Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto is the name of two people in history:
- A Spanish explorer of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, renowned for his explorations of North America. See Hernando de Soto (explorer) (~1496 - 1542)
- A Peruvian economist of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, renowned for his advocacy of land reform as a means of enhancing capitalism and relieving Third World poverty. See Hernando de Soto (economist) (1941- ).