Santiago is a masculine Spanish name that derives from the

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name

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(''Ya'akov'') via "Sant Iago", "Sant Yago", "Santo Iago", or "Santo Yago", first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of

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.New York, E. P. Dutton, 1957, OCLC 28087235; reprinted by the Univ. of California Press in 1965 (OCLC 477436336) and published in Spanish translation in 1958 with the somewhat different title of ''El camino de Santiago: las peregrinaciones al sepulcro del Apóstol'', trans. Amando Lázaro Ros, Madrid, Aguilar, 1958, OCLC 432856567. Both the English original and the translation have been republished. It is traditionally believed that Saint James (Santiago) had travelled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of James. Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common

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name), and Thiago or Tiago (a common

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name). The common name James has many forms in

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, including Xacobo or Xacobe and Iago (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume (in Catalan), Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish) and Jacó or Jacob, Jaime and Diogo (in Portuguese).

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does not refer to Saint James but to Saint Didacus of Alcalá, although the name Diego has now been associated with James via folk etymology for over two centuries. "Santi", "San", "Tiago", or "Thiago" are the nicknames for Santiago, although " Sandy" is sometimes used in

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People named Santiago

*Santiago, a Quechan or Yuma chief in the early 1850s * Santiago Amador, Colombian road cyclist * Santiago Amodeo, film director and screenwriter * Santiago Bernabéu, former

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president **

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, the stadium of

, named after Santiago Bernabéu Yeste * Santiago Botero, Colombian cyclist * Santiago Bueno, Uruguayan footballer *

Santiago Cabrera Santiago Cabrera (; born 5 May 1978) is a Chilean actor who has worked mainly in the UK and United States. Cabrera is best known for his roles as the character Isaac Mendez in the NBC Superhero fiction, superhero Drama (film and television), dra ...

, Chilean actor *

Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spaniards, Spanish-Swiss people, Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stad ...

, Spanish architect * Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer * Santiago Carrillo (1915–2012), Spanish politician * Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer * Santiago Espinal (born 1994), Dominican Republic professional baseball player * Santiago Fernández (footballer, born 1985), a Mexican football player * Santiago Fernández (footballer, born 1991), an

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football player * Santi Freixa, Spanish field hockey player * Santiago Giménez, Argentine-born Mexican Footballer * Santiago Iglesias, congressman from Puerto Rico *

Santiago de Liniers Santiago Antonio María de Liniers y Bremond, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, Order of Montesa, KOM, Order of Malta, OM (July 25, 1753 – August 26, 1810) was a Spanish military officer and a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Alt ...

, French-born defender of Buenos Aires in 1806-1807 and later viceroy * Santiago Lorenzo, Argentine decathlete * Santiago Martín Sánchez (born 1938), known as "El Viti", Spanish bullfighter * Santiago de Murcia, Spanish baroque guitarist and composer * Santiago Nsobeya, Equatoguinean politician * Santiago Torres, Argentine fencer * Santiago Palavecino, Argentine boxer * Santiago de la Parte, Spanish long-distance runner * Santiago Phelan, Argentine rugby player and coach * Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, histologist and physician * Santiago Ramos (born 2004), Mexican racing driver * Santiago Rodriguez, pianist and professor from Cuba * Santiago Schnell, Venezuelan scientist * Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer *

Santiago de León de Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern pa ...

* Santiago Véscovi (born 2001), Uruguayan basketball player

Fictional characters

* Santiago (''The Vampire Chronicles''), a character in Anne Rice's 1976 novel ''Interview with the Vampire'' * Santiago, a character in the 2024 American superhero film ''

Madame Web Madame Web (Cassandra Webb) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' No. 210, published November 1980, and was created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist John ...

'' * Santiago, main character in Paulo Coelho's novel '' The Alchemist'' * Santiago, main character in Ernest Hemingway's novel '' The Old Man and the Sea'' * Santiago, main antagonist in '' Volver a Empezar'', a 1994 Mexican telenovela * Santiago, in '' Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future'' * Santiago, in the American television series '' Friday Night Lights'' * Santiago, in '' Las ataduras'' by Carmen Martín Gaite * Don Santiago "Capitan Tiago" de los Santos, a character in

Jose Rizal Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. Given name Mishnaic and Talmudic periods * Jose ben Abin * Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilean * Jose ben Halaft ...

's novel '' Noli Me Tángere.'' * Santiago Arnavisca, a character from the video game series '' Rainbow Six'' * Santiago Muñez, Mexican character in the ''Goal'' movie series * Santiago Nasar, protagonist of

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th centur ...

's novel '' Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' * Santiago “Jimmy” Robertson, an LAPD Newton Division Detective III and former colleague of the titular character in the television show '' Bosch''. * Santiago Rivera, a character from the educational computer game series '' The ClueFinders'' * Santiago Zavala, a character from '' Conversation in The Cathedral'' * Santiago "Tiago" Vega, main character Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, 2020 television series * Amy Santiago, in the American television series ''

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'' * Hale Santiago, in the Canadian television series '' Lost Girl'' * Colonel Corazon Santiago, in the PC strategy game '' Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri''

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People named Santiago

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