Pedro Mir

Pedro Mir

male, deceased (2000)
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the g...
Juan Bosch

Juan Bosch

male, deceased (2001)
Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño was a politician, historian, short story writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of t...
Juan Pablo Duarte

Juan Pablo Duarte

male, deceased (1876)
Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez was born on January 26, 1813 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic during the period of (in Spanish called) "España Boba". D...

Leonel Fernández

male, 55 years old
Dr. Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican politician and the current president of the Dominican Republic. He was born in Santo Domingo but s...

Julia Álvarez

female, 58 years old
Julia Álvarez is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three m...
Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz

male
Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer whose collection of short stories featured in the book "Drown" became an overnight literary s...

Pere Marsili

male
Pere Marsili (also known as Peter Marsili) was a Dominican friar, chronicler, translator, and royal ambassador during the XIII and XIV centuries....

Salomé Ureña

female, deceased (1897)
Salomé Ureña de Henríquez or better known as Salomé Ureña was a popular poet and pedagogist of Dominican Republic. Born in Santo Domingo to Don N...

Joaquín Balaguer

male, deceased (2002)
Joaquín Amparo Balaguer Ricardo was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996. An u...
Hilma Contreras

Hilma Contreras

female, deceased (2006)
Hilma Contreras was a Dominican writer, born in San Pedro de Macorís. In 2002 she was given the National Literature Award.