- Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. - Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. - Maimonides
Moses Maimonides and his Arabic name was أبو عمران موسى بن ميمون بن عبد الله القرطبي الإسرائيلي ("Abu Imran Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Qurtubi al-Israili"). However, he is most commonly known by his Greek name, Moses Maimonides (Μωυσής Μαϊμονίδης), which literally means, "Moses, son of Maimon", like his name in Hebrew and Arabic. Several Jewish works call him Maimoni, מימוני. - Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado y Ruiz (July 26, 1875 - February 22, 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. - Lope de Rueda
Lope de Rueda was a Spanish dramatist and author, quite possibly the best of his era. A very versatile writer, he also wrote comedies, farces, and pasos. He was the precursor to what is considered the golden age of Spanish literature. He was born early in the sixteenth century at Seville, where, according to Cervantes, he worked as a metal-beater. His name first occurs in 1554 as acting at Benavente, … - Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of 9 he was introduced to his first piano professor. From the late 1890s he studied music in Madrid, piano with José Tragó and composition with Felipe Pedrell. In 1899 by unanimous vote he was awarded the first prize at the piano competition at his school of music, … - Paco de Lucía
Paco de Lucía in Algeciras, Spain, is recognized as a flamenco legend all over the world. He is a composer and guitarist, and leading proponent of the Modern Flamenco style. Not only skilled in flamenco, he is one of the very few flamenco guitarists who has also successfully crossed over into other genres of music, such as jazz, classical, and world music. He is the winner of the 2004 Prince of Asturias Awards in Arts, and is the uncle of Spanish pop singer Malú. - Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi, was an Arab Muslim mystic and philosopher. He was born 1165 in Murcia and died 1240 in Damascus. - Ibn Hazm
Ibn Hazm "in full" "Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm" (Arabic :أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم) - sometimes with "al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī" as well was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher, litterateur, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present day Spain. - Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous Arab Muslim polymath, historian, historiographer, demographer, economist, philosopher, sociologist and social scientist born in present-day Tunisia. He is regarded as a father of demography, historiography, the philosophy of history, sociology, and the social sciences, and is viewed as one of the forerunners of modern economics. - Antonio Banderas
José Antonio Domínguez Banderas, better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor and singer who has starred in several high-profile Hollywood films including "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever", "Assassins", "Interview with the Vampire", "Mariachi" sequels, "Philadelphia", "The Mask of Zorro", and the "Shrek" sequels. - Averroes
Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes it would be "Muḥemmed mmis n Ḥmed mmis n Muḥemmed mmis n Ḥmed mmis n Rucd". - Julio Romero de Torres
Julio Romero de Torres was a Spanish painter. He was born and he died in Córdoba, Spain, where he lived most of his life. As the son of well known painter Rafael Romero Barros, director of Córdoba's Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Julio began his training at the Escuela de Bellas Artes from the age 10. The Museum of Julio Romero de Torres at his former residence in Córdoba houses examples of his works, as well as works by Francisco Zurbarán, Alejo Fernandez, … - Enrique Morente
Enrique Morente Cotelo, known as Enrique Morente, born in Granada, 1942 is a flamenco singer and controversial figure of contemporary flamenco. After his orthodox beginnings, he plunged into experimentalism, innovating the melodies of "cante" (flamenco singing) and jamming with musicians of all styles, without renouncing to its roots and to more traditional flamenco singing, which he keeps on cultivating. - Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. He lived in Italy for a year and a half from 1629 to 1631 with the purpose of traveling and studying works of art. In 1649 he traveled to Italy again. - Juan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet. One of his most important contributions to modern poetry was the idea of "poesia pura" (pure poetry). A prolific author, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. == Biography == Jiménez was born in Moguer, near Huelva, in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, on 24 December 1881. He celebrated his home region in his prose poem about a writer and his donkey, called "Platero y Yo" (1914). - Estrella Morente
Estrella Morente (Estrella de la Aurora Morente Carbonell) was born on August 14 1980 in Las Gabias, Granada. She is a Spanish flamenco singer and daughter of flamenco singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell. She has been performing with her father since age 7 and recorded her first album in 2001, "Mi Cante Y Un Poema" (My Songs and A Poem). This was quickly followed by "Calle del Aire" in the same year, … - Cristina Hoyos
Cristina Hoyos Panadero (Seville, June 13 1946) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer and actress. After several successes throughout the world with several companies and movies, she created her own dancing company and premiered with it in Rex Theatre of Paris in 1988. She played an important role during the inauguration and closing ceremonies of 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She has recently overcome a breast cancer. - Abd-Ar-Rahman III
Abd-ar-Rahman III was the Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (912-961), and a prince of the Ummayad dynasty in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia). He ascended the throne when he was twenty-two and reigned for half a century. His life was so completely identified with the government of the state that he offers less material for biography than his ancestor Abd-ar-Rahman I. Abd-ar-Rahman III was the grandson of his predecessor, Abdullah, one of the Andalusian Umayyads. - Joaquín Cortés
Joaquín Cortés is a classically trained ballet and flamenco dancer from Spain. A native of Córdoba, Cortés showed interest in dancing from an early age. Cortés and his family moved to Madrid in 1981. Soon after moving to Madrid, he began to take formal dancing lessons and studying seriously. In 1984, he was accepted as a member of Spain's prestigious national ballet company. He traveled the world with the Spanish National Ballet, … - Camarón de la Isla
El Camarón de la Isla, stage name of flamenco singer José Monje Cruz but is sometimes also credited as "José Monge Cruz". His uncle José nicknamed him Camarón (Spanish for "Shrimp") because he was blonde haired and fair skinned. At the age of eight he began to sing at inns and bus stops with Rancapino to earn money. At sixteen he won first prize at the Festival del Cante Jondo in Mairena de Alcor. - Abu Al-Qasim
Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936 - 1013), (Arabic: أبو القاسم بن خلف بن العباس الزهراوي) also known in the West as Abulcasis, was an Andalusian-Arab physician, and scientist. He is considered the "father of modern surgery" and as Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Islamic medicine and Greco-Roman teachings, … - Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. After flirting with a career as a painter, Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: "Marinero en tierra" ('Sailor on Dry Land', 1925), "La Amante" ('The Mistress', 1926) and "El alba del alhelí" ('The Dawn of the Wallflower', 1927). This early work fell broadly into the Cancionero tradition, though from a markedly avant-garde perspective. - Miguel Primo de Rivera
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marqués de Estella was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the "turno" system of alternating parties. - Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997. He was also the longest-serving Prime Minister of the Spanish government, in four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996. - Sara Baras
Sara Baras is a female Flamenco Dancer. Born Sara Pereyra Baras in 1971 in the port of Cadiz. She is internationally famous and regularly tours the world. She was taught to dance by her mother, Concha Baras who ran a dance school. She was gaining a reputation when she joined guitarist Manuel Morao's company in 1989. She has won a number of awards including the Madroño Flamenco of Montellano (Seville) in 1993, and in 1999 and 2001, … - La Argentina
Antonia Mercé y Luque, known by her stage name as "La Argentina", was a flamenco dancer. She was born on September 4, 1890 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died on July 18, 1936 in Bayonne, France. She originated and helped to establish the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. A talented young dancer, her career was greatly influenced by her parents Manuel Mercé (Andalusian), and Josefina Luque (Castilian), who were professional Spanish dancers. - Vega
Mercedes Mígel Carpio, alias Vega, is a Spanish singer-songwriter. Her interest in music started when she was a girl. She studied Advertising and Public Relations in Segovia, where she also worked as a waitress. She left her university career to be a contestant in Operación Triunfo 2003, her springboard to fame. Her musical style can be defined as the classical Spanish canción de autor or singer-songwriter, but it shows influences of Frank Sinatra, … - Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Gongora, who, together with Francisco de Quevedo, is considered by many literary scholars the most important Spanish poet of the Baroque age, came from a noble family with part Jewish marrano ancestry.. He was born in Córdoba, where his father, Francisco de Argote, was "corregidor", the poet adopted the surname of his mother, Leonor de Góngora, who claimed descent from an ancient family. - Falete
Rafael Ojeda "alias" Falete is a copla and flamenco singer from Spain. His father is a member of the musical group Cantores de Híspalis, and he made his debut in the Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville when he was 17 years old, dedicating his performance to La Chunga. In the 1990s, he took part in several event in different cities all over the world ("Danzas de España", etc.) He has been promoted by various celebrities, … - Antonio Mairena
Antonio Cruz García, known as Antonio Mairena was a famous flamenco singer. He led the movement towards the revival of traditional flamenco in the fifties and subsequent decades. - Antonio de Nebrija
Antonio de Lebrija, also known as Antonio de Nebrija, Elio Antonio de Lebrija, Antonius Nebrissensis, and Antonio of Lebrixa, (1441-1522) was a Spanish scholar born at Lebrija in the province of Seville. Nebriga wrote a grammar of the Castilian language, credited as the first published grammar of any Romance language. - Martirio
Maribel Quiñones or "María Isabel Quiñones Gutiérrez" in full, known under her stage name as Martirio ("Martyr", in English) is a Spanish singer born in 1958 in Huelva, Spain. She borrows her style and inspiration from flamenco that she adapts or merge with more modern musical trends, especially jazz and tango but also pop, rock, swing and guaracha, in this sense, she can properly be ranked as a New Flamenco artist. - Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza was a Spanish author, writer and political figure. He is best remembered today for his comic novel "El Sombrero de Tres Picos" ("The Three-cornered Hat"), (1874), one of the most popular works in Spanish Literature. In 1919, the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla adapted Alarcón's tale into a famous ballet of the same name. Alarcón based "The Three Cornered Hat" on a traditional Spanish ballad. - Manolo Caracol
- Luis Fernández
Luis Fernández is a Spanish- French former football (soccer) defensive midfielder, who retired in 1993 to become a manager. He has managed AS Cannes and Paris Saint-Germain among other clubs, and is the individual credited with bringing Ronaldinho to Europe. He was most recently the manager of La Liga side Real Betis, with a tenure from December 27, 2006 to June 10, 2007. As an active player, Fernández got 60 international caps and 6 goals for the French national team, … - La Niña de los Peines
Pastora Pavón Cruz, known as La Niña de los Peines, is considered the most important woman flamenco singer of the 20th century. She was a sister of singers Arturo Pavón and Tomás Pavón, also an important flamenco singer, and aunt to Arturo Pavón, the first flamenco pianist. Both brothers, Pastora and Tomás, together with singer Manuel Torre, were the inspiring models for the next generation of singers like Antonio Mairena, … - Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (August 24 1484 - July 17 1566), was a 16th century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World, he was galvanized by witnessing the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. He is commemorated as a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on July 17. - Isabel Pantoja
Isabel Pantoja is a popular contemporary Spanish singer, born on 2 August 1956, in the Triana district of Seville, Spain. She has released more than a dozen albums throughout a career spanning many decades, and is known for her distinctive Andalusian style. Her husband, the bullfighter "Paquirri" (Francisco Rivera), died in the bullring on 26 September 1984, at the horns of the now infamous bull Avispado in Pozoblanco, Córdoba. - David Bisbal
David Bisbal is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained famed as a finalist on the interactive reality television show "Operación Triunfo". He has since released three studio albums, all of which topped the Spanish Singles Chart, and toured throughout Spain and Latin America.
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