100 Notable alumni of
Complutense University of Madrid
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The Complutense University of Madrid is 37th in the world, 14th in Europe, and 1st in Spain by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Complutense University of Madrid sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Julio Iglesias
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- recording artistassociation football playersingercomposerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide in 14 languages. It is estimated that during his career he has performed in more than 5,000 concerts, for over 60 million people in five continents. In April 2013, Iglesias was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1958-1971 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- philosopherliterary criticjournalistprose writerplaywright
- Biography
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française.
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Queen Letizia of Spain
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1990-1995 studied journalism
- Occupations
- war correspondentaristocratjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano is Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI.
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Justine Olaguer
- Occupations
- ophthalmologist
- Biography
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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered a national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
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Luis Buñuel
- Occupations
- film directorwriterfilm editorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's works were known for their avant-garde surrealism which were also infused with political commentary.
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Seo Yea-ji
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- film actormodeltelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Seo Yea-ji is a South Korean actress. She began her acting career in the sitcom Potato Star 2013QR3 (2013–2014). This was followed by major roles in period drama Diary of a Night Watchman (2014), thriller Last (2015), and fantasy Moorim School: Saga of the Brave (2016). Her notable lead roles in television series include Save Me (2017) and Lawless Lawyer (2018). She rose to prominence with the romantic comedy It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020).
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Miguel de Unamuno
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticiannovelistpoetuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
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Pablo Iglesias Turrión
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1996-2001 graduated with licentiate in law
- 2002-2004 graduated with licentiate in political studies
- 2004-2008 graduated with doctorate in political studies
- Occupations
- political scientisttelevision presenteruniversity teacherpolitical punditpolitician
- Biography
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Pablo Iglesias Turrión is a Spanish political scientist and former politician. During his political career, he served as Second Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda of the Government of Spain from 2020 to 2021. He also served as Member of the Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2021, representing Madrid. Iglesias is a co-founder of Podemos, a left-wing political party that he led from 2014 until his resignation in 2021.
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Isabel Díaz Ayuso
- Occupations
- politiciancommunications adviser
- Biography
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Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso is a Spanish politician and journalist serving as the president of the Community of Madrid since 2019. She is the president of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid.
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Francisco Quevedo
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoet
- Biography
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Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo. This style existed in stark contrast to Góngora's culteranismo.
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Josep Borrell
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1967-1972 graduated with Bachelor in Economics
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- engineereconomistpoliticiandiplomattrade unionist
- Biography
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Josep Borrell Fontelles is a Spanish politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007 and as Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation from 2018 to 2019.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in journalism
- Occupations
- reporterwritertelevision presenternovelisteditor-in-chief
- Biography
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986.
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Antonio Luna
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino army general and a pharmacist who fought in the Philippine–American War before his assassination on June 5, 1899, at the age of 32.
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Alan García
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticianlawyerwriterjurist
- Biography
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Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party and to date the only party member ever to have served as President. Mentored by the founder of the APRA, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, he served in the Constituent Assembly of 1978–1979. Elected to the Peruvian Congress in 1980, he rose to the position of General Secretary of the APRA in 1982, and was subsequently elected to the presidency in 1985 in a landslide victory at the age of 35 years.
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Adolfo Suárez
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in the country's transition to democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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José María Aznar
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianinspector
- Biography
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José María Alfredo Aznar López is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Occupations
- photographerpoliticiananatomistchemistpathologist
- Biography
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
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Benito Pérez Galdós
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistplaywrightpoetwriter
- Biography
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Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
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Íñigo Errejón
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Íñigo Errejón Galván is a Spanish political scientist and former politician.
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Alejandro Amenábar
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm score composercomposerfilm producerfilm director
- Biography
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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goya Awards—including Best Director for his 2001 film The Others—and two European Film Awards among other honors; he also accepted an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of Spain for The Sea Inside. He has written (or co-written) the screenplays to all seven of his films and composed almost all of their soundtracks.
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Sara Carbonero
- Occupations
- presentertelevision presenterjournalistsports journalist
- Biography
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Sara Carbonero Arévalo is a Spanish sports journalist. Since early 2000, she was a TV presenter for Telecinco, until she moved to Porto, in Portugal, when her ex-husband Iker Casillas joined Porto in July 2015.
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Infanta Cristina of Spain
- Occupations
- sailor
- Biography
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Infanta Cristina is the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos I and his wife, Queen Sofía. She is sixth in the line of succession to the Spanish throne, after her brother King Felipe VI's children, her sister Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, and Elena's children.
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Ana Obregón
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision presenterdancerfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Ana Victoria García Obregón, better known as Ana Obregón, is a Spanish actress, television presenter, and socialite. Obregón has appeared in European and American films but she is best known for her high-profile personal life and her career as a television presenter –hosting shows such as ¿Qué apostamos?–, and as a television actress –starring in television series such as Ana y los 7 and A las once en casa –.
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Santiago Segura
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortelevision presentercomics artistactor
- Biography
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Santiago Segura Silva is a Spanish filmmaker and actor. He also worked to a lesser extent as a television presenter, voice actor and comic book writer, as well as being a collector of original comic books.
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Almudena Grandes
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied study of history and geography
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistshort story writerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."
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Ramón Serrano Suñer
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- State lawyerfalangistpoliticianlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Ramón Serrano Suñer, was a Spanish politician during the first stages of the Francoist dictatorship, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the FET y de las JONS caucus (1936), and then Interior Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. A neofalangist originally from the CEDA, Serrano Suñer came to embody the most totalitarian impetus within the regime. Serrano Suñer was known for his pro-Third Reich stance during World War II, when he supported the sending of the Blue Division to fight along with the Wehrmacht on the Russian front. He was also the brother-in-law of Francisco Franco's wife Carmen Polo, for which he was informally nicknamed Cuñadísimo or the "most brother-in-law" (in comparison, the dictator himself was styled as generalísimo).
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Julio Iglesias Jr
- Occupations
- actorsingerfashion modelguitaristmodel
- Biography
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Julio Iglesias Jr. is a Spanish singer-songwriter.
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Pablo Casado Blanco
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pablo Casado Blanco is a Spanish former politician. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid until 4 April 2022, having previously represented Ávila between 2011 and 2019. From 2015 to 2018, he also served as vice secretary general of communication of the People's Party (PP). From July 2018 until April 2022, he was the president of the PP.
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Antonio García Ferreras
- Occupations
- professorjournalisttelevision presentertelevision director
- Biography
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Antonio García Ferreras is a Spanish journalist and television presenter.
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Javier Ambrossi
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm directortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actor
- Biography
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Francisco Javier García de la Camacha Gutiérrez-Ambrossi, better known as Javier Ambrossi, is a Spanish actor, stage, film and television director, and writer. He is best known for creating and directing the musical La llamada and its film adaptation together with Javier Calvo, as well as the television series Paquita Salas, Veneno and La mesías.
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Javier Marías
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied English studies
- Occupations
- editorjournalistprofessorwritertranslator
- Biography
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Javier Marías Franco was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco, 1992) and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, 1994). In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011).
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Cristina Cifuentes
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servantlawyer
- Biography
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María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas is a former Spanish politician of the People's Party. She was the President of the Community of Madrid from 24 June 2015 to her 25 April 2018 resignation. From 16 January 2012 to 13 April 2015, she served as the Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid.
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Javier Solana
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in physical sciences
- Occupations
- professorpoliticianuniversity teacherphysicistdiplomat
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga KCMG CYC is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
- Occupations
- politiciansenior lecturerchemist
- Biography
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Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was a Spanish statesman, politician and chemist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2010 to 2011, and previously as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993, as Minister of the Presidency from 1993 to 1996, as Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2011 and as acting Minister of Defence between May and June 2008.
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Ana Rosa Quintana
- Occupations
- television presenterTV debater
- Biography
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Ana Rosa Quintana Hortal is a Spanish journalist and television presenter. Having originally started out in radio, she rose to fame on Antena 3's daytime chat show Sabor a ti. She later jumped ship to Telecinco to host El programa de Ana Rosa, which led the ratings continually from 2005 until it was axed in 2023.
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Fernando Rey
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Fernando Casado Arambillet, best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel (Viridiana, 1961; Tristana, 1970; Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972; That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977) and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in The French Connection (1971) and French Connection II (1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.
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Nadia Calviño
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor in Economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Nadia María Calviño Santamaría is a Spanish economist and civil servant serving as the President of the European Investment Bank since January 2024.
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Carlos Arias Navarro
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro was the Prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
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Fernando Savater
- Occupations
- activistprofessor of philosophypoliticianwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and author.
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Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- announcerjournalisttelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Cayetana Guillén Cuervo is a Spanish actress, journalist and TV presenter.
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Clara Galle
- Occupations
- actorfilm actormodeldancertelevision actor
- Biography
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Clara Huete Sánchez, also known as Clara Galle, is a Spanish Actress and model. She is best known for her lead role as Raquel in Through My Window (2022).
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Manuel Fraga Iribarne
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- writerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Manuel Fraga Iribarne was a Spanish professor and politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, who was also one of the founders of the People's Party. Fraga was Minister of Information and Tourism between 1962 and 1969, Ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1975, Minister of the Interior in 1975, Second Deputy Prime Minister between 1975 and 1976, President of the People's Alliance/People's Party between 1979 and 1990 and President of the Regional Government of Galicia between 1990 and 2005. He was also a Member of the Congress of Deputies and a Senator.
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Severo Ochoa
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianwriterbiochemist
- Biography
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Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
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Margarita Salas
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- molecular biologistmolecular geneticistuniversity teacherbiochemistscientist
- Biography
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Margarita Salas Falgueras, 1st Marchioness of Canero was a Spanish scientist, medical researcher, and author in the fields of biochemistry and molecular genetics.
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Alberto Garzón
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- politicianministereconomist
- Biography
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Alberto Carlos Garzón Espinosa is a Spanish former politician and economist. He was the Minister of Consumer Affairs from 2020 to 2023. He has been a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU) since 2003. In the 2011 general election, he was elected as an MP within that coalition. He has been the Secretary of Constituent Process in IU from 2014 to 2016, and in 2015, he was elected as an IU candidate for that year's general election. He is a researcher at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville.
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Iker Jiménez
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- television producernovelistwriterufologisttelevision director
- Biography
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Iker Jiménez Elizari is a Spanish journalist and television host. He is a graduate in sciences of information from the Complutense University of Madrid and the European University of Madrid, and gained prominence directing and presenting, along with his wife and collaborator Carmen Porter, mystery investigation program Milenio 3 in Cadena SER, after which they moved to television with the program Cuarto Milenio in Cuatro. In 2020 he created the YouTube podcast La Estirpe de los Libres, and the same year started presenting the divulgation program Horizonte, initially in Telecinco and later in Cuatro.
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Esperanza Aguirre
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma is a Spanish politician. As member of the People's Party (PP), she served as President of the Senate between 1999 and 2002 (becoming the first female politician to have held the post), as President of the Community of Madrid between 2003 and 2012 and as Minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999). She also chaired the People's Party of the Community of Madrid between 2004 and 2016.
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Eduard Punset
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision presentereconomistlawyerwriter
- Biography
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Eduard Punset i Casals was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer.
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Fernando Trueba
- Occupations
- animatorfilm directorfilm produceractorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Fernando Rodríguez Trueba, known as Fernando Trueba, is a Spanish filmmaker, writer, producer and book editor.
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Rita Barberá Nolla
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in library science
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servanteconomistjournalist
- Biography
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María Rita Barberá Nolla was a Spanish politician who was the mayor of Valencia from 1991 until 2015.
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Brays Efedra
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Brays Fernández Vidal, best known by the stage name Brays Efe, is a Spanish actor and television personality. He became popular for his role in the comedy web series Paquita Salas.
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Vicente Vallés
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied in 1981-1986
- Occupations
- presenterwriterjournalisttelevision director
- Biography
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Vicente Vallés Choclán is a Spanish journalist and television presenter who anchors Antena 3 Noticias.
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Miguel Boyer
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistbusinesspersonsocialite
- Biography
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Miguel Boyer was a Spanish economist and politician, who served as minister of economy, treasury and commerce from 1982 to 1985.
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Enrique Dussel
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate in philosophy
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherchurch historianhistorianphilosopher
- Biography
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Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini was an Argentine-Mexican academic, philosopher, historian and theologian. He served as the interim rector of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México from 2013 to 2014.
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David Trueba
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- film directorjournalistactorscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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David Rodríguez Trueba is a Spanish filmmaker and author.
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Jorge Verstrynge Rojas
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- In 1972 graduated with licentiate in sociology and political science
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate in sociology and political science
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianpolitical analystsociologist
- Biography
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Jorge Verstrynge Rojas is a Spanish former politician, activist and political scientist, professor in the Complutense University of Madrid. Close to neofascist movements in his youth and Secretary-General of People's Alliance in the 1980s, he experimented along his political career an ideological switch towards leftist positions.
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Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
- Occupations
- aristocrat
- Biography
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Don Carlos María Alfonso Marcelo de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma, Infante of Spain, Duke of Calabria was, at his death, the last male infante of Spain during the reigns of his cousins King Juan Carlos I and King Felipe VI.
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Josep Pedrerol
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1983-1987 graduated with licentiate in communication science
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Josep Pedrerol Alonso is a Spanish sports journalist who, within the Atresmedia group, presents the sports news program Jugones on La Sexta and the sports talk show El chiringuito de Jugones on Mega.
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Victoria Kent
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- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Victoria Kent Siano was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician.
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Jacinto Benavente
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- politicianwriterplaywrightfilm directorjournalist
- Biography
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Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".
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Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- writerauthornovelistjournalist
- Biography
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Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He received the 1991 Premio Planeta, the 2013 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for literature.
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Eduardo Chillida
- Occupations
- association football playergraphic artistdraftspersonsculptorvisual artist
- Biography
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Eduardo Chillida Juantegui was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his abstract works.
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Carmen Laforet
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
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Ana Blanco
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- pedagoguenews presentertelevision presenterjournalistannouncer
- Biography
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Ana Isabel Blanco López is a Spanish newscaster. From 1990 to 2022 she anchored Televisión Española's flagship daily newscast Telediario, on its three main editions –afternoon, evening, and weekend– in different seasons. She also hosted for some time the weekly Informe Semanal.
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Rodrigo Rato
- Occupations
- politicianbankereconomist
- Biography
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Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo is a businessman and politician who served in the Council of Ministers of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He also served as the ninth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2004 to 2007 and the president of Bankia from 2010 to 2012.
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Teresa Ribera
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servantjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Teresa Ribera Rodríguez is a Spanish jurist, adjunct professor, and politician who is the First Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition and Commissioner for Competitiveness under the second Von der Leyen Commission. She previously served as the minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain since 2018, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez came into power following the successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy. In 2020, she was appointed as fourth deputy prime minister and in 2021 she was promoted to third deputy prime minister.
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Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde
- Occupations
- surgeonmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Don Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú y Ortega, 10th Marquess of Villaverde was a Spanish aristocrat, the son-in-law of dictator Francisco Franco, and a heart surgeon. In Spanish, his peerage is written El X Marqués de Villaverde (English: The 10th Marquess of Villaverde).
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Rita Maestre
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rita Maestre Fernández is a Spanish political scientist and politician. A member of the Madrid City Council since 2015, she served as Spokesperson of the municipal government board presided by Manuela Carmena from 2015 to 2019.
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Juan Carlos Monedero
- Occupations
- professorpoliticianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Monedero Fernández-Gala is a Spanish political scientist and writer. He is a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and a host of La Tuerka. He was one of the leading members of Podemos until he resigned in April 2015.
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Elvira Lindo
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm directorwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Elvira Lindo is a Spanish journalist and writer.
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Cristina Almeida
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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María Cristina Almeida Castro is a Spanish lawyer and politician.
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Stella Assange
- Occupations
- lawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Stella Assange is a Swedish-Spanish lawyer. Throughout her career, she has been an international advocate for human rights, most prominently in the case of her husband, Julian Assange. She changed her name first to Stella Moris in 2012 and later to Stella Moris-Smith Robertson.
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Iván Redondo
- Occupations
- political adviser
- Biography
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Iván Redondo Bacaicoa is a Spanish political advisor who served as the 11th Moncloa Chief of Staff from 2018 to 2021.
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Carolina Bescansa
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianpolitical scientistsociologist
- Biography
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Carolina Bescansa is a Spanish politician and political scientist who co-founded the political party Podemos. She was a representative for Madrid in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2019.
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Lucía Etxebarria
- Occupations
- poetbiographerscreenwriternovelistwriter
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Lucía María Echevarría de Asteinza, known as Lucía Etxebarria, is a Spanish writer, winner of Premio Nadal in 1998 and Premio Planeta de Novela in 2004.
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Dolores Delgado
- Occupations
- politicianprosecutorjurist
- Biography
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Dolores Delgado García is a Spanish prosecutor who served as Attorney General of Spain from 2020 to 2022. Previously, she served as Minister of Justice and First Notary of the Kingdom from 2018 to 2020, in the first Pedro Sánchez administration.
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Umaro Sissoco Embaló
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló is a Bissau-Guinean politician serving as the president of Guinea-Bissau since February 2020. He is a political scientist and military officer who previously served as prime minister between November 2016 and January 2018.
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Lorenzo Silva
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- short story writerwriternovelistlawyer
- Biography
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Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002.
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Juan José Millás
- Occupations
- short story writerwriternovelistjournalist
- Biography
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Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid, where he studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad Complutense.
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Emmanuel Mounier
- Occupations
- teacherchefwriterjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Emmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher, Catholic theologian, teacher and essayist.
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Antonio Maura
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Antonio Maura Montaner was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions.
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Ratinho Júnior
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticiandeputy
- Biography
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Carlos Roberto Massa Júnior, best known as Ratinho Júnior, is a Brazilian politician and the son of television host and former politician Ratinho. Ratinho Júnior is the current governor of the state of Paraná, having won the 2018 election.
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Pablo Isla
- Occupations
- lawyerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Pablo Isla Álvarez de Tejera is a Spanish businessman and a State lawyer who was chairman and CEO of Inditex, a Spanish corporation and the world's largest fashion group, from 2005 to 2022.
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Lidia San José
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in history
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Lidia San José Segura is a Spanish television and theatre actress.
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Elísabet Benavent
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Elísabet Benavent is a Valencian writer, positioned as one of the most relevant writers of romance novels. She began her literary career with self-publishing her first book, En los zapatos de Valeria (2013). Her work is considered a success in more than 10 countries. Among all her publications, Benavent has sold around 3,000,000 copies. All of her novels have been published by Suma de letras, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Benavent's Valeria saga became a 2020 Netflix TV series, (Valeria), and her novel, Un cuento perfecto, was remade into a Netflix's 2023 television miniseries, A Perfect Story.
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Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós, 4th Marquess of Valtierra is a Spanish peer, executive and civil servant. He is the father of politician Iván Espinosa de los Monteros.
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Ana Botella
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Ana Botella Serrano is a Spanish politician who served as the Mayor of Madrid from the end of 2011 until 2015 and the Spouse of the Prime Minister when her husband José María Aznar. She was the first female Mayor of Madrid.
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Félix Bolaños
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servantlawyer
- Biography
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Félix Bolaños García is a Spanish lawyer and politician who serves as minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes since 2023. Previously, he served as Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister of Spain from 2018 to 2021, and as minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory from 2021 to 2023.
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Javier Santaolalla
- Occupations
- physicistscience communicatortelecommunications engineer
- Biography
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Javier Santaolalla Camino is a Spanish physicist, engineer, doctor in particle physics and scientific popularizer. He has worked at the National Center for Space Studies in France, CIEMAT and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where he was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson through the Large Hadron Collider from CMS Experiment.
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Adolfo Nicolás
- Occupations
- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Adolfo Nicolás Pachón SJ was a Spanish Jesuit priest of the Catholic Church. He was the 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. Before being elected Superior General, he worked primarily in Japan; he taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and then headed educational institutions in Manila from 1978 to 1984 and in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993. He led the Jesuits in Japan from 1993 to 1996 and, after four years of pastoral work in Tokyo, led the Jesuits in Asia from 2004 to 2008.
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Mónica García Gómez
- Occupations
- writerpoliticiananesthesiologist
- Biography
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Mónica García Gómez is a Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, current coordinator and spokesperson of the political party Más Madrid in the Madrilenian Assembly. She was an elected deputy during the X legislature of the Madrilenian Assembly under the Spanish political party Podemos, and is currently a deputy in the XI legislature as part of Más Madrid. Since 2015, García has combined her political work with her job in health care, with a 50% reduction in working hours. She was appointed Minister of Health in the third government of Pedro Sánchez following the 2023 Spanish general elections.
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Pedro Piqueras
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied in 1972-1977
- Occupations
- editor-in-chiefnews presentertelevision presenterannouncer
- Biography
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Pedro María Piqueras Gómez is a Spanish journalist and newscaster. After rising to fame as a newcaster on TVE's Telediario, in 2006 he swapped to the relaunched Informativos Telecinco.
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Víctor Erice
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- directorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Víctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his first two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and El Sur (1983).
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Dámaso Alonso
- Occupations
- literary criticphilologistlinguistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas was a Spanish poet, philologist and literary critic. Though a member of the Generation of '27, his best-known work dates from the 1940s onwards.
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Manuel Rivas
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterfilm directorjournalist
- Biography
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Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
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Fernando León de Aranoa
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortelevision writerdocumentarianproducer
- Biography
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Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
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Santiago Auserón
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate in philosophy
- Occupations
- record producertranslatorguitaristsinger
- Biography
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Santiago Auserón, also known as Juan Perro is a Spanish singer and lyricist. He was songwriter and vocalist of Spanish rock's Radio Futura. Auserón has been recognized with the Aragón Music Prize for Career Trajectory in 2017, Cubadisco Prize for the Best International Album in 2017 and Aragón Music Prize for the Best Soloist 2019.
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Ismael Serrano
- Occupations
- recording artistsingerguitaristwritercomposer
- Biography
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Ismael Serrano is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Spain, popular in Spain and Latin America, known for his often political lyrics and eclectic musical influences. During his creative career he has been influenced by other Spanish singer-songwriters such as Joaquín Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat and the Cuban Silvio Rodríguez amongst others. His music also shows influences from renowned poets such as Luis García Montero and Mario Benedetti.
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Eduardo Dato
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Eduardo Dato e Iradier was a Spanish political leader during the Spanish Restoration period. He served three times as Spanish prime minister: from 27 October 1913 to 9 December 1915, from 11 June 1917 to 3 November 1917, and from 28 April 1920 until his assassination by Catalan anarchists. He also held eleven cabinet ministries, and was four times president of the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
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Nevenka Fernández
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Nevenka Fernández García is a Spanish economist. She was councillor of Finance of Ponferrada between 1999 and 2000.
