Salazar
Salazar is an originally site-related Spanish and Portuguese family name .
Origin and meaning
The family name Salazar can be derived
- from the Romanesque word sala (mansion) combined with the Basque zahar (old), meaning "inhabitant of the old (mansion) house", or
- refer to the place Salazar in Burgos, Spain .
Name bearer
- Abel Salazar (1917–1995), Mexican actor and director
- Adolfo Salazar (1890–1958), Spanish music critic and scholar and composer
- Agustina Gutiérrez Salazar (1851–1886), Chilean painter and draftsman
- Alberto Salazar (* 1958), American athlete
- Alexander Salazar (Bishop) (* 1949), Costa Rican clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles
- Alexander Salazar (billiard player) , Colombian billiard player
- Alonso de Salazar (16th century), Spanish explorer
- Alonso de Salazar y Frías (1564–1635), Spanish priest, lawyer and inquisitor
- Ana Salazar (* 1941), Portuguese fashion designer
- António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese politician and dictator
- Antonio Salazar Castillo (* 1989), Mexican football player
- Arturo Salazar (squash player) (* 1988), Mexican squash player
- Arturo Salazar Mejía (1921–2009), Colombian clergyman, Bishop of Pasto
- Aura Cristina Salazar (* 1995), Colombian chess player
- Basilio Salazar , Mexican soccer player and coach
- Carlos Salazar Castro (1800–1867), 1834 Jefe Supremo of the Province of El Salvador and 1839 Jefe Supremo of the Province of Guatemala
- Carlos Gabriel Salazar (* 1964), Argentine boxer
- César Salazar (cyclist) (* 1972), Colombian cyclist
- César Salazar (squash player) (* 1988), Mexican squash player
- Diego Fernando Salazar Quintero (* 1980), Colombian weightlifter
- Diego José de Salazar (1659–1709), Spanish composer
- Efrén Ramos Salazar (1939–2005), Mexican clergyman, Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa
- Eliseo Salazar (* 1954), Chilean racing driver
- Federico Gómez de Salazar y Nieto (1912–2006), Spanish general and military governor
- Felipe Salazar Villagrana (* 1940), Mexican clergyman, Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos
- Fernando Salazar (* 1979), Mexican soccer player
- Florencio Salazar Adame (* 1948), Mexican ambassador
- Francisco Cervantes de Salazar († 1575), Spanish-Mexican scholar, chronicler and clergyman
- Freddy Salazar (* 1972), Guatemalan tennis player
- Gustavo Salazar (* around 1965), Peruvian badminton player
- Gustavo Sánchez Salazar (* 1928), Bolivian journalist and politician
- Héctor Luis Palma Salazar , Mexican drug trafficker
- Hugo Salazar († 1996), Mexican soccer goalkeeper
- Iridia Salazar (* 1982), Mexican Taekwondoin
- Jaime Salazar (1931-2011), Mexican soccer player
- Jaime López Salazar (1949–1974), Mexican soccer player
- Jaime Reyes Salazar , Mexican soccer player
- Jaime Rodríguez Salazar (* 1939), Mexican clergyman, Bishop of Huánuco
- Jessica Salazar (* 1995), Mexican track cyclist
- John Salazar (* 1953), American politician (Colorado)
- José Salazar López (1910–1991), Mexican Archbishop
- José Gregorio Salazar Lara (1773–1838), Central American politician
- Jose Paala Salazar (1937-2004), Filipino religious, Catholic bishop
- Juan de Salazar y Espinosa (1508–1560), Spanish conquistador
- Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar (* 1967), Venezuelan bishop
- Ken Salazar (* 1955), American politician (Colorado)
- Leonard Salazar († 2006), American actor
- Lizbeth Salazar (* 1996), Mexican cyclist
- Luís Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (1899–1975), Salvadoran author and painter
- Luis Suárez Salazar (* 1950), Cuban sociologist and political scientist
- Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora (* 1958), Costa Rican clergyman, Bishop of Tilarán-Liberia
- Marcos Salazar (* 1980), Costa Rican tennis player
- Margarito Salazar Cárdenas (* 1958), Mexican clergyman, Bishop of Matehuala
- María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar (1976–2012), Mexican doctor and politician
- Mario Salazar (* 1980), German playwright of Chilean descent
- Max Salazar (1932–2010), American journalist, author and musicologist
- Michael Salazar (* 1992), American-Belizean football player
- Óscar Salazar (* 1977), Mexican Taekwondoin and Olympian
- Oscar Aníbal Salazar Gómez (* 1942), Colombian Bishop of La Dorada-Guaduas
- Patricia Salazar (* 1968), Colombian journalist
- Pedro Salazar-Hewitt († 2014), Chilean sports advisor and press officer
- Rafael Cardona Salazar (1946–1987), Colombian member of the Medellin cartel in the USA
- Renata Salazar Ivancan (* 1975), German film editor
- Roberto Moreno Salazar (* 1970), Panamanian football referee, see Roberto Moreno (football referee)
- Roque Antonio González Salazar (* 1933), Mexican ambassador
- Rosa Salazar , American actress
- Rubén Salazar Gómez (* 1942), Colombian clergyman, cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá
- Sebastián Salazar (* 1990), Colombian racing cyclist
- Valentina Salazar (* 1996), Chilean javelin thrower
Others
- Salazar (Daireaux) , place in Argentina
- Salazar (Colombia) , place in Colombia
- Salazar Slytherin , a character from the Harry Potter series
- (2918) Salazar , asteroid of the main outer belt