List of Famous people born in Galicia, Spain

Sebastián de Ocampo was a Spanish navigator and explorer. He is believed to have been the first navigator to have circumnavigated the island of Cuba in 1508.

Eloy Anselmo Luis y André was a Spanish psychologist, philosopher, educator and Galician writer.

Fernando de Casas Novoa was a Spanish architect. He was the chief representative of Baroque architecture in Galicia. In 1711 he succeeded his teacher, Brother Gabriel Casas, head of the works of the cloister of the cathedral of Lugo, completed in 1714. In this work and in the convents of the Capuchins in A Coruña and Santiago Dominican Belvis of classical solutions adopted, inspired by the architecture of the sixteenth century. But from 1725 evolved into the purest baroque and vibrant are his masterpieces: the Chapel of Our Lady of the Big Eye in the cathedral of Lugo, and, above all, the facade of Obradoiro, the cathedral Santiago de Compostela, in which movement, decoration and buoyancy effects create flavorful Baroque.

Rosendo Salvado Rotea OSB was a Spanish Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, author, founder and first abbot of the Territorial Abbey of New Norcia in Western Australia.

Luis Rodríguez de Viguri y Seoane was a Spanish politician and minister of National Economy during the Dámaso Berenguer period following the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

Felipe de Castro was a Spanish sculptor of Galician origin. He was among the first to introduce the Neoclassical style to Spain, and served as sculptor to King Ferdinand VI. Some sources give his year of birth as 1704.