Spanish conquistadors

Juan de Salcedo (1549 – March 11, 1576) was a Spanish conquistador.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.

Martín de Goiti (c. 1534 - 1575) was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish colonization of the East Indies and the Pacific, in 1565.

Francisco de Montejo y Álvarez (c. 1479 in Salamanca – c. 1553 in Spain) was a Spanish conquistador in Mexico and Central America.

Diego de Rojas (died 1544) was a 16th-century Spanish Conquistador.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to 1496, birth date is uncertain – 1584) was a Spanish conquistador, who did not hold a leadership position in the conquest of Mexico, but participated as a soldier of fortune with Hernán Cortés.

Juan Ponce de León (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxwan ˈponθe ðe leˈon]; 1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

Álvaro de Saavedra (d. 1529) was one of the Spanish explorers in the Pacific Ocean.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vázquez de Coronado and the second or maternal family name is Luján.) Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

Pedro de Mendoza y Luján (c. 1487 – June 23, 1537) was a Spanish conquistador, soldier and explorer, and the first adelantado of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

Cristóbal de Olid (1487–1524) was a Spanish adventurer, conquistador and rebel who played a part in the conquest of Mexico and Honduras.

Jerónimo de Alderete y Mercado (1518 – April 7, 1556) was a Spanish conquistador who was later named governor of Chile, but died before he could assume his post.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1475 ? - 1526) is usually reputed as the founder of Nicaragua, and in fact he founded two important Nicaraguan cities, Granada and León.

Pánfilo de Narváez (147?–1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas.

Pedro Pizarro (c. 1515 – c. 1602) was a Spanish chronicler and conquistador.

Sebastián de Belalcázar (1479 or 1480 – 1551) was a Spanish conquistador.

Francisco Cano (c. 1568) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who travelled the north of Mexico to find gold and other precious metals in the 16th century.

Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as De Quezada, (Granada, Castile, ~1500 - Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Cabo de la Vela, New Kingdom of Granada, 1544) was a Spanish conquistador.

Diego de Nicuesa (died 1511) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer In 1506, Nicuesa was given the job of governing Costa Rica, but ran aground off the coast of Panama.

Don Juan Cano de Saavedra (ca. 1502–1572) was a Spanish conquistador from Cáceres in Extremadura.

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo (1523–1575) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of the early conquest and settlement of the Kingdom of Chile, and the start of the Arauco War.

Juan Jufré de Loayza y Montesa (1516–1578) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the 1541 expedition of Pedro de Valdivia to Chile.

Luis de la Torre was one of the Spanish conquistadors who governed New Spain while Hernán Cortés was absent from the capital.

Baltasar de Barrionuevo (1519–1584?) was a Spanish Military, Conquistador of Peru, Chile, and Tucumán.

Diego de Roxas or Rojas (1500–1543) was a Spanish Military, Explored, Conquistador of Central America and South America.

Esteban Alegre (born-16th century) was a Criollo landowner and conquistador, was one of the neighbors founders of Buenos Aires.

Jorge Robledo (1500–1546) was a Spanish conquistador.

Pedro Menéndez Márquez (? – 1600) was a Spanish military officer, conquistador, and governor of Spanish Florida.

Juan Taborda (16th century) was a Basque Captain and conquistador, companion of Jorge Robledo, during the Conquest of Antioquia.

Diego de Losada (1511 – 1569) was a Spanish conquistador and the founder of Santiago de León de Caracas, the current capital of Venezuela.

Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Anaya (Salamanca, 1523 – Sanlúcar de Barrameda, 1565) was a Spanish conquistador, remembered especially for his role in the colonization of Costa Rica, in Central America, where he gained a reputation for fairness, effective administration, and good relationships with the native population.

Pedro de Heredia (Madrid, circa 1505 – Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz, January 27, 1554) was a Spanish conqueror, founder of the city of Cartagena de Indias and explorer of the northern coast and the interior of present-day Colombia.

Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was active in the later half of the sixteenth century.

Juan de Sanabria (1504-1549) was a Spanish Nobleman, Captain and Conquistador.

Francisco de Carvajal (1464 – 10 April 1548) was a Spanish military officer, conquistador, and explorer remembered as "the demon of the Andes" due to his brutality and uncanny military skill in the Peruvian civil wars of the 16th century.

The Pizarro brothers were Spanish conquistadors who came to Peru in 1530.

Francisco de Freytas (16th Century) was a Portuguese conquistador, arrived in the Río de la Plata in the expedition of Pedro de Mendoza.

Francisco de Paredes (1512-1560s) was a Spanish conquistador, attended the founding of Asuncion.

Manuel Martin (16th Century) was a Spanish nobleman, conquistador, notary public of Asuncion, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Mateo Gil (15?-15?) was a Spanish conquistador, Alcalde and Regidor of Santa Fe, Argentina during the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Antón García Caro (1560-1624?) was a Spanish nobleman, Notary, and Procurador of Buenos Aires.

Pedro de Luján (1500s-1536) was a Spanish noblemen, captain and conquistador of the Río de la Plata, who arrived in the expedition of his uncle, Pedro de Mendoza.

Bartolomé Jaimes (c.1522–1603) was a Spanish nobleman, conquistador of Perú, Chile and Tucuman.

Francisco Bahamonde De Lugo is the (4 time Great) Grandson of Inés de Lugo (sister of I Adelantado Mayor Alonso Fernández de Lugo), a Spanish Military man, conquistador, city founder, and administrator.

Francisco Roldán (circa 1450 - July 11 [O.S. July 1] 1502) was a Spanish colonial administrator.

Francisco de Aguilar (1479 — 1571?), born Alonso de Aguilar, was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition led by Hernán Cortés that resulted in the conquest of the Aztec Empire and the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec state in the central Mexican plateau.

Diego Centeno, Spanish conquistador, born in Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain 1514, died at Chuquisaca, Peru in 1549.

García López de Cárdenas was a Spanish conquistador who was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.

Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528–1594) was a Galician soldier and chronicler of the Arauco War in the Kingdom of Chile.

Diego Hernández de Serpa (c. 1510 – May 10, 1570) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, who under the patronage of Philip II of Spain was part of the European conquest and colonization of the New Andalusia Province (Venezuela region) in northern South America.

Diego Mazariegos y Porres (? - 1536) was a Spanish conquistador.

Francisco Fajardo (Isla Margarita, c. 1524 - Cumaná, 1564) was a Spanish conquistador active in Venezuela.

Luis de Narváez (?, Antequera – 1562) was a Spanish conquistador.

Juan Díaz (1480–1549), born in Seville, Spain, was a 16th-century conquistador and the chaplain of the 1518 Grijalva expedition, the Itinerario (itinerary route) of which he wrote.

Juan Gregorio Bazán (1510-1570) was a Spanish Noblemen, Captain, Conquistador of Peru, Lieutenant Governor of Tucumán.

Juan Núñez de Prado was a 16th-century Spanish conquistador who is known for his conquest of Tucumán Province in what is now Argentina.

Juan Ramírez de Velasco (c.1539 – 1597) was a Spanish conquistador of Chile and Argentina.

Mencía Calderón (1514-1564?) was a Spanish noble lady, first expeditionary woman in the Río de la Plata.

Pedro Gómez de Don Benito (1492-1567) was a Spanish noblemen, conquistador of Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Chile.