Curbelo
Curbelo is a Spanish surname. Found in the Canary Islands in the 18th century,[1] it spread from Lanzarote to the New World.[2][3] It is most common in Uruguay and Cuba.[4]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alejandro Curbelo (born 1973), Uruguayan soccer player
- André Curbelo Basketball player for the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Carlos Curbelo (politician) (born 1980), American politician
- Carlos Curbelo (footballer) (born 1954), Uruguayan-French soccer player
- Cecilia Curbelo (born 1975), Uruguayan journalist
- Gaston Curbelo (born 1976), French soccer player
- Gonzalo Curbelo (born 1987), Uruguayan soccer player
- Jorge Curbelo (born 1981), Uruguayan soccer player
- José Curbelo (1917–2012), Cuban pianist and bandleader
- Juan Ramón Curbelo (born 1979), Uruguayan soccer player
- Juan Curbelo (Tejano settler) (1680–1760), Spanish politician, mayor of San Antonio, Texas
- Nestor Curbelo (born 1952), Uruguayan historian
- Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (born 1940), Puerto Rican historian and writer
- Silvia Curbelo, Cuban-American poet and writer
References[edit]
- ^ Chaparro d'Acosta, Lino (1979). "Curbelo". Heráldica de los apellidos canarios (in Spanish). Estudios Técnicos del Blasón. p. 141. ISBN 9788430019892.
- ^ Sheridan, Cecilia (2000). Anónimos y desterrados: la contienda por el "sitio que llaman de Quauyla", siglos XVI-XVIII (in Spanish). CIESAS. p. 220. ISBN 9789707010840.
- ^ Álvarez Nazario, Manuel (1972). La herencia lingüística de Canarias en Puerto Rico: estudio histórico-dialectal (in Spanish). Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. p. 124.
- ^ "Curbelo Surname Distribution". Forebears. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
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