List of Catalans - Others

Others

  • Saint Raymond of Penyafort (1175–1275), Roman Catholic saint & Dominican
  • Saint Joseph Oriol (1650–1702)
  • Junipero Serra (1713–1784), Roman Catholic saint & Jesuit missionary
  • Josep Sadoc Alemany (1814–1888), first Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, California
  • Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), French soldier, born in Ribesaltes (Roussillon)
  • Pompeu Fabra (1868–1948), grammarian
  • Rosa Sensat (1873–1961), early Doctor of Pedagogy
  • Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1977), historian
  • Joan Gili (1907–1998), antiquarian book-seller, publisher and translator.
  • Joan Pujol (alias Garbo) (1912–1988), double agent who played a mayor role in the Invasion of Normandy during World War II
  • Vicente Ferrer Moncho (1920–2009) Catholic hero/humanitarian
  • Cassià Maria Just (1926–2008), Benedictine abbot, one of the people in the Spanish Catholic Church who opposed Francisco Franco.
  • Salvador Puig i Antich (1948–1974), Catalan anarchist, executed during Franco's regime
  • Xavier Sala-i-Martin (1963–), economist
  • Jaume Marxuach i Flaquer (1906–1966), lawyer and writer
  • Toni Strubell i Trueta (1952–), Catalan linguist and politician
  • Joan Laporta i Estruch (1962–), lawyer, former president of FC Barcelona, and politician

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