Garza (surname)

Garza is a Galician and Basque surname and the Spanish word for the heron. Garza has also become a part of many placenames.

Garza was the surname of many Sephardi Jews that settled in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and the name is still found in many famous people from that Mexican state. Other Garzas settled in the neighboring states of Coahuila in Mexico and Texas in the United States.

Governors of Nuevo León

 * Blas María de la Garza Falcón (1712–1767), Governor of Nuevo León
 * Lázaro Garza Ayala (1830–1913), Governor of Nuevo León (1869)

Other people

 * Aarón Sáenz Garza (1891–1983), a politician
 * Eugenio Garza Lagüera (1923–2008), a multi-millionaire and former owner of the world's second largest Coca-Cola bottler (FEMSA)
 * Eugenio Garza Sada (1892–1973), a multi-millionaire and philanthropist, father of Garza Lagüera and founder of the ITESM
 * Mauricio Fernández Garza (born 1950), a politician, businessman and collector
 * Manuel Uribe Garza (1965–2014), one of the heaviest people who ever lived
 * A family of professional wrestlers:
 * Ángel Humberto Garza Solano (born 1992), known in the US as Angel Garza (without the acute accent)
 * Héctor Garza (1969–2013), ring name of Héctor Solano Segura; uncle of Angel Garza and Humberto Carrillo
 * Humberto Garza Carrillo (born 1995), known as Humberto Carrillo

From Coahuila

 * Aarón Sáenz Garza (1891–1983), a politician
 * José María Garza Gallán (1846–1902), a politician and former governor of Coahuila
 * Mariana Garza (born 1970), an actress
 * Roque González Garza (1885–1962), former Mexican president
 * José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (1859–1920), President of Mexico, from Texas


 * Jose Antonio de la Garza (1776–1851?), mayor of San Antonio, Texas (1813 and 1832), the first landowner in San Antonio and the first man to create a coin in this state
 * John Garza (born 1955), member of the Texas House of Representatives, R-San Antonio
 * Ed Garza (born 1969), former mayor of San Antonio, Texas
 * Cayetano Garza (born 1972), an American comic designer and illustrator
 * Emilio M. Garza (born 1947), an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
 * The three members of American band Los Lonely Boys:
 * Henry Garza (born 1978), guitarist and vocalist
 * Jojo Garza (born 1980), bass player and vocalist
 * Ringo Garza (born 1981), drummer and vocalist
 * José Garza, a lawyer in Austin, Texas
 * Daniel "Dani Doom" Garza, a former member of the band Design the Skyline
 * Juan Raul Garza (1956–2001), an American murderer, executed under the death penalty
 * Tony Garza (born 1959), a Mexican American politician, current ambassador of the United States to Mexico and husband of María Asunción Aramburuzabala, the richest woman in Mexico
 * Reynaldo G. Garza (1915–2004), the first Mexican American federal judge in the United States

Others

 * A. J. DeLaGarza (born 1987), American-born footballer who also played internationally for Guam
 * Ale Garza (born 1977), American comic artist
 * Alex Garza (born 1994), American politician
 * Alicia Garza (born 1981), American civil rights activist known for co-founding Black Lives Matter
 * Daniel Garza (born 1985), Mexican tennis player
 * Jaime Garza (actor) (1954–2021), Mexican actor
 * Jaime Garza (boxer) (born 1959), Mexican American boxer
 * Justin Garza (born 1994), American baseball player
 * Luka Garza (born 1998), American basketball player
 * Matt Garza (born 1983), American baseball player
 * Pablo Garza (fighter) (born 1983), American lightweight mixed martial arts fighter
 * Ralph Garza Jr. (born 1994), American baseball player