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Manuel Acero Manuel Acero Montoro (1875 – 4 November 1939) was a politician of the Second Spanish Republic. He was from Baeza. After the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, he was executed by the Francoist State Francoist Spain ( es, España f ...

* Pere Adrover Fort * Lorenzo Aguirre * José Alarcón *

Otilio Alba Polo Otilio Alba Polo (1915 – 18 March 1941) was a Spanish Catalan politician. He was born in Barcelona. He supported the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. After the victory of the Nationalists, he was executed by the government of ...

* Nicasio Álvarez de Sotomayor * David Álvarez Flores * José Aranguren, General of the

Guardia Civil The Civil Guard ( es, Guardia Civil, link=no; ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain and is one of two national police forces. As a national gendarmerie force, it is military in nature and is responsible for civil policing under the au ...

* Luis Arráez Martínez *

Guillermo Ascanio Guillermo Ascanio (1907–1941) was a Communist Party of Spain politician. He fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and tried to prevent Casado's coup of March 1939. After the victory of the Nationalists, h ...

Antonio Azarola y Gresillón Antonio Azarola y Gresillón (1874 4 August 1936) was a Spanish Navy officer, rear admiral of the Spanish Republican Navy. He was executed by firing squad on 4 August 1936 at the Ferrol Naval Base in Galicia, NW Spain, by rebel Navy officer ...

, rear admiral of the

Spanish Republican Navy The Spanish Republican Navy was the naval arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939. History In the same manner as the other two branches of the Spanish Republ ...

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Humberto Baena Humberto is a Portuguese and Spanish masculine given name of Germanic origin. It may refer to: *Humberto Aguilar Coronado *Humberto Ak'ab'al * Humberto Albiñana * Humberto Albornoz * Humberto Alonso Morelli * Humberto Alonso Razo * Humberto Andrad ...

Aquilino Barrachina Aquilino may refer to the following people: ;Given name *Aquilino Bonfanti (1943–2016), Italian football midfielder *Aquilino Boyd (1921–2004), Panamanian politician and diplomat *Aquilino Coppini (died 1629), Italian musician and lyricist *Aqui ...

* Francisco Barreiro * Domingo Batet, General of the

Spanish Republican Army The Spanish Republican Army ( es, Ejército de la República Española) was the main branch of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic between 1931 and 1939. It became known as People's Army of the Republic (''Ejército Popular de la Rep� ...

* Rafael Battestini Gaulp *

Francisco Bedoya Gutiérrez Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

Fernando Berenguer de las Cagigas Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...

Celestí Boada Celestí Boada i Salvador (1902 – 18 October 1939) was a Spanish-Catalan politician. He was born in Santa Coloma de Gramanet. He was a member of the Republican Left of Catalonia. He supported the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. ...

Cayetano Bolívar Cayetano is a Spanish and sometimes Sephardic Jewish name related to the Italian name Gaetano (English: '' Cajetan''), both from Latin ''Caietanus'', meaning "from Gaeta". It is a common given name in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and the Philippines. As ...

Ernesto Botella Gisbert Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely b ...

Alexandre Bóveda Alexandre Bóveda Iglesias (Ourense, 7 June 1903 - executed in A Caeira, Poio, 17 August 1936), commonly known as Alexandre Bóveda, was a Spanish politician and financial officer from Galicia. He is considered one of the most important Galicia ...

Javier Bueno Javier may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Javier, in video game '' Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' * Javier Rios, a character in the Monsters, Inc. franchise. * ''Javier'' (album), a 2003 album by the American singer Javier Colon, known a ...

Justo Bueno Pérez Justo () is a Spanish surname and male given name meaning ''just'', i.e. ''fair''. Given name Notable people with this given name include: * José Justo Corro (1794-1864), Mexican president * José Justo Milla (1794–1838), Honduran military lea ...

* Ricardo Burillo Stholle *

Joan Busquets Queralt Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine * Joan (surname) Weather events * Tropical Storm Joan (disambiguation), multip ...

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* Los Cinco de Otero * Valentín Cabello * Pascual Cabrera Quemades * Sinesio Calderón, at the

Cortijo A ''cortijo'' is a type of traditional rural dwelling (akin to the German ''Bauernhof'', also known as a Farmhouse in English) in the southern half of Spain, including all of Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost ...

del Enjembraero * Luis Calvo Calavia * Miguel Campins *

Juana Capdevielle Juana Capdevielle (12 August 1905 – 18 August 1936) was a Spanish educator and librarian. Biography Juana Capdevielle was born in Madrid and went to Pamplona to study at a high school. She moved back to Madrid in order to pursue a university ...

* Vicent Miquel Carceller * Benigno Cardeñoso * Manuel Carrasco i Formiguera * Ángel Carrasco Nolasco * Ángel Carrero Sancho * Manuel Cascón Briega *

Salvador Castells Mas Salvador, meaning "salvation" (or "saviour") in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese may refer to: * Salvador (name) Arts, entertainment, and media Music *Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music ** ''Salvador'' (S ...

* Manuel Castro Molina * José Castro Veiga * Santiago Catena * José Cazorla Maure * Tomás Centeno * Atilano Coco *

Lluís Companys Lluís Companys i Jover (; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. Companys was a lawyer close to labour movement and one of the most prominent l ...

, president of

Generalitat de Catalunya The Generalitat de Catalunya (; oc, label= Aranese, Generalitat de Catalonha; es, Generalidad de Cataluña), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia politically organizes its self-government. It is formed ...

* Luis Corbí * Antonio Cortés, at the Cortijo del Enjembraero * Francisco Cruz Salido *

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* Emili Darder *

Carmelo Delgado Delgado Carmelo Delgado Delgado (April 20, 1913 – April 29, 1937) was a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Delgado joined the Abraham Lincoln International Brigade and fought against the Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. D ...

* Camilo Díaz Baliño * José María Díaz y Díaz Villaamil *

Isidoro Diéguez Dueñas Isidoro Diéguez Dueñas (19 January 1909 – 21 January 1942) was a Spanish bricklayer who joined the Spanish Communist Party, fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and went into exile. When he returned from Mexico to Portugal he was arrest ...

* María Domínguez * Juan José Domínguez Muñoz * Luis Dorado * Julio Durán Pérez

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* Francisco Javier Elola * Lluís Escaler * Isidro Escandell *

Antonio Escobar Huertas Antonio Escobar Huerta (14 November 1879, Ceuta – 8 February 1940) was a Spanish military officer. Biography Escobar was a Catholic and a conservative. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was a colonel of the Spanish Civil Guard in ...

, General of the Republican Army *

Etelvino Vega Etelvino Vega Martínez (1906–1939) was a Spanish politician and military officer. Life In 1931, he was a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). In 1932, after the failed ''coup'' of Sanjurjo, he supported the ...

* Rafael Expósito

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* Josep Fàbrega * Josep Lluís i Facerias * José Antonio Fernández Vega * Joaquin Fernández Gálvez * Baldomero Fernández Ladreda * Félix Figueras Aragay * Ángel Fuertes Vidosa

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* Vicente Galarza * Pedro Luis de Gálvez * Antonio Gan Vargas * Cristino García Granda *

Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblemat ...

* Rosendo García Montesinos * Ramón García Sanz * Juan García Suárez * Jaume Garcias * Ángel Garvín *

Jaime Girabau Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

* Manuel Girón * Carlos Gómez Carrera * José Gómez Gayoso * José Gómez Osorio * Eliseo Gómez Serrano * Perfecto González * Armando González Corral * Pedro González González (mayor) * Isidre Grañé *

Julián Grimau Julián Grimau García (18 February 1911 – 20 April 1963) was a Spanish politician, member of the Communist Party of Spain, executed during Francisco Franco's Francoist State. Political activities Initially active in the Federal Republican P ...

* José Guerra Lozano * Ramón Guerreiro

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* Joaquín Heredia * Horacio Hermoso Araujo * Manuel Hernández Arteaga *

Miguel Hernández Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910 – 28 March 1942 ) was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, h ...

, poet * Jesús-Vito Hernández Gil * Amado Hernández Pascual *

Antonio Hernanz Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular m ...

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* Antonio Iglesias, at the Cortijo del Enjembraero * Blas Infante * Aurelio Íñigo

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* María la Jabalina * Diego Jaén *

José María Jarabo José María Jarabo (28 April 1923 – 4 July 1959) was a Spanish spree killer, who between 19 and 21 July 1958, murdered four adults and an unborn baby. Jarabo was sentenced to death by garrote and executed in 1959. Early life José María ...

, spree killer *

Leoncio Jaso Leoncio or Leôncio is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Leoncio Afonso, (born 1916), Spanish academic in the geography, history and toponymics of the Canary Islands *Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias (1874–1951), Peruvian soldier a ...

Alexandre Jaume Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom o ...

* Juanín * Timoteo Jurado

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Maravillas Lamberto Maravillas Lamberto was a 14-year-old girl from Larraga, Navarre, who was raped and killed by Falangism, Falangists, part of the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist faction, during the Spanish coup of July 1936, July 1936 coup d'� ...

* Federico Landrove López * Jesús Larrañaga * Domènec Latorre * Emilio Leciguyena * José María León Jiménez *

Virgilio Leret Ruiz Virgilio Leret Ruiz (23 August 1902 – 18 July 1936) was a Spanish air force commander, writer and pioneer of aeronautical engineering with a patented jet-engine design. He is believed to be the first officer executed in the Spanish Civil War a ...

* José López Bouza * Tomás López da Torre * Avelino López Otero * Antonio López Sánchez-Prado *

Domingo López Torres Domingo López Torres (1910—1937) was a Canary Islands, Canarian painter, writer, and poet. Born to a very poor family in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he became an autodidact and convinced Marxist, playing a large role in the development of revoluti ...

* Manuel Lozano Guillén * Rogelio Luque * Lurgorri * Manuel Lustres Rivas

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* Antonio Mairal *

Francisco Marcos Pelayo Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

* Francesc Marquès Casadevall * Martín Márquez * Cayetano Martínez Artés * Toribio Martínez Cabrera, General of the Republican Army * Eduardo Medrano Rivas * Modesto Méndez Álvarez * Eustakio Mendizábal Benito *

Manuel Merino Manuel Arturo Merino de Lama (born 20 August 1961) is a Peruvian politician who briefly served as President of Peru for six days between 10 and 15 November 2020. He also served as the President of Congress from 16 March 2020 to 15 November 20 ...

, at the Cortijo del Enjembraero * Numen Mestre Ferrando * Vicent Miquel Carceller * Manuel Molina Conejero * Vicente Moliner Nadal * Camilo Molins Carreras, rear admiral of the Republican Navy *

Anastasio Moreno Anastasio is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name * Anastasio Alfaro (1865–1951), Costa Rican zoologist, geologist and explorer * Anastasio Aquino (1792–1833), Salvadoran indigenou ...

* Manuel Moreno Barranco * Félix Morga * José Moya Navarro * Manuel Muñoz Martínez

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* Victoriano Navascués * José Novo * Severiano Núñez * Gines Navarro De Rosa

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* Teodoro Olarte Aizpuru * Antonio Oliver Villanueva * Teodoro del Olmo * Tiburcio Osácar * Angel Otaegi Etxeberria

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* Joan Peiró *

Jon Paredes Manot Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".José Pellicer Gandía * Francisco Pérez Carballo * Juan Pérez Mendoza * Joaquín Pérez Salas * Alejandro Peris * Juan Peset * Fernando Piñuela * José Piqueras *

Salvador Puig Antich Salvador Puig Antich (; 30 May 1948 – 2 March 1974) was a Spanish militant anarchist from Catalonia. His execution for involvement in a bank robbery and shooting a police officer dead became a ''cause célèbre'' in Francoist Spain for Cata ...

* Joaquim Puig Pidemunt * Domènec Puigredon

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* Antonio María Ques Ventayol *

Jaime Quintanilla Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

* Heriberto Quiñones González

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Carles Rahola Llorens Carles () is a common Catalan language, Catalan given name of Germanic origin, which also appears as a surname. The English language equivalent is Charles. The name Carles can refer to: People *Carles (name) Places *Carles, Iloilo, a 2nd class m ...

* Luis Ramírez Palma * Tomás Ramón Amat * Aurelio Ramos Acosta * Cayetano Redondo *

Rufino Redondo Rufino may refer to: * Rufino (given name) * Rufino Family, Filipino family *Rufinus of Assisi According to legend, Rufinus of Assisi (Italian ''Rufino''), was the first bishop of this city and a martyr. Sources concerning the life of Saint Ru ...

Pere Reus Bordoy Pere may refer to: *Pere, Hungary, a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county * Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere (1937–2020), Māori New Zealand educationalist and spiritual leader *Wi Pere Wiremu "Wi" Pere (7 March 1837 – 9 Dec ...

* Emiliano-María Revilla * José Rico Martín * Severino Rivas * Luis Rodríguez Figueroa *

Juan Rodríguez Lozano ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

* Urbano R. Moledo * José Rodríguez-Medel * Josep Rodríguez Martínez * José María Romero Martínez * Carlos Rubiera Rodríguez *

Luis Rufilanchas Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

* Manuel Ruiz Maya

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* Mariano Sáez Morilla * Francesc Sabaté Llopart *

Quirino Salvadores Quirino, officially the Province of Quirino ( ilo, Probinsia ti Quirino; tl, Lalawigan ng Quirino), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. Its capital is Cabarroguis. It is named after Elpi ...

* Armengol Sampérez * Ignacio San Pedro Chocolonea * Felipe Sandoval * Ángel Sánchez Batea * José Luis Sánchez Bravo * Antonio Seoane Sánchez * Basiliso Serrano * Manuel Sánchez-Badajoz * Modesto Sánchez Cadenas * José Sánchez Gómez ''"El Timbalero"'' * José Sánchez Vidal * Primitivo Santa Cecilia * Juan José Santa Cruz * Juan Santana Vega * José Carlos Schwartz * Luis Sendín * Tomás Seguí * Manuel Sender * Antonio Seoane Sánchez * Ignacio Seoane * Basiliso Serrano * Luis Solá Padró * Humberto Solleiro *

Carlos Soto Romero Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhe ...

* Manuel Suárez Castro * Alfredo Suárez Ferrín * Juan Antonio Suárez Picallo * Josep Suñol

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* Las Trece Rosas * Vicente Talens Inglá * Gregorio Tobajas * Alfredo Torán * Jaume Torramadé * Apolinar Torres * Rafael Torres Escartín * Florentino Trapero * Anselmo Trejo Gallardo * Pablo Troyano

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* Felipe Urtiaga

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* Julio Valdeón * Victorino Valle Luis * Pere Valverde Fuentes * Antonio Vayas Gutiérrez * Faustino Vázquez Carril * Ramón Valls Figuerola *

Rafael de Vega Barrera Rafael may refer to: * Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin * Rafael, California * Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology * Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane Fiction * ''R ...

* Ángel Vera Coronel * Ramon Vila Capdevila * Salvador Vila Hernández * Gregorio Vilatela * Miguel Villalta Gisbert * José Villaverde Velo * José Vitini

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Georg Michael Welzel Georg may refer to: * ''Georg'' (film), 1997 *Georg (musical), Estonian musical * Georg (given name) * Georg (surname) * , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker See also * George (disambiguation) George may refer to: People * George (given name) * G ...

* Ernesto Winter

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* Frederic Xifré Masferrer

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* Pablo Yagüe * Pablo Yanguas * Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo

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* Ricardo Zabalza Elorga * Matilde Zapata * Mariano Zapico *

Julián Zugazagoitia Julián Zugazagoitia Mendieta (5 February 1899, Bilbao – 9 November 1940, Madrid) was a Spanish journalist and politician. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he was close to Indalecio Prieto and the editor of the ''El Socialista ...

References

Biographical Dictionary of Spanish Socialism
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Executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...