- Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz was a three-time Grammy Award and four-time Latin Grammy winning Afro-Cuban-American salsa singer who spent most of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Cruz was one of the most successful Cuban performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name and has earned the moniker "La guarachera de Cuba". - Leonardo Boff
Leonardo Boff was born 14 December 1938 in Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. He is a theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded. He currently serves as Professor Emeritus of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Ecology at the University of Rio de Janeiro. - Charlie
Charlie (born February 23, 1973) is a Latin American pornographic actress. - Beto Cuevas
Luis Alberto "Beto" Cuevas Olmedo was the lead singer of the now-defunct Chilean and Latin American rock band, La Ley. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec, and is fluent in French, English, and Spanish. He now resides in Los Angeles, California and is pursuing a solo career. - Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a cardiologist who worked for the United Nations' IAEA sector for many years. He has three siblings, Alfredo, Carlos and Cristina; and two half sisters, Christina and Elisa. - Ludwika Paleta
Ludwika Paleta Paciorek is a Mexican actress. When her father, the famous musician Zbigniew Paleta, was offered a job in Mexico, the Paleta family settled there permanently. As a child, Ludwika was one day taken by her sister Dominika, to an acting audition and impressed the casting directors so much that soon after, she was offered her first television role in "Carrusel" (1989). Paleta became an instant celebrity with her character, … - Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer whose collection of short stories featured in the book "Drown" became an overnight literary sensation. The stories in "Drown" are: "Ysrael", "Fiesta, 1980", "Aurora", "Drown", "Boyfriend", "Edison, New Jersey", "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie", "No Face", "Negocios". Diaz is the first Dominican-born man to become a major writer in the United States. - Mark Jones
Mark Jones is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. He stood unsuccessfully for the Vale of Clwyd constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007. Mark Jones was born in London but currently lives in Llandudno. He received education at Groby Community College in Leicestershire and currently works as constituency coordinator for Aberconwy. Having previously held various posts with local government, … - Jaime Bayly
Jaime Bayly is a Peruvian journalist and writer. He is the third of 10 children. He attended the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Catholic University of Peru) in the early eighties but never graduated. He recently divorced Sandra, the mother of his 2 daughters. Jaime Bayly is openly bisexual. In Peru, as of April 2007, he hosts a TV show called "El Francotirador" and writes a weekly column for "CORREO", a local newspaper. - Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan writer and diplomat. He was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in literature "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America." Asturias was born in Guatemala City and died in Madrid, Spain. In 1904 his family moved from the capital to Salamá, Baja Verapaz, where they remained until 1908. - Olga Tañón
Olga Tañón is a two-time Grammy Award and three-time Latin Grammy-winning Merengue & Latin Pop artist. Tañón has lead a career that has earned her 5 Grammy Awards, 17 Premios Lo Nuestro awards. - Niurka Marcos
Niurka Marcos (born Niurka Marcos Calle on November 25, 1967 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-Mexican singer, dancer, actress, and erotic model. She is better known simply as Niurka. She was a little-known actress in Cuba. Marcos already had a son when she moved to Mexico, whom she left behind to look for a better future. In Mexico, she had mild success acting in Telenovela with Televisa, until she met producer Juan Osorio. - Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist. Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" (1943), and "La gran puta" (1960). He was a member of the Origenes literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group. In the late 1950s he co-founded the literary journal Ciclón. Following a long exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Piñera returned to Cuba in 1958, months before Fidel Castro took power. - Fernando de Szyszlo
Fernando de Szyszlo (born July 5, 1925 in Lima, Peru) is a peruvian artist who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-fifties and is still today the leading plastic artist of Peru. - Miguel Pérez
Miguel Perez (born on September 7, 1957) is a Latin American actor best known for his work in various television appearances. - Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Roberto Unger, Harvard Law School's only Latino faculty member, is a Brazilian contemporary social theorist and law professor at Harvard Law School. He is one of the founders of the Critical Legal Studies movement. Unger has long been active in Brazilian and Latin American politics, as a candidate, political activist, and as an advisor to world leaders. He recently published "The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound" (Harvard, 2007). - Rafael Coronel
Rafael Coronel (born 1932) is a modern Latin American artist and painter, active in Mexico. He was the son-in-law of Diego Rivera. His representational paintings have a melancholic sobriety, and include faces from the past great masters, often floating in a diffuse haze. Also see Jose Luis Cuevas. - Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa (born 1961 in Mexico City) is a television journalist. Her first journalism experience was as host of a Latino radio show as a student at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Latin American studies. In 1995, Hinojosa began hosting the National Public Radio show "Latino USA". She hosted the WNBC-TV public affairs show "Visiones" before joining CNN in 1997, … - Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Hugo Chavez for President! Of the United States!! - Arturo Michelena
Arturo Michelena was a Venezuelan painter born in Valencia, Carabobo State. He began to paint at a young age under his father's tutelage. Traveled to Paris where he studied in the famous Académie Julian. He was the first Venezuelan artist to succeed overseas and, with Cristóbal Rojas (1857-1890) and Martín Tovar y Tovar (1827-1902), one of the most important Venezuelan painters of the 19th century. - Jorge Newbery
Jorge Alejandro Newbery (1875-1914), better known plainly as Jorge Newbery, was an Argentine pilot of fixed-wing aircraft. Along with Alberto Braniff and Jorge Chavez. among others, he was one of the first Latin American aircraft pilots in history. Newbery was also an engineer. On April 9, 1909, Newbery wrote the first newspaper article on aviation in Argentina. Titled "Aeronautica", the article was featured in "El Nacional" newspaper. - Isabel Parra
Isabel Parra is a famous Chilean singer-songwriter and interpreter of Latin American musical folklore. Isabel Parra was born in Chile in 1939 and began her career in music at the age of 13 when she made her first recording with her world-renowned mother and folklorist, Violeta Parra. She has since interpreted and recorded the songs of some of the most famous Latin American folk singers. - Rafael Urdaneta
Rafael José Urdaneta y Faría was a hero of the Latin American war for independence. Urdaneta was born in the province of Maracaibo in Venezuela to an aristocratic family of Spanish descent. Prior to the independence war he was a student of Latin and philosophy, and an officer for the Royal Houses of Spain. After the 1810 declaration of independence, Urdaneta, from Caracas, joined the patriotic ranks in the war against Spain. - Luis González Palma
Luis González Palma is a modernist Latin American photographer. Born in 1957 the artist grew up in Guatemala where he later continued to live and opened up a portrait studio. He studied architecture and cinematography at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and then turned to photography. He has presented his work since 1989-present in more than 58 expositions in America and Europe. - Eduardo Constantini
Eduardo Constantini (also known as "Eduardo F. Costantini") is an argentine millionaire real estate developer, philanthropist and head of the venture capital firm Consultatio, based in Buenos Aires. Some of his best known real estate projects in Argentina include the development of the Nordelta district (Consultatio was a 50 percent investor in the project) and the construction of luxury office towers in Catalinas Plaza. - Julio Le Parc
Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. - Francisco Oller
Francisco Manuel Oller Cestero (June 17, 1833 - May 17, 1917) was a Puerto Rican artist. Oller is considered to be the only Latin American painter to play a role in the development of Impressionism. - Rafael Solis
Rafael Solis (born approx. 1959) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. Raised at "Caimito", a San Juan "barrio" that is actually much closer to the center of the city of Caguas than it is to that of San Juan, Rafael used to train at the "Caimito Gym", but he also frequented the Bairoa Gym. Rafael Solis is the brother of former world bantamweight champion Julian Solis and of Enrique Solis, … - Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez (born Juan Raoul Davis Rodriguez December 10, 1951) is an American country music singer. He was the first Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 70s and 80s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, like "You Always Come Back (To Hurtin' Me)", "Desperado", "Down on Rio Grande", and "Foolin'". - B. Ruby Rich
B. Ruby Rich (born 1948) is an American scholar, critic of gay films, and an assistant professor of community studies at UC Santa Cruz. She has also taught documentary film and queer studies during spring semesters at UC Berkeley. She is credited with coining the term New Queer Cinema. Rich began her career in film exhibition, in 1972, as founder of the Woods Hole Film Society. She then became associate director of the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. - Saul Lisazo
Saúl Lisazo is a famous Latin American actor, born in Los Toldos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lisazo as a youngster wanted to become a soccer player, and he played for various teams in Argentina as a kid. However, his calling as an actor would soon take him far away from Argentina, and in 1989, he flew to Mexico, to participate in his first "telenovela": "Amor de Nadie", alongside Lucia Mendez and Fernando Allende. - Bernardo Sorj
Bernardo Sorj (born September 1948, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Brazilian social scientist, professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Director of the Edelstein Center for Social Research. He is also the coordinator of SciELO Latin American Social Sciences Journals English Edition (a site offering free access to 30 Latin American journals translated into English. He has published 20 books and more than 100 articles, on Latin American development, … - Edgar Negret
Edgar Negret is a modern Latin American abstract sculptor born in Popayán, Colombia in 1920. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia. Initially working in stone in styles reminiscent of European modernists like Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi; by the early 1950s, he began working in metal in constuctivist tradition. In 1963 he wins the Salón de Artistas Colombianos and therefore becoming one of the most prominent Colombian sculptors of the XX century. - Angel Botello
Angel Botello (June 20, 1913 - November 11, 1986) was a Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist. The artist critics called him "The Caribbean Gauguin" for his use of bold colors and depictions of island life. Angel Botello is considered one of the greatest Latin American post-modern artists and recognition and demand for his artwork continues to grow today, fetching unprecedented auction prices. - Roberto Clemente Jr.
Roberto Clemente, Jr., or in the Spanish naming system Roberto Clemente Zabala (born August 17, 1965), is a baseball broadcaster and former professional baseball player from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was born in the Santurce barrio. His father, Roberto Clemente, was the first Latin American player to connect 3,000 hits in Major League Baseball history. His mother, Vera Clemente, is a celebrity as well, … - Dorothy Hennessey
Sister Dorothy Hennessey is a Roman Catholic religious sister and activist. She is from Ryan, Iowa and lives at a Dominican religious center in Dubuque, Iowa. She is most widely known for protests at Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the Army's School of the Americas, a facility for training Latin American soldiers. Dorothy Hennessey, along with her natural sister, Sister Gwen Hennessey were both arrested and convicted to six months in jail for their protest in 2001. - Muna Lee
Muna Lee (January 29, 1895 - April 3, 1965) was an American author and poet who became widely known for her writings that promoted Pan-Americanism and Feminism. Born in Raymond, Mississippi, Lee began her writing career as a well-known lyric poet. As a translator and advocate of Latin American literature, she made major contributions to the modern Pan-American literary tradition. As a feminist leader, Muna Lee made important contributions to the modern women's movement, … - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 - May 5, 1959) was an Argentinian academic and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936. He was the first Latin American to receive such an award. Lamas, born in Buenos Aires into the Argentinian aristocracy, was an outstanding student who received his doctorate in laws from the University of Buenos Aires, and then began a career as a teacher of law and sociology at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, … - Roberto Montenegro
Roberto Montenegro Nervo (February 19, 1887 in Guadalajara - October 13, 1968 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter, illustrator, and stage designer. In 1903, Roberto Montenegro began studying painting in Guadalajara under Felix Bernardelli, a Brazilian-Mexican artist who had established a school of painting and music in that Mexican city, and he produced his first illustrations for "Revista Moderna", … - Gwen Hennessey
Sister Gwen Hennessey is a Roman Catholic religious sister and activist. She is from Ryan, Iowa and lives at a Dominican religious center in Dubuque, Iowa. She is most widely known for protests at Fort Benning, Georgia, home of the Army's School of the Americas, a facility for training Latin American soldiers. Gwen Hennessey, along with her natural sister, Sister Dorothy Hennessey were both arrested and convicted to six months in jail for their protest in 2001.
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