List of Famous people born in Aragon, Spain
Fernando Escartín
Fernando Escartín Coti is a Spanish former road racing cyclist. Between 1995 and 2000 he came in the top 10 of the Tour de France five times and in that same time period finished on the podium in 2nd place at the Vuelta a España, twice.
Petronilla of Aragon
Petronilla, whose name is also spelled Petronila or Petronella, was the queen of Aragon from the abdication of her father, Ramiro II, in 1137 until her own abdication in 1164. She was the last ruling member of the Jiménez dynasty in Aragon, and by marriage brought the throne to the House of Barcelona.
Pablo Gargallo
Pablo EmilioorPau Emili Gargallo Catalán, known simply as Pau or Pablo Gargallo, was a Spanish sculptor and painter.
Víctor Ullate
Víctor Ullate is a dancer, choreographer and ballet director. Ullate trained with María de Avila and at the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower. He started his professional dancing life with Antonio Ruiz Soler's company in 1962 before joining Maurice Béjart's Ballet as a principal three years later. He remained there for fourteen years during which he created roles in Béjart's Ni fleurs, Ni couronnes (1967), Offrande chorégraphique (1970), Nijinsky, Clown de Dieu (1971), Golestan (1973), and I trionfi di Petrarca (1974).
Juan Antonio San Epifanio
Juan Antonio San Epifanio Ruiz, most commonly known as "Epi", is a retired Spanish professional basketball player. He spent all of his club career playing with FC Barcelona. He was named the Mister Europa European Player of the Year in 1984, by the Italian basketball magazine Superbasket, and the Best European Player of the 1980s decade, by the French sports newspaper L'Équipe. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.
Fidel Pagés
Fidel Pagés Miravé was a Spanish military surgeon, known for developing the technique of epidural anesthesia.
Soledad Puértolas
Soledad Puértolas Villanueva is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
Violant of Aragon
Violant or Violante of Aragon, also known as Yolanda of Aragon, was Queen consort of Castile and León from 1252 to 1284 as the wife of King Alfonso X of Castile.
Beatrice of Castile
Beatrice of Castile, an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso X of Castile and his mistress Mayor Guillén de Guzmán, was the second Queen consort of Afonso III of Portugal.
Amparo Poch y Gascón
Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902–1968) was a Spanish anarchist, pacifist, doctor, and activist in the years leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War. Poch y Gascón was born in Zaragoza.