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Contemporary Notables of the name Cortés (post 1700) +

  • Carlos Cortés, American university professor
  • Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés (1974-2026), Colombian visual artist with a degree in sculpture from the National University of Colombia
  • Camilo Blanes Cortés (1946-2019), known professionally as Camilo Sesto, was a Spanish singer
  • Erlinda Cortes (1924-2015), born Mary Boone, Filipina actress, known for Isinanlang pag-ibig (1951), Hagibis (1947) and He Promised to Return (1950)
  • Hernán Cortés (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador who led to the fall of the Aztec Empire
  • Fernando Holgado Cortés Ph.D., Spanish Professor of Mathematics at the University of Madrid
  • Fernando Cortés, Mexican surgeon and educator
  • Diego Cortes Asencio (b. 1931), American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Colombia (1977-1980) and United States Ambassador to Brazil (1983-1886)


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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