Tamayo (surname)
Tamayo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Cuban cosmonaut
- Francisco Tamayo, Venezuelan botanist
- Franz Tamayo, Bolivian intellectual
- Gustavo Tamayo, Colombian ophthalmologist
- Jeff Tamayo, pioneer of Taekwondo and military officer in the Philippines
- José Luis Tamayo, Ecuadorian president
- Juan José Tamayo, Spanish theologian
- Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Spanish dramatist
- María Fernanda Tamayo, Ecuadorian police official
- Misael Tamayo Hernández, Mexican journalist
- Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
