# Maldonado (surname)

Maldonado is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Abel Maldonado (born 1967), American politician, 47th Lieutenant Governor of California
* Alana Maldonado (born 1995), Brazilian Paralympic judoka
* Alejandro Maldonado (athlete) (born 1977), Argentine Paralympic athlete
* Alexis Maldonado (born 1997), Argentine professional footballer
* Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Spanish explorer of the 16th century
* Ángel Maldonado (born 1973), Mexican football (soccer) goalkeeper
* Candy Maldonado (Cándido Maldonado Guadarrama) (born 1960), Puerto Rican baseball player
* Carlos Maldonado (footballer) (born 1963), Venezuelan football (soccer) player
* Claudio Maldonado (born 1980), Chilean football (soccer) player
* Claudio Maldonado (musician) (born 1980), Argentine composer-performer
* Eduardo Maldonado (born 1968), Bolivian politician
* Estuardo Maldonado (born 1928), Ecuadorian sculptor and painter
* Fabio Maldonado (born 1980), Brazilian boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
* Francisco Maldonado (1480–1521), leader of the rebel Comuneros in the Revolt of the Comuneros, who was captured and beheaded at the Battle of Villalar, Spain
* Francisco José Maldonado (born 1981), Spanish football (soccer) player
* Francisco Maldonado da Silva (1592–1639), Argentine physician and religious scholar executed by the Inquisition
* Giancarlo Maldonado (born 1982), Venezuelan football (soccer) player
* Gonzalo Maldonado (disambiguation), several people
* Guillermo Maldonado (pastor), the co-founder of El Rey Jesus
* Guillermo Maldonado (racing driver) (born 1952), Argentine retired racing driver
* Gunner Maldonado, American football player
* Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968), Mexican / Italian composer
* Jesús E. Maldonado, American geneticist
* Joseph Maldonado-Passage (born 1963), American former zoo operator and convicted felon
* Juan Maldonado
** Juan Maldonado (humanist) (1485–1554), Spanish humanist and writer of a.o. Somnium
** Juan de Maldonado y Ordóñez de Villaquirán (1525–1572), Spanish conquistador in Venezuela and Colombia, founder of San Cristóbal, Venezuela
** Juan de Maldonado (16th century), governor of Cartagena (1554–1555)
** Juan (de) Maldonado (1533–1583), Spanish Jesuit
** Juan Villanueva Maldonado (16th century), Spanish conquistador and founder of Macas, Ecuador
** Juan Álvarez Maldonado (16th century), Spanish conquistador of Peru, who wrote about Paititi
** Juan Pacheco Maldonado (16th century), Spanish explorer of Morong, Rizal and Maynila, Philippines
** Juan Maldonado de Villasante (17th century), governor of Costa Rica
** Juan Manuel Maldonado (19th century), Mexican colonel involved in the foundation of Piedras Negras, Coahuila
** Juan Maldonado Waswechia Beltran (1857–1901), Mexican indigenous leader of the Yaqui resistance
** Felix Juan ("Felo") Maldonado (1938–2010), Puerto Rican baseball manager
** Juan L. Maldonado (1948–2018), administrator of Laredo Community College, Texas
** Juan Mayr Maldonado (b. 1952), photographer and ambassador of Colombia to Germany
** Juan Maldonado Jaimez (b. 1982), Brazilian football player
** Juan Carlos Maldonado (b. 1986), Argentine football player
** Juan Gabriel Maldonado (b. 1990), Paraguayan football player
* Kirstin Maldonado (born 1992), an American solo singer, also a vocalist of the American a cappella group Pentatonix
* Lourdes Maldonado (born 1973), Spanish journalist
* Lourdes Maldonado López (1954–2022), Mexican journalist
* María José Maldonado (born 1985), Paraguayan beauty queen and singer
* Maria Maldonado (born 1982), American beauty queen
* Marisol Maldonado (born 1970?), American fashion model, wife of musician Rob Thomas
* Martín Maldonado (born 1986), Puerto Rican professional baseball player
* Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695–1768), indigenous Zapotec painter in New Spain (now Mexico)
* Mildred Maldonado (born 2001), Mexican rhythmic gymnast
* Nancy L. Maldonado (born 1975), American lawyer
* Norman Maldonado (born 1985), Puerto Rican hematologist, former president of the University of Puerto Rico
* Pastor Maldonado (born 1985), Venezuelan racing driver
* Patricia Maldonado (writer) (born 1956), Argentine-Brazilian writer
* Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704–1748), Ecuadorian scientist
* Pedro de Jesús Maldonado Lucero (1892-1937), Mexican priest, saint and martyr
* Raul Maldonado (born 1975), Argentine retired football player
* Santiago Maldonado (1989–2017), his death became a political scandal in Argentina
* Theresa A. Maldonado, American electrical engineer and academic administrator
* Tomás Maldonado (1922–2018), Argentine painter, designer, and thinker, Scientific Design movement theorist
* Tomás Maldonado Cera (born 1971), Colombian serial killer
* Víctor Maldonado (born 1939), Venezuelan hurdler