List of Basques Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This is a list of famous Basque people. It includes people born or resident in the Basque Country and people born elsewhere with significant Basque ancestry.

Table of contents

1 Artists 1.1 Musicians 2 Business 3 Clergy 4 Explorers and conquistadors 5 Politics 6 Sports 7 Scientists 8 Philosophers

Artists

• Jean Anouilh, dramatist
• Imanol Arias, actor
• Bernardo Atxaga, writer
• Pío Baroja, writer
• Eduardo Chillida, sculptor
• Chumy Chúmez, cartoonist
• Juana Inés de la Cruz, poet
• Alfredo Landa, actor
• Robert Laxalt, writer
• Leopoldo María Panero, poet
• Jorge Perugorría, Cuban actor
• Miguel de Unamuno, writer
• Ignacio Zuloaga, painter

Musicians

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer
• Jesús Guridi, composer
• Mikel Laboa, singer and songwriter
• Luis Mariano, singer
• Fermin Muguruza, singer and songwriter
• Maurice Ravel, composer
• Domingo Samuido, from Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs

Business

• Karlos Arguiñano, cook and entertainer
• José María Arizmendiarrieta, founder of the Mondragón cooperatives.
• Robert Goizueta, Coca-Cola Company
• José Ignacio López de Arriortúa, automotive industry

Clergy

• Pedro Arrupe
• Valentín de Berrio-Ochoa
• Ignacio Ellacuría
• Michel Garicoïts
• Ignatius of Loyola
• Francis Xavier
• Fray Juan de Zumarraga

Explorers and conquistadors

• Lope de Aguirre
• Juan Bautista de Anza
• Juan Sebastián de Elcano
• Alonso de Ercilla
• Martin de Hoyarçabal
• Miguel López de Legaspi
• Catalina de Erauso
• Damian Cosme de Churruca

  Also the clergy Basques can be included in the explorers chapter mainly.

Politics

• Jose Antonio Aguirre, leader of Basque Nationalist Party during 1930s
• Sabino Arana, founder of the Basque Nationalist Party.
• Xabier Arzalluz, PNV leader.
• Eugene Biscaluz sheriff of Los Angeles County, California
• Simon Bolivar, Libertador of South America
• Fernando Buesa
• Peter Cenarrusa, secretary of State of Idaho
• Luis Echeverria, president of Mexico
• Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician
• Che Guevara, revolutionary leader
• Dolores Ibárruri, Communist leader
• Maria Soledad Iparraguirre, ETA leader.
• Paul Laxalt, governor of Nevada
• Telesforo de Monzón, founder of Ertzaina regional police and Herri Batasuna party
• Arnaldo Otegi leader of Batasuna party
• Eva Peron, Argentine first lady (Basque mother)
• Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile
• Indalecio Prieto, Socialist politician
• Máxima Zorreguieta, wife of the heir of the Dutch throne
• Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Carlist general

See also Kings of Navarre

Sports

• Joseba Beloki, cyclist
• Jean Borotra, tennis player
• Didier Deschamps, footballer
• Pierre Etchebaster
• Joseba Etxeberria, footballer
• José Eulogio Gárate Ormaechea, footballer
• Julen Guerrero López, footballer
• Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga, footballer
• Miguel Induráin, cyclist
• Bixente Lizarazu, footballer
• Iban Mayo, cyclist
• Abraham Olano, cyclist
• Joane Somarriba, cyclist
• José Ibar, Urtain, boxer
• Paulino Uzcudun, boxer

Scientists

• Louis Daguerre, inventor of photography
• Fausto Elhuyar and José Elhuyar, first to isolate wolfram/tungsten.

Philosophers

• Miguel de Unamuno
• Gabriel Uzquiano

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