Ricardo

Ricardo
Pronunciation	Spanish: [riˈkaɾðo] European Portuguese: [ʁiˈkaɾðu] Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁiˈkaʁdu]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Portuguese, Spanish
Meaning	"Powerful/Great Leader"
Other names
Related names	Riccardo, Richard, Rick, Chico

Ricardo is the Portuguese, Spanish cognate of the name Richard. Therefore, the name means "Powerful/Great Leader".

People

First name

• 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 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
• 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 Kishna, Dutch football (soccer) left winger/striker
• 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
• 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 Rosset, Brazilian racing driver
• Ricardo Salampessy, Indonesian footballer
• Ricardo Sanabria, Paraguayan football (soccer) defender
• Ricardo Sánchez, Spanish water polo player
• Ricardo Santos (disambiguation)
• Ricardo Senn, Argentine cyclist
• Ricardo Teixeira, Angolan racing driver
• Ricardo Villagran, Argentine illustrator
• Ricardo Villalobos, Chilean electronic musician
• Ricardo da Silva, Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer
• Richard Møller Nielsen, nicknamed Ricardo, Danish football manager whose team won the Euro 1992

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

Other

• Ricardo plc, UK based engineering company
• Ricardo, California
• Ricardo, the smallest size of conga (drum)

See also

• Riccardo