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4 unusual facts about Spanish people


Angel Ortiz

Ángel Ramírez Ortiz (30 June 1966 – 5 May 2008) was a Spanish scientist in the area of protein structure & bioinformatics.

Manuel Gómez Morín

His father Manuel Gómez Castillo (of Spanish origin) died at age 24, shortly after his son was born.

Matilde Artero

Matilde Artero is a Spanish actress who appeared in films from 1926 through 1961.

Ramon Santamarina

Joaquin Ramon Cesareo Manuel Santamarina (February 25, 1827 – August 23, 1904) was an Argentine businessman of Spanish origin.


Acqui Cathedral

The most important work of art in the cathedral by far however is the triptych of the Madonna di Montserrat, the Annunciation to the Virgin of Montserrat, the work of the 15th century Spanish painter Bartolomé Bermejo, in the chapter house.

Adele Mara

Born in Highland Park, Michigan, of Spanish descent, one of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait.

America Now TV

Hollywood up and coming artists, producers, supermodels and celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kirstie Alley, Spanish superstar Julio Iglesias and Canadian singer Norman Iceberg were all interviewed and/or guests on America Now TV.

Andrew Embley

His father is of Anglo-Burmese and Spanish descent and was born in Rangoon, emigrating to Australia in 1964 with his family after the 1962 Burmese coup and settling in Victoria Park.

Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian

Her parents had married in 1918, but were divorced in 1928, after her mother, the daughter of an Italian lieutenant-general, Conte Michele Salazar (descendant of a Spanish nobleman from the times of the Spanish presence in Italy), left her 66-year-old father for a 27-year-old army officer, William Carr.

Baixo Guandu

Divided and donated a portion of the batch, they were sold to Italian, French, German, and Spanish settlers them crowded.

Brethren of the Coast

Based primarily on the island of Tortuga off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica, the original Brethren were mostly French Huguenot and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities including Spaniards, and even African sailors, as well as escaped slaves and outlaws of various sovereigns.

By My Side Again

Cuando vuelvas a mi lado (English: By My Side Again) is a 1999 Spanish film directed by Gracia Querejeta.

Carina Ricco

Born in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico of Spanish and Italian origin, Carina spent her childhood in Argentina, where she began exploring the world of music as a very young child.

Delfina Herbosa de Natividad

Delfina Rizal Herbosa was born on December 20, 1879 in Calamba, Laguna to Mariano Herbosa and Lucia Rizal, sister of José Rizal, and she is of Spanish, Chinese and Japanese descent.

Don Diamond

Although he often played a Spaniard/Mexican or Native American, Diamond's father, Benjamin Diamond, emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1906 with his parents.

El Lebrijano

Juan Peña Fernández, also known as Juan Peña "El Lebrijano" or simply El Lebrijano (born 1941) is a Spanish Gitano (Roma) musician, the nephew of Perrate de Utrera.

Extra Virginity

Mueller's overview of the modern olive oil industry includes a visit to a Bertolli plant in Inveruno; family growers in Puglia, Cyprus, and California; and the monastery of New Norcia, Western Australia, founded by Spanish monks, which also produces olive oil.

Fernando de Borja y Aragón

Don Fernando de Borja y Aragón or Ferran de Borja y d'Aragón (1583 in Lisboa – 28 November 1665, in Madrid) was a Spanish noble from the House of Borja and the House of Castro.

Francisco de Quiñones

Francisco de Quiñones, O.F.M., (Latin: Franciscus Cardinal Quignonius) (also Francisco de los Angeles) (Kingdom of León, ca. 1482 – Veroli, Papal States, November 5, 1540) was a Spanish Franciscan friar and later cardinal who was responsible for some reforms in the Catholic Church in Spain.

George Bellew

Born in Dublin, Bellew was the son of Richard Eustace Bellew (son of Edward Bellew, 2nd Baron Bellew, and grandson of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew and his Spanish wife, Anna Fermina de Mendoza) and Gwendoline Marie Josephine (née Herbert-Huddleston).

Isidro Barradas

Isidro Barradas was a Spanish general sent to Mexico in 1829, eight years after Mexican independence in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to reconquer the country for the Spanish Crown.

Joaquín María Bover de Roselló

Joaquín María Bover de Roselló (in Catalan: Joaquim Maria Bover de Roselló or Joaquim Maria Bover i Roselló; in Spanish: Joaquín María Bover de Roselló) (Seville, 1810 - Palma de Mallorca, 1865) was a Spanish writer and editor who wrote primarily in Spanish but also some poems in Catalan.

Joaquín Pardavé

Pardavé was born to Spanish immigrants Joaquín Pardavé Bernal and Delfina Arce Contreras, theater actors, in Pénjamo, Guanajuato.

José Santamaría

Born in Montevideo to Spanish parents, Santamaría played for local Club Nacional de Football in his country, winning five national championships during his spell.

Juan Vigón

Juan Vigón Suerodíaz (Colunga, Asturias, Spain 1880 - Madrid 1955) was a Spanish general who fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Nationalists.

Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex

The Turkish researcher Rasih Nuri İleri claimed during his examination of the complex's foundation documents that Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes was a forced worker at the construction of the complex during his enslavement, like the Captive character in his novel Don Quixote.

La Leyenda del Tiempo

La Leyenda del Tiempo is the tenth album by Spanish singer Camarón.

Lucas Ordóñez

Lucas Ordóñez Martín-Esperanza (born May 1, 1985) is a Spanish racecar driver, who entered professional racing by winning a spot in a PlayStation 3 Gran Turismo competition.

Luis Menéndez Pidal

Luis Menéndez Pidal (1860–1932) was a Spanish genre painter, brother of Juan and Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

Manuel Portela Valladares

Manuel Portela y Valladares (Pontevedra, 31 January 1868 – Bandol, 29 April 1952) was a Spanish political figure during the Second Spanish Republic.

Miriam Giovanelli

Miriam Giovanelli (born 28 April 1989) is an Italian/Spanish actress and model, perhaps the best known for her roles in Limoncello, Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club and Física o Química.

Padre Faura Street

The street was named after Federico Faura, Spanish director of the Manila Observatory (Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila) that was located along the street.

Paula Guilló

Paula Guilló Sempere (born 6 July 1989) is a Spanish beauty queen who was crowned Miss España 2010, the official representative to Miss Universe 2011, on 25 September at a gala event in the city hall square of Toledo, Spain.

Roberto Mangou

Roberto Mangou, also known as Roberto Mangu Quesada, and Roberto Mangú, is a European painter, born in 1948 and raised in France, from Italian and Spanish descent.

Rubén Cano

Born in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina to Spanish parents, Cano started his professional career with Buenos Aires-based Club Atlético Atlanta, remaining four years with the club.

School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (or DENIP, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character.

Sebastián Montero

Sebastián Montero (born in Écija) was a Spanish secular priest who was active in the later half of the sixteenth century in North America.

Shangchuan Island

The Spanish (Navarre) Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier died on the island on December 2, 1552, as he was waiting for a ship to take him to mainland China.

Solanum diphyllum

The forest nightshade (Solanum nudum) was originally illegitimately named Solanum diphyllum by the Spanish botanists Martín Sessé y Lacasta and José Mariano Mociño in 1894, despite the name already being used.

Tariq Spezie

Tariq was born in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates to an Italian father and a Spanish mother, receiving his name from his father – who was working in the country – in honour of Tariq ibn Ziyad.

To a Man with a Big Nose

To a Man with a Big Nose/ danny Z is a 3D animated short film based on a poem by Spanish author Francisco de Quevedo.

Toycie Qualo

Beck also notes that the interplay between Toycie and Emilio foreshadows the dominance of Mestizos in Belizean culture, even dismissing the People's United Party's Central American leanings as indicative of a culture moving away from English influence to Spanish, despite Britain's legal hold on the colony.


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Jewish dance

In 2010, Silvia Duran, an Israeli flamenco dancer, was honored by King Juan Carlos I of Spain for training generations of flamenco dancers at her studio in Tel Aviv, The citation was awarded for her "contribution to the culture of Spain and the Spanish people.

Woodlands Academy, Coventry

In the main building there is a copy of the Guernica painting, which illustrates a stylised view of the 1937 Bombing of Guernica in Basque Spain by German and Italian bombers in the Spanish Civil War, in which the artist Pablo Picasso clearly expressed his abhorrence to the military suppression of the Spanish people.