The Most Famous
Historians from Spain
This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 7 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 15th most number of Historians behind Iraq and Netherlands.
Top 7 Spanish Historians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Historians of all time. This list of famous Spanish Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
1478 - 1557
HPI 60.7917 langsSpanish naturalist and historian (1478–1557)
- #2
Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi
1213 - 1286
HPI 60.7517 langsArab geographer, historian and poet (1213–1286)
- #3
Francisco López de Gómara
1511 - 1566
HPI 60.5617 langsSpanish historian
- #4
Ibn Hayyan
987 - 1076
HPI 60.5319 langsAl-Andalus Arab historian (987–1075)
- #5
Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot
1952 - 2024
HPI 60.2822 langsSpanish cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue (1952–2024)
- #6
Jerónimo Zurita y Castro
1512 - 1580
HPI 59.7916 langsSpanish historian
- #7
Juan de Mariana
1536 - 1624
HPI 59.3016 langsSpanish historian
