Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Municipality, city of the province of Las Palmas, and cocapital of the Canary Islands, Spain
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Spanish association football player (1989-), Spanish actor, Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)): Vitolo, Javier Bardem, Benito Pérez Galdós and some more.
Celebrities from Las Palmas de Gran CanariaCelebrities from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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76 Benito Pérez Galdós
Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)
*May 10th, 1843 †January 4th, 1920, calle de Hilarión Eslava 86
Agustín Millares Carlo
Spanish paleographer
*August 10th, 1893 †February 8th, 1980, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.jpg "Jesé Rodríguez")
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66 Fernando Galván Reula
Literary scholar and former Rector / President of the University of Alcalá
*July 24th, 1957 49
Elton Julian
Racing driver, 2012 World Endurance Championship driver, 2007 founder of DragonSpeed
*August 16th, 1974 87
Jerónimo Saavedra
Spanish politician and academic (1936–2023)
*July 3rd, 1936 †November 21st, 2023, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 58
Leopoldo Matos y Massieu
Spanish politician (1878-1936)
*August 6th, 1878 †September 4th, 1936, Hondarribia 69
Georgiana Houghton
British artist and spiritualist medium
*April 20th, 1814 †November 30th, 1883, London 50
Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre
Was a Spanish Impressionist & Modern artist
*February 7th, 1887 †February 6th, 1938, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 73
José Franchy y Roca
Mexican politician and journalist
*January 1st, 1871 †January 1st, 1944, Mexico City 83
Matías Vega Guerra
Spanish diplomat and jurist (1905-1989)
*July 25th, 1905 †July 10th, 1989, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 64
José Comas Quesada
Spanish artist (1928-1993)
*February 3rd, 1928 †January 14th, 1993, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 38
Alonso Quesada
Spanish writer
*December 5th, 1886 †November 4th, 1925, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 92
Colin Cameron Davies
Roman Catholic Bishop
*June 10th, 1924 †January 8th, 2017, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 83
Rafael Griera i Calderón
Catalan painter, drawer and illustrator
*October 21st, 1934 †July 31st, 2018, OlotBirthdays of famous people
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