- Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava is one of my favourite contemporary architects. It is not because he is Spanish, it is just because he is special. He is an architect and an engineer, what indeed influences his way of designing bridges, public spaces, and buildings. I got trapped into Calatrava's work after seeing a documentary in Spanish TV station "La2" many many years ago (I was a kid and he was beginning to be popular).
- Vicent Partal
Vicent Partal is a Valencian journalist, founder and manager of Vilaweb. He also worked in El Temps, Diari de Barcelona, TVE, Catalunya Ràdio, El Punt, and La Vanguardia, among others. He is considered an Internet pioneer. In 1994, he created the "first news Internet system" in the Catalan Countries named "El Temps Online". In 1995, founded "Partal, Maresma & Associats", a company devoted to Internet Consulting and access.
- Joanot Martorell
Joanot Martorell (1413-1468) was the Valencian author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, which is written in Catalan, (Martorell calls it "the Valencian vernacular" "vulgar llengua valenciana" used in the Crown of Aragon). First published in Valencia in 1490, it was re-pressed in Barcelona in 1497, and some consider it the first modern novel in Europe. It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire with echoes of the real-life Catalan Company.
- Joan Fuster
Joan Fuster i Ortells. In 1952 he began his collaborations with the press of "Valencia, "Combustible per a falles" ("Combustible for Falles") ([[1967) and "Ara o Mai" ("Now or Never") (1981), among others. These, parts of his numerous studies and erudite historical and biographical articles, have been picked up in the I and III tomes of the "Obres completes" ("Complete Works").
- Ausiàs March
Ausiàs March, Valencian poet, was born in Gandia (Valencia) towards the end of the 14th century. Little is known of his career. From a very young age he took part in the expeditions that Alfons el Magnanim carried out in the Mediterranean. After the age of twenty-seven, however, he would never leave the region where he was born. He was twice married-first to Na Ysabel Martorell (sister of the writer Joanot Martorell), and second to Na Johanna Scorna.
- 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.
- Jordi de Sant Jordi
Jordi de Sant Jordi was born in the Kingdom of Valencia. He was chamberlain at the court of King Alfonso V of Aragon (Alfonso III of Valencia) but is best known for his poetry. Sant Jordi was a contemporary of Ausiàs March and among the earliest writers of the golden age of Catalan language literature in the 15th century. He was patronised by Queen-Dowager Margarita of Aragon-Prades, widow of King Martin I. Taking part in King Alfonso's expedition to the Kingdom of Naples, …
- Vincent Ferrer
Saint Vincent Ferrer (in Valencian: Sant Vicent Ferrer) (January 23, 1350 - April 5, 1419) was a Valencian Dominican missionary and logician; born in Valencia, Kingdom of Valencia (modern day Autonomous Community of Valencia, Spain), as one of the sons of William Stewart Ferrer (sometimes spelled William Stuart Ferrer), an Anglo-Scottish nobleman descended from the English (de) Ferrer family and the Scottish Stewart (Stuart) family, and his Spanish wife, …
- Joan Lluís Vives
Joan Lluís Vives (6 March, 1492-6 May, 1540 in Valencia) was a famous Valencian scholar and humanist. As a child he saw his father, grandmother and great-grandfather, as well as members of their wider family, executed as Judaizers at the behest of the Spanish Inquisition; his mother was acquitted but died of the plague when he was fifteen years old. Shortly thereafter he left Spain never to return. He studied at Paris from 1509 to 1512, …
- Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born February 12 1980) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the French Open in 2003, and in October that year he became the 21st player to hold the World No. 1 ranking. He has also been a runner-up at two other Grand Slams during his career. His nickname is "Mosquito" due to his speed and wiry, strong physique.
- Sergio Gadea
Sergio Gadea (born 30 December 1984 in Puçol, Valencian Community) is a Spanish motorcycle racer who currently run in 125cc in the Motorcycle World championship. He started to run professionally in 2003.
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known for his World War I novel "Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis". Filmed in 1921 as "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II. However, in his time he was a best-selling author inside and outside of Spain, …
- 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).
- Gabriel Miró
Gabriel Miró. Most critics believe that Gabriel Miró's literary maturity begins with "Las cerezas del cementerio" (1910), whose plot revolves around the tragic love of the super-sensitive young man Félix Valdivia for an older woman (Beatriz) and presents—with an atmosphere of voluptuousness and lyrical intimism--the themes of eroticism, sickness, and death. In 1915 he published "El abuelo del rey", …
- Vicente Rodríguez
Vicente Rodríguez Guillén, more commonly known simply as Vicente, (born July 16, 1981 in Valencia) is a Spanish footballer currently plays for Valencia CF. He is a very quick left winger with an exceptional technique and a definite eye for goal. He is still widely considered as the best winger in La Liga, despite the fact that a series of ankle injuries has sidelined his career since 2005.
- Joaquín Sorolla Y Bastida
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, was a Spanish painter, born in Valencia, who excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land.
- Héctor Faubel
Héctor Faubel (born 10 August 1983 in Lliria, Valencian Community) is a Spanish motorcycle racer who currently rides in the 125cc class of the Moto GP. He started riding professionally in 2000.
- Camilo Sesto
Camilo Blanes Cortés better known in the entertainment world as Camilo Sesto is a native of Alcoi, a Valencian city located in the province of Alicante, who enjoyed fame as a singer and composer during the 1970s and the 1980s. Probably the most prominent male voice of Spanish pop music at that time, he became famous for his powerful, carefully arranged ballads. Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid TV show.
- Angel Rodríguez
Angel Rodríguez (born 20 May 1985 in Elche, Valencian Community) is a Spanish motorcycle racer who currently run in 125cc in the Motorcycle World championship. Angel Rodriguez started racing as all other racers in pocketbikes. He won the championship in his first year of competition. He also competed in the Spanish Championship, where he won the title in 2000, also been his debut in MotoGP. He is a rider with much talent but often crashes.
- Héctor Barberá
Héctor Barberá is a Spanish motorcycle racer in the 250cc World Championship riding an Aprilia.
- 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.
- Antonio Gades
Antonio Gades was a Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer (born Antonio Esteve Ródenas in Elda, Land of Valencia). He helped to popularise the art form on the international stage. His most notable works included dance adaptations of Prosper Merimée's "Carmen" and Federico García Lorca's "Blood Wedding" ("Bodas de Sangre"), as well as a feature-length adaptation of Manuel de Falla's 23-minute ballet "El Amor Brujo".
- María Sornosa Martinez
María Sornosa Martínez (b. June 15, 1949 in Manises, Valencia) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), part of the Socialist Group. She sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Sornosa Martinez is a substitute for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, …
- Nacho Duato
Juan Ignacio Duato Bárcia, also known as Nacho Duato is a Spanish classical ballet dancer and choreographer. After a long and successful career, he was selected by Ministerio de Educación y Cultura Español as the artistic director of the "Compañía Nacional de Danza de España" in June 1990.
- Nino Bravo
Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis ". The winner of the show would represent Spain in 1971's Eurovision contest, and Bravo came in second place. Bravo then went on another Latin American tour, visiting Colombia for the first time ever, and stopping in Brazil to participate in his second Rio de Janeiro festival. Tied for first place at the festival, he eventually lost during a recount to an American singer. Also in 1971, Nino Bravo recorded his second album, which went untitled.
- Vicente Boix
Vicente Boix y Ricarte (1813-1880) was a Valencian/Spanish playwright, poet and historian.
- Francisco Tárrega
Francisco Tárrega (November 21, 1852 — December 15, 1909) was a Spanish composer, and one of the most influential guitarists the world has ever known. He is considered by many to be the father of modern classical guitar playing.
- Ruperto Chapí
Ruperto Chapí was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and one opera, "Margarita la tornera". He was born at Villena, Alicante, the son of a Valencian barber, and became, along with Tomás Bretón, one of the most popular authors of zarzuelas in his time. A specialist in the so-called "zarzuela grande", he also wrote works, such as "La revoltosa", in the "género chico" style.
- Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench
Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench was a Spanish painter. Born in Valencia to a poor family, Pinzao was forced to earn his living as a young man by practicing various trades: silversmith, hatter, a decorator of glazed tiles ("azulejos"), and a painter of fans. He began his artistic training at the age of 21, achieving his first success three years later at Barcelona. In 1874, he received a grant that allowed him to move to Rome.
- Juan Andrés
Juan Andrés was a littérateur and historian (b. Planes, Valencia, Spain - 1740; d. Rome - 1817). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1754. When the Jesuits were expelled from Spain in 1767, Andrés made his abode at Ferrara (Italy) and taught philosophy there. After the suppression of the Society in 1773, he travelled through Europe to collect matter for a history of universal literature; this work he wrote at intervals from 1782 to 1799, …
- Manuel Sanchis I Guarner
Manuel Sanchis i Guarner (Valencia, 1911-1981) was a Valencian philologist, historian and writer. He was an author of a vast work ranging from studies of linguistics, literature, history, ethnography to popular culture, basically centered on the Valencian Country, but also on the rest of the territories of the ancient Crown of Aragon and the whole Iberian peninsula. His most famous contributions were "La llengua dels valencians" (The language of the Valencians), …
- Alex Debón
Alex Debón (born 1 March 1976 in Vall d'Uixa, Valencian Community) is a Spanish motorcycle racer who currently run in 250cc in the Motorcycle World championship. He started to run professionally in 1998. He is test rider for Aprilia
- Francis Borgia
St. Francis Borgia "(Spanish": San Francisco de Borja, October 28 1510, Gandia (Spain) - September 30 1572, Rome) was a Spanish Jesuit and 3d Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Canonised in 1671.
- Raúl Bravo
Raúl Bravo Sanfélix (born April 14, 1981 in Gandía, Valencia) is a Spanish football defender, who currently plays for Olympiacos. Raúl Bravo's football career began in the 1995-96 season. He joined Real Madrid's teenagers the following season and then the Junior B team. Bravo was capped for Spain on the Under-16 level in 1997-98 season, when the national team won the Algarve Tournament. The Under-17 national team was his next step, …
- Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (born July 31, 1982, Valencia, Spain), better known as Anabel Medina Garrigues, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of 23 in August 2006, and has won 7 singles titles and 7 doubles titles. Most recently she won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, France, beating Amelie Mauresmo in the final in May 2007. Her other singles titles came in Palermo in 2006, 2005, …
- Francisco Rufete
Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete is a Spanish footballer who currently plays for RCD Espanyol. He plays predominantly as a winger with good dribbling. He has three caps for the Spain national football team
- Joan Calabuig
Joan Calabuig Rull (b. May 24, 1960, Valencia) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
- 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.
- Cayetano Ripoll
Cayetano Ripoll, a poor schoolmaster from Valencia, Spain, was garroted or hanged to death on 26 July 1826 for allegedly teaching Deist principles. He was the last victim of the Spanish Inquisition. His last words: "I die reconciled to God and to man."
- 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, …