List of Famous people born in Andalusia, Spain
Elvira Roca Barea
María Elvira Roca Barea is a Spanish academic and writer. She studied philology, and specialized in the literature of the middle ages and early modern Europe. Her research work has primarily focused on narrative strategies in different literary periods, but she became famous for her late work on the Spanish Black Legend.
María Pagés
María Pagés is a modern Spanish dancer and choreographer, considered the paramount representative of flamenco vanguard. Internationally renowned for her personal aesthetic concept of this dance, she has proved to be a pioneer in the understanding of this art as in evolution, contemporary and alive, making her a leading innovator of modern flamenco. She founded her own dance company in 1990, now based in Madrid, Spain while performing worldwide. In 2014 she was awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain) by the Spanish State through the Ministry of Culture.
José Ángel Pozo
José Ángel Pozo la Rosa is a Spanish footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Rayo Vallecano.
Carmen Romero López
Carmen Romero López, is a Spanish politician. From 2009-2014 she served as a Member of the European Parliament, representing Spain for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party.
Armando Lozano
Armando Lozano Sánchez, known simply as Armando, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central defender.
Rosa Aguilar
Rosa Aguilar Rivera is a Spanish politician who was the Minister of Rural and Marine Environment between 2010 and 2012. She is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. She also was the mayor of Córdoba between 1999 and 2009. She was shortlisted for the 2008 World Mayor award.
Inocencio Arias
Inocencio F. Arias, also known as Chencho, is a multifarious Spanish diplomat, who served as consul general in Los Angeles, California, United States. He retired in 2010.
Anni B Sweet
Anni B Sweet is the stage name of Ana Fabiola López Rodríguez, a Spanish indie and folk singer-songwriter.
José María Álvarez del Manzano
José María Álvarez del Manzano y López del Hierro is a Spanish politician for the People's Party. Although born in Seville he has lived in Madrid since he was 3 years old. He studied at the Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo. He became the Mayor of Madrid in 1991, a position that he held until 2003. He chaired the board of IFEMA for 24 years, until 2015. He is married to María Eulalia Miró Ramírez and has four children: José, María, Marta, and Mónica.
José Antonio Rodríguez Salas
José Antonio Rodríguez Salas is a Spanish politician from The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE). He was the Mayor of Jun, a town in the Metropolitan Area of Granada, from March 2005 to September 2018, and one of the candidates running for the first primary elections held in Andalusia by the PSOE in 2013. Since September 2018 he has been a senior advisor at the Presidency of the Government of Spain.