List of Afro-Latinos
This is a list of people of Afro-Latino descent. An Afro-Latin American (also Afro-Latino) is a Latin American person of Black African descent; the term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America thought to emanate from this community.
Many Brazilians, Dominicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans,Panamanians,Hondurans,Mexicans and other Latinos can fall under this label. 95% of the Africans who came into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade were scattered about Latin America and the Caribbean. The very first Africans to reach the New World arrived on the island of Hispaniola, which is the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Dominicans and Haitians are descendants of the first African slaves in the New World, yet the majority of Africans to inhabit any American nation inhabited Brazil. Only 5% of the Africans to arrive in the Americas went to North America, who are the African Americans, descendants of the last and the fewest number of Africans to reach the New World.
- 40 Cal - rapper
- Tatyana Ali - actress and singer
- Roberto Alomar - former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Laz Alonso - actor
- Nahshon Dion Anderson - writer, former actor and model
- Anitta - singer
- Carmelo Anthony - American NBA small forward and power forward, Oklahoma City Thunder
- La La Anthony - disc jockey, television personality and actress
- Taís Araújo - Brazilian actress and model
- Eva Ayllón - composer and singer
- AZ - rapper
- Lloyd Banks - rapper
- Jean-Michel Basquiat - artist, musician
- Swizz Beatz - rapper, producer
- Aloe Blacc - American singer and songwriter
- Elijah Blake - singer-songwriter
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- Miguel Cabrera - Venezuelan baseball player
- Ilia Calderón - journalist
- Tego Calderón - reggaeton singer-songwriter, rapper and actor
- Mariah Carey - vocalist and actor
- John Carlos - former track and field champion, famous for his 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- Matt Cedeño - actor and former model
- Orlando Cepeda - former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Hugo Chavez - former Venezuelan President
- Roberto Clemente - former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Celia Cruz - Cuban-American salsa singer and performer
- Victor Cruz - football player, former NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. - entertainer
- Rosario Dawson - actress, singer and writer
- Melissa De Sousa - actress
- Sylvia del Villard - actress, dancer, choreographer and activist
- Carlos Delgado - former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Kat Deluna - musician
- Graciela Dixon - former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Panama[1]
- Rudy Duthil - advertising executive
- Dave East - rapper
- Alfred Enoch - actor
- Adriano Espaillat - New York congressman
- Fabolous - rapper
- Antonio Fargas - actor
- Cheo Feliciano - Puerto Rican singer of salsa and bolero music
- Leonel Fernández - former President of the Dominican Republic
- Tony Fernández - former Dominican baseball player
- Juan Flores - historian, professor, Afro-Latino Studies scholar
- Arian Foster - football player, NFL running back for the Houston Texans
- Kevin Gates - rapper
- Gilberto Gil - Brazilian singer, political activist and former Minister of Culture
- Renee Elise Goldsberry - actress
- Herizen Guardiola - actress and singer
- Gunplay - rapper
- Severiano de Heredia - Cuban-born French politician, president of the municipal council of Paris from 1879 to 1880, first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital
- Gwen Ifill - journalist, television newscaster and author
- Kid Cudi - musician
- Erick Kolthoff - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
- Toña la Negra - singer
- Selenis Leyva - actress
- Sessilee Lopez - model
- Faizon Love - actor and comedian
- La Lupe - singer
- Maluca Mala - singer and rapper
- Juan Marichal - former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Bruno Mars - singer
- Pedro Martínez - former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Miguel - singer-songwriter
- Christina Milian - singer and actress
- Minnie Miñoso - former Cuban baseball player
- Carlos Moore - Cuban writer, journalist and activist
- Benny Moré - Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter
- Nancy Morejón - Cuban poet, critic, essayist
- N.O.R.E. - rapper
- Amaury Nolasco - actor
- Soledad O'Brien - broadcast journalist, executive producer and philanthropist
- Don Omar - reggaeton singer-songwriter and actor
- Johnny Pacheco - Dominican musician, creator of the Fania All-Stars, coined the term "Salsa"
- Peedi Peedi - rapper
- Tony Peña - former Dominican baseball player
- Rosie Perez - actress, dancer, choreographer, director and community activist
- Dascha Polanco - actress
- Albert Pujols - Dominican baseball player
- Dania Ramirez - actress
- Manny Ramirez - Dominican baseball player
- Charles Rangel - former New York congressman
- Judy Reyes - actress
- Lais Ribeiro - model
- Mychal Rivera - football player, tight end, Oakland Raiders
- Naya Rivera - actress
- Alex Rodriguez - Dominican-American baseball player
- Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez - Puerto Rican salsa singer
- Zoe Saldana - actress
- Manny Sanguillén - former Panamanian baseball player
- Juelz Santana - rapper
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg - Puerto Rican historian, writer, and Afro-Latino activist in the United States; founder of the Schomberg Center for Black Research
- Luis Guillermo Solís - Costa Rican president and mulatto
- Arlenis Sosa - model
- Sammy Sosa - former Dominican baseball player
- Vince Staples - rapper
- Cecilia Tait - politician and former volleyball player
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez - Cuban cosmonaut
- Tessa Thompson - American actress
- Melody Thornton - singer-songwriter and dancer
- Luis Tiant - former MLB starting pitcher, Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox
- Gina Torres - actress
- Trina - rapper (Dominican father)
- María Urrutia - former weightlifter, athlete and politician
- Lauren Velez - actress
- Tristan Wilds - actor and singer
- Juan Williams - journalist and political analyst
- Ivan Barias - Dominican music producer and songwriter
- Cardi B - rapper
See also
- Lists of people:
- Afro-Argentine
- Afro-Bolivian
- Afro-Brazilian
- Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban slave descendants in Angola (Amparo)
- Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban slave descendants in Nigeria (Amaro)
- Afro-Chilean
- Afro-Colombian
- Afro-Costa Rican
- Afro-Cuban
- Afro-Cuban slave descendants of Fernando Po (Emancipados)
- Afro-Dominican
- Afro-Ecuadorian
- Afro-Guatemalan
- Afro-Haitian
- Afro-Honduran
- Afro-Mexican
- Afro-Nicaraguan
- Afro-Panamanian
- Afro-Paraguayan
- Afro-Peruvian
- Afro-Puerto Rican
- Afro-Salvadoran
- Afro-Uruguayan
- Afro-Venezuelan
- Afro-Latin American
- African diaspora
- African diaspora in the Americas
- List of topics related to Black and African people
References
- ↑ Carrillo, Karen Juanita (22 March 2006). "Afro Latino leaders meet in D.C. to advance equality". New York Amsterdam News. Retrieved 7 August 2010.