title: Giron
text: # Giron
  
  Giron or Girón may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  Girón or Giron is a Spanish and French surname and refer to the following people:
  
  * Alicia Girón García (1938-2020), Spanish librarian
  * Gabriel Girón (born 1988), Mexican basketball player
  * José Antonio Girón, Falangist politician
  * Pedro Girón (disambiguation), several people with this name
  * Socorro Girón, a Puerto Rican historian
  * Marcos Giron, American tennis player
  * Charles Giron, Swiss painter
  
  ## Places
  
  * Giron, France
  * Giron, the Sami-language name of Kiruna, Sweden
  * Girón, Santander, a town in Colombia
  * Playa Girón, location of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
  * Girón, Azuay, a town and canton in Ecuador
  
  ## Others
  
  * Girón (newspaper), official organ of the Communist Party provincial committee in Matanzas, Cuba
  * Girón Formation, a geological formation in the Andes
  