Many famous influenced by the passion with which Hemingway enjoyed the holidays and how well reflected in his stories decided to experience the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. In 1956 the film version of "Fiesta" by director Henry King was filmed with a cast of famous actors formed by Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power. During those years, many of the American film industry stars visited Pamplona. Some of them where the director and actor Orson Welles, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr, the actor Charlton Heston, the playwright Arthur Miller with his wife, the Austrian photographer Inger Morath.
In more recent years, the personalities coming to Pamplona to discover the San Fermin Fiesta have been the granddaughter of writer Margeaux Hemingway, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, the West Indian Literature Nobel Derek Walcott and the famous film director Spike Lee. Other famous and distinguish visitors not coming from the Film Industry have been Matt Carney, who became a great bull runner with his friend and teacher, Jerome Echagiie; Alice , Joe Disler, David Black, (he came 40 times on a row); Ray Morton and a young Bill Clinton. The writer James Michener takes a look at his book "The Drifters" stating their presence during different San Fermin editions.
