- Ricardo Tormo
Ricardo Tormo was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion. Tormo won the 1978 FIM 50cc world championship as a member of the Bultaco factory racing team. He repeated as 50cc world champion in 1981 on a privately backed Bultaco. He was also a three-time 50cc Spanish national champion and a four-time 125cc national champion.
- David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern is a professional tennis player from Spain. He was born in Javea, Spain and lives in Valencia, Spain. He turned professional in 2000. Ferrer is known as a particularly dangerous clay court player, though he has had several respectable results on hard courts as well, especially his back-to-back semifinal appearances at the NASDAQ-100 Open in 2005-2006.
- Juan Bautista Soler
Juan Bautista Soler Luján is a Spanish businessman and current president of Valencia Club de Fútbol. He is a real estate developer and investor, based in Valencia. His eponymous Grupo Juan Bautista Soler creates large apartment buildings and residential developments in Southern Spain. Along with other real estate developers like Manuel Manrique, José Manuel Loureda, Manuel Jove, and Rafael del Pino, …
- Jose Iturbi
José Iturbi (born 28 November 1895 in Valencia, Spain; died 28 June 1980 in Los Angeles) was a Spanish conductor and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, "Thousands Cheer". He was involved in a complex family custody battle in the 1940s that culminated in his former son-in-law kidnapping Iturbi's two granddaughters.
- Karl Muggeridge
Karl Muggeridge is an Australian motorcycle racer, born 20th April 1974 in Tweed Heads. He is married to Isobel, and has one son, Ryan. He won the World Supersport Championship in 2004, and has raced in World Superbikes ever since, joining the Alto Evolution Bertocchi team for 2007 alongside countryman Josh Brookes. After several years of Motocross, "Muggaz" began circuit racing in 1994, finishing 4th in his homealnd's 250cc series a year later on a Suzuki.
- Javier Mariscal
Javier Mariscal is a Spanish artist and designer whose work has spanned a wide range of mediums, ranging from painting and sculpture to interior design and landscaping. Hwas born in February 1950 in the city of Valencia, Spain, into a family of eleven brothers and sisters. Since 1970, he has been living and working in Barcelona. His language is synthetic, with few strokes and a great deal of expressiveness.
- Rita Barberá Nolla
Rita Barberá Nolla is the mayor of Valencia, Spain from 1991. Member of the National Council of the People's Party of Spain and Representant in the Valencian Country Parliament (Corts Valencianes).
- Ortifus
Antonio Ortiz Fuster, more commonly known as his psuedonym, Ortifus, is a political cartoonist, born in Valencia, Spain in 1948. Widely considered to be one of the best cartoonists and illustrators to come out of the Valencia Community, he started his professional life as a musician, jewellery maker, and textile designer. His music gained notability during the 1970s, when he was bassist for the bands "Control" and "Orquesta Valencia", …
- Pablo Cavallero
Pablo Cavallero is an Argentine football goalkeeper. He played for several clubs, including Vélez Sarsfield, Unión de Santa Fe, Espanyol Barcelona and Celta Vigo, the last two in Spain. His last club is also Spanish, Valencian Levante UD. Cavallero played for Argentina national football team and was a participant at the 1996 Olympic Games and at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Bebe
Nieves Rebolledo Vila more popularly known as Bebe (May 9,1978 in Valencia, Spain) is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish singer and actress. She is noted for her fierce personality, feminist lyrics and androgynous looks.
- Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro Sánchez is a Spanish tennis player known for his flair, talent and inconsistency. He plays right-handed and uses a single-handed backhand. His favorite surface is clay. As of early 2007, Almagro is the second-youngest of the many Spanish players in the ATP Top 100 (after Rafael Nadal). Almagro had been a highly rated junior for many years, and finally realised his potential in 2005. He played in the main draw of 3 out of 4 slams, …
- Miguel Pallardó
Miguel Pallardó González is a Spanish football player, who currently plays for Valencia CF, a professional football team based in Valencia, Spain. 1.73 m in height and 73 kg in weight, Pallardó has been promoted from the Valencia B team this season. Pallardó has already impressed in the pre season matches of Valencia. He plays a similar role like David Albelda as a holding midfielder. Recently he has been called into the Spain U21 team.
- Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand, born at Valencia, Spain, 1 January 1526; died 9 October, 1581. His parents were Juan Bertrand and Juana Angela Exarch. Through his father he was related to the illustrious St. Vincent Ferrer, the great thaumaturgus of the Dominican Order. The boyhood of the saint was unattended by any of the prodigies that frequently forecast heroic sanctity. At an early age he conceived the idea of becoming a Dominican Friar, …
- Vicente Guallart
Vicente Guallart is one of the most relevant emerging architects in Spain. He was born in Valencia in 1963 and opened his studio in Barcelona in 1992.
- Mariano Benlliure
Mariano Benlliure (Valencia, September 8, 1862 - November 9, 1947 was a Spanish sculptor who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style.
- Adela Cortina
Adela Cortina is a Spanish philosopher born in Valencia, Spain. After getting her career of philosophy and letters in the University of Valencia, she entered the metaphysics department in 1969. In 1976, she defended her doctorate's thesis, about God in the Kantiana trascendental philosophy, and teaches for a while in middle-grade institutes. A research grant allowed her to visit the University of Munich frequently, where she came in contact with critical rationalism, …
- Antonio Segura
Antonio Segura (born June 13, 1947 in Valencia) is a Spanish comics writer.
- Javier Farinós
Francisco Javier Farinós Zapata commonly known as Francisco Farinós, Javier Farinós or simply Farinós (born 29 March 1978 in Valencia) is a Spanish football (soccer) midfielder, who currently currently plays for Hércules CF. Farinós was a formerly a Spanish international, and competed in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.
- Jacinto Quincoces
Jacinto Quincoces López was a Spanish football player and manager. He was born in Barakaldo and died in Valencia. He played 25 matches for the Spain national football team from 1928 to 1936, and was part of Spain's 1934 FIFA World Cup team. He was Spain's national coach in 1945, taking charge for two matches.
- Terry Rodgers
Terry Rodgers (born September 11 1947) is an American figurative painter known for his large scale canvases that focus on portraying contemporary body politics. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Washington, DC, He graduated cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1969, with a major in Fine Arts. His strong interest in film and photography influenced his style in the direction of representational realism in art.
- Giovanni Do
Giovanni Do was a Spanish painter, active in Naples. Born originally in the town of Jatiba, near Valencia in Spain. By 1626 Do was in Naples, and that year he married Grazia, sister of Paceco de Rosa; the marriage contract describes him as Spanish and gives Giovanni Battista Caracciolo and fellow Spaniard Jusepe de Ribera as witnesses.
- Antonio José Cavanilles
Antonio José Cavanilles was the leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav. on botanical records; for example, "Aristida pallens" Cav. Cavanilles was born in Valencia, Spain. He lived in Paris from 1777 to 1781, where he followed careers as a clergyman and a botanist.
- David Kirby
David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU). Kirby obtained his Ph.D. in 1969 from Johns Hopkins University. He lives with his wife and fellow poet Barbara Hamby in Tallahassee, Florida. Kirby has taught at FSU's international campuses in Florence, Paris, Valencia, and elsewhere. Kirby has published over 20 books, including collections of poetry, and literary criticism.
- Juan Tomás de Rocaberti
Juan Tomás de Rocaberti was a Spanish theologian. Educated at Gerona, he entered the Dominican convent there, receiving the habit in 1640. His success in theological studies at the convent of Valencia secured for him the chair of theology in the university. In 1666 he was chosen provincial of Aragon, and in 1670 the General Chapter elected him general of the order. The celebrated Dominican Vincent Contenson dedicated to him his "Theologia mentis et cordis".
- Nacho Canut
Nacho Canut (June 5 1957 in Valencia, Spain) is the bass player and one of the main composers (along with Alaska) of the band Fangoria.
- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (December 11, 1892-March 17,1979) was an Italian tenor who performed throughout Europe and the Americas in a career that spanned forty years. Born in Lanuvio, Italy, he was orphaned at age eleven. After completing his secondary education at the seminary at Albano and graduating from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", he began vocal studies under the baritone Antonio Cotogni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
- Antonio Aranda
Antonio Aranda Mata was a military officer who fought for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. He was born in 1888 and died in 1979. An engineer and geographer, he had an outstanding record in the Morocco wars. He participated in the suppression of the Asturias Revolt of 1934 and rose to the rank of colonel. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, he was in command of the Oviedo garrison, …
- Juan Jose Marti
Juan Jose Marti (1570?-1604), Spanish novelist, was born at Orihuela (Valencia) about 1570. He graduated as bachelor of canon law at Valencia in 1591, and in 1598 took his degree as doctor of canon law; in the latter year he was appointed co-examiner in canon law at Valencia University, and held the post for six years. He died in Valencia, and was buried in Valencia Cathedra on the 22nd of December 1604. Marti joined the Valencian Academia de los noclurnos, …
- Susana Medina
Susana Medina (January 31, 1966) is an English-Spanish writer. Born in Hampshire, England of a Spanish father and a German mother of Czech origin, she grew up in Valencia, Spain, and has resided in London since 1989. Susana Medina has written and published poetry, a novel, stories, essays and a cinematographic script. She has obtained numerous awards, amongst which must be highlighted the Max Aub International Short Story Prize.
- Esteban Adrogué
Esteban Adrogué was an Argentine citizen born in Buenos Aires and founder of the city of Adrogué in the southern part of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of Don José Ramón Adrogué and Doña Petrona Portela. His father, originally from Valencia, Spain, was a merchant, activity that he would later develop, to reach a solid economical position.
- Melba Ramos
Soprano Melba Ramos was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. She received her vocal education at the Pablo Casals Conservatory of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1987 she was awarded the first prize of the District metropolitan Opera Auditions and that same year made her official stage debut as Despina in Mozart's "COSI FAN TUTTE". She won again the first prize in the 1988 and 1990 District Metropolitan Opera Auditions.
- Josep Guia
Josep Guia i Marín (Valencia, 1947) is a Valencian writer, mathematics professor of University of Valencia and political activist within PSAN party. He was arrested and fined several times before and after Franco's death because of his ideas and acts supporting the independence of the Catalan Countries.
- Sofya Melikyan
Sofya Melikyan is an Armenian pianist, born in Yerevan in 1978. Pupil of pianist Joaquín Soriano from 1994, she has won some of the most important Spanish piano competitions (Ibiza, Linares). In September 2006 she won the fifth prize in Valencia's José Iturbi competition. She has been active playing as a soloist with Armenian and Spanish orchestras, …
- Richard Lui
Richard Lui is a news anchor with CNN Pipeline, a news correspondent for Robin and Company, and occasionally serves as a substitute anchor on CNN and CNN Headline News. He joined CNN in 2005 and is based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta. Prior to CNN, Lui served as an anchor, reporter and producer based in Singapore for Channel NewsAsia, a 24-hour, English-only news network reaching 20 Asian countries and territories including China, India, Pakistan, …
- Fernando S. Llobera
Fernando S. Llobera was born in 1965 in Madrid and studied aeronautical engineering in New York. His first novel "El Noveno Círculo (Planeta)" or "The Ninth Circle" received merit from the public and critics alike and was translated to Italian ("Il circolo di Cambridge", Translation: Leopoldo Carra), German ("Der neunte Höllenkreis", Translation: Matthias D. Borgmann) and Russian.
- Jaime Bravo
Jaime Bravo was a famous Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in the infamous Tepito District of México City, to Spanish parents. His way out of the ghetto was as a ' (trapeze artist) for a well known Mexican circus. By his early 20's he stowed away on a ship to Cuba, and then on another to Spain, where he learned his art. Taking his ' in Valencia, and later being Confirmed in Madrid, Jaime Bravo was a star matador, …
- Yamila Guerra
Yamila Guerra is a United States-based Cuban actress and singer who has performed on stage and television in Europe and America. Born in Havana, Yamila began her acting career at the age of seven, performing on some of the most popular Cuban TV programs. She toured the country with her parents and brother, performing at numerous venues. She subsequently enrolled in the National Ballet School of Havana, where she studied for five years and began solo dance performances.
- Domingo Rey D'Harcourt
Domingo Rey d'Harcourt (Born Calamocha, Teruel Province, Aragon, Spain, 1883 - died, Ponts de Molins, Gerona Province, Catalonia, Spain, February 7. 1939) was a Spanish military officer. He had risen to Colonel of artillery, and joined the military rising against the Republican Government that started the Spanish Civil War. He commanded the Nationalist garrison during the Battle of Teruel. He held out against heavy odds until finally forced to surrender on January 8, 1938.
- Constance II of Hohenstaufen
Constance II of Hohenstaufen, also known as Constance II of Sicily and Ann of Sicily was the daughter of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Bianca Lancia. In 1250 she married John III Doukas Vatatzes Emperor of Nicaea. She died in Valencia, Spain.
- Simón De Roxas Clemente Y Rubio
Simón de Rojas Cosme Damián Clemente y Rubio (born in Titaguas (Valencia, Spain) on 27th September 1777; died in Madrid on 27th February 1827) was a renowned Spanish botanist.