Tovar ( surname ) - wikipedia Tovar ( surname ) The coat of arms of the Tovar family of Spain and Portugal, as it appears in a 17th - century nobiliary record. Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de ( meaning from ), is a surname that was adopted in the Middle - Ages by a Castilian noble house of Visigothic 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 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 Jorge Tovar, a Mexican sculptor José de Guevara y Tovar, Spanish viceroy of Navarre Gustavo Tovar Arroyo, a Venezuelan poet Juan Sancho de Tovar, 1st Marquis of Berlanga Juan de Tovar y Toledo, a Spanish nobleman and military of the Reconquista Luis Felipe Tovar, a Mexican actor Lupita Tovar, Mexican - American actress Manuel Felipe Tovar, President of Venezuela from 1859 -- 1861 Martín Tovar Ponte, a Venezuelan politician Martín Tovar y Tovar, a Venezuelan painter Rigo Tovar, a Mexican singer Vicente López Tovar, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War Sancho de Tovar, a Castillian - born, Portuguese navigator and explorer Sancho de Tovar e Silva, grandson of the former, a Portuguese nobleman and military See also Tovar ( disambiguation ) This page lists people with the surname Tovar. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person 's given name ( s ) to the link. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tovar_(surname)&oldid=795509782 '' Categories : Surnames Hidden categories : All set index articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 14 August 2017, at 18 : 05. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: where does the last name tobar come from
Answer: the village of Tovar