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 1890s Clear ×
Fernando García Mercadal
1896 - 1985
José Camón Aznar
1898 - 1979
Miguel A. Catalán
1894 - 1957
José María Beltrán
1898 - 1962
Luis Jordana de Pozas
1890 - 1983
Florentino Ballesteros
1893 - 1917
Regino Borobio
1895 - 1976
Pilar Bayona López de Ansó
1899 - 1979
Luis García Sainz
1894 - 1965
Julio López Oliván
1891 - 1964
Amando Melón
1895 - 1975
Isidro Corbinos
1894 - 1966
Demetrio Galán Bergua
1894 - 1970
Pedro Ara Sarria
1891 - 1973
Juan Vicens de la Llave
1895 - 1959
Carlos González Bueno
1898 - 1984
José María Sánchez Ventura
1890 - 1961
Pascual Bravo Sanfeliú
1893 - 1984
Vicente Gállego
1898 - 1979
Rafael Sánchez Ventura
1897 - 1980
Ricardo Royo-Villanova y Morales
1899 - 1975
José Borobio Ojeda
1895 - 1984
José Belbiure Serrano
1893 - 1951
Joaquina Zamora Sarrate
1898 - 1999
Ramón de Lacadena y Brualla
1895 - 1965
Manuel Pérez-Lizano
1897 - 1936
Marcelino Ornat
1898 - 1959
Pablo Sidar Escobar
1897 - 1930
Fernando Castán Palomar
1898 - 1963
Francisco Rivas Jordán de Urríes
1892 - 1955
Simón Loscertales Bona
1890 - 1971
Francisco Caballero Ibáñez
Born 1896
Antonio Bastos Ansart
1892 - 1937