Ángel Teruel

Ángel Teruel Peñalver (; 20 February 1950 – 17 December 2021), professionally known as Ángel Teruel, was a Spanish bullfighter, the star of the escalafón taurino (bullfighters' rankings) in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Early years Born in Madrid's Embajadores neighbourhood, Teruel worked as a boy in his parents' family business, a roundabout, on the Calle de Ferraz, across the street from the Dominguín household, a family of illustrious bullfighters at that time. Teruel learnt while still a child to use the cape and the muleta together with the Dominguín children, for there was no bullfighting background in his own family.

Nonetheless, Teruel's brother Pepe became a matador, too, although before he himself did. His début with picadores took place on 29 January 1967 in Fuengirola (other sources say 22 January) with billing shared with Miguel Márquez and Jacobo Belmonte, and with bulls supplied by Núñez Guerra at the Burgos bullring during Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's Bullfighting Fair, and the bullfights there were televised that afternoon. His "godfather", Santiago Martín, "El Viti", let him slay the afternoon's first bull, whose name was Cazuela and who was from the Manuela Agustina López Flores ranch (elsewhere named as Don Samuel Flores y Doña Manuela Agustina López Flores

At Saint Isidore's Fair the next year, on 12 May, he presented himself at Madrid's Las Ventas bullring to have his alternativa confirmed, sharing billing that afternoon with "El Viti" and José Fuentes from Linares. The bulls waiting in the pens bore the Atanasio Fernández brand, and the one that Teruel fought for his confirmation was Yegüero, weighing 501 kg and all black but for the crotch. Teruel got both Yegüero's ears. Together with the other two ears that he cut from the afternoon's sixth bull, named Mallorquino,

On 9 January 1971, while appearing at a corrida in Manizales, Colombia, Teruel suffered a setback in his career when the bull that he was fighting (supplied by the Dosgutiérrez ranch) was sent back to the pens after Teruel failed to slay him after the bullring's warning signals. To make up for it, he gave a bull from the Félix Rodríguez ranch as a gift. being considered "Torero de Lima" ("Lima's bullfighter") after announcing seven seasons at the Fair of the Lord of Miracles. Twice, in 1969 and 1970, he was awarded the Golden Scapular of the Lord of Miracles there. On 27 February 1972, in Lima, La Prensa's bullfighting news bulletin reported "(...) two outfits will be worn on the Sunday by the bullfighter to slay the six Mexican bulls...after the third bull, Ángel will come out onto the bullfighting ground wearing a white and black costume which will cause a sensation". That bullfighting outfit had been designed by the painter Pablo Picasso, a costume that would later be left as a souvenir to a Lima club. The six Mexican bulls to which the newspaper article alluded were reddish-brown ones (bureles) from the Mexican ranch Mimihuapan. Teruel made up for his lacklustre performance in Colombia a year earlier by being the only matador to appear at this corrida. He slew all six bulls and cut a total of four ears and one tail.

The 1975 bullfighting season saw Teruel don the suit of lights no fewer than sixty-two times, but it was marred by a ligament rupture that he suffered late in July, forcing him out of the bullring until late September. Even so, he still had time to post good successes in Logroño, Talavera de la Reina, Toledo and Zaragoza. ), Teruel consequently saw an upswing in the number of contracts that he was awarded, eventually rising to seventy-five. Teruel spent his last years at his farm in Bohonal de Ibor, Cáceres, where he had a fighting bull breeding business.