Hidalgo
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Hidalgo (nobility) (Fidalgo in Galician and Portuguese) is a traditional title of persons of the Spanish nobility or gentry. The word is a contraction of the phrases 'hijo de algo', literally "a son of something." Despite this informal-sounding term, the Spanish court rigorously regulated who was and who was not entitled to call himself an hidalgo. By extension the word is also used in Spanish for a person of noble and generous spirit (gentleman).
Hidalgo may also refer to:
Places
Mexico
- Hidalgo (state), a state in central Mexico
- Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in Coahuila
- Hidalgo, Nuevo León, a city in Nuevo León
- Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, a municipality in Tamaulipas
- Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., a borough of the Federal District
- Hidalgo Yalalag, Oaxaca
- Frontera Hidalgo, Chiapas
- Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas
- Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán
- Villa Hidalgo, Baja California
- Villa Hidalgo (Northern Chiapas), Chiapas
- Villa Hidalgo (Southern Chiapas), Chiapas
- Villa Hidalgo, Coahuila
- Villa Hidalgo, Durango
- Villa Hidalgo, Jalisco
- Villa Hidalgo, Nayarit
- Villa Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
- Villa Hidalgo, Sonora
- Villa Hidalgo, Tamaulipas
- Villa Hidalgo, Zacatecas
- Villa Hidalgo (Santa Rita), Zacatecas
United States
Fiction
- Hidalgo, a fictional Central American nation in the Doc Savage stories
People
- Anne Hidalgo (born 1959), first deputy mayor of Paris
- Carlos Daniel Hidalgo (born 1986), Colombian football player
- David Hidalgo (born 1954), U.S. musician
- Diego Hidalgo (1886-1961), Spanish lawyer and politician
- Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo (1855–1913), Filipino painter
- Giovanni Hidalgo (born 1963), Puerto Rican musician
- Joaquín González Hidalgo y Rodríguez (1839–1923), Spanish malacologist
- Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614 - 1685), Spanish composer and harpist
- Michel Hidalgo (born 1933), Former French football player and manager
- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811), leader of the Mexican independence movement
- Montserrat Hidalgo (born 1968), Costa Rican breaststroke swimmer
- Oscar Hidalgo (born 1982), Mexican racing driver
- Richard Hidalgo (born 1975), Venezuelan MLB player
- Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo (born 1978), Spanish tennis player
Other
- Hidalgo (film), starring Viggo Mortensen, named for Frank Hopkins' horse
- Hidalgo Limited, a technology design company based in Cambridge, UK, developer of Equivital
- Hidalgo (Sherry), a Spanish Sherry producer
- 944 Hidalgo, an asteroid
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ended the Mexican-American War