Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Porlier and the second or maternal family name is Asteguieta.

Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta (1771 – 1819) was an officer of the Spanish Navy who was born in Lima and participated in the Peninsular War. Porlier Bay in Livingston Island, Antarctica, where he died, is named after him.

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