Editing Huesca (section)

== Notable people ==

Huesca is the birthplace of film director [[Carlos Saura]] and his brother Antonio Saura, a contemporary artist. 

The writer Oscar Sipan, winner of several literary prizes, was born in Huesca in 1974. The celebrated illustrator Isidro Ferrer, though born in Madrid, lives in the city.

*[[Amrus ibn Yusuf]] (Huesca, 760- 808/9 or 813/4 Talavera de la Reina or Zaragoza), general of the Emirate of Córdoba and governor of Zaragoza
*[[Petrus Alphonsi]] (Born at an unknown date in the 11th century in Huesca, died 1140?), was a Jewish Spanish physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity.
*[[Petronilla of Aragon]] (Huesca, 1136 – 15 October 1173), Queen of Aragon from the abdication of her father in 1137 until her own abdication in 1164.
*[[Alfonso II of Aragon]] (Huesca, March 1157 – 25 April 1196), was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death.
*[[Peter II of Aragon]] (Huesca, July 1178 – 12 September 1213), was the King of Aragon (as Pedro II) and Count of Barcelona (as Pere I) from 1196 to 1213.
*Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (Huesca, 1607 - 1681), collector, scholar, Spanish cultural promoter and patron.
*[[Valentín Carderera]] (Huesca, 1796 - Madrid, 1880), promoter of the arts, writer and academic art painter.
*[[Lucas Mallada y Pueyo]] (Huesca, 1841 - Madrid 1921), mining engineer, paleontologist and writer, belonging to Regenerationism movement.
*[[Fidel Pagés]] (Huesca, January 26, 1886 - September 21, 1923 Madrid), Spanish military surgeon, known for developing the technique of epidural anesthesia.
*[[Ramón Acín Aquilué]] (1888, Huesca, Aragon, Spain – 1936), anarcho-syndicalist, teacher, writer and avant-garde artist murdered by fascists in the first year of the Spanish Civil War.
*[[Pepín Bello]] (13 May 1904, Huesca – 11 January 2008), intellectual and writer. He was regarded as the last survivor of the "Generation of '27".
*[[Julio Alejandro]] (Huesca, 1906 – 1995 Javea), was a Spanish screenwriter. He wrote for 80 films between 1951 and 1984.
*[[Antonio Saura]] (September 22, 1930, Huesca – July 22, 1998, Cuenca) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties.
*[[Carlos Saura]] (4 January 1932, Huesca – 10 February 2023, Collado Mediano) is a Spanish film director and photographer.
*[[Josep Acebillo]] (born in Huesca, Spain, in 1946), architect.
*[[Esteban Navarro]] (Moratalla, 1965), writer. Huesca resident since 2001.
*[[Nunilo and Alodia]] (Huesca, A.D. 851), martyrs of Christianity. Died after refusing to deny Christ.
*[[Sara Giménez Giménez]] (born in Huesca, 1977), Roma lawyer