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José Fernández

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ413501 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Fernández may refer to:

Arts, academia and entertainment

José Antonio Fernández de Castro (1887–1951), Cuban journalist and writer

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776–1827), Mexican writer and political journalist

José Fernández Montesinos (1897–1972), Spanish historian and literary critic

José Fernández Santillán (born 1953), Mexican academic

José Ramón Fernández (journalist) (born 1946), Mexican journalist

Joseíto Fernández (1908–1979), Cuban singer

Business

José Antonio Fernández Carbajal (born 1954), Mexican businessman

José Ramon Fernández (businessman) (1808–1883), sugar baron in Puerto Rico

Politics and government

Guadalupe Victoria (born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández, 1786–1843), first president of Mexico

José Fernández Salvador (1775–1853), Ecuadorian politician and jurist

José Fernández Madrid (1789–1830), Colombian statesman, physician, scientist, and writer

José Luciano Fernández (active 1835–1836), acting governor of San Juan, Argentina

Jose B. Fernandez Jr.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “José Fernández” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through José, Fernández and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1951, 1776, 1827—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, José, Fernández and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “José Fernández” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.