People At Service of Spain
- Hernán Cortés (Mexico, 1518–1522, Baja California, 1532–1536)
- Pedro de Alvarado (Mexico, 1519–1521, Guatemala, El Salvador 1523–1527, Perú, 1533–1535, Mexico, 1540–1541)
- Francisco Pizarro (Perú, 1509–1535)
- Pedro de Candia (Panama, 1527, Colombia and Ecuador, 1528, Peru, 1530)
- Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (United States, 1540–1542)
- Juan de Oñate (New Mexico, United States, 1598–1608)
- Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Anaya (Costa Rica)
- Diego de Almagro (Perú, 1524–1535, Chile, 1535–1537)
- Rodrigo de Bastidas (Colombia and Panamá, 1500–1527)
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panamá, 1510–1519)
- Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, Florida, 1513–1521)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (United States, 1527–1536, 1540–1542)
- Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (United States, 1524–1527)
- Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador and Colombia, 1533–1536)
- Gonzalo Pizarro (Perú, 1532–1542)
- Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (Cuba, 1511–1519)
- Diego de Ordaz (Venezuela, 1532)
- Juan Pizarro (Perú, 1532–1536)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán, 1517)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Nicaragua, 1524)
- Hernando Pizarro (Perù, 1532–1560)
- Diego Hernández de Serpa (Venezuela, 1510–1570)
- Juan de Grijalva (Yucatán, 1518)
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Colombia, 1536–1537, Venezuela, 1569–1572)
- Francisco de Montejo (Yucatán, 1527–1546)
- Nicolás Federmann (Venezuela and Colombia, 1537–1539).
- Pánfilo de Narváez (Spanish Florida, 1527–1528)
- Diego de Nicuesa (Panama, 1506–1511)
- Cristóbal de Olid (Honduras, 1523–1524)
- Francisco de Orellana (Amazon River, 1541–1543)
- Hernando de Soto (United States, 1539–1542)
- Inés Suárez, (Chile, 1541)
- Martín de Urzúa y Arizmendi, count of Lizárraga, (Petén, Guatemala, 1696–1697)
- Pedro de Valdivia (Chile, 1540–1552)
- Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Florida, 1565–1567)
- Alonso de Ribera (Chile 1599–1617)
- Alonso de Sotomayor (Chile 1583–1592, Panamá 1592–1604)
- Martín Ruiz de Gamboa (Chile 1552–1590)
- Juan Garrido (Multiple campaigns 1502–1530, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Florida, Mexico)
- Miguel López de Legazpi (Philippines, 1565–1572)
- Juan de Salcedo (Philippines, 1565–1576)
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