- Garðar Thór Cortes
Garðar Thór Cortes (born 2 May 1974), is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Cortes subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in "The Phantom of the Opera" in London's West End. While insisting that he is first and foremost a classical opera singer, it was with his classical crossover album "Cortes", …
- Mapita Cortés
Mapita Cortés, was an actress of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico. She is the mother of Mexican actor Luis Gatica, the wife of the late Lucho Gatica, the niece of Puerto Rican actress Mapy Cortés, and the niece in law of Mexican actor Fernando Cortés. Mapita Cortés is also the cousin of famous Paquito Cordero, two years her junior.
- Édouard Leon Cortès
Édouard Cortès was a French impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He was born on August 8, 1882 in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris, France. His father, Antonio Cortes, had been a painter for the Spanish Royal Court. At the age of seventeen, Edouard began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first exhibition in 1901 brought him immediate recognition.
- Irene Cortes
Irene R. Cortes was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and a respected law academician. She was also the first female dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law.
- Hernán Cortés
Hernán(do) Cortés Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca was the "conquistador" who became famous for leading the military expedition that initiated the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medellín, Extremadura, in Castile, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue a livelihood in the New World.
- David Cortés
David Cárdenas Cortés is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. In addition to his 2005-2006 seasons with the Rockies, he has also made appearances with the Atlanta Braves (1999) and the Cleveland Indians (2003). He signed with the Giants on December 9, 2006.class="wikitable" |+ Career Statistics at 2006 |- ! W ! L ! ERA ! G ! GS ! CG ! SHO ! SV ! IP ! H ! ER ! HR ! BB ! SO |- |5 |1 |4.47 |86 |0 |0 |0 |2 |88.2 |96 |44 |13 |20 |53
- Julio César Cortés
Julio César "El Pocho" Cortés is an Uruguayan football coach and former midfielder who participated in three World Cups with the Uruguayan national team. At the club level, Cortés was most successful during the time he played for Uruguayan club Peñarol, winning two league titles and the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup in 1966. He has spent the majority of his coaching career in Central America, managing several clubs, …
- Óscar Cortés
Óscar Fernando Cortés is a retired Colombian football player. He played mostly for Millonarios. He played for the Colombia national football team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
- 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, …
- Daniel Lins Cortês
Daniel Lins Cortês, nicknamed Daniel, is a Brazilian football player. He is a typically flamboyant play-maker, who in 2007 signed with New Zealand team Wellington Phoenix in the Australian A-League.
- Mapy Cortés
Mapy Cortes, born Maria del Pilar Cordero in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was a famous actress that participated in many films during the Mexican film industry's "golden era". Contrary to popular belief, Cortes was not Mexican; she was Puerto Rican, but she adopted Mexico as her residential country from her youth and almost until she died.
- Nancy Cortés
Nancy Cortés who works for distributing companies in Colombia and Latin America.
- Sonya Cortés
Sonya Cortés is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, model, and host of TV and radio shows. She is currently one of the hosts in Univision talk and variety show "Anda Pa'l Cara". Cortés is also a bachata singer. She has released one album. Cortés is currently married.
- Pamela Cortes
Pamela Cortes is an Ecuadorian singer, actress and dancer, who has won several awards for her performances. She is an Ecuadorian idol, because she has represented her country very well abroad.
- Erlinda Cortes
Erlinda Cortes (born in 1925) is a postwar Filipina actress who later became the favorite leading lady of famous postwar actor Angelus.
- Juan Donoso Cortés
Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas, Spanish author and diplomatist, was born at Valle de la Serena (Extremadura). He studied law at Seville, and entered politics as an advanced liberal under the influence of Quintana. His views began to modify after the rising at La Granja, and this tendency towards conservatism, which became more marked on his appointment as private secretary to the Queen Regent, …
- César Cortés
César Cortés Pinto is a Chilean football (soccer) striker, currently plays for Albacete Balompié in Segunda División since 2006. Previously, he also played for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica and Puerto Montt, with Nicolás Núñez Rojas.
- Ramiro Cortés
Ramiro Cortés was an American composer. Cortés studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi. He worked for a brief period in the 1960s as a computer programmer, and then taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (1966–67), University of Southern California (1967–72), and the University of Utah (1972–84).
- Carlos Núñez Cortés
Carlos Núñez Cortés was born October 15, 1942, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1969.
- Ernesto Cortes
Ernesto Cortes is a community organizer affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) and Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS). Cortes is known primarily for his efforts in organizing COPS in San Antonio, Texas, though he also influenced the development of other IAF affiliates in Houston, El Paso, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and New York City. Cortes is currently the director of the Southwest Region of the IAF.
- Agustín Caloca Cortés
Agustín Caloca Cortés was one of the martyrs of Mexico during the Cristero War.
- Pablo Cortés
Pablo Cortés was a Spanish buccaneer who rose to wealth through his exploits in the slave trade from 1721-1726.
- Fred Cortes
- Pío Baroja
Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. Although educated as a physician, Baroja only practised this trade briefly. He also managed the family bakery for a short time and ran unsuccessfully on two occasions for a seat at the Cortes (Spanish parliament) as a Radical Republican. Baroja's true calling, however, was always writing, which he began seriously at the age of 13.
- Julio Anguita
Julio Anguita González. Spanish politician and a former teacher. Mayor of Córdoba between 1979 and 1988, was chosen General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in 1988. Later he became leader of the leftist coalition Izquierda Unida ("United Left" IU). He was a member of the Cortes between 1989 and 2000, during which period IU improved its electoral results, obtaining 10% of the vote in March, 1996.
- 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.
- Pascual Madoz
Pascual Madoz (May 7,1806-1870), Spanish politician, statistician, was born at Pampeluna. In early life he was settled in Barcelona, as a writer and journalist. He joined the Progresista party formed during the first Carlist war, 1833-40. He saw some service against the Carlists; was elected deputy to the Cortes of 1836; took part for Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana, …
- Dolores Ibárruri
Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as "La Pasionaria" (the passion flower) (December 9, 1895-November 12, 1989), was a Spanish political leader. She was Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) (1944-1960), President of the Communist Party of Spain (1960-1989), and a member of the Cortes (1936 and 1977-1979). Born into a poor Carlist mining family in the town of Gallarta (municipality Abanto Zierbena), Vizcaya province, …
- Marcelino Menéndez Y Pelayo
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo was a Spanish scholar, historian and literary critic. Even though his main interest was the History of ideas, and Hispanic philology in general, he also cultivated poetry, translation and philosophy. He was born at Santander where he showed that he was an infant prodigy. Only 15 years old, he studied under Manuel Milà i Fontanals at the University of Barcelona (1871-1872), then proceeded to the central University of Madrid.
- Diego Martínez Barrio
Diego Martínez Barrio was a Spanish politician during the Second Spanish Republic, and was briefly appointed Prime Minister of Spain by Manuel Azaña after the resignation of Santiago Casares Quiroga, on July 19 1936 - three days after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. A member of the Radical Republican Party, he was the Minister in the Alejandro Lerroux government, although later he left the party due to his dissatisfaction with the politics of Lerroux.
- Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar is a Spanish politician. He had conncections with Catholic organizations; directed the Institute of Spanish Culture ("Instituto de Cultura Hispánica"); served as deputy ("procurador") in the Cortes and Councilor for the Movimiento Nacional. In the 60s, Blas Piñar was in charge of the Institute of Spanish Culture that was dedicated to managing scholarships between Latin American and Spanish universities.
- Ahuitzotl
Ahuitzotl was the eighth Aztec ruler, the "Hueyi Tlatoani", of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was responsible for much of the expansion of the Mexica domain, and consolidated the empire's power after a weak performance by his predecessor. He took power as Tlatoani in the year 7 Rabbit (1486), after the death of his predecessor Tízoc. Perhaps the greatest known military leader of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Ahuitzotl began his reign by suppressing a Huastec rebellion, …
- Francisco Frutos
Francisco Frutos Gras (born 1939) is a Spanish politician and a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC, Catalan referent of the Communist Party of Spain, PCE) since 1963, is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) since 1998 and member of the Cortes as member of Izquierda Unida (IU) since 1993.
- Gumersindo de Azcárate
Gumersindo de Azcárate was a Spanish philosopher, jurist and politician. After law studies in Oviedo, he taught comparative law in Madrid since 1864 and represented León in the Cortes. In the 1870s, he joined Francisco Giner de los Ríos and Julián Sanz del Río to teach at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Institute of Free Teaching). De Azcárate was a leading representative of Krauseanism, a philosophy based on the teachings of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, …
- Manuel Alonso Martínez
Manuel Alonso Martínez was a Spanish jurist and politician, and the principal redactor of the Spanish Civil Code of 1888/89. After working as a Burgos attorney, he entered public service in 1854 as a member of the Cortes. Serving variously as minister for development, governor of Madrid, minister of finance and minister of justice in the time of 1855 to 1888, he was instrumental in pursuing the codification of Spanish civil law.
- Juan Bautista Topete
Juan Bautista Topete (May 24, 1821 - October 29, 1885), Spanish naval commander and politician, was born in Mexico. His father and grandfather were also Spanish admirals. He entered the navy at the age of seventeen, cut out a Carlist vessel in 1839, became a midshipman at twenty-two, obtained the cross of naval merit for saving the life of a sailor in 1841 and became a lieutenant in 1845. He served on the West Indian station for three years, …
- Mariano Ponce
Mariano Ponce (March 23, 1863-May 23, 1918) was a Filipino physician who was a leader of the Propaganda Movement that spurred the Philippine Revolution against Spanish in 1896. He was born in Baliwag, Bulacan where he completed his primary education. He later enrolled at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and took up medicine at the University of Santo Tomas. In 1881, he left for Europe to continue his medical studies at the Unversidad Central de Madrid.
- José Canga-Argüelles
José Canga-Argüelles, was a Spanish statesman. He took an active part in the Spanish resistance to Napoleon in a civil capacity and was an energetic member of the "cortes" of 1812. On the return of the Bourbon line in 1814, Canga-Argüelles was sent into exile in the province of Valencia. On the restoration in 1820 of the constitution of 1812, he was appointed minister of finance. He continued at this post till the spring of 1821, …
- Gaspar Gil Polo
Gaspar Gil Polo (?1530 - 1591), Spanish novelist and poet, was born at Valencia. He is often confused with Gil Polo, professor of Greek at Valencia University between 1566 and 1573; but this professor was not named Gaspar. He is also confused with his own son, Gaspar Gil Polo, the author of "De origine et progressu juris romani" (1615) and other legal treatises, who pleaded before the "Cortes" as late as 1626.
- Enrique Barón Crespo
Enrique Barόn Crespo is a Spanish politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and sits with the Party of European Socialists group in the European Parliament. Barón Crespo graduated in law from the University of Madrid, in 1965. As a practising lawyer, he specialised in labour law, and acted for defendants in political cases (1970-1977). He was a Deputy in the Cortes (1977-1986) and was Minister of Transport, …