Melquíades

Melquíades is a Spanish given name. It is the Spanish form of the Greek name Melchiades, as in Pope Miltiades.

Notable individuals

 * Melquíades Álvarez (politician) (1864–1936), Spanish politician, founder and leader of the Reformist Republican Party
 * Melquíades Morales (born 1942), Mexican lawyer and politician, affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
 * Melquíades Fundora, Cuban flautist


 * Mel Martinez, (born 1946), American politician, former US Senator from Florida, Chairman of the Republican Party
 * Mel Rojas (born 1966), Dominican baseball pitcher

Fiction

 * Melquíades Estrada, character in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
 * Melquíades, character in One Hundred Years of Solitude
 * Melquíades Elquiza, character in The Cook of Castamar

Other

 * Melquíades, official name of exoplanet HD 93083 b