Pantoja
Appearance
Pantoja can be a name of a person or a place.
People with Pantoja as a surname
- Alexandre Pantoja, Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter
- Doña Ana de Pantoja, a fictional character in José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio
- Antonia Pantoja (1922–2002), Puerto Rican educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader and founder of the Hispanic non-profit organization ASPIRA
- Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (born 1944), award-winning Filipina author
- Diego de Pantoja (1571–1618), Spanish Jesuit and missionary to China who accompanied Matteo Ricci in Beijing
- Dr Dimas Pantoja, a fictional character portrayed by Jorge Enrique Abello in the 1996 production of La Viuda de Blanco
- Dominga Pantoja Nique (1889–2007), Peruvian supercentenarian who was aged 117 years 279 days at her death
- Super Crazy, nickname of Francisco Pantoja Rueda (born 1973), Mexican professional wrestler
- Isabel Pantoja (born 1956), contemporary Spanish singer
- Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (1553–1608), Spanish court painter
- Marcos Pantoja, a feral child who lived with wolves for 10 years in the mountains of Northern Spain
- Victor Pantoja, percussionist in the Latin jazz-rock-fusion group Azteca
People with Pantoja as a spanish maternal name
- According to spanish naming customs, a person's given name is followed by two family names (surnames). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname, but this traditional order is reversible per current gender equality law.
- Alfonso Fernández Pantoja (died 1761), Roman Catholic Bishop of León, Spain (1753–1761)
- Dagoberto Lagos Pantoja, President of the Supreme Court of Chile (1929–1931)
- Oswaldo Alanis Pantoja (born 1989), Mexican football player
Places named Pantoja
- Cerro Pantoja, a stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile
- Pantoja, Guanajuato, a village in the Mexican state of Guanajuato
- Pantoja, Peru, the capital of the Maynas region in the Loreto region of Peru
- Pantoja, Spain, a municipality in the province of Toledo in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain
- Pantoja Islands, part of the Bligh Island Marine Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada
- Pantoja Park (formally Plaza de Pantoja y Arriaga), a historic landmark located in the city of San Diego, California
See also
- Antonio Pantojas (born 1948), a Puerto Rican actor, comedian, and dancer