Ricardo

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Ricardo Given Name
Gender	Male
Meaning	"Brave Ruler"
Origin	Spanish, Portuguese
Related names	Riccardo, Richard, Rick, Ric
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Ricardo

Ricardo is the Portuguese and Spanish cognate of the name Richard.

Contents 1 People with the first name Ricardo 2 People with the last name Ricardo 3 Others 4 Non-people

[edit] People with the first name Ricardo

• Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portuguese comedian
• Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan satirical singer
• Ricardo Busquets, Puerto Rican swimmer
• Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese football (soccer) defender
• Ricardo Cortez, Austrian actor
• Ricardo Fortaleza, Filipino-Australian boxer
• Ricardo Hausmann, Venezuelan politician and professor at Harvard
• Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, Brazilian football (soccer) midfielder
• Ricardo Lagos, Chilean socialist politician and former president
• Ricardo Larrivée, French Canadian TV and radio food presenter and writer
• Ricardo López Felipe, Spanish football (soccer) goalkeeper
• Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
• Ricardo Nascimento, Portuguese football (soccer) midfielder
• Ricardo Palma, Peruvian author
• Ricardo Pereira, Portuguese football (soccer) goalkeeper
• Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese football (soccer) winger
• Ricardo Sánchez, Spanish water polo player
• Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player
• Ricardo Vera, Uruguayan long-distance runner
• Ricardo Villalobos, Chilean electronic musician

[edit] People with the last name Ricardo

• David Ricardo, British economist
• Ricky Ricardo, fictional character on the I Love Lucy TV show
• Harry Ricardo, British motor engineer who established Ricardo Consulting Engineers

[edit] Others

• Richard Møller Nielsen, nicknamed Ricardo, Danish football manager whose team won the Euro 1992
• Ricardo Consulting Engineers, advanced combustion engine designer

[edit] Non-people

• Ricardo is a smaller variation of the conga drum, used in Cuban music.