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For this purpose, people considered are those hailing from the extended Basque Country (includes the Basque Autonomous Community, the French Basque Country and Navarre). In particular born or resident in the Basque Country, unless self-identifying as not Basque (e.g. people self-identifying as Spanish or French rather than Basque.)
This is a list of famous people which are of Basque ancestry. For this purpose, people considered are those with ancestors –either fully or partially– from the extended Basque Country (including the Basque Autonomous Community, the French Basque Country and Navarre).
People from the Basque Country (autonomous community) (6 C) People from the Kingdom of Navarre (14 C, 9 P) Basque prisoners and detainees (15 P)
Gurutzi Arregi (1936–2020), Basque ethnographer; Martín de Azpilicueta (1492–1586), economist, member of the School of Salamanca, precursor of the quantitative theory of money; Mercedes Bengoechea (born 1952), feminist sociolinguist, professor; Agustín Blánquez Fraile (1883–1965], historian and latinist
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The earliest documented Basque surnames occur on Aquitanian inscriptions from the time of the Roman conquest of Hispania and Gallia Aquitania.For the most part these can be easily identified with modern or medieval Basque surnames, for example ENNECONIS (the personal name Eneko plus the Latin genitive ending -IS, stem augmented by -N) > Enekoitz.
People by comarca in the Basque Country (autonomous community) (2 C) A. People from Álava (2 C, 28 P) B. People from Biscay (2 C, 3 P) G. People from Gipuzkoa (3 C, 3 P)
There are several clubs within the Basque Country, such as Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad, Deportivo Alavés, SD Eibar and, as Navarre club, the CA Osasuna (the only club in La Liga that has a Basque name—osasuna means "health"). In the 2016–17 season these five clubs played together in La Liga, the first instance where five Basque clubs ...