Melquíades is a Spanish given name. It is the Spanish form of the Greek name Melchiades, as in Pope Miltiades.
Notable individuals
Melquíades Álvarez (politician) (1864–1936), Spanish politician, founder and leader of the Reformist Republican Party Melquíades Morales (born 1942), Mexican lawyer and politician, affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional Melquíades Fundora, Cuban flautist
Mel Martinez, (born 1946), American politician, former US Senator from Florida, Chairman of the Republican Party Mel Rojas (born 1966), Dominican baseball pitcher
Fiction
Melquíades Estrada, character in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Melquíades, character in One Hundred Years of Solitude Melquíades Elquiza, character in The Cook of Castamar
Other
Melquíades, official name of exoplanet HD 93083 b