# List of people with given name Diego

Notable people with the given name Diego include:

## People

* Diego (footballer), a variety of association football players
* Diego de Oviedo, 10th-century Asturian prelate
* Diego de León, 12th-century Leonese prelate
* Diego de Ourense, 12th-century Galician prelate
* Diego de Asturias, 16th-century Spanish Royal heir who died at age 7
* Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor and screenwriter
* Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador
* Diego Aventín, Argentine race car driver
* Diego Bareiro, Paraguayan basketball player
* Diego Buñuel, French journalist
* Diego Camacho (tennis), Bolivian tennis player
* Diego Castillo (disambiguation), several people
* Diego Colón, 4th viceroy of New Spain
* Diego Corrales, American boxer
* Diego Cusi Huamán, 17th-century Peruvian painter
* Diego D'Ambrosio, Italian-American businessman
* Diego Deza, Spanish theologian and inquisitor
* Diego Domínguez (disambiguation), several people
* Diego Durán, Spanish Dominican friar
* Diego El Mulato, a name given to several pirates who were active in the Caribbean in the 1600s
* Diego Fabbrini, Italian footballer
* Diego Fagot (born 1997), American football player
* Diego Fuser, Italian footballer
* Diego Gelmírez, first archbishop of Compostela
* Diego González, Mexican singer, musician and actor, often known simply as Diego (also known as Diego Boneta in the U.S.)
* Diego García de Moguer, Spanish-Portuguese explorer
* Diego Hartfield, Argentine tennis player
* Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
* Diego José de Cádiz (1743–1801), Spanish Capuchin friar
* Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán
* Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor
* Diego Lerman, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
* Diego Luna, Mexican actor
* Diego Maradona, Argentine football player
* Diego Masson, French music conductor and composer
* Diego de Mendoza, Mexican city king in the 16th century
* Diego Meneses (born 1998), Colombian para-athlete
* Diego Morales (disambiguation), several people
* Diego Morejón, Ecuadorian politician
* Diego Nargiso, Italian tennis player
* Diego Pérez, Uruguayan tennis player
* Diego Portales, Chilean politician
* Diego Rivera, Mexican painter
* Diego Rodríguez (son of El Cid), Spanish soldier
* Diego Sanchez, American mixed martial artist
* Diego Schwartzman, Argentine tennis player
* Diego Seguí, Cuban baseball pitcher
* Diego Silang, Philippine revolutionary leader
* Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor
* Diego Torres, Argentine singer and composer
* Diego Vargas (disambiguation), several people
* Diego de Vargas, Spanish governor of New Spain
* Diego Vicentini, Venezuelan film maker
* Diego Villanueva, Brazilian singer-songwriter
* Diego Velázquez, 17th-century Spanish painter
* Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador

## Fictional characters

* Diego, a saber-tooth tiger voiced by Denis Leary of the film series Ice Age
* Diego Alcazar, in the TV series General Hospital
* Diego Armando, the defence attorney from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations, who is mostly seen under the name Godot (who becomes a prosecutor)
* Diego Brando, from the seventh part of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run
* Don Diego de la Vega, the real identity of Zorro
* Diego Márquez, cousin of Dora the Explorer with his own spinoff TV show Go, Diego, Go!.
* Diego Martinez, side character in the videogame Dead Rising 3.
* Diego Torres, in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
* Diego Hargreeves, main character in the comic book/Netflix series The Umbrella Academy
* Diego (Dead or Alive), a character from Dead or Alive video game series