- Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia. Lucrezia's family later came to epitomize the ruthless Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy. In this story Lucrezia was cast as a "femme fatale", … - Miguel Bosé
Miguel Luchino González Bosé, is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish musician and actor. He has been in many successful Spanish language movies and other artistic works. - Alfredo di Stéfano
Alfredo Di Stéfano is an Argentine-born former footballer and coach. He is most associated with Real Madrid, and with Ferenc Puskás was instrumental in their domination of the European Cup of Champions during the 1950s, a period in which the club won the trophy in five consecutive seasons from 1956. Di Stéfano also played international football for Argentina, Colombia, and Spain. - Alessandro Malaspina
Alessandro Malaspina (also found as "Alexandro" and "Alejandro") (November 5, 1754 - April 9, 1810) was an Italian-Spanish naval officer and explorer. Under a royal commission, he undertook a scientific expedition around the world in 1789, and explored the Pacific Ocean and the west coast of Spain's North American possessions. - Agustín Moreto
Agustín Moreto y Cabaña was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age. He was born in Madrid in 1618, of Italian descent. Young Agustín attended the University of Alcalá de Henares between 1634 and 1637, studying logic and physics and receiving his Licentiate in 1639. By 1643, he had been ordained a cleric in minor orders, with a benefice, and had also in all probability begun his dramatic writing. - Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music. He was born in Seville and studied there and in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy at his Schola Cantorum, and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his fellow countryman and friend Manuel de Falla, he also got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy while there. - Juan Diego Botto
Juan Diego Botto-Rota is an Argentine-Spanish actor. Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War when Juan Diego was only two years old. With his mother and older sister María, also an actress, he moved to Madrid, Spain, were he currently resides. Botto started acting at the age of 5 in his first role in Juego De Poder. With 37 films under his belt, he is a very accomplished and highly acclaimed actor in Spain. - Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese (Italian: "Alessandro Farnese", Spanish: "Alejandro Farnesio", (August 27 1545 - December 3 1592), was Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1586 to 1592, and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592. - Mariano Pernía
Mariano Andrés Pernía is an Argentine-Spanish Football player. - Juanelo Turriano
Juanelo Turriano or Gianello Torriano, also known as Giovanni Torriani (c. 1500 — 1585), was an Italian-Spanish clock maker, engineer and mathematician. He was born in Cremona. Called to Spain in 1529 by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, he was appointed "Court Clock Master" and built the "Cristalino", an astronomical clock that made him famous in his time. Philip II of Spain named him "Matemático Mayor". - Luis Egidio Meléndez
Luis Meléndez was a Spanish painter. Although he received little acclaim during his lifetime and died in poverty, Meléndez is recognized today as the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the eighteenth century. His mastery of composition and light, and his remarkable ability to convey the volume and texture of individual objects enabled him to transform the most mundane of kitchen fare into powerful images. - Ambrosio Spinola marqués de los Balbases
Don Ambrosio Spinola Doria, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general, was born in Genoa. He was the eldest son of Filippo Spinola, marquis of Sesto and Benafro, and his wife Polissena, daughter of the prince of Salerno. The family of Spinola was of great antiquity, wealth and power in Genoa. In the 16th century the republic was practically a protected state under the power of Spain, the Genoese being the bankers of the monarchy and having entire control of its finances. - Margarida Of Savoy, Vicereine Of Portugal
Margaret of Savoy, Duchess Consort of Mantua and Montferrat (Torino 28 April 1589 - Miranda 26 June 1655) (Italian: "Margherita", Spanish: "Margarita", Portuguese: "Margarida", French: "Marguerite") was best known as the last Spanish Vicereine of Portugal. In Portuguese she is known as "Duquesa de Mântua". She was born, during the powerful imperial reign of her maternal grandfather Philip II of Spain, … - Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II born (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from October 16, 1978, until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. - Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born on October 28, 1963), is the most successful Italian singer and songwriter of all time. Ramazzotti is well known not only in every non English-speaking European country but also in most of Spanish-speaking world as he releases every album both in Italian and Spanish. - Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures credited as the first European to discover the Americas. Though likely not the first to reach the Americas from Europe, it was Columbus' voyages that lead to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. It is generally believed that he was born in Genoa, … - Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Italian pop singer, popular in some European and Latin American countries, famed for her soulful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs. She has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. - Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom. A mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she moves, Dr. Angelou captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception. - Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro (born February 21, 1980 in Latina) is an Italian latin pop singer. He also records Spanish versions of his Italian albums and has had notable success in Europe and Latin America. In 1997 he participated in the Sanremo Music Festival but didn't make it past the first week of selections. In 1998 he was among the 12 finalists, and was discovered by two producers, Alberto Salerno and Mara Majonchi. - Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974, in Madrid, Spain), better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Spanish actress. Originally a dancer, she soon moved into Spanish television, and since then she has appeared in a string of films, in Spanish, English, French and Italian. - Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player. On November 21 2005 Dulko reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 26. She has won 6 titles in doubles, including the 2000 US Open Juniors with María Emilia Salerni, the 2002 Australian Open Juniors with Angelique Widjaja, the 2001 Wimbledon Championships with Ashley Harkleroad, and the 2006 Cincinnati Women's Open with Italian Maria Elena Camerin. In singles, she was a runner-up in Hobart in 2005, … - Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina (born May 24, 1953) is an English actor of both the stage and screen. Molina is known for his portrayal of the villain Doctor Octopus in "Spider-Man 2" as well as playing key roles in "Chocolat" and "The Da Vinci Code". - Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born on April 19, 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-Mexican pop singer of Italian and Spaniard decent that was raised in Mexico. He is best known for his crooning vocals and romantic ballads. He has been the most popular singer in Latin America since the early 1980s. He has set world records that go unrivaled in Latin Music. - Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, (Cáceres), Extremadura, Spain. Sources differ in the birth year they assign to him: 1471, 1475–1478, or unknown. He was an illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro (senior) who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, and in Navarre, … - Antonio Cassano
Antonio Cassano (born July 12, 1982 in Bari) is an Italian professional football player, who currently plays for Spanish club side Real Madrid and is an occasional member of the Italian national team. He is a skillful, two-footed forward. Variously nicknamed "Peter Pan", "Fantantonio", "El Pibe de Bari" (a clear reference to Diego Maradona's nickname) and "Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia" (the jewel of Old Bari), … - Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan. She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She also beat former world number one Swiss Martina Hingis in Australia at the beginning of the 2006 season. - Marco Pinotti
Marco Pinotti is an Italian professional cyclist. He was born on February 25, 1976 in Osio Sotto (Bergamo province, Italy). As an amateur he won 28 races and he turned professional in 1999 with the Lampre-Daikin team. He won the Grand Prix d'Europa in 1999 together with his teammate Raivis Belohvosciks and he won the 5th stage of the 2000 Tour de Pologne. In 2001 he finished second in stage 15 of the Tour de France behind Belgian Rik Verbrugghe. - Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (born Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece) is a singer of Greek origin. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. She recorded many of her songs in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Portuguese and Japanese among others. She is noted for her trademark squarish black-rimmed eyeglasses and straight black hair parted in the middle, … - Lara Fabian
Lara Fabian (born Lara Crokaert January 9, 1970 in Etterbeek, Belgium) is an international Belgian-Canadian francophone singer, known for her vocal prowess and skilled technique. She often sings in Italian, Spanish, and English in addition to French. She has also sung once in Portuguese, though she is not fluent in the language, and also once in German back in 1988 for a german version of "Croire" ("Glaub"). She does not speak German either. - Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi (b. 1970) is a New York-based Indian-American supermodel, actress, talk show host and award-winning cookbook author. She was born in Chennai, India and is fluent in five languages - English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil. Her name literally means the "lotus goddess" in Sanskrit. - Arsène Wenger
Arsène Wenger OBE is a French football manager. He is currently the manager of Arsenal, He is the club's most successful manager in terms of trophies and the club's longest-serving manager in terms of matches played (over 600 as of March 2007). Wenger is the only non-British manager to win the Double in England, having done so in 1998 and 2002. In 2004, he became the only manager in FA Premier League history to go through the entire season without a loss. - El Greco
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménicos Theotokópoulos, underscoring his Greek descent. El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice; at 26 he traveled to Venice itself to study, then a common practice of young Greek men who wished to pursue a wider education. - Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois, and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain-General of Holy Church, was a Spanish-Italian condottiero, lord and cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei, sibling to Lucrezia Borgia, Jofré Borgia Prince of Squillace and Giovanni Borgia, duke of Gandia, and half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja and Girolama de Borja, … - Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega, was the prototypical Spanish "Renaissance man," the soldier-poet who was the most influential (though not the first or the only) poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain. His exact birth date is unknown, but estimations by scholars put his year of birth between 1498 and 1503. Garcilaso was born in the Spanish city of Toledo. - Joe Dassin
Joseph Ira Dassin was a French-speaking American expatriate musician. Dassin was born in New York City to "film noir" director Jules Dassin and Béatrice Launer. He began his childhood first in New York and Los Angeles, California. However after his father became a victim of the anti-communist policies of Senator Joseph McCarthy, he and his family moved from place to place across Europe. After studying at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, … - Leo Beenhakker
Leo Beenhakker is an international Dutch football coach, currently the coach of the Polish national team. He has been the coach of several prestigious clubs including Ajax, Feyenoord, Real Madrid, Real Zaragoza and Club América. He has also coached the Saudi Arabian and Dutch national teams. He coached the national team of Trinidad and Tobago in the year leading up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Under Beenhakker's guidance the team managed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, … - Nicola di Bari
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer. He was born in Zapponeta as Michele Scommegna. He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1971 and 1972. In 1972 he represented Italy at Eurovision Song Contest with "I Giorni Dell'Arcobaleno". He is also well-known in Latin America for his albums recorded in Spanish. - Jon Dahl Tomasson
Jon Dahl Tomasson (born August 29, 1976) is a Danish professional footballer, who plays for Spanish side Villarreal CF in the Spanish La Liga championship. Playing either as a striker or an attacking midfielder, Tomasson is known for his positional strength and fine finishing. His most notable run of football came in his years at Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam, with whom he won the 2002 UEFA Cup, and Italian club AC Milan, with whom he won the 2003 UEFA Champions League. - Caterina Murino
Caterina Murino (born September 15, 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. She reached fourth place in the 1996 Miss Italy contest. In 1999 and 2000, she studied drama at the Cinema of Theatre of Francesca de Sapio, and appeared in stage productions of "Richard III" and Italian language plays. She began her career in television in 2002. - Edwin Morgan
Professor Edwin Morgan OBE (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Scottish national poet: The Scots Makar.
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