Agapito is both a given name and a surname. It is the Spanish and Italian version of
Agapitus.
Notable people with the name include:
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Pope Agapetus I
Pope Agapetus I (489/490 – 22 April 536) was the bishop of Rome from 13 May 535 to his death on 22 April 536. His father, Gordianus, was a priest in Rome and he may have been related to two popes, Pope Felix III, Felix III and Pope Gregory I, ...
(490–536), Bishop of Rome, known as Agapetos in contemporary sources
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Agapito Aquino
Agapito "Butz" Aquino (May 20, 1939 – August 17, 2015) was Filipino politician and human rights activist who previously served as Senator of the Philippines from 1987 to 1995, congressman from Makati and a part-time film and television acto ...
(1939–2015), Filipino politician
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Agapito Conchu
Agapito Conchu, also known as Agapito Concho (born 1895, date of death unknown) was a Filipino silent film director of the mid-1930s.
He was born in 1895 and made his directorial debut in the silent movie film '' Ang Magpapawid'' (''The Roofmak ...
, Filipino film director
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Agapito Gómez
Agapito Gómez Álvarez (born January 30, 1963) is a retired boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Fighting in the light flyweight division (– 48 kg), he lost in ...
(born 1963), Spanish boxer
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Agapito Jiménez Zamora
Agapito Jiménez Zamora (May 24, 1817 – September 17, 1879) was a Costa Rican politician
A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians ...
(1817–1879), Costa Rican politician
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Agapito Lozada
Agapito Lozada (1938 – 29 July 2011) was a Filipino swimmer. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international ...
(1938–2011), Filipino swimmer
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Agapito Mayor
Eleno Agapito Mayor Valenzuela (August 18, 1915 – April 18, 2005) was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher. Listed at 5' 11", 185 lb., he batted and threw left handed.
Early life
Born in Sagüa la Grande, Villa Clara Province, Mayor en ...
(1915–2005), Cuban baseball player
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Agapito Sánchez
Agapito Sánchez (February 14, 1970 – November 15, 2005) was a boxer from the Dominican Republic, nicknamed "El Ciclón" and "Dirty Sanchez" (due to his frequent application of unsportsmanlike tactics in the ring), in the Super Bantamweight ...
(1970–2005), Dominican Republic boxer
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Agapito Flores
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, purported inventor of fluorescent light
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Julio García Agapito
Don Julio Gualberto García Agapito (c. February 1, 1964 – February 26, 2008) was a Peruvian environmentalist who was murdered on February 26, 2008 after reporting a shipment of illegally harvested mahogany in Peru. Don Julio was Lieutenant Gov ...
(died 2008), Peruvian environmentalist
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Lourdes Agapito
Lourdes de Agapito Vicente is British computer scientist and academic. She is Professor of 3D Vision in the department of computer science at University College London (UCL), where she leads a research group with a focus on 3D dynamic scene unde ...
, Spanish computer scientist
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Oliver Agapito
Victor Oliver Agapito (born October 6, 1973) is a Filipino former professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association. He also briefly played in the Metropolitan Basketball Association
The Metropolitan Basketball Associa ...
(born 1973), Filipino basketball player
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Alejandro Garcia Padilla (born 1971), Puerto Rican politician (nickname given to him by the Puerto Rican media)
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Spanish masculine given names
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