- Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel (1994-1997). Subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas (1997-1999) and then on the Texas Supreme Court (1999-2000). From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel. - Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria (born March 15, 1975) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and television actress. She plays Gabrielle Solis in the ABC television series "Desperate Housewives". She has also become an internationally recognized model after appearing in several high-profile advertising campaigns and numerous men's magazines. Longoria announced her engagement to French NBA guard Tony Parker on November 30, 2006. - Freddy Fender
Freddy Fender, born Baldemar Huerta in San Benito, Texas, USA, was a Mexican-American, Tejano, country, and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. He is best known for his 1975 hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls." - Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an Mexican-American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. Rodriguez shoots and produces many of his films in Texas and Mexico. - Tony Garza
Antonio Oscar "Tony" Garza, Jr. (born 1958), an American lawyer and former county judge in Texas, is the United States ambassador to Mexico. Garza, the grandson of Mexican immigrants to the U.S, graduated from Saint Joseph Academy in Brownsville, the seat of Cameron County on the Gulf of Mexico coast in far south Texas. - Henry Cisneros
Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and community leader. He was the first person of Hispanic background elected as mayor of a large American city, and later served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. He left public office after pleading guilty to making false statements to federal officials. - Raul Yzaguirre
Raul Humberto Yzaguirre (sometimes spelled Izaguirre.) (born c. July 22, 1939 in San Juan, Texas) is an American civil rights activist and open borders globalist. He served as the president of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, from 1974 - 2004. - Henry Cuellar
Henry Roberto Cuellar (born September 19, 1955) is a Democratic politician from Laredo, Texas, representing the state's 28th Congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Cuellar's district extends from the Rio Grande to the suburbs of San Antonio - Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes (born 10 November 1944 in Canutillo, Texas) represents the Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Reyes served in the United States Army and he later worked for the U.S. Border Patrol. In 1993, serving as the Chief Patrol Agent of the El Paso Border Patrol Sector, Reyes led the Border Patrol to position agents on the border to intercept illegal immigrants. He is a Vietnam War veteran. - Rolando Hinojosa
Rolando Hinojosa is a novelist and the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Hinojosa has devoted most of his career as a writer to his "Klail City Death Trip Series," which comprises 15 volumes to-date, from “Estampas del Valle y otras obras” (1973) to “We Happy Few” (2006). He has completely populated a fictional county in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas through this generational narrative. - Lupe Ontiveros
Lupe Ontiveros (born September 17, 1942) is an American film and television actress. Ontiveros has acted in numerous films and television shows, most often playing a maid or, more recently, an all-knowing grandmother; the actress estimates she has played a maid between 150 and 300 times on screen. - Henry Bonilla
Henry D. Bonilla (born January 2, 1954) is a former Congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Ciro Davis Rodriguez, a former Democratic member of Congress, in a special election runoff held on December 12, 2006. His term expired January 3, 2007 when the 110th Congress officially began. - Hector P. Garcia
- Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar Zeta Acosta (April 8, 1935 - 1977 was a Mexican American (Chicano) attorney, author, politician, and Chicano Movement activist. He is most famously known as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". - Grace Napolitano
Grace Flores Napolitano (born December 4 1936), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's 38th congressional district (map). She was born in Brownsville, Texas, was educated at Texas Southmost College and was a member of the Norwalk, California, City Council and a member of the California State Assembly before entering the House. - Carlos Uresti
Carlos Ismael "Charlie" Uresti (born September 12, 1963) is a Democrat representing the 19th District in the Texas Senate. Uresti previously represented portions of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio in District 118 in the Texas House from 1997 to 2006. Uresti, the youngest of eight children, was born in Bexar County, Texas, reared in San Antonio and graduated from McCollum High School. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve at age eighteen, … - Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis J. Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a major figure of contemporary Chicano literature. His best-known work, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.", is the recipient of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, among others, and has been the subject of controversy when included on reading lists in California, Illinois, Michigan, … - Federico Peña
Federico Fabian Peña was United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. Born in Laredo, Texas, Peña earned a B.A. (1969) and a J.D. (1972) from the University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas School of Law. Moving to Colorado, where he became a practicing attorney, Peña was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1979, where he rose to become Minority Leader. - Chingo Bling
Chingo Bling is a Mexican American rapper from Houston, Texas. He is known for his gimmick as a Tamale Kingpin, dressed with his notable cowboy boots adorned with the Nike logo. Chingo Bling graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas with a BS in business administration, was a member of the national business fraternity ΑΚΨ, and is CEO and founder of the record label Big Chile Enterprises,LLC. - Tony Sanchez
Antonio R. "Tony" Sanchez, Jr. (born 1943) is a Mexican American politician and businessman who in 2002 ran an unsuccessful campaign against incumbent Rick Perry for the position of Governor of Texas. He is also known for his enormously successful oil and gas business, which is based out of Laredo, Texas. - John Rechy
John Rechy, (born March 10, 1934 in El Paso, Texas), is an American author. His novels reflect his background as a gay man of Mexican-Scottish descent. - George P. Bush
George Prescott Bush (born April 24,1976), is the eldest of three children of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba. He is the nephew of the President George W. Bush and the grandson of former President George H. W. Bush. His mother, Columba Garnica Gallo, was born in Mexico, and his heritage has made him a popular figure with Hispanic voters. - Paula Deanda
Paula DeAnda (born November 3, 1989) is a Mexican-American R&B singer and Actress born in San Angelo, Texas. She currently resides in Corpus Christi, Texas. - Vikki Carr
Vikki Carr (born July 19 1941, in El Paso, Texas as Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona) is an American singer who has sung in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop and country, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish. - Arturo Islas
Arturo Islas, (May 25, 1938) a native of El Paso, Texas, was a professor of English and a novelist, writing about the experience of Chicano cultural duality. He received three degrees from Stanford: a B.A. in 1960, a master's in 1963 and a Ph.D. in English in 1971, when he joined the Stanford faculty. Islas died on February 15, 1991 from complications related to AIDS. - Dan Morales
Daniel C. "Dan" Morales (born 1956) served as Texas attorney general from 1991 through 1999, during the administrations of Governors Dorothy Ann Willis Richards and George W. Bush. As attorney general, Morales reached a $17 billion settlement with big tobacco companies. He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the <i>Hopwood v. Texas</i> case, … - Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson (born August 3, 1944, in Lubbock, Texas) is a Hispanic-American trade union leader. She is the executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and a member of the board of trustees of United Way of America. In 1997, she was appointed a member of Advisory Board to President Clinton's One America Initiative. - Don Tosti
- Rubén Hinojosa
Rubén E. Hinojosa, American politician, has been the Democratic representative for the Texas 15th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. Hinojosa was born in Edcouch, Texas. The congressman earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin and his MBA from the University of Texas-Pan American. He served as president of his family's food processing company, H&H Foods. - Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins, Jr., also known as Clifton Gonzalez-Gonzalez is an American actor. Collins Jr. is the grandson of Mexican actor Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez. He first broke through the mainstream in 1997 with a performance as gang thug César Sánchez in the film "One Eight Seven". In 1998 he enchanted and amused small screen audiences in Ray Bradbury's cult Latino film "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit". - Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Mexico City where he studied Mexico and Latin America. Later he mixed studying philosophy with working as a labor economist. Now he writes and teaches fiction writing. He is a member of the board of directors of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. - Jennifer Peña
Jennifer Marcella Peña Cantú, is a two time Grammy Nominated Tejano/Latin pop singer and actress. Jennifer first achieved notoriety after performing at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas during a Selena tribute concert in 1995 while under management with Q-Productions and Abraham Quintanilla II, who was Selena's former manager and father. She went on to release several successful albums while with EMI-Latin. 1996 brought the release of her first album, … - Flaco Jiménez
Flaco Jiménez is a Tejano music legend from San Antonio, Texas. Jiménez's father, Santiago Jimenez Sr. was a pioneer of conjunto music. He plays the accordion. By the time he was seven years old, Flaco was performing with his father. He began recording at fifteen, as a member of Los Caporales. He played in the San Antonio area for several years, and then began working with Douglas Sahm in the 1960s. - Maria Echaveste
Maria Echaveste , J.D. '80, was deputy chief of staff for the Clinton Administration from April 1998 until Dec. 2001, making her the highest-ranking Latino ever to have served in the White House. The oldest of seven children of farm workers, she was an accomplished bankruptcy litigator before joining Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign, later heading the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. - Laura Harring
Laura Elena Harring (born March 3, 1964) is a Mexican American actress and former Miss USA (1985). She starred as Rita in David Lynch's 2001 film "Mulholland Dr." - Jesse Borrego
Jesse Borrego is a native of San Antonio, Texas where he studied theatre as a student at the Incarnate Word College, and later returned there to choreograph an adaptation of the ballet "Le Jeune Homme et La Morte." He also studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Borrego has performed extensively in the theater, in such productions as "Woyzeck," in which he starred in the title role at the Public Theatre. - Jaci Velasquez
Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez (born October 15, 1979) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-nominated, Dove Award-winning American Contemporary Christian and pop singer. - Baldemar Velasquez
Baldemar Velasquez (b. Pharr, Texas, February 15 1947) is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, an organization he founded in 1967 in Toledo, Ohio. Velasquez was born into a migrant farm worker family and began agricultural work when he was six years old. He attended what is now the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas from 1965-66, Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio 1966-67, and from 1967-69 attended Bluffton College, … - Reies Tijerina
Reies López Tijerina was a leader in the 1960s struggle to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. As a vocal claimant to the rights of Hispanics and Mexican Americans, he became a major figure of the early Chicano Movement. As an activist, he was involved in community education and organization, media relations, and land reclamations. His is most famed for his 1967 raid on the Tierra Amarilla courthouse. - Louis Caldera
Louis Caldera served as United States Secretary of the Army from July 2, 1998 - January 20, 2001, the 17th man to hold that office. The son of Mexican immigrants (Soledad and Benjamin Caldera), Caldera was born in El Paso, Texas. His family left Texas for California when he was four, living briefly in public housing in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles before moving to the suburb of Whittier.
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