List of Famous people born in Catalonia, Spain

Santiago "Santi" Vila i Vicente is a Catalan historian and politician from Granollers, Spain. He was a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party, and was a councillor at Figueres from 1999 before becoming mayor from 2007 to 2012.

Andreu Buenafuente Moreno is a Spanish late night show host and founder of the group El Terrat. He has worked in TV3, Antena 3, laSexta and #0. He has also worked as a radio host and has published several books with his monologues.

Remedios Varo Uranga was a Spanish surrealist artist working in Spain, France, and Mexico.

Jordi Hurtado Torres is a Spanish radio and television presenter and voice actor. He is popular in Spain thanks to Televisión Española shows like Saber y ganar.

Samanta Villar Fitó is a Spanish journalist.

Helen Lindes Griffiths is a Spanish actress and model who was awarded Miss Spain 2000 and placed 2nd Runner-up to Lara Dutta of India in the Miss Universe 2000 contest.

Joaquim Gutiérrez Ylla better known as Quim Gutiérrez is a Spanish actor. He won the 2006 Goya Award for Best New Actor for his performance in Azuloscurocasinegro.

Gisela Lladó Cánovas, known mononymously as Gisela, is a Spanish pop singer and voice actress. She was born in El Bruc (Barcelona), in Catalonia, Spain and studied journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona before becoming famous after placing eighth in the first Spanish edition of Operación Triunfo in 2001. She is also known for representing Andorra in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Silvia Tortosa is a Spanish actress. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1966.

Gervasio Deferr Ángel is a retired gymnast from Spain who competed at three Olympic Games. He became the Olympic champion in men's vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and has repeated the feat at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Each of his ankles show a tattoo with the logo of one of these two Olympic Games. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he won the silver medal on the floor exercise with a score of 15.775.