Top 50 most important and famous people from Spain - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Painter of Guernica and Les demoiselles d'Avignon	Pablo Picasso	93%
Dictator from 1939 to 1975	Francisco Franco	89%
Painter of The Persistence of Memor and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening	Salvador Dalì	87%
Writer, author of Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	83%
Tennis player, 22 times winner of Grand Slam titles	Rafael Nadal	82%
Queen who played a major role in the Reconquista and in the European colonization of the Americas, sponsoring the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492	Isabella I of Castile	79%
Actress, famous for her roles in All About My Mother and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, winner of Academy Award in 2009	Penélope Cruz	78%
Conquistador who led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire	Hernán Cortés	76%
Architect of Casa Milà and Sagrada Família	Antoni Gaudí	72%
Singer, one of the best-selling Latin music artists with estimated sales of over 70 million records worldwide, Bailando	Enrique Iglesias	72%
Actor famous for his roles in Philadelphia, Desperado and The Mask of Zorro	Antonio Banderas	71%
King from 1975 to 2014	Juan Carlos I	71%
Conquistador who led the expedition that caused the fall of the Inca Empire	Francisco Pizarro	70%
Painter of The Third of May 1808 and Saturn Devouring His Son	Francisco Goya	69%
Footballer, midfielder, world champion in 2010, legend of Barcelona, now he plays in Japan	Andres Iniesta	68%
Actor, winner of Academy Award in 2008 for No Country for Old Men	Javier Bardem	67%
Painter of Las Meninas and Portrait of Innocent X	Diego Velázquez	66%
King who played a major role in the Reconquista and in the European colonization of the Americas, sponsoring the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492	Ferdinand II of Aragon	66%
Footballer, midfielder, world champion in 2010, legend of Barcelona	Xavi	66%
Footballer, goalkeeper, world champion in 2010, legend of Real Madrid	Iker Casillas	65%
Driver, two times champion of Formula One	Fernando Alonso	64%
King from 2014	Felipe VI	62%
Footballer, defender, world champion in 2010, legend of Real Madrid	Sergio Ramos	56%
Basketball player, one of the greatest European players of all time, two times winner of NBA	Pau Gasol	55%
Director of All About My Mother and Talk to Her, two times winner of Academy Award	Pedro Almodóvar	55%
Prime Minister from 2018	Pedro Sánchez	51%
King of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire and of the Philippines	Philip II	50%
Footballer, two times winner of Ballon d'Or, legend of Real Madrid, nicknamed Saeta Rubia	Alfredo Di Stéfano	48%
Painter of The Farm and The Harlequin's Carnival	Joan Miró	40%
Motorcycle driver, 6 times winner of MotoGP	Marc Marquez	40%
Prime Minister, key figure in the country's transition to democracy	Adolfo Suárez	39%
Priest and Catholic Saint who founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)	Ignatius of Loyola	39%
President of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017 when he was removed from office by the Spanish Government following the unilateral Catalan declaration of independence	Carles Puigdemont	37%
Architect of City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia	Santiago Calatrava	35%
Cyclist, two times winner of Tour de France, two times winner of Giro d'Italia and three times winner of Vuelta a Espana	Alberto Contador	34%
Writer, key figure in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature, one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature. He was nicknamed The Phoenix of Wits and Monster of Nature	Lope de Vega	34%
Director of The Forgotten Ones (The Young and the Damned) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel	34%
Prime Minister from 2011 to 2018	Mariano Rajoy	34%
Woman mystic major figure of the Counter-Reformation, author of Interior Castle	Teresa of Ávila	33%
Priest who described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples	Bartolomé de las Casas	32%
Neuroscientist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, his investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.	Santiago Ramón y Cajal	30%
Singer, actress and bailaora. Her strong personality and recognizable image made her a Spanish pop culture icon. She is often cited as the biggest exporter of Andalusian culture, Nicknamed La Faraona	Lola Flores	29%
Poet, writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956	Juan Ramón Jiménez	28%
Playwright and writer known as one of the most distinguished Baroque writers of the Spanish Golden Age. Author of Life Is a Dream	Pedro Calderón de la Barca	27%
The most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to Spain.	Garcilaso de la Vega	26%
Novelist, the leading literary figure of XIX century in Spain, author of Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes)	Benito Pérez Galdós	23%
Singer, El Mismo Sol, Sofia, La Cintura	Alvaro Soler	21%
Biochemist winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959 for the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)	Severo Ochoa	20%
Catholic priest, mystic. A major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the Doctors of the Church.	John of the Cross	17%
Conquistador who partecipate in the conquest of the Inca Empire, executed after the civil war between two bands of conquistadores	Diego de Almagro	16%

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