Most prominent bearers: Getúlio Vargas (1882–1954), Brazilian president and dictator who shaped 20th-century Brazil; and Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), Peruvian Nobel laureate novelist (Chinese
巴尔加斯·
略萨 or
瓦格斯·
略萨). Vargas surname comes from the Iberian word for 'steep slopes / sloping land'.