Maldonado (surname)
Maldonado is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abel Maldonado, American politician, 47th Lieutenant Governor of California
- Alana Maldonado, Brazilian Paralympic judoka
- Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Spanish explorer of the 16th century
- Ángel Maldonado, Mexican football goalkeeper
- Candy Maldonado , Puerto Rican baseball player
- Carlos Maldonado, Venezuelan football player
- Claudio Maldonado, Argentinean composer-performer
- Claudio Maldonado, Chilean football player
- Estuardo Maldonado, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter
- Fabio Maldonado, Brazilian boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
- Francisco Maldonado, leader of the rebel Comuneros in the Revolt of the Comuneros, who was captured and beheaded at the Battle of Villalar, Spain
- Francisco José Maldonado, Spanish football player
- Francisco Maldonado da Silva, Chilean physician and religious scholar, executed in the Inquisition
- Giancarlo Maldonado, Venezuelan football player
- Gonzalo Maldonado, several people
- Guillermo Maldonado the co-founder of El Rey Jesus
- Javier Torres Maldonado, Mexican / Italian composer
- Jesús E. Maldonado, American geneticist
- Joseph Maldonado-Passage, American former zoo operator and convicted felon
- Juan Maldonado
- * Juan Maldonado , Spanish humanist and writer of a.o. Somnium
- * Juan de Maldonado y Ordóñez de Villaquirán, Spanish conquistador in Venezuela and Colombia, founder of San Cristóbal, Venezuela
- * Juan de Maldonado, governor of Cartagena
- * Juan Maldonado, Spanish jesuit
- * Juan Villanueva Maldonado, Spanish conquistador and founder of Macas, Ecuador
- * Juan Álvarez Maldonado, Spanish conquistador of Peru, who wrote about Paititi
- * Juan Pacheco Maldonado, Spanish explorer of Morong, Rizal and Maynila, Philippines
- * Juan Maldonado de Villasante, governor of Costa Rica
- * Juan Manuel Maldonado, Mexican colonel involved in the foundation of Piedras Negras, Coahuila
- * Juan Maldonado Waswechia Beltran, Mexican indigenous leader of the Yaqui resistance
- * Felix Juan Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball manager
- * Juan L. Maldonado, administrator of Laredo Community College, Texas
- * Juan Mayr Maldonado, photographer and ambassador of Colombia to Germany
- * Juan Maldonado Jaimez, Brazilian football player
- * Juan Carlos Maldonado, Argentinian football player
- * Juan Gabriel Maldonado, Paraguayan football player
- Kirstin Maldonado, an American solo singer, also a vocalist of the American a cappella group Pentatonix
- María José Maldonado, Paraguayan beauty queen and singer
- Maria Maldonado, American beauty queen
- Marisol Maldonado, American fashion model, wife of musician Rob Thomas
- Martín Maldonado, Puerto Rican professional baseball player
- Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera, indigenous Zapotec painter in New Spain
- Mildred Maldonado, Mexican rhythmic gymnast
- Norman Maldonado, Puerto Rican hematologist, former president of the University of Puerto Rico
- Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan racing driver
- Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Ecuadorian scientist
- Death of Santiago Maldonado, political scandal in Argentina
- Tomás Maldonado, Argentine painter, designer, and thinker, Scientific Design movement theorist
- Víctor Maldonado, Venezuelan hurdler
