What is "diego"

Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. It derives from a re-analysis of Sant Yago (" Saint Jacob"), viz. in reference to Saint James the Greater, re-analysed as San Diego.

In today's Spanish-speaking countries, Diego and Santiago are common as given names; Diego, Santiago and Sandiego are found as surnames. The forms Tiago, Thiago, Diago and Diogo are seen mostly in Portuguese speaking (Lusophone) countries.

Diego Ribas da Cunha (born 28 February 1985), commonly known as just Diego, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Brazilian club Flamengo.

He began his career at Santos, where he won two Campeonato Brasileiro Série A titles before moving to Porto in 2004. Despite winning further trophies in Portugal, his personal form dropped. After two seasons, he moved for €6 million to Werder Bremen where his form improved, winning domestic honours and helping them to the 2009 UEFA Cup Final. He also won honours at Atlético Madrid, including the UEFA Europa League in 2012.

A full international for Brazil since 2003, Diego earned 33 caps and scored four international goals. He was part of the Brazilian squads which finished as runners-up at the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup, won the Copa América in 2004 and 2007, and earned a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics.

A variety of association football players with the name Diego may refer to:

Diego is Diego's first studio album released in 2005.

Diego Salgado Costa de Menezes, or simply Diego (born 2 February 1982), is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Santo André.

Diego (or de Diego) can be, apart from a given name, also a Spanish surname. It may refer to:

• Felipe Clemente de Diego y Gutiérrez, Spanish jurist
• Gabino Diego, Spanish actor
• Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet
• José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman, journalist and poet
• Santiago H Diego, Founder of Tabla Valley, Philippines

Diego (died 971x75) was the eighth Bishop of Oviedo. The chief source for information about him is his testament, which survives in the archives of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo. His episcopate began with the death of his predecessor, Oveco, sometime between 957 and 962.

Diego was a native of the village of Hevía, a third part of which he was lord by inheritance. He consecrated the church of San Félix there, which, with another church on his property, was later given to the church of Oviedo, along with all his familial possessions in and around Hevía (30 March 967).

The early years of Diego's episcopate are made murky by the presence of bishops named Diego in Ourense and Valpuesta at the same time. The identification of a given "Bishop Diego" in the contemporary documentation is therefore difficult and often uncertain. This is only compounded by the numerous errors of dating and outright falsifications (especially by Bishop Pelagius in the twelfth century) of charters. Several document from between 948 and 954 are signed by a bishop named Diego without reference to his diocese. None of these, probably, belong to Diego of Oviedo. The earliest sure reference to Diego of Oviedo is from an eighteenth-century copy of a document dated, incorrectly, to 934. That Diego's episcopate began in 958 receives some support from the fact that four charters of that year bear the confirmation of a Diego and one—a donation of Ordoño IV to the monastery of Sobrado on 13 November—specifies him as ouetense sedis ("of the see of Oviedo").

There is no reference to Diego between 958 and his donation of his patrimony in 967 save for a single charter confirmation from February 961. After 967 there is one confirmation from 968, one from 969, three from 971, all royal charters of Ramiro III and Elvira Ramírez of León. After that there is no record of Diego and in March 975 his see was occupied by his successor, Bermudo. No bishop of Oviedo attended the council which suppressed the Diocese of Simancas in 974, or if one did he did not sign the acts. This possibly indicates a vacancy in the see of Oviedo at that time.

Diego are an Indie rock band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2005.

Diego (died 1132) was the third bishop of the restored diocese of Ourense from between 1097 and 1100 until his death. He was a canon of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and a protégé of its bishop, Diego Gelmírez, with whom he remained in close association even after his promotion to his own see. In 1118–19, according to the Historia Compostellana, he served Gelmírez as an ambassador to the Papal curia. Like his patron, he also supported Queen Urraca during her war against her husband, Alfonso the Battler.

Diego is a very common male given name of Spanish origin – also used in Portuguese-speaking countries, Italy and France. It may refer to:

• Diego (footballer), a variety of Association football players with the given name Diego (see article);
• Diego de Oviedo, 10th-century Asturian prelate;
• Diego de León, 12th-century Leonese prelate;
• Diego de Ourense, 12th-century Galician prelate;
• Diego de Asturias, 16th-century Spanish Royal heir who died at age 7;
• Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor and screenwriter;
• Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador;
• Diego Aventín, Argentine race car driver;
• Diego Buñuel, French journalist;
• Diego Camacho, Bolivian tennis player;
• Diego Colón, 4th viceroy of New Spain;
• Diego Corrales, American boxer;
• Diego D'Ambrosio, Italian-American businessman;
• Diego Deza, Spanish theologian and inquisitor;
• Diego Domínguez (disambiguation)
• Diego Durán, Spanish Dominican friar;
• Diego Gelmírez, first archbishop of Compostela;
• Diego Gonzalez, Mexican singer, musician and actor – often known simply as Diego; also is known as Diego Boneta in the U.S.)
• Diego Hartfield, Argentine tennis player;
• Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast;
• Diego de Landa, 16th-century bishop of Yucatán;
• Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor;
• Diego Luna, Mexican actor;
• Diego Masson, French music conductor and composer;
• Diego Morales (disambiguation)
• Diego Nargiso, Italian tennis player;
• Diego Pérez, Uruguayan tennis player;
• Diego Portales, Chilean politician;
• Diego Rivera, Mexican painter;
• Diego Sanchez, American mixed martial artist;
• Diego Sebastián Schwartzman, Argentine tennis player
• Diego Seguí, Cuban baseball pitcher;
• Diego Silang, Philippine revolutionary leader;
• Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor;
• Diego Torres, Argentine singer and composer;
• Diego Vargas, Venezuelan singer and composer;
• Diego de Vargas, governor of New Spain;
• Diego Villanueva, Brazilian singer-songwriter;
• Diego Velázquez, 17th-century Spanish painter;
• Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador.

Diego is a Spanish male name.

Diego may also refer to:

• Diego (album), a 2005 album by Diego Boneta
• Diego (band), an indie rock band from Germany
• Diego (bishop of Oviedo) (died 970s), eighth bishop of Oviedo
• Diego (bishop of Ourense) (died 1132)
• Diego (bishop of León) (deposed 1130)
• Diego (footballer), a variety of association football players with the name Diego
• Diego (given name)
• King Diego de Mendoza
• Diego (surname)
• Diego antigen system
• The children's television show Go, Diego, Go!
• Diego (Ice Age), a Smilodon from the children's animated movie franchise Ice Age
• Diego's Hair Salon, a hairdressing shop in Washington, D.C.
• Diego (grape), A Spanish grape also known as Vigiriega

Diego was the Bishop of León from 1112 or 1113 until his deposition in 1130. He succeeded his uncle Pedro, whose episcopate, and life, had ended in exile after the Battle of Candespina (1111). After a brief usurpation by Archbishop Maurice of Braga, Diego was elected to replace Pedro.

Diego spent much of his episcopate repairing his diocese from the damage wrought by the civil war between the supporters of Queen Urraca and Alfonso the Battler. There is evidence from 1120 and from a royal charter of 4 November 1123 of Diego "exploiting new sources of revenue, restoring the property of the chapter and the ecclesiastical routine of the cathedral, settling a dispute with his chapter." He continued his uncle's struggle for independence from the archdiocese of Toledo, at which he was not initially successful. In 1121 Pope Calixtus II declared León a suffragan of Toledo. In 1125 Honorius II confirmed it, but by 1130 Diego had succeeded in getting this decision reversed and regained his prior exemption. He did not have it for long. He was deposed by a synod held in Carrión de los Condes in 1130, probably at the instigation of his Toledan opponents. His successor, Arias, was illegally consecrated by the archbishop of Toledo.