List of Famous people born in Spain
Arnaldo Otegi
Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón is a Basque politician from the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain, who is currently General Secretary of Basque nationalist party EH Bildu. He was member of the Basque Parliament for both Herri Batasuna and Euskal Herritarrok. These two parties and Batasuna were banned in 2003 for having links to ETA which was proscribed as a terrorist group. He was one of the key negotiators during the unsuccessful peace talks in Loiola and Geneva, in 2006.
Dani Martín
Daniel Martín García is a Spanish singer. He was the vocalist of the Spanish pop punk band El Canto del Loco (ECDL).
José Luis Ábalos Meco
José Luis Ábalos Meco is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party who has been serving as Minister of Development of the Government of Spain since 2018, in the cabinets presided by Pedro Sánchez. He has been a Member of the Congress of Deputies since 2009. He is also the Secretary of Organization of his party.
Esther Acebo
Esther Acebo is a Spanish actress, presenter and reporter. As an actress she has appeared in Los encantados (2016) and achieved worldwide fame in Money Heist (2017).
Beatriz Luengo
Beatriz Luengo González is a Spanish singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and entrepreneur based in Miami. She gained international recognition by portraying Lola Fernández in the Antena 3 series One Step Forward and its spin–off musical group UPA Dance. Consisting of Luengo, Pablo Puyol, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Mónica Cruz and Silvia Marty, UPA Dance released one studio album, UPA Dance, which reached number one at the Spanish Albums Chart and sold over 1.1 million units in Spain and France.
Carolina Marín
Carolina María Marín Martín is a Spanish professional badminton player. She is the reigning Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, four-time European Champion, and the former World's No. 1 in BWF rankings for the women's singles discipline, holding the World No. 1 title for a record number of 66 weeks.
Núria Roca Granell
Nuria Roca Granell is a Spanish writer, TV presenter, actress, radio announcer and architect.
Ildefons Lima
Ildefons Lima Solà is a professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Inter Club d'Escaldes and the Andorra national team.
Mikel Oyarzabal
Mikel Oyarzabal Ugarte is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left winger or forward for Real Sociedad and the Spain national team.
Santiago Abascal Conde
Santiago Abascal Conde is a Spanish politician who has been the leader of Vox party since September 2014 and a member of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Madrid since 2019. Before the creation of Vox, Abascal, a former long-standing member of the People's Party, served as legislator in the Basque Parliament, founded the Spanish nationalist Fundación para la Defensa de la Nación Española (DENAES) and exerted the role of director of publicly funded entities of the Community of Madrid.