Fierro is a Spanish and Italian surname and middle name meaning "iron".[1] Notable people with the name include:
Surnames
- Fanny Carrión de Fierro (born 1936), Ecuadorian writer and literary critic
- Gonzalo Fierro (born 1983), Chilean football player
- Josefina Fierro de Bright (1914–1998), Mexican-American activist
- Juan Fierro (born 1974), Chilean road cyclist
- Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman (born 1948), Mexican astrophysicist
- Lee Fierro (1929–2020), American actress
- Martha Fierro (born 1977), Ecuadorian chess champion
- Martin Fierro (saxophonist) (1942–2008), Mexican-American saxophonist
- Michelle Fierro (born 1967), American artist
- Oscar Zeta Acosta Fierro, author, lawyer, Chicano activist - made famous by his depiction as Hunter S. Thompson's attorney in the novel and later movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Rodolfo Fierro (1880–1915), General in the Pancho Villa army during the Mexican Revolution
- Rodrigo Fierro (born 1930), Ecuadorian physician, writer and politician, Minister of Health of Ecuador from 1979 to 1981
- Aurelio Fierro (1923–2005), Italian actor and singer
Middle names
- Cynthia Fierro Harvey (born 1959), United Methodist Church bishop
Fictional characters
- Martín Fierro, a fictitious character in a poem by Argentine José Hernández
- Alex Fierro, a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series
See also
References
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 571. Retrieved 2022-10-20 – via Google Books.
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