Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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Born	January 29, 1867 • Valencia • Spain
Died	January 28, 1928 (aged 60) • Menton • France
Notable Works	“Blood and Sand” • “Mayflower” • “Reeds and Mud” • “The Cabin” • “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” • “The Fruit of the Vine”

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo

Spanish writer and diplomat

St. John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross

Spanish mystic

Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas

Spanish author

Juan Meléndez Valdés

Spanish poet

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

Spanish dramatist

Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses

Spanish writer

Pedro López de Ayala

Spanish poet and chronicler

Núñez de Arce, Gaspar

Gaspar Núñez de Arce

Spanish poet

Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa

Spanish writer and statesman

Charles V

Charles V

Holy Roman emperor

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

ruler of Spain

Christopher Columbus

Isabella I

queen of Spain

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés

Spanish conquistador

Philip II

Philip II

king of Spain and Portugal

Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro

Spanish explorer

Mariano Rajoy

Mariano Rajoy

prime minister of Spain

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba

Spanish soldier and statesman

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Spanish explorer

Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

Spanish cardinal