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38 famous people found
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Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age
1599 - 1660 -
Francisco de Goya
Spanish romantic painter and printmaker
1746 - 1828 -
Hernán Cortés
Spanish Conquistador
1485 - 1547 -
Francisco PIZARRO
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
1478 - 1541 -
Juan DE OÑATE
Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
1550 - 1626 -
Miguel de CERVANTES
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
1547 - 1616 -
CALIXTE III
Pope from 8 April 1455 to his death in 1458
1378 - 1468 -
José Joaquín CAMACHO
Neogranadine statesman, lawyer, journalist and professor
1766 - 1816 -
Pedro ARIAS DAVILA
Spanish colonial administrator
1468 - 1531 -
María Teresa de Silva
Spanish aristocrat and a popular subject of the painter Francisco de Goya
1762 - 1802 -
Francisco DE SANDOVAL Y ROJAS
A favourite of Philip III of Spain, was the first of the validos ('most worthy') through whom the later Habsburg monarchs ruled
1553 - 1625 -
Guillén DE CASTRO
Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age
1569 - 1631 -
Pedro CALDERóN DE LA BARCA
Dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age
1600 - 1681 -
Manuel DE AMAT Y JUNIENT
Spanish military officer and colonial administrator
1704 - 1782 -
Álvar Núñez CABEZA DE VACA
Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition
1488 - 1557 -
Baltasar DE LA CUEVA Y ENRIQUEZ DE CABRERA
Viceroy of Peru
1627 - 1686 -
Francisco DE TOLEDO
Aristocrat and military of the Kingdom of Spain, Viceroy of Peru
1515 - 1582 -
Alvaro DE BAZÁN
Spanish admiral
1526 - 1588 -
Antonio DE MENDOZA Y PACHECO
First viceroy of New Spain
1493 - 1552 -
Fadrique ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Y MENDOZA
Spanish noble and admiral
1580 - 1634