Ricardo

Ricardo is the Spanish and Portuguese cognate of the name Richard. It derived from Proto-Germanic *rīks 'king, ruler' + *harduz 'hard, brave'. It may be a given name, or a surname.

Given name

 * Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portuguese comedian
 * Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
 * Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
 * Ricardo Ávila, Panamanian footballer
 * Ricardo Bierhals (born 1990), Brazilian footballer
 * Ricardo Bralo, Argentine long-distance runner
 * Ricardo Bombine Pimentel, Brazilian musician
 * Ricardo Bueno Fernández, Spanish politician
 * Ricardo Busquets, Puerto Rican swimmer
 * Ricardo Cardeno, Colombian triathlete
 * Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
 * Ricardo Cortez, American actor
 * Ricardo Darín, Argentine actor
 * Ricardo (footballer, born 1980), full name Ricardo da Silva, Cape Verdean-Portuguese footballer
 * Ricardo Faty, Senegalese footballer
 * Ricardo Fischer, Brazilian basketball player
 * Ricardo Fortaleza, Filipino-Australian boxer
 * Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican football (soccer) player
 * Ricardo A. "Rick" Galindo, American politician
 * Ricardo Gomes, Brazilian footballer
 * Ricardo González (golfer), Argentine golf player
 * Ricardo González (racing driver), Mexican racing driver
 * Ricardo Gónzalez Reinoso, Chilean footballer
 * Ricardo Gutierrez, American actor
 * Ricardo Hallman, American college football player
 * Ricardo Hausmann, Venezuelan politician and professor at Harvard
 * Ricardo Hurtado, American actor
 * Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, better known as Kaká, Brazilian footballer
 * Ricardo James, Panamaian footballer
 * Ricardo Lagos, Chilean socialist politician and former president
 * Ricardo Larrivée, French-Canadian TV and radio food presenter and writer
 * Ricardo Lee, Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright
 * Ricardo P. Lloyd, British actor
 * Ricardo Londoño (1949–2009), Colombian racing driver
 * Ricardo López Felipe, Spanish football goalkeeper
 * Ricardo Macarrón (1926–2004), Spanish painter
 * Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea, former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
 * Ricardo Marsh (born 1981), American basketball player, 2007 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
 * Ricardo Martínez, Mexican footballer
 * Ricardo Matosinhos, Portuguese hornplayer and pedagogue
 * Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
 * Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), Mexican actor
 * Ricardo Medina, Jr., American actor
 * Ricardo Menéndez March, New Zealand politician
 * Ricardo Miranda, Canadian politician
 * Ricardo Mthembu (1970–2020), South African politician
 * Ricardo Nascimento, Portuguese footballer
 * Ricardo Palma, Peruvian author
 * Ricardo Pereira (actor), Portuguese actor, television presenter and fashion model
 * Ricardo (footballer, born 1976), full name Ricardo Alexandre Martins Soares Pereira, Portuguese football goalkeeper
 * Ricardo Pinto (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Ricardo Puno, Filipino lawyer
 * Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
 * Ricardo Rodriguez (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian racing driver
 * Ricardo Salampessy, Indonesian footballer
 * Ricardo Sanabria, Paraguayan footballer
 * Ricardo Sánchez (water polo), Spanish water polo player
 * Ricardo Santos (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Ricardo Senn, Argentine cyclist
 * Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
 * Ricardo Teixeira (racing driver), Angolan racing driver
 * Ricardo Villagran, Argentine illustrator
 * Ricardo Villalobos, Chilean electronic musician
 * Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian racing driver
 * Ricardo Zunino, Argentine racing driver

Nickname

 * Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish football manager whose team won the Euro 1992

Last name

 * Amy Mary Ricardo, birth name of Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March (1847–1879), British aristocrat
 * Cicely Kate Ricardo, birth name of Kate Bertram (1912–1999), British ichthyologist
 * David Ricardo (1772–1823), British economist
 * David Ricardo (the younger) (1803–1864), British Liberal Member of Parliament
 * Colonel Francis Cecil Ricardo (1852–1924), British army officer, police officer and philanthropist (brother of Horace Ricardo)
 * Halsey Ricardo (1854–1928), English architect and designer
 * Sir Harry Ricardo (1885–1974), British motor engineer who established Ricardo Consulting Engineers
 * Colonel Horace Ricardo (1850–1935), British army officer and land owner (brother of Francis Cecil Ricardo)
 * James Ricardo, American film director
 * John Lewis Ricardo (1812–1862), British businessman and politician
 * Osman Ricardo (1795–1881), British Liberal and Whig politician

Fictional characters

 * Richard Alpert (Lost), on the Lost TV series
 * Ricardo Diaz, from the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City video game
 * Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, main characters on the I Love Lucy TV series
 * Ricardo Dalisay, the primary protagonist in the Ang Probinsyano TV series
 * Ricardo Tubbs, on the TV series Miami Vice
 * Ricardo (comic book character), the main antagonist from The Adventures of Nero comic book series
 * Ricardo Amino (Cartoon character), side character and brother of Maria Amino from the cartoon show ‘’Ozzy and Drix’’ air date September 27, 2003
 * Ricardio, a character who is a heart from Ice King’s body in the animated series Adventure Time