List of Famous people born in Spain
Elia Galera
Elia Galera is a Spanish actress and television presenter.
Javier Fernández
Javier Fernández López is a Spanish former figure skater. He is the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World champion, a two-time World bronze medalist, a seven-time European champion (2013–2019), a two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a three-time Rostelecom Cup champion (2014–2016), a two-time Grand Prix in France champion (2016–2017) and an eight-time Spanish national champion.
Andoni Iraola
Andoni Iraola Sagarna is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a right back, and is the current manager of Rayo Vallecano.
Josep Maria Bartomeu
Josep Maria Bartomeu Floreta is a Spanish entrepreneur. He served as the president of football club FC Barcelona until his resignation in 2020. He started in the role in 2014, following the resignation of Sandro Rosell.
Pau López
Pau López Sabata is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian club A.S. Roma.
Miguel Torres Gómez
Miguel Torres Gómez is a Spanish former professional footballer. Usually a right-back, he was equally at ease on the other flank.
David Otero
David Otero is a singer, guitarist and composer, born in Madrid (Spain) on 17 April 1980. He was a member of the famous pop rock band El Canto del Loco (1994–2010). After the band's break-up, he started his solo career as "El Pescao", recently changing it to his own name: David Otero.
Natalia Jiménez
Natalia Altea Jiménez Sarmento, known professionally as Natalia Jiménez is a Spanish singer-songwriter. She has received Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards and has sold more than 3 million albums worldwide, during her solo career. She has recorded duets with the main stars of Latin music, including Marc Anthony, Daddy Yankee and Ricky Martin among others.
Poli Díaz
Policarpo "Poli" Díaz Arevalo is a Spanish former professional boxer who competed from 1986 to 2001. He held the European lightweight title from 1988 to 1991, and challenged for the unified WBA, WBC and IBF lightweight title in 1991.
Miguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.