Pizarro (disambiguation)
Francisco Pizarro (c. 1471–1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
Pizarro may also refer to:
People with the surname
- The Pizarro brothers, siblings of Francisco Pizarro who gained fame as Spanish conquistadors
- Gonzalo Pizarro (1510–1548), co-governor of Peru, led disastrous expedition into the Amazon to find El Dorado
- Hernando Pizarro (fl. 1508–1578), co-governor of Peru
- Juan Pizarro (conquistador) (c. 1511 – 1536), half-brother of Francisco, co-governor of Peru, killed during an Inca rebellion
- Artur Pizarro (born 1968), Portuguese classical pianist
- David Pizarro (born 1979), Chilean football (soccer) player
- Claudio Pizarro (born 1978), Peruvian football (soccer) player
- Francisco Pizarro (footballer) (born 1989), Chilean football (soccer) player
- Jaime Pizarro (born 1964), Chilean footballer
- Luis Pizarro (boxer) (born 1962), Puerto Rican boxer
- Palmenia Pizarro (born 1941), Chilean singer
- Rodolfo Pizarro (born 1994), Mexican football (soccer) player
- Rogelio Pizarro (born 1979), Puerto Rican track and field athlete
- Guido Pizarro (born 1990), Argentine football (soccer) player
- In fiction
- Avalo Pizarro, a member of the Blackbeard Pirates in One Piece
- Don Pizarro, the prison governor in Fidelio
Other uses
- Pizarro (1799), a dramatic tragedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, based on August von Kotzebue's Die Spanier in Peru'
- Pizarro (brigantine), Chilean ship commanded by Francisco Hudson
- ASCOD armoured fighting vehicle family, known in Spain as Pizarro and in Austria as Ulan
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See also
- Comet Elst-Pizarro, an astronomical object first reported in 1979
- Pesaro
- Pissarro (surname)
- Bizarro
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