List of Hispanic and Latino Americans

This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Hispanic America or Spain.[1] The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino":[2] Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American, Panamanian American, Salvadoran American, Argentine American, Bolivian American, Chilean American, Colombian American, Ecuadorian American, Paraguayan American, Peruvian American, Spanish American, Uruguayan American, and Venezuelan American. However, Hispanic or Latino people can have any ancestry.

Not to be confused with List of Latin Americans.



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Latino Americans
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Actors
Main article: List of Hispanic and Latino American actors

Architects
  • Monica Ponce de Leon – first Hispanic architect to receive the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian; has received over 12 Progressive Architecture Awards and the Design Award Medal from the Academy of Arts and Letters; first Hispanic dean at the University of Michigan

Architects

Joseph Phillip Martinez was the first Mexican-American in the 20th century to receive a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. He was the founding Dean at The New School of Architecture; he previously taught at UC Berkeley. His broad professional practice has garnered various awards including a National AIA Presidential Award, Normal Heights Restoration Plan, and a National AIA Citation, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School. He was named by the National Association of Land Grant Universities and Colleges as Alumni of the Century for the University of California San Diego—only other Mexican-American honored was Henry Cisneros from Texas A&M University. He was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from California Rural Legal Assistance; moreover, he was honored by Barrio Station with a Lifetime Achievement Award. For more than 40 years his Eclectic Design Methodology has resulted in a portfolio of unique works of Architecture, he is the “Father of Chicano Architecture”. In addition to professional practice, he is a staff writer for ByDesign E-magazine via UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.

Baseball
  • Jorge Cantú – MLB infielder[3]
  • Johnny Estrada – MLB catcher[4]
  • Brian Fuentes – MLB relief pitcher, three-time All-Star[4]
  • Mariano Rivera – MLB Closer
  • Javier Baez – MLB infielder
  • Ted Williams – MLB Hall of Famer, Mexican American Heritage, was advised by his mother to omit his Mexican Heritage due to her fear of discrimination in the San Diego area against Mexicans. Left MLB twice to served in WW II and Korea, USMC.

Basketball

Boxing

Football

Gymnasts

Martial artists

Soccer

Politics
  • Ted Cruz – United States Senator representing Texas and first Hispanic American to hold that position
Thomas Perez
Adriano Espaillat

Models

Musicians

Scientists
  • Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988) – American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for development of the hydrogen bubble chamber
  • Martha E. Bernal (1931–2001) – Mexican-American clinical psychologist, first Latina to receive a psychology PhD in the United States
  • Antonia Novello (b. 1944) – Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States, first woman and first Hispanic to hold the position
  • Sarah Stewart (1905–1976) – Mexican-American microbiologist; discovered the Polyomavirus
  • Helen Rodríguez Trías (1929–2001) – Puerto Rican American pediatrician, advocate for women's reproductive rights
  • Melba J. T. Vasquez (b. 1951) – counseling psychologist and first Latina president of the American Psychological Association
  • Lydia Villa-Komaroff (b. 1947) – Mexican-American cellular biologist; third Mexican American woman in the United States to receive a PhD in the sciences
  • Rodolfo Llinas (b. 1934) – Colombian American neuroscientist

Writers
  • Miguel Algarín (b. 1941) – Puerto Rican author and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café
  • Rudolfo Anaya (b. 1937) – Mexican-American author of Bless Me, Ultima
  • Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) – Mexican-American author of The House on Mango Street
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) – Puerto Rican author of Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
  • Angie Cruz (b. 1972) – Dominican-American author of Let It Rain Coffee
  • Nelson Denis (b. 1954) – Puerto Rican author of War Against All Puerto Ricans and former New York State Assemblyman
  • Patricia Santos Marcantonio – Mexican-American novelist and short story writer
  • Alberto Rios (b. 1952) – Mexican-American poet, Arizona's first poet first state poet laureate
  • Benjamin Alire Sáenz (b. 1954) – Mexican-American author of Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
  • Luis Senarens (1865–1939) – Cuban-American science fiction author of The Frank Reade Library, the most popular sci-fi Dime Novel series of the 19th century.
  • Sergio Troncoso (b. 1961) – Mexican-American author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
  • Geovanny Vicente, political strategist, international consultant and columnist who writes for CNN.

See also

References
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