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Santiago is a masculine Spanish name that derives from the Hebrew name Jacob (Ya'akov) via "Sant Iago", "Sant Yago", "Santo Iago", or "Santo Yago", first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of John the Apostle.^[1] It is traditionally believed that Saint James (Santiago) had travelled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of James.^{[citation needed]}

Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common Galician language name), and Thiago or Tiago (a common Portuguese language name). The common name James has many forms in Iberia, including Xacobo or Xacobe and Iago (in Galician), Jaume, Xaume (in Catalan), Jaime, Jacobo, and Diego (in Spanish) and Jacó or Jacob, Jaime and Diogo (in Portuguese). Despite being a cognate, San Diego does not refer to Saint James but to Saint Didacus of Alcalá.^{[citation needed]}

"Santi", "San", "Tiago", or "Thiago" are the nicknames for Santiago, although "Sandy" is sometimes used in English-speaking countries.^{[citation needed]}

People named Santiago

Santiago, a Quechan or Yuma chief in the early 1850s
Santiago Amador, Colombian road cyclist
Santiago Amodeo, film director and screenwriter
Santiago Bernabéu, former Real Madrid president
- Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the stadium of Real Madrid, named after Santiago Bernabéu Yeste
Santiago Botero, Colombian cyclist
Santiago Bueno, Uruguayan footballer
Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor
Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
Santiago Carrillo (1915–2012), Spanish politician
Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer
Santiago Espinal (born 1994), Dominican Republic professional baseball player
Santiago Fernández (footballer, born 1985), a Mexican football player
Santiago Fernández (footballer, born 1991), an Uruguayan football player
Santi Freixa, Spanish field hockey player
Santiago Giménez, Argentine-born Mexican Footballer
Santiago Iglesias, congressman from Puerto Rico
Santiago de Liniers, French-born defender of Buenos Aires in 1806-1807 and later viceroy
Santiago Lorenzo, Argentine decathlete
Santiago Martín Sánchez (born 1938), known as "El Viti", Spanish bullfighter
Santiago de Murcia, Spanish baroque guitarist and composer
Santiago Nsobeya, Equatoguinean politician
Santiago Palavecino, Argentine boxer
Santiago de la Parte, Spanish long-distance runner
Santiago Phelan, Argentine rugby player and coach
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, histologist and physician
Santiago Rodriguez, pianist and professor from Cuba
Santiago Schnell, Venezuelan scientist
Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer
Santiago de León de Caracas
Santiago Véscovi (born 2001), Uruguayan basketball player

Fictional characters

Santiago (The Vampire Chronicles), a character in Anne Rice's 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire
Santiago, a character in the 2024 American superhero film Madame Web
Santiago, main character in Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist
Santiago, main character in Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea
Santiago, main antagonist in Volver a Empezar, a 1994 Mexican telenovela
Santiago, in Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future
Santiago, in the American television series Friday Night Lights
Santiago, in Las ataduras by Carmen Martín Gaite
Don Santiago "Capitan Tiago" de los Santos, a character in Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere.
Santiago Arnavisca, a character from the video game series Rainbow Six
Santiago Muñez, Mexican character in the Goal movie series
Santiago Nasar, protagonist of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Santiago “Jimmy” Robertson, an LAPD Newton Division Detective III and former colleague of the titular character in the television show Bosch.
Santiago Rivera, a character from the educational computer game series The ClueFinders
Santiago Zavala, a character from Conversation in The Cathedral
Santiago "Tiago" Vega, main character Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, 2020 television series
Amy Santiago, in the American television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Hale Santiago, in the Canadian television series Lost Girl
Colonel Corazon Santiago, in the PC strategy game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

References

^ New York, E. P. Dutton, 1957, OCLC 28087235; reprinted by the Univ. of California Press in 1965 (OCLC 477436336) and published in Spanish translation in 1958 with the somewhat different title of El camino de Santiago: las peregrinaciones al sepulcro del Apóstol, trans. Amando Lázaro Ros, Madrid, Aguilar, 1958, OCLC 432856567. Both the English original and the translation have been republished.

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