What are some heroes of spain??

Question

What are some heroes of spain??

Answer 1

El Cid Campeador

Felipe II

Don Pelayo

Cristóbal Colón (scientist say he was italian)

Carlos I de España y V de Alemania

Los Reyes Católicos

Pizarro / Hernán Cortés / Juan Sebastián Elcano

El Rey Don Juan Carlos

Federico Garcia Lorca

Cervantes

Juan de la Cierva

Miguel Servet

El duque de Alba

Fernando Alonso

Pau Gasol

;)

Answer 2

El Cid

Federico García Lorca

King Juan Carlos

Fernando III

Columbus

Alfonso X

Nobody knows for sure where Columbus was born, but he IS a hero of Spain, as he was working for Spain when he found the New World, and claimed it for Spain.  They look upon him as a great hero.  Most people think he was born in Genoa, which was its own kingdom at the time, but is in Italy, however, there are some who think he was born in Galicia, in a town with a name that is similar.

Answer 3

El Cid Campeador

Alfonso X El Sabio

Jaime I (or Jaume)

Felipe II

Carlos V

Don Juan de Austria

Miguel de Cervantes (author of El Quijote)

Cristobal Colon (some say originally from Italy, others from Mallorca)

All the rest of the Conquistadores

*Hernán Cortés (México, 1518-1522, Honduras, 1524, Baja California, 1532-1536)

*Francisco Pizarro (Perú, 1509-1535)

*Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (Estados Unidos, 1540-1542)

Diego de Almagro (Perú, 1524-1535, Chile, 1535-1537)

*Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panamá, 1510-1519)

*Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, Florida, 1513 y 1521)

*Pedro de Alvarado (México, 1519-1521, Guatemala 1523 -1527, Perú, 1533-1535, México, 1540-1541)

*Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Estados Unidos, 1527-1536,, 1540-1542)

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (Estados Unidos, 1524-1527)

Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador y Colombia, 1533-1536)

Gonzalo Pizarro (Perú, 1532-1542)

Juan Pizarro, (Perú, 1532-1536)

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán, 1517)

Martín de Goiti, (Manila, Filipinas, 1570-1571)

Hernando Pizarro, (Perú, 1532-1560)

Juan de Grijalva (Yucatán, 1518)

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Colombia, 1536-1537, Venezuela, 1569-1572)

Miguel López de Legazpi, (Filipinas, 1565-1571)

Francisco de Montejo (Yucatán, 1527-1546)

Beltrán de Zetina, (Yucatán, 1527-1546)

Juan de Salcedo, (Norte de Filipinas, 1570-1576)

Nicolás de Federmann (Venezuela y Colombia, 1537-1539).

Pánfilo de Narváez (La Florida, 1527-1528)

Diego de Nicuesa (Panamá, 1506-1511)

Alonso de Ojeda (Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Aruba)

Cristóbal de Olid (Honduras, 1523-1524)

*Francisco de Orellana (Río Amazonas, 1541-1543)

Alonso del Castillo Maldonado

*Hernando de Soto (Estados Unidos, 1539-1542)

Inés Suárez, (Chile, 1541)

Martín de Ursúa, (Petén, región de Guatemala, 1696-1697)

Pedro de Valdivia (Chile, 1540-1552)

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (Cuba, 1511-1519)

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (La Florida, 1565 - 1567)

Alonso Dávila (México, 1520-1533)

Domingo Martínez de Irala

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Sebastián Vizcaíno

Antonio de Aragón,

(The ones with the * are the most well known)

Modern Day:

King Juan Carlos I

and in Sports:

Paco Fernández Ochoa & his sister Blanca (Olimpic Ski champions)

Angel Nieto (motorbike champion in the '70's & '80's)

Fernando Alonso (champion race driver)

Rafa Nadal (tennis champion)

Dani Pedrosa (motorbike champion)

Pau Gasol (basketball player now with the L.A. Lakers)

There are many more.... But evidently I don't know all the names!

Answer 4

As for the two answers above me, they both mention Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) . He is thought to be Italian by birth.

Many Spaniards today may say Fernando Torres. He plays football for Liverpool in England but he is a hero to many Spanish football fans, me included and I'm originally from Scotland.