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Are there any famous people from Sevilla Spain?

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  1. It depends on what you mean by "famous"...this is what I found:

    Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik Ibn Zuhr (known in the West as Avenzoar) - 1091-1161 C.E - "Master Physician"

    Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian were born in Italica

    Renaissance composer Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero

    16th century novelist Mateo Alemán

    Playwrights Lope de Rueda, Hermanos Alvarez Quintero

    Historian of New Spain Bartolomé de Las Casas

    Explorer Juan Díaz de Solís, born in Lebrija

    Spanish Linguist and Grammarian Antonio de Nebrija, born in Lebrija

    Baroque painters Diego Velázquez, Valdes Leal and Murillo

    Explorer and astronomer Antonio de Ulloa

    Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

    Bullfighters Juan Belmonte, Curro Romero, Gitanillo de Triana, Espartaco, Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, José Antonio Morante de La Puebla and Joselito el Gallo

    20th century poets:

    Vicente Aleixandre (Nobel Laureate)

    Antonio Machado

    Manuel Machado, his brother

    Luis Cernuda

    Composer Joaquín Turina

    Actors Paco Leon, Manuel Luna

    Actresses Carmen Sevilla and Paz Vega, Conchita Bautista

    Beauty queen and model Eva Maria Gonzalez

    Dancers Antonio, el bailarín, Realito, Farruquito

    Singers Isabel Pantoja, Juanita Reina, Lole y Manuel, Paquita Rico, El Caracol, and a large etcetera...

    Comedians Paco Gandía, Josele, Pepe da Rosa, Manuel Summers and the Cadaval brothers, Jorge and Cesar, better known as Los Morancos.

    Football (soccer) players Rafael Gordillo, Antonio Ramiro, "Antoñito", José Antonio Reyes, Fernando Muñoz, "Nando", Ricardo Serna, Sergio Ramos, Jesús Navas.

    Track and field runner Antonio Jiménez Pentinel (European Champion in 3000-meters steeplechase)

    Olympic swimmer Fátima Madrid

    Rower Beatriz Manchon

    Politicians Felipe González, President of the Government of Spain from 1982 to 1996, and Alfonso Guerra, vice president from 1982 to 1991

    Comic book artist Scott Kolins was born in 1967 near Seville (a US Air Force Base.)

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