Notable People Born in Cadiz and Cadiz Province
Main category: People from Cádiz- Manuel de Falla, composer
- Daniel Güiza, football striker for Fenerbahce and the national team
- George Meade, Union general of The American Civil War
- Camarón de la Isla, flamenco Singer
- Paco de Lucía, flamenco Guitarist
- Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, Roman agronomic writer
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus, consul
- Lucius Cornelius Balbus the Younger, general
- José Celestino Mutis, botanist and mathematician
- Javier Ruibal musician, singer, songwriter
- Esteban Piñero Camacho, known as Basty, member of the Spanish band D'NASH
- Niña Pastori, or María Rosa García García, flamenco singer.
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