Guevara is a surname of Basque origin. Notable people with the surname include: Amado Guevara (born 1976), Honduran football (soccer) player Álvaro Guevara (1894–1951), Chilean painter Ander Guevara (born 1997), Spanish footballer for Real Sociedad Ángel Aníbal Guevara (born 1924), Guatemalan politician Antonio de Guevara (c. 1481 – 1545), Spanish chronicler and moralist Armando Guevara (born 1955), Venezuelan boxer Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967), Argentine Marxist revolutionary Diego de Guevara (c. 1450 – 1520), Spanish diplomat and art collector Ena Guevara (born 1959), Peruvian long-distance runner Felipe de Guevara (died 1563), Spanish humanist Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), Spanish cardinal Gerardo Guevara (born 1930), Ecuadorian composer Giomar Guevara (born 1972), Major League Baseball shortstop who played for the Seattle Mariners Hermógenes Leonel Guevara Mora (born 1979), Nicaraguan poet Hilda Guevara, Peruvian congresswoman Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, Count consort of Oñate (1566–1644), Spanish diplomat and politician Isabel de Guevara (1530–1556), Spanish colonial chief Jesús Guevara (born 1969), Venezuelan heavyweight boxer Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579 – 1644), Spanish dramatist and novelist Manuel Guevara (born 1969), Venezuelan road cyclist Otto Guevara (born 1960), Costa Rican libertarian politician Tomás Guevara (1865–1935), Chilean historian, teacher and Mapuche scholar Basque-language surnames