List of Famous people born in Murcia, Spain
José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca
José Moñino y Redondo, 1st Count of Floridablanca was a Spanish statesman. He was the reformist chief minister of King Charles III of Spain, and also served briefly under Charles IV. He was arguably Spain's most effective statesman in the eighteenth century. In Spain, he is simply known as Conde de Floridablanca.
Abul Abbas al-Mursi
Al-Mursi Abu'l-'Abbas was a Sufi saint from Al-Andalus during the Merinid rule and who later in his life moved to Alexandria in Egypt. His complete name is Shahab al-Din Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn 'Umar ibn Mohammad al-Ansari al-Mursi. Al-Mursi Abul-'Abbas, as he is now commonly called, is one of the four master saints of Egypt, the other three being Ahmad al-Badawi, al-Dessouqi and al-Haggag. His legacy and reverence in Egypt were such that Mursi became a common name in the country.
Enric Bernat
Enric Bernat Fontlladonosa was the founder of the Chupa Chups lollipop company.
Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano
Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano was a Spanish architect.
José Ballesta
José Francisco Ballesta Germán is a Spanish medical professor and politician. A full professor at the University of Murcia since 1992, he served as the university's president from 1998 to 2006. As a People's Party politician, he was the mayor of Murcia (2015–2021) and a minister in the Government of the Region of Murcia (2007–2014).
José Nieto
José García López, better known as José Nieto, was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1925 to 1983.
Francisco García Tortosa
Francisco García Tortosa is a Spanish University Professor, literary critic, and translator into Spanish. In Spain García Tortosa is considered one of the chief experts on the figure and work of the Irish writer, James Joyce, whose creations he has translated and about which he has published a wide range of studies. The Irish hispanist, Ian Gibson, has called García Tortosa «Spain's leading expert on Joyce», while considering his translation of Ulysses, in collaboration with María Luisa Venegas, as «prodigious».
Francisco Lerma Martínez
Francisco Lerma Martínez was a Mozambican Roman catholic bishop.
Francisco Gil Hellín
Mariano Padilla y Ramos
Francisco de Asís Mariano del Carmen Marco Padilla y Ramos; 18 July 1843 – 21 November 1906), known as Mariano Padilla y Ramos, was a Spanish operatic baritone who excelled in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni.