People from Salamanca

Below, we detail a list of characters from Salamanca that have marked the history of the city:

• Fray Luis de León, poet and professor of theology.
• Miguel de Unamuno, novelist, poet and professor of Greek.
• Alfonso XI de Castilla.
• Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, novelist, academic. Cervantes Prize.
• Juan del Encina, poet, musician and playwright.
• Beatriz Galindo, la Latina, Latin teacher of Isabel the Catholic (XV century).
• Emilio Herrero Marcos, MD, founder of the Academy of Academic Surgery in Salamanca and politician.
• Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, entrepreneur and founder of the Anaya eponymous group and president of the foundation homonymous.
• Julián Sánchez, El Charro, guerrillero.
• Luis Cortés Vázquez, professor of French Studies and researcher of traditional arts.
• Antonio Llorente Maldonado de Guevara, a teacher of Spanish dialectology.
• Diego de Torres y Villarroel, writer.
• Venancio Blanco, sculptor.
• Filiberto Villalobos, physician and politician, minister of the Second Republic.
• Diego de Anaya Maldonado, archbishop and founder of the Colegio de Anaya, in 1401.

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