People on Costa-rica's street signs

Próspero Fernández Oreamuno

19 Juan Primitivo Próspero Fernández Oreamuno was a Costa Rican military officer and politician who served as the 13th President of Costa Rica from 1882 to 1885.

Braulio Carrillo Colina

10 Braulio Evaristo Carrillo Colina was the Head of State of Costa Rica during two periods: the first between 1835 and 1837, and the de facto between 1838 and 1842.

José María Cañas

9 José María Cañas Escamilla was a Salvadoran military figure. He was born in Suchitoto, El Salvador. 

Anthony of Padua

8 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

José María Castro Madriz

8 José María Castro Madriz was a Costa Rican lawyer, academic, diplomat and statesman who served as President of Costa Rica from 1848 to 1849, and again from 1866 to 1868. On both occasions he was...

José Joaquín Trejos Fernández

7 José Joaquín Antonio Trejos Fernández was a Costa Rican economist, academic and politician who served as the 35th President of Costa Rica from 1966 to 1970. A member of the National Unification...

José de San Martín

7 José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's...

Juan Rafael Mora Porras

7 Juan Rafael Mora Porras was President of Costa Rica from 1849 to 1859.                             

Florencio del Castillo

6 Florencio del Castillo was a Costa Rican cleric and politician.                                     

Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez

6 Tomás Miguel Guardia Gutiérrez was a Costa Rican military officer and politician who was the 8th and 11th President of Costa Rica, serving from 1870 to 1876 and again from 1877 until his death in...

Louis of Toulouse

6 Saint Louis of Toulouse, also known as Louis of Anjou, was a Neapolitan prince of the Capetian House of Anjou and a Catholic bishop.

Christopher Columbus

5 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Bernardo Soto Alfaro

5 Ramón Bernardo Soto Alfaro was Costa Rican lawyer, military officer and politician who served as the 14th President of Costa Rica from 1885 to 1889. A Freemason and prominent member of the liberal...

León Cortés Castro

5 León Cortés Castro was a Costa Rican educator, lawyer and politician who served as the 28th President of Costa Rica from 1936 to 1940. His presidency was marked by an extensive public works program,...

Rose of Lima

5 Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the...

Raphael (archangel)

5 Raphael is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BC. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of...

Cleto González Víquez

5 Cleto de Jesús González Víquez was a Costa Rican lawyer, historian and politician who served as the 18th and 26th President of Costa Rica, serving from 1906 to 1910 and 1928 to 1932. Alongside...

Michael (archangel)

5 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich

4 Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich was a Costa Rican businessman and politician who was the 34th President of Costa Rica from 1962 to 1966.

Charles III of Spain

4 Charles III was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza as Charles I (1731–1735), King of Naples as Charles VII and King of Sicily as Charles III...

John F. Kennedy

4 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years,...

Helena, mother of Constantine I

4 Flavia Julia Helena, also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was a Greek Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great as well as a...

Juan Santamaría

4 Juan Santamaría Rodríguez was a drummer in the Costa Rican army, officially recognized as the national hero of his country for his actions in the 1856 Second Battle of Rivas, in the Filibuster War....

John the Baptist

4 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy,...

San Isidro

3 (San) Isidro or (San) Ysidro may refer to:                                                         

Huseng Batute

3 José Cecilio Corazón de Jesús y Pangilinan, also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American...

Mary, mother of Jesus

3 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Saint Vincent

3 Saint Vincent may refer to:                                                                         

Alberto Echandi Montero

3 Alberto Echandi Montero fue un abogado, intelectual y político costarricense. Desempeñó varios puestos clave durante los gobiernos de los presidentes Cleto González Víquez, Alfredo González Flores,...

Saint Joseph

3 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Gabriel

3 In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel or even Cebrail (Djebraïl) in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the...

Elvira López (feminist)

3 Elvira V. López (1871–1956) was an Argentine feminist, activist, reformer and author.               

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

2 Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle was a Spanish politician, journalist and author of the Romanticism and the Rexurdimento. He contributed to the renewal of the Galician language.

Juan del Corral

2 Juan Bautista del Corral y Alonso fue un patriota de los orígenes de la independencia de la entonces provincia de Antioquia y de la República de Colombia.

Alejandro Monestel Zamora

2 Alejandro Monestel Zamora fue un músico y compositor costarricense.                                 

Saint Anne

2 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Simón Bolívar

2 Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,...

Julián Volio Llorente

2 Julián Volio Llorente was a Costa Rican lawyer, diplomat and politician. As a key figure in 19th-century Costa Rican politics, Volio held various influential positions, including Minister of...

Jesus

2 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Saint Lawrence

2 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Juan Ramón Bonilla

2 Juan Ramón Bonilla Aguilar fue un escultor costarricense. Se le considera el primer gran representante histórico de la escultura en este país y el principal representante de la escultura académica en...

Rafael Otón Castro Jiménez

2 Rafael Otón Castro Jiménez fue el primer arzobispo de la Provincia eclesiástica de Costa Rica.     

Teresa Urrea

2 Teresa Urrea, often referred to as Teresita and also known as Santa Teresa or La Santa de Cábora among the Mayo, was a Mexican mystic, folk healer, and revolutionary insurgent.

Jerome

2 Jerome, also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

Miguel Obregón Lizano

2 Miguel Rafael Obregón Lizano fue un educador costarricense, creador y fundador del Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas de Costa Rica, la Biblioteca Nacional de Costa Rica y del Instituto de Alajuela. Es...

Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez

2 Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez fue un presbítero costarricense, doctor en derecho canónico, obispo de Alajuela, vicario general de la Curia Metropolitana, canónigo teologal del Cabildo Metropolitano...

Cecilia of Rome

2 Cecilia of Rome, also spelled Cecelia, was a Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...

John Bosco

2 John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of...

Saint Dominic

2 Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his...

Moctezuma II

2 Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, retroactively referred to in European sources as Moctezuma II, and often simply called Montezuma, was the ninth emperor of the Aztec Empire, reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520....

Clare of Assisi

2 Chiara Offreduccio, known as Clare of Assisi, is an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.

Enrique Echandi

2 Enrique Echandi Montero fue un pintor costarricense, famoso ante todo por sus retratos oficiales de presidentes de su país y por la representación no canónica del héroe nacional Juan Santamaría en su...

Augustine of Hippo

2 Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Roman Africa. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius from Thagaste in Numidia Cirtensis,. His writings deeply influenced the development...

Rafael Ángel Troyo

2 Rafael Ángel Troyo Pacheco fue un novelista, cuentista, poeta y músico costarricense. Se le considera uno de los introductores del modernismo en el país, y una de las figuras más excelsas de la...