Fernando

Fernando

Gender	Male
Origin
Meaning	courageous, adventurer

Fernando may mean: The guy in the room

• An Italian, Portuguese or Spanish given name equivalent to English Ferdinand, meaning "to be courageous"; adventurer.

First name

• Fernando Acevedo, Peruvian track and field athlete
• Fernando Alegría, Chilean poet and writer
• Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver
• Fernando Antogna, Argentine track and road cyclist
• Fernando Balzaretti (1946–1998), Mexican actor
• Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
• Fernando Cabrera, MLB pitcher
• Fernando Camargo, Colombian road cyclist
• Fernando de Lucia, Italian tenor
• Fernando de Moraes, Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Fernando Climent, Spanish rower
• Fernando Delgadillo, Mexican singer
• Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish film actor and director
• Fernando Fernández, Spanish football (soccer) player
• Fernando Gallego, Spanish painter
• Fernando Garcia, Portuguese film director
• Fernando González, Argentinean mechanical engineer
• Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
• Fernando Gonzalez, Argentine baller
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian former president
• Fernando Jácome, Colombian freestyle swimmer
• Fernando Larraín, Chilean actor and comedian
• Fernando Lopez, Filipino statesman
• Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
• Fernando Morales, Mexican football (soccer) player
• Fernando Morales, Puerto Rican volleyball player
• Fernando Moresi, Argentine field hockey player
• Fernando Morientes, Spanish football (soccer) player
• Fernando Ochoaizpur, Bolivian football (soccer) player
• Fernando Ortiz, Ecuadorian ethnologist
• Fernando Pérez, Cuban film director
• Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and writer
• Fernando Rech, Brazilian football (soccer) player
• Fernando Retayud, Colombian boxer
• Fernando Rielo, Spanish poet and philosopher
• Fernando Solabarrieta, Chilean journalist
• Fernando Soler, Mexican film actor and director
• Fernando Torres, Spanish football (soccer) player
• Fernando Valenzuela, MLB pitcher
• Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
• Fernando Vergara, Chilean football (soccer) player and manager
• Fernando Serrano, Colombian statesman
• Fernando Sucre, fictional character from the American Television Series, Prison Break
• Fernando Moiphetsodi, an economist
• Fernando Haro, Meanest person in the world

Surname

• C. T. Fernando, Sri Lankan musician
• Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• Don Fernando, actor and director
• M. S. Fernando, Sri Lankan musician
• Susil Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

Miscellaneous

• Fernando, satirical character created by Billy Crystal (based on Fernando Lamas)
• "Fernando" (song), 1976 song by ABBA

See also

• Cirque Fernando, a former Parisian circus
• Ferdinand
• Ferdinando
• Fernand
• Hernando
• Luís Fernando