List of Famous people born in Spain
Sergio Álvarez Moya
Sergio Álvarez Moya is a Spanish equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Dolores Delgado
Dolores Delgado García is a Spanish prosecutor who is the current and 92nd Attorney General of Spain. Previously, she served as Minister of Justice of Spain and First Notary of the Kingdom from 2018 to 2020, in the first Pedro Sánchez administration.
Verónica Sánchez
Verónica Sánchez Calderón is a Spanish actress. She made her debut in theatre in 1996, and came to media attention as Eva Capdevila in the Telecinco series Los Serrano in 2003. Sánchez has since developed a successful film career. So far, she has earned three Goya Award nominations, for Al sur de Granada, Camarón and Gordos, and an ACE Award nomination for Al sur de Granada.
José Luis Garci
José Luis García Muñoz, known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Melitón Manzanas González
Melitón Manzanas González was a high-ranking police officer in Francoist Spain, known as a torturer and the first planned victim of ETA.
Lucia Hoyos
Lucía Hoyos is an actress, presenter and Spanish model.
Alberto Toril
José Alberto Toril Rodríguez is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a central midfielder, and is a manager.
Joan Mir
Joan Mir Mayrata is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, currently riding for Team Suzuki Ecstar. He won the 2017 Moto3 World Championship with Leopard Racing and the 2020 MotoGP World Championship with Suzuki. He is the second Mallorcan after Jorge Lorenzo to win the premier-class title and the fourth Spaniard in total to Alex Criville, Lorenzo and Marc Márquez.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Realm. He was previously nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Director for Stockholm, and the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for May God Save Us. For the short film Mother, Sorogoyen won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He often works in tandem with Isabel Peña.
Javier Cámara
Javier Cámara Rodríguez is a Spanish actor. He starred in the Pedro Almodóvar films Talk to Her (2002), Bad Education (2004) and I'm So Excited (2013), and the television series 7 Vidas. He played Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez in the HBO series The Young Pope as well as Guillermo Pallomari, the chief accountant of the Cali Cartel, in season 3 of the Netflix series Narcos.