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John of the Cross
Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint (1542–1591)
Fernando de Rojas
Spanish author and playwright
Isaac Abrabanel
Portuguese-Spanish Jewish businessman, exegete and philosopher (1437-1508)
Marrano
thumb|300px|Marranos: A secret Passover Seder in Spain during the times of Inquisition. An 1893 painting by [[Moshe Maimon.]] Marranos were Spanish and Portuguese Jews, as well as Navarrese Jews, who converted to Christianity, either voluntarily or by Spanish or Portuguese royal coercion, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but who continued to practice Judaism in secret or were suspected of it. They are also called crypto-Jews, a term increasingly preferred in scholarly works over Marranos.
Juan del Encina
Spanish composer, and theater artist
Garcia de Orta
Portuguese botanist, physician, herbalist and naturalist (1501 – 1568)
Rodrigo de Triana
Spanish explorer born in the Andalusian province of Huelva, in the Town of Lepe.
Converso
A converso (; ; feminine form conversa, ) was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
Crypto-Judaism
Crypto-Judaism is the secretive adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith. Practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (from the Greek word kryptos – , 'hidden').
Pedro Cieza de León
Spanish conquistador
xueta
The Xuetes (; singular , also known as and spelled as ) are a social group on the Spanish island of Majorca, in the Mediterranean Sea, who are descendants of Majorcan Jews who were either Conversos (forcible converts to Christianity) or crypto-Jews, forced to keep their religion hidden. They practiced strict endogamy by marrying only within their own group. Many of their descendants observe a syncretist form of Christian worship known as Xueta Christianity.
Juan de Mena
Spanish poet
Mary of Jesus of Ágreda
Spanish mystic nun
Juan de Oñate
Spanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor
Jehuda Cresques
cartographer from Palma, Majorca
Anusim
Anusim (, ; masculine, anús, , ; feminine, anusá, , ), meaning "coerced", is a legal category of Jews in Halakha (Jewish law) who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically during forced conversion to another religion (oftentimes Christianity). The term "anusim" is most properly translated as the "coerced [ones]" or the "forced [ones]".
Isaac La Peyrère
French theologian
Hernando del Pulgar
Spanish historian
Luis de Torres
Spanish explorer
Andrés Laguna
Spanish botanist (1499-1559)
Alfonso de Zamora
Spanish rabbi
Paul of Burgos
Spanish archbishop (c.1351–1435)
Solomon Molcho
16th century Jewish Portuguese mystic
Abner of Burgos
14th-century Castillian philosopher and religious writer
Juan Alfonso de Baena
Spanish poet
Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva
Mexican politician
Isaac Cardoso
Portuguese physician
Teresa de Cartagena
Spanish writer
Luis de Santángel
Spanish finance minister
Profiat Duran
person associated with Hebrew manuscripts
Alfonso de Cartagena
Roman Catholic bishop
Antonio Enríquez Gómez
Spanish writer
Francisco Maldonado da Silva
Spanish physician
Alphonso de Spina
Spanish bishop and writer
Diego Mateo Zapata
Spanish philosopher
Rodrigo Méndez Silva
Spanish academic
Origin theories of Christopher Columbus
history studies about the origins of Christopher Columbus
José Gálvez Barrenechea
Peruvian politician (1885–1957)
Pablo de Coronel
Spanish Hebraist and professor of Hebrew
Juan Bautista Diamante
Spanish writer
History of the Jews in Peru
aspect of history
Isabella Correa
Spanish-Dutch poet
Mecia de Viladestes
Cartographer of Majorca
Isaac de Castro Tartas
Jewish martyr
Auguste Dreyfus
French businessman
Gaspar Castaño de Sosa
attempted to establish a Spanish colony in New Mexico in 1591
Álvar García de Santa María
Spanish chronicler