List of people with given name Diego

For the history and derivation of the given name, see Diego.

Notable people with the given name Diego include:

People

• Diego (footballer), a variety of association football players
• Diego de Oviedo, 10th-century Asturian prelate
• Diego de León, 12th-century Leonese prelate
• Diego de Ourense, 12th-century Galician prelate
• Diego de Asturias, 16th-century Spanish Royal heir who died at age 7
• Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor and screenwriter
• Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador
• Diego Aventín, Argentine race car driver
• Diego Bareiro, Paraguayan basketball player
• Diego Buñuel, French journalist
• Diego Camacho (tennis), Bolivian tennis player
• Diego Castillo (disambiguation), several people
• Diego Colón, 4th viceroy of New Spain
• Diego Corrales, American boxer
• Diego Cusi Huamán, 17th-century Peruvian painter
• Diego D'Ambrosio, Italian-American businessman
• Diego Deza, Spanish theologian and inquisitor
• Diego Domínguez (disambiguation), several people
• Diego Durán, Spanish Dominican friar
• Diego El Mulato, a name given to several pirates who were active in the Caribbean in the 1600s
• Diego Fabbrini, Italian footballer
• Diego Fagot (born 1997), American football player
• Diego Fuser, Italian footballer
• Diego Gelmírez, first archbishop of Compostela
• Diego González, Mexican singer, musician and actor, often known simply as Diego (also known as Diego Boneta in the U.S.)
• Diego García de Moguer, Spanish-Portuguese explorer
• Diego Hartfield, Argentine tennis player
• Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• Diego José de Cádiz (1743–1801), Spanish Capuchin friar
• Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán
• Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor
• Diego Lerman, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
• Diego Luna, Mexican actor
• Diego Maradona, Argentine football player
• Diego Masson, French music conductor and composer
• Diego de Mendoza, Mexican city king in the 16th century
• Diego Meneses (born 1998), Colombian para-athlete
• Diego Morales (disambiguation), several people
• Diego Morejón, Ecuadorian politician
• Diego Nargiso, Italian tennis player
• Diego Pérez, Uruguayan tennis player
• Diego Portales, Chilean politician
• Diego Rivera, Mexican painter
• Diego Rodríguez (son of El Cid), Spanish soldier
• Diego Sanchez, American mixed martial artist
• Diego Schwartzman, Argentine tennis player
• Diego Seguí, Cuban baseball pitcher
• Diego Silang, Philippine revolutionary leader
• Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor
• Diego Torres, Argentine singer and composer
• Diego Vargas (disambiguation), several people
• Diego de Vargas, Spanish governor of New Spain
• Diego Vicentini, Venezuelan film maker
• Diego Villanueva, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• Diego Velázquez, 17th-century Spanish painter
• Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador

Fictional characters

• Diego, a saber-tooth tiger voiced by Denis Leary of the film series Ice Age
• Diego Alcazar, in the TV series General Hospital
• Diego Armando, the defence attorney from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations, who is mostly seen under the name Godot (who becomes a prosecutor)
• Diego Brando, from the seventh part of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run
• Don Diego de la Vega, the real identity of Zorro
• Diego Márquez, cousin of Dora the Explorer with his own spinoff TV show Go, Diego, Go!.
• Diego Martinez, side character in the videogame Dead Rising 3.
• Diego Torres, in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
• Diego Hargreeves, main character in the comic book/Netflix series The Umbrella Academy
• Diego (Dead or Alive), a character from Dead or Alive video game series