title: Melquíades
text: # Melquíades
  
  Melquíades is a Spanish given name. It is the Spanish form of the Greek name Melchiades, as in Pope Miltiades.
  
  ## Notable individuals
  
  * Melquíades Álvarez (politician) (1864–1936), Spanish politician, founder and leader of the Reformist Republican Party
  * Melquíades Morales (born 1942), Mexican lawyer and politician, affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional
  * Melquíades Fundora, Cuban flautist
  * Mel Martinez, (born 1946), American politician, former US Senator from Florida, Chairman of the Republican Party
  * Mel Rojas (born 1966), Dominican baseball pitcher
  
  ## Fiction
  
  * Melquíades Estrada, character in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  * Melquíades, character in One Hundred Years of Solitude
  * Melquíades Elquiza, character in The Cook of Castamar
  
  ## Other
  
  * Melquíades, official name of exoplanet HD 93083 b
  