Bartolomé de las Casas

male, deceased (1566)
andalusian, SpanishEmpire, Dominicans, Dominican Order, From Seville, evangelical lutheran church in america…spanish, Spanish colonization of the Americas
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (August 24 1484 - July 17 1566), was a 16th century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of C...
Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza

male, deceased (1788)
spanish conquistador, from California, californio, Spanish conquistadore, governor of new mexico, californios…SpanishEmpire
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 1736 - December 19, 1788) was a Novo-Spanish explorer for the Spanish Empire.
Francisco de Miranda

Francisco de Miranda

male, deceased (1816)
South American Wars of Independence, Spanish America, Central University of Venezuela alumni, General, politician, revolution…SpanishEmpire, Spanish American colonies, spanish
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez was a Venezuelan revolutionary whose own plan for the independence of the Spanish American colonies fa...

José Rizal

male, deceased (1896)
Catholic, Opthalmologists, Filipino of Spanish descent, death by firearm in the Philippines, Filipino of Chinese descent, Ateneo de Manila University alumni…Spanish-language poet, Spanish-filipinos, SpanishEmpire, Spanish-language writer
José Rizal (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896), was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the P...
Edward Vernon

Edward Vernon

male, deceased (1757)
Shrewsbury, Rye, Westminster, London, William III, King of England, captain, mary…War of the Spanish Succession, SpanishEmpire
Edward Vernon ("Old Grog") (12 November 1684-30 October 1757) was an English naval officer. Born in Westminster, London, Vernon was the second son...
Guaman Poma

Guaman Poma

male
Chronicler, Human Poma, death, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno…SpanishEmpire, spanish, spanish language
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, best known as Guaman Poma or Human Poma, (c. 1550 - after 1616) was an indigenous Peruvian who became disillusioned...

Ida Altman

female
University of Florida, migration, SpanishEmpire, University of Florida faculty, Latin American History, Human migration…spanish
Ida Louise Altman (born 1950) is an American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America. Her book "Emigrants and Society" received the 1990...
Segundo Ruiz Belvis

Segundo Ruiz Belvis

male, deceased (1867)
nationalist, abolitionist, politician, Puerto Rican, philosophy, aguadilla…SpanishEmpire, Spanish colonies, Spanish Courts
Segundo Ruiz Belvis (May 13, 1829 - November 3, 1867), born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, was a dedicated abolitionist who also fought for Puerto...
Juan de Garay

Juan de Garay

male, deceased (1583)
Santa Fe, spanish, paraguay, Spanish colonization of the Americas, rio de la plata, conquistador…SpanishEmpire
Juan de Garay was a Spanish conquistador. Garay worked and fought for the Spanish Empire, first in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and then at the...
Anna Of Austria

Anna Of Austria

female, deceased (1580)
Italian, Kingdom of Portugal, SpanishEmpire, Queen consort, throne, Archduchess of Austria…Spanish royal consort
Anna of Austria (Cigales, Valladolid, November 1 1549-Badajoz, October 26 1580), was Queen of Spain and Portugal. She was the first daughter of...