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Salazar is a surname meaning old farmhouse (from Basque Sarasaitzu [old], which then evolved to "Sarasaz," and then to the modern, Castillian form "Salazar").[1] The name originates from the valley of the same name: Salazar Valley, in Navarra, Spain. The surname started appearing during the early Middle Ages.
Its origins are also related to a certain noble family around the 10th century, the Salazars, that held a fief in the area.[2][3] It later also spread to the rest of the Basque Country, being specially common in Biscay during the 15th century. During that time, Lope García de Salazar, a famous writer, took part in the Reconquista of Cuenca, where he was granted a fief and founded a notable family. Some of his descendants took part in the Conquest of the Americas, thus spreading the surname through Spanish America; others intermarried many noble families, and the surname spread all through the Iberian Peninsula.
Salazar is a common in Hispanic America because there were a number of Salazars among the early Spanish conquerors and settlers.[2]
Salazar is also a common surname among Roma people.[3] Due to several censuses made in the Kingdom of Castile during the 14th and 15th centuries, every Castilian subject was forced to take a name and two surnames. The Roma, who used to call themselves only by a first name, decided to take established surnames to add prestige to their families.[4] They chose from among the oldest noble families, usually of Basque origin, thus it is extremely common to find Roma with surnames such as Heredia, Salazar, Mendoza, or Montoya.[5]
- Abel Salazar (actor) (1917–1995), Mexican actor, producer, and director
- Abel Salazar (scientist) (1889–1946), Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer, and painter
- Alberto Salazar (born 1958), American distance runner and athletics coach banned for life for emotional and sexual misconduct
- Alejandro Salazar (born 1984), American soccer-player
- Alexander Salazar (born 1949), Costa-Rican-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- Alonso de Salazar (died 1526), Spanish explorer and discoverer of Marshall Islands
- Alonso Salazar Frias (c. 1564–1636), Spanish opponent of witch-trials
- Anaís (Ana Isabel Salazar, born 1974), Mexican actress
- Ángel Salazar (born 1956), Cuban-American comedian and actor
- Antonio de Salazar (composer) (c. 1650–1715), composer and choirmaster
- António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese dictator, academic and politician
- Antonio Sebastián de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Mancera (c. 1608–1715), Viceroy of New Spain
- Ángel Salazar (born 1956), Cuban-American comedian and actor
- Ángel Salazar (baseball) (born 1961), former Major League Baseball shortstop
- Ashley Salazar (born 1984),1st Ever Playboy Miss Social of The Year 2013, Model, Actress, Photographer, USAF Veteran, Philanthropist
- Braulio Salazar (1917–2008), Venezuelan painter
- Carlos Salazar (disambiguation), Argentine politician
- César Salazar (born 1996), Mexican baseball player
- Cristina Díaz Salazar (born 1958), Mexican politician
- Danny Salazar (born 1990), Dominican professional baseball player
- David Salazar, multiple people
- Diana Salazar (born 1972), Mexican artist
- Diego Salazar (born 1980), Colombian weightlifter
- Domingo de Salazar (1512–1594), first bishop of Manila
- Eliseo Salazar (born 1954), Chilean racing driver
- Elsa Salazar Cade (born 1952), U.S. entomologist
- Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879–1919), Mexican Revolution leader
- Evangelina Salazar (born 1946), Argentine actress
- Fanny Zampini Salazar (1853–1931), Belgian-born Italian writer, editor, and lecturer
- Flavio Salazar (born 1965), Chilean politician
- Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (1514?–1575), Spanish theologian, writer, chronicler, and rector of the University of Mexico
- Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz, Mexican Secretary of Labor
- Francisco Salazar, Chilean handball-player
- Gabriel Salazar (born 1936), Chilean historian
- George Salazar (born 1986), American actor
- Iván Salazar (born 1998), Uruguayan soccer-player
- Jeff Salazar (born 1980), Major League Baseball outfielder
- Jessica Salazar (born 1995), Mexican professional track cyclist
- John Salazar (born 1953), American politician
- Jorge Salazar (basketball) (born 1989), American wheelchair basketball player
- Jorge Ibarra Salazar, Mexican economist
- José Salazar (born 1957), Venezuelan triple jumper
- José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (1750–1802), Mexican portrait painter
- José Gregorio Salazar (1773–1838), general, politician, president of the Federal Republic of Central America
- Juan de Oñate y Salazar (1550–1626), Spanish explorer, conquistador & governor of New Mexico
- Juan de Salazar, maestre de campo in the Arauco War
- Juana de Salazar, wife of governor of Chile Antonio de Acuña Cabrera
- Juan García de Salazar (1639–1710), Spanish composer
- Julia Salazar, American political activist
- Kenneth Salazar (born 1955), U.S. Secretary of the Interior and former U.S. Senator from the state of Colorado
- Liana Salazar (born 1992), Colombian footballer
- Luciana Salazar (born 1980), Argentine model and actress
- Luis Salazar (born 1956), former Major League Baseball infielder/outfielder
- Manuel Salazar y Baquíjano (1777–1850), President of Peru in 1827
- Maria Elvira Salazar (born 1961), TV anchor and Representative for Florida's 27th Congressional seat
- Marina Saiz-Salazar (1930-1990), Panamanian composer
- Martha Salazar (born 1970), American boxer
- Max Salazar (1932–2010), American journalist and writer on Hispanic music
- Nick Salazar (1929–2020), American politician
- Noel B. Salazar (born 1973), European sociocultural anthropologist
- Oscar Salazar (baseball) (born 1978), Major League Baseball second baseman
- Oscar Salazar (taekwondo) (born 1977), Olympic taekwondo athlete from Mexico
- Philippe-Joseph Salazar (born 1955), French philosopher and rhetorician
- Ricardo Salazar (born 1972), MLS and FIFA soccer-referee
- Richard Salazar (born 1981), Venezuelan baseball pitcher
- Roger Salazar (consultant) (born 1970), American former presidential and gubernatorial spokesperson
- Rosa Salazar (born 1985), American actress
- Rubén Salazar (1928–1970), reporter for the Los Angeles Times and KMEX-TV, Los Angeles
- Tim Salazar, Wyoming State Senator
- Vicente Lucio Salazar (1832–1896), President of Ecuador in 1895
- Victor Salazar (1911–1985), American businessman, political figure and officeholder.
- Víctor Salazar (footballer, born 1991), Colombian soccer-player
- Víctor Salazar (footballer, born 1993), Argentine soccer-player
- Zeus A. Salazar (born 1934), a Filipino historian, anthropologist, and philosopher of history.
- Armando Salazar, villain of the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- Augustine Salazar, a character in 3 Body Problem (TV Series)
- Bennie Salazar, a central character and record company executive from the book A Visit From the Goon Squad
- Daniel Salazar, a main character in Fear The Walking Dead
- Griselda Salazar, a character in Fear The Walking Dead
- Hector Salazar (disambiguation), multiple fictional characters
- King Salazar, main antagonist of the animated film Wakko's Wish
- Ofelia Salazar, a character in Fear The Walking Dead
- Ramon Salazar (Resident Evil 4), from the video game Resident Evil 4
- Ramon Salazar (24 character), from the television series 24
- Rex Salazar, fictional titular protagonist of Generator Rex which the surname of his late Argentinean father Rafael.
- Rosario Salazar, from the television series Will & Grace
- Víctor Salazar, main character of the television series Love, Victor
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