Notable Figures
- Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasda, philosopher, vizier at Zaragosa
- Abu Ruiz ibn Dahri fought in the war against the Almohades.
- Amram ben Isaac ibn Shalbib, scholar and diplomat in the service of Alfonso VI of Castile
- Bahya ibn Paquda, philosopher and author of Chovot ha-Levavot
- Bishop Bodo-Eleazar; according to the Jewish Encyclopedia, "a convert to Judaism ... ... went to Córdoba, where he is said to have endeavored to win proselytes for Judaism from among the Spanish Christians."
- Dunash ben Labrat (920-990), poet
- Isaac ibn Albalia, astronomer and rabbi at Granada
- Jekuthiel ibn Hasan, king's minister at Zaragosa, fell from favor, executed
- Joseph ibn Hasdai, poet, father of Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasdai
- Joseph ibn Migash, diplomat for Granada
- Maimonides, rabbi, physician, and philosopher
- Menahem ben Saruk
- Michael Servetus, jewish converso, astronomer, physician, theologian, cartographer, translator, poet, mathematician and humanist., at Tudela.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, poet and philosopher
- Moses ben Enoch
- Yehuda Halevi, poet and philosopher
- Abraham ibn Ezra, rabbi and poet
- Moses ibn Ezra, philosopher and poet
- Benjamin of Tudela, traveler and explorer
- Samuel Ha-Nagid ibn Nagrela, king's minister and poet
- Hasdai ibn Shaprut, royal physician and statesman
- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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