This is a list of some notable Spanish-speaking people. In alphabetical order within categories. Actors Victoria Abril (born 1959) Norma Aleandro (born 1936) Héctor Alterio (born 1929) Elena Anaya (born 1975) Imperio Argentina (1906–2003) Moises Arias (born 1994) Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963) Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (born 1940) Antonio Banderas (born 1960) Javier Bardem (born 1969) Juan Diego Botto (born 1975) Cantinflas (1911–1993) Nestor Carbonell (born 1968) Verónica Castro (born 1952) Penélope Cruz (born 1974) Carla Diaz (born 1990) Chico Díaz (born 1959) Fernando Fernán Gómez (born 1921) Andy García (born 1956) Gael García Bernal (born 1978) Sancho Gracia (born 1936) Salma Hayek (born 1966) Pedro Infante (1917–1957) Raúl Juliá (1940–1994) Katy Jurado (1924–2002) Libertad Lamarque (1908–2000) John Leguizamo (born 1964) George Lopez (born 1961) Eva Longoria (born 1975) Diego Luna (born 1979) Federico Luppi (born 1936) Cheech Marin (born 1946) Eva Mendes (born 1974) Jordi Mollá (born 1968) Ricardo Montalbán (1921–2009) Sara Montiel (born 1928) Paul Naschy (born 1934) Jorge Negrete (1911–1953) Elizabeth Peña (1961–2014) Francisco Rabal (1926–2001) Fernando Rey (1917–1994) Jean Reno (born 1948) Dolores del Río (1904–1983) Michelle Rodríguez (born 1978) Benicio del Toro (born 1967) Leonor Varela (born 1972) Paz Vega (born 1976) Natalia Verbeke (born 1975) Zoe Saldana (born 1978) Authors See also List of Spanish language authors (by country). A-D Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (c. 1581–1639), dramatist. Rafael Alberti (1902–1999), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1983). Vicente Aleixandre (1888–1984), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1977). Isabel Allende (born 1942), best selling novelist. Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1978). José María Arguedas (1911–1969), novelist. Roberto Arlt (1900–1942), short-story writer, novelist, and playwright. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974), Nobel Prize Laureate (1967). Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 1966), writer and dissident. Francisco Ayala (1906–2009), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1991). Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz) (1863–1967), journalist, poet, novelist and essayist. Jesús Balmori (1887–1948), journalist, poet, novelist. Pío Baroja (1872–1956), novelist. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), romantic poet and tale writer. Andrés Bello (1781–1865), humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher and educator. Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1922). Mario Benedetti (born 1920), novelist and poet. Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1990). Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928), best-selling novelist, wrote The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916). Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1999). Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979). Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born 1939), novelist and short stories writer. Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916–2000), playwright. Mario Bunge