List of Famous people born in Community of Madrid, Spain
Ana Morgade
Ana María Morgade Pérez is a Spanish presenter, comedian and actress. From September 2009 to June 2011, she was part of the regular cast of the Spanish late show Buenafuente, broadcast on La Sexta. In November 2013, she joined as collaborator in the comedy TV program Zapeando.
Amaia Salamanca
Amaia Salamanca Urízar is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of the Colombian TV series "Sin tetas no hay paraíso" and as Alicia Alarcón in series Gran Hotel.
Luis Merlo
Luis María Larrañaga Merlo, known as Luis Merlo, is a Spanish actor.
Santiago Segura
Santiago Segura Silva is a Spanish actor, screenwriter, director and producer of Spanish cinema, popular for its pentalogy film series Torrente. He also worked to a lesser extent as a TV presenter, voice actor and comic writer, as well as being an original collector.
Icíar Bollaín
Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter.
Juan Carlos Escotet
Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez is a Spanish-Venezuelan billionaire banker and the founder of Banesco.
Álvaro Urquijo
Álvaro Urquijo is a Spanish guitarist and singer-songwriter who is known as one of the founding members of the pop rock group, Los Secretos.
Miriam Díaz Aroca
Margarita Miriam Díaz Aroca is a Spanish actress and television presenter.
Dolores Delgado
Dolores Delgado García is a Spanish prosecutor who is the current and 92nd Attorney General of Spain. Previously, she served as Minister of Justice of Spain and First Notary of the Kingdom from 2018 to 2020, in the first Pedro Sánchez administration.
José Luis Garci
José Luis García Muñoz, known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.