Faustino (name)

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Faustino is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Faustino Bocchi (1659–1742), Italian painter, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs
  • Faustino Arévalo (1747–1824), Spanish Jesuit hymnographer and patrologist
  • Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) Argentine statesman, intellectual, writer and activist. Former President of Argentina (1868-1874)
  • Faustino Aguilar (1882–1955), pioneering Filipino novelist, journalist, revolutionary, union leader, and editor
  • Faustino Alonso (born 1961), Paraguayan football forward
  • Faustino Amiano (1944–2020), Spanish rower
  • Faustino Asprilla (born 1969), former Colombian football player, known as The Octopus
  • Faustino Rodríguez-San Pedro
    (1833–1925), Spanish politician
  • Faustino Galicia (died 1877), the most active scholar of the Nahuatl language of the 19th century
  • Faustino Harrison (1900–1963), Uruguayan political figure
  • Faustino Imbali (born 1956), Guinea-Bissau politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 21 March 2001 to 9 December 2001
  • Faustino Oramas (1911–2007), a Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer
  • Faustino Piaggio (1844–1924), Italian industrialist who also became a pioneer of the Latin American oil industry
  • Faustino Raineri (died 1755), Italian painter, mainly a landscape painter of the Baroque period
  • Faustino Rayo (died 1875), assassin of President of Ecuador Gabriel Garcia Moreno
  • Faustino Reyes (born 1975), former boxer from Spain
  • Faustino Rupérez (born 1956), retired Spanish professional road racing cyclist
  • Faustino Sainz Muñoz (1937–2012), Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Surname

  • Alcides da Cruz Faustino
    (1940–1988), Brazilian football winger
  • Auri Dias Faustino
    (born 1973), Brazilian football defender
  • David Faustino (born 1974), American actor and rap artist primarily known for his role as Bud Bundy on the sitcom Married with Children
  • Gumersindo Ramírez Faustino, Equatoguinean political activist
  • Lenny Faustino (born 1979), Canadian pair skater
  • Tats Faustino, Filipino musical composer, arranger, producer, musical director, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist