Vargas (surname)

Vargas is a Spanish and Portuguese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Acting

• Alfred Vargas, Filipino actor
• Elizabeth Vargas, ABC News anchor
• Jacob Vargas, Mexican-American actor
• Sibila Vargas, CNN reporter
• Taliana Vargas, Colombian. First Runner up in Miss Universe 2008.
• Valentina Vargas, Chilean actress
• Vic Vargas, Filipino, film actor

Finance

• María Margarita de Vargas y Santaella, daughter and heir of the above
• Victor Vargas, lawyer and owner of the Banco Occidental de Descuento

Music and arts

• Alberto Vargas, Peruvian painter of pin-up girls and erotica
• Álvaro Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, son of Mario Vargas Llosa
• Andrés de Vargas, Spanish painter
• Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican singer
• Fred Vargas, French writer
• Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and cartoonist
• Jose Antonio Vargas, Filipino-American journalist
• Jose Maria Vargas, Ecuadorian friar and writer
• Luis de Vargas (1502–1568), Spanish painter of the late-Renaissance period
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician and Nobel Prize laureate
• Mary Belle de Vargas, American artist
• Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer
• Vania Vargas (born 1978), Guatemalan poet, narrator, editor, and journalist
• Wilfrido Vargas, Dominican musician
• Antonio Vargas Cortés, Spanish male flamenco singer

Politics

• Alfred Vargas, Filipino politician and congressman of 5th district, Quezon City
• Antonio Vargas, Ecuadorian politician
• Cortés Vargas (1883–1954), Colombian general
• Diego de Vargas, Spanish viceroy of New Spain
• Dior Vargas American Latina feminist mental health activist
• Francisco de Vargas, Paraguayan lawyer and minister
• Getúlio Vargas (1882–1954), Brazilian president
• José Augusto Vargas, Peruvian congressman
• José María Vargas, Venezuelan president
• Juan Vargas, United States politician
• Julián García Vargas, Spanish politician
• Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Dominican politician
• Virgilio Barco Vargas, Colombian president

Sciences

• Virginia Vargas (born 1945), Peruvian sociologist and women's movement leader

Sports

• Akeem Vargas, German basketball player
• Annerys Vargas, Dominican Republic volleyball player
• Claudio David Vargas Villalba, Paraguayan footballer
• Claudio Vargas, Vaqueros Laguna pitcher
• Debbie Green-Vargas, women's volleyball setter
• Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
• Eleucadia Vargas, Dominican Republic judoka
• Fabián Andrés Vargas, Colombian footballer
• Fernando Vargas, boxer
• Freddy Vargas, Venezuelan road cyclist
• Gonzalo Vargas, Uruguayan footballer
• Gregorio Vargas, Mexican boxer
• Jason Vargas, New York Mets pitcher
• Jefferson Vargas, Colombian road cyclist
• Jorge Francisco Vargas, Chilean footballer
• Miguel Rodrigo Vargas, Portuguese footballer
• Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
• Óscar Vargas (cyclist), Colombian road cyclist
• Nélson Vargas, Colombian road cyclist
• Rodrigo Vargas, Chilean-Australian footballer
• Ronald Vargas, Venezuelan footballer
• Tetelo Vargas, Dominican Republic baseball player

Crime

• Leonidas Vargas (1949–2009), Colombian drug lord
• Nabor Vargas García (born 1976), Mexican drug lord

See also

• Vargas (disambiguation)