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 1910s Clear ×
Fernando Sancho
1916 - 1990
Ángel Sanz Briz
1910 - 1980
Manuel Viola
1916 - 1987
Fernando Claudín
1915 - 1990
Fernando Palacios
1916 - 1965
Enrique Miret Magdalena
1914 - 2009
Julián Gállego
1919 - 2006
Juan Ramón Masoliver
1910 - 1997
Antonio Garisa
1916 - 1989
Pedro Abellanas
1914 - 1999
José Antonio Jiménez Salas
1916 - 2000
Luis Valero Bermejo
1917 - 1995
Luis Monreal Tejada
1912 - 2005
Fernando Solano Costa
1913 - 1992
Antonio Aragón
1913 - 2005
Martín Oroz
1911 - 1982
Mariano Urdániz
1913 - 1976
Martina Bescós García
1912 - 2008
Martín Abizanda y Vallabriga
1915 - 1976
Minervino González
Born 1913
María Luisa Oliveros Rives
1912 - 2003