Maldonado (surname)

Maldonado is a Spanish surname. It may refer to:

• Abel Maldonado (born 1967), American politician, 47th Lieutenant Governor of California
• Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Spanish explorer of the 16th century
• Ángel Maldonado (born 1973), Mexican football (soccer) goalkeeper
• Candy Maldonado (Candido Maldonado Guadarrama) (born 1960), Puerto Rican baseball player
• Carlos Maldonado (born 1963), Venezuelan football (soccer) player
• Claudio Maldonado (born 1980), Argentinean composer-performer
• Claudio Maldonado (born 1980), Chilean football (soccer) player
• Estuardo Maldonado (born 1930), Ecuadorian sculptor and painter
• Fabio Maldonado (born 1980), Brazilian boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
• Francisco Maldonado (1480–1521), leader of the rebel Comuneros in the Revolt of the Comuneros, who was captured and beheaded at the Battle of Villalar, Spain
• Francisco José Maldonado (born 1981), Spanish football (soccer) player
• Francisco Maldonado da Silva (died 1639), Chilean physician and religious scholar, executed in the Inquisition
• Giancarlo Maldonado (born 1982), Venezuelan football (soccer) player
• Gonzalo Maldonado, several people
• Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968), Mexican / Italian composer
• Jesús E. Maldonado, American geneticist
• Juan Maldonado
  • Juan Maldonado (humanist) (1485-1554), Spanish humanist and writer of a.o. Somnium
  • Juan de Maldonado y Ordóñez de Villaquirán (1525-1572), Spanish conquistador in Venezuela and Colombia, founder of San Cristóbal, Venezuela
  • Juan de Maldonado (16th century), governor of Cartagena (1554-1555)
  • Juan (de) Maldonado (1533-1583), Spanish jesuit
  • Juan Villanueva Maldonado (16th century), Spanish conquistador and founder of Macas, Ecuador
  • Juan Álvarez Maldonado (16th century), Spanish conquistador of Peru, who wrote about Paititi
  • Juan Pacheco Maldonado (16th century), Spanish explorer of Morong, Rizal and Maynila, Philippines
  • Juan Maldonado de Villasante (17th century), governor of Costa Rica
  • Juan Manuel Maldonado (19th century), Mexican colonel involved in the foundation of Piedras Negras, Coahuila
  • Juan Maldonado Waswechia Beltran (1857-1901), Mexican indigenous leader of the Yaqui resistance
  • Felix Juan ("Felo") Maldonado (1938-2010), Puertorican baseball manager
  • Juan L. Maldonado (b. 1948), administrator of Laredo Community College, Texas
  • Juan Mayr Maldonado (b. 1952), photographer and ambassador of Colombia to Germany
  • Juan Maldonado Jaimez (b. 1982), Brazilian football player
  • Juan Carlos Maldonado (b. 1986), Argentinian football player
  • Juan Gabriel Maldonado (b. 1990), Paraguayan football player
• Kirstin Maldonado (contemporary), a vocalist of the American a cappella group Pentatonix
• María José Maldonado (born 1985), Paraguayan beauty queen and singer
• Maria Maldonado (Miss Kentucky), American beauty queen
• Marisol Maldonado (born 1970[?]), American fashion model, wife of musician Rob Thomas
• Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768), indigenous Zapotec painter in New Spain (now Mexico)
• Norman Maldonado (contemporary), Puerto Rican hematologist, former president of the University of Puerto Rico
• Pastor Maldonado (born 1985), Venezuelan racing driver
• Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704–1748), Ecuadorian scientist
• Tomás Maldonado, Argentine painter, designer, and thinker, Scientific Design movement theorist
• Víctor Maldonado (born 1939), Venezuelan hurdler