Gomez
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Gomez or Gómez is a common Spanish surname. The Portuguese and Old Galician is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis.
It is derived from the given name Gomes which is a loanword of the Visigothic word guma "man". It is itself related to the Common Germanic word guma (Old English guma "man", Middle English gome[1]) / gomo (High Old German gomo "man", Middle High German gome) related to Latin homo "man".[2]
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[edit] People
- Arthur Gómez (born 1984), Gambian football (soccer) player
- Bolívar Gómez (born 1977), Ecuadorian football (soccer) player
- Camilo Gómez (born 1984), Colombian road cyclist
- Carlos Gómez (born 1985), Dominican baseball player
- Emmanuel Gómez (born 1990), Gambian football (soccer) player
- Francis Gómez (born 1968), Venezuelan judoka
- Francisco Javier Gómez Noya, a Spanish triathlete
- Ignacio Gómez (born c. 1962), a Columbian journalist
- Jaime Luis Gomez (born 1975), American rapper & actor
- Jill Gomez (born 1942), British soprano
- Jorge Gómez (born 1968), Chilean football (soccer) player
- Joseph Gómez (born 1987), Gambian football (soccer) player
- Joshua Gomez (born 1975), American actor
- Juan Vicente Gómez (1857–1935), ruler of Venezuela in 1908–35
- Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), American baseball player
- María Cristina Gómez (1938–1989), Salvadoran murder victim
- Mariano Gómez (1799–1872), Filipino martyr and priest and member of Gomburza
- Mario Gómez (born 1985), German footballer
- Máximo Gómez (1836–1905), Dominican military who helped to lead Cuba independence from Spain
- Oscar Gómez (born 1975), Argentine light-middleweight boxer
- Rick Gomez (born 1972), American actor
- Richard Gomez (born 1966), Filipino actor
- Ron Gomez (born 1934), Louisiana journalist and former state representative
- Scott Gomez (born 1979), American hockey player
- Selena Gomez (born 1992), American actress and singer
- Tamara Gómez Garrido (born 1991), a Spanish triathlete
- Ulysses Gomez (born 1983), Mexican-American mixed martial arts fighter
- Dijo Gomez (born 1988), Indian- a Jehovah's witness and director at Uni source logistics solutions
- George Gomez (born 1955), Cuban American industrial designer
[edit] Places
- Gómez, Buenos Aires
- Estadio Manuel Gómez Arellano, a multi-use stadium in Ancash, Peru
- Máximo Gómez, Cuba
- Sala y Gómez, a small uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean
- Gómez Palacio, Durango, a city in northern Mexico
[edit] Media
- Gomez Addams, the cigar-smoking, eccentric millionaire patriarch of the Addams family
- "Gomez", a Hard SF short story by C.M. Kornbluth
[edit] Music
- Gomez (band), an English indie rock band
[edit] References
- ^ Fernand Mossé, Manuel de l’anglais du moyen-âge, Tomes I, Aubier Montaigne, 1945. p. 475.
- ^ Duden, Das Herkunftswörterbuch : Etymologie der deutschen Sprache, Band 7, Duden Verlag 1989. p. 96. Bräutigam.
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