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, derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) and related to the English names Steven and

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. Although in its original pronunciation the accent is on the penultimate syllable, English-speakers tend to pronounce it as a

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People with the given name

Esteban Alvarado Esteban Alvarado Brown (born 28 April 1989) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga FPD club Saprissa and the Costa Rica national team. Club career Saprissa Born in Siquirres, Costa Rica, Alvarado started ...

, Costa Rican goalkeeper *

Esteban Andrés Suárez Esteban Andrés Suárez (born 27 June 1975), known simply as Esteban, is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He started and finished his extensive senior career, which spanned more than two decades, at Real Ovi ...

, Spanish football goalkeeper *

Esteban Cambiasso Esteban Matías Cambiasso Deleau (; born 18 August 1980), nicknamed ''"Cuchu"'', is an Argentine former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. During his career, Cambiasso won 21 official titles, the majority ...

, Argentine footballer * Esteban Dorr (born 2000), French table tennis player * Esteban de Dorantes, 16th Century Explorer of North America * Esteban de la Fuente, Argentine basketball player *

Esteban Fuertes Esteban Óscar Fuertes (born 26 December 1972) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward. Club career In July 1999, Fuertes was purchased for £2.3 million by Jim Smith, manager of Derby County in England. He scor ...

, Argentine footballer *

Esteban Granero Esteban Félix Granero Molina (; born 2 July 1987) is a Spanish former professional footballer. Known as ''El Pirata'' ("The Pirate"), he could play as a central or an attacking midfielder. He emerged through Real Madrid's youth academy, but m ...

, Spanish footballer *

Esteban Guerrieri Esteban Guerrieri (born 19 January 1985) is an Argentina, Argentine racing driver currently competing in the FIA TCR World Tour for the GOAT Racing JAS Motorsport, Honda team. His early career in single-seaters saw him become Formula Renault Euro ...

, Argentine racing driver *

Esteban Gutiérrez Esteban Manuel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez (; born 5 August 1991) is a Mexican former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from to . Previously, from 2013 to 2014, Gutiérrez drove for the Sauber Formula One team but lost hi ...

, Mexican racing driver * Esteban Herrault, French para table tennis player *

Esteban Lazo Hernández Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández (born 26 February 1944) is a Cuban politician who has been the President of the National Assembly of People's Power, Cuba's parliament, since 2013. Previously he was Vice-President of the Cuban Council of State. He ...

, Cuban politician *

Esteban Loaiza Esteban Antonio Loaiza Veyna o-EYE-sa(born December 31, 1971) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher and current pitching coach for El Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsbur ...

, Mexican retired baseball player *

Esteban Navarro Esteban Navarro Soriano (born 18 March 1965, in Moratalla, Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish novelist. He is known for being one of the pioneers in digital publishing. Was an agent of the national police from 1994 to 2018. Career In 2008 the novel ...

, Spanish novelist *

Esteban Ocon Esteban José Jean-Pierre Ocon-Khelfane (; born 17 September 1996) is a French racing driver who competes in Formula One for Haas F1 Team, Haas. Ocon won the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix with Alpine F1 Team, Alpine. Born and raised in Normandy to ...

, French Formula One driver * Esteban Pérez, Argentine basketball player *

Esteban Solari Esteban Andrés Solari Poggio (; born 2 June 1980) is an Argentine football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Godoy Cruz. Playing career Solari was born in Rosario, Santa Fe. After em ...

, Argentine football player *

Esteban Trapiello Jesús Esteban Trapiello González (born 16 November 1955) is a Venezuelan businessman linked to Chavismo. He has been a director of the television channel TVes and is currently president of the regional channel TeleAragua and of the radio stati ...

, Venezuelan businessman *

Esteban Tuero Esteban Eduardo Tuero (born 22 April 1978) is an Argentina, Argentine former Auto racing, racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Minardi team in 1998. At 19, he became the then-third-youngest (now tenth youngest) List of Formula One drive ...

, Argentine racing driver * Esteban Valencia, Chilean footballer

Stage name

Esteban (musician) Stephen Paul (born }) is an American classical guitarist best known by the stage name Esteban. He is from the Pittsburgh area and has lived in Tempe, Arizona since 1976. He has sold instructional DVDs and guitars on home-shopping channels Q ...

, stage name of guitarist Stephen Paul

Fictional characters

Esteban Esteban () is a Spanish male given name, derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) and related to the English names Steven and Stephen. Although in its original pronunciation the accent is on the penultimate syllable, English-speakers tend ...

, in the French-Japanese animated series ''The Mysterious Cities of Gold'' * Esteban Ramírez, in American television sitcom ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' *

Esteban Trueba ''The House of the Spirits'' (, 1982) is the debut novel of Isabel Allende. The novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers before being published in Barcelona in 1982. It became an instant best-seller, was critically acclaimed, a ...

one of the protagonists of the novel ''The House of the Spirits'' by Isabel Allende * Steve "Esteban" Cortez, shuttle pilot and requisitions officer in the video game

Mass Effect 3 ''Mass Effect 3'' is a 2012 action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The third major entry in the ''Mass Effect'' series and the final installment of the original trilogy, it was released in March 2012 for ...

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