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Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese) is normally an indirect way of naming a Messiah. It may refer to:
People
Given name
- Salvador Allende (1908−1973), deposed president of Chile
- Salvador Bacarisse (1898−1963), Spanish composer
- Salva Ballesta (born 1975), Spanish footballer
- Salvador Dalí (1904−1989), Spanish surrealist painter
- Salvador Espriu (1913−1985), Spanish poet
- Salvador Gómez (water polo) (born 1968), Spanish water polo player
- Salvador Gonzáles Escalona (born 1948), Cuban artist
- Salvador González Marco (born 1963), Spanish footballer
- Salvador Laurel (1928−2004), Philippine politician
- Salvador Luria (1912−1991), Italian-American scientist
- Salvador de Madariaga (1886−1978), Spanish writer
- Salvador Novo (1904−1974), Mexican writer
- Salvador Pineda (born 1952), Mexican actor
- Salvador Puig Antich (1948−1974), Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
- Salvador Sánchez (1959−1982), Mexican boxer
Family name
- António Salvador (athlete) (born 1966), Portuguese long-distance runner
- Bryce Salvador (born 1976), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Francis Salvador (1747−1776), Jewish-American patriot
- Gregorio Salvador Caja (born 1927), Spanish linguist
- Henri Salvador (1917−2008), French singer and jazz guitarist
- Jorge Salvador Lara (1926−2012), Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, diplomat, columnist, writer, and historian.
- Joseph Salvador (1716−1786), head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
- Dr. Salvador, fictional character in Resident Evil 4
- Tod Rex Salvador (also known as Tripp Eisen), ex-guitarist of Murderdolls, Dope and Static-X
Places
Argentina
the province of Salta
- Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a Jesuit university in Buenos Aires
Brazil
- Salvador, Bahia, the capital of the State of Bahia
El Salvador
- El Salvador, a Central American country
- San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador
Paraguay
- Tevego, known as Villa del Divino Salvador in 1843, a settlement in the Concepción Department
Philippines
- El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, a city in the province of Misamis Oriental
- Salvador, Lanao del Norte, a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte
- Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental
United States
- Lake Salvador, a lake in the State of Louisiana
- Salvador, California, an unincorporated community in Napa County, California
United Kingdom
- Salvador Settlement, a community in the Falkland Islands
Other uses
- Salvador (film), a 1986 motion picture about the Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s
- Salvador (Puig Antich), a 2006 Spanish film about Salvador Puig Antich
- Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music
- Salvador (Ricardo Villalobos album)
- "Salvador", a song by Jamie T from Panic Prevention
- Salvador (book), a book by Joan Didion
- Salvador (character), a fictional character from the Borderlands video game series
- "Salvador" (story), a science fiction short story by Lucius Shepard
- Salvador (grape)
- Salvador (Sav), a protein kinase involved in the Hippo signaling pathway, a signaling pathway in cell regulation in fruitfly
- I Am Not Salvador, A Perisan movie, made in El Salvador with cinema of Iran.
See also
- El Salvador (disambiguation)
- San Salvador (disambiguation)
- Salvatore (disambiguation), an Italian word also meaning "saviour"
References
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