- Francisco Franco
General Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892-20 November 1975), commonly abbreviated to Francisco Franco or Francisco Franco Bahamonde, and also known as "Caudillo" or "Generalísimo", was the leader and later formal head of state of Spain from October 1936, and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. Franco led a successful military career and reached the rank of General. - Rosalía de Castro
Rosalía Castro de Murguía better known as Rosalía de Castro, she became an important figure of the Galician romantic movement, known today as the "Rexurdimento" ("renaissance"), along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal. Her poetry is marked by 'saudade', an almost ineffable combination of nostalgia, longing and melancholy. She married Manuel Murguía, member of the Galician Academy, historian, … - Manu Chao
Manu Chao is a French, Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, English language singer of Galician origins. He is also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor. - Concepción Arenal
Concepción Arenal was a Spanish feminist writer and activist. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she excelled in literature and was the first woman ever to go to a university in Spain. She was also a pioneer and founder of the feminist movement in Spain. - Mariano Rajoy
Mariano Rajoy Brey (born March 27 1955), Spanish politician, is the leader of the opposition and of the conservative Popular Party, (PP). Rajoy led his party at the Spanish general election on March 14 2004, which was won by the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). - Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspapers like "El Ideal Gallego", "La Voz de Galicia", "El Pais", and was the sub-editor of "Diario 16" in Galicia. Rivas has written well known poems, novels, articles and literature essays. Rivas is considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, … - Carlos Núñez
Carlos Núñez is a musician from Galicia who plays the gaita, a Galician bagpipe. He has become an integral part of the Galician Celtic music, and has collaborated with Ry Cooder, Sinéad O'Connor, The Chieftains, Altan and La Vieja Trova Santiaguera. His most renowned album was 1996's "A Irmandade Das Estrelas", which sold an unprecedented 100,000 copies, and included collaborations with Nightnoise, Luz Casal, Tino di Geraldo, … - Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, 28 October 1866 — Santiago de Compostela, 5 January 1936), Spanish dramatist, novelist and member of the Generation of 98, is considered perhaps the most noteworthy and certainly the most radical dramatist working to subvert the traditionalism of the Spanish theatrical establishment in the early part of the 20th century. - Camilo José Cela
Don Camilo José Cela Trulock, Marquis of Iria Flavia (May 11, 1916 - January 17, 2002) was an influential Spanish writer and member of the Generation of 1950. - Susana Seivane
Susana Seivane is a Galician gaita (bagpipes) player. She was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1976. Her father and grandfather, accomplished bagpipers, taught her to play. She started playing bagpipes in folk music festivals from the age of three. She appeared in Scotland in 2005 as part of "Pipefest", and "Celtic Connections" in 2003 and 2006. - Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Celso Emilio Ferreiro Mínguez was a Galicianist activist, writer and political journalist. He was born in a well-off Galicianist family. When he was 20 years old, in 1932, he created the Mocedades Galeguistas de Celanova with Xosé Velo Mosquera; in 1934 he also participated in the creation of the Federación de Mocedades Galeguistas. Some time later he got into trouble because of an article published in his magazine "Guieiro". - Anxo Quintana
Anxo Manuel Quintana González is the current leader of the Galician Nationalist Block (Bloque Nacionalista Galego), the main Galician Nationalist party, and also is currently a minority partner in the Galician Government or Xunta de Galicia. He is Vice-President and Minister of Social Affairs. Quintana was born in Allariz on February 25, 1959. He has got a diploma in Nursery from the University of Vigo. - Cristina Pato
Cristina Pato (born in 1980 in Ourense, Spain) is a bagpiper. The first female Galician bagpiper who recorded a solo CD in Spain, she has released three CDs as a solo bagpiper and collaborated in international tours with bands such as The Chieftains, Hevia, Royal Pipe Band, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra and in more than twenty recordings as a guest artist. She has given more than 400 concerts in Spain, Portugal, … - Manuel Fraga Iribarne
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (born November 23, 1922 at Vilalba, Galicia) is a Spanish politician. Fraga's career as one of the key political figures in Spain straddles both General Franco's dictatorial regime and the subsequent democracy. He was the President of Galicia for 15 years. - Álvaro Cunqueiro
Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora was a Galician writer. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including "Merlín e familia" ("Merlin and family") and "Mil primaveras máis" ("One thousand springs more"). He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. - Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán (also known as "Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán") was a Spanish author and scholar. Bazán was born in A Coruña (also known as La Coruña or Corunna), part of the region of Galicia, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa (The Manors of Ulloa) and its sequel, La Madre Naturaleza (Mother Nature). She was also known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, … - Eduardo Pondal
Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente was a Galician language poet. - 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. - Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 - Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust. Following four and a half years in the concentration camps of Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, … - Emilio Pérez Touriño
Emilio Pérez Touriño is a professional socialist politician and the current president of the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia, in the extreme northwest of Spain. Galicia is one of the three historic nationalities which had already attained this status before the Spanish Civil war in 1936 and was recognized in 1978 by the Spanish Constitution. Touriño replaced Manuel Fraga as president in the 2005, … - Martín Codax
Martín Codax was a medieval Galician troubadour, possibly from Vigo, Galicia, who lived between the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century. Little information about him exists. The body of literary work attributed to him is limited to seven "cantigas de amigo" that appear in the lyrics of Portuguese-Galician songbooks and in the Vindel parchment, in which he is listed as the author of the compositions. - Javier Irureta
Javier Iruretagoyena Amianó, also referred to as Javier Irureta is a Spanish/Basque football manager and former player. Irureta had a distinguished career as a forward with both Atlético Madrid and Athletic Bilbao. Along with Adelardo, Luis Aragonés and José Eulogio Gárate, he was a prominent member of the successful Atlético Madrid team of the early 1970s. As a manager he has coached several La Liga clubs, … - Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community. Buber's evocative, sometimes poetic writing style has marked the major themes in his work: the retelling of Hasidic tales, Biblical commentary, and metaphysical dialogue. A cultural Zionist, Buber was active in the Jewish and educational communities of Germany and Israel. - Natalia Oreiro
Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias Poggio Bourié is a popular Latin Grammy-nominated Uruguayan singer and actress that developed most of her career in Argentina. - Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet (born May 5, 1943, Redondela (Galicia) is a Spanish journalist and writer. He is the editor-in-chief of "Le Monde diplomatique" since 1991. An editorial published by Ramonet on December 1997 resulted in the launching of ATTAC. In addition, Ramonet is one of the founders of the NGO Media Watch Global, and currently he is president of this organization. - Ramón Sampedro
Ramón Sampedro was a ship mechanic from Galicia, Spain who was paralyzed in a diving accident at the age of 25 and fought for his right to an assisted suicide for the next 29 years. His argument hinged on the fact that he was sure of his decision to die. However, due to his paralysis, he was physically unable to commit suicide. He argued that suicide was a right and that he was being denied that right. He sought legal advice concerning his right to an assisted suicide, … - Vicente Risco
Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero was a Galician intellectual of the 20th Century. He was a founder member of Xeración Nós. He is among the most important figures in the history of galician literature. He was born into a well-to-do family, with a high cultural level. He is well-regarded for his writings on the Galician nationalism, as well as a contributor to the Galician New Narrative. He is also the father of Spanish novelist and critic Antonio Risco - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (June 13, 1910 - January 27, 1999) was a Galician writer. He was born in Ferrol and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo. Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. His career as a writer began in Oviedo, but developed largely in Madrid. After moving around frequently in the later 1920s and early 1930s, including a period in Paris, … - Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim. - Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth (September 2, 1894 in Brody - May 27, 1939 in Paris) was an Austrian novelist, best known for his family saga "Radetzky March" (1932), and for his novel of Jewish life, "Job" (1930). Roth grew up in Brody, a small town near Lviv in Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of the Habsburg Empire. Jewish culture played an important role in the life of the town. - Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 - November 19, 1942) was a Polish novelist and painter, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, at the time when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia (now Drohobych is in Ukraine) to assimiliated Jewish parents. - Pablo Iglesias
Pablo Iglesias Posse (October 18, 1850, Ferrol, Galicia - December 9, 1925, Madrid) led the Spanish socialist movement. He founded the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1879 and the Spanish General Workers' Union (UGT) in 1888. Iglesias was born to humble parents who called him Paulino. He attended school between the ages of six and nine, when his father, a municipal laborer, died. - Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is a three-time Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish American actor and perhaps best known for his role as Captain Willard in the film "Apocalypse Now" and, most recently, as President Josiah Bartlet on the acclaimed and long-running television drama series "The West Wing". - Manuel Curros Enríquez
Manuel Curros Enríquez was a Galician writer and journalist in Galician language, being currently considered one of the leading figures of Galician culture and identity. - Nuno Álvares Pereira
Blessed Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. (July 24 1360 - April 1 1431), also spelled "Nun'Álvares Pereira", was a Portuguese General of great success with a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence of Castile. Later on, he became a mystic. He was born in Quinta do Bonjardim, parish of Cernache de Bonjardim, near Sertã, central Portugal. - José Calvo Sotelo
José Calvo Sotelo was a Spanish political figure prior to and during the Second Spanish Republic. His murder by a commando unit of the Assault Guards, a special police corps created to deal with urban violence, just the day after a harsh confrontation in Parliament, aroused suspicions of a government involvement in the crime and helped precipitate the Spanish Civil War. - Iván Ferreiro
Iván Ferreiro is a Spanish singer-songwriter born in Vigo. He was the voice, leader and composer of the group Los Piratas. After Los Piratas separation, by late 2003, Iván kept playing with his brother Amaro in a Pub in Vigo, called "El Ensanche". Due to the success of this set of concerts, he decided to record an album with new songs, "Canciones para el tiempo y la distancia", that was born in 2005. - Manuel Murguía
Manuel Murguia was a Galician journalist and historian who created the Real Academia Galega. He was one of the main figures in Galician "Rexurdimento" movement. He is also remembered as Rosalía de Castro's husband, publisher and main supporter. - María Mariño
María Mariño Carou was a Spanish writer. She was born on June 8th 1907 in a house on Rúa Cega in Noia, A Coruña province. She was the daughter of Xosé Mariño Pais, a shoe maker. She was the fourth of five children. Her siblings were Concha (1898), Emilio (1901), Cándido (1902) and Asunción (1908). She had to leave school in order to work, because her father used to gamble in the taverns of Noia. Whilst Emilio found work as a mechanic and Cándido as a carpenter, … - Luís Seoane
Luís Seoane was a lithographer and artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 1, 1910, of Galician immigrants, he spent much of his childhood and youth in Galicia. He was educated in A Coruña. His first exhibition took place in 1929. Returning to Argentina in 1936 to escape the Spanish Civil War, Seoane became an important cultural figure in Buenos Aires, where he was responsible for the creation of a number of murals and other public works of art.
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