Núñez Explained

Núñez (pronounced as /es/, anglicized as Nunez) is a Spanish surname. The Portuguese (and Old Galician) variant is Nunes. Notable people with the name include:

Academia

Aaron Nunez Cardozo, 1762–1834, Gibraltarian consul for Tunis and Algie
Alberto Núñez Feijóo (born 1961), Spanish politician
Casto Méndez Núñez (1824–1869), Spanish military naval officer
Blasco Núñez Vela, Spanish viceroy of Peru
Carmen Rosa Núñez Campos (born 1954), Peruvian entrepreneur and politician
Corazon Nuñez-Malanyaon, Philippine politician
Devin Nunes, member of the United States Congress and chair of the House Intelligence Committee
Emilio Núñez (1855–1922), Cuban soldier, dentist, and politician
Emilio Núñez Portuondo (1898–1978), Cuban politician
Fabian Núñez (born 1966), US-American politician
José Núñez de Cáceres (1772–1846), Dominican politician and writer
Marco Antonio Núñez (born 1966), Chilean politician
Nelly Núñez (1948–2021), Bolivian politician
Osvaldo Nunez, Canadian politician
Rafael Núñez (politician), President of Colombia in the 1880s and 1890s
Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., Louisiana politician
Yerko Núñez (born 1973), Bolivian politician

Abraham Núñez (baseball infielder), Major League Baseball infielder for the New York Yankees
Abraham Núñez (baseball outfielder), Major League Baseball outfielder for the Caffè Danesi Nettuno of Italy's Serie A1
Dom Núñez, American baseball player
Clemente Núñez, United States baseball player
Eduardo Núñez, Major League Baseball infielder for the Boston Red Sox
Juan Carlos Oviedo, Major League Baseball pitcher, called himself Leo Núñez before 2011

, Chilean physicist
Manuel Núñez Tovar, Venezuelan naturalist, researcher, parasitologist and entomologist
Samuel Nunez, United States physician and early Jewish settler in Georgia
Rafael E. Núñez, cognitive scientist