Garza (surname)
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[]
- Blas María de la Garza Falcón (1712-1767) – Governor of Nuevo León
- Lázaro Garza Ayala – Governor of Nuevo León (1869)
Other people[]
- Aarón Sáenz Garza – a politician
- Eugenio Garza Lagüera (1923-2008) – multi-millionaire former owner of the world's second largest Coca-Cola bottler (FEMSA)
- Eugenio Garza Sada (1892-1973) – a multi-millionaire and philanthropist, father of Garza Lagüera and founder of the ITESM
- Mauricio Fernández Garza – a politician, former mayor of San Pedro Garza García, currently a PAN candidate for that same office
- Manuel Uribe, One of the heaviest people
- A. J. DeLaGarza - a Guamanian international footballer
- A family of professional wrestlers:
- Ángel Humberto Garza Solano (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
From Coahuila[]
- Aarón Sáenz Garza – a politician
- José María Garza Gallán – a politician, former governor of Coahuila
- Mariana Garza – an actress, sister of Jaime
- Roque González Garza - former Mexican president
- Venustiano Carranza de la Garza – President of Mexico
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[]
- Alicia Garza, American civil rights activist known for co-founding Black Lives Matter
- Ale Garza, American comic artist
- Alex Garza (born 1994), American politician
- Daniel Garza, Mexican tennis player
- Jaime Garza (actor) (1954–2021), Mexican actor
- Jaime Garza (boxer) (born 1959), Mexican American boxer
- Luka Garza (born 1998), American basketball player
- Matt Garza (born 1983), American baseball player
- Pablo Garza (fighter), American lightweight mixed martial arts fighter
See also[]
- Garza (disambiguation)
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