Pacheco
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- Alex Pacheco (activist) (born 1958), animal rights activist, co-founder of PETA.
- Ángel Pacheco (general) (1793–1869), Argentine military officer who later became one of the top commanders in the Confederacy during the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas
- Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785), Spanish cartographer and artist
- Cosme Pacheco (c.1803–c.1851), Peruvian cavalry officer, in military campaigns for the independence of Peru, 1821-1825
- Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1460–1533), Portuguese sea captain, soldier, explorer and cartographer
- José Francisco Pacheco (born 1951), Portuguese educator
- Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco (1650–1725), Spanish aristocrat, politician, academician and general
- María Pacheco Padilla (c. 1496–1531), Spanish military defender of the city of Toledo
- Rafael Pacheco (born 1954), Spanish astronomer
- Rodrigo Pacheco, 3rd Marquess of Cerralvo (c. 1565–1652), Spanish nobleman, inquisitor of Valladolid, and viceroy
In arts and entertainment
- Alexis Mateo Pacheco (born 1979), Puerto Rican drag queen
- Ana Maria Pacheco (born 1943), Brazilian artist
- Arturo Pacheco Altamirano (1903–1978), Chilean painter
- Carlos Pacheco (1962–2022), Spanish comic book artist
- Fernando Castro Pacheco (1918–2013), Mexican painter
- Fernando González Pacheco (1932–2014), Colombian television presenter
- Francisco Pacheco (1564–1644), Spanish painter and writer on art theory
- Francisco Pacheco (born 1955), Venezuelan singer
- Ivo Pacheco (born 1989), Portuguese musician known professionally as IVVVO
- Johnny Pacheco (1935–2021), Dominican musician, composer, producer and bandleader. Creator of Fania All-Stars. Coined the term "Salsa"
- María Luisa Pacheco (1919–1982), a Bolivian painter and mixed-media artist who emigrated to the United States
- "Mizzy" Pacheco (21st century), former lead singer of the American alternative rock band Against All Will
- Richard Pacheco (born 1948), American pornographic actor, real name Howie Gordon
- Tom Pacheco, (born 1946) American singer and songwriter
- Joaquín Monserrat (1921–1996), known as Pacheco, Spanish comedian and host of children programs
Writers
- Agustín Díaz Pacheco (born 1952), Spanish writer
- Cristina Pacheco (1941–2023), Mexican journalist, writer and television personality
- Ibéyise Pacheco (born 1961), Venezuelan journalist and writer
- Jesús López Pacheco (1930–1997), Spanish-Canadian writer
- José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014), was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer
- Luis Pacheco de Narváez (1570–1640), Spanish writer on fencing
- Luiz Pacheco (1925–2008), Portuguese writer, publisher, polemicist and literary critic
- Raquel Pacheco (born 1984), Brazilian writer
