Salvador

[sal-vuh-dawr; for 1, 3 also Sp. sahl-vah-thawr; for 2 also Port. sahl-vuh-dawr]

Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Spanish and Portuguese) is normally an indirect way of naming a messiah. It can be:

Places

Salvador Allende, deposed president of Chile
Salvador Bacarisse, a Spanish composer
Salvador Dalí, a 20th century Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Espriu, a Spanish poet
Salvador Gómez, a Spanish water polo player
Salvador González Marco, Spanish footballer
Salvador Laurel, a Philippine politician
Salvador Luria, an Italian-American scientist
Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish writer
Salvador Novo, a Mexican writer
Salvador Puig Antich, a Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
Francis Salvador, a Jewish-American Patriot
Henri Salvador, a French singer and jazz guitarist
Joseph Salvador, head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
Gregorio Salvador Caja, a Spanish linguist, born in 1927
Salvador Sánchez, a champion boxer from Mexico in the early 1980s
Dr. Salvador, a fictional character in Resident Evil 4
Salvador Ballesta Vialcho, a Spanish footballer

Salvador (film), a 1986 motion picture about the Salvadoran civil war of the 1980s
Salvador (Puig Antich), a 2006 Spanish film about Salvador Puig Antich
Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music
Salvador (album), a live album by producer Ricardo Villalobos
Salvador (song), a song by Jamie T
Salvador (book), a book by Joan Didion
Salvador (story), a science fiction short story by Lucius Shepard