This is a list of people from Ávila, Spain: Quintana Olleras painterSpanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary, Volume 4, Hall, 1996, p. 378 Priscillian, Christian theologian and martyr Isabella I of Castile Blasco Núñez Vela, first viceroy of Peru Pedro de la Gasca, bishop and diplomat Pedro de Villagra, governor of Chile Gil González Dávila, conquistador John of the Cross, Catholic saint Gil González Dávila, friar and chronicler Tomás Luis de Victoria, musician George Santayana, philosopher and essayist Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña, President of the Government of the Spanish Republic in Exile

Adolfo Suárez, politician and lawyer José Jiménez Lozano, narrator, essayist, poet and journalist Feliciano Rivilla, footballer Carlos Sastre, cyclist Julio Jiménez, professional cyclist Ángel Hernández, long jumper Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, politician Ángel Acebes, politician Sonsoles Espinosa, wife of former Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

See also Teresa of Avila

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