Ricardo

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title: "Ricardo" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["masculine-given-names", "portuguese-masculine-given-names", "spanish-masculine-given-names", "surnames-of-sephardic-origin", "surnames-derived-from-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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name	Ricardo
pronunciation

| | gender | Male | | meaning | 'strong in rule' | | languageorigin | Spanish, Portuguese | | related names | Riccardo, Richard, Rick, Chico | ::

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Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic *rīks 'king, ruler' + *harduz 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname.

People

Given name

• Ricardo de Araújo Pereira (born 1974), Portuguese comedian
• Ricardo Arjona (born 1964), Guatemalan singer
• Ricardo Arona (born 1978), Brazilian mixed martial artist
• Ricardo Ávila (born 1997), Panamanian footballer
• Ricardo Bierhals (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
• Ricardo Bralo (1916–?), Argentine long-distance runner
• Ricardo Bombine Pimentel (born 1978), Brazilian musician
• Ricardo Bueno Fernández (1940-2015), Spanish politician
• Ricardo Busquets (born 1974), Puerto Rican swimmer
• Ricardo Cardeno (born 1971), Colombian triathlete
• Ricardo Carvalho (born 1978), Portuguese footballer
• Ricardo Coelho (born 1998), Portuguese marathon canoeist
• Ricardo Concepción Rodríguez (born 1965), Cuban politician
• Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977), American actor
• Ricardo Darín (born 1957), Argentine actor
• Ricardo da Silva (born 1980), Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer
• Ricardo doot ( born 1967), author of the life and times of senior Bon Bon.
• Ricardo Esgaio, Portuguese footballer
• Ricardo Faty (born 1986), Senegalese footballer
• Ricardo Fischer (born 1991), Brazilian basketball player
• Ricardo Fortaleza (born 1951), Filipino-Australian boxer
• Ricardo Fuller (born 1979), Jamaican football (soccer) player
• Ricardo A. "Rick" Galindo, American politician
• Ricardo Gangeme (1943-1999), Argentine journalist and founder of El Informador Chubutense
• Ricardo Gomes (born 1964), Brazilian footballer
• Ricardo González (golfer) (born 1969), Argentine golf player
• Ricardo González (racing driver) (born 1977), Mexican racing driver
• Ricardo Gónzalez Reinoso (born 1965), retired Chilean footballer
• Ricardo Gutierrez (born 1955), American actor
• Ricardo López (born 1966), Mexican professional boxer
• Ricardo Hallman (born 2003), American football player
• Ricardo Hausmann (born 1956), Venezuelan politician and professor at Harvard
• Ricardo Hurtado (born 1999), American actor
• Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (born 1982), better known as Kaká, Brazilian footballer
• Ricardo James (born 1966), Panamaian footballer
• Ricardo Lagos (born 1938), Chilean socialist politician and former president
• Ricardo Larrivée (born 1967), French-Canadian TV and radio food presenter and writer
• Ricardo Lee (born 1948), Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright
• Ricardo P. Lloyd (born 1993), British actor
• Ricardo Londoño (1949–2009), Colombian racing driver
• Ricardo López Felipe (born 1971), Spanish football goalkeeper
• Ricardo Macarrón (1926–2004), Spanish painter
• Ricardo Malajika (born 1998), South African professional boxer
• Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea (born 1961), former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
• Ricardo Marsh (born 1981), American basketball player, 2007 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
• Ricardo Martínez (born 1980), Mexican footballer
• Ricardo Matosinhos (born 1982), Portuguese hornplayer and pedagogue
• Ricardo Maurício (born 1979), Brazilian racing driver
• Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), Mexican actor
• Ricardo Montez (1923–2010), Gibraltarian actor
• Ricardo Medina, Jr. (born 1979), American actor
• Ricardo Menéndez March (born 1987/1988), New Zealand politician
• Ricardo Miranda (born 1976), Canadian politician and trade unionist
• Ricardo Mthembu (1970–2020), South African politician
• Ricardo Nascimento (born 1974), Portuguese footballer
• Ricardo Palma (1833-1919), Peruvian author
• Ricardo Pereira (actor) (born 1979), Portuguese actor, television presenter and fashion model
• Ricardo Alexandre Martins Soares Pereira (born 1976), Portuguese football goalkeeper
• Ricardo Pietreczko (born 1994), German professional darts player
• Ricardo Pinto (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ricardo Puno (1923–2018), Filipino lawyer
• Ricardo Quaresma (born 1983), Portuguese footballer
• Ricardo Rodriguez (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ricardo Rosset (born 1968), Brazilian racing driver
• Ricardo Salampessy (born 1984), Indonesian footballer
• Ricardo Sanabria (born 1969), Paraguayan footballer
• Ricardo Sánchez (water polo) (born 1971), Spanish water polo player
• Ricardo Santos (disambiguation), multiple people
• Ricardo Senn (1931–2012), Argentine cyclist
• Ricardo Sperafico (born 1979), Brazilian racing driver
• Ricardo Teixeira (racing driver) (born 1984), Angolan racing driver
• Ricardo Toledo Carranza (born 1958), Costa Rican politician
• Ricardo Viera (1945–2020) Cuban-born American visual artist, educator, curator
• Ricardo Villagran (born 1938), Argentine illustrator
• Ricardo Villalobos (born 1970), Chilean electronic musician
• Ricardo Zonta (born 1976), Brazilian racing driver
• Ricardo Zunino (born 1949), Argentine racing driver

Nickname

• Richard Møller Nielsen (1937–2014), Danish football manager whose team won the Euro 1992

Last name

• Amy Mary Ricardo, birth name of Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March (1847–1879), British aristocrat
• Cicely Kate Ricardo, birth name of Kate Bertram (1912–1999), British ichthyologist
• David Ricardo (1772–1823), British economist
• David Ricardo (the younger) (1803–1864), British Liberal Member of Parliament
• Colonel Francis Cecil Ricardo (1852–1924), British army officer, police officer and philanthropist (brother of Horace Ricardo)
• Halsey Ricardo (1854–1928), English architect and designer
• Sir Harry Ricardo (1885–1974), British motor engineer who established Ricardo Consulting Engineers
• Colonel Horace Ricardo (1850–1935), British army officer and land owner (brother of Francis Cecil Ricardo)
• James Ricardo, American film director
• John Lewis Ricardo (1812–1862), British businessman and politician
• Osman Ricardo (1795–1881), British Liberal and Whig politician

Fictional characters

• Ricardo (video game character), Antagonist from “Limbus Company”
• Richard Alpert (Lost), on the Lost TV series
• Ricardo Diaz, from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City video game
• Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, main characters on the I Love Lucy TV series
• Ricardo Dalisay, the primary protagonist in the Ang Probinsyano TV series
• Ricardo Tubbs, on the TV series Miami Vice
• Ricardo (comic book character), the main antagonist from The Adventures of Nero comic book series
• Ricardo Amino (Cartoon character) , side character and brother of Maria Amino from the cartoon show ‘’Ozzy and Drix’’ air date September 27, 2003
• Ricardio, a character who is a heart from Ice King’s body in the animated series Adventure Time

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