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List of Aragonese

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This is a list of famous Aragonese people. It includes people from the medieval Kingdom of Aragon or from contemporary Aragon, one of the Autonomous Communities of Spain and people born elsewhere with significant Aragonese ancestry.

Artists

Goya, self-portrait
  • Francisco Goya (1746–1828), painter and printmaker
  • Antonio Saura (1930–1998), painter
  • Carlos Ezquerra (born 1947), comic artist and creator of Judge Dredd

Filmmakers

Kings

  • Alfonso the Battler (1073/4–1134), king of Aragon and Navarre
  • James I of Aragon (1208–1276), king of Aragon, he expanded the Crown of Aragon into Valencia, Languedoc and the Balearic Islands.
  • Peter III the Great (1239–1285), king of Aragon, conquered Sicily and Malta
  • Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452–1516), king of Aragon, married Isabella of Castile and conquered the Kingdom of Navarre

Musicians

Michael Servetus

Politicians

  • Joaquin Costa (1846–1911), politician and thinker of the Generation of '98
  • Francisco Ascaso (1901–1936), anarcho-syndicalist
  • Joaquín Maurín (1896–1973), communist revolutionary
  • Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida (born 1952), Catalan politician born in Aragón
  • Juan Alberto Belloch (born 1950), Spanish interior minister and mayor of Zaragoza
  • Antonio Perez (1539–1611), secretary of king Philip II of Spain
  • Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda (1718–1798), Spanish statesman and diplomat with Kings Charles III and Charles IV
  • Gaspar Torrente (1888–1970), founder of the Aragonese political movement for regional autonomy
  • José Antonio Labordeta (1935–2010), singer-songwriter and representative of the Aragonese party Chunta Aragonesista in the Spanish congress

Scientists

  • Michael Servetus (1511–1553), physician, theologist and humanist
  • Martín Sessé y Lacasta (1751–1808), botanist
  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), histologist and physician, Nobel laureate
  • Fidel Pagés (1886–1923), surgeon, discoverer of epidural anesthesia
  • Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), spectroscopist

Sociologists

Athletes

Writers

Other notables

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