Hi everyone! I am going to give an assignment to one of my classes where they must research a famous Spaniard (living or deceased)and I was wondering if you could share who you might think would be good to put on the list. I only have 8 kids in this class and it is a low-level class.
Thanks, in advance, for your suggestions.

Columbus; Picasso; Javiar Bardem & Penelope Cruz (sorry but they will know those two name!)Cervantes ....

Penelope Cruz is the essence of Cinema in Spain today. My contribution.

Plenty of sports celebrities such as Pau Gasol , Raúl , Iker Casillas , Dani Pedrosa, Fernando Alonso etc....
Away from sport , how about King Juan Carlos and/or Queen Sofia .
Singers such as Julio and Enrique Iglesias .

keep them coming! This is a class of 8 boys, so I think I will include a lot of Sports figures but I would like to also include people from other areas.

Vicente Ferrer, an extraordinary person

How about MadridMan? oh wait, he's not Spanish.

Rafael Nadal!!!! The Spanish futbol team as a collective!

as sports goes Iker Casillas.

You'll have to get away from el Caudillo, Francisco Franco during the Years of and following the Spanish Civil War. For contemporarys, take a look at Jose Maria Aznar, Franco's Conservative follow-on, who helped lead Spain to its rightful place in the European Community.
Pelayo, who defeated the Moors at the battle of Covadonga, is another who deserves mention (although his victory was with the aid of an avalanche).
Arts and Artists: Antonio Gaudi's Barcelona contributions; Federico Garcia Lorca's Poesias; Francisco de Goya y Lucientes; and many, many more