Blas

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title: "Blas" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["spanish-language-surnames"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Blas is mainly a Spanish given name and surname, related to Blaise. It may refer to

Places

• Piz Blas, mountain in Switzerland
• San Blas (disambiguation)

People

• Ricardo Blas Jr. (born 1986) Judo athlete from Guam
• Blas Antonio Sáenz (fl. 1845), Nicaraguan politician
• Blas Avena, American martial artist
• Blas Cabrera Navarro, American physicist
• Blas Cabrera (1878–1945), Spanish physicist
• Blas Cantó (born 1991), Spanish singer
• Blas Castano (born 1998), Dominican baseball player
• Blas Chumacero (1905–1997), Mexican trade union leader
• Blas Cristaldo (born 1964), Paraguayan football (soccer) defender
• Blas de Lezo (1689–1741), Spanish admiral
• Blas de Ledesma (1556—1598), Spanish painter
• Blas Elias (born 1967), American drummer
• Blas Galindo (1910–1993), Mexican composer
• Blas Gallego (born 1941), Spanish artist
• Blas García Ravelo (17th century), Spanish sculptor
• Blas Giunta (born 1963), Argentine football player
• Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez (born 1955), Cuban librarian
• Blas Hernández (1879–1933), Cuban soldier
• Blas Infante (1885–1936), Andalusian politician and writer
• Blas María de la Garza Falcón (1712–1767), Spanish settler of Tamaulipas and South Texas
• Blas Matamoro (born 1942), Argentine writer
• Blas Minor (born 1966), American baseball player
• Blas Monaco (1915–2000), American baseball player
• Blas Ople (1927–2003), Filipino journalist and politician
• Blas Parera (1777–1840), Spanish composer
• Blas Pérez (born 1981), Panamanian footballer
• Blas Piñar (1918–2014), Spanish politician
• Blas Roca Calderio (1908-1987), Cuban revolutionary and politician
• Blas Ruiz (16th century), Spanish explorer
• Blas Valera (1545–1597), Peruvian historian
• Blas Villate (1824–1882), Spanish general
• Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero (1914–2010), Paraguayan bishop
• Juan Blas de Castro (1561–1631), Spanish singer, musician, and composer

Ships

• , a class of Spanish Navy light cruisers
• , more than one Spanish Navy ship

Other uses

• Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS), a mathematical software library
• Blas, a word invented by Jan Baptist van Helmont to describe astral radiation
• List of storms named Blas, used for eight tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific Ocean and for one Medicane in the Mediterranean Sea

References

1. "A Dictionary of Surnames". Oxford University Press.

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