Sancho Panza
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fictional character in the novel Don Quixote
Key facts
- Created by
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Portrayed by
- Irving Jacobson , Tony Martinez , Bob Hoskins , Ernie Sabella , James Coco , Jacob Batalon , Kim Yea-lim
- Gender
- Male
- Title
- Hidalgo
- Occupation
- Peasant / Squire
- Spouse
- Teresa Cascajo de Panza
- Children
- María Sancha Panza Cascajo, Sanchica
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Nationality
- Spanish
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Sancho
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- farmer
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Creator
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Image
- 1879, El ingenioso hidalgo D. Quijote de la Mancha, Sancho Panza, Mestres (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- sidekick of
- Alonso Quijano
- Commons category
- Sancho Panza
- name in native language
- Sancho Panza
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Encyclopedic overview
Sancho Panza (/ˈpænzə/; Spanish: [ˈsantʃo ˈpanθa]) is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humour, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit. Panza in Spanish means "belly" (cf. English "paunch," Italian pancia, several Italian dialects panza, Portuguese and Galician pança, French panse, Romanian pântec, Catalan panxa).
Don Quixote
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sancho Panza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.