List of Famous people born in Aragon, Spain
Pedro Cerbuna
Pedro Cerbuna del Negro was a Spanish monk, bishop of Tarazona and founder of the University of Zaragoza. He was born in Fonz and died in Calatayud.
Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre was a military engineer in the Spanish Army who discovered architectural remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Gaspar Lax
Gaspar Lax was a Spanish mathematician, logician, and philosopher who spent much of his career in Paris.
Íñigo of Oña
Íñigo of Oña was the Benedictine abbot of San Salvador at Oña. He was canonised in 1259 by Pope Alexander IV and is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, where his feast day is 1 June. He is the patron saint of Calatayud, his birthplace. Ignatius of Loyola was named after him.
Ignacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del Río
Ignacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del Río was a Spanish diplomat, naturalist, lawyer and historian. He sometimes used the pseudonym of Melchor de Azagra.
Amado Balmes
Juan Martínez de Ampiés
Juan Martínez de Ampiés, as an officer of the Spanish army, was the first governor of Venezuela Province (1527-1529). He founded Santa Ana de Coro in July 1527. He left Venezuela after the Welsers asserted the colonial rights they had negotiated with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, launching the German colonization of the Americas.
José Luzan
José Luzán, also José Luzán y Martínez, was a Spanish Baroque painter.
Bahya ben Asher
Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism. He was a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He was one of two people now known as Rabbeinu Behaye, the other being philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda.
Gregorio Jover
Gregorio Jover Cortés was an Aragonese anarcho-syndicalist and a member of the CNT during the first third of the 20th century. During the Spanish Civil War he was commander of the Ascaso Column and later the militarized 28th Division, which fought on the Aragon front.