Ricardo
Appearance
Pronunciation | Portuguese: [ʁiˈkaɾðu] Spanish: [riˈkaɾðo] |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Portuguese, Spanish |
Meaning | "Powerful/Great Leader" |
Other names | |
Related names | Riccardo, Richard, Rick, Chico |
Ricardo is the Portuguese and Spanish cognate of the name Richard. It may be a given name, or a surname, and means "Powerful/Great Leader".
People
- Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portuguese comedian
- Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
- Ricardo Bralo, Argentine long-distance runner
- Ricardo Bueno Fernández, Spanish politician
- Ricardo Busquets, Puerto Rican swimmer
- Ricardo Cadena, Mexican football (soccer) player
- Ricardo Cardeno, Colombian triathlete
- Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese football (soccer) defender
- Ricardo Cortez, American actor
- Ricardo Darín, Argentine actor
- Ricardo da Silva, Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer
- Ricardo de Rat, popular rat on Instagram
- Ricardo Faty, Senegalese footballer
- Ricardo Fischer, Brazilian basketball player
- Ricardo Fortaleza, Filipino-Australian boxer
- Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican football (soccer) player
- Ricardo A. "Rick" Galindo, American politician
- Ricardo Gomes, Brazilian football (soccer) defender
- Ricardo González (golfer), Argentine golf player
- Ricardo Gónzalez Reinoso, Chilean football (soccer) player
- Ricardo Gutierrez, American actor
- Ricardo Hausmann, Venezuelan politician and professor at Harvard
- Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, Brazilian football (soccer) midfielder
- Ricardo James, Panamaian footballer
- Ricardo Lagos, Chilean socialist politician and former president
- Ricardo Larrivée, French-Canadian TV and radio food presenter and writer
- Ricardo López Felipe, Spanish football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
- Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), Mexican actor
- Ricardo Medina, Jr., American actor
- Ricardo Nascimento, Portuguese football (soccer) midfielder
- Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea, former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
- Ricardo Matosinhos, Portuguese hornplayer and pedagogue
- Richard Møller Nielsen, nicknamed Ricardo, Danish football manager whose team won the Euro 1992
- Ricardo Palma, Peruvian author
- Ricardo Pereira, Portuguese actor, television presenter and fashion model.
- Ricardo Pereira, Portuguese football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Ricardo Pinto (footballer), Brazilian football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese football (soccer) winger
- Ricardo Ávila, Panamanian footballer
- Ricardo Rodriguez (disambiguation), several people of that name
- Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian racing driver
- Ricardo Salampessy, Indonesian footballer
- Ricardo Sanabria, Paraguayan football (soccer) defender
- Ricardo Sánchez, Spanish water polo player
- Ricardo Sanchez Moreno, Mexican football (soccer) player
- Ricardo Santos (disambiguation)
- Ricardo Senn, Argentine cyclist
- Ricardo Teixeira, Angolan racing driver
- Ricardo Villagran, Argentine illustrator
- Ricardo Villalobos, Chilean electronic musician
- Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian Formula One driver
Last name
- David Ricardo, British economist
- Harry Ricardo, British motor engineer who established Ricardo Consulting Engineers
- James Ricardo, American film director
- John Lewis Ricardo, British businessman and politician
Middle name
- Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentine football (soccer) player
- Kieran James Ricardo Gibbs, English footballer
Fictional characters
- Ricardo, the main antagonist from The Adventures of Nero comic book series.
- Ricardo Alpert, character from Lost TV series
- Ricardo Diaz, character from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City video game
- Lucy Ricardo, character on I Love Lucy TV series
- Ricky Ricardo, character on I Love Lucy TV series
- Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, character from Miami Vice
- Ricardo von Britannia "Duke of Britannia", Character on Code Geass anime television series
- Ricardo de Rat
Other
- Ricardo plc, UK based engineering company
- Ricardo, California
- Ricardo, the smallest size of conga (drum)