List of hispanophones

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This is a list of notable Spanish-speaking people whose occupations are related with Spanish language. In alphabetical order within categories.

Contents 1 Actors 2 Authors 2.1 A-D 2.2 E-H 2.3 I-L 2.4 M-P 2.5 Q-T 2.6 U-Z 3 Film directors 4 Journalists 5 Linguists 6 Singers and songwriters 7 See also

[edit] Actors

• Victoria Abril (b. 1959)
• Norma Aleandro (b. 1936)
• Héctor Alterio (b. 1929)
• Elena Anaya (b. 1975)
• Imperio Argentina (1906–2003)
• Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963)
• Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (b. 1940)
• Antonio Banderas (b. 1960)
• Javier Bardem (b. 1969)
• Juan Diego Botto (b. 1975)
• Cantinflas (1911–1993)
• Verónica Castro (b. 1952)
• Penélope Cruz (b. 1974)
• Fernando Fernán Gómez (b. 1921)
• Gael García Bernal (b. 1978)
• Sancho Gracia (b. 1936)
• Salma Hayek (b. 1966)
• Pedro Infante (1917–1957)
• Katy Jurado (1924–2002)
• Libertad Lamarque (1908–2000)
• Diego Luna (b. 1979)
• Federico Luppi (b. 1936)
• Jordi Mollá (b. 1968)
• Ricardo Montalbán (b. 1920)
• Sara Montiel (b. 1928)
• Paul Naschy (b. 1934)
• Jorge Negrete (1911–1953)
• Francisco Rabal (1926–2001)
• Fernando Rey (1917–1994)
• Dolores del Río (1905–1983)
• Benicio del Toro (b. 1967)
• Paz Vega (b. 1976)
• Natalia Verbeke (b. 1975)

[edit] Authors

See also List of Spanish language authors (by country).

[edit] A-D

• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581?-1639), dramatist.
• Rafael Alberti (1902-1999), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1983).
• Vicente Aleixandre (1888–1984), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1977).
• Isabel Allende (b. 1942), best selling novelist.
• Dámaso Alonso (1898-1990), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1978).
• José María Arguedas (1911-1969), novelist.
• Roberto Arlt (1900–1942), short-story writer, novelist, and playwright.
• Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), Nobel Prize Laureate (1967).
• Francisco Ayala (b. 1906), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1991).
• Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz) (1863–1967), journalist, poet, novelist and essayist.
• Pío Baroja (1872-1956), novelist.
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), romantic poet and tale writer.
• Andrés Bello (1781–1865), humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher and educator.
• Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1922).
• Mario Benedetti (b. 1920), novelist and poet.
• Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1990).
• Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), best-selling novelist, wrote The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916).
• Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1999).
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979).
• Alfredo Bryce Echenique (b. 1939), novelist and short stories writer.
• Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000), playwright.
• Mario Bunge (b. 1919), philosopher, author of the Treatise on Basic Philosophy (8 volumes, 1974–1989).
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), novelist, essayist, translator, and critic, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1997).
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), playwright and poet.
• Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), humanist.
• Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1977).
• Camilo José Cela (1916–2002), novelist, Nobel Prize (1989) and Cervantes Prize Laureate (1995).
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), novelist, playwright and poet, author of Don Quixote (1605 and 1615).
• Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), novelist and short stories writer.
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/1651-1695), poet and dramatist.
• Rubén Darío (1867-1916), modernist poet.
• Virgilio Dávila (1869-1943), poet.
• Miguel Delibes (b. 1920), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1993).
• Gerardo Diego (1896-1987), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979).

[edit] E-H

• José Echegaray (1832–1916), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1904).
• Jorge Edwards (b. 1931), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1999).
• Laura Esquivel (b. 1950), novelist.
• Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), dramatist and neoclassical poet.
• Rosario Ferré (b. 1938), poet and essayist.
• Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928), novelist and essayist, Rómulo Gallegos (1977), Cervantes (1987) and Prince of Asturias (1994) awards Laureate.
• Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), novelist.
• Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969), novelist.
• Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), poet and dramatist.
• Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1982).
• José García Nieto (1914-1999), poet and playwright, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1996).
• Luis de Góngora (1561-1627), lyric poet.
• Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658), author of El Criticón, influenced European philosophers such as Schopenhauer.
• Jorge Guillén (1893-1984), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1976).
• Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), poet.
• José Hernández (1834–1886), poet and journalist, author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
• Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), poet, initiator of the Creacionismo movement.

[edit] I-L

• Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1956).
• John of the Cross (1542-1591), mystic poet.
• Enrique Krauze (b. 1947), historian, political and social essayist and publisher.
• Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837), literary journalist.
• José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), novelist.
• Luis Llorens Torres (1878-1944), poet.
• Luis López Nieves (b. 1950), best-selling novelist and tale writer.
• Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1992).
• Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938), poet.
• Fray Luis de León (1527-1591), poet of the Spanish Golden Age.

[edit] M-P

• Antonio Machado (1875–1939), poet.
• Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher and essayist.
• Javier Marías (b. 1951), novelist and translator, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1995).
• José Martí (1853-1895), poet and essayist.
• Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1945).
• Augusto Monterroso (1921-2003), short stories writer, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (2000).
• Agustín Moreto y Cavana (1618–1661), dramatist and playwright.
• Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1984), novelist, essayist, journalist and short stories writer; author of Bomarzo (1962).
• Álvaro Mutis (b. 1923), Cervantes Prize (2001) and Prince of Asturias Awards Laureate (1997).
• Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1971).
• Amado Nervo (1870–1919), modernist poet.
• Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994), novelist and short-story writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1980).
• José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), philosopher and essayist.
• Fernando del Paso (b. 1935), novelist, essayist and poet, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1982).
• Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Cervantes Prize (1981) and Nobel Prize (1990) Laureate.
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. 1951), best-selling novelist and journalist.
• Sergio Pitol (b. 1933), novelist, short stories writer and translator, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2005).
• Elena Poniatowska (b. 1932), novelist.
• Manuel Puig (1932-1990), novelist, author of The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976).

[edit] Q-T

• Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), novelist, essayist and poet, master of Conceptism.
• Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), short story writer.
• José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928), poet and novelist.
• José Rizal (1861–1896), poet, novelist and essayist.
• Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1989).
• Fernando de Rojas (1465–1541), novelist, author of La Celestina (1499).
• Gonzalo Rojas (b. 1917), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2003).
• Juan Ruiz (c.1283-c.1350), author of the epic poem Book of Good Love.
• Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1983).
• Ernesto Sabato (b. 1911), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1984).
• Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), poet.
• Pedro Salinas, (1891–1951), poet.
• Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), postmodernist poet.
• Saint Teresa of Avila (1515–1582), mystic poet.
• Tirso de Molina (1571–1648), playwright.

[edit] U-Z

• Francisco Umbral (b. 1935), novelist, biographer and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2000).
• Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1931), existentialist author and essayist.
• Arturo Uslar-Pietri (1906-2001), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1990).
• Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936), dramatist, novelist and member of the Generation of 98.
• César Vallejo (1892-1938), poet.
• Fernando Vallejo (b. 1942), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (2003).
• Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), novelist and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1994).
• José Vasconcelos (1882–1959), thinker, educator and essayist.
• Garcilaso de la Vega (1501–1586), poet.
• "El Inca" Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), first mestizo author in Spanish language.
• Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635), poet and playwright.
• Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), poet.
• Gabriel Zaid (b. 1934), poet and essayist.
• María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1660), novelist.
• José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893), poet and dramatist, author of Don Juan Tenorio (1844).

[edit] Film directors

• Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1949)
• Alejandro Amenábar (b. 1972)
• Alfonso Arau (b. 1932)
• Adolfo Aristarain (b. 1943)
• Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)
• Alfonso Cuarón (b. 1961)
• Juan Downey (1940–1993)
• Víctor Erice (b. 1940)
• José Luis Garci (b. 1944)
• Luis García Berlanga (b. 1921)
• Alejandro González Iñárritu (b. 1963)
• Alexandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929)
• León Klimovsky (1906–1996)
• Julio Medem (b. 1958)
• Paul Naschy (b. 1934)
• Franco de Peña (b. 1966)
• Arturo Ripstein (b. 1943)
• Carlos Saura (b. 1932)
• Guillermo del Toro (b. 1964)

[edit] Journalists

• Enrique Gratas, television journalist.
• Jorge L. Ramos (b. 1950), television journalist; three-time Emmy Award winner.
• Jacobo Zabludovsky (b. 1928), television journalist.

[edit] Linguists

• Andrés Bello (1781–1865), philologist.
• Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), linguist.
• Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911), philologist and linguist.
• María Moliner (1900–1981), lexicographer.
• 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.

[edit] Singers and songwriters

See also Spanish language rock and roll (by country).

• Lucecita Benitez (b. 1940), singer-songwriter.
• Miguel Bosé (b. 1956), pop singer.
• Nydia Caro (b. 1955), singer.
• Celia Cruz (1924–2003), salsa singer.
• José Feliciano (b. 1945), singer-songwriter.
• Luis Fonsi (b. 1978), singer.
• Juan Gabriel (born 1950), ranchera and ballad singer-songwriter.
• Manolo García (b. 1955), singer-songwriter.
• Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), tango singer.
• Julio Iglesias (born 1943), pop singer.
• Pedro Infante (1917–1957)
• Víctor Jara (1932–1973), singer-songwriter.
• Juanes (b. 1972), singer-songwriter.
• Agustín Lara (1900–1970), singer and songwriter.
• Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963), songwriter.
• Marc Anthony (b. 1969), singer-songwriter.
• Ednita Nazario (b. 1955)
• Jorge Negrete (1911–1953)
• Nino Bravo (1944–1973)
• Raphael (b. 1943), pop singer.
• Joaquín Sabina (b. 1949), singer-songwriter.
• Alejandro Sanz (b. 1968), pop/ballad singer.
• Selena (1971–1995), pop singer.
• Joan Manuel Serrat (b. 1943), singer-songwriter.
• Shakira (b. 1977), Latin Pop singer and songwriter.
• Enrique Urquijo (1960–1999), New Wave music singer.
• Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908–1992), folk musician.

[edit] See also

• List of people by nationality