# Jorge

Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish; Portuguese.
It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (Georgios) via Latin Georgius; the former is derived from γεωργός (georgos), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker".
The Latin form Georgius had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form Jordi, and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the Golden Legend in the 1260s.
The West Iberian form Jorge is on record in Portugal as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550).

## List of people with the given name Jorge

* Jorge (footballer, born 1939), Brazilian footballer
* Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer
* Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and singer, Jorge & Mateus
* Jorge (Romanian singer), real name George Papagheorghe, Romanian singer, actor, TV host
* Jorge Betancourt, Cuban diver
* Jorge Campos, Mexican football player
* Jorge Cantú, baseball player
* Jorge Cham, web comic writer
* Jorge Chavez, French-Peruvian aviator
* Jorge Choquetarqui, Bolivian politician
* Jorge Cimadevilla, American football player
* Jorge Coll, Spanish art dealer
* Jorge Costa, football player
* Jorge Donn, Argentine-born ballet dancer
* Jorge Ebanks, Cayman Islands basketball player
* Jorge De La Rosa, baseball pitcher
* Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician assassinated in 1948
* Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926–2009), Ecuadorian writer
* Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
* Jorge Garcia, American actor and comedian
* Jorge García Torre, Spanish footballer known as Jorge
* Jorge Gómez, Chilean football player
* Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet
* Jorge Gutiérrez, Argentine squash player
* Jorge Gutierrez, Mexican animator
* Jorge Herrera (swimmer), Puerto Rican freestyle swimmer
* Jorge Herrera (footballer), Colombian footballer
* Jorge Humberto Martínez, Colombian road cyclist
* Jorge Julio, baseball player
* Jorge Lencina, Argentine judoka
* Jorge Liderman, American
* Jorge Linck, Argentine sailor
* Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
* Jorge Luis Alcantar Bolly, Mexican professional wrestler known as El Hijo del Fantasma and Santos Escobar
* Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author
* Jorge Marco de Oliveira Moraes, Brazilian footballer
* Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Argentine Roman Catholic priest who became Pope Francis
* Jorge Martín, Spanish motorcycle racer
* Jorge Masvidal, Cuban American Mixed Martial Artist
* Jorge Mondragón (diver), Mexican diver
* Jorge Montenegro (disambiguation), multiple people
* Jorge Negrete, Mexican actor
* Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, Portuguese chairman of FC Porto
* Jorge Otálvaro, Colombian road cyclist
* Jorge Orta, baseball player
* Jorge Páez, Mexican boxer and actor
* Jorge Pescara, Brazilian musician
* Jorge Pinto (born 1987), Portuguese politician
* Jorge Posada, baseball catcher
* Jorge Querejeta, Argentine field hockey player
* Jorge Quinteros, Argentine football player
* Jorge Quinteros, Chilean mountaineer
* Jorge Racca, Argentine basketball player
* Jorge Rafael Videla, 43rd Argentine president and dictator
* Jorge Ramos, Mexican-born American Spanish-language news anchor
* Jorge Richardson, Puerto Rican track and field athlete
* Jorge Rivera-Herrans, Puerto Rican playwright, composer, lyricist, and actor, writer of Epic: The Musical
* Jorge Rodríguez, Salvadoran footballer
* Jorge Saffirio (born 1953), Chilean politician
* Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese President
* Jorge Santana, Mexican-born guitarist, brother of Carlos
* Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician
* Jorge Solís, Mexican boxer
* Jorge Taufua, Australian rugby player
* Jorge Valdano, Argentine football player
* Jorge Villavicencio (1958–2020), Guatemalan politician and physician
* Seu Jorge, Brazilian musician
* Jorge Ruiz, Soccer Player