Zapata (surname)

Zapata is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Antonio Zapata y Cisneros (1550–1635), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
• Argiro Zapata (born 1971), Colombian road racing cyclist
• Bernabé Zapata Miralles (born 1997), Spanish tennis player
• Carmen Zapata (1927–2014), American actress
• Cristián Zapata (born 1986), Colombian footballer
• Duván Zapata (born 1991), Colombian footballer
• Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), Mexican revolutionary
• Franky Zapata (born 1978), French personal watercraft inventor
• Hilario Zapata (born 1958), Panamanian boxer
• Javier de Jesús Zapata (born 1969), Colombian road racing cyclist
• Javier Farinós, full name Francisco Javier Farinós Zapata (born 1978), Spanish footballer
• José Antonio Zapata (painter) (1762–1837), Spanish painter
• José Antonio Zapata Cabral (born 1969), Mexican journalist and filmmaker
• Karen Zapata (born 1982), Peruvian world chess champion
• Marcos Zapata (c. 1710-1773), Peruvian painter
• Mario Zapata Vinces (1920–unknown), Peruvian chess player
• Mesías Zapata (born 1981), Ecuadorian race walker
• Mia Zapata (1965–1993), American musician
• Orlando Zapata (1967–2010), Cuban human rights activist
• Pedro León Zapata (1929–2015), Venezuelan cartoonist
• Róbinson Zapata (born 1978), Colombian footballer
• Rodolfo Zapata (born 1966), Argentine footballer and football manager
• Rodolfo Zapata (singer) (1932–2019), Argentine singer-songwriter and actor
• Víctor Zapata (born 1979), Argentine footballer
• Juan Carlos Zapata (born 1981), American Actor

Fictional characters:

• Marcos Zapata, the alter-ego of the superhero Relámpago