Sir Ramon de la Sota y Llano KBE (January 20, 1857 in Castro Urdiales – August 17, 1936 in Getxo) was a Basque lawyer, industrialist and prominent Basque nationalist activist.
King George V bestowed on him a knighthood of the Order of the British Empire, which entitled him and liked to be addressed as Sir.
At the turn of the 20th century, he became a major sponsor of the Basque Nationalist Party.
He lived in his family's house at Muskiz for twenty years until he moved to Bilbao in 1868 ahead of the Second Carlist War, where he took up studies in the ''Instituto Vizcaino''.
[1] Thriving on the heat of Bilbao's industrial development during the first decades of the 20th century, his shipbuilding and mining businesses earned him one of the largest fortunes in the Basque Country and Spain altogether.