List of people of the Spanish Civil War
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This is a list of notable people associated with the Spanish Civil War.
Contents
Figures identified with the Nationalist side
Military
- Francisco Franco (Spain)
- Miguel Cabanellas (Spain)
- José Sanjurjo (Spain)
- Emilio Mola (Spain)
- Gonzalo Queipo de Llano (Spain)
- Juan Yagüe (Spain)
- José Enrique Varela (Spain)
- Rafael García Valiño (Spain!)
- Joaquín García Morato (Spain)
- Luis Carrero Blanco (Spain)
- Fidel Dávila (Spain)
- José Millán Astray (Spain)
- José Antonio Primo de Rivera (Spain)
- Heli Rolando de Tella y Cantos (Spain)
- Carlos Asensio Cabanillas (Spain)
- Antonio Castejón Espinosa (Spain)
- Mohammed ben Mizzian (Spanish Morocco)
- Eoin O'Duffy (Ireland)
- Hugo Sperrle (Germany)
- Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (Germany)
- Adolf Galland (Germany)
- Werner Mölders (Germany)
- Wilhelm Balthasar (Germany)
- Walter Oesau (Germany)
- Herbert Ihlefeld (Germany)
- Günther Lützow (Germany)
- Hajo Herrmann (Germany)
- Hannes Trautloft (Germany)
- Heinrich Trettner (Germany)
- Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (Germany)
- Mario Roatta (Italy)
- Ettore Bastico (Italy)
- Mario Berti (Italy)
- Gastone Gambara (Italy)
- Amedeo Guillet (Italy)
Other
- Ramiro de Maeztu, assassinated
- José María Gironella
- Dionisio Ridruejo
- Ernesto Giménez Caballero
- José María Pemán
- Gerardo Diego
- Pedro Muñoz Seca, assassinated
- Josep Pla
- Dámaso Alonso
- Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, executed
- Rafael Sánchez Mazas
- Roy Campbell
- Juan March Ordinas
- Pedro Laín Entralgo
- Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
- Luis Rosales
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna
- Salvador Dalí
- Juan de la Cierva
- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
- José Antonio Maravall
- Álvaro Cunqueiro
- Ramón Serrano Súñer
- Pío Baroja
- Azorín
- Leopoldo Panero
- Ernesto Halffter
- Concha Espina
- Ramón Pérez de Ayala
- Eduardo Marquina
- Pedro Sainz Rodríguez
- Eugeni d'Ors
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Jacinto Benavente
- Miguel Delibes
- Camilo José Cela
- Manuel Machado
- Miguel de Unamuno, publicly recanted but privately still supported a Nationalist victory]]
- Harold Henry Davey
Figures identified with the Republican side
Politicians or military
- Manuel Azaña (Republican)
- Santiago Carrillo (Communist)
- Lluis Companys (Republican/Catalanist)
- Buenaventura Durruti (Anarchist)
- Francisco Sabaté Llopart (Anarchist)
- José Giral Pereira (Republican)
- Valentin González ("El Campesino") (Communist)
- Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") (Communist)
- Georges Kopp (Communist)
- Mehmet Shehu (Communist)
- Ernő Gerő (Communist)
- Ferenc Münnich (Communist)
- Sergey Gritsevets (Communist)
- Lev Shestakov (Communist)
- Francisco Largo Caballero (Socialist)
- Enrique Líster (Communist)
- Julio Mangada (Government)
- Diego Martínez Barrio (Republican)
- José Miaja (Government)
- Juan Negrín (Socialist)
- Andrés Nin (Communist)
- Indalecio Prieto (Socialist)
- Melchor Rodriguez Garcia (Anarchist)
- Vicente Rojo Lluch (Government)
Others (including volunteers)
- W. H. Auden
- Claud Cockburn
- Joaquín Arderíus
- Norman Bethune
- Pedro García Cabrera
- Federico García Lorca, assassinated poet
- Fernando Gerassi
- Pablo Picasso, plastic artist
- Ernest Hemingway, American writer
- John Dos Passos, American writer
- Miguel Hernández, captive poet
- Laurie Lee
- "Yank" Levy
- André Malraux
- George Orwell, British volunteer and writer
- James Robertson Justice
- Henri Rol-Tanguy
- Karol Świerczewski
Others
- Emma Goldman, anarchist writer
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Samuel Krafsur
- Ethel MacDonald, anarchist propagandist
- Carl Marzani
- Robert Miller
- Ture Nerman, Swedish Communist
- Pablo Neruda, Chilean communist, poet and diplomat in Spain and France
- Kim Philby
- Ludwig Renn
- Egon Erwin Kisch
- Arthur Koestler
- Alexander Orlov
- Langston Hughes
- Nicolas Guillen
- Martha Gellhorn
- Eddie August Schneider, American pilot
- Bert Acosta, American pilot
- Frank Glasgow Tinker, American pilot
- Robert Brasillach
- Georges Bernanos
