Felipe Explained

Felipe
Gender:	Male
Related Names:	Philip

Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective Philippos "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal.

Noteworthy people with this name include:

Royalty

• Felipe I of Spain
• Felipe II of Spain
• Felipe III of Spain
• Felipe IV of Spain
• Felipe V of Spain
• Felipe VI of Spain, King of Spain
• Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, nephew of the Spanish king

Others

• • Felipe Calderón, former President of Mexico Felipe Herrera, Chilean economist
• Felipe Zúniga del Cid (born 1948), Honduran politician
• FELIPE may refer to the Popular Liberation Front in Spain

Sports

Football

• Felipe (footballer, born 1977) (Felipe Jorge Loureiro), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born 1978) (Felipe Reinaldo da Silva), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born February 1984) (Luiz Felipe Ventura dos Santos), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born July 1984) (Felipe Dias da Silva dal Belo), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born 1988) (Felipe de Almeida Gomes), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born 1989) (Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteiro), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born 1992) (Felipe de Sousa Silva), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born 1994) (Luiz Antonio Ferreira Rodrigues), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe (footballer, born 2000) (Felipe Ferreira da Cruz), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Albuquerque, Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Campos (Brazilian footballer), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
• Felipe Félix, Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Fumaça (born 1993), known as Felipe, Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Guréndez (born 1975), known as Felipe, Spanish footballer
• Felipe Mattioni (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Martins (footballer, born September 1990), commonly known as Felipe, Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
• Felipe Miñambres, Spanish footballer
• Felipe Peralta (born 1962), Paraguayan footballer
• Felipe Rodríguez-Gentile (born 2006), Argentine footballer
• Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager

Other sports

• Felipe Paulino (born 1983), Dominican-Venezuelan baseball pitcher
• Felipe Alou (born 1935), Dominican baseball player and manager
• Felipe Contepomi (born 1977), Argentine rugby union player
• Felipe Drugovich (born 2000), Brazilian racing driver
• Felipe Franco, Brazilian water polo player
• Felipe Kitadai (born 1989), Brazilian Olympic medalist judoka
• Felipe Massa (born 1981), Brazilian Formula E driver
• Felipe Muñoz, Mexican breaststroke swimmer
• Felipe Nasr, Brazilian former Formula One driver
• Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
• Felipe Vázquez, Venezuelan baseball player
• Felipe Santos (disambiguation), multiple sportsmen

Fictional

• Felipe, a hostile scarlet macaw who is the leader of his own tribe in Rio 2
• Felipe Gómez, a character on the American television sitcom Three's Company
• Felipe, a screwdriver in Handy Manny

Miscellaneous

• Convento de San Felipe el Real (Madrid)
• Felipe Espinosa (1836–1863), Mexican-American murderer
• Felipe López (disambiguation)
• Felipe (or Felipillo), a native Peruvian who accompanied Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro on their various expeditions to Peru as an interpreter