- Faustino Galicia
Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca or Faustino Chimalpopoca(tl) Galicia (d. 1877) was the most active scholar of the Nahuatl language of the 19th century. "Chimalpopoca" is a Nahuatl name usually translated as "smoking shield", also borne by the third Aztec ruler - Heiress Maria Of The Duchies Of Galicia
Heiress Maria of the Duchies of Galicia (1323-41) was wife to George II of Halych and sister to Leo II of Halych and Andrew of Halych, daughter of George I of Halych. She assisted her husband king Boleslaus George II of Halych in ruling Galicia In 1323 her brother's Andrew of Galicia and Volynia and Lev II of Lutsk were killed, and she and her niece, Eufemia, Heiress of Volynia-Lutsk, inherited the lands. - 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). - 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, … - Óscar Pereiro
Óscar Pereiro Sio (born August 3, 1977 in Mos, Galicia) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He is best known for finishing second (as it currently stands) in the 2006 Tour de France. It is possible that 2006 Tour winner Floyd Landis could eventually be disqualified and Pereiro will be promoted to the winner's position (see below). Pereiro currently rides for the Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears cycling team. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Adolfo Dominguez
Adolfo Domínguez is a fashion designer. - 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. - Luz Casal
Luz Casal (born November 11, 1958 at Boimorto, Galicia) is a Spanish pop singer. She grew up in Asturias, took singing, piano and ballet classes, and moved to Madrid to pursue a career as a musician. She became famous in the early 1980s, and remained as an important figure in Spanish pop music all through said decade and beyond, with her sound gradually maturing towards soft adult pop. - 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. - 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, … - David Cal
David Cal Figueroa (born October 10, 1982 in Cangas, Galicia, Spain) is a Spanish flatwater canoer. He specialises in the Canadian canoe C1 event. Cal was a junior world championship bronze medallist in Zagreb in 1999 (C1 1000m). The following year he became European C1 500m junior champion at Boulogne, France in 2000. He also won the C1 1000m bronze medal. He was a reserve at the Sydney Olympics. At the 2002 European under-23 championships in Zagreb, Croatia, … - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Fernando Vázquez
Fernando Vázquez is a Spanish football coach. Vázquez first became an English teacher in Lalín. Once there, he began to get involved with the school's athletics, especially football. He began his professional coaching career at Lalín in 1986, but left there for higher-profile Racing Ferrol in 1991. He took over for many teams from 1994-2004, most of them in La Liga. He took over at the helm for Celta de Vigo, and helped them ascend into La Liga. - 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 - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Eugenio Granell
Eugenio Granell was an artist often described as the last Spanish Surrealist painter. Born in the north-western region of Galicia, Eugenio Fernández Granell started out as a political radical and a musician. In 1927 he set up the magazine SIR (Sociedad Infantil Revolucionaria) with his brother Mario, and in 1928 enrolled at the Escuela Superior de Música del Real Conservatorio in Madrid. Among his friends were Maruja Mallo, Joaquín Torres García, … - Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (A Coruña, Galicia, 1885 - Madrid, 1964) was a popular Spanish journalist and novelist of the early 20th century. Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth. - Uxío Novoneyra
Eugenio Novo Neira alias Uxío Novoneyra was a poet and a Children's book writer from Galicia. He was the son of a family of farmers. He started writing poems while he studied Secondary Education in Lugo. Then he moved to Madrid to study Philosophy and Literature. In 1951, he came back to Galicia and started his publications in Galician language. In 1962, he went back to Madrid again and worked in radio and TV programmes. - Antonio Palacios
Antonio Palacios Ramilo was an Spanish architect, born in O Porriño, Galicia. A prolific architect, he is known for his design of the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) in Madrid, the García Barbón Theater in Vigo and many other works in those cities and places like Mondariz, Baiona or his home town O Porriño. He modernized the image of Madrid with some of the most emblematic buildings of the city: Circle of Fine Arts, Río de La Plata Bank, … - Míchel Salgado
Miguel Ángel Salgado Fernández (born October 22 1975 in As Neves, Galicia) is a Spanish footballer, who currently plays in the right back position for Real Madrid of Spain. He is known for his combative tackling and attacking play. He began his career in 1994, playing his hometown team, Celta de Vigo. In 1999, Salgado was signed by Real Madrid for €11,000,000. Salgado helped Real lift the Champions League trophy in both 2000 and 2002, as well as two La Liga titles and, … - 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, … - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - Mendinho
Mendinho was a medieval Galician troubadour from the 13th century. There is little known about him, he probably lived in Redondela, Vigo Bay or San Simón island. We have only one poem from this poet (which starts as "Sedia-m’ eu na ermida de San Simión..."), but this is considered a perfect work of art. It fits into the genre of cantiga de amigo, and like the poems of a fellow poet, Pai Gomez Charinho, … - Ramón Chao
Ramón Chao is a Galician writer who emigrated to France in 1956 in order to escape Francisco Franco's regime. He was chief editor for the Latin American service of Radio France Internationale, and used to work for Le Monde and Le Monde diplomatique. In 1984 he created the "Prix Juan Rulfo" award for new Spanish language writers. He is the father of singer Manu Chao and radio maker Antoine Chao. - 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. - Rosendo Salvado
Dom Rosendo Salvado Rotea, O.S.B. (March 1, 1814 - December 29, 1900) was a Benedictine monk, missionary, bishop, and bestselling author, as well as the founder and first Abbot of New Norcia, in Western Australia. Bishop Salvado was born at Tui, Galicia, Spain, the son of Pedro Salvado and Francisca Rotea. At the age of 15, he entered the Benedictine Abbey of San Martin at Compostella. He was clothed in the habit in 1829 and took his final vows in 1832. - Antonio Casas
Antonio Casas (11 November 1911 A Coruña, Galicia - 14 February 1982 Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982. Casas originally began as a footballer but entered film in 1941 and made nearly 170 appearances in film and TV between then and 1982. He appeared in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western the "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1966, a film that has consistently been voted one of the greatest of all time. - Mariano Grueiro
Mariano Grueiro is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and artist. He was born in 1975 in Naron, Galicia, Spain, grew up in Ferrol in the 1980s, in the middle of a Galician naval cruise. His first photographic work is dated between 1996 and 1999, "People in Compostela", a photographic essay about Santiago de Compostela, and next to this is the Galician coast (1999). As writer, he started to write at 1994 different essays about Galician society, and Wildliza, … - Carlos Jean
Carlos Jean (born 1973 in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain) is a musician from Spain, known in Western countries for his song "Mr. Dabada," prominently featured in television advertisements for the Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessor. He was born to Jean Robert Jean, originally from Haiti, and Julia, a Galician native. Carlos released his first album in 1998, entitled No Blood and is considered an influential artist in the Spanish electronica scene. - Arsenio Iglesias
Arsenio Iglesias Pardo is a popular Galician football coach. He was born in the town of Arteixo very near A Coruña in Galicia, Spain. He coached Deportivo de La Coruña from 1970 to 1973, then again from 1982 to 1985, from 1987 to 1989 and from 1990 to 1994. During early to mid '90s, Iglesias made the team obtain the nickname 'Super Depor'. Within this time, the Deportivo de La Coruña got one King's Cup plus one Supercopa de España. - Iván Raña
Iván Raña Fuentes is an athlete from Spain, who competes in triathlon. "El soldado" Raña participated in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took fifth place with a total time of 1:49:10.88. In 2002 when he won world, European and national titles. His world championship win in Cancun, Mexico, was Spain's first gold medal in the event.
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