Zapata (surname)

Zapata is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Fictional characters:
 * Antonio Zapata y Cisneros (1550–1635), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
 * Argiro Zapata (born 1971), Colombian road racing cyclist
 * Bernabé Zapata Miralles (born 1997), Spanish tennis player
 * Carmen Zapata (1927–2014), American actress
 * Claudia E. Zapata, Chicana artist
 * Cristián Zapata (born 1986), Colombian footballer
 * Diego Mateo Zapata (1664 – 1745), Spanish physician and philosopher
 * Duván Zapata (born 1991), Colombian footballer
 * Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), Mexican revolutionary
 * Franky Zapata (born 1978), French personal watercraft inventor
 * Hansel Zapata (born 1995), Colombian footballer
 * Hilario Zapata (born 1958), Panamanian boxer
 * Javier de Jesús Zapata (born 1969), Colombian road racing cyclist
 * Javier Farinós, full name Francisco Javier Farinós Zapata (born 1978), Spanish footballer
 * José Antonio Zapata (painter) (1762–1837), Spanish painter
 * Karen Zapata (born 1982), Peruvian world chess champion
 * Marcos Zapata (c. 1710-1773), Peruvian painter
 * Mario Zapata Vinces (1920–unknown), Peruvian chess player
 * Maria Idalia Zapata (born 1946), Colombian chess master
 * Mesías Zapata (born 1981), Ecuadorian race walker
 * Mia Zapata (1965–1993), American musician
 * Orlando Zapata (1967–2010), Cuban human rights activist
 * Pedro León Zapata (1929–2015), Venezuelan cartoonist
 * Richard Sosa Zapata (born 1972), Uruguayan footballer
 * Róbinson Zapata (born 1978), Colombian footballer
 * Rodolfo Zapata (born 1966), Argentine footballer and football manager
 * Rodolfo Zapata (singer) (1932–2019), Argentine singer-songwriter and actor
 * Salvador José Zapata (1781–1854), Spanish Galician pharmacist, philanthropist in Havana
 * Víctor Zapata (born 1979), Argentine footballer
 * Víctor Zapata (born 1994), Colombian footballer
 * Marcos Zapata, the alter-ego of the superhero Relámpago