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Mary, mother of Jesus

255 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...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

172 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...

Miguel de Cervantes

169 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel...

Saint Roch

138 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...

Christopher Columbus

126 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...

Saint Joseph

122 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.

Anthony of Padua

121 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.

Francis of Assisi

111 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...

Juan Carlos I

106 Juan Carlos I is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014. In Spain, since his abdication, Juan Carlos has usually...

Michael (archangel)

105 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...

John the Apostle

104 John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament....

Isidore the Laborer

99 Isidore the Laborer, born Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, also known as Isidore the Farmer, was a Mozarab farmworker who lived in medieval Madrid. Known for his piety toward the poor and animals, he is...

Saint Peter

98 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...

Saint Anne

90 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Jesus

89 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Saint Sebastian

88 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...

Roque González y de Santa Cruz

82 Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ was a Guaraní-Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani in Paraguay. He was murdered in 1628 and is venerated as a martyr and a saint by...

Alexander Fleming

81 Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its...

Federico García Lorca

80 Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of...

Antonio Machado

76 Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the...

Pablo Picasso

68 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century,...

Andrew the Apostle

66 Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus.

Prince of Asturias

64 Prince or Princess of Asturias is the main substantive title used by the heir apparent, or heir presumptive to the Spanish Crown.

James I of Aragon

62 James I the Conqueror was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and King of Valencia from 1238 to 1276. His long reign of...

Pope John XXIII

62 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.

Pablo Casals

60 Pau Casals i Defilló, also known in English as Pablo Casals, was a Catalan and Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo,...

Rosalía de Castro

60 María Rosalía Rita de Castro, was a Galician poet and novelist, considered one of the most important figures of the 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism. Widely regarded as the...

Francisco Goya

58 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings,...

Jacint Verdaguer

58 Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement...

Saint Dominic

57 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...

Salvador of Horta

57 Salvador of Horta was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother from the region of Catalonia in Spain, who was celebrated as a miracle worker during his lifetime. He is honored as a saint by the Catholic...

Hernán Cortés

54 Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire...

Concepción Arenal

54 Concepción Arenal Ponte was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she...

Miguel Hernández

54 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...

Jaime Balmes

52 Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá was a Spanish philosopher, theologian, Catholic apologist, sociologist and political writer. Familiar with the doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Balmes was an original...

Vincent Ferrer

51 Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to...

Juan Ramón Jiménez

51 Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high...

Lope de Vega

50 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...

Severo Ochoa

49 Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in...

Saint George

49 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek...

Diego Velázquez

49 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...

Salamanca

49 Salamanca is a municipality and city in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain, and the capital of the Province of Salamanca. Attached to the comarca of Campo Charro, the city lies on...

Martin of Tours

48 Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including France's Third Republic. A native of Pannonia, he converted to...

Bartholomew the Apostle

48 Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John.

Saint Lawrence

46 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Marina of Aguas Santas

46 Marina of Aguas Santas was a Christian virgin martyr from Aguas Santas, in the province of Ourense. The story of her life as it has been preserved is a mixture of fact and legends.

Jacinto Benavente

46 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the...

Francesc Macià

45 Francesc Macià i Llussà was a Catalan politician who served as the 122nd president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and formerly an officer in the Spanish Army.

Augustine of Hippo

45 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...

James the Great

44 James the Great was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die, after Judas Iscariot, and the first to be martyred. Saint James is...

Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

43 Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo was a Spanish scholar, historian and literary critic. Even though his main interest was the history of ideas, and Hispanic philology in general, he also cultivated poetry,...

Mary Magdalene

43 Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, travelled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. In Gnostic writings, Mary...

Francisco Pizarro

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

Teresa Urrea

41 Teresa Urrea, often referred to as Teresita and also known as Santa Teresa or La Santa de Cábora among the Mayo, was a Mexican mystic, folk healer, and revolutionary insurgent.

Andrés Segovia

41 Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña, was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of Segovia's...

Saint Lucy

41 Lucia of Syracuse, also called Santa Lucia and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic,...

Saint Barbara

40 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.

Pope Pius XII

40 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.

Pablo Iglesias Posse

40 Pablo Iglesias Posse was a Spanish socialist and Marxist labour leader. He is regarded as the father of Spanish socialism, having founded the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1879 and the...

Josep Anselm Clavé

39 Josep Anselm Clavé i Camps also known as José Anselmo Clavé, was a Catalan politician, composer and writer, founder of the choral movement in Catalonia and a promoter of the associative movement.

Mark the Evangelist

38 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...

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

38 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and...

Ausiàs March

37 Ausiàs March was a Valencian poet and knight from Gandia, Valencia. He is considered one of the most important poets of the "Golden Century" of Valencian literature.

Isaac Peral

37 Isaac Peral y Caballero, was a Spanish engineer, naval officer, and designer of the submarine Peral. He joined the Spanish Navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was...

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

37 Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer. He is known as one of the most distinguished poets and writers of the Spanish...

Àngel Guimerà

37 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....

Lluís Companys

37 Lluís Companys i Jover was a Catalan politician from Spain who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.

Antipope Benedict XIII

36 Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor, known as el Papa Luna or Pope Luna, was an Aragonese nobleman who was antipope with the regnal name Benedict XIII during the Western Schism.

Clare of Assisi

36 Chiara Offreduccio, known as Clare of Assisi, is an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.

Rafael Alberti

36 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...

Saint Nicholas

36 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Saint Blaise

36 Blaise of Sebaste was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

35 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...

Enric Prat de la Riba

35 Enric Prat de la Riba i Sarrà was a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer. He was a member of the Centre Escolar Catalanista, where one of the earliest definitions of Catalan nationalism was...

Cristóbal Magallanes

34 Cristóbal Magallanes Jara was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War. He had faced trumped-up charges of inciting rebellion.

Manuel de Falla

34 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...

Clara Campoamor

34 Clara Campoamor Rodríguez was a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer, considered by some the mother of the Spanish feminist movement. She was one of the main promoters for women's suffrage in Spain,...

Miguel de Unamuno

33 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...

Santiago Rusiñol

33 Santiago Rusiñol i Prats was a Spanish painter, poet, journalist, collector and playwright. He was one of the leaders of the Catalan modernisme movement. He created more than a thousand paintings and...

Anthony the Great

33 Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as Anthony of Padua, by various epithets: Anthony of...

Gregorio Marañón

32 Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo, OWL was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher. He married Dolores Moya in 1911, and they had four children.

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo

32 Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquess of Ría de Ribadeo, was a Spanish civil engineer and politician. He was Prime Minister of Spain during 1981 and 1982.

Ignatius of Loyola

32 Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and...

Rose of Lima

31 Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the...

Casto Méndez Núñez

31 Casto Secundino María Méndez Núñez was a Spanish Navy officer. He served in the First Italian War of Independence in Italy in 1849, the Spanish-Moro Conflict in the Philippines in 1861, and the...

Joaquín Sorolla

30 Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are...

Benito Pérez Galdós

30 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...

Jusepe de Ribera

30 Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque...

Narcís Monturiol

29 Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol was a Spanish lawyer, artist, journalist, newspaper publisher and engineer born in Figueres, Catalonia. He was the inventor of the first air-independent and...

Mariana Pineda

29 Mariana de Pineda y Muñoz, generally known as Mariana Pineda, was a Spanish liberalist heroine. May 26th, the anniversary of her execution, is a local holiday in the city of Granada.

José de Espronceda

28 José Ignacio Javier Oriol Encarnación de Espronceda y Delgado was a Romantic Spanish poet, one of the most representative authors of the 19th century. He was influenced by Eugenio de Ochoa, Federico...

Pompeu Fabra

28 Pompeu Fabra i Poch was a Catalan engineer, linguist, and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of the contemporary Catalan language and is considered the father of modern...

Francisco de Zurbarán

27 Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish...

Raphael (archangel)

27 Raphael is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BC. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of...

Joan Maragall

27 Joan Maragall i Gorina was a Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of...

Federica Montseny

27 Frederica Montseny i Mañé was a Spanish anarchist and intellectual who was a notable member of the CNT and served as Minister of Health and Social Assistance in the government of the Second Spanish...

Isabella I of Castile

27 Isabella I was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning together over a...

Antoni Gaudí

26 Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in...

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

26 Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, OFM was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice...

Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio

26 Ramón María de las Mercedes Pérez de Campoamor y Campoosorio, known as Ramón de Campoamor, was a Spanish realist poet and philosopher.

Joaquín Costa

25 Joaquín Costa was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and historian.                           

Eulalia of Barcelona

25 Eulalia, co-patron saint of Barcelona, was a 13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who was martyred in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian. There is some...

Ferdinand III of Castile

25 Ferdinand III, called the Saint, was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berengaria of Castile. Through...

Saint Stephen

25 Stephen is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity. According to the Acts of the Apostles, he was a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who angered members of...

Julio Romero de Torres

25 Julio Romero de Torres was a Spanish painter. His brothers, Rafael and Enrique, also became painters. He created deeply Spanish art, and came to be influenced by modernism and the Generation of '98....

José Antonio Primo de Rivera

25 José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquis of Estella GE, often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish national syndicalist politician who...

Camilo José Cela

24 Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

Queen Victoria

24 Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her...

Vicente Aleixandre

24 Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates...

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

24 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served, briefly, as the first prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then—from 1931 to 1936—as its president.

María Auxilio de los Cristianos

24 María Auxilio de los Cristianos es una advocación de María Auxiliadora creada para la Virgen María y que lleva su nombre desde el año 345 a partir de una homilía de San Juan Crisóstomo, tomó fuerza...

José Canalejas y Méndez

24 José Canalejas y Méndez was a Spanish politician, born in Ferrol, who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1910 until his assassination in 1912.

Catherine of Palma

24 Catherine of Palma was a Spanish canon and mystic from Mallorca. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and her feast day is commonly celebrated on 5 April although in her home town...

Raymond Nonnatus

24 Raymond Nonnatus was a Mercedarian friar and missionary from Catalonia in Spain. His byname, meaning "not born" in Latin, refers to his birth by Caesarean section, his mother having died in labour.

José Serrano (composer)

23 José Serrano Simeón was a Spanish composer, known for producing zarzuelas. He was born in Sueca, Valencia, Spain.

Pope John Paul II

23 Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as...

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente

23 Félix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential television series El Hombre y la Tierra (1974–1980). A...

John Bosco

23 John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of...

Juan de la Cierva

23 Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva, was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a...

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

22 Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, commonly known as Oviedo, was a Spanish soldier, historian, writer, botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies,...

Blas Infante

22 Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian nationalists.

José Echegaray

22 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel...

Tirso de Molina

22 Gabriel Téllez, O. de M., also known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet, as well as a Mercedarian friar, and Catholic priest. He is primarily known for writing The Trickster...

Pope Gregory I

22 Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 until his death on 12 March 604. He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale...

Alfonso XIII

21 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...

Enrique Granados

21 Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianists, he was part of...

Elizabeth of Portugal

21 Elizabeth of Portugal, also known as Elizabeth of Aragon, was Queen of Portugal from 1282 to 1325 as the wife of King Denis. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, under the name Saint...

Rita of Cascia

21 Rita of Cascia, OSA, was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun. After Rita's husband died, she joined a small community of nuns, who later became Augustinians, where she was known both for practicing...

Francisco Espoz y Mina

21 Francisco Espoz y Mina Ilundáin (1781–1836) was a Spanish guerrilla leader and general.             

Charles III of Spain

21 Charles III was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza as Charles I (1731–1735), King of Naples as Charles VII and King of Sicily as Charles III...

Queen Sofía of Spain

21 Sofía is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Juan Carlos I from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. She is the eldest and last surviving child of King Paul...

Saturnino Calleja

21 Saturnino Calleja Fernández fue un editor, pedagogo, escritor y traductor español, fundador de la Editorial Calleja, autor de libros de educación primaria y de lecturas infantiles.

Pablo Neruda

21 Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including...

Louis IX of France

21 Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians. Following the death of his...

Juan Sebastián Elcano

20 Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the...

Joan Miró

20 Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and...

Pío Baroja

20 Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his...

Emilia Pardo Bazán

20 Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa, Countess of Pardo Bazán was a Spanish novelist, journalist, literary critic, poet, playwright, translator, editor and professor.

Isaac Albéniz

20 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 Gabriel y Galán

19 José María Gabriel y Galán was a Spanish poet in Castilian and Extremaduran.                       

Juan Prim

19 Juan Prim y Prats, 1st Count of Reus, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos, 1st Viscount of Bruch was a Spanish general and statesman who was briefly Prime Minister of Spain until his assassination.

Rafael Casanova

19 Rafael Casanova i Comes was a Catalan jurist and supporter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor as a claimant to the Crown of Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession. He became mayor of Barcelona...

Ducado de Ahumada

19 El ducado de Ahumada es un título nobiliario español, con Grandeza de España de primera clase, concedido por la reina Isabel II a Pedro Agustín Girón y de las Casas, iv marqués de las Amarillas y...

John of the Cross

18 St. John of the Cross was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 38 Doctors of the Church.

Michael Servetus

18 Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in...

Luis de Góngora

18 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...

Joan Fuster

18 Joan Fuster i Ortells was an influential Catalan writer. He is considered a major writer in the Valencian language, and his work contributed to reinvigorate left-wing, pro-Catalan nationalism in...

Thomas the Apostle

18 Thomas the Apostle also known as Didymus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "doubting Thomas" because he initially doubted the...

Salvador Allende

18 Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a socialist committed to democracy, he has been...

Teresa of Ávila

18 Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.

Salvador Dalí

18 Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the...

Celso Emilio Ferreiro

18 Celso Emilio Ferreiro Míguez (1912–1979) was a Galicianist activist, writer, poet, and political journalist.

Sabino Arana

17 Sabino Policarpo Arana Goiri, also known by the Basque version of his name, Sabin Polikarpo Arana Goiri, or by his self-styled name Arana ta Goiri'taŕ Sabin, was a Basque writer and the founder of...

Marie Curie

17 Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie "for...

Juan Luis Vives

17 Juan Luis Vives y March was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the southern Habsburg Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insight into early...

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

17 Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, adelantado, and a pirate. He is best known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean while crossing the Isthmus...

Joseph Calasanz

17 Joseph Calasanz, also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Josephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys....

Antonio Maura

17 Antonio Maura Montaner was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions.                     

Adolfo Suárez

17 Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in...

Ramon Llull

17 Ramon Llull, sometimes anglicized as Raymond Lully, was a Mallorcan Catholic philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, apologist and former knight. He invented a philosophical system known as the...

Alfonso X of Castile

16 Alfonso X was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Germany on 1 April. He renounced his...

Lazarus of Bethany

16 Lazarus of Bethany is a figure of the New Testament whose life is restored by Jesus four days after his death, as told in the Gospel of John. The resurrection is considered one of the miracles of...

Emilio Castelar

16 Emilio Castelar y Ripoll was a Spanish republican politician, and a president of the First Spanish Republic.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

16 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...

Don Quixote

16 Don Quixote, the full title being The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is...

Benedict of Nursia

16 Benedict of Nursia, often known as Saint Benedict, was a Christian monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old...

Francisco Vidal y Barraquer

16 Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer was a Spanish Catalan cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Tarragona and Primate of Spain from 1919 until his death; he...

Cecilia of Rome

16 Cecilia of Rome, also spelled Cecelia, was a Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...

John of Austria

16 John of Austria was the illegitimate son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Charles V recognized him in a codicil to his will. John became a military leader in the service of his half-brother, King...

Francesc Pi i Margall

16 Francesc Pi i Margall was a Spanish federalist and republican politician and theorist who served as president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1873. He was also a historian, philosopher,...

José Ortega y Gasset

16 José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His...

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

16 Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there,...

Luis Buñuel

15 Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians and directors to be one of the greatest...

Alfonso XII

15 Alfonso XII, also known as El Pacificador, was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885.

Philip II of Spain

15 Philip II, sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure...

Rubén Darío

15 Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th...

Isabella II

15 Isabella II was Queen of Spain from 1833 until her deposition in 1868. She is the only queen regnant in the history of unified Spain.

José María de Pereda

15 José María de Pereda y Sánchez de Porrúa was a Spanish novelist, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Josep Pla

15 Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural...

Ignacio Zuloaga

15 Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar, Guipuzcoa, near the monastery of Loyola.

Anthony Mary Claret

15 Anthony Mary Claret, was a Spanish Catholic prelate and missionary who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and was the confessor of Isabella II of Spain. He founded the congregation of...

Mariano Fortuny (painter)

15 Mariano Fortuny y Marsal was a Spanish painter known for works focusing on Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, and military painting of Spanish imperial...

John the Baptist

15 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,...

Salvador Espriu

15 Salvador Espriu i Castelló was a Catalan poet from Spain.                                           

Galileo Galilei

14 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...

Gabriel Miró

14 Gabriel Miró Ferrer, known as Gabriel Miró, was a Spanish modernist writer. In 1900 he finished his studies in law at the University of Granada and the University of Valencia. He focused mainly on...

Gloria Fuertes

14 Gloria Fuertes García was a Spanish poet, author of children's literature, and regular participant in children's television shows. She was part of the post-war literary movement of postismo, and a...

Diego de Almagro

14 Diego de Almagro, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits in western South America. He participated with Francisco Pizarro in the Spanish conquest...

Juan de Padilla

14 Juan de Padilla, OFM (1490–1542) was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary who spent much of his life exploring North America with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. He was killed in what would become...

Josep Tarradellas

14 Josep Tarradellas i Joan, 1st Marquess of Tarradellas was a Catalan politician from Spain known for his role as the first president of the Government of Catalonia, after its re-establishment in 1977...

Manuel Curros Enríquez

14 Manuel Curros Enríquez was a Galician writer, poet and journalist. He wrote in the Galician language, and is considered to be one of the leading figures of Galician culture and identity.

Infanta María Cristina of Spain

14 Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, Countess Marone-Cinzano was the fourth surviving child and youngest daughter of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of King...

Maria Torribia

13 Maria Toribia was a Spanish peasant woman who is believed to have married Saint Isidore. She is known in Spain as Santa María de la Cabeza.

Ferdinand II of Aragon

13 Ferdinand II was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of Castile, he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504. He reigned jointly with...

Leonardo Torres Quevedo

13 Leonardo Torres Quevedo was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor, known for his numerous engineering innovations, including aerial trams, airships, catamarans, and remote control. He...

Armando Palacio Valdés

13 Armando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés was a Spanish novelist and critic.           

Gaspar Casal

13 Gaspar Roque Francisco Narciso Casal Julian was a Spanish physician remembered for describing the Casal collar in pellagra.

Vincent de Paul

13 Vincent de Paul, CM was an Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.

Concha Espina

13 María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years.

Bernard of Clairvaux

12 Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian...

Martha

12 Martha is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem and...

Juan de Herrera

12 Juan de Herrera was a Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician.                           

Albert Einstein

12 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...

Mariano Benlliure

12 Mariano Benlliure y Gil was a Spanish sculptor and medallist, who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style.

Francis Xavier

12 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...

Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

12 Antonio Cánovas del Castillo was a Spanish politician and historian known principally for serving six terms as prime minister and his overarching role as "architect" of the regime that ensued with...

Jaume Ferran i Clua

12 Jaume Ferran i Clua was a Spanish-French bacteriologist and sanitarian, contemporary of Robert Koch, and said by his fellows to have made some of the discoveries attributed to Koch. As early as 1885,...

Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana

12 Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana was a Castilian politician and poet who held an important position in society and literature during the reign of John II of Castile.

Dulcinea del Toboso

12 Dulcinea del Toboso is a fictional character who is unseen in Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote. Don Quixote believes he must have a lady, under his personal view that chivalry requires it. As...

Agustina de Aragón

12 Agustina Raimunda María Saragossa i Domènech, better known as Agustina of Aragón, was a Spanish woman who defended Spain during the Peninsular War, first as a civilian and later as a professional...

Víctor Balaguer i Cirera

12 Víctor Balaguer i Cirera was a Spanish politician and author. A native of Barcelona, Catalonia, he was educated at the university there.

Didacus of Alcalá

12 Didacus of Alcalá, also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcalá...

Alexandre Bóveda

12 Alexandre Bóveda Iglesias, commonly known as Alexandre Bóveda, was a Spanish politician and financial officer from Galicia. He is considered one of the most important Galicianist intellectuals during...

Ramón Menéndez Pidal

11 Ramón Menéndez Pidal was a Spanish philologist and historian. He worked extensively on the history of the Spanish language and Spanish folklore and folk poetry. One of his main topics was the history...

Luis de León

11 Luis de León, was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar, theologian and academic.                 

Leonardo da Vinci

11 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame...

Jorge Juan y Santacilia

11 Jorge Gaspar Juan y Santacilia was a Spanish naval officer, mathematician, scientist, astronomer and engineer. He is generally regarded as one of the most important scientific figures of the...

Simón Bolívar

11 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,...

Pablo de Sarasate

11 Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués, commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish virtuoso violinist, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include...

Julian the Hospitaller

11 Saint Julian the Hospitaller is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. He is the patron saint of the cities of Ghent, Belgium; Saint Julian's, Malta; and Macerata,...

Joaquín Rodrigo

11 Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the Concierto de Aranjuez, a cornerstone of the classical...

Daoiz y Velarde

11 La pareja de nombres Daoiz y Velarde suele aludir a los capitanes Luis Daoiz y Torres y Pedro Velarde y Santillán, oficiales de Artillería del cuartel de Monteleón que se sumaron al levantamiento del...

Ramón Cabanillas

11 Ramón Cabanillas Enríquez fue un poeta gallego. Considerado dentro de la literatura gallega como el enlace entre el Rexurdimento y la modernidad literaria del siglo XX, la crítica suele encuadrarlo...

Roger de Flor

11 Roger de Flor, also known as Ruggero/Ruggiero da Fiore or Rutger von Blum or Ruggero Flores, was an Italian military adventurer and condottiere active in Aragonese Sicily, Italy, and the Byzantine...

Gabriela Mistral

11 Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or...

Lope de Rueda

11 Lope de Rueda (c.1505<1510–1565) was a Spanish dramatist and author, regarded by some as the best of his era. A versatile writer, he also wrote comedies, farces, and pasos. He was the precursor to...

Francisco de Quevedo

11 Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora,...

Sancho Panza

11 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...

Miguel Delibes

11 Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy,...

Manuel Carrasco Formiguera

11 Manuel Carrasco i Formiguera, was a Spanish lawyer and Christian democrat Catalan nationalist politician. His execution, by order of Francisco Franco, provoked protests from Catholic journalists such...

Ángel Herrera Oria

10 Ángel Herrera Oria was a Spanish journalist and Roman Catholic politician and later a cardinal. He established the Instituto Social León XIII to promote the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic...

María Zambrano

10 María Zambrano Alarcón was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be...

Joaquín Turina

10 Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer of classical music.                                     

Manuel Azaña

10 Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He...

León Felipe

10 León Felipe Camino Galicia was an anti-fascist Spanish poet who also worked as a professor of literature in Spain and the US.

Juan de Urbieta

10 Juan de Urbieta Berástegui y Lezo was a Spanish infantryman who became famous when he captured king Francis I of France near the end of the Battle of Pavia on 24 February 1525.

Juan de Garay

10 Juan de Garay (1528–1583) was a Spanish conquistador. He served under the Crown of Castille, in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He was governor of Asunción and founded a number of cities in present-day...

María Moliner

10 María Moliner was a Spanish librarian and lexicographer. She is perhaps best known for her Diccionario de uso del español, first published in 1966–1967, when she completed the work started in 1952.

Dolores Ibárruri

10 Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán!,...

Clement of Rome

10 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.

Álvaro de Bazán, Marquis of Santa Cruz

10 Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, was a Spanish admiral and nobleman. He took part, among others, in the seizure of the rock of Vélez de la Gomera (1564), the relief to the...

Juan Vázquez de Mella

10 Juan Vázquez de Mella y Fanjul was a Spanish politician and a political theorist. He is counted among the greatest Traditionalist thinkers, at times considered the finest author of Spanish...

Ramón del Valle-Inclán

10 Ramón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña was a Spanish dramatist, novelist, and member of the Spanish Generation of 98. His work has been described by literary critics as radical in its subversion...

Josep Maria Folch i Torres

10 Josep Maria Folch i Torres fou un novel·lista, narrador i autor teatral. És considerat el creador del teatre català per a infants. La seva extensíssima producció, dedicada sobretot als infants i...

Pau Claris i Casademunt

10 Pau Claris i Casademunt was a Catalan lawyer, clergyman and 94th President of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia at the beginning of the Catalan Revolt. On 16 January 1641 he proclaimed the...

Eduardo Dato

9 Eduardo Dato e Iradier was a Spanish political leader during the Spanish Restoration period. He served three times as Spanish prime minister: from 27 October 1913 to 9 December 1915, from 11 June...

Michelangelo

9 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence...

Victoria Kent

9 Victoria Kent Siano was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician.                                 

Francisco Tomás y Valiente

9 Francisco Tomás y Valiente was a Spanish jurist, historian, and writer. He was professor of history of law in the Autonomous University of Madrid. He presided Spain's Constitutional Court from 1986...

Ruperto Chapí

9 Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers.

Juan de la Cosa

9 Juan de la Cosa was a Castilean navigator and cartographer, known for designing the earliest European world map which incorporated the territories of the Americas discovered in the 15th century.

Joanot Martorell

9 Joanot Martorell was a Valencian knight and writer, best known for authoring the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in Catalan/Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded...

Blas de Otero

9 Blas de Otero was a Spanish poet, associated with the Social poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s in Spain.

Ildefonsus

9 Ildefonsus or Ildephonsus was a scholar and theologian who served as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Toledo for the last decade of his life. His Gothic name was Hildefuns. In the Ethiopian Orthodox...

Enrique Tierno Galván

9 Enrique Tierno Galván was a Spanish politician, sociologist, lawyer and essayist, best known for being the Mayor of Madrid from 1979 to 1986, at the beginning of the new period of Spanish democracy....

Alfonso VI of León and Castile

9 Alfonso VI, nicknamed the Brave or the Valiant, was king of León (1065–1109), Galicia (1071–1109), and Castile (1072–1109).

Luis Chamizo

9 Luis Florencio Chamizo Trigueros was a Spanish writer in Castilian and "Castúo", a dialect in Extremadura. He was born within a humble family and he started writing poems secretly.

Quintero brothers

9 Serafín Álvarez Quintero and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero were Spanish dramatists.                     

Louis Braille

9 Louis Braille was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains...

Pinzón brothers

9 The Pinzón brothers were Spanish sailors, pirates, explorers and fishermen, natives of Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain. Martín Alonso, Francisco Martín and Vicente Yáñez, who participated in...

Ángel Ganivet

9 Ángel Ganivet García was a Spanish writer and diplomat. He was considered a precursor to the Generation of '98.

Juan Ruiz

9 Juan Ruiz, known as the Archpriest of Hita, was a medieval Castilian poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, El Libro de buen amor.

Benigno Quiroga y López Ballesteros

9 Benigno Quiroga y López Ballesteros fue un ingeniero y político español, ministro de la Gobernación durante el reinado de Alfonso XIII.

Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro

9 Friar Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro was a Spanish monk and scholar who led the Spanish Enlightenment. He was an energetic popularizer noted for encouraging scientific and empirical thought in...

Melquíades Álvarez (politician)

9 Melquíades Álvarez Gónzalez-Posada was a Spanish Republican politician, founder and leader of the Reformist Republican Party (Partido Republicano Reformista), commonly known just as Reformist Party...

Montserrat Roig

9 Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra was a Catalan writer of novels, short stories and articles.           

Josep Irla

9 Josep Irla i Bosch was a Catalan businessman and politician. He was a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia and the Spanish Congress in 1932, as an Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya affiliate. He was...

Mercedes of Orléans

9 María de las Mercedes of Orléans was Queen of Spain as the first wife of King Alfonso XII. She was born in Madrid, the daughter of Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of...

Antonio de Nebrija

9 Antonio de Nebrija was a Spanish humanist. He wrote poetry, commented on literary works, and encouraged the study of classical languages and literature, but his most important contributions were in...

Gerardo Diego

9 Gerardo Diego Cendoya was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.                       

Joaquín Blume

9 Joaquín Blume was a Spanish gymnast. The son of a German gymnastics instructor established in Barcelona, he belonged to the gymnastics section of FC Barcelona.

Juan Donoso Cortés

8 Juan Francisco María de la Salud Donoso Cortés y Fernández Canedo, marqués de Valdegamas was a Spanish counter-revolutionary author, diplomat, politician, and Catholic political theologian.

Aemilian of Cogolla

8 Saint Aemilian (; is an Iberic saint, widely revered throughout Spain, who lived during the age of Visigothic rule.

Guglielmo Marconi

8 Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess, was an Italian radio-frequency engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system....

Catholic Monarchs of Spain

8 The Catholic Monarchs were Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose marriage and joint rule marked the de facto unification of Spain. They were both from the House of...

Mother Teresa

8 Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part...

Peter Pascual

8 Peter Pascual, in Latin originally Petrus Paschasius, was a Mozarabic theologian, bishop, and martyr. His very existence has been called into question by recent scholarship.

Gonzalo de Berceo

8 Gonzalo de Berceo was a Spanish poet born in the Riojan village of Berceo, close to the major Benedictine monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla. He is celebrated for his poems on religious subjects,...

San Miguel de Allende

8 San Miguel de Allende is the principal city in the municipality of San Miguel de Allende, located in the far eastern part of Guanajuato, Mexico. A part of the Bajío region, the town lies 274 km...

Helena, mother of Constantine I

8 Flavia Julia Helena, also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was a Greek Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great as well as a...

Mariano Gómez Ulla

8 Mariano Gómez Ulla fue un cirujano militar español. Presente en los campos de batalla de las guerras de África, de la guerra civil española, y en la Primera y Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde desarrolló...

Thomas Edison

8 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...

Eduardo Pondal

8 Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente was a Galician poet, who wrote in both Galician and Spanish.   

Alejandro Casona

8 Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and...

Johannes Gutenberg

8 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's...

José Zorrilla

8 José Zorrilla y Moral was a Spanish poet and dramatist, who became National Laureate.               

Virgen de la Fuensanta (Murcia)

8 La Virgen de la Fuensanta es la patrona principal de la ciudad de Murcia desde que así fuera proclamada en la primera mitad del siglo XVIII. Su onomástica se celebra el domingo siguiente al día 8 de...

Jacinto Guerrero

8 Jacinto Guerrero, was a prolific composer of zarzuelas and revues, as well as some orchestral compositions.

James II of Aragon

8 James II, called the Just, was the King of Aragon and Valencia and Count of Barcelona from 1291 to 1327. He was also the King of Sicily from 1285 to 1295 and the King of Majorca from 1291 to 1298....

Maria Aurèlia Capmany

8 Maria Aurelia Capmany i Farnés was a Catalan novelist, playwright and essayist. She was also a prominent feminist cultural and anti-Franco activist.

Philip Neri

8 Saint Philip Neri, born Filippo Romolo Neri, pronounced [fiˈlippo ˈrɔːmolo ˈneːri] was an Italian Catholic priest who founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a society of secular clergy dedicated to...

Duke of Alba

7 Duke of Alba de Tormes, commonly known as Duke of Alba, is a title of Spanish nobility that is accompanied by the dignity of Grandee of Spain. In 1472, the title of Count of Alba de Tormes, inherited...

Charles Darwin

7 Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a...

Isaac Newton

7 Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the...

Archimedes

7 Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his...

Teodor Llorente Olivares

7 Teodor Llorente Olivares fou un poeta valencià, escriptor en llengua catalana i castellana. És el poeta més reconegut de la Renaixença valenciana, un dels personatges més decisius de les lletres...

Ludwig van Beethoven

7 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music, and his symphonies redefined the medium for later...

Alfonso VIII of Castile

7 Alfonso VIII, called the Noble or the one of Las Navas, was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at Alarcos against the...

Jaime Hilario Barbal

7 Jaime Hilario Barbal, FSC was a Spanish Catholic and professed Brother of the Christian Schools. He served for almost two decades as a teacher in the schools that his order managed until being caught...

Marquesado de Valdecilla

7 El marquesado de Valdecilla es un título nobiliario español creado por el rey Alfonso XIII en favor de Ramón Pelayo de la Torriente, fundador del Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla de la...

Manuel Linares Rivas

7 Manuel Linares-Rivas y Astray-Caneda fue un dramaturgo, político y académico español, hijo del político Aureliano Linares Rivas. Diputado y senador, fue miembro de la Real Academia Española, además...

Beatriz Galindo

7 Beatriz Galindo, sometimes spelled Beatrix and also known as La Latina, was a Spanish Latinist and educator. She was a writer, humanist and a teacher of Queen Isabella of Castile and her children....

Eduard Maristany i Gibert

7 Eduard Maristany i Gibert va ser enginyer de la Companyia dels Ferrocarrils de Tarragona a Barcelona i França i posteriorment de la Madrid-Saragossa-Alacant on ascendí fins a director. Entre les...

Leopoldo O'Donnell

7 Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duke of Tetuán, GE, was a Spanish general and Grandee who was Prime Minister of Spain on several occasions.

Martín Sarmiento

7 Martín Sarmiento or Martiño Sarmiento, also Father Sarmiento was a Spanish scholar, writer and Benedictine monk, illustrious representative of the Enlightenment.

Francisco Rodríguez Marín

7 Francisco Rodríguez Marín was a Spanish poet, paremiologist, and lexicologist.                     

Felipe II

7 Felipe II is the name of two Spanish kings who ruled also over Portugal:Philip II of Spain Philip II of Portugal

Bartolomé Robert

7 Bartolomé Robert y Yarzábal, también conocido como Doctor Robert, fue un médico y político español de ideología nacionalista catalana, diputado a Cortes, alcalde de Barcelona y dirigente de la Liga...

Ernest Lluch

7 Ernest Lluch Martín, OC3, OCS, was a Spanish economist and politician, member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). He was Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs from 1982 to 1986 in the...

Roger of Lauria

7 Roger of Lauria (c. 1245 – 17 January 1305), was a Calabrian knight in service of the Aragonese as admiral of the Sicilian navy. He has been described as one of the most successful and talented naval...

Caterina Volpicelli

7 Caterina Volpicelli, ASCV was an Italian religious sister and the foundress of the Volpicelli Handmaids of the Sacred Heart, dedicated to education, who has been declared a saint by the Catholic...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

7 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. In his brief life, he completed more than 800 works including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies,...

Genesius of Arles

7 Genesius of Arles was a notary martyred under Maximianus in 303 or 308. He is honoured in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of notaries and secretaries, and invoked against chilblains and...

Jaume Roig

7 Jaume Roig was a doctor in the city of València and the author of Espill (Mirror), a work of medieval literature in the Valencian/Catalan language. Together with Ausiàs March, and Isabel de Villena,...

Eduardo Blanco Amor

7 Eduardo Modesto Blanco Amor was a Galician writer and journalist who wrote in Galician and in Spanish.

Seneca the Younger

7 Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of...

Antonio S. Pedreira

7 Dr. Antonio S. Pedreira, was a Puerto Rican writer and educator.                                   

Alonso Pérez de Guzmán

6 Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (1256–1309), known as Guzmán el Bueno, was a Spanish nobleman and hero of Spain during the medieval period. Guzmán is the progenitor of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia, the oldest...

Hilarión Eslava

6 Miguel Hilarión Eslava y Elizondo was a Spanish composer and pedagogue.                             

Rigoberta Menchú

6 Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples...

Salvador de Madariaga

6 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded the...

Pedro de Egaña

6 Pedro de Egaña y Díaz del Carpio fue un político y empresario español, ministro de Gracia y Justicia y de la Gobernación durante el reinado de Isabel II.

Gabriel Aresti

6 Gabriel Aresti Segurola was one of the most important writers and poets in the Basque language in the 20th century.

Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra

6 Julio de Urquijo e Ibarra, Count of Urquijo (1871–1950), in Basque self-styled as Julio Urkixokoa, was a Basque linguist, cultural activist, and a Spanish Carlist politician. As a Traditionalist...

Philip of Jesus

6 Philip of Jesus, OFM was a Spanish Franciscan missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. He is the first Mexican Catholic saint and is the patron saint of Mexico City.

Rosa Chacel

6 Rosa Clotilde Chacel Arimón was a Spanish writer. She was a native of Valladolid.                   

Juli Garreta

6 Juli Garreta i Arboix was a Spanish composer, noted for his sardanes.                               

Baltasar Gracián

6 Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were...

Lazarillo de Tormes

6 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. The oldest editions were published in 1554 in four...

Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz

6 Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña was a Spanish scholar, politician and orator. He served as Prime Minister of the Spanish Republican government in exile during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Jorge Manrique

6 Jorge Manrique was a major Castilian poet, whose main work, the Coplas por la muerte de su padre , is still read today. He was a supporter of the queen Isabel I of Castile, and actively participated...

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

6 Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. He is one of...

Francesc Layret

6 Francesc Layret i Foix was a Spanish politician and lawyer, Catalan nationalist and republican. He was assassinated in 1920 following the mass detention of several of his colleagues and other...

Juan García Ripollés

6 Juan García Ripollés, también conocido como Ripo o Beato Ripo, es un pintor y escultor español. Siempre ataviado con su pañuelo en la cabeza y una ramita de romero entre los dientes, se jacta de...

Pope Leo XIII

6 Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX, and John Paul II.

Octavio Paz

6 Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International...

Agatha of Sicily

6 Saint Agatha of Sicily is an early Christian virgin and martyr. Her feast is on 5 February; traditionally, it is considered the last date by which one can send New Year's greetings.

Carmen Conde

6 Carmen Conde Abellán was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the...

Aristotle

6 Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the...

Jorge Guillén

6 Jorge Guillén Álvarez was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, a university teacher, a scholar and a literary critic.

Andrés Manjón

6 Andrés Manjón y Manjón was a Spanish priest and educator who founded the Escuelas del Ave-María in Granada. He was ordained to the priesthood on 16 June 1886.

Manuel Murguía

6 Manuel Antonio Martínez Murguía was a Galician journalist and historian who created the Real Academia Galega. He was one of the main figures in Galician Rexurdimento movement. He is also remembered...

Gabriel García Márquez

6 Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century,...

Josep Maria de Sagarra

6 Josep Maria de Sagarra i de Castellarnau was a Catalan-language writer from Barcelona, Catalonia.   

Lluís Millet

6 Lluís Millet i Pagès was a Spanish Catalan composer, musician and co-founder of Orfeó Català in 1891.

José Antonio Aguirre (politician)

6 José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive...

Bonaventure

6 Bonaventure was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

Barnabas

6 Barnabas, born Joseph (Ἰωσήφ) or Joses (Ἰωσής), was a prominent Christian disciple, identified as an apostle in Acts 14:14. According to Acts 4:36, he was a Cypriot Levite. He undertook missionary...

Father Damien

6 Damien De Veuster, popularly known as Father Damien or Damien of Molokai, was a Belgian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He ministered to a leper colony in...

Diego García de Paredes (conquistador)

6 Diego García de Paredes y Vargas was a maestre de campo and a Spanish conquistador who participated in, among other things, the Battle of Cajamarca. He also founded Trujillo, Venezuela in 1557.

Carolina Coronado

6 Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada was a Spanish writer, famous for her poetry, considered the equivalent of contemporary Romantic authors like Rosalía de Castro. As one of the most...

Saint Cajetan

6 Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene, known in English as Saint Cajetan, was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, co-founder of the Theatines. He is recognised as a saint in the Catholic Church,...

Julián Gayarre

6 Sebastián Julián Gayarre Garjón, better known as Julián Gayarre, was a Spanish opera singer who created the role of Marcello in Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba and Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda.

Francisco Moragas Barret

6 Francisco de Moragas Barret, también Francesc de Moragas Barret, fue un abogado y economista español.

José Iturbi

6 José Iturbi Báguena was a conductor, pianist, harpsichordist and actor from Valencia, Spain. He also appeared in several Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical films including Thousands Cheer (1943), Music for...

Saint Quentin

6 Quentin also known as Quentin of Amiens, was an early Christian saint.                             

Count of Toreno

5 Count of Toreno Grandee of Spain is a title in the Spanish nobility. The title was first bestowed on Álvaro Queipo de Llano by Philip IV of Spain in 1657.

Fermín Calbetón y Blanchón

5 Fermín Cándido Calbetón y Blanchón fue un abogado y político español, ministro de Fomento y ministro de Hacienda durante el reinado de Alfonso XIII.

Quiteria

5 St. Quiteria was a fifth-century saint and virgin martyr about whom little is certain except her name, the date, place, and cause of her death, and existence of her cult. She is listed under the date...

José Moscardó Ituarte

5 José Moscardó e Ituarte, 1st Count of the Alcázar of Toledo, Grandee of Spain was the military Governor of Toledo Province during the Spanish Civil War. He sided with the Nationalist army fighting...

Filiberto Villalobos

5 Filiberto Villalobos González fue un médico de cabecera y político español, ministro de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes durante la Segunda República.

Prince of Vergara (title)

5 Prince of Vergara was a life title in the Peerage of Spain, granted in 1872 by Amadeo I to Baldomero Espartero, who was Regent of Spain from 1840 to 1843. The title makes reference to the Convention...

Fernando de los Ríos

5 Fernando de los Ríos Urruti was a Spanish professor of political law and socialist politician who was in turn Minister of Justice, Minister of Education and Foreign Minister between 1931 and 1933. in...

Eduardo Rosales

5 Eduardo Rosales Gallinas was a Spanish painter. He was an adherent of the Italian-based art movement known as "Purismo" and specialized in historical scenes.

Juan Bravo

5 Juan Bravo de Lagunas y Mendoza was a Castilian Nobleman and one of the leaders of the rebel Comuneros, the local councils that rebelled against Emperor Charles V in the Castilian "Revolt of the...

Pilar Miró

5 Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. She was the General Director of RTVE from 1986 to 1989. In the 1990s, she directed the television broadcasts of the weddings...

Joachim

5 Joachim was, according to Christian Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part...

Mahatma Gandhi

5 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political thinker who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from...

Enric Valor i Vives

5 Enric Valor i Vives was a Valencian narrator and grammarian who made one of the most important contributions to the re-collection and recovery of Valencian lexicography and its standardization in the...

Vicent Andrés Estellés

5 Vicent Andrés Estellés was a Valencian journalist and poet. He is considered one of the main renovators of modern Valencian poetry, with a similar role to that of Ausiàs March or Joan Roís de Corella...

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

5 Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, diplomat, and politician.               

Saint Amaro

5 According to Catholic tradition, Saint Amaro or Amarus the Pilgrim was an abbot and sailor who it was claimed sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to an earthly paradise. There are two historical figures...

Gabriel Celaya

5 Gabriel Celaya was a Spanish poet. Gabriel settled in Madrid and studied engineering, working for a time as a manager in his family's business.

María de Molina

5 María Alfonso Téllez de Meneses, known as María de Molina, was queen consort of Castile and León from 1284 to 1295 by marriage to Sancho IV of Castile, and served as regent for her minor son...

Carmen Amaya

5 Carmen Amaya Amaya, nicknamed La Capitana was a Spanish Romani flamenco dancer and singer, born in the Somorrostro district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

José María Pemán

5 José María Pemán y Pemartín was a Spanish journalist, poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and monarchist intellectual. He was a member of Francisco Franco's Falange movement.

Ventura Rodríguez

5 Ventura Rodríguez Tizón was a Spanish architect and artist. Born at Ciempozuelos, Rodríguez was the son of a bricklayer. In 1727, he collaborated with his father in the work at the Royal Palace of...

Dámaso Alonso

5 Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas was a Spanish poet, philologist and literary critic. Though a member of the Generation of '27, his best-known work dates from the 1940s onwards.

Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén

5 Francisco Javier Castaños Aragorri, 1st Duke of Bailén was a Spanish Army officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He presided over the Regency Council of...

Nicolás Salmerón

5 Nicolás Salmerón Alonso was a Spanish politician and president of the First Spanish Republic.       

Dominic of Silos

5 Dominic of Silos was a Spanish monk, to whom the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, where he served as the abbot, is dedicated. He is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church. His feast day is 20...

Josep Trueta

5 Josep Trueta i Raspall was a Catalan surgeon and researcher from Spain.                             

Ana María Matute

5 Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for...

María Guerrero

5 María Ana de Jesús Guerrero Torija, better known as María Guerrero, was a prominent Spanish theatre actress, producer and director.

Homer

5 Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is widely credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Although his life and...

Sancho Ramírez

5 Sancho Ramírez was King of Aragon from 1063 until 1094 and King of Pamplona from 1076 under the name of Sancho V. He was the eldest son of Ramiro I and Ermesinda of Bigorre. His father was the first...

Josep Carner

5 Josep Carner i Puigoriol, was a Catalan poet, journalist, playwright and translator. He was also known as the Prince of Catalan Poets. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.

Vital Aza

5 Vital Aza Álvarez-Buylla was a Spanish author, playwright, poet and satirist, born in Pola de Lena, Asturias, northwestern Spain. After studying and practicing medicine, he began to write plays, some...

Pelagius of Córdoba

5 Pelagius of Córdoba was a Christian boy who died as a martyr in Córdoba in southern Spain around 926 AD.

Mercè Rodoreda

5 Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist, who wrote in Catalan language.                     

Abbot Oliba

5 Oliba was the count of Berga and Ripoll (988–1002), and later abbot of the monasteries of Santa Maria de Ripoll and Sant Miquel de Cuixà (1008–1046) and the bishop of Vic (1018–1046). He is...

Joaquim Ruyra

5 Joaquim Ruyra i Oms was a Catalan short-story writer, poet and translator, considered a key figure in modern Catalan literature and one of the great narrators of the 20th century.

Juan de Mena

5 Juan de Mena (1411–1456) was one of the most significant Spanish poets of the fifteenth century. He was highly regarded at the court of Juan II de Castilla, who appointed him veinticuatro of Córdoba,...

Laxeiro

5 José Otero Abeledo, conocido como Laxeiro, fue un pintor español. Su obra manifiesta un distanciamiento del naturalismo regionalista de la época a través de la fusión entre modernidad y tradición, y...

Álvaro Cunqueiro

5 Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia. He was a cofounder of the...

Ramón Otero Pedrayo

5 Ramón Otero Pedrayo was a Galician geographer, writer and intellectual. He was a key member of the Galician cultural and political movement Xeración Nós.

Julián Besteiro

5 Julián Besteiro Fernández was a Spanish socialist politician, elected to the Cortes Generales and in 1931 as Speaker of the Constituent Cortes of the Spanish Republic. He also was elected several...

Eugenio Montero Ríos

5 Eugenio Montero Ríos was a leading member of the Spanish Liberal Party before being part of a 1903 schism that divided it. He also served briefly as Prime Minister of Spain. He played a role in the...

Louis of Granada

5 Louis of Granada, in some sources Luis of Granada,, was a Dominican friar who was noted as theologian, writer and preacher. His beatification process has been long open with the Holy See, with his...

Modesto Lafuente

5 Modesto Lafuente y Zamalloa was a Spanish critic and historian. In 1861 he was elected Vice President of the Congress of Deputies and, in February 7, 1862, he assumed the office of acting president...

Gaspar Núñez de Arce

5 Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1834–1903) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and statesman. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

José Hierro

5 José Hierro del Real, sometimes colloquially called Pepe Hierro, was a Spanish poet. He belonged to the so-called postwar generation, within the rootless and existential poetry streams. He wrote for...

Indalecio Prieto

5 Indalecio Prieto Tuero was a Spanish politician, a minister and one of the leading figures of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the years before and during the Second Spanish Republic....

Diego Muñoz-Torrero

5 Diego Muñoz-Torrero y Ramírez-Moyano fue un sacerdote, catedrático y político español que tuvo un destacado papel en la elaboración de la Constitución española de 1812. Como diputado de las Cortes de...

Ignatius of Antioch

5 Ignatius of Antioch, also known as Ignatius Theophorus, was an early Christian writer and Patriarch of Antioch. While en route to Rome, where he met his martyrdom, Ignatius wrote a series of letters....

María Casares

5 María Victoria Casares y Pérez was a Spanish-born French actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage and cinema. She was credited in France as Maria Casarès.

Rosa Sensat

5 Rosa Sensat i Vilà was a Spanish teacher. She contributed to the development of the Catalan public schools during the first third of the 20th century.

Vasco da Gama

5 Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman. His discovery of the first direct maritime route between Europe and India via the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean from...

Matrona of Barcelona

5 Matrona of Barcelona or Matrona of Thessalonica is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. She was recognized as a saint pre-congregation.

Plato

5 Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and...

Ovidi Montllor

5 Ovidi Montllor was a Valencian singer-songwriter and actor.                                         

Antonio Reyes Huertas

5 Antonio Reyes Huertas fue un escritor y periodista español. Es famoso por sus novelas de carácter costumbrista y sus Estampas campesinas, una radiografía de la vida y las costumbres del campo...

Carlos Arniches

5 Carlos Arniches Barreda was a Spanish playwright, born in Alicante. His prolific work, drawing on the traditions of the género chico, the zarzuela and the grotesque, came to dominate the Spanish...

Marquesado de Estella

5 El marquesado de Estella es el título nobiliario español que el rey Alfonso XII de España concedió por real decreto del 25 de mayo de 1877 al capitán general del ejército Fernando Primo de Rivera y...

Josep Llimona i Bruguera

5 Josep Llimona i Bruguera was a Spanish sculptor. His first works were academic, but after a stay in Paris, influenced by Auguste Rodin, his style drew closer to modernisme. He was very prolific, and...

Carmen Martín Gaite

5 Carmen Martín Gaite was a Spanish author who wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays across multiple genres. Her work has received significant recognition: in 1957, she was awarded...

Ferdinand VI

4 Ferdinand VI, called the Learned and the Just, was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death in 1759. He was the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty. He was the son of King Philip V and...

Juan Bravo Murillo

4 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.

Tomás Bretón

4 Tomás Bretón y Hernández was a Spanish conductor and composer.                                     

Francisco Umbral

4 Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez, better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.

Engratia

4 Engratia is venerated as a virgin martyr and saint. Tradition states that she was martyred with eighteen companions in 303 AD.

Juan Negrín

4 Juan Negrín López was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic. He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and of the left-leaning...

Maximiliano Thous Orts

4 Maximiliano Thous Orts,, also known as Maximilià Thous i Orts, was a Spanish journalist, writer, filmmaker, and playwright.

Martin Luther King Jr.

4 Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil...

Pedro Velarde y Santiyán

4 Captain Pedro Velarde y Santiyán was a Spanish Army officer best known for his participation in the Dos de Mayo Uprising against the French occupation of Madrid. Dying during the uprising, he became...

Juan Gris

4 José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative...

Maria de Maeztu

4 María de Maeztu Whitney was a Spanish educator, feminist, founder of the Residencia de Señoritas and the Lyceum Club in Madrid. She was sister of the writer, journalist and occasional diplomat,...

Manuel Alonso Martínez

4 Manuel Alonso Martínez was a Spanish jurist and politician, and the principal redactor of the Spanish Civil Code.

John Lennon

4 John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul...

Saint Martial

4 Martial of Limoges, whose name is also rendered as Marcial, Martialis, and Marcialis, and is also called "the Apostle of the Gauls" or "the Apostle of Aquitaine," was the first bishop of Limoges....

San José Obrero

4 San José Obrero, en latín Sancti Joseph opificis, celebración litúrgica de la Iglesia católica, establecida por Pío XII, en 1955, el 1 de mayo, coincidiendo con el día que el mundo laboral celebra...

Ramiro de Maeztu

4 Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, 1st Count of Maeztu was a Spanish essayist, journalist and publicist.   

Maurice Ravel

4 Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the...

Arturo Campión

4 Arturo Campión Jaimebon fue un político español cuya ideología fuerista evolucionó desde el republicanismo federal hasta el nacionalismo vasco. Fue uno de los fundadores de la Real Academia de la...

Gabriel Roca Garcías

4 Gabriel Roca Garcías va ser un enginyer mallorquí que fou enginyer a la Prefectura d'Obres Públiques de Balears (1920) i a la Junta del Port de Ceuta (1921), a més d'ocupar el càrrec de Director de...

Trajan

4 Trajan was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier-emperor who...

Leopoldo Alas

4 Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his...

Brigid of Kildare

4 Saint Brigid of Kildare or Saint Brigid of Ireland is the patroness saint of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba. According to medieval Irish hagiographies,...

Fernán González of Castile

4 Fernán González was the first autonomous count of Castile. Fernán González was a colourful character of legendary status in Iberia, and founder of the dynasty that would rule a semi-autonomous...

Alfonso V of Aragon

4 Alfonso the Magnanimous was King of Aragon and King of Sicily and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples from 1442 until his death. He was involved with struggles to the throne...

Juan Ponce de León

4 Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513. He was born in Santervás de Campos,...

Jerome

4 Jerome, also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

Miguel Ángel Blanco

4 Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a Spanish economist and municipal politician and a member of the People's Party, in Ermua, the Basque Country. He was kidnapped and murdered by the Basque separatist...

Master Mateo

4 Master Mateo was a sculptor and architect who worked in medieval Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula during the second half of the twelfth century. He is best known now for the Pórtico da...

Matthias of Jerusalem

4 Matthias of Jerusalem was a 2nd-century Christian saint and a Bishop of Jerusalem, whose episcopacy was about 113–120 AD.

Frederic Soler

4 Frederic Soler y Hubert, más conocido como Serafí Pitarra, fue un poeta, dramaturgo y empresario teatral español. Escribió su obra en catalán.

Columba of Spain

4 Columba of Spain was a virgin and nun who was born in Córdoba, Spain, and martyred around 853 by the Muslim rulers in Spain, during a persecution of Christians. She is a part of the Martyrs of...

Marquesado de Figueroa

4 El marquesado de Figueroa es un título nobiliario español, de Castilla. Fue concedido por el rey Carlos II mediante real decreto de 6 de mayo de 1675.

Blasco de Garay

4 Blasco de Garay (1500–1552) was a Spanish navy captain and inventor. He was active in the Spanish navy during the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.

José Amador de los Ríos

4 José Amador de los Ríos y Serrano was a Spanish intellectual, primarily a historian and archaeologist of art and literature. He was a graduate in history of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Alexander Graham Bell

4 Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone...

Francesc de Paula Rius i Taulet

4 Francisco de Paula Rius y Taulet was a Spanish lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Barcelona in four different non-consecutive periods during the Restoration between 1858 and 1889. He is regarded...

Pascual Veiga

4 Pascual Veiga Iglesias, fue un compositor y músico precoz, autor de la popular Alborada y de la música del Himno de Galicia, y figura fundamental del Rexurdimento Gallego.

Francesc Cambó

4 Francesc Cambó i Batlle was a conservative Spanish politician from Catalonia, founder and leader of the autonomist party Lliga Regionalista. He was a minister in several Spanish governments. He...

Pelagius of Asturias

4 Pelagius was a Visigothic nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. Pelagius is credited with initiating the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors,...

Pero López de Ayala

4 Don Pero López de Ayala (1332–1407) was a Castilian statesman, historian, poet, chronicler, chancellor, and courtier.

Columba

4 Columba or Colmcille was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important...

Eurosia

4 Eurosia is the patron saint of Jaca, a city in the province of Huesca of northeastern Spain, in the Pyrenees, the centre of her cult.

Frédéric Chopin

4 Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era...

Arsenio Martínez Campos

4 Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón, was a Spanish officer who rose against the First Spanish Republic in a military revolution in 1874 and restored Spain's Bourbon dynasty. Later, he became...

Eugenius II of Toledo

4 Saint Eugenius II, sometimes called Eugenius the Younger as the successor of Eugenius I, was Archbishop of Toledo from 647 until his death.

Fabiola of Belgium

4 Fabiola Fernanda María-de-las-Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Baudouin from their marriage in 1960 until his death in 1993. The couple had no...

Benjamin Franklin

4 Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time,...

Bruno of Cologne

4 Bruno of Cologne, venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusians. He personally founded the order's first two communities. He was a celebrated teacher at Reims and a close advisor of...

Gaspar García Laviana

4 Gaspar García Laviana was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest who took up arms to fight as a soldier in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1977.

Numa Guilhou

4 Jean Antoine Numa Guilhou fue un empresario francés, nacido en la localidad de Mazamet. Desde joven trabajó en el negocio familiar de comercio de lana, pero desarrolla la mayor parte de su vida...

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

4 Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was a New Spanish writer of the Golden Age who cultivated different variants of dramaturgy. His works include the comedy La verdad sospechosa, which is considered a masterpiece...

Pedro de Valdivia

4 Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first Governor of Colonial Chile. After having served with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South...

Duke of Lerma (title)

4 Duke of Lerma is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee, granted in 1599 by Philip III to Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 4th Count of Lerma and his royal...

Francisco Martínez de la Rosa

4 Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Cornejo was a Spanish statesman and dramatist and the first prime minister of Spain to receive the title of President of the Council of Ministers.

Federico Mompou

4 Frederic Mompou Dencausse, or Federico Mompou, was a Catalan composer and pianist.                 

Eugenio d'Ors

4 Eugenio d'Ors Rovira, also known as Eugeni d'Ors, was a Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic. He wrote in both Catalan and Spanish, sometimes under the pseudonym of Xènius.

Joan Alcover

4 Joan Alcover i Maspons was a Spanish Balearic writer, poet, essayist and politician.               

Teodoro Cuesta

4 Teodoro Cuesta García-Ruiz fue un poeta español.                                                   

Manuel de Pedrolo

4 Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina was a Catalan author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. He is mostly known for his sci-fi novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen.

Francisco Navarro Villoslada

4 Francisco Navarro Villoslada fue un periodista, político, novelista y ensayista español de ideología tradicionalista y carlista.

José María Fernández-Ladreda

4 José María Fernández-Ladreda y Menéndez-Valdés was a Spanish general who served as Minister of Public Works of Spain between 1945 and 1951, during the Francoist dictatorship.

Enric Morera i Viura

4 Enric Morera i Viura was a Catalan musician and composer from Spain.                               

Rafael Dieste

4 Rafael Dieste was a Galician poet, philosopher, short-story writer, and dramatist writing mostly in Galician language, but also in Spanish language. He began to write with the encouragement of...

Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marquis of the Duero

4 Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha e Irigoyen, Marquis of the Duero was a Spanish military man and Liberal-Moderate politician, noted for opposing the Carlist rebellions. He was born in Córdoba del...

Francisco J. Ayala

4 Francisco José Ayala Pereda was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and University of California,...

Alfonso IX of León

4 Alfonso IX was King of León from the death of his father Ferdinand II in 1188 until his own death. 

Matilda of Ringelheim

4 Matilda of Ringelheim, also known as Saint Matilda, was a Saxon noblewoman who became queen of Germany. Her husband, Henry the Fowler, was the first king from the Ottonian dynasty, and their eldest...

Juan de Lanuza y Garabito

4 Juan de Lanuza y Garabito was a Spanish noble from the 15th century.                               

Emilio Mola

4 Emilio Mola y Vidal was a Spanish military officer who was one of the three leaders of the revolt coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War.

Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

4 Guillén de Castro y Mateo was a Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. He was distinguished member of the "Nocturnos", a Spanish version of the "Academies" in Italy.

Dominic de la Calzada

4 Dominic de la Calzada was a saint from a cottage in Burgos very close to La Rioja.                 

Salvador Giner

4 Salvador Giner i de San Julián was a Spanish sociologist, who was the president of the Institute of Catalan Studies between 2005 and 2013.

Mariano Álvarez de Castro

4 Brigadier Mariano José Manuel Bernardo Álvarez Bermúdez de Castro y López Aparicio was a Spanish military officer, and the military governor of Girona during the siege by the French during the War of...

Nelson Mandela

4 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and...

Severus of Menorca

4 Severus of Menorca was a bishop on the island of Menorca in the early 5th century. According to the Epistula Severi Severus was at the forefront of a mass conversion where most of the Jewish...

Violeta Parra

4 Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of...

Juan de Ribera

4 Juan de Ribera was an influential figure in 16th and 17th century Spain. Ribera held appointments as Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia, Latin Patriarchate of Antioch, Commander in Chief, president...

Amadeu Vives i Roig

4 Amadeu Vives i Roig was a Spanish musical composer, creator of over a hundred stage works. He is best known for Doña Francisquita, which Christopher Webber has praised for its "easy lyricism, fluent...

Josep Puig i Cadafalch

4 Josep Puig i Cadafalch was a Spanish architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona, and a politician who had a significant role in the development of Catalan regional institutions.

Ignasi Iglesias

4 Ignasi Iglesias Pujadas fue un dramaturgo y poeta español. Vinculado al movimiento del modernismo, escribió en catalán.

Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo

4 Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, is the first child and eldest daughter of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía. As the eldest sister of King Felipe VI, Elena is the third in the line of succession to...

Francisco Franco

4 Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general and dictator who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain...

María Mariño

4 María Mariño Carou (1907–1967) was a Galician writer. She was born on 8 June 1907 in a house on Rúa Cega in Noia, A Coruña province. She was the daughter of Xosé Mariño Pais, a shoe maker. She was...

María Teresa León

3 María Teresa León Goyri was a Spanish writer, activist and cultural ambassador. Born in Logroño, she was the niece of the Spanish feminist and writer María Goyri. She herself was married to the...

Alfred Nobel

3 Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also...

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo

3 Diego de Saavedra Fajardo was a Spanish diplomat and man of letters.                               

Lady of Elche

3 The Lady of Elche is a limestone bust that was discovered in 1897 in La Alcudia, an archaeological site on a private estate two kilometers south of Elche, Spain. It is now exhibited in the National...

Adolfo Marsillach

3 Adolfo Marsillach Soriano was a Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director. He was born in Barcelona.

Tomás Luis de Victoria

3 Tomás Luis de Victoria was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late...

Rafael Altamira y Crevea

3 Rafael Altamira y Crevea was a Spanish historian and jurist.                                       

Felip Pedrell

3 Felip Pedrell Sabaté was a Catalan composer, guitarist and musicologist.                           

Francisco Serrano Anguita

3 Francisco "Paco" Serrano Anguita, que usó el seudónimo de Tartarín, fue un periodista y autor dramático español.

Carlos Jiménez Díaz

3 Carlos Jiménez Díaz was an important Spanish physician and clinical researcher.                     

Antonio Buero Vallejo

3 Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War.

Crispin and Crispinian

3 Saints Crispin and Crispinian are the Christian patron saints of cobblers, curriers, tanners, and leather workers. They were beheaded during the reign of Diocletian; the date of their execution is...

Manuel Fraga

3 Manuel Fraga Iribarne was a Spanish professor and politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and one of the founders of the People's Alliance. Fraga was the Minister of Information and...

Hercules

3 Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging...

Alessandro Volta

3 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer...

Laín Calvo

3 Laín Calvo es una figura legendaria del Condado de Castilla, que los castellanos supuestamente eligieron como juez propio para resolver sus pleitos, evitando así acudir a la corte leonesa. Esta...

Juan Benlloch i Vivó

3 Juan Baptista Benlloch i Vivó was a Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Burgos from 1919, who was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921, and who, as Co-Prince of...

Segundo Ispizua

3 Segundo Ispizua Bajaneta bizkaitar historialaria izan zen.                                         

Tomás López

3 Tomás López de Vargas Machuca fue un geógrafo y cartógrafo español del período ilustrado que escribió entre otras los Principios Geográficos aplicados al uso de mapas en 1775, y la Cosmografía...

Resurrección María de Azkue

3 Resurrección María de Azkue was an influential Basque priest, musician, poet, writer, sailor and academic. He made several major contributions to the study of the Basque language and was the first...

Augusto González Besada

3 Augusto González Besada was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served as President of the Congress of Deputies, Minister of Finance, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Development during the...

Infanta Isabel, Countess of Girgenti

3 Infanta Isabel of Spain was the eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II of Spain and her husband Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz. She was the heiress presumptive to the Spanish throne from 1851 to 1857...

Junípero Serra

3 Saint Junípero Serra Ferrer, popularly known simply as Junipero Serra, was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions...

Pedro Vives Vich

3 Pedro Vives Vich fue un ingeniero militar y principal pionero de la aerostación y la aviación, militar y civil, española. Primer español que voló en avión (1909). Fundador y primer Jefe de la Fuerza...

Urraca of Zamora

3 Urraca of Zamora was a Leonese infanta, one of the five children of Ferdinand I the Great, who received the city of Zamora as her inheritance and exercised palatine authority in it. Her story was...

Peter of Alcántara

3 Peter of Alcántara, OFM was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was canonized in 1669.                   

Manuel Pacheco (poeta)

3 Manuel Pacheco Conejo, más conocido solo como Pacheco, fue un poeta, prosista y dramaturgo español de formación estrictamente autodidacta, adscribible tanto cronológica como estilísticamente a la...

José María Salaverría

3 José María Salaverría e Ipenza (1873–1940) was a Spanish journalist and writer.                     

Duke of la Victoria (title)

3 Duke of la Victoria is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1839 by Isabella II to Baldomero Espartero, who was Prime Minister of Spain, in...

Claudius of Besançon

3 Saint Claudius of Besançon, sometimes called Claude the Thaumaturge, was a priest, monk, abbot, and bishop. A native of Franche-Comté, Claudius became a priest at Besançon and later a monk. Georges...

Bartolomé de las Casas

3 Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in...

Ataúlfo Argenta

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

Fernando de Rojas

3 Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author and dramatist, known for his only surviving work, La Celestina, first published in 1499. It is variously considered "the last work of the Spanish Middle Ages or...

Pedro Segura y Sáenz

3 Pedro Segura y Sáenz was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Toledo from 1927 to 1931, and Archbishop of Seville from 1937 until 1954. Segura was elevated to...

Sansón Carrasco

3 El bachiller Sansón Carrasco es un personaje de la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes. Hace su aparición en la segunda parte del libro, en donde resulta fundamental en el...

Domènec Martí i Julià

3 Domènec Martí i Julià fou un psiquiatre i polític català.                                           

Eduardo Marquina

3 Eduardo Marquina Angulo was a Spanish playwright and poet associated with the Catalan Modernist school. His En Flandes se ha puesto el Sol was awarded the Royal Spanish Academy's award for...

Francisco Aguirre de la Hoz

3 Francisco Aguirre de la Hoz is a Spanish lawyer and former politician.                             

Avelino González Mallada

3 Avelino González Mallada was an Asturian anarchist.                                                 

Alphonsus Rodriguez

3 Alphonsus Rodríguez was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

Manuel Machado (poet)

3 Manuel Machado y Ruiz was a Spanish poet and a prominent member of the Generation of '98.           

Saint Ursula

3 Ursula was a Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. Her feast day in the...

Peter of Verona

3 Peter of Verona, also known as Saint Peter Martyr and Saint Peter of Verona, was a 13th-century Italian Catholic priest. He was a Dominican friar and a celebrated preacher. He served as Inquisitor in...

Blanche I of Navarre

3 Blanche I was Queen of Navarre from the death of her father, King Charles III, in 1425 until her own death. She had been Queen of Sicily from 1402 to 1409 by marriage to King Martin I, serving as...

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros

3 Manuel Bretón de los Herreros was a Spanish dramatist.                                             

Louis Pasteur

3 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Maria Micaela Desmaisieres

3 Micaela Desmaisières López de Dicastillo - in religion María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Handmaids of the Blessed...

Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza

3 Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza was a Galician (Spanish) painter.                         

Pili and Mili

3 Pili and Mili was a comic acting duo composed of twins Pilar and Emilia (Aurora) Bayona. They rose to fame in the early 1960s, becoming one of the biggest stars of the "singing child prodigy" movie...

Francisco de Vitoria

3 Francisco de Vitoria, also known as Francisco de Victoria, was a Spanish Catholic philosopher, theologian, and jurist of Renaissance Spain. He is the founder of the tradition in philosophy known as...

Francisco and Jacinta Marto

3 Francisco de Jesus Marto and Jacinta de Jesus Marto were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reportedly witnessed three...

Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda

3 Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Jiménez de Urrea, 10th Count of Aranda was a Spanish statesman and diplomat who signed for the Spanish Empire the Peace of Paris of 1783.

Joaquina Vedruna de Mas

3 Joaquima de Vedruna Vidal de Mas, CCV was a Spanish Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

Francisco Tárrega

3 Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe, Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Vals,...

Nuño Rasura

3 Nuño Rasura was one of two legendary judges of Castile, the other being his son-in-law Laín Calvo. According to the Mocedades de Rodrigo, Nuño gained the nickname "Rasura" because "he took from...

Luis Iruarrizaga

3 Luis Iruarrizaga Agirre bizkaitar musikagilea izan zen, Juan Iruarrizagaren anaia.                 

Berengaria of Castile

3 Berengaria, nicknamed the Great, was the queen of Castile who ascended the throne in 1217, and previously queen of León from 1197 to 1204 as the second wife of King Alfonso IX. As the eldest child...

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

3 Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description...

Josep Torras i Bages

3 Josep Torras i Bages, 12 September 1846 – 7 February 1916) was a Catalan thinker, writer, and bishop. He was one of the main figures in the turn of the 20th century Catholic Catalan nationalism.

Ramón Turró

3 Ramón Turró Darder fue un veterinario, biólogo y filósofo español.                                 

Gemma Galgani

3 Gemma Umberta Maria Galgani, also known as Gemma of Lucca, was an Italian mystic, canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church in 1940. She has been called the "daughter of the Passion" because of her...

Alonso Cano

3 Alonso Cano Almansa was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.                 

Antigone

3 In Greek mythology, Antigone was a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She was the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother was either Jocasta or,...

Marquess of Urquijo

3 Marquess of Urquijo is a noble title in the peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee of Spain, bestowed on Estanislao de Urquijo y Landaluce by King Amadeo I on 13 May 1871.

Eduard Toldrà

3 Eduard Toldrà Soler was a Spanish Catalan composer and conductor.                                   

Lázaro Cárdenas

3 Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican...

Joaquín García Morato

3 Joaquín García-Morato y Castaño, 1st Count of Jarama was a fighter pilot for Nationalist Spain who had the highest number of aerial victories of the Spanish Civil War. He is credited with 40 aerial...

Torquatus of Acci

3 Saint Torquatus is venerated as the patron saint of Guadix, Spain. Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. He evangelized the town of Acci, identified...

Pilar Bayona Sarriá

3 Pilar Bayona Sarriá, conocida como Pili, es una actriz española. Comenzó su carrera artística en la adolescencia, formando el famoso dúo cómico y musical femenino Pili y Mili, desde 1963 hasta 1970,...

Pablo Gargallo

3 Pablo Emilio or Pau Emili Gargallo, known simply as Pau or Pablo Gargallo, was a Spanish sculptor and painter.

Jesús Delgado Valhondo

3 Jesús Delgado Valhondo was a Spanish poet.                                                         

Francisco Antonio Elorza y Aguirre

3 Francisco Antonio de Elorza y Aguirre fue un militar español del cuerpo de artillería. Es conocido por dirigir la Fábrica de Armas de Trubia desde 1845 hasta 1867 y por su papel en el desarrollo de...

Alfonso the Battler

3 Alfonso I, called the Battler or the Warrior, was King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I. With...

Johann Sebastian Bach

3 Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral...

Mariano de Cavia

3 Mariano Francisco de Cavia y Lac fue un periodista español especializado en la crítica taurina.     

Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

3 Wenceslao Fernández Flórez was a popular Galician journalist and novelist of the early 20th century. Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth.

Enrique Jardiel Poncela

3 Enrique Jardiel Poncela was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works.     

Lucas Mallada

3 Lucas Mallada y Pueyo fue un ingeniero de minas, geólogo, regeneracionista y escritor español. Se le considera el fundador de la paleontología española.

José Martí

3 José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the...

Segismundo Moret

3 Segismundo Moret y Prendergast was a Spanish politician and writer. He was the prime minister of Spain on three occasions and the president of the Congress of Deputies on two occasions.

Pedro Muñoz Seca

3 Pedro Muñoz Seca was a Spanish comic playwright. He was one of the most successful playwrights of his era. He wrote approximately 300 dramatic works, both sainetes and longer plays, often in...

Nunilo and Alodia

3 Saints Nunilo and Alodia were a pair of child martyrs from Huesca in north-eastern Spain. They appear in the Roman Martyrology and in the calendars of the Mozarabic rite. Their martyrdom is described...

Vincent of Saragossa

3 Vincent of Saragossa, the Protomartyr of Spain, was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa. He is the patron saint of Lisbon, Algarve, and Valencia. His feast day is 22 January in the Catholic Church,...

Ángel Sanz Briz

3 Ángel Sanz-Briz was a Spanish diplomat and humanitarian. Sanz-Briz is credited with saving more than 5,200 Jews in German-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust in the later stages of World War II.

Mario Vargas Llosa

3 Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and...

Virgen Blanca

3 The Virgen Blanca is the patron saint of the Spanish city Vitoria-Gasteiz. Its festivity is celebrated on 5 August, commonly known as Andre Maria Zuriaren jaiak or las fiestas de la Blanca.

Margarita Xirgu

3 Margarita Xirgu Subirá was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of the poet Federico García Lorca, she was forced into exile during...

Gabriel

3 In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel or even Cebrail (Djebraïl) in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the...

Miquel Martí i Pol

3 Miquel Martí i Pol was one of the most popular and widely-read Catalan poets of the twentieth century, publishing more than 1,500 poems.

Victor Hugo

3 Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Cosmas and Damian

3 Cosmas and Damian were two Arab physicians and early Christian martyrs. They practised their profession in the seaport of Aegeae, then in the Roman province of Cilicia.

Eugénie de Montijo

3 Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until he was overthrown on 4 September 1870. From 28 July to 4 September 1870, she was the de facto...

Claudio Coello

3 Claudio Coello was a Spanish-Portuguese Baroque painter. Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century.

Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla

3 Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was a Spanish politician. He served as Prime Minister of Spain for a little over ten weeks, in the summer of 1871, and again for eight months, between June 1872 and February 1873.

Che Guevara

3 Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his...

María Blanchard

3 María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism.

Emeterius and Celedonius

3 Saints Emeterius and Celedonius are venerated as saints by the Catholic Church. Two Roman legionaries, they were martyred for their faith around 300. They are patron saints of Calahorra, which is...

Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada

3 Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada was a prominent Spanish churchman and statesman during the 18th century.

Juan de Mariana

3 Juan de Mariana was a Spanish Jesuit priest, Scholastic, historian, and member of the Monarchomachs.

Ramón Areces

3 Ramón Areces Rodríguez was a Spanish businessman.                                                   

Julio Ruiz de Alda

3 Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz was a Spanish aviator, and among the founders of the Falange.         

Justa and Rufina

3 Saints Justa and Rufina (Ruffina) (Spanish: Santa Justa y Santa Rufina) are venerated as martyrs. They are said to have been martyred at Hispalis (Seville) during the 3rd century.

Hermanos Felgueroso

3 Los Hermanos Felgueroso fueron un grupo de empresarios carboneros asturianos naturales de Langreo, que fundaron en 1893 la empresa Sociedad Felgueroso Hermanos.

Raymond of Peñafort

3 Raymond of Penyafort was a Catalan friar with the Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law...

Oriol Martorell i Codina

3 Oriol Martorell i Codina was a musical director, pedagogue and professor of history. He was the son of Artur Martorell i Bisbal, also a renowned pedagogue. While studying music he gained a doctorate...

Maria Luisa of Spain

3 Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the spouse of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Diego Salas Pombo

3 Diego Salas Pombo fue un político español, de ideología falangista, que ocupó puestos relevantes durante el franquismo, gobernador civil de varias provincias, vicesecretario general de FET y de las...

Jesús Cancio

3 Salvador Jesús Cancio Corona fue un poeta y escritor cántabro. Es conocido popularmente como «el Poeta del Mar», debido a su interés por los tipos y ambientes marineros, reflejado a lo largo de su...

Emmelia of Caesarea

3 Emmelia of Caesarea was born in the late third to early fourth century, a period in time when Christianity was becoming more widespread, posing a challenge to the Roman government and its pagan rule....

Leander of Seville

3 Leander of Seville was a Hispano-Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Seville. He was instrumental in effecting the conversion of the Visigothic kings Hermenegild and Reccared to...

Francisco Javier Sauquillo

3 Francisco Javier Sauquillo Pérez del Arco fue un abogado laboralista español, miembro del PCE y de CCOO, asesinado en el bufetelaboralista donde trabajaba en la calle Atocha 55, en la llamada Matanza...

Martin de Porres

3 Martín de Porras Velázquez was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of Black...

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria

3 Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria was an Austrian archduke of the House of Habsburg. He became known as a champion for Mallorca's wildlife, in an era when the term "conservation" was not highly...

Philip IV of Spain

3 Philip IV, also called the Planet King, was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as...

Federico Moreno Torroba

3 Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading...

Rafaela Ybarra de Vilallonga

3 Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Vilallonga was a Spanish Roman Catholic widow and the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Guardian Angels. Vilallonga was part of Bilbao's upper-class and she mothered...

L. L. Zamenhof

3 L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.

Anne Frank

3 Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German...

Dominic Savio

3 Dominic Savio was a 19th-century Italian teenager who was a student of John Bosco and became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly...

Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda

3 Father Antoni Maria Alcover Sureda, also known as Mossèn Alcover was a modernist Majorcan writer, who wrote on a wide range of subjects including the Catholic Church, folklore and linguistics. He is...

Condado de Vallellano

3 El condado de Vallellano es un título nobiliario español, creado el 26 de mayo de 1774 por el rey Carlos III de España a favor de José Antonio Arredondo y Ambulodi.

Daniel Vázquez Díaz

3 Daniel Vázquez Díaz was a Spanish painter.                                                         

Susanna of Rome

3 Susanna of Rome was a Christian martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution. Her existing hagiography, written between about 450 and 500 AD, is of no historical value and the relations it attributes to...

Ildefonso Sánchez del Río

3 Ildefonso Sánchez del Río y Pisón. Fue un ingeniero español especialista en la construcción de cubiertas y grandes luces de hormigón armado. Obtuvo reconocimiento internacional por su innovador...

Francisco Largo Caballero

3 Francisco Largo Caballero was a Spanish politician and trade unionist who served as the prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. He was one of the historic leaders...

Antonio Maria Labaien

3 Antonio Maria Labaien Toledo euskal idazlea eta politikaria izan zen. Euskarazko lehen antzerkilaria izan zelako da gehienbat ezagutua. Espainiako Bigarren Errepublikaren garaian Tolosako alkate izan...

Pope Sylvester I

3 Pope Sylvester I was the bishop of Rome from 31 January 314 until his death on 31 December 335. He filled the See of Rome at an important era in the history of the Western Church, though very little...

Ramón J. Sender

3 Ramón José Sender Garcés was a Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist. Several of his works were translated into English by the distinguished zoologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, including...

Alfredo Brañas

3 Alfredo Brañas Menéndez fue un escritor y jurista español, ideólogo del regionalismo gallego.       

Baron of Santa Pau

3 Baron of Santa Pau is a hereditary title in the Spanish nobility created in Catalonia on an unknown date, though believed to have been made before 1070, as at that time, in Girona, there are records...

Nicasio Pérez López

3 Nicasio Pérez López, nado na Coruña en 1832 e finado en Ferrol o 31 de outubro de 1914, foi un empresario e político galego.

Carlos Cano

3 Carlos Cano de la Fuente was a Peruvian actor.                                                     

Ricardo de la Vega

3 Ricardo de la Vega y Oreiro fue un dramaturgo español, hijo del también escritor Ventura de la Vega, y uno de los creadores del género chico musical.

Alonso Zamora Vicente

3 Alonso Zamora Vicente fue un filólogo, dialectólogo, lexicógrafo y escritor español.               

Juan García de Salazar

3 Juan García de Salazar was a Spanish baroque composer best remembered for his choral works in the stile antico, though a few Spanish works in a more modern style have also survived.

Avicenna

3 Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various...

Isadora Duncan

3 Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and...

Imperio Argentina

3 María Magdalena Nile del Río was an Argentine professional singer and movie actress, better known as Imperio Argentina; she became a citizen of Spain in 1999.

Hernando de Soto

3 Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador, who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the...

Pere Calders

3 Pere Calders i Rossinyol was a writer, journalist and illustrator from Catalonia, known mainly for his work as a short story writer. Over his life, he received several awards, including the Creu de...

Saint Christopher

3 Saint Christopher is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius, or alternatively under...

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (poet)

3 Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish novelist, poet, diplomat and historian.                           

Toribio Romo

3 Toribio Romo González, known as Saint Toribio Romo was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed during the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War. Beatified and later canonized by...

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona

3 Ramon Berenguer IV, sometimes called the Saint, was the count of Barcelona and the prince of Aragon who brought about the union of the County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown...

José Moreno Nieto

3 José Moreno Nieto fue un jurisconsulto, arabista y político español. Estudió en Guadalupe y Toledo, especializándose en las lenguas semíticas.

María Díaz I de Haro

3 María Díaz I de Haro "the Good" (1270–1342) was a Spanish noblewoman of the House of Haro. She was the daughter of Lope Díaz III de Haro who was assassinated by order of the king at Alfaro, La Rioja....

Leopoldo Lugones

3 Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello was an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, professor, translator, biographer, philologist, theologian, diplomat, politician and journalist....

Francisco Pintado Fe

3 Francisco Pintado Fe Ingeniero de Minas. Fundó y dirigió el Instituto Nacional del Carbón y sus Derivados, con sede en La Corredoria, Oviedo y la Escuela de Minas de Oviedo.

Frutos Saavedra Meneses

3 Frutos Saavedra Meneses was a Spanish soldier, geodesist and politician.                           

Peter Paul Rubens

3 Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects...

Pancras of Rome

3 Pancras was a Roman citizen who converted to Christianity and was beheaded for his faith at the age of fourteen, around the year 304. His name is Greek, meaning 'all-powerful'.

Andrea Doria

3 Andrea Doria, Prince of Melfi was an Italian statesman, condottiero and admiral, who played a key role in the Republic of Genoa during his lifetime.

Felipe Checa

3 Felipe Checa was a Spanish painter active in Badajoz during the nineteenth-century.                 

Elijah

3 Elijah or Elias was a prophet and miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.

Miguel Biada

3 Miguel Biada y Buñol fue un marino mercante español principal promotor del Ferrocarril Barcelona-Mataró (1848), el primer ferrocarril de Cataluña y de toda la España europea –en Cuba se había...

Benito Vicetto Pérez

3 Benito Vicetto Pérez was a Galician journalist, historian, playwright and novelist.                 

Isidoro Macabich

3 Isidoro o Isidor Macabich y Llobet, fue un sacerdote, historiador, archivero, folclorista y poeta español en castellano e ibicenco, Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Alfonso X el Sabio.

Felix of Nola

3 Felix of Nola was a Christian priest at Nola near Naples in Italy. He sold off his possessions to give to the poor, but was arrested and tortured for his Christian faith during the persecution of...

Estanislao Figueras

3 Estanislao Figueras y Moragas was a Spanish politician who served as the first President of the First Republic from 12 February to 11 June 1873.

Valentí Almirall i Llozer

3 Valentí Almirall i Llozer was a Catalan politician, considered one of the fathers of modern Catalan nationalism, and more specifically, of the left-wing variety.

José Molíns

3 José Molíns Montes was a Spanish long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Canal de Isabel II

3 Canal de Isabel II (CYII) is the company that manages the bulk of water supplies for the Community of Madrid. It is primarily owned by the regional administration through the so-called Ente Público...

Josep Maria Batista i Roca

3 Josep Maria Batista i Roca fou un historiador, etnòleg i polític català. És considerat un dels fundadors de l'antropologia de base científica a Catalunya.

Josep Lluís Sert

3 Josep Lluís Sert i López was a Catalan architect and city planner who lived and worked in the United States after 1939.

Màrius Torres

3 Màrius Torres was a Catalan poet, first published by fellow writer Joan Sales in Mexico. He was among the most influential poets in the first 30 years of post-Civil War Catalonia and is today...

Virgil

3 Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the...

Seraphim of Sarov

3 Seraphim of Sarov, born Prókhor Isídorovich Moshnín (Mashnín) [Про́хор Иси́дорович Мошни́н (Машни́н)], is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and...

Bernat Metge

3 Bernat Metge (Catalan pronunciation: [bəɾˈnad ˈmedʒə]; was a Catalan writer and humanist, best known as the author of The Dream of Bernat Metge, which he wrote from prison, in which Metge discusses...

John F. Kennedy

3 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years,...

Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia

3 Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia , was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. He was born in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San...

Margaret the Virgin

3 Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July by the Eastern...

Salvador Seguí

3 Salvador Seguí i Rubinat, known as El noi del sucre for his habit of eating the sugar cubes served him with his coffee, was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo...

Vicente Risco

3 Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero was a Galician intellectual of the 20th century. He was a founder member of Xeración Nós, and among the most important figures in the history of Galician literature. He...

Eugenio Hermoso

3 Eugenio Hermoso Martínez was a Spanish painter active in Badajoz. He was a professor of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and a contemporary of Benito Arias Montano and Juan Bravo...

Fermin

3 Fermin was a holy man and martyr, traditionally venerated as the co-patron saint of Navarre, Spain. He was born in the mid 3rd century, so his death may be associated with the Diocletianic...

Abilio Calderón Rojo

3 Abilio Calderón Rojo fue un abogado y político español, ministro de Fomento y ministro de Trabajo, Comercio e Industria durante el reinado de Alfonso XIII.