List of Famous people born in Basque Autonomous Community, Spain
Iban Mayo
Iban Mayo Diez is a former professional road bicycle racer.
Ramón González Arrieta
José Ramón Gonzalez Arrieta is a Spanish former road bicycle racer. He is the husband of former road bicycle racer Joane Somarriba Arrola.
Koldo Fernández
Koldo Fernández de Larrea is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2014 for the Euskaltel–Euskadi and Garmin–Sharp teams. He now works as a transfer agent within the sport.
Mikel Astarloza
Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2009, and 2011 to 2013.
Igor González de Galdeano
Igor González de Galdeano Aranzabal is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer and most recently, the team manager of UCI ProTeam Euskaltel–Euskadi. Following a promising start to his career at Vitalicio Seguros, where he finished the 1999 Vuelta a España in second place, González de Galdeano became a key rival of Lance Armstrong in the middle of his Tour de France supremacy. In the 2002 Tour de France, González de Galdeano wore the yellow jersey for seven days and in the 2003 Vuelta a España wore the gold jersey for one day. At an average speed of 55.17 km/h, González de Galdeano also holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González.
Álvaro González de Galdeano
Álvaro González de Galdeano Aranzábal is a Spanish former professional cyclist. He was the manager of the cycling team Euskaltel–Euskadi until it disbanded in 2013. He is the brother of Igor González de Galdeano.
Juan Manuel Eguiagaray
Juan Manuel Eguiagaray is a Spanish economist, academic, businessman and retired politician. He served as the minister of industry and energy from 1993 to 1996.
Iratxe García
Iratxe García Pérez is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). She has served as Member of the European Parliament since 2004, and has served as the Leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group since 2019.
Federico Echave
Federico Echave Musatadi is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the prestigious stage up to Alpe d'Huez in 1987 Tour de France. Echave holds the record for most Vueltas finished, 14, all of them being consecutive.