Are you looking for a name for your baby? If you are expecting a child, we want to share this list of names for children that we have done in homage to some men who have excelled in the arts.
We share you 37 names of writers and artists for children, which also include poets, composers, painters, filmmakers, sculptors and dancers.
Agustín, by Agustín Lara
Agustín Lara, Mexican composer. Probably the composer of Mexican nationality best known worldwide, composed seven hundred pieces: from boleros and ballads, to tangos, melodies and an operetta.
Alejandro, by Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goya awards and an Oscar. In addition to writing the scripts of his films, he has composed most of his soundtracks.
Alfonso, by Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón, director, screenwriter and producer of Mexican cinema. He is considered one of the most promising Mexican filmmakers of his generation, along with Guillermo del Toro or Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Ángel, by Ángel Corella
Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer. He is the principal artist of the American Ballet Theater, in New York, and has won multiple awards, including the Grand Prix and gold medal in the international Dance competition in Paris.
Antonio, by Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor. His work full of perfection and elegance was inspired by the art of Ancient Greece. He was considered the best European sculptor since Bernini. His most famous sculptures are The three thanks Y Psyche revived by the kiss of love.
Augusto, by Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. He is considered the father of modern sculpture, his innovation broke with the classic canons of the nineteenth century. His most famous work is The Thinker.
Carlos, by Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes, writer, intellectual and Mexican diplomat. Winner of the Cervantes and Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, as well as honoris causa of several universities such as Harvard, Cambridge and UNAM. He is one of the most outstanding Hispanic-American authors.
Claudio, by Claude Monet
Claude Monet, French painter. He was one of the creators of Impressionism, whose name derives from the title of his work Impression, Rising Sun.
Darío, by Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat. He is considered the maximum representative of literary modernism in the Spanish language and is one of the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence on poetry of the twentieth century.
David, by David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and military. He is considered one of the three great exponents of Mexican muralism with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.
Diego, by Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter. He is considered one of the greatest exponents of Spanish painting and master of universal painting.
Edgar, by Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor. In his famous paintings of dancers he managed to capture the movement and the sensations of life.
Eric, by Erick Hawkins
Erick Hawkins, American dancer and choreographer. One of the famous dancers of modern dance that has more influence in modern dance today. He was the first man who danced with the company of the famous modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham.
Esteban, by Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg, director, screenwriter and producer of American cinema, is one of the most recognized and popular directors worldwide.
Federico, by Federico García Lorca and Federico Fellini
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright and prose writer. He was the poet of greatest influence and popularity of twentieth-century Spanish literature and is currently the most read Spanish poet of all time.
Federico Fellini, Italian filmmaker. He is one of the main protagonists in the history of world cinema. He won five Oscar awards: four for best foreign film and one honorary for his career.
Francisco, by Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer. Remembered for its impeccable use of language, it is one of the key figures in Spanish literature.
Gabriel, by Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez, writer, screenwriter, editor and Colombian journalist. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is considered part of the great Hispanic classics of all time.
Gustavo, by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet and narrator. He was one of the last representatives of the Romanticism of the 19th century.
Isaac, by Isaac Albéniz and Isaac Hernández
Isaac Albéniz, composer and Spanish pianist. He was one of the most important Spanish composers of the 19th century and defined Spanish romanticism in musical matters, exerting influence on later composers.
Isaac Hernández, Mexican dancer. He is the first and only Mexican dancer to obtain the most important dance award: the Benois de la Danza Prize (Prix Benois de la Danse) awarded by the Moscow International Dance Association to the best dancer in the world.
Jaime, by Jaime Sabines
Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet and politician. He is considered one of the great Mexican poets of the twentieth century.
José, by Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer. He was the most notable and influential Italian opera composer.
Julio, by Julio Cortázar and Julio Verne
Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer. Considered one of the best in the world, he was one of the most prominent in the short story, poetic prose and magical realism.
Jules Verne, writer, poet and French playwright. Famous for his adventure novels and for his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction, of which he is considered one of his parents.
Leonardo, by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci, painter, writer, philosopher, sculptor, artist and Italian poet. He was a complete artist who combined art and science and is considered one of the greatest geniuses in the history of painting.
Lorenzo, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor. He was a key figure in the creation of the Baroque style. His sculptures stand out for the use of lights and shadows, as well as the intense expressiveness of the emotions that his characters showed. Of his work stand out the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Y Apollo and Daphne.
Manuel, by Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer. He is considered the most transcendent musical figure of the entire Spanish 20th century and achieved international renown.
Mario, by Mario Vargas Llosa and Mario Benedetti
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the National Novel Prize of Peru.
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer, poet and playwright. He is one of the most read and loved poets thanks to his work, which used a simple and direct language.
Martín, by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese, director, screenwriter, actor and American producer. He is considered one of the most influential directors of his generation and has been an Oscar winner, three Golden Globes, two BAFTA awards and a Primetime Emmy.
Miguel, by Miguel de Cervantes and Mikhail Barýshnikov
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer. He is considered the most important author of the Spanish language, as his work marked a before and after in the novels. The Quixote de la Mancha, of its authorship, is the best-selling book in history, after the Bible.
Mikhail Barýshnikov, Latvian dancer and choreographer. Famous for his impeccable performances, he is recognized as the most perfect dancer in the world.
Michelangelo, by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter and Florentine architect. Possibly the most famous sculptor in the world, among his works highlights The David Y Piety.
Octavio, by Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, essayist and diplomat. He was a Nobel Prize for Literature and is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and one of the greatest Hispanic poets of all time.
Oscar, by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, playwright and novelist. In his work he highlighted beauty and art and is considered one of the most prominent playwrights of late Victorian London.
Pablo, by Pablo Neruda and Pablo Picasso
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and consecrated with the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oxford. He is considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor. Considered the creator of Cubism with Georges Braque, he influenced all facets of twentieth-century art.
Pedro, by Pedro Almodóvar and Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Pedro Almodóvar, film director, screenwriter and Spanish producer. It is the one that has received the most acclaim and resonance outside Spain in the last decades. He has received two Oscar awards and several Goya Awards. In 2017 he was the president of the jury of the Cannes Festival.
Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer. He is the author of several works of classical music, many of them are the most famous in that genre as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker Y Sleeping Beauty.
Roberto, by Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer and poet. Five of his works have been named among the 100 best 100 books in the Spanish language of the last 25 years and he is considered one of the most influential in the Spanish language.
Rodolfo, by Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer. He is considered by many critics as one of the best dancers of the twentieth century. He was one of only two Russian dancers to lead the Paris Opera Ballet.
Salvador, by Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí, painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and Spanish writer. He is considered one of the top representatives of surrealism.
Victor, by Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo, French poet and writer. Author of Les Miserables, he is considered one of the most important in the French language.
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