Rodrigo (name)
Rodrigo is the Spanish and Portuguese variant of the male given name Roderich .
The patronymic is derived from this first name , from which the widespread surnames Rodríguez (Spanish) and Rodrigues (Portuguese) arose.
A very similar Italian variant of the first name is Rodrico .
A medieval short form of the name is Ruy , in the Portuguese-speaking area also in the spelling Rui . In Galician there is the variant Roi .
The best- known bearer of the name is the Visigoth king Roderich ( Rodrigo ), the legendary "last Gothic king" before the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (7th / 8th century). The Spanish national hero Rodrigo Díaz , known as El Cid (11th century), is also well known.
Name bearer
stage name
- Rodrigo (soccer player, 1973) ( Rodrigo José Queiroz das Chagas ; * 1973), Brazilian soccer player
- Rodrigo (soccer player, 1991) ( Rodrigo Moreno Machado ; * 1991), Spanish soccer player
- Rodrigo (soccer player, 1996) ( Rodrigo Hernández Cascante , also Rodri ; * 1996), Spanish soccer player
- Rodrigo (soccer player, 1998) ( Rodrigo Luiz Angelotti ; * 1998), Brazilian soccer player
- Bruno Rodrigo ( Bruno Rodrigo Fenelon Palomo , * 1985), Brazilian soccer player
- Juan Rodrigo ( José Dante P. Pascual , * 1962), Filipino actor
First name
- Rodrigo Alvim (* 1983), Brazilian soccer player
- Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460–1527), Spanish conquistador
- Rodrigo de Paul (* 1994), Argentine football player
- Rodrigo Borgia (1431–1503), known as Pope Alexander VI.
- Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno (1973-2000), Argentine singer
- Rodrigo Díaz (1043-1099), known as El Cid , Spanish national hero
- Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (* 1959), known as Timoleón Jiménez , Colombian guerrilla fighter
- Rodrigo Duterte (* 1945), Filipino politician
- Rodrigo González (* 1968), Chilean musician and bassist for the German rock group Die Ärzte
- Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz (* 1972), Mexican politician
- Rodrigo Pessoa (* 1972), Brazilian show jumper
- Rodrigo Prieto (* 1965), Mexican-American cameraman
- Rodrigo Rato (* 1949), Spanish politician
- Rodrigo Ríos Lozano (* 1990), Spanish soccer player, see Rodri (soccer player, 1990)
- Rodrigo Rivera (* 1963), Colombian politician
- Rodrigo Santoro (* 1975), Brazilian actor
- Rodrigo Valdez (1946-2017), Colombian boxing world champion
- Rodrigo Zalazar (* 1999), Uruguayan-Spanish soccer player
Surname
- David Rodrigo (* 1968), Spanish football coach
- Francisco Soc Rodrigo (1914–1998), Filipino lawyer, journalist and politician
- Gabriel Rodrigo (* 1996), Argentine motorcycle racer
- Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999), Spanish composer
- Olivia Rodrigo (* 2003), American actress and singer