List of Aragonese

This is a list of famous Aragonese people. It includes people from the medieval Kingdom of Aragon or from contemporary Aragon, one of the Autonomous Communities of Spain.

Artists

Goya, self-portrait

Francisco Goya (1746–1828), painter and printmaker
Antonio Saura (1930–1998), painter
Carlos Ezquerra (1947–2018), comic artist and creator of Judge Dredd

Filmmakers

Segundo de Chomón (1871–1929), one of the first directors and SFX experts in film history
Florián Rey (1894–1962), filmmaker
Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), filmmaker
Carlos Saura (1932–2023), filmmaker

Kings

Most notable kings of Aragon, not necessarily born there.

Alfonso the Battler (1073/4–1134), king of Aragon and Navarre
James I of Aragon (1208–1276), king of Aragon, he expanded the Crown of Aragon into Valencia, Languedoc and the Balearic Islands.
Peter III the Great (1239–1285), king of Aragon, conquered Sicily and Malta
Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516), king of Aragon, married Isabella of Castile and conquered the Kingdom of Navarre

Musicians

Michael Servetus

Miguel Fleta (1897–1938), tenor
Pilar Lorengar (1929–1996), soprano
José Antonio Labordeta (1935–2010), singer-songwriter and political figure
Enrique Bunbury (born 1967), rock singer-songwriter
Eva Amaral (born 1973), pop singer-songwriter
David Civera (born 1979), singer
Santiago Auserón (born 1954), ex-singer of Radio Futura, one of the most popular pop bands in Spain during the 1980s and early 1990s

Politicians and Political Activists

Joaquin Costa (1846–1911), politician and thinker of the Generation of '98
Francisco Ascaso (1901–1936), anarcho-syndicalist
Joaquín Ascaso Budría (1906–1977), President of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon
Joaquín Maurín (1896–1973), communist revolutionary
Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida (born 1952), Catalan politician born in Aragón
Juan Alberto Belloch (born 1950), Spanish interior minister and mayor of Zaragoza
Antonio Perez (1539–1611), secretary of king Philip II of Spain
Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda (1718–1798), Spanish statesman and diplomat with Kings Charles III and Charles IV
Gaspar Torrente (1888–1970), founder of the Aragonese political movement for regional autonomy
José Antonio Labordeta (1935–2010), singer-songwriter and representative of the Aragonese party Chunta Aragonesista in the Spanish congress

Scientists

Michael Servetus (1511–1553), physician, theologist and humanist
Martín Sessé y Lacasta (1751–1808), botanist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), histologist and physician, Nobel laureate
Fidel Pagés (1886–1923), surgeon, discoverer of epidural anesthesia
Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), spectroscopist

Sociologists

Domingo Tirado Benedí (1898–1971), educator

Athletes

Víctor Muñoz (born 1957), football coach and former player
Víctor Fernández (born 1960), football coach
Alberto Belsúe (born 1968), football player

Writers

Ramón José Sender (1901–1982)
Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), writer and thinker with a deep impact on Schopenhauer
Jesús Moncada (1941–2005), Aragonese writer in Catalan language
Miguel Labordeta (1921–1969), Aragonese poet
Javier Sierra (born 1971), Aragonese bestseller writer and researcher

Other notables

Federico Jiménez Losantos (born 1951) controversial radio talk show hosts of Spain