Mendinho

male
Mendinho was a medieval Galician troubadour from the 13th century. There is little known about him, he probably lived in Redondela, Vigo Bay or San...
Ricardo Carvalho Calero

Ricardo Carvalho Calero

male, deceased (1990)
Ricardo Carvalho Calero (Ferrol, 1910 - Compostela, 1990) was a philologist and Galician writer of the XX century, the first Professor of Galician...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

male, deceased (1970)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman...
Karl Emil Franzos

Karl Emil Franzos

male, deceased (1904)
Karl Emil Franzos was a German (Austrian) novelist. Franzos was born of Sephardic father and Odessan mother of Jewish parentage in Ukraine Podolia,...
Santiago Casares Quiroga

Santiago Casares Quiroga

male, deceased (1950)
Santiago Casares Quiroga was a Galician politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from May 13 to July 19 1936. Born in A Coruña, Casares Quiroga w...

Inês de Castro

female, deceased (1355)
Inês Pérez de Castro was premiered at the Theater Erfurt, Germany, on September 9, 2006. Inês de Castro and Peter I had the following children: *(P...

Diego Tristán

male, 33 years old
Diego Tristán is a Spanish professional footballer. A muscular centre forward, he has represented the Spanish national team. At his peak, Tristán wa...

Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

male, 71 years old
Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín. And he is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Vigo. He was proposed to the Nobel Prize in literature by the Gali...
Nancho Novo

Nancho Novo

male, 51 years old
Nancho Novo. He studied Medicine at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, but he stopped it at half to move to Madrid to study acting in the "Real...
Xela Arias

Xela Arias

female, deceased (2003)
Xela Arias Castaño was a Galician poet and translator. She translated to Galician works by Jorge Amado, Camilo Castelo Branco, James Joyce, F...