Garza (surname)

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Garza is a Galician and Basque surname and the Spanish word for the heron. Garza has also become a part of many placenames.

Garza was the surname of many Sephardi Jews that settled in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and the name is still found in many famous people from that Mexican state. Other Garzas settled in the neighboring states of Coahuila in Mexico and Texas in the United States.

From Nuevo León[]

Governors of Nuevo León[]

Other people[]

From Coahuila[]

From Texas[]

  • Jose Antonio de la Garza - (1776-1851?), mayor of San Antonio, Texas (1813 and 1832), the first landowner in San Antonio and the first man to create a coin in this state
  • John Garza (born 1955), member of the Texas House of Representatives, R-San Antonio
  • Ed Garza – former mayor of San Antonio, Texas
  • Cayetano Garza – an American comic designer and illustrator
  • Emilio M. Garza – an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Henry Garza – Guitarist and vocalist in Los Lonely Boys
  • Jojo Garza – Bass player and vocalist in Los Lonely Boys
  • José Garza – Lawyer in Austin Texas
  • Ringo Garza – Drummer and vocalist in Los Lonely Boys
  • Daniel "Dani Doom" Garza - vocalist of the band Design the Skyline
  • Juan Garza – an American murderer, executed under the death penalty in 2001
  • Tony Garza – a Mexican American politician, current ambassador of the United States to Mexico and husband of María Asunción Aramburuzabala, the richest woman in Mexico
  • Reynaldo G. Garza – the first Mexican American federal judge in the United States

Others[]

See also[]

  • Garza (disambiguation)
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