WJosé Joaquín Lucio Aurelio Ramón María de Ampuero y del Río (1872–1932) was a Spanish businessman and politician. As member of the Basque industrial and financial oligarchy he held seats in executive bodies of some 30 companies, especially Altos Hornos de Vizcaya and Banco de Bilbao. As politician he supported the Traditionalist cause, first as a Carlist and after 1919 as a breakaway Mellista. In 1901-1913 he served in the Biscay diputación, in 1916–1918 in Congreso de los Diputados, the lower house of the Cortes, and in 1919–1923 in the Senate.
WIgnacio Salomón Bauer was a Hungarian-born Spanish banker of Jewish descent. He was an agent of Rothschild banking house in Madrid, taking over from Daniel Weisweiller in 1853.
WMiguel Blesa de la Parra was a Spanish banker, the chairman of the Spanish bank Caja Madrid from 1996 to 2009.
WAna Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, DBE is a Spanish banker who has served as the executive chairman of Santander Group since 2014. She is the fourth generation of the Botín family to hold this role. Prior to this she was chief executive officer (CEO) of Santander UK, a role she held from December 2010 until her assumption of the chairmanship.
WEmilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola García de los Ríos, iure uxoris Marquess of O'Shea was a Spanish banker. He was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander. In 1993 his bank absorbed Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto), and in 1999 it merged with Banco Central Hispano creating Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), which became Spain's largest bank, of which he was co-president with Central Hispano's José María Amusategui, until Amusategui retired in 2002. In 2004, BSCH acquired the British bank Abbey National, making BSCH the second largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation. He was known for his obsession with growth and performance as well as regularly visiting branches.
WJosé Manuel Campa Fernández is a Spanish economist, economy professor and politician who has been serving as the chairperson of the European Banking Authority since May 2019. Prior to this, he has been a senior member of Santander Bank and has previously served as the 10th Secretary of State for Economy in the Government of Spain.
WJosé Capelo Blanco is a Spanish banker who was a friend of the British artist Francis Bacon. He was the subject of a 1987 portrait, Portrait of José Capelo and Triptych 1991. Capelo was given paintings and US$4 million by the artist, something Bacon would later confide he regretted doing, before his death in 1992.
WMario Antonio Conde Conde is a Spanish businessman, former banker, state lawyer and politician. He served as chairman of Banesto from November 1987 to December 1993, when he was dismissed and the firm intervened by the Bank of Spain, in what would become the first major interference of a government in a financial institution. At the peak of his career in 1987, a 38-year-old Conde controlled over 1% of Spain's GDP.
WMaría Dolores Dancausa Treviño (1959) is a Spanish executive. She is the current CEO of Bankinter, a position she has held since 2010.
WAlfonso de Urquijo y Landecho was a Spanish professional hunter, writer and banker. Following his success as an international hunter, he was appointed President of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation in 1981. He was a younger brother of Luis de Urquijo, who was President of Real Madrid from 1926 to 1930.
WGuillermo de la Dehesa Romero is a Spanish lawyer, economist, politician and businessman. Since leaving politics in 1988 he has been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs.
WHoracio Echevarrieta Maruri was a Spanish businessman, banker, industrialist, patron of the arts, politician and diplomatic mediator. In 1927, he founded Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S. A. Operadora, now known as Iberia.
WJosé Manuel Entrecanales Domecq is a Spanish businessman and former banker. In 2004, he succeeded his late father as chairman and CEO of Acciona, a global leader in infrastructure, renewable energy and water. In 2019, Forbes ranked him the 85th richest person in Spain, estimating his personal wealth at US$362 million, although his family fortune is estimated at around US$3.6 billion.
WAlfonso Escámez, 1st Marquess of Águilas was a Spanish banker. He was the president of Banco Central from 1973 until 1992. He was awarded the title "Marquess of Águilas" by King Juan Carlos I.
WJosé Ignacio Goirigolzarri Tellaeche is a Spanish economist and executive. He is the current Chairman of CaixaBank since 2021 and Chairman of the state-owned holding BFA. From 2012 to 2021 he served as Chairman of Bankia and from 2001 to 2009 as Chairman and COO of BBVA.
WFrancisco González Rodríguez is a Spanish banker. He was president of the Argentaria bank between 1996 and 1998 and of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria from 2000 to 2018.
WMiguel Junyent Rovira (1871-1936) was a Spanish Catalan publisher and politician. He is best known as director of El Correo Catalán, the newspaper he periodically owned and managed between 1903 and 1933. As a politician he was active within Carlism; he remained the regional Catalan party leader in 1915-1916 and in 1919–1933. He twice served in the Cortes, in 1907-1910 as member of the Congress of Deputies and in 1918-1919 as member of the Senate. He is counted among moderate Carlists, who favored alliance with conservative Catalanists and opposed the violent faction within his party.
WLuis Dionisio de Lezama Leguizamón y Sagarminaga (1865-1933) was a Spanish entrepreneur, Vascologist and politician. As a businessman he kept developing the family-owned mining conglomerate, which controlled part or iron ore, carbon, fluorite, anhydrite and plaster exploitation in Vascongadas and Asturias. As a linguist he was a longtime executive of Sociedad de Estudios Vascos, owned one of the largest collections of Basque literature and contributed few scientific works himself. As a politician he supported the Traditionalist cause, first as a Carlist, in 1919-1931 as a breakaway Mellista, and then again as a Carlist; in the early 1930s he held the provincial party jefatura in Biscay.
WMarcos Sergio Bautista Manuel de Lezama Leguizamón Sagarminaga (1862–1924) was a Spanish entrepreneur and politician who developed the family-owned mining conglomerate that controlled iron ore, carbon, fluorite, anhydrite and plaster mines in Vascongadas and Asturias, and politically supported the Traditionalist cause. In the 1910s he led the Carlist provincial organisation in Biscay but in 1919 he joined the breakaway Mellistas. His political career climaxed in 1921–1923, when he served two terms in the Senate. In 1907–1911 he held a seat in the Biscay self-government Diputación Provincial, and in 1893–1897 he was member of Bilbao town hall.
WPedro Llosas y Badía (1870–1955) was a Spanish right-wing politician. Active in Catalonia, he was first associated with the Carlists and then with the Primo de Rivera regime. He was the longest-serving Carlist deputy from Catalonia during the Restauración but is known mostly as the civil governor of La Coruña and Baleares provinces during the dictatorship.
WFrancisco Luzón López was a Spanish banker and economist. He assisted in transforming Spanish and Latin American banking over the last thirty years, leading banks such as Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Banco Santander. Luzón was diagnosed with ALS in October 2013 and created the Fundación Francisco Luzón to fund ALS research.
WVictoriano José Martínez Berasáin (1886–1960) was a Spanish Carlist politician, noted particularly in his native Navarre. He is best known for his role during anti-Republican conspiracy of early 1936 and during first months of the Civil War, when he headed the regional wartime Carlist executive. In 1937–1938 he was the provincial leader of Falange Española Tradicionalista; in 1939 he served as vice-president of Diputación Foral de Navarra. During two successive terms of 1955–1960 he was holding a seat in the Cortes. He is also acknowledged as an amateur photographer.
WCarlos Torres Vila is a Spanish banker, who has been CEO of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) since May 2015, and executive chairman since December 2018.
WLuis de Urquijo y Landecho, 2nd Marquess of Bolarque was a Spanish diplomat, banker, businessman who served as Spain Ambassdor to West Germany from 12 May 1959 until 19 November 1964. He was also the 6th President of Real Madrid from 16 May 1926 to 1930. He was born in Madrid.
WDaniel Bernard Weisweiller was a German-born Spanish banker of Jewish descent. He was an agent of Rothschild banking house in Madrid, taking over from Lionel de Rothschild in 1834. According to Niall Ferguson, Weisweiller was "the most important Rothschild agent in the 1830s."