100 Notable alumni of
Complutense University of Madrid
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The Complutense University of Madrid is 44th in the world, 13th 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
- songwritersingerbusinesspersonrecording artistassociation football player
- 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 100 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
- philosophernovelistfilm directoruniversity teacherjournalist
- 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, who also holds Spanish citizenship. 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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José Rizal
- Occupations
- political activistlinguistophthalmologistfreemasonpolitician
- 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 the 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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Queen Letizia of Spain
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenternoblearistocrat
- Biography
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Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano is Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI.
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Pedro Sánchez
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- economistinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016.
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Luis Buñuel
- Occupations
- poetphotographerscreenwriterdirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish 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.
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Pablo Iglesias Turrión
- Occupations
- presenterpolitical scientisttelevision presenteruniversity teacherpolitician
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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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Miguel de Unamuno
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightessayistliterary criticphilosopher
- 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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Seo Yea-ji
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Seo Ye-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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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 Madrid.
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Francisco Quevedo
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- 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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Antonio Luna
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- scientistmilitary officerpharmacist
- Biography
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Antonio Narciso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino army general 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
- writerjuristsociologistpoliticianlawyer
- 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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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in journalism
- Occupations
- reportereditor-in-chiefwar correspondentjournalisttelevision presenter
- 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 released in 1986.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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- full professorphotographeressayistpathologistphysician
- 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 person of Spanish origin 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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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
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- businesspersonpoliticianstatesperson
- 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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Íñigo Errejón
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Íñigo Errejón Galván is a Spanish political scientist and politician, serving as member of the 14th Congress of Deputies.
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Manuel Azaña
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939). He was the most prominent leader of the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.
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Alejandro Amenábar
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editoractorscreenwriterfilm score composer
- Biography
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Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goyas—including a Goya Award for Best Director for his 2001 film The Others— two European Film Awards and one Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Sea Inside among other honors. 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
- journalisttelevision presentersports journalistpresenter
- 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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Josep Borrell
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- 1967-1972 graduated with Bachelor in Economics
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionisteconomistengineer
- Biography
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Josep Borrell Fontelles is a Spanish politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 1 December 2019. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation in the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2019.
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Julio Iglesias Jr
- Occupations
- modelpianistactorsingerfashion model
- Biography
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Julio José Iglesias Preysler is a Spanish singer. In 2008, he was declared the winner of the CMT competition Gone Country.
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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 Elena, and Elena's children.
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Ramón Serrano Suñer
- Occupations
- diplomatState lawyerfalangistpoliticianlawyer
- 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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Almudena Grandes
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied study of history and geography
- Occupations
- journalistscreenwriterwriternovelist
- 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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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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Ana Obregón
- Occupations
- film actordancertelevision presentersingeractor
- 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 actress, most notably for her performances in the Spanish television series A las once en casa and Ana y los 7.
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Santiago Segura
- Occupations
- directorwriterfilm actorfilm producerscreenwriter
- 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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Javier Ambrossi
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- film actortheatrical directorstage actorfilm directortelevision 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 and Veneno.
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Cristina Cifuentes
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- civil servantlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas is a former Spanish politician from 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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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
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- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Ana Rosa Quintana Hortal is a Spanish journalist and television presenter.
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Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenteractor
- Biography
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Cayetana Guillén Cuervo is a Spanish actress, journalist and TV presenter.
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Javier Solana
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianphysicistdiplomatinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga 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, and 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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Fernando Sabater
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- writerphilosopheractivistprofessor of philosophypolitician
- Biography
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Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and author.
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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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Severo Ochoa
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- biochemistuniversity teacherphysicianwriter
- 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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Alberto Garzón
- Occupations
- economistpoliticianminister
- Biography
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Alberto Carlos Garzón Espinosa is a Spanish politician and economist, currently the Spanish Minister of Consumer Affairs. 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 in University Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla.
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Carlos Mesa
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianwriterhistorian
- Biography
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Carlos Diego de Mesa Gisbert is a Bolivian historian, journalist, and politician who served as the 63rd president of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005. As an independent politician, he previously served as the 37th vice president of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and was the international spokesman for Bolivia's lawsuit against Chile in the International Court of Justice from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Revolutionary Left Front, he has served as leader of Civic Community, the largest opposition parliamentary group in Bolivia, since 2018.
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Eduard Punset
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticiantelevision presentereconomistlawyer
- Biography
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Eduard Punset i Casals was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer.
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Carlos Arias Navarro
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquis of Arias-Navarro was one of the best-known Spanish politicians during the Francoist regime.
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Javier Marías
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied English studies
- Occupations
- novelisteditorjournalistprofessorwriter
- 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 were sold close to nine million times 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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Rita Barberá Nolla
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- economistpoliticianjournalist
- 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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Manuel Fraga Iribarne
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- diplomatpoliticianwriterfull professor
- Biography
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Manuel Fraga Iribarne was a Spanish professor and politician in Francoist Spain, who was also the founder 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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Esperanza Aguirre
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- juristlawyerpolitician
- 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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Nadia Calviño Santamaría
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor in Economics
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Nadia María Calviño Santamaría is a Spanish economist and civil servant who serves as First Deputy Prime Minister of Spain since July 2021 and as Minister of Economy since 2018 under prime minister Pedro Sánchez. In 2020, her portfolio was renamed as Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
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Fernando Trueba
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- film produceractorscreenwriterdirectorfilm director
- Biography
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Fernando Rodríguez Trueba, known as Fernando Trueba, is a Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer.
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Margarita Salas
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- university teacherbiochemistscientistgeneticistmolecular biologist
- 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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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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Iker Jiménez
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- television producerjournalisttelevision presenterufologistYouTuber
- 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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Mario Conde
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Mario Antonio Conde Conde is a Spanish businessman, former banker, state lawyer and politician. He served as chairman of Banesto from November 1987 to December 1993, when he was dismissed and the firm intervened by the Bank of Spain, in what would become the first major interference of a government in a financial institution. At the peak of his career in 1987, a 38-year-old Conde controlled over 1% of Spain's GDP.
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Jorge Verstrynge Rojas
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- In 1972 graduated with licentiate in international studies
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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Victoria Kent
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- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Victoria Kent Siano was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician.
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Enrique Dussel
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate in philosophy
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teachertheologianchurch historian
- Biography
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Enrique Domingo Dussel is 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 actorfilm directorjournalistactorscreenwriter
- Biography
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David Rodríguez Trueba is a Spanish filmmaker and author.
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Jacinto Benavente
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistpoetlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".
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Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
- Occupations
- aristocrat
- Biography
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Carlos Maria Alfonso Marcelo de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y de 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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Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- journalistwriterauthornovelist
- 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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Miguel Boyer
- Occupations
- businesspersonsocialitepoliticianeconomist
- 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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Eduardo Chillida
- Occupations
- illustratorsculptordrawergraphic artistvisual artist
- Biography
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Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque, was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works.
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Carolina Bescansa
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- political scientistsociologistuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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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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Carmen Laforet
- Occupations
- writer
- 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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Juan Carlos Monedero
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- political scientistprofessorpolitician
- 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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Rodrigo Rato
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo is a Spanish politician who served in the Council of Ministers 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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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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Dolores Delgado
- Occupations
- juristpoliticianprosecutor
- 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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Lorenzo Silva
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- lawyerwriternovelist
- 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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Elvira Lindo
- Occupations
- writerjournalistchildren's writeractorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Elvira Lindo is a Spanish journalist and writer.
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Lucía Etxebarria
- Occupations
- biographerscreenwriterwriterpoet
- Biography
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Lucía Etxebarria de Asteinza is a Spanish writer, winner of Premio Nadal in 1998 and Premio Planeta de Novela in 2004.
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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 served as chairman and CEO of Inditex, a large Spanish corporation and the world's largest fashion group, from 2005 to 2022.
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Emmanuel Mounier
- Occupations
- writerjournalistphilosopherteacherchef
- Biography
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Emmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist.
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María Dueñas
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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María Dueñas Vinuesa is a Spanish writer and professor.
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Adolfo Nicolás
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacher
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Adolfo Nicolás Pachón 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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Antonio Maura
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- lawyerpolitician
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Antonio Maura Montaner was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions.
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Cristina Almeida
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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María Cristina Almeida Castro is a Spanish lawyer and politician.
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Lidia San José
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate in history
- Occupations
- actor
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Lidia San José Segura is a Spanish television and theatre actress.
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Miriam Díaz Aroca
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- writerjournalistfilm actortelevision presenterstage actor
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Margarita Miriam Díaz Aroca is a Spanish actress and television presenter.
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Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós, 4th Marquis 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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Dámaso Alonso
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- writertranslatorromanistpoetliterary critic
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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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Juan José Millás
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- journalistwriter
- 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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Ana Botella
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- civil servantinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Ana Botella Serrano is a Spanish politician who served as the Mayor of Madrid from 2011 to 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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María Villalón
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- singer
- Biography
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María Villalón Sánchez, is a Spanish singer and most notably the winner of the first series of the Spanish version of The X Factor in 2007.
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Ismael Serrano
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- writercomposerrecording artistsingerguitarist
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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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Manuel Rivas
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- journalistscreenwriterwriterfilm director
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Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
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Íñigo Méndez de Vigo Montojo
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- In 1978 graduated with licentiate degree in law
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- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Íñigo Méndez de Vigo y Montojo, 9th Baron of Claret is a Spanish aristocrat and politician. He served as Minister of Education, Culture and Sport between 26 June 2015 and 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government. He was also the Spokesperson of the Government from 4 November 2016 until his departure on 1 June 2018.
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José Ramón de la Morena
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- In 1981 graduated with licentiate in journalism
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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José Ramón de la Morena Pozuelo is a Spanish journalist. Holding a bachelor's degree in information science, he is the director and presenter of the radio program El Transistor of the Onda Cero radio network.
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Eduardo Dato
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- lawyerdiplomatpoliticianjurist
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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. Also he held eleven cabinet ministries, and was four times president of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (a role akin to that of parliamentary speaker).
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Fernando León de Aranoa
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- film screenwriterillustratorscreenwriterfilm directortelevision writer
- Biography
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Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
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Ratinho Júnior
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- deputybusinesspersonpolitician
- 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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Javier Sierra
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- writerjournalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Javier Sierra Albert is a journalist, writer and researcher who studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid.
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Ramón Menéndez Pidal
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- philologistprofessorlinguistdialectologist
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Ramón Menéndez Pidal was a Spanish philologist and historian. He worked extensively on the history of the Spanish language and Spanish folklore and folk poetry. One of his main topics was the history and legend of El Cid. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 26 separate years, thus, being the most nominated person.
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Santiago Auserón
- Enrolled in the Complutense University of Madrid
- Graduated with doctorate in philosophy
- Occupations
- guitaristsingerrecord producertranslator
- 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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Rosa María Mateo
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- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Rosa María Mateo Isasi, is a Spanish journalist and renowned television news anchor during the Transition. From July 2018 to March 2021, she served as the Provisional Sole Administrator of RTVE, the national public radio and television media. As such, Mateo assumed all the powers of the chairship and the Board of Directors.
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Pedro Paterno
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- writerautobiographerpoetnovelistpolitician
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Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera Ignacio was a Filipino politician infamous for being a turncoat. He was also a poet and a novelist.
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Manuel Marín
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel Marín González was a Spanish politician, former President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was a long-time member of the European Commission, and acting president during the Santer Commission following the resignation of Jacques Santer. He is considered the father of the Erasmus Programme.
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Javier Fesser
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm editor
- Biography
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Javier Fesser Pérez de Petinto is a Spanish film director and publicist. He is a multiple Goya Award winner for his films Camino and Mortadelo y Filemón contra Jimmy el Cachondo, and an Academy Award nominee for his film Binta and the Great Idea.
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Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones
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- farmerjournalistdiplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres-Sotomayor, 1st Count of Romanones was a Spanish politician and businessman. He served as Prime Minister three times between 1912 and 1918, president of the Senate, president of the Congress of Deputies, Mayor of Madrid and many times as cabinet minister. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Romanones, who built an extensive political network, exerted a tight control on the political life of the province of Guadalajara during much of the Restoration period. He also was a prolific writer, authoring a number of history essays.
