Salazar (surname)
Salazar, sometimes spelled as Salasar, is a Basque surname meaning old hall (from Castilian Sala (hall) and Basque zahar (old)).[1] The name originates from the town of the same name: Salazar, in northern Burgos, Castile. Although nowadays northern Burgos is not a Basque-speaking region, it was during the early Middle Ages when the surname appeared.
Its origins are also related to a certain noble family, the Salazars, that held a fief in the area.[2] During the 10th century, the surname appears as mentioned in Navarre, where it spread and there even exists a Salazar Valley. It later also spread to the rest of the Basque Country, being specially common in Biscay during the 15th century. During that time, Lope García de Salazar, a famous writer, took part in the Reconquista of Cuenca, where he was granted a fief and founded a notable family. Some of his descendants took part in the Conquest of America, thus spreading the surname all through the Spanish Americas; others intermarried many noble families, and the surname spread all through the Iberian peninsula.
Salazar is also a common surname among Roma people.[2] Due to several censuses made in the Kingdom of Castile during the 14th and 15th centuries, every Castilian subject was forced to take a name and two surnames. The Roma, who used to call themselves only by a first name, decided to take established surnames to add prestige to their families.[3] They chose from among the oldest noble families, usually of Basque origin, thus it is extremely common to find Roma with surnames such as Heredia, Salazar, Mendoza, or Montoya.[4]
People
The following is a list of notable people with the surname Salazar:
- Abel Salazar (1917–1995), Mexican actor, producer, and director
- Abel de Lima Salazar (1889–1946), a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer, and painter
- Alberto Salazar (born 1958), U.S. distance runner
- Alejandro Salazar, (born 1984) U.S. soccer player
- Alexander Salazar (born November 28, 1949), Costa Rican-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Alonso de Salazar (died 1526), Spanish explorer and discoverer of Marshal Islands
- Alonso Salazar Frias (c. 1564–1636), Spanish opponent of witch trials
- Anaís (Ana Isabel Salazar, born 1974), Mexican Actress and Director
- Ángel Salazar (born 1956), Cuban-American comedian and actor
- Antonio de Salazar (c.1650–1715), choirmaster of Cathedrals at Puebla (1679–1688) and Mexico City (1688–1715).
- António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), Prime Minister and Dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968
- Antonio Sebastián de Toledo Molina y Salazar (c. 1608 –1715), Viceroy of New Spain
- Ángel Salazar (born 1961), former Major League Baseball shortstop
- Braulio Salazar (1917–2008), Venezuelan painter
- Carlos Salazar Castro (1800 –1867), chief of state of El Salvador and Guatemala
- Carlos Salazar (born 1933), Filipino actor
- Carlos Gabriel Salazar (born 1964), Argentine boxer
- Carlos Eduardo Salazar Paz (born 1981), Colombian football player
- Carlos Salazar, Argentine politician
- Carlos Salazar Herrera (1906–1982), Costa Rican writer and artist
- Cristina Díaz Salazar (born 1958), Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party
- Diego Salazar (Diego Fernando Salazar Quintero, born 1980), Colombian weightlifter
- Domingo de Salazar (1512–1594), first bishop of Manila
- Eliseo Salazar (Eliseo Salazar Valenzuela, B. 1954), Chilean racing driver
- Elsa Salazar Cade (born 1952), US entomologist
- Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879 –1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution
- Evangelina Salazar (born 1946), Argentine actress
- Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (1514? – 1575), Spanish theologian, writer, chronicler and rector of the University of Mexico
- Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz, Mexican Secretary of Labor
- Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 1936), Chilean historian
- Jeff Salazar (born 1980), a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
- John Salazar (born 1953), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado
- Jorge Ibarra Salazar, Mexican economist
- José Salazar (born 1957), Venezuelan triple jumper
- José Gregorio Salazar (1773–1838), general & politician, president of the Federal Republic of Central America
- Juan de Oñate y Salazar (1550–1626), Spanish explorer, conquistador & governor of New Mexico
- Juan García de Salazar (1639–1710) Spanish composer.
- Kenneth Salazar (born 1955), U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former U.S. Senator from the state of Colorado
- Luciana Salazar (born 1980), Argentinian model and actress
- Luis Salazar (born 1956), former Major League Baseball infielder/outfielder
- Manuel Salazar y Baquíjano (1777–1850), President of Peru in 1827
- Martha Salazar (born 1970), American boxer
- Max Salazar (1932 – 2010), US journalist and writer on Latin music
- Noel B. Salazar (born 1973), European sociocultural anthropologist
- Oscar Salazar (baseball) (born 1978), Major League Baseball second baseman
- Oscar Salazar (taekwondo) (born 1977), Olympic taekwondo athlete from Mexico
- Ovidio Salazar, documentary filmmaker
- Philippe-Joseph Salazar (born 1955), French philosopher and rhetorician
- Rex Salazar, fictional protagonist of Generator Rex.
- Ricardo Salazar (born 1972), MLS and FIFA soccer referee
- Richard Jesus (da Silva) Salazar (born 1981), Venezuelan baseball pitcher
- Rubén Salazar (1928 –1970), reporter for the Los Angeles Times and KMEX-TV, Los Angeles
- Vicente Lucio Salazar (1832 –1896), President of Ecuador in 1895
References
- ↑ Trask, R. L. (1997). The History of Basque. Routledge. p. 344. ISBN 0-415-13116-2.
- 1 2 "Salazar". Supercable.es. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ↑ GAMELLA, Juan F.; GÓMEZ ALFARO, Antonio y PÉREZ PÉREZ, Juan (2012). Los apellidos de los gitanos españoles en los censos de 1783-85. Revista de Humanidades [en línea], n. 19, artículo 3, ISSN 2340-8995.
- ↑ Diccionario de apellidos españoles, Roberto Faure, María Asunción Ribes, Antonio García, Editorial Eswpasa, Madrid 2001. ISBN 84-239-2289-8. Section III.3.8 page XXXIX.
Bibliography
- Euskal Abizenak, vol 3, pp 100–102. Lizardi Multimedia, Zarauz, Spain. ISBN 978-7-999006-41-1
- RAMOS MERINO, Juan Luis. "La caballería y la leyenda artúrica en Lope García de Salazar". En: Junto al Grial : miscelánea artúrica. Soria : Diputación Provincial, 2008, pp. 89–103.