List of hispanophones

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This is a list of some notable Spanish speaking people. In alphabetical order within categories.

See also List of Spanish language authors (by country).

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (c. 1581–1639), dramatist. Rafael Alberti (1902–1999), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1983). Vicente Aleixandre (1888–1984), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1977). Isabel Allende (born 1942), best selling novelist. Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1978). José María Arguedas (1911–1969), novelist. Roberto Arlt (1900–1942), short story writer, novelist, and playwright. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974), Nobel Prize Laureate (1967). Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 1966), writer and dissident. Francisco Ayala (1906–2009), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1991). Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz) (1863–1967), journalist, poet, novelist and essayist. Jesús Balmori (1887–1948), journalist, poet, novelist. Pío Baroja (1872–1956), novelist. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), romantic poet and tale writer. Andrés Bello (1781–1865), humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher and educator. Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1922). Mario Benedetti (1920–2009), novelist and poet. Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1990). Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928), best selling novelist, wrote The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916). Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1999). Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979). Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born 1939), novelist and short stories writer. Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916–2000), playwright. Mario Bunge (1919–2020), philosopher, author of the Treatise on Basic Philosophy (8 volumes, 1974–1989). Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), novelist, essayist, translator, and critic, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1997). Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), playwright and poet. Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), humanist. Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1977). Camilo José Cela (1916–2002), novelist, Nobel Prize (1989) and Cervantes Prize Laureate (1995). Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), novelist, playwright and poet, author of Don Quixote (1605 and 1615). Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), novelist and short stories writer. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/1651–1695), poet and dramatist. Rubén Darío (1867–1916), modernist poet. Virgilio Dávila (1869–1943), poet. Miguel Delibes (1920–2010), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1993). Nelson Denis (born 1954), screenwriter, novelist. Gerardo Diego (1896–1987), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979).

José Echegaray (1832–1916), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1904). Jorge Edwards (1931–2023), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1999). Laura Esquivel (born 1950), novelist. Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), dramatist and neoclassical poet. Rosario Ferré (1938–2016), poet and essayist. Carlos Fuentes (1928 2012), novelist and essayist, Rómulo Gallegos (1977), Cervantes (1987) and Prince of Asturias (1994) awards Laureate. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), novelist. Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969), novelist. Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), poet and dramatist. Gabriel García Márquez (1928–2014), novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1982). Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), lyric poet. Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), author of El Criticón, influenced European philosophers such as Schopenhauer. Jorge Guillén (1893–1984), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1976). Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), poet. José Hernández (1834–1886), poet and journalist, author of the epic poem Martín Fierro. Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948), poet, initiator of the Creacionismo movement.

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1956). John of the Cross (1542–1591), mystic poet. Demetrio Korsi (1899–1957), poet, diplomatic, journalist. Enrique Krauze (born 1947), historian, political and social essayist and publisher. Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837), literary journalist. José Lezama Lima (1910–1976), novelist. Luis Lloréns Torres (1878–1944), poet. Luis López Nieves (born 1950), best selling novelist and tale writer. Dulce María Loynaz (1902–1997), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1992). Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938), poet. Fray Luis de León (1527–1591), poet of the Spanish Golden Age.

Antonio Machado (1875–1939), poet. Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher and essayist. Javier Marías (1951–2022), novelist and translator, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1995). José Martí (1853–1895), poet and essayist. Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1945). Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003), short stories writer, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (2000). Agustín Moreto y Cavana (1618–1661), dramatist and playwright. Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1984), novelist, essayist, journalist and short stories writer; author of Bomarzo (1962). Álvaro Mutis (1923–2013), Cervantes Prize (2001) and Prince of Asturias Awards Laureate (1997). Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1971). Amado Nervo (1870–1919), modernist poet. Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994), novelist and short story writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1980). José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), philosopher and essayist. Fernando del Paso (1935–2018), novelist, essayist and poet, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1982). Octavio Paz (1914–1998), Cervantes Prize (1981) and Nobel Prize (1990) Laureate. Arturo Pérez Reverte (born 1952), best selling novelist and journalist. Sergio Pitol (1933–2018), novelist, short stories writer and translator, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2005). Elena Poniatowska (born 1932), novelist. Manuel Puig (1932–1990), novelist, author of The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976).

Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), novelist, essayist and poet, master of Conceptism. Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937), short story writer. José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928), poet and novelist. José Rizal (1861–1896), poet, novelist and essayist. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1989). Fernando de Rojas (1465–1541), novelist, author of La Celestina (1499). Gonzalo Rojas (1917–2011), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2003). Juan Ruiz (c. 1283 – c. 1350), author of the epic poem Book of Good Love. Juan Rulfo (1917–1986), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1983). Ernesto Sabato (1911–2011), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1984). Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), poet. Pedro Salinas (1891–1951), poet. Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), postmodernist poet. Saint Teresa of Avila (1515–1582), mystic poet. Tirso de Molina (1571–1648), playwright.

Francisco Umbral (1935–2007), novelist, biographer and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2000). Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1931), existentialist author and essayist. Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1990). Ramón María del Valle Inclán (1866–1936), dramatist, novelist and member of the Generation of 98. César Vallejo (1892–1938), poet. Fernando Vallejo (born 1942), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (2003). Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1994). José Vasconcelos (1882–1959), thinker, educator and essayist. Garcilaso de la Vega (1501–1536), poet. "El Inca" Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), first mestizo author in Spanish language. Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635), poet and playwright. Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), poet. Gabriel Zaid (born 1934), poet and essayist. María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1660), novelist. José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893), poet and dramatist, author of Don Juan Tenorio (1844).

Enrique Gratas, television journalist. Jorge L. Ramos (born 1950), television journalist; three time Emmy Award winner. Jacobo Zabludovsky (1928–2015), television journalist.

Andrés Bello (1781–1865), philologist. Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), linguist. Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911), philologist and linguist. María Moliner (1900–1981), lexicographer. Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522), scholar, published the first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática Castellana, 1492), which was the first grammar produced of any Romance language.