- The Game
Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29 1979 in Los Angeles, California), known by his stage name The Game, is an American rapper signed to Geffen Records. The Game rose to fame in 2005 following the success of his debut album, "The Documentary" and his two Grammy nominations. Since then, The Game is considered to be a driving force in bringing back the West Coast hip hop scene and competing with many of his East Coast counterparts. - Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality. - David Farragut
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 - August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and full admiral of the Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his possibly apocryphal order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!". - Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is a three-time Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish American actor and perhaps best known for his role as Captain Willard in the film "Apocalypse Now" and, most recently, as President Josiah Bartlet on the acclaimed and long-running television drama series "The West Wing". - John James Audubon
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 - January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America. - Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist perhaps best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. Garcia was viewed by the media as the leader or "spokesman" of the group. Performing with the Grateful Dead for its entire three decade career (which spanned from 1965 to 1995), Garcia participated in a variety of side projects, … - Jenna Haze
Jenna Haze (born Jennifer Corrales on February 22, 1982, in Fullerton, California, USA) is an American pornographic actress. - Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American biochemist, and the recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Severo Ochoa was born in Luarca (Asturias), Spain. His father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother, Carmen de Albornoz. His father died when Ochoa was seven and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended school through high school. - Manuel Perez
Emanuel Perez – also known as Manuel - (1871 - 1946) was an early New Orleans jazz cornetist and bandleader. Being a contemporary of Buddy Bolden(jazz royalty), Perez is considered one of the originators of the jazz sound. - Leo Carrillo
Leo Antonio Carrillo (August 6 1880 - September 10 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. - Manuel Hernandez
Manuel “Mani” Hernandez is a retired Spanish-U.S. soccer forward. He played collegiate soccer at San Jose State University where he won the 1968 Hermann Trophy as the collegiate player of the year. He later spent three seasons with the San Jose Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League. He currently coaches high school girls soccer at Presentation High School. - Joseph Montoya
Joseph Manuel Montoya (September 24, 1915 - June 8, 1978) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977. - José Greco
José Greco was a flamenco dancer and choreographer. He was born Costanzo Greco in Montorio nei Frentani, Italy of Italian parents. He was raised in New York City from the time he was 10 years old. He began dancing in Brooklyn with his sister Norina at a young age. He made his professional dancing debut in 1937 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Manhattan. His most famous partners were La Argentinita (Encarnación López Julvez) and, after her death, … - Leeann Tweeden
Leeann Velez Tweeden (born June 13, 1973) is an American model and television personality of Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian descent. Tweeden was born in Manassas, Virginia. She graduated from Osbourn Park High School a year early. Tweeden eschewed college altogether and instead pursued a career in modeling. Just two years after leaving her Virginia high school, while working as a hostess at a Hooters restaurant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, … - Lou Piniella
Louis Victor Piniella (born August 28, 1943, in Tampa, Florida) is the current manager of the Chicago Cubs and a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He has been nicknamed "Sweet Lou," both for his swing as a major league hitter and, facetiously, to describe his demeanor as a player and manager. - Al Lopez
Alfonso Ramon Lopez (August 20 1908 - October 30 2005) was an American catcher and manager in Major League Baseball and the son of immigrants from Asturias, [Spain]] who went to Cuba, then settled in Tampa's Spanish-speaking Ybor City section. He established a major league record for career games as a catcher, and later became the only manager to interrupt the New York Yankees' string of American League pennants from 1949 to 1964. - 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. - Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death. Anais is also famous for her erotica, which not only proves sensual, but also acts as a study of human sexuality in its perfection and flaws. - John Oates
John Oates (born John William Oates on April 7, 1949 in New York City) is an American musician and producer best known as one half of the successful rock and soul duo Hall & Oates. - Jasmine Trias
Jasmine Soriano Trias (born November 3, 1986) is an American singer and entertainer who was the third-place finalist on the third season of "American Idol" due in part to tremendous call-in support from California, New York, and her native state of Hawaii (source: *USA TODAY). She has released two albums to date, one in the United States and one in the Philippines. - Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis W. Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed Nobel Prize-winning physicist of Spanish descent, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He was the son of famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and grandson of Luis F. Alvarez, who worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy. - David Morales
David Morales (born 21 August 1961, in Brooklyn, New York), is an internationally acclaimed Grammy winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks. - Lefty Gomez
Vernon Louis Gomez (November 26, 1908-February 17, 1989) was a Hispanic, left-handed, major league pitcher who played in the American League for the New York Yankees between 1930 and 1942. He was born in Rodeo, California. In his career, almost entirely spent with the Yankees, he had a 189-102 record with 1468 strikeouts and a 3.34 ERA in 2503 innings pitched. His contract was sold to the Boston Braves in 1943. Released by the Braves that year without appearing in a game, … - Mercedes de Acosta
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 - May 9, 1968) was a Cuban-American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite best known for her lesbian affairs with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Tamara Karsavina, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Maude Adams, Ona Munson ("Belle Watling" in the movie "Gone with the Wind"), Adele Astaire, and others. It was a reputation not appreciated by everyone. - Juan Linz
Juan José Linz is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute. He is best known for his theories on totalitarian and authoritarian systems of government. Linz has also done extensive research on the breakdowns of democracy and the transition back to a democratic regime. He is the author of many works on the subject, … - Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco Jose Ayala (born 1934) is a Spanish American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Madrid and moved to the US in 1961 to study at Columbia University. There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964. He became a US citizen in 1971. He has been President and Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - Havana Ginger
Havana Ginger is a porn star of Cuban, Spanish and Native American descent. She has over 80 film credits since she entered the porn industry in 2004 at the age of twenty. Havana appeared as herself in the first episode of the American comedy TV program "Howard Stern on Demand" in 2005. In 2006, she attended AVN Awards. - Keith Hernandez
Keith Hernandez (born October 20, 1953 in San Francisco, California) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman of Spanish and part Scots-Irish descent, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1974-1983), New York Mets (1983-1989), and Cleveland Indians (1990). He batted and threw left-handed, and through most of his career was listed as being 6 feet tall and 195 pounds. - Michael Lopez-Alegria
Miguel Eladio "LA" López-Alegría is an American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. Miguel López-Alegría, born in Madrid (Spain) and raised in Mission Viejo, California, joined the United States Navy and earned engineering degrees in 1980 and 1988 from the Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. - Tony La Russa
Anthony La Russa, Jr. (born October 4 1944, in Tampa, Florida) is a manager in Major League Baseball, currently with the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2004 he became the sixth manager in history to win pennants with both American and National League teams; in 2006 he became the first manager ever to win multiple pennants in both leagues and became one of only two managers to win the World Series in both leagues. - Tino Martinez
Constantino "Tino" Martinez (born December 7, 1967 in Tampa, Florida) is a retired first baseman in Major League Baseball. Martinez was the 1st round draft pick for the Seattle Mariners in 1988 out of the University of Tampa where Tino starred during his time on campus. He began his major league career in 1990 and has played for the Mariners, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and rejoined the Yankees in the 2005 season, … - Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos is one of the first famous performers of electronic music using synthesizers. - Danielle Gamba
Danielle Elizabeth Gamba (born November 22, 1982) is an American model and dancer of Italian and Spanish descent. A Playboy model, she has appeared in various issues and calendars as well as Mystique-Magazine. FHM Magazine named her their only "International Honey" after she broke the magazine's record (won the "Hometown Honey" duel 3 months in a row), and then named her their Official Lingerie Rep to represent the United States, … - Greg Giraldo
Greg Giraldo (born 1965 in New York City) is an American stand-up comedian, based in New York. Before becoming a comedian, Giraldo, a Regis High School, Columbia University and Harvard Law School graduate, worked as a lawyer. He is known for his distinct delivery and his skills in ranting, never allowing his rhythm to be broken. Giraldo performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan. Giraldo was a regular panelist on "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". - Jewel De'Nyle
Jewel De'Nyle (born Stephany Schwarz on August 5 1977) is an American pornographic actress and director. Her stage name is presumably a reference to the 1985 mainstream film "The Jewel of the Nile". Born in Wetmore, Colorado, USA, De'Nyle was discovered by actress Selena Steele during her tenure as an exotic dancer. After being featured in "Hustler" magazine, she began her career in pornography, … - Kate Brown
Kate Brown, is a Democratic American politician and attorney serving in the Oregon State Senate, and the first woman to serve as Senate Majority Leader. She has been Majority Leader since 2004. Brown represents Oregon's 21st senate district, which includes portions of Northeast and Southeast Portland and Milwaukie. - Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Loreta Janeta Velazquez (1842?-1897?) was a US woman who, according to her own account, took part in the American Civil War disguised as a male soldier named Harry T. Buford and served the Confederacy as a double agent. Everything known about Velazquez comes from her 600-page book, "'The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T Buford, … - Felipe Alfau
Felipe Alfau, was a Spanish American (Catalan American) novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino. Born in Barcelona, Alfau emigrated with his family at the age of fourteen to the United States, where he lived the remainder of his life. - Chris Kirkpatrick
Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick (born October 17, 1971 in Clarion, Pennsylvania) was the oldest member of 'N Sync. He is of Irish, Scottish, Spanish and Native American descent. He is from Dalton, Ohio. His nicknames include Tricky and Lucky. His most prized possession is his Bruce Lee autograph since Bruce Lee is his idol. - Julian Casablancas
Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23, 1978) is the vocalist and songwriter of the band The Strokes.
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