Zapata (surname)
Appearance
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