Editing Las Palmas (section)

== People from Las Palmas ==<!--Alphabetize by family name; if two family names are present, use the first.-->

[[File:Benito perez galdos y perro las palmas 1890.jpg|thumb|upright|Writer [[Benito Pérez Galdós]]]]
[[File:JavierBardemHWOFNov2012 cropped.jpg|thumb|right|170px|[[Javier Bardem]] receiving a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 2012]]

[[Image:Suarez Navarro RG19 (7) (48199019181).jpg|thumb|upright|Tennis pro [[Carla Suarez Navarro]]]]
*[[Santi Aldama]] (10 January 2001), professional basketball player for the [[Memphis Grizzlies]]
*[[Wenceslao Benitez Inglott]] (1879-1954), counter admiral, scientist, and engineer
*[[Alfredo Kraus]] (1927–1999), 20th-century tenor
*[[Javier Bardem]] (1 March 1969–), actor
*[[Antonio Betancort]] (13 March 1937 – 15 March 2015), former football player
*[[Juan Bordes]] (15 July 1948), sculptor
*[[Pino Caballero Gil]] (born 1968), scientist
*[[Juan Hidalgo Codorniu]] (1927–2018), composer
*[[José Comas Quesada]] (3 February 1928 – 14 January 1993), painter
*[[Pedro Déniz]] (1 August 1964), Spanish interdisciplinary artist
*[[José Doreste]] (19 September 1956), Spanish sailor and olympic champion
*[[Luis Doreste]] (7 March 1961), Spanish sailor and 2x olympic champion
*[[Nicolás Estévanez]] (1838–1914), military officer, politician and poet
*[[Manuel Pablo García Díaz]] (25 January 1976), football (soccer) player
*[[Nicolás García (taekwondo)|Nicolás García]] Hemme (20 June 1988), taekwondo olympic medalist
*[[Sven Giegold]] (17 November 1969), German politician
*[[Mateo Gil]] (23 September 1972), writer and film director
*[[Patricia Guerra]] (21 July 1965), sailor and Olympic champion
*[[Jesé]] (26 February 1993), footballer
*[[María Juncal]] ({{circa|1981}}), flamenco dancer
*[[Francisco Kraus]] (1926–2016), Spanish baritone and voice teacher
*[[Juan Fernando López Aguilar]] (10 June 1961), former Spanish Minister of Justice
*[[Úrsula López]] (1870–1966), singer
*[[Marta Marrero]] (16 January 1983), tennis player
*[[Kira Miró]] (13 March 1980), actress and presenter
*[[Roberto Molina (sailor)|Roberto Molina]] (5 June 1960), Spanish sailor and olympic champion
*[[Juan Negrín]] (1892–1956), politician; President of Government of Republican Spain 1937–39
*[[Rebeca Nuez Suarez]] (10 November 1993), Classical Violinist.
*[[Pinito del Oro]] (1930–2017), trapeze artist, member of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] 
*[[Benito Pérez Galdós]] (1843–1920), 19th-century writer
*[[Sandro Ramirez]] (born 1995), football player
*[[María del Carmen Reina Jiménez]] (born 1942), essayist, writer, activist, and politician
*[[Misa Rodríguez]] (born 1999), goalkeeper for [[Spain women's national football team|Spain]]
*[[Leticia Romero]] (28 May 1995), [[Spain women's national basketball team|Spanish international]] basketball player
*[[Borja del Rosario]] (14 January 1985), footballer
*[[Jerónimo Saavedra|Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo]] (3 June 1936), President of the Government of the Canaries, minister of Public administrations, minister of Education and Sciences of Spain and Mayor
*[[Antonia San Juan]] (22 May 1961), Spanish actress, director and screenwriter
*[[Magüi Serna]] (1 March 1979), tennis player
*[[David Silva]] (8 January 1986-), [[Spain men's national football team|Spain National Team]] footballer
*[[Carla Suárez Navarro]] (3 September 1988), tennis player
*[[Domingo Tejera de Quesada]] (1881–1944), publisher and politician
*[[Juan Carlos Valerón]] (17 June 1975), footballer
*[[José de Viera y Clavijo]] (28 December 1731 – 1813), ecclesiastic historian and botanist
*[[Isabel Torres]] (1969–2022), radio and television presenter, talk-show host, and actress.
*[[Cristina Ramos (singer)|Cristina Ramos]] (19 February 1979), singer