List of Famous people born in Valladolid, Spain
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
María Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría Antón is a Spanish politician of the People's Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of the Presidency from 2011 to 2018. She was member of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid from 2004 until 2018.
Jorge Fernández Díaz
Jorge Fernández Díaz is a Spanish politician and a member of the Partido Popular (PP).
Eleanor
Eleanor of Castile was heir presumptive to the throne of the Crown of Castile and Princess of Asturias from 1424 until a few months before her death.
Beatrice of Castile, Marchioness of Montferrat
Beatrice of Castile was a daughter of Alfonso X of Castile and his wife Violant of Aragon. She was Marchioness of Montferrat by her marriage and was mother of Irene of Montferrat.
Antoni Rubió i Lluch
Antoni Rubió i Lluch was a Spanish-Catalan historian and intellectual who published in Catalan and Spanish. A Hellenist and a medievalist, he left his mark on the study of the Catalan period in Greece, 1313–1381.
Soraya Rodríguez
María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos is a Spanish lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was a Deputy of the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.
Wenceslao Carrillo
Wenceslao Carrillo Alonso-Forjador was a prominent Spanish Socialist leader, father of Santiago Carrillo. He belonged to the "Caballerist" faction of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election and left office on 21 December 2011.
Julián Marías
Julián Marías Aguilera was a Spanish philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and member of the Madrid School.
Philip II of Spain
Philip II was King of Spain (1556–1598), King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily, and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland. He was also Duke of Milan from 1540. From 1555 he was Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.