- Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz, born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18 1968 in Madrid, Spain, is a Grammy Award winning Spanish pop/ballad musician. The second son of María Pizarro Medina from Alcalá de los Gazules, and Jesús Sánchez Madero from Algeciras.
- Alberto Contador
Alberto Contador Velasco is a professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. He is a cyclist that competes for the overall title and is considered a climbing specialist. His career highlights includes winning Stage 5 of the 2005 Tour Down Under, his first win after overcoming a massive blood clot in his brain, a risky surgery and a long, painful road to recovery and to get back on his bike.
- Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry. His Asian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family. Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler.
- Esperanza Aguirre
Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma is a Spanish politician, currently the President of the People's Party of Madrid. Since 2003 she has been the President of Madrid. She is the first female to have been President of the Senate and Minister of Education and Culture in Spanish democratic history. She was a member of Unión Liberal, Partido Liberal and Popular Alliance, which changed its name to People's Party in 1989.
- Jamal Zougam
Born in 1973 in Morocco, Jamal Zougam was one of six men implicated in the 11 March 2004 Madrid Train Bombings. He was detained on 13 March 2004, accused of multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, stealing a vehicle, belonging to a terrorist organisation and four counts of carrying out terrorist acts. Spain's "El País" newspaper says three witnesses have testified to seeing him leave a rucksack aboard one of the bombed trains.
- Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is Spain's best selling singer and the best-selling Spanish singer of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold over 250 million records in different languages and released 77 records. He thus far has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career and recorded albums in fourteen different languages.
- Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. Born in Madrid, Spain, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. He was a supporter of the Franco regime.
- Raúl González
Raúl González Blanco, usually referred to simply as Raúl, is a Spanish football forward. He has been playing for Real Madrid at senior level since 1994, where he is the team captain. He has played more than 100 games for the Spanish national team, and is its all-time leading goal scorer with 47 goals. He represented Spain in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2004 and 2006 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
- Manuela Malasaña
Manuela Malasaña Oñoro, a 15-year-old seamstress from Móstoles, Madrid, Spain, was one of the townspeople who lost their lives during the May 2, 1808 uprising in Madrid against the troops of Napoleon I of France during the Peninsular War. With many other young Madrilenes, the young woman went to the defence of the Monleón artillery park (the current Plaza del 2 de Mayo).
- Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (born November 15, 1983 in Madrid) is a professional tennis player from Spain. Currently he is one of the best Spanish tennis players, and he plays well on all of the surfaces. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years old and got a full-time coach when he was eight. Verdasco considers his forehand his best shot, plays left-handed and has a double-handed backhand.
- Fernando Trueba
Fernando Trueba (January 18 1955 in Madrid) is an awarded Spanish book editor, screenwriter and film director. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign film with "Belle Epoque" in 1993. He has won 3 times Goya Award as Best Director among other awards. He is the brother of David Trueba.
- Francisco Largo Caballero
Francisco Largo Caballero (October 15, 1869 -March 23, 1946) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. He was one of the historic leaders of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and of the Workers' General Union (UGT). Born in Madrid, as a young man he made his living stuccoing walls. He participated in a construction workers strike in 1890 and joined the PSOE in 1894. Upon the death in 1925 of party founder Pablo Iglesias, he succeeded him as head of the party and of the UGT.
- Julián Besteiro
Julián Besteiro Fernández was a Spanish socialist politician and university professor. Born in Madrid, he was educated in the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, and studied in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Madrid, as well as at the Sorbonne in 1896, the Universities of Munich, Berlin and Leipzig in 1909-1910. In 1908, he joined the Partido Radical (Radical Party) established by Alejandro Lerroux.
- Ana Belén
Ana Belén is the artistic name of María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, a Spanish actress and singer. She was born on 27 May 1951 in Madrid.
- Miguel Ángel Moratinos
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé is a Spanish diplomat and politician, a member of the Socialist Workers' Party. He currently serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (since April 18 2004). Between 1996 and 2003, Moratinos was the European Union Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process. For the year 2007, Moratinos is the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- Raphael
Don Rafael Martos Sánchez, Ilustrísimo Señor de la Orden de Cisneros, Comendador de Isabel La Católica, and known worldwide as Raphael, is one of the best known singers from Spain. Absolute pioneer of the modern music in Spanish, his importance rests in having opened the door the singers of Spanish speech towards the whole world, making them respected.
- Ana Torroja
Ana Torroja (born December 28, 1959) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Spanish vocalist and lead singer of the trio Mecano, which has sold millions of albums. She was born in Madrid and is the daughter of a noted engineer.
- El Fary
José Luis Cantero Rada, known professionally as El Fary, was a Spanish singer and actor. The youngest of six children, Cantero was born into a humble family in the Las Ventas neighbourhood of Madrid, close to a famous bullring. As a boy he would play truant from school, preferring to spend time partying with Gitanos imitating his idol, the traditional copla singer Rafael Farina. It was from Farina that Cantero adopted his stage name of "El Fary".
- Wally Szczerbiak
Walter Robert "Wally" Szczerbiak (born March 5 1977, in Madrid, Spain) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics. He was born in Spain while his father Walter (a former ABA player) was playing for Real Madrid, and spent much of his childhood in Europe during his father's playing career. When Walter retired, he moved his family back to his native Long Island, New York, where Wally attended high school in Cold Spring Harbor.
- Cecilia
Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, known as Cecilia, (Madrid, October 111948 - Benavente, August 2 1976) was a Spanish singer-songwriter. Her name came from a song by Simon and Garfunkel. Daughter of diplomats, she spent her childhood in several countries and was raised by an American nun. She got a bachelor degree in Laws in Spain and she decided to dedicate herself to music and composition.
- Juan Echanove
Juan Echanove (1 April ,1961, Madrid) is an awarded Spanish actor.
- David Moreno
David Moreno is also described as the answer to Barcelona FC's Leo Messi as they have the same style of dribbiling Techniques, shape and speed. David Moreno has Been Linked with a move to Lazio football Club in Italy for free as long as it is before he turns 16 under FIFA Law.
- Lydia
Lydia Rodríguez Fernández better know as Lydia, is a Spanish pop singer. When she was only 16 years old, she released her first album "Lydia",which went platinum in Spain. She became famous after dedicating a song to her musician idol Alejandro Sanz. On 1999 she represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "No quiero escuchar", but she finished last with only one point.
- Rosario Flores
Rosario Flores is a two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Madrid, Spain as the daughter of Antonio González ('El Pescaílla') and Lola Flores. She is the sister of actress Lolita Flores and singer-songwriter Antonio Flores. She has a daughter with her ex boyfriend Carlos Orellana. Her second son, Pedro Antonio, was born January 21, 2006, the same day as his grandmother Lola Flores.
- Adriana Ozores
Adriana Ozores, (May 21, 1959, Madrid) is an awarded Spanish actress.
- Nacho Cano
Ignacio Cano Andrés, aka Nacho Cano is a Spanish arranger, composer, musician and record producer. He studied solfège and was a member of the Spanish group Mecano with his brother José María Cano and Ana Torroja. He has also released 4 solo albums. One of his hits was "Vivimos siempre juntos" with Mercedes Ferrer. As a producer, he founded the company Fairlight Estudios with Alejo Stivel.
- Teresa Berganza
The Spanish opera singer Teresa Berganza (born 16 March 1935) is the foremost soprano/mezzo-soprano of the third quarter of the 20th century. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence.
- Beatriz Luengo
Beatriz Luengo is a Spanish actress, singer and dancer. She released her first album "Mi Generación" in 2005.
- Julio José Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias also known as Julio Iglesias Jr. is a pop singer from Spain.
- Chabeli Iglesias
María Isabel Iglesias Preysler, known as Chábeli Iglesias is a Filipino-Spanish journalist based in Washington D.C.. Iglesias is the daughter of famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipino-mestizo Philippine socialite Isabel Preysler. She is the sister of pop star Enrique Iglesias and model and singer Julio Iglesias Jr.. She has also several half-siblings: Tamara Falcó and Ana Boyer (from her mother's side) and Miguel Alejandro, Rodrigo, Cristina, …
- Francisco Pavón
Francisco Pavón Barahona, nicknamed Paco Pavón is a Spanish football defender, who currently plays for Real Zaragoza. His name became associated with the "Los Galácticos" policy when Florentino Pérez promised to build a team full of "Zidanes and Pavones" - expensive high profile recruits like Zinedine Zidane and youth team graduates like Pavón. Pavón progressed through the ranks at Real Madrid, …
- Eusebio Poncela
Eusebio Poncela is a Spanish actor. His debut on stage was with"Mariana Pineda". In 1969 appears on screen for first time in "Fuenteovejuna", but his firts notable rol was the protagonist of the Spanish cult movie "Arrebato" (1979), directed by Iván Zulueta. Another hit was TVE miniserie "Los gozos y las sombras" (1985). He was the protagonist of "La ley del deseo" by Pedro Almodóvar.
- Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand I was an Austrian monarch from the House of Habsburg. He was first the Archduke of Austria from 1521-1564. After the death of Louis II, Ferdinand ruled as King of Bohemia and Hungary (1526–1564). After his brother Charles V abdicated as Holy Roman Emperor in 1556, Ferdinand reigned as emperor (formally beginning in 1558) until his death.
- Gerardo Herrero
Gerardo Herrero (Madrid, 28 January, 1953) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the most important producers of Latin American films.
- Glen Jacobs
Glen Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name, Kane. He is performing on the "SmackDown!" brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
- Manuel Alexandre
Manuel Alexandre (Madrid, 11 November, 1917) is a Spanish film and television actor.
- Ismael Serrano
The singer/songwriter Ismael Serrano was born in the neighbourhood of Vallecas of Madrid (Spain) in March 9, 1974. After studying Physics in the Complutense University of this same city, Ismael Serrano started his musical career in the early ninetees in Madrid, singing in a new bar/café circuit, with names as Libertad 8, Galileo and Nuevos Juglares. The movement proved to be very popular again, …
- Carlos Berlanga
Carlos Berlanga was a Spanish musician, composer and painter. He was an influential figure in the Spanish music scene of the 1980s, especially in his various collaborations with the singer Alaska, such as Alaska y Dinarama and Alaska y los Pegamoides. He was the son of Luis García Berlanga, a Spanish film director.
- Marta Sánchez
Marta Sánchez is a Spanish female vocalist. She was born on May 8, 1966 in Madrid. Her father, Antonio Sánchez Camporro, was an opera singer.
- Veronica Forqué
Veronica Forqué is a Spanish actress of stage, film and television who comes from an artistic and theatrical family. Her mother is Carmen Vázquez Vigo and her father is the director José María Forqué. Her brother is director Álvaro Forqué. She was married to Spanish actor Manuel Iborra, by whom she has a daughter, María (b. 1990). She is reported to speak fluent Italian. In September 2005, she was a Member of the Jury at San Sebastian's Movie Festival.