- Simon Salinas
- Enrique Salinas
Enrique Eduardo Guillermo Salinas de Gortari was the youngest brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas. On December 6 2004 his corpse was found, with a plastic bag placed over his head, inside a Volkswagen Passat. The vehicle was abandoned in the upmarket municipality of Huixquilucan, Estado de México, on the outskirts of Mexico City. The authorities gave asphyxiation as the cause of death. He was survived by his widow, Hilda Aideé Denecken.
- Julio Salinas
Julio Salinas Fernández was a Spanish Basque football player during the 1980s and 1990s. Salinas, a forward, made his La Liga debut with Athletic Bilbao in 1982 and subsequently played for six La Liga clubs during the following seventeen years, playing 417 games and scoring 152 goals. His brother, Patxi Salinas Fernández, was also a professional footballer and played for Athletic Bilbao, Celta de Vigo and Spain.
- Moises Salinas
Moises Salinas is an internationally-known associate professor of developmental and social psychology, a multi-cultural educator, and a Zionist political activist.
- Pedro Salinas
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (November 27, 1891, Madrid-December 4, 1951, Boston) was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27.
- 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.
- Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas was the Constitutional President of Bolivia for a period of five months between April and September 1969. Born in La Paz, Siles Salinas was the son of former president Hernando Siles Reyes (1926-1930) and half-brother of another famous Bolivian politician and two-time president, Hernán Siles Zuazo (1956-1960 and 1982-1985). Educated as a lawyer in his native country, he also obtained a doctorate in Spain.
- Baruj Salinas
Baruj SALINAS (b. 1935, Havana): An architect by training – he studied at Kent State University in Ohio – Salinas found early success as a painter and engraver. He is regularly featured in solo shows in galleries in Europe and the United States. His participation in group exhibitions includes Recent Developments in Latin American Drawing at The Art Institute of Chicago, …
- Ezequiel D. Salinas
Ezequiel David Salinas, Sr. (March 20, 1908 - March 13, 2007), was a Mexican American Democratic state court judge from Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas, known for his advocacy of civil rights for the Hispanic community. In the late 1940s, Salinas was defeated in a race for the Texas House of Representatives but was instead elected to the 111th District Court in 1950. He served in the position until 1974.
- Angela Salinas
Brigadier General Angela Salinas is the commanding general of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. BGen Salinas assumed command on August 4, 2006, becoming the first woman to command the Recruit Depot. On August 2, 2006, Salinas became the first Hispanic female to become a United States Marine Corps general officer, and the sixth female in the Marine Corps to reach the rank of brigadier general.
- Raul G. Salinas
Raul Gonzalez Salinas (born November 8, 1947) is a private security consultant and a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who was elected mayor of Laredo, Texas, on June 17, 2006. A self-styled political outsider, Salinas defeated 8-year city councilman John Clifford Galo (born (1958) by almost exactly 1,000 ballots in a low-turnout election: 9,665 votes (52.75 percent) to 8,657 (47.25 percent).
- Jaime Salinas
Jaime Salinas López-Torres is a Peruvian politician, son of General Jaime Salinas Sedó. He was Justicia Nacional's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election. He received 0.535% of the vote, coming in 8th place. He was arrested after his father's failed coup attempt on Alberto Fujimori's government in November 1992. He lived for three years in Argentina, where he worked toward his father's liberty, obtained in 1995, when he returned to Lima.
- María Elena Salinas
María Elena Salinas is the co-anchor of "Noticiero Univision" with Jorge Ramos, the most watched newscast by American Hispanics. She is considered as one of the most recognized and influential female Hispanic journalist in the United States. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1940s. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. After a humble beginning as news reader at Radio Xpress XEPRS, …
- Abel Salinas
Abel Salinas Izaguirre (b. May 12, 1930) is a Peruvian politician. In 1985 under Alan Garcia government he served as Interior Minister, in 1987 as Energy Minister and in 1988 Finance Minister. In 1990, he was elected Senator of the Republic, by the APRA Party ticket, and unsuccessfully ran for the Presidency of Peru in the 2000 elections, winning just 2% of the vote
- Raúl Alberto Salinas
Raúl Alberto Salinas Dorantes is a Mexican football defender who currently plays for Club América in the Mexican First Division.
- María Isabel Salinas
María Isabel Salinas García is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
- Horacio Salinas
Horacio Salinas is a Chilean folk guitarist and composer. He is cofounder and musical director of the Chilean group Inti Illimani and has played with John Williams. In 1973, his group was touring in Europe when Pinochet seized power in Chile, after which they had to stay in exile for years.
- Osmín Aguirre Y Salinas
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas was President of El Salvador 21 October 1944 - 1 March 1945. A Colonel in the Salvadoran Army, Aguirre led two successful coups against the Salvadoran government: once in 1931 (installing General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in power) and again in 1944 (installing himself in power). He was deposed himself in March 1945 and forced to flee into exile in Honduras.
- H. Scott Salinas
H. Scott Salinas is an American composer and musician.
- Jorge Salinas
Jorge Salinas Pérez is a Mexican telenovela actor.
- Ramiro Corrales
Ramiro Corrales (born March 12, 1977,in Salinas, California) is an American soccer player of Mexican heritage, who currently plays for Brann in the Norwegian Premier League.
- Monica Abbott
Monica Cecilia Abbott (born July 28, 1985) is an American athlete who pitched for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team from 2004-2007. During her senior season, she set the record for the most strikeouts in a Division I softball season and became the NCAA Division I Softball all-time leader in career wins, strikeouts, shutouts, innings pitched, games started and games pitched.
- Robin Wood
Robin Wood (born 1944 in New Australia, Paraguay) is a comic book writer. Of Irish origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various different jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil. Wood settled in Buenos Aires while working as a correspondent for Paraguayan newspaper "El Territorio", …
- Miguel Contreras
Miguel Contreras was an American labor leader. He "was known as a king-maker for both local and state politicians." Contreras was born in the Dinuba, a city in California's agricultural Central Valley to farmworker parents who had immigrated from Mexico during the 1920s under the Bracero Program. After meeting Cesar Chávez at a rally for Robert Kennedy in the late 1960s, he became an activist for the United Farm Workers. He promoted the Delano Grape Boycott in Toronto, …
- Ian Waltz
Ian Waltz (born 15 April 1977) is an American discus thrower. His personal best distance is 68.91 metres, achieved in May 2006 in Salinas.
- Paul Johnston
Paul Johnston is an author and scholar whose focus is on labor and immigration issues. He serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, on the California Central Coast. Formerly a professor of sociology at Yale University, he has also worked as a union organizer with the United Farm Workers and Service Employees International Union. He helped to develop the Salinas-based Citizenship Project, …
- Courtney Blades
Courtney Blades (born May 16, 1978) is an American athlete who was born in Salinas, California and attended Belaire High School from 1993 to 1997. She was a starting pitcher for the Nicholls State University Colonels and the University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles; she collected 151 wins (the second most in NCAA Division I history) and 1,773 strikes (the third most in NCAA Division I history).
- Kenichi Horie
Kenichi Horie is a Japanese solo yachtsman. In 1962 he crossed the Pacific Ocean in 94 days aboard a 19 foot sailboat (called the Mermaid) from Nishinomiya, Japan to San Francisco. He arrived at San Francisco with no pasport or money and was promptly arrested. After learning of his voyage the mayor freed him and gave him a 30 day visa and was awarded the key to the city. He wrote a book about his voyage, titled "Kodoku" ("Alone on the Pacific"), …
- Ernie Camacho
Ernie Camacho (born February 1, 1955 in Salinas, California), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1980-1981 and 1983-1990.
- Kim Peek
Kim Peek (born November 11, 1951), is a savant with a photographic or eidetic memory and developmental disabilities, possibly resulting from congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbit, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the movie "Rain Man". Kim Peek was born with macrocephaly, damage to the cerebellum, and, perhaps most important, agenesis of the corpus callosum, …
- Christine Craft
Christine Craft (born 1944) is a radio talk show host and former television anchorperson. She became known in the broadcast industry for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a station which had demoted her from the news anchor position because of her age. Craft was a competitive surfer in the Santa Barbara area. In 1974 she took a position as a weather reporter at KSBW-TV in Salinas, California.
- Slim Keith
Slim Keith was a New York socialite. Born Nancy Gross in Salinas, California, she invented her persona as a teenager. When she grew into a chic woman, she became known among the socially elite as Slim. There were many qualities that made Slim a fascination to those around her. They included intelligence, a great sense of humor, beauty and a terrific interest in men. From an early age she knew how to dress well.
- Sacheen Littlefeather
Sacheen Littlefeather (born Maria Cruz on 30 January 1947) Salinas, California, USA is an activist who donned Apache dress and rejected the Oscar on behalf of actor Marlon Brando in a prepared statement at the Academy Awards on March 27, 1973. Marlon Brando became involved with the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s.
- Bernard Corpuz
Corporal Bernard P. Corpuz (August 16, 1977 - June 11, 2006) was a US Army intelligence specialist who was killed in action during Operation Enduring Freedom. Corpuz, of Watsonville, California, died in Ghanzi, Afghanistan, from wounds sustained when his convoy came under enemy small arms fire and an improvised explosive device detonated during combat operations. Corpuz was assigned to the 303rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade, …
- Omar Ahmed el Ghazaly
Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly (born 9 February 1984) is an Egyptian discus thrower. In 1999 he was recruited by former African shot put champion Nagui Asaad, who was setting up a throwing school that also included hammer thrower Mohsen El Anany and shot putter Yasser Fathy. After having a try with the different implements, he settled for the discus and rapidly made his debut in the national team. His personal best throw is 66.10 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Salinas.
- Ian Winchester
Ian Winchester (born 27 May 1973) is a discus thrower from New Zealand. He finished tenth at the 1992 World Junior Championships, eighth at the 1998 World Cup and fifth at the 1998 Commonwealth Games (where he also finished eighth in shot put) He also competed at two World Championships (1997, 1999) as well as the 2000 Summer Olympics without reaching the final round. His personal best throw is 65.03 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Salinas.
- Ernie Reyes Sr.
Ernie Reyes Sr. (born February 12, 1947 in Salinas, California) is a martial arts champion and Hall of Famer.
- Florencio Morales Ramos
Florencio "Flor" Morales Ramos (September 5, 1915 - February 23, 1989), much more better known as Ramito, was a famous Puerto Rican singer, trovador and composer who was a native of Caguas, Puerto Rico. Ramito was born in the Bairoa area of Caguas; very close to where Bairoa Gym stands nowadays. He is considered the king of Jibaro music. Ramito left school in fourth grade. He was already singing for money at the age of thirteen, and, in 1932, …
- William Ortiz-Alvarado
William Ortiz-Alvarado (also William Ortiz Alvarado or William Ortiz; b. Salinas, Puerto Rico) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, musician, and educator. He was raised in New York. He has an extensive catalog of works for orchestra and chamber ensemble.
- Thomas Bullene Woodward
Thomas Bullene Woodward is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with his wife Ann. Woodward was a steering committee member of "The Episcopal Majority", a liberal organization within the Episcopal Church. In 2006, Woodward was elected secretary of the Executive Council’s Committee on the Status of Women. Woodward served The Episcopal Church over 2 decades as university chaplain at several campuses and was rector of St.