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Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Spanish and Portuguese) is normally an indirect way of naming a messiah. It can be:

Places

• El Salvador, a Central American country
  • San Salvador, capital city of that country
• Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
• Salvador, Lanao del Norte, a municipality in the Philippines
• Salvador Mazza, a city in Argentina
• Salvador Settlement, Falkland Islands
• Lake Salvador, Louisiana, USA

People

• Salvador Allende, deposed president of Chile
• Salvador Bacarisse, a Spanish composer
• Salvador Dalí, a 20th century Spanish surrealist painter
• Salvador Espriu, a Spanish poet
• Salvador Gómez, a Spanish water polo player
• Salvador González Marco, Spanish footballer
• Salvador Laurel, a Philippine politician
• Salvador Luria, an Italian-American scientist
• Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish writer
• Salvador Novo, a Mexican writer
• Salvador Puig Antich, a Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
• Francis Salvador, a Jewish-American Patriot
• Henri Salvador, a French singer and jazz guitarist
• Joseph Salvador, head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
• Gregorio Salvador Caja, a Spanish linguist, born in 1927
• Salvador Sánchez, a champion boxer from Mexico in the early 1980s
• Dr. Salvador, a fictional character in Resident Evil 4
• Salvador Ballesta Vialcho, a Spanish footballer

Institutions

• Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a university in Argentina
• Iglesia del Salvador, a church in Seville, Spain

Other meanings

• Salvador (film), a 1986 motion picture about the Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s
• Salvador (Puig Antich), a 2006 Spanish film about Salvador Puig Antich
• Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music
• Salvador (album), a live album by producer Ricardo Villalobos
• Salvador (song), a song by Jamie T
• Salvador (book), a book by Joan Didion
• Salvador (story), a science fiction short story by Lucius Shepard

See also

• El Salvador (disambiguation)
• San Salvador (disambiguation)
• Salvatore, an Italian word also meaning "saviour"

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