Category:Spanish

Spain / Spanish (Home Page) The category: Spanish, highlights the national and linguistic identity of Scholars, Authors and Artists, associated with Spain and Spanish culture. The Spaniards are an ethnic group that primarily inhabit Spain and speak the Spanish language (circa 47 million). Most Spaniards today live within the borders of independent Spain (circa 46 million). There are Spanish minorities in nearby France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. Most people in South and Central America are of Spanish descent. See Wikipedia Spanish : Scholars, Authors, & Artists Language(s) : Spanish English - French - German - Italian - Spanish -//- Afrikaans - Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Bulgarian - Catalan - Chinese - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dutch - Estonian - Farsi - Finnish - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Icelandic - Japanese - Korean - Latin - Latvian - Lithuanian - Maltese - Norwegian - Persian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Serbian - Slovak - Slovenian - Swedish - Ukrainian - Welsh - Yiddish

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Famous Spaniards

• San Ignacio de Loyola (c.1491-1556) -- Priest. Founder of the Society of Jesus.

• Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) -- Queen of Castile and León (1474–1504).

• Francisco Pizarro (1476–1541) -- Explorer.

• Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) -- Mystic, poet, theologian and writer. One of the most popular Catholic saints in Spain. Canonized in 1622.

• El Greco (1541–1614) -- Painter.

• Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Novelist. Author of Don Quixote, a literary classic widely considered one of the best novels ever written. It has been translated in countless languages all over the world. Cervantes himself is also hailed as the most important and influential Spanish-language author of all time.

• Felix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) -- Novelist, poet and playwright

• Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) -- Painter (Las Meninas)

• Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) -- Painter and printmaker

• Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) -- Architect (La Sagrada Familia)

• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Painter and sculptor. Creator of works such as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica. Widely praised as one of the most important, groundbreaking and influential artists of all time.

• Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) -- Poet and dramatist (Canciones).

• Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) -- Film director

• Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) -- Painter (The Persistence of Memory).

• Montserrat Caballé (1933–2018) -- Opera contralto singer.

• Plácido Domingo (1941) -- Opera tenor singer.

• Pedro Almodóvar (1949) -- Film director, screenwriter and producer

• Rafael Nadal (1986) -- Tennis player.