"El Negro" is a common Spanish language nickname, meaning "The Black". People Estevanico (1500–1539), African explorer of the New World Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro (1933–1994), Nicaraguan rebel Arturo Durazo Moreno (1924–2000), Mexican chief of police and convicted criminal Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944–2007), Argentine cartoonist Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963), Mexican filmmaker Horacio Hernandez (born 1963), Cuban drummer Juan Matta-Ballesteros (born 1945), Honduran drug lord Jorge Pabón (194?–1988), close collaborator of Pablo Escobar Iván Arias (born 1958), Bolivian journalist and politician Martín Ramírez (cyclist) (born 1960), a Colombian cyclist Other El Negro en ik, a book by Frank Westerman, about the controversy surrounding Negro of Banyoles and Georges Cuvier See also Kuro (disambiguation) Negro (disambiguation)