Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba, known as the Grand Duke of Alba in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke or shortly 'Alva' in the Netherlands, was a Spanish nobleman, general and statesman.
Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of El Museo pictórico y escala óptica, which contains a large amount of important biographical material on Spanish artists.
Margaret Theresa of Spain was, by marriage to Leopold I, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and the elder full-sister of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. She is the central figure in the famous Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, and the subject of many of his later paintings.
Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz Galician: "Anxo María Bautista Castro e Argiz" was a Spanish-born Cuban farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raúl and Ramón Castro.
Antonio Palacios Ramilo was a Spanish architect. Distinguished by the monumental eclecticism he left as imprint in many of his projects, he helped define the architectural identity of Madrid in the first half of the 20th century.
Pedro de Castro y Figueroa y Salazar, 1st Duke of la Conquista, 1st Marquess of Gracia Real, KOS, OSJ was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain.
Pedro Cebrián y Agustín, 5th Count of Fuenclara, Grandee of Spain, was a Spanish diplomat and viceroy of New Spain, from November 3, 1742 to July 8, 1746.
D. Manuel de Moura Corte Real, 2nd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo,, , was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1644 to 1647.
Francisco de Moura Corte Real, 3rd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo was a Portuguese nobleman who served as Viceroy of Spanish Sardinia and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
Antonio Olaguer Feliú y Heredia López y Domec (1742–1813) was a Spanish soldier and politician who spent most of his career in South America.
The Archdiocese of Granada is a Latin ecclesiastical province of the Catholic Church in Spain. Originally the Diocese of Elvira from the 3rd century through the 10th, it was re-founded in 1437 as the diocese of Granada and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Alexander VI on 10 December 1492. Its suffragan sees are Almería, Cartagena, Guadix, Jaén and Málaga.
Antonio Machado Álvarez, better known by his pseudonym Demófilo, was a Spanish writer, anthropologist, and folklorist. He was the son of the noted Spanish folklorist, Cipriana Álvarez Durán.
León Cortés Castro is a canton in the San José province of Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is San Pablo.
Alfonso Crespo, 6th Count of Castillo Fiel,, , was a Spanish nobleman.
Tobías Zúñiga Castro was a Costa Rican politician. He served as a diplomat and was Secretary of State. He was a member of the People's Party.
Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 2nd Duke of Frías, Grandee of Spain, and Constable of Castile, was a Spanish nobleman.
Ramón Báez Machado was a physician and politician from the Dominican Republic. He served as provisional president of the Dominican Republic from 28 August until 5 December 1914. He served as the President of Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic in 1903. He was the son of president Buenaventura Báez. He later served as a public official under several cabinets including the government of President Horacio Vásquez.
José Antonio Velutini Ron was a military man, politician, diplomat, and a Venezuelan statesman. He held positions in Congress, was state president, ambassador, minister and vice president between 1871 and 1912. He received numerous awards for his political and military achievements.
José Gregorio Castro Miranda, O.F.M., was a Roman Catholic prelate who was Bishop of Cuzco from 1910 to 1917. He mainly worked to integrate the local indigenous population to the church's teachings by translating prayers and church music to Quechua.
