List of Famous people born in Community of Valencia, Spain
Lucas Torró
Lucas Torró Marset is a Spanish footballer who plays for La Liga club Osasuna as a midfielder.
Eusebio Cáceres
Eusebio Cáceres López is a Spanish track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump.
Raimon
Ramon Pelegero Sanchis, who takes the stage name of Raimon, is a Spanish singer, one of the most important exponents of the musical style of Nova Cançó and one of the most well-known veteran artists in the Catalan language.
Iker Lecuona
Iker Lecuona Gascón is a Spanish motorcycle racer. He currently competes in the MotoGP World Championship for Tech3 KTM, a satellite-team to KTM Factory Racing.
Francisca Ballesteros
Francisca Ballesteros is a Spanish woman who poisoned to death her first baby, a five month old daughter, in 1990. Fourteen years later, in 2004, she killed her husband and second daughter because she had met a man on the Internet and wanted to run away from her parenting and marriage to be with her new found lover. Ballesteros then tried to poison her twelve-year-old son, although he survived after eight months of recovery. Following her son's poisoning Spanish authorities finally arrested her. She was convicted on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to eighty-four years in prison in 2005.
Pedro Martínez
Pedro Martínez Portero is a Spanish professional tennis player.
Arón Canet
Arón Canet Barbero is a Spanish motorcycle racer.
Vicente Rodríguez
Vicente Rodríguez Guillén, known simply as Vicente, nicknamed El puñal de Benicalap, is a Spanish former footballer.
José Luis Oltra
José Luis Oltra Castañer is a Spanish former footballer who played as a midfielder, and is the current manager of CF Fuenlabrada.
Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica
Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica, usually known as Francisco Mojica, is a Spanish molecular biologist and microbiologist at the University of Alicante in Spain. He is known for his discovery of repetitive, functional DNA sequences in bacteria which he named CRISPR. These were later developed into the first widespread genome editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9.