What is "melquiades"

Melquíades is a Spanish given name. It is the Spanish form of the Greek name Melchiades, as in Pope Miltiades.

Notable individuals with the name include:

• 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

American

• 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