The 30 Greatest Spaniards

In 2007, Spanish channel Antena 3 made a survey about the 100 greatest Spaniards of all time. Can you name the top 30?

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What they did / were

Spaniard

First king after Francoist Spain

Juan Carlos I

He wrote Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

"Discovered" America

Christopher Columbus

Queen and wife of No. 1

Sofía of Spain

First democratically elected Prime Minister

Adolfo Suárez

Pioneer of modern neuroscience

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Current king of Spain

Felipe VI

He painted Guernica

Pablo Picasso

Nun and saint during the Counter Reformation

Teresa of Ávila

Longest-serving Prime Minister

Felipe González

With Ferdinand II did she unite Spain

Isabella I

Physician and biochemist, 1959 Nobel Prize

Severo Ochoa

Playwright and nationalist executed in 1936, The House of Bernarda Alba

Federico García Lorca

Prime Minister 2004-2011

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Current queen of Spain

Letizia Ortiz

Surrealist, The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí

He designed the Sagrada Familia

Antoni Gaudí

Fought against the Moors, today national hero

El Cid

"Wise king" of Castile and León

Alfonso X El Sabio

Formula One racing driver

Fernando Alonso

Painter, Third of May 1908

Francisco de Goya

"El Caudillo", fascist dictator 1939-1975

Francisco Franco

Poet and member of the Generation of '98

Antonio Machado

He won the Tour de France five times

Miguel Indurain

Theologian who was burnt at stake for heresy

Miguel Servet

Flamenco dancer from Jerez

Lola Flores

King during the Golden Age

Felipe II

King and Holy Roman Emperor

Carlos I

Singer and actress known as "La más grande"

Rocío Jurado

Physician and scientist for endocrinology

Gregorio Marañón

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