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St Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), bishop, humanist and doctor of the Church. St Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus. St John of Avila (1500–1569), priest, preacher, theologian and mystic. St John of the Cross (1542–1591), mystic and monastic reformer, doctor of the Church.
This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Latin America or Spain. The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American, Panamanian ...
Penélope Cruz Sánchez [a] (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards . Cruz made her acting debut on television at 16, and her ...
Trixie Friganza (1870–1955) – American actress of Spanish and Irish parents. Martin Garralaga (1894–1981) – Spanish-born film and television actor who portrayed more than 200 roles in film and television. Dominik Garcia-Lorido – American actress who has maternal Spanish-Austrian descent. Jesse Garcia – actor.
Signature. Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, [8 ...
Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522), scholar, published the first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática Castellana, 1492), which was the first grammar produced of any Romance language. Singers and songwriters See also Spanish language rock and roll (by country). Lucecita Benitez (born 1940), singer-songwriter. Nydia Caro (born 1955), singer.
Hispanophone. Hispanophone refers to anything related to the Spanish language . In a cultural, rather than merely linguistic sense, the notion of "Hispanophone" goes further than the above definition. The Hispanic culture is the legacy of the vast and prolonged Spanish Empire, and so the term can refer to people whose cultural background is ...
Galicians. Galicians ( Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [8] and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]