Avelino
# Avelino

Avelino may refer to:

## Given name

### Sports

* Avelino Acosta (1917–2008), Paraguayan football (soccer) player
* Avelino Asprilla (born 1981), former minor league baseball player
* Avelino Cañizares (1919–1983), former professional baseball shortstop
* Avelino Chaves (1931–2021), Spanish footballer
* Avelino Gomez (1928–1980), Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian thoroughbred horse racing
* Avelino Jackson Coelho (born 1986), known as Jajá Coelho, Brazilian football forward/midfielder
* Avelino Lopes (footballer) (born 1974), Angolan football player
* Avelino Martins (1905–?), Portuguese footballer
* Eduardo Avelino Magaña (born 1984), athlete from Mexico
* Julio Avelino Comesaña (born 1948), Uruguayan football manager and former Uruguayan footballer

### Politics

* Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836–1923), three times President of Peru during the 19th century
* Avelino Coelho da Silva, candidate in the Presidential Elections in East Timor in April 2007
* Avelino González-Claudio (born 1942), Puerto Rican independence activist who served time in a U.S. federal prison
* Avelino Méndez Rangel (born 1958), Mexican politician

### Other people

* Avelino Arredondo, Uruguayan assassin
* Avelino Cachafeiro (1899–1972), Galician musician who played the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe
* Avelino Corma Canos (born 1951), Spanish chemist working on heterogeneous catalysis

## Surname

* José Avelino (1890–1986), first President of the Senate of the Third Republic of the Philippines
* Nuno Avelino (born 1976), Portuguese professional footballer, goalkeeper
* Paulo Avelino (born 1988), Filipino television and film actor, model and singer

## Stage name

* Avelino (rapper) (born 1993), English musician signed to Labrinth's Odd Child Recordings

## Municipalities

* Pedro Avelino, municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil
* Senador Georgino Avelino, municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil
* Avelino Lopes, municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil
