Rivas (surname)
Rivas is a surname of Spanish origin, likely derived from riba, an archaic term for the shore of a river.[1] People having the surname include:
- Adonis Rivas (born 1972), Nicaraguan boxer and former WBO Super Flyweight and Flyweight world champion
- Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900–1931), Mexican feminist and writer
- Antonio Rivas Mercado (1853–1927), Mexican architect
- Avimiled Rivas (born 1984), Colombian footballer
- Betsi Rivas (born 1986), Venezuelan weightlifter
- Carlos Rivas (disambiguation), multiple people
- David Rivas (born 1978), Spanish footballer
- Diego Rivas (footballer, born 1980), Spanish footballer
- Diego Rivas (fighter), UFC Fighter
- Diogenes Rivas (born 1942), Venezuelan composer
- Emanuel Rivas (born 1983), Argentine footballer
- Francisco Rivas Almada, Paraguayan Minister of Industry and Commerce
- Idubina Rivas (born 1994), Salvadorian beauty pageant winner
- José Arturo Rivas (born 1984), Mexican footballer
- José María Rivas (1958–2016), El Salvadorian footballer
- Lázaro Rivas (1975–2013), Cuban former Greco-Roman wrestler and 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Llimy Rivas (born 1968), Colombian retired hurdler
- Nelson Rivas (born 1983), Colombian footballer
- Óscar Rivas (born 1987), Colombian boxer
- Patricio Rivas, President of Nicaragua from 1855 to 1857 as a puppet of William Walker
- Ramón Rivas (born 1966), Puerto Rican former basketball player
- Stalin Rivas (born 1971), Venezuelan retired footballer
- Thaimara Rivas (born 1982), Venezuelan heptathlete
- Willy Rivas (born 1985), Peruvian footballer
References
- Richard Donovon Woods, Grace Alvarez-Altman, Spanish Surnames in the Southwestern United States: A Dictionary (1978), p. 118.
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