Mendoza

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Mendoza is a common Spanish surname and place name. The Portuguese version is Mendonça. This name may refer to:

[edit] Places

• Mendoza, Argentina.
• Mendoza Department, surrounding the Argentine Mendoza
• Mendoza Province, of which the above is the capital
• Mendoza wine, the Argentine wine region located in the Mendoza province
• Mendoza River, in Argentina
• Mendoza, Spain
• Mendoza, Texas, United States
• Mendocino, California, a town north of San Francisco
• Mendocino County, California, a county on the state's north coast
• Rodríguez de Mendoza Province, in Peru's Amazonas region
• Mendoza del Valle del Momboy, in Venezuela's Trujillo state
• Mendoza College of Business, at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States

[edit] Other uses

• Codex Mendoza, a pre-Columbian document of Mexico
• Monkey stick, called mendoza or mendozer (a musical instrument)
• Mendoza (spider) is a genus of jumping spiders
• Mendoza Line, a baseball term
• Mendoza wine, from the Argentine province of the same name
• Mendoza is McBain's arch nemesis in the Simpsons. He has been an opponent to McBain on many occasions.

[edit] People

• Alvin Mendoza, Mexican football (soccer) player
• Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer
• Ana Mendoza, Mexican breaststroke swimmer
• Ana de Mendoza e de la Cerda, Spanish aristocrat
• Antonio de Mendoza, first Viceroy of New Spain
• Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish statesman and ambassador
• Carlos Mendoza, baseball player
• Carlos Antonio Mendoza, acting President of Panama
• César Mendoza, Chilean soldier
• Christine Mendoza, Filipino-American model
• Cristóbal Mendoza, First President of Venezuela
• Daniel Mendoza, English boxer
• Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
• Eduardo Mendoza, Spanish novelist
• Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan businessman
• Gabriel Mendoza, Chilean football (soccer) player
• Hazel Ann Mendoza, Filipina actress
• Ines Mendoza, wife of Puerto Rico Governor Luis Muñoz Marín
• Juan González de Mendoza, Spanish minister and historian
• Jesús Mendoza, Mexican football player
• Lorenzo Mendoza, Venezuelan businessman
• Mandoza a South African musician famous for the Kwaito song 50/50
• Marco Mendoza, bass player
• Mario Mendoza, baseball player
• Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman
• Pedro de Mendoza, conquistador
• Ramiro Mendoza, baseball player
• Rigoberto Mendoza, Cuban marathon runner
• Rodrigo Mendoza, fictional character of the movie The Mission
• Roger Lee Mendoza, American economist and scholar
• Saúl Mendoza, disabled athlete
• Thristan Mendoza, Filipino musician
• Tom Mendoza, Vice Chairman of NetApp, Inc. and namesake of Notre Dame's business school (see above)
• Victoria Muñoz Mendoza, Puerto Rico politician

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