* 1958 – José Luis Clerc, Argentine tennis player

* 1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

In February 2004, Valderrama ended his 22-year career in a tribute match at the Metropolitan stadium of Barranquilla, with some of the most important football players of South America, such as Diego Maradona, Enzo Francescoli and José Luis Chilavert.

The election, held three days after the attacks, was won by the PSOE, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero replaced Aznar as prime minister.

Immediately after 21 April 2004 these troops were withdrawn by President Ricardo Maduro in the wake of a similar decision by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

* 1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer

* 1922 – José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1979 – José Luis López, Mexican footballer

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

Spain continued on the path of economic growth when the ruling party changed in 2004, maintaining robust GDP growth during the first term of prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, even though some fundamental problems in the Spanish economy were now becoming clearly evident.

Twenty-three Tercerista commandos led by Edén Pastora seized the entire Nicaraguan congress and took nearly 1, 000 hostages including Somoza's nephew José Somoza Abrego and cousin Luis Pallais Debayle.

However, in the Uruguayan general election, 2009, the Broad Front won an absolute majority in Parliamentary elections, and José Mujica of the Broad Front defeated Luis Alberto Lacalle of the Blancos to win the presidency.

Spain | Spanish Prime Minister of Spain | Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the General Assembly in New York, 20 September 2005

His father was José Luis Fox Pont, a Mexican citizen and his mother Mercedes Quesada Etxaide, was Basque from San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

* José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero replaced José María Aznar as President of the Government of Spain in 2004.

** José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain

** José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, Peruvian politician, diplomat and jurist, former President ( b. 1894 )

** Spanish legislative election, 2004: The incumbent government led by José María Aznar is defeated by the Socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

** José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1590 )

However, in some countries this system still maintains a large part of the immigrated population in an illegal status, albeit some massive regularizations ( in Spain by José Luis Zapatero's government and in Italy by Berlusconi's government ).

The Alliance of Civilizations ( AOC ) initiative was proposed at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations in 2005 by the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

* Spanish — Barrera, Tomás: Pierrot's Dream ( 1914 ; libretto by Luis Pascual Frutos ); Chapí, Ruperto: The Tragedy of Pierrot ( 1904 ; libretto by Ramón Asensio Más and José Juan Cadenas ).

He worked on famous projects like the Century 21 Exposition, 1964 New York World's Fair and Expo 67, with such notables as Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breur, José Luis Sert, Edward Durell Stone, Minoru Yamasaki, Harry Weese, Moshe Safdie, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Alexander Calder, and Edward Larrabee Barnes.

* Casaus Ballester, María José.

* Character Design: José Luis Rodriguez, Lorenzo Ballester, Shuichi Seki

* José Luis Ballester

* José Luis Ballester

* Martin López-Zubero, Ramón Camallonga, José Luis Ballester, and José Hernando

* José Luis Ballester

* José Luis Ballester and Fernando Leon — Sailing, men's Tornado competition

* José Luis Ballester

* José Cortéz ( born May 1975 ), professional NFL place-kicker

José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945 ) is a Nicaraguan politician.

Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, in 1746 to José Benito de Goya y Franque and Gracia de Lucientes y Salvador.

Furtado was born on December 2, 1978, in Victoria, British Columbia, to Portuguese parents, Maria Manuela and António José Furtado, both immigrants from the Azores.

José Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL (; born 26 December 1949 ) was the President of East Timor from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012, the second since independence from Indonesia.

José Antonio Domínguez Banderas ( born 10 August 1960 ), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer.

Banderas was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain, on 10 August 1960, to Ana Banderas, a school teacher, and José Domínguez, a police officer in the Guardia Civil.

Although some people believe he was actually born in the Bolívar residence located in San Mateo in Aragua State, which belonged to the Caracas province by 1783, it is officially claimed that Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas, Captaincy General of Venezuela ( now the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ), on July 24, 1783 and he was baptized as Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (, born José Alexandre Gusmão,, on 20 June 1946 ) is an East Timorese politician.

In 1971, Gusmão completed his national service, his son was born, and he became involved with a nationalist organization headed by José Ramos-Horta.

Father Narciso Durán became the pastor of the mission in 1806, and remained until he was replaced by Father José González Rubio in February 1833 as part of a post-independence policy requiring the replacement of Spanish-born clerics with those born in Mexico.

* Francisco José Castro Fernandes ( born 1981 ), Portuguese footballer known as " Chico "

* José Manuel Flores Moreno ( born 1987 ), Spanish footballer known as " Chico "

* José Dumont ( born 1950 ), Brazilian TV and movie actor

Joseph ( José ) Bové ( born June 11, 1953 in Talence, Gironde ) is a French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina.

José Miguel González Martín del Campo, aka Míchel ( born 23 March 1963 in Madrid ), is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right midfielder, and a current coach.

* José Antonio Hermida ( born 1978 ), World Champion Cross Country Mountain bike 2010

* José Ramos-Horta ( born 1949 ), an East Timor politician

Dr. Rafael José Diaz ( born April 22, 1955 ) is a Puerto Rican television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital.

* José de Jesús Méndez Vargas ( born 1974 ), nickname El Chango, alleged Mexican drug cartel leader