Xosé Manuel Beiras

Xosé Manuel Hixinio Beiras Torrado (7 April 1936 – 8 October 2026) was a Galician politician, economist, writer and intellectual. He was a professor of Structural Economy at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Beiras was a member of the National Council of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), and the leader of Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood, an independentist political party until his death. He also served as a member of the Galician parliament.