List of Famous people born in Catalonia, Spain
Queralt Casas
Queralt Casas is a Spanish basketball player. She plays as a forward in the Spanish League for Valencia Basket. Also a member of the Spanish national team, she won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women in 2013 and 2019 with the senior team.
Nani Roma
Joan "Nani" Roma Cararach, is a rally racing driver from Folgueroles, Barcelona, Spain. He won the Dakar Rally riding a motorcycle in 2004. Since then he has entered in the car category, taking the win in the 2014 edition of the race.
Isaki Lacuesta
Isaki Lacuesta is a Spanish film director from Catalonia. His work includes documentary film, narrative film and video art.
Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan conductor and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments in contemporary performance and recording. As a historian of early music his repertoire features everything from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque through to the Classical and Romantic periods. He has incorporated non-western musical traditions in his work; including African vernacular music.
Josep Lluís Alay Rodríguez
Josep Lluís Alay i Rodríguez is a professor of Asian history at the University of Barcelona and chief of staff of Carles Puigdemont. He is the director of the Tibet and Central Asia Observatory and lecturer in Contemporary History of Tibet and Mongolia. He was the first Catalan writer to have translated a text written in Tibetan language and was responsible for the publication of Les poesies d’amor del sisè dalai-lama del Tibet, of which he was the translator as well as author of the Prologue and Notes. In 2002 he recovered the written work of the Jesuit missionary Antoni de Montserrat and reconstructed his three-year journey through territories now comprised by India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since 2004 he has headed around ten projects of cooperation in Tibet, working in the spheres of education and health. He has vastly published on the Tibet question and his last works on this issue are Arrels del Tibet and Tibet, el país de la neu en flames.
Aitor Cantalapiedra
Aitor Cantalapiedra Fernández is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Greek club Panathinaikos.
Andrea Orlandi
Andrea Orlandi Stabilin is a Spanish former footballer who played as a winger or an attacking midfielder.
Joan Rosell
Joan Rosell Lastortras is the president of the Spanish employers confederation (CEOE). He replaced Gerardo Diaz Ferran in June 2011. Prior to being elected to this post he was the president of the Catalan national employers federation for 16 years. During his career he was president of the following companies; Congost, Enher, Fuerzas Eléctricas de Cataluña and OMB, Sistemas de Higiene Urbana.
Valentín Fuster Carulla
Valentín Fuster Carulla is a Spanish-American cardiologist.
Óscar Pujol
Óscar Pujol Muñoz is a Spanish former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2018, including as a member of UCI ProTeams Cervélo TestTeam and Omega Pharma–Lotto.