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Mary, mother of Jesus

9 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Christopher Columbus

8 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Juan Carlos I of Spain

8 Juan Carlos I is a member of the Spanish royal family. He was the King of Spain from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. In Spain, since his abdication, Juan Carlos has usually been referred to as the...

Fernando León y Castillo

6 Fernando León y Castillo, 1st Marquess of Muni was a Spanish politician and diplomat, he decided on an intervention of Spain and North Africa.

Saint Dominic

5 Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his...

Anthony of Padua

5 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

John the Baptist

5 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy,...

Francis of Assisi

4 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of...

Francisco Pizarro

4 Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

Benito Pérez Galdós

4 Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de...

José Calvo Sotelo

3 José Calvo Sotelo, 1st Duke of Calvo Sotelo, GE was a Spanish jurist and politician. He was the minister of finance during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and a leading figure during the...

César Manrique

3 César Manrique Cabrera was a Spanish artist, architect and nature activist from Lanzarote. In his early career he was primarily a painter, influencing early Spanish informalism and abstract art. He...

Miguel Hernández

3 Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low...

Manuel de Falla

3 Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the...

Cosme Damián Churruca

3 Admiral Cosme Damián de Churruca y Elorza was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. During the Battle of Trafalgar, he was the commanding officer of the ship of the line San Juan Nepomuceno, which...

Michael (archangel)

3 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Saint Roch

2 Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the...

Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur

2 Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur y Gonzáles, OFB, also called Hermano Pedro de San José Betancurt or more simply Peter de Betancurt, Hermano Pedro, Santo Hermano Pedro, or San Pedro de Vilaflor,...

Thomé Cano

2 Thomé Cano fue un marino español, autor de una obra sobre construcción naval titulada Arte para fabricar, fortificar, y aparejar naos de guerra, y merchante, publicada en 1611.

Sancho Panza

2 Sancho Panza 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...

Peter González

2 Peter González Telmo, OP, also known as Saint Elmo, was a Castilian Dominican friar and priest, born in 1190 in Frómista, Palencia, Kingdom of Castile and Leon.

Antonio Domínguez Ortiz

2 Antonio Domínguez Ortiz was a Spanish historian, one of the leading specialists in the history of the Spanish Antiguo Régimen of the 16th through 18th centuries, in particular in social history. He...

Juan Bravo Murillo

2 Juan Bravo Murillo was a Spanish politician, jurist and economist. He was prime minister of Spain from 14 January 1851 to 14 December 1852 during the reign of Isabella II.

Simón Bolívar

2 Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,...

Mark the Evangelist

2 Mark the Evangelist, also known as John Mark or Saint Mark, was a Libyan who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern scholars agree that the Gospel of Mark is...

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

2 Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516 to 1554, and also Lord of the Netherlands and titular...

Tony Gallardo

2 Tony Gallardo (Antonio Gallardo Navarro) (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España, 6 de abril de 1929-ib., 28 de julio de 1996) fue un escultor y político español.

Àngel Guimerà

2 Àngel Guimerà i Jorge, usually known simply as Àngel Guimerà, was a Catalan Spanish playwright and poet. His work is known for bringing together under romantic aspects the main elements of realism....

Clement of Rome

2 Clement of Rome, also known as Pope Clement I, was the Bishop of Rome in the late first century. He is considered to be the first of the Apostolic Fathers of the Church.

Miguel de Unamuno

2 Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novels were...

Saint Sebastian

2 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

Isaac Albéniz

2 Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on...

José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones

2 José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones de León was a Spanish politician, leader of the CEDA, Spain's first mass and modern right-wing party, and a prominent figure in the period leading up to the Spanish...

Alfonso XIII

2 Alfonso XIII, also known as El Africano or the African for his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He became a...

Francis Xavier

2 Francis Xavier, venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary. He co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian...

Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain

2 Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain was an Infante of Spain and the youngest son of Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma. He was the brother of Ferdinand VII and the uncle and father-in-law...

Pope John XXIII

2 Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

2 Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in...

Luis Morote

2 Luis Morote y Greus fue un escritor, periodista y político español perteneciente al regeneracionismo.

Bernardo de la Torre

2 Bernardo de la Torre or della Torres was a Spanish explorer during the Age of Discovery. He participated in Ruy López de Villalobos's failed expedition to establish a greater Spanish presence in the...

Pope Pius XII

2 Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.

Galileo Galilei

2 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of...

Augustine of Hippo

2 Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Roman Africa. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius from Thagaste in Numidia Cirtensis,. His writings deeply influenced the development...

Tomás Morales Castellano

2 Tomás Morales Castellano fue un poeta español, máximo representante del modernismo lírico insular e iniciador de la poesía canaria moderna. Es considerado uno de los principales poetas del modernismo...

Bentejuí

2 Bentejuí fue un aborigen de la isla de Gran Canaria conocido por ser el caudillo que lideró la última resistencia aborigen ante la conquista castellana de la isla a finales del siglo XV.

Maninidra

2 Maninidra was a Guanche from Gran Canaria. He was the brother of the Guanarteme (king) Tenesor Semidan, later known as Fernando Guanarteme. Maninidra was the mastermind and executor of the...

Antonio José Álvarez de Abreu, 1st Marquis de la Regalía

2 Antonio José Álvarez de Abreu was a notable figure in Spanish history, Marquis de la Regalía by King Philip V of Spain on 8 July 1738.

Manuel Velázquez Cabrera

2 Manuel Velázquez Cabrera fue un abogado y político español, nacido el 11 de noviembre de 1863 en Tiscamanita, pueblo del municipio majorero de Tuineje, en la isla canaria de Fuerteventura. Se le...

Nicolás Estévanez

2 Nicolás Estévanez Murphy was a Spanish military officer, politician, essayist and poet. A federal republican, he briefly served as civil governor of Madrid and as Minister of War in the wake of the...

Ataúlfo Argenta

2 Ataúlfo Exuperio Martín de Argenta Maza was a Spanish conductor and pianist.                       

Diego Velázquez

2 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of...

Alonso de Alvarado

2 Alonso de Alvarado Montaya González de Cevallos y Miranda (1500–1556) was a Spanish conquistador and knight of the Order of Santiago.

Luis de Góngora

2 Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic prebendary for the Church of Córdoba. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most...

Bartolomé García Ximénez Rabadán

2 Bartolomé García Ximénez Rabadán fue obispo de Canarias entre 1665-1690. Fue el segundo obispo con un pontificado más largo en esta diócesis, tras Antonio Pildain y Zapiain.

Juan Núñez de la Peña

2 Juan Núñez de la Peña was a Spanish historian. Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, he studied Latin and the humanities in the college of San Agustín de La Laguna and was subsequently ordained priest....

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

2 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a journalist, politician, and a bestselling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films...

Saint Joseph

2 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Rafael Alberti

2 Rafael Alberti Merello was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Literature, and he won...

Albert Einstein

2 Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence...

Saint Peter

2 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears...

Fernando Guanarteme

2 Fernando Guanarteme was a Guanche King and ally of the Spaniards who assisted them in their conquest of the Canary Islands during the late fifteenth century. He was originally from Gran Canaria. He...

Thomas Edison

2 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which...

Denis Diderot

2 Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a...

Lope de Vega

2 Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature. In the literature of Spain, Lope de Vega is...

Lope de Hoces

2 Lope de Hoces was a Spanish admiral who was killed in action at the Battle of the Downs.