- Isidore Of Seville
Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: or), Latin: (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages. All the later medieval history-writing of Hispania were based on his histories. At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism, … - Leander Of Seville
Saint Leander of Seville (Cartagena, c. 534–Seville, March 13, 600 or 601), brother of the encyclopedist Isidore of Seville, was the Catholic bishop of Seville who was instrumental in effecting the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic king of Spain Reccared. - John Of Seville
John of Seville (Latin: Johannes Hispalensis or Johannes Hispaniensis) was a twelfth-century translator, perhaps however working at Galician Limia (Ourense), for he signed himself "Johannes Hispalensis atque Limiensis", during the Reconquista, the Christian campaign to regain the Iberian Peninsula. His three translations, the "Secretum Secretorum" dedicated to a Queen T[arasia?], a tract on gout offered to one of the Popes Gregory, … - Sergio Ramos
Sergio Ramos García more commonly known as Sergio Ramos, is a Spanish international footballer, who usually plays as a defender. A native of Camas, Seville, Ramos is a graduate of the Sevilla FC youth system. Ramos began his career as a well-regarded right-side defender, a position he was able to keep for the majority of his early career. After two years of experience in La Liga, with Sevilla, … - 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 Ruiz de Lopera
Manuel Ruiz de Lopera is the current owner and former chairman of the Spanish football club Real Betis. He was born in Seville in August 1944. The club's stadium is named after him. - Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set on the Gold Coast of Africa, and the Javier Falcon series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novel "The Company of Strangers" and "A Small Death In Lisbon", which consists of a historically split narrative, … - Teresa Berganza
The Spanish opera singer Teresa Berganza (born 16 March 1935) is the foremost soprano/mezzo-soprano of the third quarter of the 20th century. She is most closely associated with the roles of Rossini, Mozart, and Bizet. She is admired for her technical virtuosity, musical intelligence and beguiling stage presence. - 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, … - Blas Infante
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (Casares, Spain; 5 July, 1885 - Seville, Spain; 11 August, 1936). Blas Infante was a politician, and a Spanish writer, he is known as the "Father" of Andalusian patrimony (Padre de la Patria Andaluza). Infante was a Georgist idealist who initiated an assembly at Ronda in 1918. This assembly adopted a charter based on Antequera Constitution and also adopted the current flag and coat of arms as "national symbols". - 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, … - Vicente Amigo
Vicente Amigo Girol is a Spanish Flamenco composer and virtuoso guitarist, born in Guadalcanal, near Seville. He is usually considered one of the greatest living flamenco guitarists, in succession to Paco de Lucía. He has played as backing guitarist on recordings by flamenco singers El Pele, Camarón de la Isla, Vicente Soto, Luis de Córdoba and the rociero band Salmarina, and he has acted as a producer for Remedios Amaya and José Mercé. - Carlos Marchena
Carlos Marchena López, popularly known as Marchena born 31 July 1979 in Seville is a Spanish footballer who currently plays centre back for Valencia CF and the Spain. He is a regular first-team choice for both squads. He has been capped 27 times for his country as of 2006. He started his professional career in Sevilla FC by the age of 18 when at that time, the club was still playing in the "Segunda Division". - Paz Vega
Paz Vega (born Paz Campos Trigo January 2 1976) is a Spanish actress. - Marco Storari
Marco Storari (born January 7, 1977 in Pisa) is an Italian football goalkeeper currently playing for A.C. Milan in the Italian Serie A. Known for his unruly mane of hair as much as his ability between the sticks, Storari has been in Italian football for over a decade but the 2006-07 season marked only his third campaign in Serie A. He is known for agile reaction saves but has also been known to make many high profile errors, sometimes several in one match. - 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. - Lebrijano
Juan Peña Fernández, also known as Juan Peña "El Lebrijano" or simply El Lebrijano, was born in Lebrija, province of Seville, Spain, in 1941 and grew up in a prominent Gitano ("Roma") musical family, being the nephew of Perrate de Utrera. He began to play Spanish guitar as a child, accompanying dancers like La Paquera de Jerez, but eventually turned to Flamenco singing. - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. He excelled in the painting of light clouds, flowers, water, and drapery, and in the use of color. - Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (born 23 May, 1923) is a Spanish pianist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_pianists, considered one of the greatest of her generation. She was born in Barcelona, and began studying piano with Frank Marshall in Spain at age three. She performed her first concert at the age of six at the World's Fair in Seville in 1929, and had her orchestral debut at the age of 11. She began touring internationally in 1947, … - Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Diego Velázquez and Alonso Cano, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He was born at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, son of Juan Pérez and wife Leonor del Río, and moved to Seville at a young age. He was a student of Luis Fernandez, and did much of his learning by copying works of the Italian masters. - 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. - Lee Naylor
Lee Naylor is a retired middle-distance runner from Australia, who mainly competed in the 400 metres. A member of Melbourne University, she was one of Australia's greatest stalwart in the women’s 4x400 metres relay team during the 1990s. Naylor made her debut for Australia at a major meet in Victoria, Canada at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where she was part of the Australian relay team which was disqualified. - Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born February 16, 1973) is an Australian athlete who is particularly associated with the 400 m race. As an Aboriginal Australian, she is regarded as a role model for her people, and by many in the non-Aboriginal community as a symbol of national reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. She was born in Mackay, Queensland. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, … - Francisco Guerrero
Francisco Guerrero (October 4 (?), 1528 – November 8, 1599) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He was born and died in Seville. Guerrero's early musical education was with his older brother Pedro. He must have been an astonishing prodigy, for at the age of 17 he was already appointed "maestro de capilla" (singing master, i.e. music director) at Jaen Cathedral. A few years later he accepted a position in Seville. - Curro Romero
Francisco Romero López Spanish bullfighter, known as Curro Romero. Born in Camas, near Seville). He started his professional career in La Pañoleta (Seville), on August 22, 1954 together with Limeño. His first corrida with horses took place in Utrera (Sevilla), on September 8, 1954, fighting bulls that belonged to Ruperto de los Reyes and Francisco Corpas. His debut in Madrid happened on July 18, 1957, with bulls from Alipio Pérez-Tabernero. - Juan Belmonte
Juan Belmonte García was an Spanish bullfighter, considered by many the greatest "matador" of all time. He revolutionized the art of bullfighting. Born in the Triana area of Seville, Belmonte began his bullfighting career in 1908, touring around Spain in a children's bullfighting group called "Los Niños Sevillanos". He killed his first bull on July 24, 1910. - Seville Bridge
The Seville Bridge is one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This particular one is located across the Spoon River in Seville. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1980, along with the eight other bridges, as one of the "Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County. Some of the other bridges include the Buckeye Bridge, … - 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 Sebastián Elcano
Juan Sebastián Elcano (Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Kingdom of Castille, 1476 - Pacific Ocean, August 4 1526) was a Spanish explorer, who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. He commanded back to Seville the first successful expedition to circumnavigate the globe on September 8, 1522, after a journey of 3 years and a month. Elcano completed the journey of Ferdinand Magellan after he was killed partway through through the expedition. - Jeff Powell
Jeffrey Howard Campbell Powell (born May 13, 1976 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian rower. He began rowing in 1996 and is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. He won the gold medal at both the 2002 and 2003 world championships for Canada's men's eight team in Milan, Italy and Seville, Spain respectively. Powell is known for abstaining from all vegetables and fruit. His preferred diet is exclusively pasta and cheese, consumed in a cone. - Dean Macey
Dean Macey (born: December 12, 1977 in Rochford, Essex) is an English decathlete. Dean started out in athletics as a triple jumper but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon. He was also on the books of Arsenal F.C. as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995. Macey's major breakthrough was when he won silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in the Olympic Stadium, Seville, … - Marcie Blane
Marcie Blane (born Marcia Blank, 21 May 1944, Brooklyn, New York) was a female singer who recorded pure pop music. The Seville record label issued a demo put by the high school student more as a favor for a friend. The song was "Bobby's Girl", which was followed by "What Does a Girl Do" and half a dozen other singles which sunk without trace. Recently a CD was issued of her entire output, although no original album was ever issued. - Noah Ngeny
Noah Kiprono Ngeny (born November 2, 1978) is a Kenyan athlete, the surprise winner of the 1500 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics. - Ibn Zuhr
Ibn Zuhr Arabic أبو مروان عبدالملك إبن زهر (1091-1161) was an Arab physician. He was teacher of Averroes. Chirugian, and did the first parenteral nutrition of humans with a silver needle. He was born and died in Seville He wrote a book entitled "The Method of Preparing Medicines and Diet". - Juan Martín
Juan Cristóbal Martín is a flamenco guitarist. The date and place of his birth have been a subject of debate for several years; his website refers to him as a native of Andalucía. Juan Martín started learning the guitar at the age of six. He played in clubs in Málaga, Seville and Granada. In his early twenties he moved to Madrid to study under Nino Ricardo and Paco de Lucía. One of his first recordings was "Picasso Portraits" (1981). - Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo Spanish poet, born in Sevilla. Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He was part of the Generation of '27, and died in Madrid in 1984. Aleixandre's early poetry, which he wrote chiefly in free verse, is highly surrealistic. It also praises the beauty of nature by using symbols that represent the earth and the sea. Many of Aleixandre's early poems are filled with sadness. - Fernando Vega
Fernando Vega Torres, full name Fernando Vega, (born 3 July 1984 in Arahal, Seville) is a Spanish footballer who currently plays for Real Betis of the Spanish La Liga. Vega is a left-sided defender. - 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. - Joaquín Caparrós
Joaquín Caparrós (born November 18, 1955 in Utrera, Seville) is a football (soccer) coach. He trains Athletic Club of Bilbao, in Spanish league. He has coached lots of football clubs, but the most successful clubs he has coached are Recreativo de Huelva, Villarreal CF, Sevilla FC and Deportivo de La Coruña. - Jason Gardener
Jason Gardener (born September 18, 1975 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a British sprint athlete. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School, Bath, where he now has a tutor group named after him.
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