Torquemada Explained

Torquemada may refer to:

People

• Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (1388–1468), Spanish cardinal and ecclesiastical writer
• Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition
• Antonio de Torquemada (c. 1507–1569), Spanish writer
• Fray Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562–1624), Spanish friar, missionary and historian of the New World
• Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) (pseudonym Torquemada), British crossword setter

Fiction

• Alonzo Torquemada, a character on the HBO drama series Oz
• Horatio Torquemada Marley, Elaine Marley's grandfather in the Monkey Island series
• Las novelas de Torquemada, four novels by Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós:
  • Torquemada en la hoguera (1889)
  • Torquemada en la Cruz (1893)
  • Torquemada en el purgatorio (1894)
  • Torquemada y San Pedro (1895)
• Torquemada (play), an 1869 poem and an 1882 play by Victor Hugo about the life of Tomás de Torquemada
• Torquemada (comics), the main villain (Tomás de Torquemada) from the comic strip Nemesis the Warlock in the British comic 2000 AD
• Torquemada, a member of the Green Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe
• Torquemada, a fortress in the 2010 video game Red Dead Redemption
• Señor Torquemada, horloger de Tolède, the Clockmaker in Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole

Places

• Torquemada, Palencia, Spain

Music

• "Torquemada 71", a song by doom metal band Electric Wizard
• Torquemada, a vocal piece composed by Leonardo Balada