Salvador

Salvador

Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Spanish and Portuguese) is normally an indirect way of naming a messiah. It can be:

Places

* El Salvador, a Central American country
**San Salvador, capital city of that country
* Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
* Salvador, Lanao del Norte, a municipality in the Philippines
* Salvador Mazza, a city in Argentina
* Salvador Settlement, Falkland Islands
* Lake Salvador, Louisiana, USA

People

* Salvador Allende, deposed president of Chile
* Salvador Bacarisse, a Spanish composer
* Salvador Dalí, a 20th century Spanish surrealist painter
* Salvador Espriu, a Spanish poet
* Salvador Gómez, a Spanish water polo player
* Salvador González Marco, Spanish footballer
* Salvador Laurel, a Philippine politician
* Salvador Luria, an Italian-American scientist
* Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish writer
* Salvador Novo, a Mexican writer
* Salvador Puig Antich, a Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
* Francis Salvador, a Jewish-American Patriot
* Henri Salvador, a French singer and jazz guitarist
* Joseph Salvador, head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
* Gregorio Salvador Caja, a Spanish linguist, born in 1927
* Salvador Sánchez, a champion boxer from Mexico in the early 1980s
* Dr. Salvador, a fictional character in "Resident Evil 4"
* Salvador Ballesta Vialcho, a Spanish footballer

Institutions

* Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a university in Argentina
* Iglesia del Salvador, a church in Seville, Spain

Other meanings

*"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 (album), a live album by producer Ricardo Villalobos
*Salvador (song), a song by Jamie T
*Salvador (book), a book by Joan Didion
*Salvador (story), a science fiction short story by Lucius Shepard

ee also

* El Salvador (disambiguation)
* San Salvador (disambiguation)
* Salvatore, an Italian word also meaning "saviour"


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