- Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II born (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from October 16, 1978, until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. - Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera, born December 18 1980, is an American pop singer and songwriter. She was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film "Mulan". She came to prominence following her debut album "Christina Aguilera" (1999), which was a critical and commercial success. A Latin pop album "Mi Reflejo", and a Christmas album, "My Kind of Christmas", … - Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures credited as the first European to discover the Americas. Though likely not the first to reach the Americas from Europe, it was Columbus' voyages that lead to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. It is generally believed that he was born in Genoa, … - Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry. His Asian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family. Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler. - Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as the author of numerous screenplays, dramas, and short stories; however, Fuentes is best known for his novels, which use complex and innovative narrative techniques to probe Mexican history. Born in 1928 in Panama City, the son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes was raised in Washington, D.C. Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. - Ho Chi Minh
Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1946–1969) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Ho is most famous for leading the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. Ho was fluent in Vietnamese, several dialects of Chinese, English and French. - Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon"), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, … - Don Francisco
Don Francisco is the artistic name of Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld, a Chilean television host. He was born into a Chilean-German Jewish family; his parents had fled to Chile, escaping from Nazi persecution. As a youth, Kreutzberger traveled to New York to study to be a tailor, but he spent most of the time watching TV. Back in Chile, where TV was just beginning, Don Francisco started a TV show in 1962, and he named it "Sábados Gigantes". - Dolores Huerta
Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). She was born in the miningtown of Dawson, New Mexico where her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner, field worker, union activist and state legislator. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Her mother, Alicia Chavez, raised Dolores, along with her two brothers, and two sisters, … - Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega (also Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes, … - Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas, born in Long Beach, California, on November 24, 1970, is a successful Grammy Award and two-time Latin Grammy Award winning Mexican singer and songwriter of Spanish-language rock and pop music. Venegas, who grew up in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, began studying music at the age of eight and went on to join several bands, including Tijuana No!, before starting a career on her own. In addition to singing and writing her own songs, … - Manu Chao
Manu Chao is a French, Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, English language singer of Galician origins. He is also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor. - Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993) was a comedian of the Mexican theatre and film industry. He earned wide popularity with his interpretation of the character Cantinflas, an impoverished "campesino" cum slumdweller that originated in the "pelado". The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Moreno to establish a long, … - Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. A poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world making appearances, spreading her legendary wisdom. A mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she moves, Dr. Angelou captivates her audiences lyrically with vigor, fire and perception. - Mirthala Salinas
Mirthala Salinas is an anchor and reporter for U.S. Spanish language television channel KVEA-TV (also known as Telemundo 52) in Los Angeles. According to Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, they are in a romantic relationship. The story was broken on July 3, 2007 by The Los Angeles Daily News. In early June, Villaraigosa separated from his wife of 20 years, Corina, who filed for divorce a couple of days later. - Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he published papers and books on the subject along with other like minded economists, including GB Eggertsson. - Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Italian pop singer, popular in some European and Latin American countries, famed for her soulful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs. She has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. - Antonio de Nebrija
Antonio de Lebrija, also known as Antonio de Nebrija, Elio Antonio de Lebrija, Antonius Nebrissensis, and Antonio of Lebrixa, (1441-1522) was a Spanish scholar born at Lebrija in the province of Seville. Nebriga wrote a grammar of the Castilian language, credited as the first published grammar of any Romance language. - Ruben Salazar
Ruben Salazar (March 3, 1928 - August 29, 1970) was a Mexican-American news reporter killed by the police during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. During the 1970s, his killing was often cited as a symbol of the unjust treatment of Hispanic minorities by the police. - Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974, in Madrid, Spain), better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Spanish actress. Originally a dancer, she soon moved into Spanish television, and since then she has appeared in a string of films, in Spanish, English, French and Italian. - Michael Smith
Michael Smith (born 1942) is an Irish poet, author and translator. He was one of the founders of New Writers Press in Dublin (together with Trevor Joyce). He is possibly most noted for his works on James Clarence Mangan, as well as his Spanish to English poetry translations. He regularly contributes articles for the literature section of The Irish Times. In 2001, he took the European Academy Medal for his work in the translation of poetry. - Carlos Ponce
Carlos Augusto Ponce, also known as "Carlos Ponce" (September 4, 1972) born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Ponce is an actor, singer, composer and TV personality. He currently stars in the Telemundo serial "Dame Chocolate" ("Give Me Chocolate"). - Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega, was the prototypical Spanish "Renaissance man," the soldier-poet who was the most influential (though not the first or the only) poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques and themes to Spain. His exact birth date is unknown, but estimations by scholars put his year of birth between 1498 and 1503. Garcilaso was born in the Spanish city of Toledo. - Marc Cooper
Marc Cooper is an American journalist, author, and blogger. He is currently a contributing editor to "The Nation". He also pens the popular "Dissonance" column for "LA Weekly". His writing has appeared in such publications as the "Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, Playboy" and "Rolling Stone". He has also been television producer for PBS, CBS News, … - Jaime Jarrin
Jaime Jarrin is the Ecuadorian-born Spanish language voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He began broadcasting for the Dodgers in 1959, and was the 1998 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame. Mr. Jarrin is known for his beautiful voice and fantastic trilling of "R"s in Spanish. In the Los Angeles baseball market Spanish speakers have always been important to the Dodgers. - Gia Paloma
Gia Paloma (born June 27, 1984) is an American pornographic actress. Paloma was born in Diamond Bar, California of Italian ancestry. She has appeared in over 200 adult films since her 2003 debut. Her stage name comes from "Gia", a 1998 movie in which Angelina Jolie played model Gia Carangi, and "Paloma", the Spanish word for dove as well as the name of Pablo Picasso's daughter. Adult studios Paloma has worked with include; Digital Playgroud, Wicked, … - Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born on October 28, 1963), is the most successful Italian singer and songwriter of all time. Ramazzotti is well known not only in every non English-speaking European country but also in most of Spanish-speaking world as he releases every album both in Italian and Spanish. - Elvis Crespo
Elvis Crespo (born July 30, 1971 in New York City, U.S.) is a Puerto Rican-American Merengue singer. He was named "Elvis" after American singer Elvis Presley. When he was small, he and his mother moved to Caguas, Puerto Rico, where Crespo spent his childhood and adolescent years. Elvis Crespo's most popular song written is called "Suavemente." Raised by his mother in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, from the age of six, Crespo served a long apprenticeship. - Ariadna Gil
Ariadna Gil i Giner is a Catalan actress. Bigas Luna discovered her for the 1986 movie "Lola". After 4 films in the Catalan language, she took part in an Emilio Martínez Lázaro Castillian-language movie, "Amo tu cama rica" in 1991. From 1993 to 2007, she has performed in more than 31 films, like "Libertarias", directed by Vicente Aranda; "El laberinto del fauno", by Guillermo del Toro or "Soldados de Salamina"; directed by her boyfriend David Trueba. - Nina
She goes by the nom de plume Nina to ease the pronunciation of her name. She performs her controversial pieces throughout the Mission District and the rest of San Francisco, especially at the Women's Center and Café La Bohème, where she was among the artists that organized the first annual International Women's Day Poetry Slam. While her poems are predominantly in Spanish, many of her works are translated into English, … - Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna and recorded a number of albums with them. However, Fania continued to release recordings compiled from their archives for some years afterwards. In the early 1980s, Blades began his career in films as a composer of soundtracks. - Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet – sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – was an architect from Catalonia, Spain who belonged to the Modernisme (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs. - Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo (June 15, 1953-) is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has one son, Marcel Ramon Herrera , born in Evanston, Illinois, on September 21, 1983. Long considered one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience, Castillo is a prolific author whose work has been critically acclaimed and widely anthologized in the United States and abroad. - Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti is an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Benedetti was born in Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó;, Uruguay. He is not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important living writers. In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre. From 1973 to 1985, when a military dictatorship ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile in Buenos Aires, Lima, Havana, and Spain. - Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman, born March 22, 1936, is an award-winning U.S. Spanish to English literary translator. She is one of the most important translators of Latin American fiction in the past century, translating the works of Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Julián Ríos and of Alvaro Mutis. In a speech delivered at the 2003 PEN Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, … - Francesc Pujols
Francesc Pujols i Morgades was a Catalan writer and philosopher. Morgades began to write poetry during his studies on secondary school, influenced by the work of Jacint Verdaguer and Joan Maragall. He took part in the literary competition Jocs Florals of Barcelona in 1902, and won the Natural Flower with the poem “Idil·li”. In 1904 he published "El llibre que conté les poesies de Francesc Pujols", with a prologue by Maragall, … - Isabella Of Castile
Isabella I (April 22 1451 - November 26 1504) was Queen regnant of Castile and Leon. She and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, laid the foundation for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Carlos I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor). The Castilian version of her name was Isabel, which traces etymologically to Hebrew "Elisth" or 'Elizabeth'. In Germanic countries, she is usually known by the Italian form of her name, 'Isabella'. - Michael White
Michael White (born 29 November, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Scott Yanow, a jazz critic, said in a review that Michael "displays the feel and spirit of the best New Orleans clarinetists." - Eduardo Verástegui
Eduardo Verástegui is a Mexican actor. Born in Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, México, Verástegui was studying law but decided to pursue modeling in Mexico City and ended up working for such famous designers as Calvin Klein and Versace. Soon after, in 1994, he bacame a member of the Mexican pop group, Kairo. Throughout a four-year tour, Kairo played sold out concerts throughout Latin America, … - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Bécquer was a Spanish post-romanticist writer of poetry and short stories, now considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. He adopted the alias of Bécquer to do as earlier his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done. He was associated with the post-romanticism movement and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known during his life, …
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