List of Famous people born in Spain
María Xiao
María Xiao Yao is a Portuguese-Spanish table tennis player. Born in Barcelona to Chinese parents and raised in Madeira, she represented Portugal before 2012 and Spain afterwards. She was Portugal's reserve player for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Elisa Beni
Elisa Beni Uzabal is a Spanish journalist. When she took over El Faro de Ceuta at 23, she became the youngest newspaper director in Spain.
Ismael Santos
Ismael Santos is a retired basketball player. As a member of Real Madrid, he won the Euroleague title in 1995, being selected to the EuroLeague All-Final Four Team in the process. In 1997, Santos was instrumental as Real Madrid won the Saporta Cup.
Fulgencio Coll Bucher
Fulgencio Coll Bucher is a Spanish general who served as Chief of Staff of the Army. Coll assumed the office on 18 July 2008, replacing Carlos Villar. Jaime Domínguez Buj replaced him on 27 July 2012.
Isabel Franco
Isabel Franco may refer to:
- Isabel Franco Sánchez, Spanish journalist and politician
- Isabel Franco Carmona, Spanish Podemos politician
Jorge Ureña
Jorge Ureña Andreu is a Spanish athlete competing in the combined events. He won the silver medal at the 2015 European U23 Championships. In addition, he finished seventh at the 2015 European Indoor Championships.
Maddalen Iriarte
Maddalen Iriarte Okiñena is a journalist and politician from the Basque Country in Spain. Since 2016, she is the spokesperson for EH Bildu at the Basque Parliament. She led the candidacy of EH Bildu in the 2020 Basque regional election.
Eloy Velasco
Eloy Velasco is a Spanish High Court Judge, known for being responsible to determine whether or not six former Bush officials should face criminal charges in Spain. He is also known for having accepted the judicial demand against the former Salvadoran president Alfredo Cristiani and other 14 Salvadoran members of the military, for the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador.
Marc Coma
Marc Coma i Camps is a Spanish rally racing motorcycle rider. He won the Dakar Rally in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2015 riding a KTM motorcycle, and is also a six-time winner of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. He was the race director of the Dakar Rally from 2016 to 2018.
Jaime Lissavetzky
Jaime Lissavetzky Díez is a Spanish chemist and politician. Secretary of State for Sport (2004–2011) and regional minister of Education of the Government of the Community of Madrid. He was member of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th terms of the Assembly of Madrid, as well as member of the 8th Congress of Deputies and city councillor in the Ayuntamiento of Madrid.