Melquíades
# Melquíades

Melquíades is a Spanish given name. It is the Spanish form of the Greek name Melchiades, as in Pope Miltiades.

## Notable individuals

* Melquíades Álvarez (politician) (1864–1936), Spanish politician, founder and leader of the Reformist Republican Party
* Melquíades Morales (born 1942), Mexican lawyer and politician, affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
* Melquíades Fundora, Cuban flautist
* Mel Martinez, (born 1946), American politician, former US Senator from Florida, Chairman of the Republican Party
* Mel Rojas (born 1966), Dominican baseball pitcher

## Fiction

* Melquíades Estrada, character in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
* Melquíades, character in One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Melquíades Elquiza, character in The Cook of Castamar

## Other

* Melquíades, official name of exoplanet HD 93083 b
