Alejandro Amenábar (born 1972) Alfonso Arau (born 1932) Adolfo Aristarain (born 1943) Icíar Bollaín (born 1967) Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) Alfonso Cuarón (born 1961) José Luis Cuerda (born 1947) Nelson Denis (born 1954) Juan Downey (born 1947) Víctor Erice (born 1940) José Luis Garci (born 1944) Luis García Berlanga (born 1921) Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963) Alexandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) León Klimovsky (1906–1996) Bigas Luna (1946–2013) Julio Médem (born 1958) Paul Naschy (born 1934) Franco de Peña (born 1966) Arturo Ripstein (born 1943) Carlos Saura (born 1932) Guillermo del Toro (born 1964) Journalists Enrique Gratas, television journalist. Jorge L. Ramos (born 1950), television journalist; three-time Emmy Award winner. Jacobo Zabludovsky (born 1928), television journalist. Linguists Andrés Bello (1781–1865), philologist. Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), linguist. Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911), philologist and linguist. María Moliner (1900–1981), lexicographer. 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. Singers and songwriters See also Spanish language rock and roll (by country). Lucecita Benitez (born 1940), singer-songwriter. Nydia Caro (born 1955), singer. Pilita Corrales (born 1939), singer. Celia Cruz (1926–2003), salsa singer. Gloria Estefan (born 1957), singer-songwriter. José Feliciano (born 1945), singer-songwriter. Luis Fonsi (born 1978), singer. Juan Gabriel (born 1950), ranchera and ballad singer-songwriter. Manolo García (born 1955), singer-songwriter. Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), tango singer born in France, raised in Argentina. Juan Luis Guerra (born 1957), merengue and bachata singer. Julio Iglesias (born 1943), pop singer. Pedro Infante (1917–1957) Víctor Jara (1932–1973), singer-songwriter. José Alfredo Jiménez (1926–1973), singer-songwriter. Juanes (born 1972), singer-songwriter. Agustín Lara (1900–1970), singer and songwriter. Laura Pausini (born 1974), singer and songwriter. Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963), songwriter. Marc Anthony (born 1969), singer-songwriter. Ednita Nazario (born 1955) Jorge Negrete (1911–1953) Pitbull (born 1981), pop singer. Jose Alfredo Jimenez (1926–1973) Nino Bravo (1944–1973) Raphael (born 1943), pop singer. Joaquín Sabina (born 1949), singer-songwriter. Alejandro Sanz (born 1968), pop/ballad singer. Selena (1971–1995), pop singer. Joan Manuel Serrat (born 1943), singer-songwriter. Shakira (born 1977), Latin Pop singer and songwriter. Enrique Urquijo (1960–1999), New wave music singer. Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908–1992), folk musician. See also List of arabophones List of people by nationality Lists of people by language Spanish-language lists Hispanidad