Spain: Culture#

World Heritage#

Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.

Name	Category	Year	Motivation
Vicente Aleixandre	Literature	1977	"for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars"
Jacinto Benavente	Literature	1922	"for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama"
Camilo José Cela	Literature	1989	"for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability"
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre	Literature	1904	"in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"
Juan Ramón Jiménez	Literature	1956	"for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity"
Severo Ochoa	Medicine	1959	"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Santiago Ramón y Cajal	Medicine	1906	"in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"