos Alcántara Vilar (born 1964), Peruvian stand-up comedian and actor
Carlos Vilar (1930–2021), Argentine Snipe sailor; brother of Jorge Vilar
Eduíno Vilar [see: Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist)] (fl.1970–1974), Portuguese communist publisher and politician
Esther Vilar (born 1935), Argentine author, playwright, and physician
Federico Vilar (born 1977), Argentine and Mexican footballer
Fernando Vilar (born 1954), Portuguese-born Uruguayan journalist and news anchor
Irene Vilar (born c.1969), Puerto Rican American editor, literary agent, author, memoirist, and environmental advocate
Jean Vilar (1912–1971), French actor, theater director, and scenic designer
Joan Vilar i Costa (1889–1962), Spanish Jesuit priest, librarian, and exile
Jorge Vilar (1931–2014), Argentine snipe sailor; brother of sailer Carlos Vilar
José de Nouvilas de Vilar (c.1843–c.1913), Spanish Puerto Rican soldier and politician
José Miguel Vilar-Bou (born 1979), Spanish science-fiction and horror writer, and journalist
Marcelo Vilar (born 1961), Brazilian football manager
Pierre Vilar (1906–2003), French historian and writer
Raf Vilar (a.k.a. Rafael Vilar; born ?), Brazilian-born British singer-songwriter
Ricardo Vilar (born 1985), Brazilian footballer
Roberto Vilar (born 1971), Spanish comedian, television presenter, and actor
Roberto Vilar (footballer) (born 1976), Portuguese footballer
Tesa Vilar (born 1995), Slovenian racing cyclist
Tracy Vilar (born 1968), American actor, casting director, and producer
Vicente Vilar David (1889–1937), Spanish Catholic martyr, venerated Christian, and engineer

This page lists people with the surname Vilar.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.

Related Research Articles

Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name Charles, from the Germanic Carl.

Pérez, or Perez as most commonly written in English, is a Castilian Spanish surname. Perez is also common in people of Sephardic Jewish descent and is the 4th most common surname in Israel, most common surname not of Hebrew origin and most common surname exclusive to a single Jewish ethnic division.

Márquez or Marquez is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "son of Marcos or Marcus". Its Portuguese equivalent is Marques.

Enrique is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin.

Suárez is a common Spanish surname, widely spread throughout Latin America as a consequence of colonization. In origin it is a patronymic meaning "son of Suero" or "son of Soeiro". It is derived from the Latin name Suerius, meaning "swineherd". The surname originates to the province of Asturias in northwest Spain. This surname is most commonly found in Mexico, Spain, Cuba, and Argentina.

Torres is a surname in the Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish languages, meaning "towers".

Fernández is a Spanish patronymic surname meaning "son of Fernando". The Germanic name Ferdinand that it derives from means "brave traveler." The Portuguese version of this surname is Fernandes. The Arabized version is Ibn Faranda and it was used by the Mozarabs and Muwallads in Al-Andalus. Fernández was on the list of Officers and Sailors in the First Voyage of Columbus. The name is popular in Spanish speaking countries and former colonies. The Anglicization of this surname is Fernandez.

Crespo is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian surname and a place name, meaning "curly". A more common Italian form of the surname is Crespi. It may refer to:

Ortiz is a Spanish-language patronymic surname meaning "son of Orti". "Orti" seems to be disputed in meaning, deriving from either Basque, Latin fortis meaning "brave, strong", or Latin fortunius meaning "fortunate". Officials of the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo, Spain, wrote in the 1590s that "this surname Ortiz, although they have few sanbenitos, is in this city a very converso lineage and surname".

Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish [ˈxoɾxe]; Portuguese [ˈʒɔɾʒɨ].

Serrano is a surname common in the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian languages.

Castro is an Iberian surname coming from Latin castrum, a castle or fortress. Its English equivalent is Chester

Martínez is a common surname in the Spanish language. Martínez is the most common surname in the Spanish regions of Navarre, La Rioja, Cuenca and Murcia. There are also variations such as San Martin and Martín.

Barreto is a surname of Portuguese origin, also found in the former Portuguese colonies of Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Timor-Leste and Goa as well as Spain and Latin America. In 1786, the title of Conde de Casa Barreto was created by King Charles III of Spain and bestowed upon Jacinto Tomás Barreto of Havana, Cuba.

Moreno is a Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, and occasionally, an Italian surname. It may refer to:

Cortés, Cortês (Portuguese), Cortès (Catalan) is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin, respectively. The surname derived from the Old French corteis or curteis, meaning 'courteous' or 'polite', and is related to the English Curtis.

Rivero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Blanco is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "white". Notable people with the surname include:

López or Lopez is a surname of Spanish origin. It was originally a patronymic, meaning "Son of Lope", Lope itself being a Spanish given name deriving from Latin lupus, meaning "wolf". Its Portuguese and Galician equivalent is Lopes, its Italian equivalent is Lupo, its French equivalent is Loup, its Romanian equivalent is Lupu or Lupescu and its Catalan and Valencian equivalent is Llopis.

Campos is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin, meaning "Fields" in both languages. Notable people with the surname include:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.