Editing Extremadura (section)

==Sports==
* In football:
** [[Extremadura UD]]
** [[Extremadura Femenino CF]], also known as CF Puebla Extremadura, the women's team
** [[CF Extremadura]], founded in 1924 but folded in 2010
** [[AD Mérida]]
** [[CD Badajoz]]
** [[CD Don Benito]]

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==Notable people==
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===Explorers===
Several Spanish [[conquistador]]s hailed from Extremadura, including [[Vasco Núñez de Balboa]], the first European to lead an expedition to reach the [[Pacific Ocean]] from America; [[Hernando de Soto]] the first European to lead an expedition to the territory of the modern-day [[United States]]; [[Hernán Cortés]] and [[Francisco Pizarro]], who conquered the [[Aztec Empire|Aztec]] and [[Inca Empire|Inca]] empires respectively; [[Francisco de Orellana]], who explored the length of the [[Amazon River|Amazon]]; [[Pedro de Valdivia]], the first [[governor of Chile]]; and [[Sebastián Vizcaíno]], who was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur in the Philippines, explorer of the [[The Californias|Californias]], and diplomat in Japan.

=== Politicians ===
* [[José de Carvajal y Lancáster]] ([[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain)|First Secretary of State]] under [[Ferdinand VI of Spain|Ferdinand VI]] between 1746 and 1754)
* [[Manuel Godoy]] (twice First Secretary of State under [[Charles IV of Spain|Charles IV]], between 1782 and 1798, and between 1801 and 1808)

=== Artists ===
* [[Luis de Morales]] (1512)
* [[Francisco de Zurbarán]] (1598)
* {{interlanguage link|Juan Barjola|es}} (1919)
* [[Eduardo Naranjo]] (1944)

[[File:Benito Arias Montano, Museo Plantin-Moretus.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Benito Arias Montano]]]]

=== Writers and poets ===
[[File:José de Espronceda (detalle).jpg|thumb|150px|''[[El escritor José de Espronceda]]'', [[portrait]] by [[Antonio María Esquivel]] ({{circa|1845}}) ([[Museo del Prado]], [[Madrid]])<ref>{{cite web |title=El escritor José de Espronceda |url=https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/jose-de-espronceda/e97beaab-f0a3-4f73-8302-1c8185110410 |access-date=March 27, 2013 |work=[[Museo del Prado]] |location=Madrid |language=es}}</ref>]]
[[File:Carolina Coronado, por Federico de Madrazo.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Carolina Coronado]]]]
[[File:José-María-Gabriel-y-Galán.jpg|thumb|150px|[[José María Gabriel y Galán]]]]
* {{interlanguage link|Gregorio López de Tovar|es}} (writer, 1496)
* [[Benito Arias Montano]] (philosopher and writer, 1527)
* [[José de Espronceda]] (romantic poet, 1808)
* [[Juan Donoso Cortés]] (writer, 1809)
* [[Carolina Coronado]] (romantic poet, 1821)
* [[José María Gabriel y Galán]] (poet, 1870)
* [[Mario Roso de Luna]] (philosopher, astronomer and writer, 1874)
* [[Luis Chamizo Trigueros]] (poet, 1894)
* [[Jesús Delgado Valhondo]] (poet, 1909)
* [[Dulce Chacón]] (poet, 1954)
* [[Elisa Herrero Uceda]] (writer, 1957)
* [[Miguel Herrero Uceda]] (writer, 1964)
* [[Jorge Camacho (writer)|Jorge Camacho]] (poet, 1966)

===Scientists===
* [[José Antonio Pavón Jiménez]] (botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile, 1754)
* [[Mario Roso de Luna]] (philosopher, astronomer and writer, 1874)
* [[Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola]] (philosopher, law & politics theorist)
* [[Emilio Santos Corchero]] (theoretical physicist)

===Sports===
* [[José Calderón (basketball)|José Calderón]] ([[basketball]] player, [[2006 FIBA World Championship]] winner)
* [[Manuel Piñero]] ([[golf]]er, member of the successful European [[1985 Ryder Cup]] team)
* [[Enrique Tornero Hernández]] ([[Swimming (sport)|swimmer]], gold medalist at the [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Paralympics|1996 Summer Paralympics]])

====Football====
* [[Adelardo Rodríguez|Adelardo]] (14 appearances for [[Spain national football team|Spain]] between 1962 and 1970)
* [[Rafael Gordillo]] (75 appearances for Spain between 1978 and 1988)
* [[Roberto Marina]] (1 appearance for Spain in 1985)
* [[Manolo (footballer, born 1965)|Manolo]] (28 appearances for Spain between 1988 and 1992)
* [[Ernesto Valverde]] (1 appearance for Spain in 1990, [[Manager (association football)|manager]] of [[FC Barcelona]] between 2017 and 2020)
* [[Ángel Cuéllar]] (2 appearances for Spain between 1994 and 1995)
* [[Fernando Morientes]] (47 appearances for Spain between 1998 and 2007, three-time [[UEFA Champions League]] winner)
* [[Ito (footballer, born 1975)|Ito]] (1 appearance for Spain in 1998)
* [[César Sánchez]] (1 appearance for Spain in 2000, UEFA Champions League winner)
* [[Yannel Correa]] (3 appearances for [[Uruguay women's national football team|Uruguay]] in 2019)
* [[Pedro Porro]] (1 appearance for Spain in 2021)

===Musicians and TV===
Extremadura has produced many musicians, including: [[Cristóbal Oudrid]] (pianist and composer), [[Rosa Morena]] (singer), [[Soraya Arnelas]] (singer), {{interlanguage link|Luis Pastor|es}} (singer), [[Roberto Iniesta]] (singer of rock band [[Extremoduro]]), [[Pablo Guerrero]], [[Bebe (entertainer)|Bebe]] (singer), [[Alberto Porro Carmona|Al Carmona]] (conductor), [[Esteban Sánchez]] (pianist), [[Gecko Turner]] (singer).

TV personalities include: [[Isabel Gemio]], {{interlanguage link|Agustín Bravo|es}}, [[Raquel Sánchez-Silva]] and [[Berta Collado]].
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