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List of Spaniards

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This is a list of Spaniards that are famous or notable. (In alphabetical order within categories.)

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Actors

Architects

Authors

Explorers

Film directors

  • Pedro Almodóvar (born 1949)
  • Alejandro Amenábar (born 1972)
  • Montxo Armendáriz
  • Juanma Bajo Ulloa
  • Iciar Bollaín
  • José Luis Borau
  • Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)
  • Mario Camus
  • Isabel Coixet
  • Fernando León de Aranoa (born 1968)
  • Alex de la Iglesia
  • Agustín Díaz Yanes
  • Víctor Erice
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez
  • Marco Ferreri
  • José Luis Garci (born 1944)
  • Luis García Berlanga
  • Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
  • Bigas Luna (born 1946)
  • Julio Medem (born 1958)
  • Fernando Méndez Leite
  • Pilar Miró
  • José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
  • Carlos Saura (born 1932)
  • Santiago Segura
  • David Trueba
  • Fernando Trueba
  • Your Mom
  • Benito Zambrano
  • Iván Zulueta (born 1943)

Leaders

Musicians

Singers

Painters

Philosophers

Scientists

  • Algafequi , glasses inventor (Cordoba)
  • José María Algué (1856-1930), Meteorologist, inventor of the barocyclometer , the nephoscope, and the microseismograph
  • Martín de Azpilicueta (1492-1586), economist, theologist and philosopher
  • Ángel Cabrera (1879-1960), naturalist, investigated the South-American fauna
  • José Celestino Bruno Mutis (1732-1808), botanicist, doctor, philosopher and mathematician, carried out relevant research about the American flora, founded one of the first astronomic observatories in America (1762)
  • Mateo José Buenaventura Orfila (1787-1853), doctor and chemist, father of modern toxicology, leading figure in forensic toxicology.
  • Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu (1895-1936), aeronautical engineer pioneer of rotary flight inventor of the autogyro
  • Jaime Ferrán (1852-1929), doctor and researcher, discovered several vaccines
  • Francisco Hernández (1517-1587), botanicist, carried out important research about the Mexican flora
  • Manuel Jalón Corominas (born 1925), aeronautical engineer, inventor, and officer of the Spanish Air Force
  • Carlos Jiménez Díaz (1898-1967), doctor and researcher, leading figure in pathology
  • Gregorio Marañón (1887-1960), doctor and researcher, leading figure in endocrinology
  • Narcís Monturiol (1818-1885), physicist and inventor, pioneer of underwater navigation
  • Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905-1993), doctor and biochemist, achieved the synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA), Nobel prize in 1959
  • Joan Oró (born 1923), biochemist, carried out important research about the origin of life
  • Julio Palacios Martínez (1891-1970), physicist and mathematician
  • Isaac Peral y Caballero (1851-1895), engineer and sailor, designer of the first operative submarine
  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), father of Neuroscience, Nobel prize in 1906
  • Julio Rey Pastor (1888-1962), mathematician, leading figure in geometry
  • Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928-1980), naturalist, leading figure in ornithology, ethology, ecology and science divulgation
  • Miguel Servet (1511-1553), scientist, surgeon, geographer, linguist, helenist, humanist, and philosopher
  • Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852-1936), engineer and mathematician, pioneer of automatic calculation machines, inventor of the automatic chess, pioneer of remote control, designer of the funicular over the Niagara Falls
  • Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795), scientist, soldier and author

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See also: List of people by nationality, List of Catalans, list of Spanish language poets, List of Spanish monarchs

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