Pardo (surname)
Pardo | |
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Prado del Rey, Cadiz | |
Language(s) | Spanish |
Origin | |
Derivation | from Prado, Castile, or Prado del Rey, Cadiz |
Meaning | Brownish grey |
Other names | |
Anglicisation(s) | Brown; Browne |
Pardo is a family deriving its surname from Prado in Castile[1] or from Prado del Rey in the province of Cadiz. The place-name Prado is derived from the Spanish word prado, which means meadow. As with the name Castro/Crasto, letters have become transposed.[2] The Spanish word pardo means brownish grey.[3]
Members of the Pardo family have mostly distinguished themselves in the Levant.[1]
The Pardo family which apparently originated in Prado del Rey flourished during the 16th–18th centuries in the Ottoman Empire, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and America. Many members of the family were scattered throughout North America, where they became known as Brown or Browne.[2]
The name belongs to Jewish people who settled in the Iberian Peninsula; and today in countries like Israel, Spain, Curaçao, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Chile.
Traces of Jewish life are known in the Iberian Peninsula from the Romans, which were already in these territories those exiled Jews of Jerusalem, including pardus dubbed by the Romans themselves; however for the subject that interests us we must go back to the years after the expulsion of the Jewish first of Spain (1492), and after Portugal (1496). This diaspora within the diaspora, which gave rise to the Sephardim, led many to settle in cities Ottoman Empire, in many cases sponsored by the same authorities of the empire that not only were welcoming this group of immigrants, but also preferred installation in areas that not long ago had been conquered and where they wanted to strengthen its sovereignty. This name is after the various persecutions spread by the Catholic kings, many Jews were forced to leave Spain and expanded by various territories of Europe including Thessalonica, Bitola (city of ancient Republic of Macedonia), Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Serbia, Bosnia and later after the conquest of America went to the new Spanish colonies which did not cease its persecution since it was reformed in the new world under the Court of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Today this name is very common in Israel and is as recognizable by their Sephardic origin among the most common are: Levy, Sarfati, Cohen, Ovadia, Albalak, Azulai, Pinto.
Notable people with the surname
- Al Pardo (born 1962), Spanish-born former professional baseball player
- Alejandro Pardo (born 1993), Italian motorcycle racer born in Spain
- Anselmo Pardo Alcaide (1913–1977), Spanish entomologist
- Arsenio Iglesias Pardo (born 1930), Galician (Spanish) football player and coach
- Arvid Pardo (1914–1999), Maltese diplomat and scholar born in Italy
- Bernard Pardo (born 1960), French football player
- Bernardo P. Pardo (born 1932), Filipino judge
- Bob Pardo, American military pilot known for the Pardo's Push
- Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, perpetrator of the Covina massacre
- Carlos Pardo (1975–2009), Mexican NASCAR driver
- Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, Colombian neuroscientist
- David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica), (c.1591–1657)
- David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam), 17th century rabbi and grandson of the David Pardo born at Salonica.
- David Pardo (Italian rabbi), (1719–1792), rabbinical commentator and liturgical poet
- Don Pardo (1918–2014), American radio and television announcer
- Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921), Galician (Spanish) writer and scholar
- Enrique Cal Pardo (born 1922), Galician (Spanish) writer
- Felipe Pardo (born 1990), Colombian football player
- Felipe Pardo y Aliaga (1806–1868), Peruvian writer, diplomat and politician
- Frank Fernández Pardo (born 1992), Chilean football player
- Isaac Pardo, rabbi of Sarajevo
- Isaac Díaz Pardo (1920–2012), Galician (Spanish) artist and businessman
- Isaac J Pardo (1905–2000), Venezuelan historian and physician
- Jacinto Angulo Pardo, Cuban Minister of Internal Trade
- Jacob Pardo, 18th-century rabbi of Ragusa and Spalato
- Jacob Vita Pardo (1822–1843), author and preacher
- Jael de Pardo, American actress born in Colombia
- Jaime Pardo Leal (1941–1987), Colombian presidential candidate
- J. D. Pardo (born 1980), American actor
- Jimmy Pardo (born 1966), American stand-up comedian, actor, and TV host
- Jorge Pardo (artist), Cuban born artist
- Jorge Pardo (musician) (born 1955), Spanish musician
- José Pardo y Barreda (1864–1947), President of Peru
- José Antonio Pardo Lucas (born 1988), Spanish football player
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1561 – 1619), Italian rabbi and merchant
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), English hazzan
- Josiah Pardo (1626–1684), Dutch rabbi
- Juan Pardo (explorer), 16th-century Spanish explorer and conquistador
- Juan Pardo de Tavera (1472–1545), Spanish cardinal and Grand Inquisitor
- Laurent Pardo (1961–2016), French bass and cello player for US singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy
- Laurent Pardo (rugby player) (born 1958), French rugby union player
- Luciano Di Pardo (born 1975), Italian long-distance runner born in Germany
- Luis Pardo (1882–1935), Chilean sailor who rescued the Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition
- Manuel Pardo (1834–1878), first civilian President of Peru
- Mariano Pardo de Figueroa (1828–1918), Spanish nobleman and philatelist
- Mario Pardo (born 1988), Chilean football player
- Mario Pardo (wrestler) (born 1984), Mexican professional wrestler
- Moses Pardo (died 1888), rabbi and rabbinical emissary
- Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (born 1972), Cuban blogger
- Pável Pardo (born 1976), Mexican international football player
- Rafael Pardo Rueda (born 1953), Colombian politician
- Rob Pardo (born 1970), computer game designer (Warcraft)
- Robert E. Pardo (born 1951), American investor
- Ron Pardo, Canadian actor
- Ruben Pardo (born 1979), Mexican NASCAR driver
- Rubén Pardo (footballer) (born 1992), Spanish football player
- Salvador Pardo Cruz, Cuban politician
- Sancho Pardo Donlebún (1537–1607), Spanish seafarer
- Sebastián Pardo (born 1982), Chilean football player
- Sergio Contreras Pardo (born 1983), Spanish football player
- Tamir Pardo (born 1953), current Director of the Mossad
- Thomas Pardo (died 1763), Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
- Thomas Letson Pardo (1840–1925), Canadian politician
- Tomás Barros Pardo (1922–1986), Galician (Spanish) writer and painter
- Trinidad Pardo de Tavera (1857–1925), Filipino historian and physician
- Urko Rafael Pardo (born 1983), Spanish football player born in Belgium
References
- 1 2
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Pardo". Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- 1 2 "The Pardo (Prado) Family". 1999. Retrieved Oct 2, 2015.
- ↑ "pardo". www.spanishcentral.com. Retrieved Oct 2, 2015.
- http://www.americansephardifederation.org%2Fsub%2Fstore1%2Fholocaust_.asp
- http://www.iingen.unam.mx/es-mx/BancoDeInformacion/Entrevistas/Paginas/ClaudiaSheinbaumPardo.aspxm
- http://sefarad-asturias.org/wp/?p=500
- Medardo Fraile, Samuel Ros (1904-1945): hacia una generación sin crítica, 1972.
- Carlos Blanco-Soler, "La vida atormentada de Samuel Ros", en Cuadernos de Literatura, 1947.