Alcalá de Henares as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616), First wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536), Holy Roman Emperor of the Habsburg dynasty and king of Bohemia, Croatia and Hungary (1503–1564)): Miguel de Cervantes, Catherine of Aragon, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and some more.
Celebrities from Alcalá de Henares