List of people of the Spanish Civil War

This is a list of notable people associated with the Spanish Civil War.

Figures identified with the Nationalist side

Military

• Francisco Franco (Spain)
• Miguel Cabanellas (Spain)
• José Sanjurjo (Spain)
• Emilio Mola (Spain)
• Gonzalo Queipo de Llano (Spain)
• Juan Yagüe (Spain)
• José Enrique Varela (Spain)
• Rafael García Valiño (Spain!)
• Joaquín García Morato (Spain)
• Luis Carrero Blanco (Spain)
• Fidel Dávila (Spain)
• José Millán Astray (Spain)
• José Antonio Primo de Rivera (Spain)
• Heli Rolando de Tella y Cantos (Spain)
• Carlos Asensio Cabanillas (Spain)
• Antonio Castejón Espinosa (Spain)
• Mohammed ben Mizzian (Spanish Morocco)
• Eoin O'Duffy (Ireland)
• Hugo Sperrle (Germany)
• Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (Germany)
• Adolf Galland (Germany)
• Werner Mölders (Germany)
• Wilhelm Balthasar (Germany)
• Walter Oesau (Germany)
• Herbert Ihlefeld (Germany)
• Günther Lützow (Germany)
• Hajo Herrmann (Germany)
• Hannes Trautloft (Germany)
• Heinrich Trettner (Germany)
• Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (Germany)
• Mario Roatta (Italy)
• Ettore Bastico (Italy)
• Mario Berti (Italy)
• Gastone Gambara (Italy)
• Amedeo Guillet (Italy)

Other

• Ramiro de Maeztu, assassinated
• José María Gironella
• Dionisio Ridruejo
• Ernesto Giménez Caballero
• José María Pemán
• Gerardo Diego
• Pedro Muñoz Seca, assassinated
• Josep Pla
• Dámaso Alonso
• Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, executed
• Rafael Sánchez Mazas
• Roy Campbell
• Juan March Ordinas
• Pedro Laín Entralgo
• Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
• Luis Rosales
• Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• Salvador Dalí
• Juan de la Cierva
• Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
• José Antonio Maravall
• Álvaro Cunqueiro
• Ramón Serrano Súñer
• Pío Baroja
• Azorín
• Leopoldo Panero
• Ernesto Halffter
• Concha Espina
• Ramón Pérez de Ayala
• Eduardo Marquina
• Pedro Sainz Rodríguez
• Eugeni d'Ors
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Jacinto Benavente
• Miguel Delibes
• Camilo José Cela
• Manuel Machado
• Miguel de Unamuno, publicly recanted but privately still supported a Nationalist victory]]
• Harold Henry Davey

Figures identified with the Republican side

Politicians or military

• Manuel Azaña (Republican)
• Santiago Carrillo (Communist)
• Lluis Companys (Republican/Catalanist)
• Buenaventura Durruti (Anarchist)
• Francisco Sabaté Llopart (Anarchist)
• José Giral Pereira (Republican)
• Valentin González ("El Campesino") (Communist)
• Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") (Communist)
• Georges Kopp (Communist)
• Mehmet Shehu (Communist)
• Ernő Gerő (Communist)
• Ferenc Münnich (Communist)
• Sergey Gritsevets (Communist)
• Lev Shestakov (Communist)
• Francisco Largo Caballero (Socialist)
• Enrique Líster (Communist)
• Julio Mangada (Government)
• Diego Martínez Barrio (Republican)
• José Miaja (Government)
• Juan Negrín (Socialist)
• Andrés Nin (Communist)
• Indalecio Prieto (Socialist)
• Melchor Rodriguez Garcia (Anarchist)
• Vicente Rojo Lluch (Government)

Others (including volunteers)

• W. H. Auden
• Claud Cockburn
• Joaquín Arderíus
• Norman Bethune
• Pedro García Cabrera
• Federico García Lorca, assassinated poet
• Fernando Gerassi
• Pablo Picasso, plastic artist
• Ernest Hemingway, American writer
• John Dos Passos, American writer
• Miguel Hernández, captive poet
• Laurie Lee
• "Yank" Levy
• André Malraux
• George Orwell, British volunteer and writer
• James Robertson Justice
• Henri Rol-Tanguy
• Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
• Karol Świerczewski
• Tristan Tzara, founder of Dadaism

Others

• Emma Goldman, anarchist writer
• Ilya Ehrenburg
• Samuel Krafsur
• Ethel MacDonald, anarchist propagandist
• Carl Marzani
• Robert Miller
• Ture Nerman, Swedish Communist
• Pablo Neruda, Chilean communist, poet and diplomat in Spain and France
• Kim Philby
• Ludwig Renn
• Egon Erwin Kisch
• Arthur Koestler
• Alexander Orlov
• Langston Hughes
• Nicolas Guillen
• Martha Gellhorn
• Eddie August Schneider, American pilot
• Bert Acosta, American pilot
• Frank Glasgow Tinker, American pilot
• Robert Brasillach
• Georges Bernanos