List of Famous people born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Augusto Hidalgo Macario is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician. He was elected to the city council of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in 2007 and became its mayor in 2015.

Benito Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.

Juan Fernando López Aguilar is a Spanish politician and jurist, member of the European Parliament since 2009. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he served as Minister of Justice in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. He also represented Las Palmas in the Congress of Deputies between 1996 and 2007 and between 2008 and 2009.