List of Spanish inventors and discoverers
The List of Spanish Inventors and Discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Spain in alphabetical order by family name.
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A.
- Hernando de Alarcón : Navigator in the Pacific, Baja California
- Diego de Almagro el Mozo : Conquistador
- Gonzalo de Alvarado : Conquistador, founder of San Salvador
- Hernando de Alvarado : Conquistador North America, discovered the pecos
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- Pedro de Alvarado : Conquistador Mexico, Companion of Cortez '
- Lope de Aguirre : conquistador in South America, El Dorado, Orinoco
- Alonso de Arellano : first west-east crossing of the Pacific
- Pedro Menéndez de Avilés : Founder of St. Augustine and first Governor of Florida
- Juan de Ayala : California, developed the San Francisco Bay
- Félix de Azara : La Plata countries
B.
- Domingo Badía y Lively : Orient
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa : discovered the Pacific in Panama
- Sebastián de Belalcázar , (or Benalcázar): Conquistador and treasure hunter (El Dorado)
- Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra : Pacific Northwest
C.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal : Nobel Prize in recognition of work on the structure of the nervous system (together with Camillo Golgi )
- García López de Cárdenas : Discoverer of the Grand Canyon
- Gabriel de Castilla : Southern Ocean
- Juan de la Cierva : Helicopter construction pioneer - Autogiro
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado : explored New Mexico and the Southwest of America
- Hernán Cortés : conquered the Aztec Empire, sent expeditions to Baja California
- Juan de la Cosa : Caribbean, Central America
D.
- Pedro Arias Dávila : Central America
- Melchior Díaz : Conquistador, Southwest North America
E.
- Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol : steam powered submarine
- Juan Sebastián Elcano : completed the first circumnavigation of the world started by Magellan
- Raimondo Lorenzo d'Equevilley : pioneer of the submarine
F.
- Juan Fernández Ladrillero : South American west coast, discoverer of the Juan Fernández Islands
- Alejandro Finisterre : Table football 1937
G
- Blasco de Garay : paddle steamer paddle wheel, steamship 1543 (unsafe)
- Martín de Goiti : Conqueror of Manila, Philippines
- José Luis López Gómez : Audience Award of the European Inventor Award 2013 - Invention of using a unique “independently guided” wheel design for high-speed trains instead of a standard axle
- Juan de Grijalva : Discoverers of the Yucatán and the Aztecs
H
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba († 1517): Yucatán
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (approx. 1475–1526): Conquistador and founder of Nicaragua
- Francisco de Hoces : southern tip of Tierra del Fuego, Drakestrasse
- Alonso de Hojeda : Navigator, Caribbean, Venezuela
I.
- Manuel Iradier : water meter, typographical method
J
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada : discoverer of Colombia and Venezuela, founder of Bogotá
- Manuel Jalón : aerospace engineer and entrepreneur; Mop
K
- Christopher Columbus (Italy / Spain): Navigator, discoverer of America
L.
- Juan Fernández Ladrillero : Exploring the Strait of Magellan in 1557
- Miguel López de Legaspi : Explorer of the Philippines and Mexico
- Juan Ponce de León : Conquistador in Puerto Rico, North America
- García Jofre de Loaísa : Sea route to the Spice Islands via the Atlantic and Pacific
- García López de Cárdenas : Southwest North America
M.
- Alvaro de Mendaña de Neyra : sailor, explorer of the Solomon Islands and the Marquesas
- Francisco de Montejo : Conquistador in Yucatán
Narcís Monturiol , 1880
- Narcís Monturiol : Ictíneo II , submarine with mechanical propulsion
N
- Pedro Navarro : Powder mines
- Pánfilo de Narváez : Florida
- Diego de Nicuesa : Panama
- Marcos de Niza : Clergyman, North America
- Bartolomé García de Nodal : Navigator
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca : Mexico
O
- Sebastián de Ocampo : Navigator, first circumnavigation of Cuba, discovery of the Gulf of Mexico
- Severo Ochoa : Nobel Prize for the discovery of the mechanism in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA (together with Arthur Kornberg )
- Alonso de Ojeda : Navigators, Guyana and Trinidad
- Cristóbal de Olid : Conquistador, Mexico and Honduras
- Francisco de Orellana : Conquistador, South America, Amazon region
- Íñigo Ortiz de Retez : New Guinea
P
- Alberto Palacio : Transporter Bridge (with Ferdinand Arnodin) 1893
- Isaac Peral : pioneer of the submarine
- Alonso Álvarez de Pineda : Navigator, Gulf of Mexico
- Martín Alonso Pinzón : Navigator, Caribbean
- Vicente Yáñez Pinzón : Navigator, Caribbean, Brazil
Francisco Pizarro , the conqueror of the Inca Empire in Peru
- Francisco Pizarro : Conquistador, Inca Empire
- Gonzalo Pizarro : Conquistador, Inca Empire
- Hernando Pizarro : Conquistador
- Juan Ponce de León : Florida
- Gaspar de Portolá : Soldier and Politician, California
Q
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada : Conquistador, Colombia and Chibchareich
R.
- Diego Ribero (Portugal / Spain): water pump
S.
- Alvaro de Saavedra : Seafarers, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands and New Guinea
- Juan de Salcedo : Philippines
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa : Navigators, Solomon Islands and the Strait of Magellan
- Michael Servetus : first description of the pulmonary circulation 1553
- Hernando de Soto : Navigator and conquistador, explored the southeastern part of today's USA
T
- Luiz Váez de Torres : was the first to drive the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia
- Benjamin von Tudela : world traveler, Orient (especially the Middle East)
U
- Francisco de Ulloa : Baja California
- Andrés de Urdaneta : Navigator, Pacific route Philippines – Mexico
V
- Pedro de Valdivia : Conquistador, Peru, Chile
- Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón : Conquistador, east of today's USA
- Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar : Conqueror and first governor of Cuba
- Ramón Verea : calculating machine designer
- Ruy López de Villalobos : explored the Pacific and the Philippines
- Sebastián Vizcaíno : Navigator and Diplomat, Mexico, California, Japan
X
- Franz Xaver : as a missionary, long journeys through India and Japan