Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
1926 - 2008
Prime Minister of Spain, Minister of Economy
Josefina de la Torre
1907 - 2002
Poet, novelist, opera singer, and actress
Fernando Martin Espina
1962 - 1989
Basketball player
Federico Garcia Lorca
1898 - 1936
Novelist and poet
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
1617 - 1682
Painter of the Spanish Baroque school
Santiago Ramon Cajal
1852 - 1934
Father of modern neuroscience
Francisco Franco
1892 - 1975
Leader of the Nationalist forces
Federico Martin Bahamontes
1928 - 2023
Road racing cyclist
Antoni Gaudi
1852 - 1926
Architect and pioneer of Modernism
Cilla Black
1943 - 2015
Singer and television presenter
Demola Seriki
1959 - 2022
Nigerian ambassador to Spain
Buenaventura Durruti
1896 - 1936
Member of Los Justicieros, Los Solidarios
Maria Pilar Bruguera Sabat
1906 - 1994
nun and physician
Caravaggio
1571 - 1610
Painter
Christopher Columbus
1541 - 1506
Explorer
Bartolomeu de Gusmao
1685 - 1724
Priest and inventor
Bigas Luna
1946 - 2013
Film director, designer and artist
Segundo de Chomon
1871 - 1929
Film director, cinematographer, screenwriter
Pau Dones
1966 - 2020
Jarabe de Palo vocalist
Vicente Aleixandre
1898 - 1984
winner of the Cervantes,and the Lenin Peace Prize
Necla Hibetullah Sultan
1926 - 2006
Ottoman and Egyptian royalty
Vintila Horia
1915 - 1992
Writer
Casto Mendez Nunez
1824 - 1869
Naval officer and admiral
Alfredo Torero
1930 - 2004
anthropologist, linguist
Concha Espina
1869 - 1955
Novelist and poet
Hernando de Soto
1496 - 1542
Explorer and conquistador of Central America
Angelines Fernandez
1924 - 1994
Actress and comedian
Dolores Ibarruri
1895 - 1989
Member of the Communist Party of Spain
Camilo Sesto
1946 - 2019
Singer, songwriter,music producer of romantic pop
Carlos Saura
1932 - 2023
Film director, producer, actor
Salvador Dali
1904 - 1989
Painter and pioneer of Surrealism
Luis Bunuel
1900 - 1983
Film director and screenwriter
Gregorio Maranon
1887 - 1960
Endocrinologist and essayist
Jenaro Perez Villaamil
1807 - 1854
Landscape painter with figures
Lew Hoad
1934 - 1994
tennis player
Bert Trautmann
1923 - 2013
Footballer for Manchester City
Vicente Enrique y Tarancon
1907 - 1994
Cardinal and Archbishop of Madrid
Concepcion Arenal
1820 - 1893
Writer, jurist, thinker, journalist, poet
El Greco
1541 - 1614
Painter and architect of the Spanish Renaissance
Garcilaso de la Vega
1562 - 1635
Playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Age
Lluis Rigalt
1814 - 1894
Painter of the Spanish Mannerist school
Guillermo Timoner
1926 - 2023
Professional cyclist
Adolfo Suarez
1932 - 2014
Prime minister of Spain, president of the Union
Nino Bravo
1944 - 1973
Baroque pop and ballad singer
Elbira Zipitria
1906 - 1982
Basque language teacher and activist
Justo Sierra Mendez
1848 - 1912
Writer, Historian, Journalist, Poet
Eugenio Lucas Velazquez
1817 - 1870
Romantic painter
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
1836 - 1870
Poet, writer, journalist,author of Rimas Leyendas
Marcelino Menendez Pelayo
1856 - 1912
Literary critic and philologist
Joan Miro
1893 - 1983
Painter, sculptor and ceramicist
Maria Teresa Oller
1920 - 2018
composer and folklorist of the Valencian Community
Juan de la Cierva
1895 - 1936
Aeronautical engineer inventor of the autogiro
Maria Dolores Pradera
1924 - 2018
Spanish melodic singer and actress
Francisco Tarrega
1852 - 1909
Classical guitar composer and performer
Almudena Grandes
1960 - 2021
Writer and novelist
Laurence Olivier
1907 - 1989
Actor and director
Santiago Carrillo
1915 - 2012
Secretary-general of the Communist Party of Spain
Josep Comas i Sola
1868 - 1937
Astronomer and popularizer of science
Miguel de Unamuno
1866 - 1936
Writer and philosopher of the Spanish Modernism
Juan Marse
1933 - 2020
Novelist, journalist and screenwriter
Juan Pujol Garcia
1912 - 1988
Double agent loyal to Great Britain against Nazi
Enrique Granados
1876 - 1916
Composer, pianist, conductor
Francisco Giner de los Rios
1839 - 1915
Philosopher, literary critic
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
1517 - 1586
Minister of the Spanish Habsburgs
Jose Echegaray
1832 - 1916
dramatist, civil engineer and statesman
Andres Segovia
1893 - 1987
Classical guitarist and virtuoso
Lina Morgan
1937 - 2015
Comedy actress and theater owner
Manuel Santana
1938 - 2021
Tennis player
Maria Zambrano
1904 - 1991
Philosopher and essayist of the Generation of '36
Felix Lope de Vega
1562 - 1635
Playwright and poet of the Spanish Golden Age
Luis Ocana
1945 - 1994
Road bicycle racer
Ivan Zulueta
1943 - 2009
Film director, designer, screenwriter, actor
Francisco Goya
1746 - 1828
Painter and printmaker
Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia
1911 - 1992
Film director, documentary maker, producer, actor
Maria Josefa Cerrato Rodriguez
1897 - 1981
Veterinarian, professor and pharmacist
Francisco Javier Castanos Aragorri
1758 - 1852
Military commander and politician
Paul Naschy
1934 - 2009
Actor and director of horror films
Clara Campoamor
1888 - 1972
Politician, lawyer, writer, journalist, feminist
Rosalia de Castro
1837 - 1885
Poet, writer, journalist, author
Esteban Terradas i Illa
1883 - 1950
Mathematician, physicist and engineer
Rocio Durcal
1944 - 2006
Singer actress of canción melódica ranchera genres
John David McAfee
1945 - 2021
Computer programmer
Antonio Machado
1875 - 1939
Poet and leading figure of the Generation of '98
Teresa of Avila
1515 - 1582
Carmelite nun and writer
Teresa Berganza
1933 - 2022
Mezzo-soprano opera singer and teacher
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1475 - 1519
Explorer and governor of Panama
Aureliano de Beruete
1845 - 1912
Painter and politician
Angel Nieto
1947 - 2017
Grand Prix motorcycle racer
Angela Ruiz Robles
1895 - 1975
Inventor of the mechanical precursor
Miguel Delibes
1920 - 2010
Writer, novelist, journalist
Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan
1866 - 1936
Writer and dramatist of the Spanish Modernism
Juan Antonio Bardem
1922 - 2002
Film director and screenwriter
Pablo Casals
1876 - 1973
Cellist, composer, conductor
Joaquin Turina
1882 - 1949
Classical music composer and performer
Joaquim Espalter
1809 - 1880
Painter and art critic
Andres Manuel del Rio
1764 - 1849
Discoverer of vanadium
Benito Perez Galdpos
1843 - 1920
Spanish realist novelist and playwright
Bert Kaempfert
1923 - 1980
Orchestra leader, music producer
Eugenia Osterberger
1852 - 1932
Composer and pianist
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
1903 - 1936
Founder and leader of Falange Española
Manuel Azana
1880 - 1940
Minister of War, Prime Minister
Manolo Escobar
1931 - 2013
Singer of Andalusian copla and other Spanish music
Joe Lynch
1926 - 2001
Actor and singer
Alfredo Kraus
1927 - 1999
Opera singer, especially in bel canto roles
Joana Sainz Garcia
1989 - 2019
Super Hollywood Orchestra member
Pio Baroja
1872 - 1956
Writer, novelist, biographer, physician
Don Raimundo
1090 - 1152
Archbishop of Toledo and patron of the Toledan
Catherine of Aragon
1485 - 1536
First wife of Henry VIII and Queen of England
Seve Ballesteros
1957 - 2011
Professional golfer and Ryder Cup captain
Avelina Carrera
1871 - 1939
Opera singer
Diego de los Rios
1850 - 1911
Last Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albeniz y Pascual
1860 - 1909
Spanish composer and pianist of the Post-Romantic
Conchita Supervia
1895 - 1936
Opera singer and recitalist
Fernando Rey
1917 - 1994
Actor
Blas de Lezo
1689 - 1741
naval officer and strategist
Pilar Bardem
1939 - 2021
Actress and activist
Antonio Buero Vallejo
1916 - 2000
Playwright, jurist, thinker, journalist, poet
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
1852 - 1934
Neuroscience, neuroanatomy, histology
Walter Benjamin
1892 - 1940
Philosopher and cultural critic
Helena Cortesina
1903 - 1984
director, actor, producer, theatrical entrepreneur
Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila
1787 - 1853
Founder of toxicology
Maruja Mallo
1902 - 1995
Painter
Liam Hampson
1998 - 2020
Rugby league player for Redcliffe Dolphins
Jean Negulesco
1900 - 1993
Film Director
Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
1783 - 1854
Founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity
Ignacio Barraquer Barraquer
1884 - 1965
Ophthalmologist
John of Avila
1499 - 1569
Reformer, preacher, author, spiritual director
Leonardo Torres Quevedo
1852 - 1936
Mathematician, physicist and engineer
Maria Blanchard
1881 - 1932
Painter and pioneer of Cubism
Baltasar Gracian
1601 - 1658
Baroque prose writer and philosopher
Rocio Orsi Portalo
1976 - 2014
Philosopher, essayist, and translator
Carmen Conde Abellan
1907 - 1996
Poet, narrative writer, teacher
Francisco Vinas
1863 - 1933
Operatic tenor
Montserrat Caballe
1933 - 2018
Opera singer
Jose Celestino Bruno Mutis
1732 - 1808
Botanist, mathematician, priest, artist
Frederica of Hanover
1917 - 1981
Queen consort of Greece
Alicia de Larrocha
1923 - 2009
pianist and composer
Amerigo Vespucci
1451 - 1512
Explorer
Hipolito Lazaro
1887 - 1974
Opera singer
Antonio Flores
1961 - 1995
Singer, songwriter, and actor
Severo Ochoa
1905 - 1993
Biochemist and molecular biologist
Louay Hussein
1960 - 2022
Writer and opposition activist
Horatio Nelson
1758 - 1805
Naval commander
Julian Marias
1914 - 2005
Philosopher, writer, professor and essayist
Maria de la O Lejarraga
1874 - 1974
Writer, dramatist, translator and politician
Iosif Constantin Dragan
1917 - 2008
Businessman, Historian
Eugenio Montero Rios
1832 - 1914
Prime minister of Spain, minister of Grace
Juan Martin Diez
1775 - 1825
Guerrilla leader and military general
Manuel de Falla
1876 - 1946
Composer, pianist, conductor
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