title: Avelino
text: # Avelino
  
  Avelino may refer to:
  
  ## Given name
  
  ### Sports
  
  * Avelino Acosta (1917–2008), Paraguayan football (soccer) player
  * Avelino Asprilla (born 1981), former minor league baseball player
  * Avelino Cañizares (1919–1983), former professional baseball shortstop
  * Avelino Chaves (1931–2021), Spanish footballer
  * Avelino Gomez (1928–1980), Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian thoroughbred horse racing
  * Avelino Jackson Coelho (born 1986), known as Jajá Coelho, Brazilian football forward/midfielder
  * Avelino Lopes (footballer) (born 1974), Angolan football player
  * Avelino Martins (1905–?), Portuguese footballer
  * Eduardo Avelino Magaña (born 1984), athlete from Mexico
  * Julio Avelino Comesaña (born 1948), Uruguayan football manager and former Uruguayan footballer
  
  ### Politics
  
  * Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836–1923), three times President of Peru during the 19th century
  * Avelino Coelho da Silva, candidate in the Presidential Elections in East Timor in April 2007
  * Avelino González-Claudio (born 1942), Puerto Rican independence activist who served time in a U.S. federal prison
  * Avelino Méndez Rangel (born 1958), Mexican politician
  
  ### Other people
  
  * Avelino Arredondo, Uruguayan assassin
  * Avelino Cachafeiro (1899–1972), Galician musician who played the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe
  * Avelino Corma Canos (born 1951), Spanish chemist working on heterogeneous catalysis
  
  ## Surname
  
  * José Avelino (1890–1986), first President of the Senate of the Third Republic of the Philippines
  * Nuno Avelino (born 1976), Portuguese professional footballer, goalkeeper
  * Paulo Avelino (born 1988), Filipino television and film actor, model and singer
  
  ## Stage name
  
  * Avelino (rapper) (born 1993), English musician signed to Labrinth's Odd Child Recordings
  
  ## Municipalities
  
  * Pedro Avelino, municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil
  * Senador Georgino Avelino, municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil
  * Avelino Lopes, municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil
  