- Tovar
Tovar, usually preceded by the particle "de" (meaning "from"), was the
surname adopted in the Middle-Ages by aCastilian noble house of gothic ancestry that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III. It has since spread to several Spanish and a few Portuguese branches.The Tovar surname in the
Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded there by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin.People
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Alonso Miguel de Tovar , a Spanish baroque painter
*César Tovar , a Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
*Fernando Sánchez de Tovar , a medieval Spanish nobleman and admiral
*Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos , a Portuguese nobleman and general
*Gregorio López de Tovar , a Spanish nobleman and scholar of the Renaissance
*Juan de Tovar y Toledo , a Spanish nobleman and military of the Reconquista
* José de Guevara y Tovar, Spanish viceroy of Navarre
*Rigo Tovar , a Mexican singer
*Sancho de Tovar , a Castilian-born Portuguese navigator and explorer
*Sancho de Tovar e Silva , grandson of the former, a Portuguese nobleman and militaryFictional people
* Tovar, a character from "The Strangerhood"
Places
* Tovar, a Spanish village ruled by the Tovar family in the Middle-Ages, place of origin of the Tovar surname
*Tovar Municipality, Mérida , Venezuela
*Tovar Municipality, Aragua , Venezuela
**Colonia Tovar in Tovar Municipality, Aragua
*El Tovar Hotel in Arizona, United States
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