The figures linked with Gran Canaria help turn broad historical processes into concrete biographies and local memory.
Biographies linked with Gran Canaria show how wider Canarian processes take shape through concrete people: leaders, artists, religious figures, politicians, scientists or bearers of tradition.
Among its main reference points are Historic Las Palmas, Aboriginal landscape, Natural contrasts, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. This section connects local memory with the project's general figures section.
Key points
Guanarteme, rey de Galdar
El ultimo guanarteme convertido al cristianismo tras la conquista, cuya alianza con los castellanos fue decisiva para el final de la resistencia indigena.
Benito Perez Galdos
El escritor mas universal nacido en Canarias, natural de Las Palmas, cuya obra literaria retrató la sociedad española del siglo XIX con una perspectiva critica sin igual.
Leon y Castillo
Ingeniero y diplomatico nacido en Telde, impulsor del Puerto de la Luz y figura clave en la modernizacion de Gran Canaria durante la Restauracion.
Fatima Mernissi
Aunque no es canaria, su figura relacionada con el debate sobre la mujer y el Islam fue debatida en las aulas universitarias de Las Palmas junto a autoras locales vinculadas a los estudios postcoloniales.
Nestor de la Torre
Pintor modernista nacido en Las Palmas, creador de los trajes tipicos del folclore canario y una figura fundamental en la construccion de la identidad visual de Gran Canaria.
Figures linked with Gran Canaria
Pedro de Vera Mendoza
Governor and captain in the conquest of Gran Canaria
1430 - 1505
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Luis de la Cueva y Benavides
First Captain General of the Canaries
1528 - 1598
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Bartolomé Cairasco de Figueroa
Canon and poet
1538 - 1610
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Próspero de Casola
Military engineer
1565 - 1647
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Juan de Miranda y Cejas
Painter
1723 - 1805
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José Luján Pérez
Sculptor and architect
1756 - 1815
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Agustín Millares Torres
Historian, Musician
1826 - 1896
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Gregorio Chil y Naranjo
Physician, anthropologist and museologist
1831 - 1901
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Juan de León y Castillo
Engineer and public figure
1834 - 1912
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Composer, pianist and organist
1835 - 1921
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Nicolás Estévanez Murphy
Republican politician
1838 - 1914
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Fernando León y Castillo
Politician and diplomat
1842 - 1918
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Novelist, playwright and politician
1843 - 1920
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Santiago Tejera Ossavarry
Regionalist composer
1852 - 1936
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Luis Morote
Journalist, Politician
1862 - 1913
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Painter
1865 - 1934
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Painter and teacher
1876 - 1954
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Painter, photographer and businessman
1883 - 1980
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Tomás Morales
Poetry
1884 - 1921
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Saulo Torón
Poetry
1885 - 1974
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Alonso Quesada
Modernist poet
1886 - 1925
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Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre
Painter, scenographer
1887 - 1938
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Juan Negrín
Physician, physiologist and politician
1892 - 1956
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Agustín Millares Carlo
Paleographer, Historian
1893 - 1980
Meet figuresMunicipalities of Gran Canaria
See all →- AgaeteAgaete is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AgüimesAgüimes is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArtenaraArtenara is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArucasArucas is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- FirgasFirgas is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- GáldarGáldar is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.