List of Famous people born in Spain

María Luz Casal Paz is a Spanish pop singer. She grew up in neighbouring Boimorto, took singing, piano and ballet classes, and moved to Madrid to pursue a career as a musician.

José Luis Corcuera is a Spanish politician who served as interior minister of Spain from 1988 to 1993.

Cristina Marcos is a Spanish actress. She has appeared in over 35 films and television shows since 1981. She starred in the 1981 film Maravillas, which was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.

Rosa María López Cortés,, is a Spanish singer. She came to fame in 2001 as part of the Spanish reality television talent show Operación Triunfo, which she won. She represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. She has subsequently released seven studio albums, a DVD and several singles.

Alex Dujshebaev Dobichebaeva is a Spanish handball player for Łomża Vive Kielce and the Spanish national team.

Beatriz Montañez López is a Spanish TV presenter and actress.

José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea, also known as Josu Ternera and Josu Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea, is a former member of the Basque separatist organization ETA. In separate trials over a number of years, he was convicted for his involvement in the 1986 Plaza República Dominicana bombing and the 1987 Zaragoza barracks bombing, which together killed 23 people, including five children.

Jordi Cuixart i Navarro is a Spanish businessman and cultural activist from Catalonia. He is the president of Òmnium Cultural, a non-profit cultural organisation founded in 1961 with more than 180,000 members and 40 local branches in Catalonia. As part of his role in the pro-independence demonstrations prior to the Catalan independence referendum of 2017, he has been imprisoned since October 2017 under charge of sedition brought by the Spanish prosecutor's office. In October 2019, after two years of pre-trial detention, Cuixart was sentenced to nine years of prison for sedition. Amnesty International believes his detention and sentence constitutes a disproportionate restriction on his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and urges Spain to free him. The NGO Front Line Defenders and the Council of Europe consider Jordi Cuixart a human rights defender. He has repeatedly said that “as a political prisoner my priority is not getting out of prison, but the solution of the political situation and struggle for democracy and human rights”.

Ángel Francisco Carromero Barrios is the secretary general of the Madrid regional branch of the Spanish People's Party's youth organisation Nuevas Generaciones. He served a four-year prison sentence in Spain handed to him in Cuba for the involuntary manslaughter of Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero.

Antonia del Carmen Acosta León, better known as Toni Acosta, is a Spanish actress.