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
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Lorenzo Mediano
Born 1959
Manuel Bastos Ansart
1887 - 1973
Demetrio Galán Bergua
1894 - 1970
Pedro Ara Sarria
1891 - 1973
Julián Sanz Ibáñez
1904 - 1963
Alfredo Muiños
1924 - 2009
Ricardo Royo-Villanova y Morales
1899 - 1975
Manuel Cortés Blanco
Born 1965
Pedro Martínez Baselga
1862 - 1925
Antero Noailles Pérez
1884 - 1972
Fernando Simón
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Miguel de Borbón
1691 - 1763