This document provides information on famous people from Spain including artists, athletes, scientists and writers. It discusses prominent Spanish figures such as painter Pablo Picasso, tennis star Rafael Nadal, swimmer Mireia Belmonte, actress Penélope Cruz, singer Julio Iglesias, writers Miguel de Cervantes and Camilo José Cela, painters Diego Velázquez and Pablo Picasso, and scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The document provides brief biographical details and highlights of their work and significance.

1. DIGITAL EDUCATION
COMENIUS PROJECT
2013-2014
IES RUTA DE LA PLATA
FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM
SPAIN

2. ARTISTS

3. PENÉLOPE
CRUZ

4. HER LIFE:
-She was born on 28th of April 1974 in Madrid (Spain)
-Her dream was to be an actress since she was a chlid
-She studied nine years in Madrid.
-She worked hard to work in the cinema as an actress

5. MOVIES:
-Piratas del Caribe – Pirattes of the Caribbean
(2011).
-A Roma con amor – Rome with love (2011).
-Vicky, Cristina Barcelona (2008).

6. JULIO IGLESIAS

7. LIFE
He was born on the 23th September
in Madrid. He started in the world of
fame not as a singer but as an athlete.
He played as a goalkeeper on the
soccer team Real Madrid. But he had
a car accident and he began to play
the guitar and listened to the radio.

8. He only played the guitar, he didn't sing, but a producer
said him ' Why you don't sing?' and he started to sing
and to be famous with his music. His first album was in
English and Italian. He was married with 2 women.

9. INTERNATIONAL
IMPORTANCE
He did international tours with his music and he
did songs in many languages
SONGS
Gwendolyne (1970)
La mia vita (1998)
Love songs (2004)
Me va, me va (2010)
Tango (1996)
Soy (1973)

10. SPORT PEOPLE

11. MIREIA BELMONTE

12. Life:
Mireia Belmonte García (Badalona, Barcelona, 10
noviembrer 1990) is a European Spanish swimmer,
world champion and double Olympic medals,
competing in the categories of style: butterfly and
freestyle.
He has participated in two Olympic Games. At the
Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and competed at
17 Olympic Games in 2012, where he won two silver
medals.

13. AWARDS OF THE WORLD
It has 9 gold medals, 10 silver and 12 bronze
medals, all in world cup.

14. Rafael Nadal

15. Rafael Nadal
Rafael “Rafa” Nadal
Parera (Spanish, born 3
June 1986) is a Spanish
professional tennis
player. He is considered
by some to be the single
greatest tennis player of
all the times. And he is
widely held to be among
the best ever.

16. INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE
Nadal has won 13 Grand Slam singles titles, the 2008
Olympic gold medal in singles, a record of 26 ATP
World Tour Masters-1000 and a record of 14 ATP
World Tour-500 tournaments.

17. PAINTORS

18. DIEGO VELAZQUEZ.
• His full name is:
• DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE
SILVA Y VELAZQUEZ.
• He was born in SEVILLE,
SPAIN in 1599.
• His father was a noble man
from Portugal and his mother a
noble woman from Seville and
very rich.

19. VELAZQUEZ'S WORKS
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El aguador de Sevilla (1623)
El enano de Vallecas (1639)
La Infanta Margarita (1653)
Las meninas (1656)

20. PABLO PICASSO.
My name is Pablo Picasso.
I was born in the Spanish
town of Málaga in 1881.
Ever since I was a boy, I
liked to paint.
My father was a painter and
Art Teacher.

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PICASSO´S WORKS
Arlequín y su compañera
Las Meninas de Velázquez
Guernica
Autorretrato

22. WRITER

23. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

24. Life
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de
Henares, 29th September, 1547-Madrid,
22nd April 1616). He was a Spanish
soldier, novelist, poet and playwright. On
7th October, 1571 he participated in the
Battle of Lepanto, where he lost his left
hand.

25. Work:
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He wrote novels like “Don Quijote”, “The
Galatea”, “Persiles and Sigismunda's jobs”,
etc, and poetry like “Journey to Parnassus”.

26. International significance:
It is considered one of the
leading figures of Spanish
literature and universally
known for writing “Don
Quijote”, which many
critics have described as the
first modern novel and one
of the best works of world
literature, being the most
edited and translated book of
history, after the Bible.
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27. CAMILO JOSÉ CELA

28. LIFE
Camilo José Cela Trulock (La Coruña 1916 –
Madrid 2002). Spanish writer. When he was
young he composed poetry but his literary
personality development like as protist. For his
literary merits, King Juan Carlos he awarded him
the Marquis of Iria Flavia.

29. WORKS
His works are based:
Long novels, short novels, storys, fables and notes,
articles and essays, travel books, poetry, romance and
other types.

30. INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE:
In 1942 he wrote La familia de Pascual Duarte
and in 1951 he wrote his most famous novel La
colmena. Awarded , among others, with the
Prince of Asturias Award for letters, Nobel Prize
for Literature and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

31. SCIENTISTS

32. Santiago Ramon y Cajal

33. Santiago y Ramón y Cajal
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He was born on May 1st,1852 in
Navarra.
He studied medicine in the
University of Zaragoza in 1873
and after working as a physician
for two years in the war of Cuba
earned a doctorate in Madrid , as
well as director of the National
Institute of hygiene

34. Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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He founded the theory of the
nerver cell, depending on which
neve cells are individual and do
not form a diffuse reticle,never as
they postulated by many
histologists.
He formulated the law of dynamic
polarization of neurons ,essential
to understanding the directionality
of the never impulse

35. Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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His discoveries earned him the
Nobel in 1906, shared with
Camilo Golgi Charied.
He died in Madrid on October
17,1934.

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