José Pastor
José Pastor Catalán( born February 14, 1906, date of death unknown) was a Spanish boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
In 1924 he was eliminated in the second round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to Jacques Lemouton.
Carlos Solchaga Catalán
Carlos Solchaga Catalán( born 28 March 1944) is a Spanish economist, businessman and politician, who served in different capacities at various Spanish cabinets.
Diego Catalán
Diego Catalán (16 September 1928 – 9 April 2008) was a Spanish philologist.
He was the grandson of famed philologist, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal.
Catalán died of heart disease on 9 April 2008, at the age of 83.
Catalán was the son of Miguel Catalán Sanudo and Jimena Menéndez Pidal, and therefore the grandson of philologist Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
Catalán was primarily a medievalist, he chaired the Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation which aims to continue Pidal's work, especially in the field of Hispanic Ballads, editing and study of texts and the history of the Spanish language.
He coordinated a large project, the pan Hispanic ballads, which aimed to collect and preserve texts.
Catalán was the owner of The Ballads Archive which covers materials and work of philological and historical research.
The archive is held by the Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation and includes works from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
It is available to scholars for research purposes.
The archive was considered part of the "National Treasure" and, as such, was protected at the headquarters of the League of Nations in Geneva during the Spanish Civil War.
Matías Catalán
Matías Catalán( born 19 August 1992) is an Argentine- born Chilean footballer who plays for Atlético San Luis as a defender.
José Ignacio González
José Ignacio González Catalán( born 2 December 1989) is a Chilean footballer that currently plays for Palestino in the Chilean Primera División.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Arthur Beauchamp
Arthur Beauchamp( 1827 – 28 April 1910) was a Member of Parliament from New Zealand.
He is remembered as the father of Harold Beauchamp, who rose to fame as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was the father of writer Katherine Mansfield.
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.
Miguel A. Catalán
Miguel Antonio Catalán Sañudo (1894–1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist.
Born in Zaragoza, he obtained his degree in chemistry from the University of Zaragoza and received his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 for his thesis about spectrochemistry.
In 1920, he began work as a researcher at Imperial College London.
Examining the spectrum of the arc of manganese, he determined that the optical spectra of complex atoms consisted of groups of lines –which he called "multipletes"- between which existed certain characteristic regularities.
Catalán demonstrated that study of the multipletes led to further understanding of the states of energy of atomic electrons.
On the invitation of Arnold Sommerfeld, he worked at the University of Munich, and on the creation by the Rockefeller Foundation of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry (Madrid), in 1930 he was named head of the Spectroscopy Section.
He was invited numerous times to work in the laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards
(Washington, D.C.), Princeton University, and MIT.
He published more than 70 scientific articles in specialized journals.
In 1926, he received a prize from the "Real Academia de Ciencias" (Spain) and in 1930, the international Pelfort prize.
He married Jimena Menéndez Pidal, the daughter of Royal Spanish Academy director Ramón Menéndez Pidal.
Because of the military coup by General Francisco Franco in July 1936, he and his father in law were the subject of numerous misdemeanours.
From 1950 onwards, he served as director of the "Departamento de Espectros del Instituto de Óptica de Madrid" (C.S.I.C.).
In 1952, he served as advisor to the Joint Commission for Spectroscopy, the head body for this field.
In 1954, he became a member of the "Real Academia de Ciencias" (Madrid).
Catalán died in Madrid.
The lunar crater Catalán is named after him.
Based on certain conjectures of Miguel Catalan about rotational dynamics, his disciple and biographer Gabriel Barceló, years later, developed the Theory of Dynamic Interactions.
The Government of the Comunidad de Madrid (Autonomous Region of Madrid) awards the Miguel Catalán Investigation Award in Science since 2005, to honor Catalán's memory.
The award recognizes outstanding life accomplishments in research and science.
The award winners each receive a medal, a citation and 42,000 Euros.
Winners of this award are: José Elguero Bertolini (2005, chemist), Antonio Hernando Grande (2006, physicist), Amable Liñán Martínez (2007, aeronautical engineer), José Luis García Fierro (2008, chemist) and Miguel Francisco Sánchez Madrid (2009, biologist).
Since 2008, a Miguel Catalán Investigation Award in Science for researchers under forty years is also given.
The awards winners also receive a medal, a citation and 21,000 Euros.
50,000 Euros are also given to their institutions to fund their future work.
Winners are: Oscar Fernández Carpetillo (2008, oncologist) and Luis Raúl Sánchez Fernández (2009, physicist).

Question: What is the place of birth of Diego Catalán's father?
Answer: Zaragoza