List of Famous people born in Aragon, Spain
Manuel Pizarro Moreno
Manuel Amador Miguel Pizarro Moreno is an economist, Spanish jurist, Lawyer of the State, exchange agent and stock exchange and former president of Endesa. He is academic of number of the Real Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, of the Real Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences and of the Aragonese Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation.
Felicia of Roucy
Felicia of Roucy was a queen consort of Aragon and Navarre. She was a daughter of Hilduin IV of Montdidier and his wife Alice of Roucy.
Paula Ortiz
Paula Ortiz Álvarez is a Spanish director, screenwriter and producer who works for Get in the Pictures Productions and Amapola Films, teaches Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona, and collaborates with the University of San Jorge in Zaragoza.
Gabriel Cisneros
Gabriel Cisneros Laborda was a Spanish attorney and politician who is mostly known for being one of the Fathers of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 He is also credited with collaborating in the writing the European Union's Declaration of Human Rights.
Rubén Gracia
Rubén Gracia Calmache, known as Cani, is a Spanish retired footballer. Usually a right midfielder, he also played on the left.
Carmen Broto Buil
María del Carmen Brotons Buil, more commonly known as Carmen Broto, was a Spanish prostitute whose murder shocked Spanish society in the late 1940s. At the time of her death members of the establishment were implicated in her murder. Some sources indicate that the speculation that powerful people were involved in her death resulted in an abbreviated inquiry to her murder. Carmen Broto was nicknamed Cascabeles.
Carlos Clos Gómez
Carlos Clos Gómez is a First Division football referee. He became a UEFA class referee in January 2009.
Jesús Angoy
Jesús Mariano Angoy Gil is a Spanish retired association football goalkeeper, who also played as a placekicker in American football.
Alfonso II of Aragon
Alfonso II, called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death. The eldest son of Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Queen Petronilla of Aragon, he was the first King of Aragon who was also Count of Barcelona. He was also Count of Provence, which he conquered from Douce II, from 1166 until 1173, when he ceded it to his brother, Ramon Berenguer III. His reign has been characterised by nationalistic and nostalgic Catalan historians, as l'engrandiment occitànic or "the Pyrenean unity": a great scheme to unite various lands on both sides of the Pyrenees under the rule of the House of Barcelona.
Antonio Torres Millera
Antonio Torres Millera was a Spanish politician and a member of the People's Party of Aragon. He served as a deputy of the Aragonese Corts, the regional parliament, from 2003 until his death in 2019. He was also second Vice President of the Aragonese Corts at the time of his death in 2019.