34 Spanish bullfighters

Julio Aparicio Díaz, also known as Julito Aparicio, is a Spanish bullfighter from Seville. Aparicio made his public début in bullfighting at the age of fourteen in 1984. He was confirmed as a torero, or matador, in 1994.

José Miguel Arroyo Delgado is a bullfighter from Spain. He is better known in bullfighting circles as Joselito, a nickname he shares with at least two other notables: José Gomez, the Joselito bullfighter of the 1910s, and Joselito, a teen idol singer from the 1960s.

Juan Belmonte García was a Spanish bullfighter. He fought in a record number of bull fights and was responsible for changing the art of bullfighting. He had minor deformities in his legs which forced him to design new techniques and styles of bullfighting.

José Antonio Canales Rivera is a well-known Spanish bullfighter.

Alfonso Cela Vieito, known as Celita, was a Spanish-Galician bullfighter. He is the only Galician to ever become a professional bullfighter.

Manuel Jimenez Moreno, better known as "Chicuelo", was a Spanish bullfighter. His father was Manuel Jiménez Vera "Chicuelo-I" (1879-1907). He married Dolores Castro Ruiz "Dora" in Córdoba, and they had two children, Rafael Jiménez Castro (1937-) and Manuel. In 2009, the mayor of Seville unveiled a sculpture in Chicuelo's honor in La Alameda square.

Javier Conde Becerra, better known as Javier Conde, is one of the most famous Spanish bullfighters to come from Málaga.

Manuel Benítez Pérez, more commonly known as El Cordobés, is a Spanish bullfighter, matador, and actor active in the 1960s who brought an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style to the bullring.

Joaquín Rodríguez, better known as Costillares, was a Spanish bullfighter who has been considered the father of modern spectator bullfighting.

Luis Miguel González Lucas, better known as Luis Miguel Dominguín, was a bullfighter from Spain. His father was the legendary Domingo Dominguín; he adopted his father's name to gain popularity.

El Fandi is statistically one of the most skilled matadors in the world. Currently, he is ranked number one among all bullfighters in Spain.

Iván Fandiño Barros was a Spanish bullfighter.

José Gómez Ortega, commonly known as Joselito, was a Spanish matador in the early twentieth century.

Rafael Gómez Ortega, also known as El Gallo was an early twentieth century bullfighter. He came from a family of famous bullfighters, including his matador father, Fernando Gómez García and matador younger brother, José Gómez Ortega. He is today remembered for several of his unique fighting techniques such as the espantada - or "sudden flight", which simply consisted of him fleeing when the bull entered the ring. Other techniques included fighting bulls from a chair.

Julián López Escobar commonly known as El Juli, is a Spanish bullfighter.

Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, known as Manolete, was a Spanish bullfighter.

Diego Mazquiarán, often called simply Fortuna, was a Spanish matador.

Rafael Molina Sánchez, called Lagartijo (lizard), was a Spanish bullfighter.

Francisco Montes Reina, nicknamed Paquiro, was a matador and celebrity. He was born in Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz Province, Spain.

Cayetano Ordóñez y Aguilera is the patriarch of the Ordóñez family of bullfighters.

José María Ortega Cano is a Spanish bullfighter. He was married to Spanish singer Rocío Jurado. They adopted two Colombian children, one boy and one girl.

Domingo Ortega was a Spanish matador. Born Domingo López Ortega in Borox, Toledo, he was the son of a farmer, and grew up helping with farm work. During months when there was no work on the farm, he would travel to other towns selling garlic.

Juan José Padilla is a Spanish torero ('bullfighter'). He became a matador de toros, 'killer of (full-grown) bulls', in the town of his birth, Jerez de la Frontera, on June 18, 1994 when he was 21 years old. He was known as the 'Cyclone of Jerez' and featured heavily, both personally and professionally, in Into The Arena: The World Of The Spanish Bullfight, a shortlisted nominee for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2011.

Francisco Rivera Pérez, known as Paquirri, was a Spanish bullfighter.

Ángel Peralta Pineda, known as Centauro de las Marismas, was a Spanish rejoneador.

Alfonso Enrique Ponce Martínez, also known as Enrique Ponce, is a famous Spanish bullfighter.

Conchi Reyes Ríos is a Spanish bullfighter. In 2011, she was the first woman to take two ears off a bull. In 2015, she was featured on a Spanish national list of bullfighters, one of six women out of 825.

Antonio Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez is a Spanish torero or 'bullfighter'.

Francisco de Asís Rivera Ordóñez is a Spanish torero or 'bullfighter'.

Enrique Robles of Madrid, Spain, also known as Chicorrito was a champion torero in Mexico and in Spain. By 1927 he killed over 1,000 bulls and had 70 scars from being gored.

Francisco Romero López is a Spanish bullfighter, known as Curro Romero. Born in Camas, near Seville.

Pedro Romero Martínez was a legendary bullfighter from the Romero family in Ronda, Spain.

Cristina Sánchez de Pablos is a Spanish bullfighter who gained prominence during the 1990s for being one of the first female bullfighters. She is the first woman to complete her alternativa in Europe.

Adolfo Suárez Illana is a Spanish politician, lawyer, author and aficionado-practitioner of bullfighting.