41.6500° N, 0.8833° W
ZARAGOZA
Most Famous People Born in Zaragoza, Spain
- Notable people
- 857
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1941
- Most distinctive
- Basket 3.0×
Aragonese crossroads energy: the Writer and Painter benches carry the long shadow of Goya (trained under Bayeu, whose family the city still claims), and the Architect cluster belongs to the Mudéjar tradition that gave Zaragoza its UNESCO brickwork. The Basket line is the CAI/Casademont dynasty, genuinely the city's second religion after the Pilar.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Zaragoza during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Zaragoza Is Known For
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Football is Zaragoza's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (105).
Zaragoza over-indexes on basket — 3.0× the global rate.
Zaragoza under-produces politician — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Zaragoza's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Science
- Music
- Other
- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Miguel Asín Palacios
1871 - 1944
Sebastián Pozas Perea
1876 - 1946
José Gascón y Marín
1875 - 1962
Eduardo Jimeno
1870 - 1947
Antonio de Gregorio Rocasolano
1873 - 1941
Manuel Marraco Ramón
1870 - 1956
Ricardo Burguete
1871 - 1937
Amado Balmes
1877 - 1936
Pío Zabala y Lera
1879 - 1968
Emeterio Muga
1877 - 1956
Ramón López Montenegro
1877 - 1936
Leopoldo Romeo
1870 - 1925
José de Yarza Echenique
1876 - 1920
Francisco Barber
1873 - 1923
Zacarias López Debesa
1879 - 1938
Federico Martínez Andrés
1874 - 1953
Mariano Tobeñas
1874 - 1952
Enrique Giménez Gran
1875 - 1942