List of Famous people born in Galicia, Spain

Raquel Carrera Quintana is a Spanish professional basketball player currently signed by the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA as well as by Valencia Basket in Spain. She was drafted by the Dream 15th overall in the 2021 WNBA Draft. Carrera is the highest Spanish player ever picked in the WNBA draft.

Marta Ortega Pérez is the daughter of Amancio Ortega and was appointed chair of Inditex as of December 2021. Ortega replaced Pablo Isla, who was chair and CEO of Inditex since 2011. In April 2022 she will become president of the company.

María Teresa Miras Portugal was a Spanish scientist, pharmacist, biochemist, molecular biologist and Emeritus professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. She was a member of the Spanish "Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia" and served as President of this Institution from 2007 to 2013, becoming the first female to be elected for this position in a Spanish "Real Academia". She was Honorific President.

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 1973.

Ramón Luís Chao Rego was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lévy. In 1960 he began his collaboration with the RTF's Iberian languages Service. He was head of this service ten years later. At the same time he was collaborating with the Spanish weekly Triunfo, the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, and the daily newspapers Le Monde and La Voz de Galicia.

Eugenio Montero Ríos was a leading member of the Spanish Liberal Party before being part of a 1903 schism that divided it. He also served briefly as Prime Minister of Spain. He played a role in the 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish–American War as he was then President of the Senate of Spain.

Maruja Mallo was a Spanish surrealist painter. She’s considered as an artist of the “Generation of 1927” within the Spanish avant-garde movement.

José Antonio Gurriarán was a Spanish journalist and assistant director of the Pueblo newspaper. He was the founder of the second chain of Canal Sur.