• Source: Rovira (surname)

Rovira (Eastern Calatan: [ruˈβiɾə]) is a surname of Catalan origin. It is derived from the Latin: robereda, "oak grove", meaning that it is etymologically akin to another Catalan surname, Roureda. Variants of Rovira include Rovires, Robira, Ruvira, Rubira, Rubires, Roïra and Ruyra, as well as the compound forms Roviralta, Roviro, Rovireta, Rovirola and Rubirosa.




List of persons with the surname


Gaspar de Portolá i Rovira (1716-1786), Spanish Catalan noble, soldier, explorer
Antoni Rovira i Virgili (1882–1949), Spanish Catalan politician
Antoni Rovira i Trias (1816–1889), Spanish Catalan architect
Carlos Rovira (born 1956), Argentine politician
Custodio García Rovira (1780–1816), Neogranadine general and statesman
Francesc Rovira i Sala (1764–1820), priest and partisan leader of the Peninsular War
Francisco Rovira Beleta (1913–1999), Spanish Catalan screenwriter and film director
Jacme Rovira, medieval Catalan poet
Josep Rovira Soler (1900–1998), Spanish Catalan painter
Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira (born 1952), Spanish Catalan politician
José Miguel Rovira (c. 1920–1993), Puerto Rican industrialist
Luis D. Rovira (1923–2011), justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Pere de Rovira (1143–1158), Catalonia, Spain, Knights Templar (First Provincial Master)




Others


Rovira Biscuits Corporation, the crackers company




References

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