Philosophers and Humanists
- Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284), El Sabio ("The Wise").
- Francisco de Enzinas (1518–1552), humanist and translator of the New Testament
- José Javier Gallego (born 1955), thinker, writer, critic of philosophy and history.
- Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658), author of El Criticón, influenced European philosophers such as Schopenhauer.
- Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566), humanist, advocate of the rights of Native Americans.
- Salvador de Madariaga (1886–1978), humanist, co-founder of the College of Europe (1949).
- Gregorio Marañón (1887–1960), humanist and medical scientist, important intellectual of the 20th century in Spain.
- Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (1856–1912), philologist, historian and erudite.
- Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher. Wrote the History of Philosophy
- Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), philologist, historian and erudite member of Generation of '98.
- Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522), scholar, published the first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática Castellana, 1492), which was the first grammar produced of any Romance language.
- José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), philosopher, social and political thinker, author of The Revolt of the Masses (1930).
- Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), Franciscan missionary, researched Nahua culture and Nahuatl language and compiled an unparalleled work in Spanish and Náhuatl.
- George Santayana (1863–1952), philosopher, taught at Harvard, author of The Sense of Beauty (1896) and The Life of Reason (1905–6).
- Fernando Savater (born 1947), philosopher and essayist, known for his writings on ethics.
- Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), one of the most influential scholastics after Thomas Aquinas.
- Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), existentialist writer and literary theoretician.
- Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540), prominent figure of Renaissance humanism, taught at Leuven and Oxford (while tutor to Mary Tudor).
- Xavier Zubiri (1889–1983), philosopher, critic of classical metaphysics.
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