List of people from Madrid

This article is a list of notable people from Madrid, the capital of Spain:

Born in

Architecture and urban planning

Teodoro Ardemans (1664–1726): Spanish architect
José Benito de Churriguera (1665–1725) and Churriguera family: Spanish Baroque architects and sculptors; the highly decorated Churrigueresque style of architectural construction is named after the family
Juan de Villanueva (1739–1811): Spanish architect of Neoclassicism
Arturo Soria (1844–1920): Spanish urban planner, well known for his concept of the linear city
Leopoldo Torres Balbás (1888-1960): restorer, architect and scholar
Eduardo Torroja (1899–1961): Spanish structural engineer and architect

Army

Pedro de Heredia (1505 – c. 1554): Spanish conquistador and founder of Cartagena de Indias
Alonso de Contreras (1582–1641): Spanish privateer, a friend of Lope de Vega^[1]

Art music

Dionisio Aguado y García (1784–1849): Spanish classical guitarist and composer
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823–1894): Spanish composer of the popular Spanish opera form, the zarzuela
Luisa Lacal de Bracho (1874–1962), Spanish pianist, musicologist, and writer
Federico Chueca (1846–1908): Spanish composer of zarzuelas
Conrado del Campo (1878–1953): composer, violinist and professor at the Madrid Conservatory
Teresa Berganza (1935–2022): Spanish mezzo-soprano
Plácido Domingo (1941): international tenor and conductor
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández (1979): Spanish sound artist, composer, theorist and curator

Bullfighting

Antonio Chenel Albadalejo (1932–2011): known as "Antoñete", Spanish bullfighter who had a long career
Juana Cruz (1917–1981): Spanish bullfighter, one of the earliest women in the profession
Luis Miguel Dominguín (1926–1996): Spanish bullfighter, a lover of Ava Gardner
Julián López Escobar, El "Juli" (1982): Spanish bullfighter

Engineering

Rafael del Pino (1920–2008): founder of the construction company Ferrovial
Pedro Duque (1963): Spanish astronaut and aeronautical engineer

Finances

Dimas Gimeno: former CEO of El Corte Inglés
María Eugenia Girón: businesswoman
Pablo Isla (1964): current chairman and CEO of Inditex
Alicia Koplowitz (1954): Spanish noble and businesswoman
Esther Koplowitz (1953): Spanish noble and businesswoman
Juan Villalonga (1953): Spanish businessman

Formal sciences

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (1606–1682): Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician and writer

Literature

Alonso de Ercilla (1533–1594): Spanish soldier and poet
Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635): Spanish Baroque playwright and poet; renewed the Spanish theatre at a time when it was starting to become a mass cultural phenomenon
Tirso de Molina (1579–1648): Spanish Baroque playwright, poet, and Roman Catholic monk, known as the creator of Don Juan
Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645): Spanish nobleman, politician, and Baroque writer; his style is characterized by what was called conceptismo
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600–1681): Spanish Baroque playwright and poet; his work is regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre
Marcela de San Félix (1605–1688): poet, actress, and playwright
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828): Spanish playwright and poet
Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (1803–1882): Spanish prose writer, author of Guía de Madrid (Madrid guide)
Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837): Spanish Romantic writer and journalist
José Echegaray (1832–1916): Spanish engineer, mathematician, and dramatist; Nobel Prize in Literature 1904
Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954): Spanish dramatist, Nobel prize in Literature 1922
Pedro Salinas (1891–1951): Spanish poet, member of the Generation of '27
Gloria Zamacois (1897—1946), short story writer
Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990): Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901–1952): Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works
Liboria o "Borita Casas" Casas Regueiro (1911–1999): journalist, playwright, and author known for inventing the character Antoñita la Fantastica (Fantastic Antonia)
Carlos Semprún (1926–2009): writer and dramatist
Francisco Umbral (1932–2007): Spanish novelist, journalist, essayist and biographer
Luzmaría Jiménez Faro (1937-2015): writer, essayist, anthologist, poet, and editor
Pilar Adón (born 1971): Spanish writer and translator

Media and entertainment

Hiba Abouk (born 1986): actress
Jesús Álvarez (1926–1970): Spanish journalist and first anchorman of Telediario
Jesús de Polanco (1929–2007): businessman; founder of El País and Cadena SER
Belén Esteban (1973): Spanish television personality
Alba Flores, (born 1986): actress
Shaila Dúrcal (1979): singer songwriter
Matías Prats Luque (1952): Spanish sports and news journalist
Paloma García Ovejero (1975): Spanish journalist and news broadcaster
El Gran Wyoming (1955): Spanish humourist and actor
Ana Rosa Quintana (1956): Spanish journalist and TV presenter
David Cantolla (1967): founder of companies engaged in technology and entertainment; one of the creators of Pocoyo^[2]
Ana Pastor (1977): Spanish journalist and anchorwoman
Santiago Ziesmer (1953): German voice actor
Marian Rivera (born 1984): Filipino actress
Plácido Domingo (born 1941): opera singer tenor and conductor

Natural sciences

Maslama al-Majriti (10th century – 1007/1008): Muslim astronomer
Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849): Spanish-Mexican scientist and naturalist
Ignacio Bolívar (1850–1944): Spanish naturalist and entomologist
Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora (1886–1971): Spanish neurologist
Gregorio Marañón (1887–1960): Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher
Carlos Jiménez Díaz (1898–1967): Spanish physician
Francisco J. Ayala (1934–2023): Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine
Antonio García-Bellido (1936): Spanish developmental biologist; his ideas and new approaches to the problem of development have been followed and pursued by many researchers worldwide
Mariano Barbacid (1949): Spanish molecular biologist
Juan Luis Arsuaga (1954): Spanish anthropologist; member of the research team investigating Pleistocene deposits in the Atapuerca Mountains

Philosophy

Rocío Orsi (1976-2014): Spanish philosopher and professor
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955): Spanish liberal philosopher

Politics

Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo (1370–1412): Castilian ambassador to the court of Timur
Joanna la Beltraneja (1462–1530): Queen of Portugal and claimant to the throne of Castile
Maria of Spain (1528–1603): spouse of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
Antonio Perez (1540–1611): secretary of Philip II of Spain
Philip III of Spain (1578–1621): Spanish Habsburg monarch
Ferdinand VI of Spain (1713–1759): King of Spain
Charles III of Spain (1716–1788): King of Spain, Naples (as Charles VII) and Sicily (as Charles V)
Isabella II of Spain (1830–1904): Queen of Spain
Alfonso XII of Spain (1857–1885): King of Spain
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones (1863–1950): Prime Minister of Spain
Francisco Largo (1869–1946): politician and trade unionist
Julián Besteiro (1870–1940): socialist politician
Tomás Dominguez: Carlist and Francoist politician
Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886–1941): King of Spain
Miguel Maura (1887–1971): politician
Luis Jiménez (1889–1970): politician; president of Parliament
José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936): Spanish lawyer, nobleman and politician; founder of Falange Española
Adolfo Rincón de Arellano Garcia (1910–2006): politician
Enrique Tierno Galván (1918–1986): Mayor of Madrid from 1978 to 1986
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926–2008): Spanish political figure and prime minister during the period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime
Javier Solana (1942): Spanish politician; appointed the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of European Union and the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union
Boti García Rodrigo (1945): Spanish LGBTI activist and the General Directorate of Sexual Diversity and LGBTI rights (2020–2023)
Rodrigo Rato (1949): managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2004 to 2007
Esperanza Aguirre (1952): 3rd President of Madrid (2003–2012) and former president of the Spanish Senate (1999–2012)
José María Aznar (1952): Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (1958): former Minister of Justice; former Mayor of Madrid (2003–2011)
Philip VI of Spain (1968): current king of Spain
Pablo Iglesias Turrión (1978): Spanish political scientist and leader of Podemos

Popular music

María Dolores Pradera (1924–2018): Spanish singer and actress
Fina de Calderón (1927–2010): Spanish writer, poet, songwriter and musician
Julio Iglesias (1943): Spanish singer-songwriter who has sold over 300 million records worldwide
Rocío Durcal (1944–2006): Spanish singer and actress
Massiel (1947): Spanish pop singer; winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1968
Rosendo Mercado (born 1954): rock singer and songwriter
Antonio Vega (1957–2009): Spanish pop singer-songwriter; member of Nacha Pop
Antonio Flores (1961–1995): Spanish singer-songwriter and actor
Alejandro Sanz (1968): Spanish singer-songwriter and musician
Los Chichos (1973–1995, 1990–2008): Spanish rumba band
Enrique Iglesias (1975): Spanish singer-songwriter, model, and actor
Barón Rojo (1980): Spanish heavy metal band
Mecano (1981–1992): Spanish pop band
Hombres G (1982–1992; 2002–present): Spanish pop-rock band
Mägo de Oz (1988): Spanish rock and folk/heavy metal band
Belinda (1989): Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
Quevedo (born 2001): rapper

Religion

Saint Isidro Labrador (1070–1130): Catholic patron saint of farmers and Madrid
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595–1658): Spanish Jesuit and mystic
Álvaro del Portillo (1914–1992): former prelate of the Opus Dei

Scenic arts

María Guerrero
María Calderón, "La Calderona" (1611–1646): Spanish theatre actress and lover of Philip IV of Spain
María Guerrero (1867–1928): Spanish theatre actress, producer and director
Edgar Neville (1899–1967): Spanish playwright and film director, member of the Generation of '27
Antonio Castillo (1908–1984): Academy Award winning costume designer
Juan Antonio Bardem (1922–2002): Spanish screenwriter and film director
César Fernández Ardavín (1923–2012): Spanish film director and screenwriter; won the Golden Bear at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival
Lina Morgan (1936–2015): Spanish actress and comedienne
José Luis Garci (1944): Spanish director, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1982
Carmen Maura (1945): Spanish actress; has collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar in several times
Emilio Martínez Lázaro (1945): Spanish film director; shared a Golden Bear at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival
María Kosti (1951): Spanish actress
Fernando Trueba (1955): Spanish director; won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994
Belén Rueda (1962): Spanish actress, known for her roles as Julia in The Sea Inside (2004) and as Laura in The Orphanage (2007)
Santiago Segura (1965): Spanish film actor, screenwriter, producer and director
Mercedes Bengoechea
Maribel Verdú (1970): Spanish actress
Elsa Pataky (1976): Spanish and Australian actress and model
Francisco Ortiz (1986): Spanish actor
Amarna Miller (1990): Spanish actress
Nathalia Ramos (1992): Spanish and American actress; born/lived in Madrid for two years

Social sciences

Mercedes Bengoechea (1952): feminist sociolinguist, professor
Margarita María Birriel Salcedo (1953): professor, expert in women's history and women's studies
Clara Campoamor (1888–1972): politician, lawyer, writer, mother of the Spanish feminist movement
María Goyri (1873–1954): literary critic, researcher, educator, advocate for women's rights
Juan Lopez de Hoyos (1511–1583): Spanish schoolmaster and Miguel de Cervantes' teacher
Claudio Sánchez Albornoz (1893–1984): Spanish historian
Manuel Tuñón de Lara (1915–1987): Spanish historian
Pio Filippani Ronconi (1920–2010): Italian orientalist
Jesús Huerta de Soto (1956): economist

Sports

Antonio Rebollo (1955): Paralympic archery
José Navarro Morenés (1897–1974): Spanish horse rider
Luis González Maté (1931): retired Spanish boxer
Luis Aragonés (1938–2014): former Spanish footballer and national coach
Manolo Santana (1938–2021): former amateur tennis champion
Florentino Pérez (1947): Spanish businessman, civil engineer, former politician; current president of Real Madrid C.F., and Grupo ACS
Begoña Gómez Martín (1964): Olympic judoka
Carlos Sainz (1962): Spanish rally driver
Fernando Martín Espina (1962–1989): Spanish basketball player
Emilio Butragueño (1963): Spanish retired footballer
Pedro García Aguado (1968): former water polo player; current psychologist
Jesús Ángel García (1969): Spanish race walker
Mario Gimeno (1969): Spanish retired footballer
Rafael Pascual, "El Toro" (1970): Spanish volleyball player
Raúl González (1977): professional football player
Estela Giménez (1979): retired rhythmic gymnast
Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (1980): professional golfer
Alberto Falcón (1970): former professional fencer
Gabi Fernández (1983): professional footballer
Fernando Verdasco (1983): professional tennis player
Coke Andújar (1987): professional footballer
Jenni Hermoso (1990): professional footballer for the Spain national team
Claudia Zornoza (1990): professional footballer for the Spain national team
David De Gea (1990): professional football player
Javier Fernández López (1991): professional figure skater, 2018 Olympic games bronze medalist, double world champion (2015, 2016), 7-times European champion.
Koke Resurrección (1992): professional footballer
Adrián Mateos (1994): professional poker player
Carlos Sainz Jr. (1994): Spanish Formula One racing driver
David Alonso (2006): Moto3 Racer
Vicky López (born 2006): footballer for the Spain national team
Paula Comendador (born 2007), footballer

Visual arts

Sebastián Herrera Barnuevo (1611–1616): Spanish painter, architect and sculptor
Francisco Camilo (1615–1673): Spanish Baroque painter
Francisco Rizi (1608–1615): Spanish Baroque painter
Claudio Coello (1642–1693): Spanish Baroque painter
Eduardo Rosales (1836–1873): Spanish realist painter
José Gutiérrez Solana (1886–1945): Spanish expressionist painter and printmaker^[3]
Juan Gris (1887–1927): international artist of Cubism
Lucio Muñoz (1929–1998): Spanish abstract painter and engraver
Eduardo Arroyo (1937–2018): Spanish painter and graphic artist
Juan Muñoz (1953–2001): Spanish sculptor, working primarily in papier-mâché, resin and bronze
Ouka Leele (1957–2022): Spanish photographer
Chema Madoz (1958): Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist photography
Muelle (1966–1995): Spanish graffiti pioneer
Arturo Berned (1966): Spanish sculptor

Others

María Cayetana de Silva (1762–1802): 13th Duchess of Alba
Manuela Malasaña (1791–1808): one of the townspeople who lost their lives during the Dos de Mayo Uprising against the troops of Napoleon I of France during the Peninsular War
Enma Iranzo Martín (1959): pharmaceutical biochemist and Spanish politician
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada (1960): Spanish designer
Victoria Zárate Zurita (1893–1964): teacher and trade unionist

Other influential people who have lived in Madrid

Architecture and urban planning

Juan de Herrera (1530–1597): Spanish architect, mathematician and geometrician
Filippo Juvarra (1678–1736): Italian architect and stage set designer
Ventura Rodríguez (1717–1785): Spanish architect and artist
Francesco Sabatini (1722–1897): Italian architect
Antonio Palacios (1872–1945): Spanish architect

Army

Don John of Austria (1545–1578): illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, best known for his victory at the Battle of Lepanto

Engineering

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852–1936): Spanish civil engineer and mathematician

Finances

Emilio Botín (1934–2014): Spanish banker; former Executive Chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander

Formal sciences

Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584–1667): Flemish Jesuit mathematician
Jean-Charles de la Faille (1597–1652): Flemish Jesuit mathematician
Johann Baptist Cysat (1587–1657): Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer
Hugh Sempill (between 1589 and 1596 – 1654): Scottish Jesuit mathematician and linguist

Literature

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616): Spanish novelist, poet and playwright; soldier; his magnum opus, Don Quixote, is the first modern European novel
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627): Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Manuel de Faria e Sousa (1590–1649): Portuguese poet and historian^[4]
Miguel Unamuno (1864–1936): Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher; Greek professor and later rector at the University of Salamanca
Pío Baroja (1872–1956): Spanish Basque writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98
Vicente Aleixandre (1889–1984): Spanish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1977
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936): Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961): American author and journalist
Camilo José Cela (1916–2002): Spanish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1989
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936): Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

Media and entertainment

Matías Prats Cañete (1913–2004): Spanish radio and television journalist

Music

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757): Italian composer; spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families
Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805): Italian classical era composer
Tomás Bretón (1850–1923): Spanish musician and composer of zarzuelas
Lola Flores (1923–1995): Spanish singer, dancer and actress
Joaquín Sabina (1949): Spanish singer-songwriter, and poet
José Antonio Bowen (born 1952): American jazz musician and president of Goucher College
Nacho Canut (1957): bass player and one of the main composers (along with Alaska) of the bands Alaska y los Pegamoides, Alaska y Dinarama and Fangoria
Loquillo (1960): Spanish rock singer and founder of Loquillo y Trogloditas
Alaska (1963): Spanish-Mexican singer, DJ, and TV personality; one of the main characters in the so-called Movida
Shakira (1977): Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer and model
Sharon Corr (1970): Irish singer-songwriter, musician and television personality, member of The Corrs

Natural sciences

Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593–1653): Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934): Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate (1906)
Severo Ochoa (1905–1933): Spanish–American Doctor of Medicine and Biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Philosophy

Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658): Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher; his proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
María Zambrano (1904–1991): Spanish essayist and philosopher

Politics

Philip II of Spain (1527–1598): Habsburg King of Spain and Portugal; during his reign, Spain reached the height of its influence and power
Count-Duke of Olivares (1587–1645): Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV; minister
Philip IV of Spain (1605–1665): King of Spain and Portugal (as Philip III)
Philip V of Spain (1683–1743): first Spanish King of the House of Bourbon
Elizabeth Farnese (1692–1766): Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip V, and de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746
Joseph Bonaparte (1768–1844): elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Spain (1808–1813, as José I)
Simón Bolivar (1783–1830): Venezuelan military and political leader; played a key role in Hispanic America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire
Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784–1833): Spanish monarch
Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879): Spanish general and political figure; associated with the radical (or progressive) wing of Spanish liberalism and would become their symbol and champion after taking credit for the victory over the Carlists in 1839
Leopoldo O'Donnell (1808–1867): Spanish general and statesman
Francisco Pi y Margall (1824–1901): liberal Spanish statesman and romanticist writer; was briefly president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1873
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta (1825–1903): Prime Minister of Spain during the Spanish–American War of 1898 (during which time Spain lost its remaining colonies), and founder of the Liberal Party
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897): Spanish politician and historian, known principally for serving six terms as Spanish Prime Minister
Emilio Castelar y Ripoll (1832–1899): Spanish republican politician, and a president of the First Spanish Republic
Amadeo I of Spain (1845–1890): the only King of Spain from the House of Savoy
José Rizal (1861–1896): Filipino nationalist and revolutionary
Francisco Franco (1892–1975): Spanish dictator from 1939 to 1975
Pablo Iglesias (1887–1927): Spanish socialist and labour leader, founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the Spanish General Worker's Union (UGT)
Manuel Azaña (1880–1940): first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933)
Juan Perón (1895–1974): Argentine military officer and politician
Carlos Lopez-Cantera (1973): Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. State of Florida (2014–2019)
Santiago Carrillo (1915–2012): general secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1981
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1922–2012): Spanish People's Party politician
Adolfo Suárez (1932-2014): Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and the key figure in the country's transition to democracy
Simeon II of Bulgaria (1937): important political and royal figure in Bulgaria
Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938): King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
Queen Sofía of Spain (1938): Queen consort and wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
Felipe González (1942): Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996
Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida (1952): Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Mariano Rajoy (1955): current Prime Minister of Spain, elected on 21 December 2011
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960): Prime Minister of Spain from 2004 to 2011

Religion

Josemaría Escrivá (1902–1975): Roman Catholic priest from Spain and founder of Opus Dei

Scenic arts

Luis Buñuel (1900–1983): Aragonese filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921–2007): Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director and member of the Royal Spanish Academy
Sara Montiel (1928–2013): Spanish singer and actress
Alfredo Landa (1933–2013): Spanish actor; winner of Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival 1984)
Pedro Almodóvar (1949): Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001
Javier Bardem (1969): Spanish actor; won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007
Alejandro Amenábar (1972): Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer; won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2005

Social sciences

Beatriz Galindo, "La Latina" (1465?–1534): Spanish physician and educator; writer, humanist and a teacher of Queen Isabella of Castile and her children
Francisco Giner de los Ríos (1839–1915): Spanish philosopher, educator; one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968): Spanish philologist and historian

Sports

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895–1978): former president of Real Madrid C.F.
Vicente Calderón (1913–1987): Spanish businessman and president of Atlético Madrid for twenty years
Kane (born 1967): American professional wrestler

Visual arts

Vincenzo Carducci (1598–1638): Italian painter
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664): Spanish Baroque painter
Diego Velázquez (1599–1660): Spanish Baroque painter, important as a portrait artist
Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–1770): Italian painter and printmaker
Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779): German painter
Francisco Goya (1746–1828): Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker, regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns
Federico de Madrazo (1815–1894): Spanish realist painter
Juan Luna (1857–1899): Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973): Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer; spent most of his adult life in France
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989): Spanish Catalan surrealist painter
Francis Bacon (1909–1992): Irish-born British figurative painter
Fernando Botero (1932–2023): Colombian figurative artist and sculptor; considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America
Antonio López García (1936): Spanish painter and sculptor
Carmen Cervera (1943): Spanish philanthropist, socialite and art dealer and collector

References

↑ "Contreras, Alonso de (1582-1641)" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 30 August 2026.
↑ "David Cantolla".
↑ "José Gutiérrez Solana". www.epdlp.com. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
↑ "The Lusiads". World Digital Library. 1800–1882. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

External links

Media related to People of Madrid at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Contreras, Alonso de (1582-1641)" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

[2] "David Cantolla".

[3] "José Gutiérrez Solana". www.epdlp.com. Retrieved 3 May 2026.

[WDL-4] "The Lusiads". World Digital Library. 1800–1882. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2013.

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