1961 in Spain

Events in the year 1961 in Spain.

Incumbents

 * Caudillo: Francisco Franco

Births

 * June 18 – Manuel Pereira, fencer
 * July 23 – Gonzalo Arconada Echarri, football manager
 * November 4 – Carlos García Cantarero, football manager
 * December 24 – Silvia Fontana, swimmer

Deaths

 * April 7 – Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
 * April 19 – Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892)
 * August 1 – Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892)
 * December 23 – Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War. (b. 1912)
 * Miguel Gómez Bao –  Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894)