Galician people
The word Galicians ( galic. Galegos, Spanish Gallegos ) refers to an ethnic group or the inhabitants of the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia. Galicians speak their official language Spanish is also the official regional language Galician, which belongs to the family of Romance languages. The Galicians set with approximately 2.7 million about 6.5 percent of the Spanish population.
Among the ancestors of the Galicians are Celts ( Gallaeker ), Iberians, Romans, Goths and Suevi. Their descendants include the Portuguese and Brazilians.
Known Galicians
- Famous people of Galician descent
Alfonso VII
Vimara Peres
Carlos Núñez
F. J. Gómez Noya
Fernando caldeiro
Fidel Castro
La Belle Otéro
Martín Sarmiento
Rosalía de Castro
- Rosalía de Castro - writer
- Camilo José Cela - Writer, Nobel Prize winner
- Fidel Castro - leader of Cuba (his father Ángel Castro Argiz was Galicians )
- Julio Iglesias - singer, entertainer (his father Julio Iglesias Puga comes from Ourense, Galicia, and he himself was born in Madrid)
- Francisco Franco - Spanish dictator
- José Calvo Sotelo - Spanish politician
- Manuel Fraga Iribarne - President of the Xunta de Galicia 1989-2005
- Mariano Rajoy - Spanish politician
- Amancio Amaro - known former football player
- Luis Suárez - known former football player
- Míchel Salgado - football player, currently Blackburn Rovers
- Fernando Torres - known football star is currently Chelsea; his parents emigrated Galicians, Fernando Torres himself was born in a suburb of Madrid
- Jorge Lorenzo - known Spanish motorcycle racer. (his father is an expatriate Galicianer (A Coruña) Galicia).
- Óscar Pereiro - Spanish cyclist
- Paulina Rubio - singer, entertainer ( Her father, Enrique Rubio comes from A Coruña (Galicia ) ).
- Martin Sheen - American actor (his father Francisco Estévez comes from Parderrubias, Galicia ).
- Carlos Núñez - Spanish Celtic folk musicians
- Barreiros - was a Spanish industrial companies in Ourense in Galicia
- Amancio Ortega Gaona - Spanish textile firm Inditex various textile companies including Zara
- Ethnic group in Europe
- Romansh ethnicity
- Galicia