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Valdez is a surname of Spanish origin.
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Valdez is a surname of Spanish origin.
The name may also be spelled Valdés.
"Valdez" or "Valdés may be translated literally as "From Valentin" or "From the valley"
The name refers to:
- Persons
- Bebo Valdés, (1918–), Cuban jazz composer and arranger
- Cayetano Valdés y Flores (1767–1834), Spanish naval officer and explorer
- Chayito Valdez (1945–), Mexican musician and entertainer
- Chucho Valdés, (1945–), Cuban jazz musician and pianist
- Germán Valdés (1915–1973), Mexican actor, singer and comedian
- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557), Spanish historian
- Jerónimo Valdés (1785-1855), Spanish general and governor of Cuba
- Juan de Valdés (1500–1541), Spanish religious writer
- Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817), Spanish poet.
- José Ramón Guizado Valdés (dates unknown), President of Panama 1955
- José Travassos Valdez (1787–1862), Portuguese soldier and statesman.
- Miguel Alemán Valdés (1902–1983), President of Mexico 1946–1952
- Nelson Haedo Valdez (1983–), Paraguayan footballer
- Peter Valdes (d. before 1219), founder of a Christian sect
- Ramon Maximiliano Valdés (dates unknown), President of Panama 1916–1918
- Ramón Valdés (1923–1988), Mexican actor
- Rodrigo Valdez (1946–), Colombian former middleweight boxer
- Roy Valdés (1920–), Cuban Major League Baseball player
- Víctor Valdés (1982–), Spanish football goalkeeper.
- Fictional persons
- Juan Valdez, fictional character appearing in advertisements for Colombian coffee
- Place names
- Valdés (Asturias), a Spanish municipality in the province of Asturias
- Valdez, Alaska, seaport city in Alaska
- Valdez oil terminal, oil port in Valdez, Alaska, at the southern end of the Alaska Pipeline
- Valdez, California, in Yolo County
- Valdez, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
- Valdes Island, one of the Gulf Islands located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada
- Valdes Peninsula, peninsula along the Atlantic coast of Argentina
- Oil tanker
- Exxon Valdez, oil tanker involved in an oil spill in Alaska in 1989
- Survivors of the Valdez Oil Spill, organization that claims to represent the victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill
- Other
- Valdez (gymnastics), a back walkover that begins in a sitting position
- Valdez Blockade, a protest by Alaskan fishermen in 1993


























