Hidalgo

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. Also families that have the last name 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

• Hidalgo, Illinois
• Hidalgo, Texas
• Hidalgo County, New Mexico
• Hidalgo County, Texas
• Hidalgo, Kevin Alejandro aka Chinkey

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
• Kevin Alejandro Hidalgo (born 1994), Future Missionary, LDS

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