Garza is a Galician and Basque surname and the Spanish word for the heron. Garza has also become a part of many placenames.

Garza was the surname of many Sephardi Jews that settled in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and the name is still found in many famous people from that Mexican state. Other Garzas settled in the neighboring states of Coahuila in Mexico and Texas in the United States.

From Nuevo León

Governors of Nuevo León

Other people

From Coahuila

  • Jose Antonio de la Garza (1776–1851?), mayor of San Antonio, Texas (1813 and 1832), the first landowner in San Antonio and the first man to create a coin in this state
  • John Garza (born 1955), member of the Texas House of Representatives, R-San Antonio
  • Ed Garza (born 1969), former mayor of San Antonio, Texas
  • Cayetano Garza (born 1972), an American comic designer and illustrator
  • Emilio M. Garza (born 1947), an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • The three members of American band Los Lonely Boys:
    • Henry Garza (born 1978), guitarist and vocalist
    • Jojo Garza (born 1980), bass player and vocalist
    • Ringo Garza (born 1981), drummer and vocalist
  • José Garza, a lawyer in Austin, Texas
  • Daniel "Dani Doom" Garza, a former member of the band Design the Skyline
  • Juan Raul Garza (1956–2001), an American murderer, executed under the death penalty
  • Tony Garza (born 1959), a Mexican American politician, current ambassador of the United States to Mexico and husband of María Asunción Aramburuzabala, the richest woman in Mexico
  • Reynaldo G. Garza (1915–2004), the first Mexican American federal judge in the United States

Others

See also

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