Tovar

The coat of arms of the Tovar family, as it appears in a 17th century nobiliary record.

Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from), is a Spanish and Portuguese surname adopted by a noble house of gothic ancestry that received the lordship of the Castilian village of Tovar from Fernando III of Castile in the Middle-Ages. The Tovar surname in the Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin.

People

• Alonso Miguel de Tovar, a Spanish baroque painter
• César Tovar, a Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• Fernando Sánchez de Tovar, a medieval Spanish nobleman and admiral
• Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos, a Portuguese nobleman and general
• Gregorio López de Tovar, a Spanish nobleman and scholar of the Renaissance
• Juan de Tovar y Toledo, a Spanish nobleman and military of the Reconquista
• José de Guevara y Tovar, Spanish viceroy of Navarre
• Rigo Tovar, a Mexican singer
• Sancho de Tovar, a Castilian-born Portuguese navigator and explorer
• Sancho de Tovar e Silva, grandson of the former, a Portuguese nobleman and military

Fictional people

• Tovar, a character from The Strangerhood

Places

• Tovar, a Spanish village ruled by the Tovar family in the Middle-Ages, place of origin of the Tovar surname
• Tovar Municipality, Mérida, Venezuela
• Tovar Municipality, Aragua, Venezuela
  • Colonia Tovar in Tovar Municipality, Aragua
• El Tovar Hotel in Arizona, United States