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Our ever-expanding series of features on Spaniards in the news
Politics, Society and Mass Media
Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, heir
to the Spanish Crown
Juan Carrero, human rights activist and president of the S'Olivar foundation
Baltasar
Garzón, investigating judge for the Spanish National Court
José María Mendiluce Pereiro,
human rights expert for the European parliament.
Pedro J Ramírez,
editor of the daily El Mundo
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, secretary
general of the PSOE, Spanish Socialist Party
Eduardo Serra, chairman of the Prado Museum
governing board, and former Defense Minister
Javier Solana, head of European Union Foreign
Affairs
Art, Literature and Entertainment
Pedro Almodóvar, film
director
Alejandro Amenábar, film director
Antonio
Banderas, movie actor
Javier Bardem, movie actor
Penelope Cruz, film actress
Adolfo Domínguez, Spanish fashion
designer
Jarabe de Palo (Pau
Donés), singer and songwriter
Rafael Moneo, award-winning Spanish architect
Amancio Ortega
Gaona, fashion tycoon
Arturo Pérez
Reverte, best-selling novelist
Alejandro
Sanz, best-selling Spanish pop singer
Science
Juan Luis Arsuaga, paleontologist at the
Atapuerca site
Mariano Barbacid, cancer researcher and
co-discoverer of the human oncogene
Pedro Duque, astronaut
Miguel
López-Alegría, astronaut
Business
Emilio Botín, banker, chairman of BSCH
Noelia
Fernández-Arroyo, senior producer for Yahoo Spain
Others
Ferrán Adrià, celebrity chef
José Antonio
Camacho, coach for the Spanish national soccer team
Juan Villalonga,
former chairman of Telefónica and Terra-Lycos
Juan
Antonio Samaranch, Ex- President of
the International Olympic Committee
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