Seville - Famous Natives

Famous Natives

  • Maria Antonietta of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (1729–1785)
  • Physician Avenzoar
  • The family of the Arabic historian and sociologist Ibn Khaldun
  • Renaissance composer Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero
  • 16th-century novelist Mateo Alemán
  • Playwrights Lope de Rueda and Hermanos Alvarez Quintero
  • Historian of New Spain Bartolomé de Las Casas
  • Baroque painters Diego Velázquez, Valdés Leal and Murillo
  • Explorer and astronomer Antonio de Ulloa
  • Renaissance poet Gutierre de Cetina
  • Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
  • Bullfighters Juan Belmonte, Curro Romero, Ignacio Sánchez Mejías and Joselito el Gallo
  • 20th-century poets:
    • Vicente Aleixandre (Nobel Laureate)
    • Antonio and Manuel Machado
    • Luis Cernuda
  • Composer Joaquín Turina
  • Cartoonist William Haselden
  • Actors Juan Diego, Paco León
  • Actresses Soledad Miranda, Verónica Sánchez, Carmen Sevilla, Paz Vega, Azucena Hernández
  • Miss España 2003 (representing Andalusia), beauty queen and model Eva Maria González
  • Singers Isabel Pantoja, Juanita Reina, Lole y Manuel, Paquita Rico, El Caracol, Falete, Pastora Soler
  • Comedian Manuel Summers
  • Navy officer Miguel Buiza Fernández-Palacios who became Captain General of the Spanish Republican Navy
  • Association footballers José Antonio Reyes, Fernando "Nando" Muñoz, Ricardo Serna, Sergio Ramos, Jesús Navas, Antonio Puerta, Carlos Marchena.
  • Olympic swimmer Fátima Madrid
  • Politicians Felipe González, President of the Government of Spain from 1982 to 1996, and Alfonso Guerra, vice-president from 1982 to 1991

  • Diego Velázquez

  • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

  • Isidoro de Sevilla

  • Joaquín Turina

  • Vicente Aleixandre

  • Antonio Machado

  • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  • Maria Antonietta of Spain

  • Antonio de Ulloa

  • Bartolomé de las Casas

  • Mateo Alemán

  • Felipe González

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or natives:

    “Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “If a foreign country doesn’t look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)