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Contents 1 People 1.1 Cubans 1.2 Central Americans 1.3 South Americans 1.4 Europeans 1.5 North Americans 1.6 Asians 2 A place 2.1 In Spain 3 Companies 4 See also

Castro is an Iberian word coming from Latin castrum, a fortification. It may refer to:

• Castro culture - Iron-Age culture in Northern Portugal and Galicia (Spain)
• Castro (village), Cividade, and Citânia - Types of settlements of the Castro culture
• Castro ceramics

[edit] People

[edit] Cubans

• Fidel Castro, President of Cuba.
• Raúl Castro, 1st Vice President of Cuba, brother of Fidel Castro
• Ramon Castro, Cuban revolutionary, brother of Fidel Castro
• Ángel Castro, Cuban landowner and father of Fidel Castro
• Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Raúl Castro.
• Juanita Castro, sister of Fidel Castro and Cuban exile

[edit] Central Americans

• Salvador Castaneda Castro, President of El Salvador
• Carlos Castro, Costa Rican footballer
• Juan Castro, Mexican baseball player

[edit] South Americans

• Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian journalist and writer
• Camilla de Castro, transsexual model and actress
• Cipriano Castro, President of Venezuela (1899-1908)

[edit] Europeans

• Aureo Castro, Macanese/Portuguese composer, musician and teacher
• Enrique Castro, Quini, Spanish football player
• Americo Castro, Spanish cultural historian
• Balthazar (Isaac) Orobio de Castro, philosopher
• Inês de Castro, Galician noblewoman
• Rosalía de Castro, Spanish writer and poet in the Galician language.
• Various members of the de Castro family

[edit] North Americans

• Raúl Héctor Castro, Arizona governor, 1975–1977
• Henri Castro, pioneer of the Republic of Texas
• José Castro, leader, Mexican opposition to U.S. rule in California

[edit] Asians

• Noli de Castro, Philippine politician
• Castro Issa, Palestinian writer and thinker.

[edit] A place

• Castro, is the name of three cities in Italy:
  • Castro, a destroyed town in the province of Viterbo (Latium)
  • Castro, in the province of Lecce (Apulia)
  • Castro, in the province of Bergamo (Lombardy)
• Castro, Chile
• The Castro, a gay-oriented neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
  • Castro Street, the primary street in that neighborhood
  • The Castro Theatre, a landmark movie theater located in the Castro community

[edit] In Spain

• Castro-Urdiales, a port city in Cantabria.
• Castrocontrigo
• Castrojeriz

[edit] Companies

• Castro - a clothing company based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

[edit] See also

• Gaster

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