Cervantes (disambiguation)

Miguel de Cervantes was the author of Don Quixote.

Cervantes may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Cervantes (crater), a crater on Mercury
• Mu Arae, a star in the constellation Ara, officially designated Cervantes by the International Astronomical Union in 2015

Places

• Cervantes, Río Negro, a municipality in Río Negro, Argentina
• Cervantes, Western Australia
• Cervantes, Ilocos Sur, a municipality in the Philippines
• Cervantes, Lugo, a municipality in Galicia, Spain

Media

• Cervantes (film), a 1967 film by Vincent Sherman
• Cervantes, a character in "The New Guy", an episode of The Shield
• A pirate based character in the Soul Calibur fighting game franchise

Other uses

• Miguel de Cervantes Prize, a Spanish prize awarded to outstanding writers
• Miguel de Cervantes University, a private university in Santiago, Chile
• Cervantes, an updated version of Cymbeline radar

People with the surname

• Alfonso J. Cervantes (1920–1983), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
• Antonio Cervantes (b. 1945), Colombian boxer
• Elizabeth Cervantes, Mexican actress
• Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, 16th-century man of letters
• Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban composer
• Jorge Cervantes, expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation
• Julio Cervantes, American soccer player; see Oakland Roots SC
• Lorna Dee Cervantes, Chicana poet and activist
• Miguel Cervantes (actor) (b. 1977), American actor, singer and activist
• Vicente Cervantes (1755–1829), Mexican botanist

See also

• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, a digital library hosted by the University of Alicante, Spain
• Festival Internacional Cervantino, a festival in Guanajuato, Mexico