List of Famous people born in Spain

Carme Ruscalleda i Serra is the renowned Catalan chef of the restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She also owns and manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan.

Julen Agirrezabala Astúlez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Athletic Bilbao as a goalkeeper.

Ricardo Arroyo García is a Spanish actor, best known for his performance as Vicente Maroto on the Spanish television series La que se avecina, and as Higinio Heredia in Aquí no hay quien viva.

Kento Marc Ishida is a Spanish-born Belgian-Japanese professional baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Ander Gil García is a Spanish teacher and politician serving as the 62nd and current president of the Senate of Spain since 2021. Gil has been Senator for Burgos since 2011 and Spokesperson of the Socialist Group in the Senate from 2017 to 2021. Previously, Gil served as a local councillor for Valle de Mena from 1995 to 2011.

Santiago Denia Sánchez, commonly known as Santi, is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central defender, and is a manager.

José Javier Hombrados is a Spanish handball player for BM Guadalajara and the Spain national team.

Desirée Vila Bargiela is a Paralympic athlete and former acrobatic gymnast who competes in international level events.

María Begoña Aranguren Gárate is a Spanish journalist and writer, the niece of the philosopher José Luis López Aranguren.

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica, usually known as Francisco Mojica, is a Spanish molecular biologist and microbiologist at the University of Alicante in Spain. He is known for his discovery of repetitive, functional DNA sequences in bacteria which he named CRISPR. These were later developed into the first widespread genome editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9.