Tovar, usually preceded by the particle de (meaning from), is a surname that was adopted in the Middle-Ages by a Castilian noble house that received the lordship of the village of Tovar from Fernando III. It has since spread to several Spanish and a few Portuguese branches.
The Tovar surname in the Americas appears mainly as a toponymic derived from the many settlements of this name founded there by the Spanish, and therefore does not share the same genealogical origin.
People Alonso Miguel de Tovar, a Spanish baroque painter Antonio Tovar, a Spanish philologist César Tovar, a Venezuelan Major League Baseball player Christian Tovar, a Mexican footballer Ezequiel Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player Fernando Sánchez de Tovar, a medieval Spanish nobleman and admiral Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos, a Portuguese nobleman and general Jorge Tovar, a Mexican sculptor José de Guevara y Tovar, Spanish viceroy of Navarre Gustavo Tovar Arroyo, a Venezuelan poet Juan Sancho de Tovar, 1st Marquis of Berlanga Juan de Tovar y Toledo, a Spanish nobleman and military of the Reconquista Luis Felipe Tovar, a Mexican actor Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress Manuel Felipe Tovar, President of Venezuela from 1859 to 1861 Martín Tovar Ponte, a Venezuelan politician Martín Tovar y Tovar, a Venezuelan painter Miguel Ángel Tovar, a Venezuelan actor and fashion model Rigo Tovar, a Mexican singer Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, a Colombian paramilitar Vicente López Tovar, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War Virginia Tovar Martín, Spanish art historian, author, and professor; foremost scholar in the study of architecture and urban planning of Madrid during the Baroque period. Virgie Tovar Sancho de Tovar, a Castillian-born, Portuguese navigator and explorer Sancho de Tovar e Silva, grandson of the former, a Portuguese nobleman and military
Presila Tovar Make up artist
See also
Tova