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Che Guevara, pronounced "tchey gey-VA-ra"), is the way to spell the name Che Guevara. The masculine proper name references a famous diplomat, physician, revolutionary, theorist and writer whose complete name was Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna since in Latin American culture the last name is alphabetized under the father's name -- Guevara in this case -- even though it is followed by the mother's paternal family name -- de la Serna in this instance. Dr. Guevara was known as Che, because as a native of Rosario, Argentina, he had the habit of inserting the filler-word che("Hey!") in his conversations.

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