Tovar (surname)

Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from), is a surname that was adopted in the Middle-Ages by a Castilian noble house that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III. It has since spread to several Spanish and a few Portuguese branches.

The Tovar surname in the Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded there by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin.

• Alonso Miguel de Tovar, a Spanish baroque painter
• Antonio Tovar, a Spanish philologist
• César Tovar, a Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• Christian Tovar, a Mexican footballer
• Ezequiel Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player
• Fernando Sánchez de Tovar, a medieval Spanish nobleman and admiral
• Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos, a Portuguese nobleman and general
• Jorge Tovar, a Mexican sculptor
• José de Guevara y Tovar, Spanish viceroy of Navarre
• Gustavo Tovar Arroyo, a Venezuelan poet
• Juan Sancho de Tovar, 1st Marquis of Berlanga
• Juan de Tovar y Toledo, a Spanish nobleman and military of the Reconquista
• Luis Felipe Tovar, a Mexican actor
• Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress
• Manuel Felipe Tovar, President of Venezuela from 1859 to 1861
• Martín Tovar Ponte, a Venezuelan politician
• Martín Tovar y Tovar, a Venezuelan painter
• Miguel Ángel Tovar, a Venezuelan actor and fashion model
• Rigo Tovar, a Mexican singer
• Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, a Colombian paramilitar
• Vicente López Tovar, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War
• Virginia Tovar Martín, Spanish art historian, author, and professor; foremost scholar in the study of architecture and urban planning of Madrid during the Baroque period.
• Virgie Tovar
• Sancho de Tovar, a Castillian-born, Portuguese navigator and explorer
• Sancho de Tovar e Silva, grandson of the former, a Portuguese nobleman and military

• All pages with titles beginning with Tovar
• All pages with titles containing Tovar
• Tovar (disambiguation)
• Tova
• Tovar (disambiguation)

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Tovar.
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