List of Puerto Ricans

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This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Rican citizens are included, as the government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007.<ref name="estado.gobierno.pr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="terra.com.pr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans.

The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notable in more than one field, such as Luis A. Ferré, who is notable both as a former governor and as an industrialist. However, the custom is to place the subject's name under the category for which the subject is most noted.

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Actors, actresses, comedians and directors

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Henry Darrow
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Benicio del Toro
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Erik Estrada
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José Ferrer
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Juano Hernández
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Jennifer Lopez
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Rita Moreno
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Lymari Nadal
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Rosie Perez
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Osvaldo Ríos
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Marquita Rivera
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Jon Seda
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Jimmy Smits
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Liz Torres
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David Zayas

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  • Tony Oliver (born 1958), voice actor
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  • Ivy Queen (born 1972), singer, lyricist, rapper, musician, fashion icon; one of the early founders and creators of the reggaeton style
  • Adolfo Quiñones (1955–2020), actor, dancer, choreographer

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  • Zoé Saldaña (born 1978), actress (Puerto Rican mother)<ref name="pope">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Otilio Warrington (born 1944), also known as "Bizcocho", comedian
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Adult film entertainers

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Architects

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  • Toro Ferrer, pioneering Puerto Rican architectural firm led by Osvaldo Toro FAIA and Miguel Ferrer FAIA, both Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and responsible for such landmarks as the Caribe Hilton, the Supreme Court, the Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport and the Hotel La Concha<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Henry Klumb (1905–1984), German-born architect responsible for many Puerto Rico designs from 1944 to 1984; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects<ref>Vivoni, Enrique. Klumb: Una arquitectura de impronta social/An Architecture of Social Concern, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2007. Template:ISBN</ref>
  • Andrés Mignucci (1957–2022), architect, urbanist; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects; Henry Klumb Award 2012<ref>"AIA Elevates 66 to Fellow; 5 to Honorary Fellow". AIArchitect. American Institute of Architects. February 28, 2005. Retrieved on October 8, 2007.</ref>
  • Antonio Miró Montilla (born 1937), architect, educator; first architect appointed head of a government agency, the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, 1969 to 1971; first dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, 1971 to 1978; Chancellor of the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, 1978 to 1985<ref name="estudios.universia.net">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Antonin Nechodoma (1877–1928), Czech architect working in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic at the turn of the 20th century; major works include the Georgetti Mansion, the Casa Korber in Miramar, and Casa Roig in Humacao<ref>Marvel, Thomas S. (1994). Antonin Nechodoma: Architect, 1877–1928: The Prairie School in the Caribbean. University Press of Florida. Template:ISBN</ref>
  • Francisco Porrata-Doria (1890–1971), designed the Ponce Cathedral, Banco de Ponce, and Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño<ref>Mariano G. Coronas Castro, Certifying Official, and Felix J. del Campo, State Historian and Jorge Ortiz, Architect. Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) April 27, 1987. In National Register of Historic Places Registration Form – Banco Credito y Ahorro Ponceño. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (Washington, D.C.) Section 8, p. 3. Listing Reference Number 87001002. June 25, 1987.</ref>
  • Blas Silva (1869–1949), creator of the Ponce Creole architectural style; designed, among many others, the Casa de la Masacre, Font-Ubides House, and the Subira House<ref>Mariano G. Coronas Castro, Certifying Official; Felix Juan del Campo, State Historian; and Hector F. Santiago, State Architectural Historian, Puerto Rico Historic Preservation Office. (San Juan, Puerto Rico) August 1987. In National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (Washington, D.C.) p. 3. Listing Reference Number 87001826: Residencia Subira/Residencia Frau. October 29, 1987.</ref>
  • Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti (1881–1964), early 20th-century architect from Ponce; designed many historical buildings now listed in the National Register of Historic Places, including his own home (the Wiechers-Villaronga Residence) in the Ponce Historic Zone, which today is home to the Puerto Rico Museum of Architecture<ref>Armando Morales Pares, State Architect, S.H.P.O., Abelardo Gonzalez Aviles, Architect, Centro de Investigaciones Folkloricas de Puerto Rico (Ponce, Puerto Rico), State Historic Preservation Officer, Certifying Officer. May 18, 1984. In National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form – Villaronga Residence. United States Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (Washington, D.C.) p. 3. Listing Reference Number 84003151. August 24, 1984.</ref>

Authors, playwrights and poets

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Nelson Denis
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  • Pura Belpré (1899–1982), author; first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City<ref>"Pura Belpré: The Children's Ambassador". In Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 148-157</ref>
  • Samuel Beníquez (born 1971), author of the autobiographical book Tu alto precio ... Mi gran valor<ref>First page of the newspaper "Primera Hora" of Puerto Rico and subsequent pages 2 through 4. Edition of January 20, 2012. "Newspaper "Primera Hora"</ref>
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  • Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier (1819–1879), poet whose collaboration with the "Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño" (collection of Puerto Rican poetry) gave her recognition as a great poet<ref name="AL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Eugenio María de Hostos (1839–1903), wrote La Peregrinación de Bayoán, the founding text of Puerto Rican literature (see also "Educators" and "Politicians")<ref name="hostos.cuny.edu">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sandra María Esteves (born 1948), Nuyorican poet<ref>Estill, Adriana. "Sandra María Esteves", Latino and Latina Writers (vol. 2), ed. Alan West Duran, pp. 873–83. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004; Template:ISBN</ref>

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  • Shaggy Flores (born 1973), Nuyorican writer, poet; African diaspora scholar; founder of Voices for the Voiceless<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carlos Fonseca Suárez (born 1987), Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer and academic; works include the novels Colonel Lágrimas, Museo animal, and Austral<ref>"Carlos Fonseca." Latin American Literature Today. Retrieved June 24, 2023.</ref>
  • Félix Franco Oppenheimer (1912–2004), poet and writer; works include Contornos, Imagen y visión edénica de Puerto Rico, and Antología poética<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • José Luis González (1926–1997), one of the most prominent writers of the 20th century, particularly for his El país de cuatro pisos (1980)<ref>"González, José Luis." Ronald Fernández, Serafín Méndez Méndez, and Gail Cueto. Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1998. pp. 154–55.</ref>
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  • Víctor Hernández Cruz (born 1949), poet; in 1969, became the first Hispanic to be published by a mainstream publishing house when Random House published his poem "Snaps;"<ref>Aparicio, Frances R. "Victor Hernández Cruz" profile, Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition. Paul Lauter, General Editor. Cengage Online Study Center; accessed January 10, 2010.</ref> in 1981, Life Magazine named him one of America's greatest poets<ref name="HF">Nicolas Kanellos, "Hispanic Firsts", Visible Ink Press; Template:ISBN; p. 40</ref>

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  • Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (born 1968), writer; author of Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails<ref>Morales-Díaz, Enrique. "Identity of the 'Diasporican' Homosexual in the Literary Periphery." In José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera, eds. Writing Off the Hyphen: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. pp. 295–312; Template:ISBN</ref>
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  • Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), writer and poet; author of Medicine Stories (1998) and Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas (1998)<ref>McCormack, Tina, Celeste Silva, Maren Whitman, and Matt Whitmer. "Aurora Levins Morales", Voices from the Gaps, University of Minnesota, 2005. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/</ref>
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  • Nicholasa Mohr (born 1938), writer; her works, among which is the novel Nilda, tell of growing up in the Bronx and El Barrio and of the difficulties Puerto Rican women face in the United States;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), poet, writer and essayist; in 1994, became the first Hispanic to win the O. Henry Prize for her story "The Latin Deli"; in 1996, she and illustrator Susan Guevara became the first recipients of the Pura Belpre Award for Hispanic children's literature<ref name="HF"/><ref name="joc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Manuel Ramos Otero (1948–1990), writer, poet<ref>Quiroga, José. "Ramos Otero, Manuel." Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003, ed. Daniel Balderston and Mike Gonzalez, pp. 471–72. New York: Routledge, 2004; Template:ISBN.</ref>
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Beauty queens and fashion models

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Susie Castillo, Miss USA
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Zuleyka Rivera, Miss Universe
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  • Marisol Malaret (1949–2023), first Puerto Rican Miss Universe, 1970
  • Marisol Maldonado (born 1970), fashion model
  • Melissa Marty (born 1984), Nuestra Belleza Latina 2008
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Business people and industrialists

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  • Carlota Alfaro (born 1933), fashion designer
  • Aída Álvarez (born 1950), first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic woman to hold a sub-cabinet-level position in the White House (Small Business Administrator 1997–2000)
  • José Berrocal (1957–2000), youngest president of PR Government Development Bank; annual scholarships are awarded in his memory
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  • Rafael Carrión Sr. (1891–1964), patriarch of one Puerto Rico's financial dynasties; a founding father of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, the largest bank in Puerto Rico and the largest Hispanic bank in the United States<ref name="LHB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Deirdre Connelly (born 1961), President of North America Pharmaceuticals for GlaxoSmithKline, member of the global Corporate Executive Team; co-chairs the Portfolio Management Board, along with the Chairman of Research and Development<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Atilano Cordero Badillo (born 1943), founder of Supermercados Grande
  • Carmen Ana Culpeper (born 1945), former SBA Regional Director; first female PR Treasury Secretary and PR Telephone Company President
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  • Fernando Fernández (1850–1940), founder of Ron del Barrilito and Alcoholado Santa Ana
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  • Antonio Luis Ferré (1934–2024), owner of the Ferré-Rangel media emporium
  • Jaime Fonalledas (born 1946), President and CEO of Empresas Fonalledas, which owns Plaza Las Américas, the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean and one of the top retail and entertainment venues in the world; Fonalledas' companies include Plaza Del Caribe, Tres Monjitas, Vaqueria Tres Monjitas, Ganaderia Tres Monjitas, and franchise Soft & Creamy<ref name="PRH1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rafael Pérez Perry (1911–1978), in 1960 founded television channel 11, also known as Telecadena Pérez Perry, became known as Tele Once in 1986<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Miguel Ruíz (1856–1912), founder of Café Yaucono
  • Herb Scannell (born 1957), former Chairman of MTV Networks and president of Nickelodeon
  • Juan Serrallés (1845–1921), founder of Don Q rum
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  • Camalia Valdés (born 1972), President and CEO of Cerveceria India, Inc., Puerto Rico's largest brewery<ref name="CVB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Salvador Vassallo (1942–2007), founder of Vassallo Industries Inc. and subsidiaries<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Richard Velázquez (born 1973), businessman and community leader; former President of NSHMBA Puerto Rico; co-founder and former President of NSHMBA Seattle;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Cartoonists

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John Rivas
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George Pérez
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  • George Pérez (1954–2022), Marvel and DC Comics iconic comic book artist and writer<ref name="TitansArchives">"Contributors: George Pérez", The New Teen Titans Archives, Volume 1 (DC Comics, 1999).</ref>
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Civil rights and political activists

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María de las Mercedes Barbudo
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José Maldonado Román
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Sylvia Mendez
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Elías Beauchamp
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Olga Viscal Garriga
  • María de las Mercedes Barbudo (1773–1849), political activist; often called the first female Puerto Rican "Independentista"<ref name="MIP">Mercedes – La primera Independentista Puertorriquena Template:Webarchive, 80grados.net; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
  • Rosario Bellber González (1881–1948), educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; initiator, vice president and one of the founders of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association (Spanish: Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico); Bellber is also one of the founders of the Children's Hospital of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Hospital del Niño de Puerto Rico) and president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico (Spanish: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico); in 1944, founded the House of Health and Convalescence for Children with Tuberculosis (Spanish: Sanatorio para Niños con Tuberculosis) in the mountain town of Aibonito<ref name="Lassalle 149, 158">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Quién es Quién en Puerto Rico">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name="Revista Cruce">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Mariana Bracetti (1825–1903) a.k.a. "Brazo de Oro" ("Golden Arm"), political activist; leader of the Lares's Revolutionary Council during the Grito de Lares; knit the first flag of the future Republic of Puerto Rico
  • Mathias Brugman (1811–1868), political activist; leader of the Grito de Lares; founded the first revolutionary committee in the City of Mayagüez; his revolutionary cell was code named "Capa Prieta" (Black Cape)
  • María Cadilla (1884–1951), women's rights activist; one of the first women in Puerto Rico to earn a doctoral degree
  • Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), labor activist; one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor organizers; writer and an anarchist who fought for workers and women's rights
  • Alice Cardona (1930–2011), activist and community organizer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Dennis Flores, activist and filmmaker<ref name="Nevett">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Tito Kayak (born 1958), political activist; gained notoriety when a group of Vieques natives and other Puerto Ricans began protesting and squatting on U.S. Navy bombing zones after the 1999 death of Puerto Rican civilian and Vieques native David Sanes, who was killed during a U.S. Navy bombing exercise<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sylvia del Villard (1928–1990), Afro-Puerto Rican activist, founder of the Afro-Boricua El Coquí Theater; an outspoken activist who fought for the equal rights of the Black Puerto Rican artist; in 1981, she became the first and only director of the Office of Afro-Puerto Rican Affairs of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Institute of Culture) (see also "Actresses")
  • Isabel González (1882–1971), civil rights activist; young Puerto Rican mother who paved the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Manuel Olivieri Sánchez (1888–1961), civil rights activist; court interpreter and a civil rights activist who led the legal battle which granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans living in Hawaii<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Olivia Paoli (1855–1942), suffragist and activist who fought for the rights of women in Puerto Rico; founder of the first theosophist lodge in Puerto Rico<ref>Lilliam Torres-Braschi. Olivia: Vida de Olivia Paoli Viuda de Braschi, 1855–1942. 1979. p. 160. Template:ISBN Template:In lang</ref><ref>Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico. Dos siglos de periodismo puertorriqueño: II. Volume 2. Casa de Periodistas Editorial. 2006. p. 154. Template:ISBN Template:In lang</ref><ref>Mario R. Cancel, editor. Anti-figuraciones: bocetos puertorriqueños. San Juan: Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores-Postdata. 2003. p. 176. Template:ISBN Template:In lang</ref><ref>Mario R. Cancel, editor. Historia y género: Vídas y relatos de las mujeres en el Caribe. Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores. 1997. p. 126. Template:ISBN Template:In lang</ref>
  • César A. Perales (born 1940), civil rights lawyer; founder of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (now LatinoJustice PRLDEF); won precedent-setting lawsuits combating discrimination; New York Secretary of State<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Helen Rodríguez Trías (1929–2001), physician and women's rights activist; first Latina president of the American Public Health Association; a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the American Public Health Association; recipient of the Presidential Citizen's Medal; credited with helping to expand the range of public health services for women and children in minority and low-income populations in the US, Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East<ref name="FoM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Manuel Rojas (1831–1903), Venezuelan born Puerto Rican independence leader in the El Grito de Lares revolt against Spanish colonial rule
  • Ana Roque (1853–1933), women's rights activist, educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Marcos Xiorro, house slave; in 1821, planned and conspired to lead a slave revolt against the sugar plantation owners and the Spanish Colonial government in Puerto Rico<ref name="GB">"Slave revolts in Puerto Rico: conspiracies and uprisings, 1795–1873"; by: Guillermo A. Baralt; Publisher Markus Wiener Publishers; Template:ISBN</ref>

Nationalists

Political activists who were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party:

  • Elías Beauchamp (1908–1936), political activist and nationalist; in 1936, assassinated Elisha Francis Riggs, the United States-appointed police chief of Puerto Rico; considered a hero by the members of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement<ref name="WAPR">"War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony"; Author: Nelson Antonio Denis; Publisher: Nation Books (2015); Template:ISBN.</ref>
  • Blanca Canales (1906–1996), political activist; nationalist leader who led the Jayuya Uprising in 1950 against US colonial rule of Puerto Rico
  • Rafael Cancel Miranda (1930–2020), political activist; member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and advocate of Puerto Rican independence who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954
  • Óscar Collazo (1914–1994), political activist; one of two nationalists who attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman
  • Rosa Collazo (1904–1988) a.k.a. Rosa Cortéz Collazo, political activist and treasurer of the New York City branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party<ref name="LUS">Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia,By Vicki Ruíz, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Inc NetLibrary; Published by Indiana University Press, 2006; p. 164; Template:ISBN</ref>
  • Raimundo Díaz Pacheco (1906–1950), political activist; Commander-in-Chief of the Cadets of the Republic (Cadetes de la República), a quasi-military organization and official youth organization within the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party<ref name="FBI">"FBI Files"; "Puerto Rico Nationalist Party"; SJ 100-3; Vol. 23; pp. 104–34 Template:Webarchive, pr-secretfiles.net; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
  • Andrés Figueroa Cordero (1924–1979), political activist; member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; one of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Irvin Flores Ramírez (1925–1994), political activist; Nationalist leader and activist; one of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954<ref name="LAT">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lolita Lebrón (1919–2009), political activist; Nationalist leader and activist; the leader of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954<ref name="LAT"/>
  • Tomás López de Victoria (1911–?), political activist and Sub-Commander of the Cadets of the Republic; the captain in charge of the cadets who participated in the peaceful march which ended up as the Ponce massacre, he led the Nationalists in the Arecibo revolt in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolt of 1950<ref name="TV">Template:Usurped</ref>
  • Isolina Rondón (1913–1990), political activist and Treasurer of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; one of the few witnesses of the October 24, 1935 killing of four Nationalists by local police officers in Puerto Rico during a confrontation with the supporters of the Nationalist Party, known as the Río Piedras massacre<ref name="Bosque Pérez">Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Hiram Rosado (1911–1936), political activist and nationalist; in 1936 participated in the assassination of Elisha Francis Riggs, the United States-appointed police chief of Puerto Rico; he and his comrade Elías Beauchamp are considered heroes by the members of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement<ref name="WAPR"/>
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  • Vidal Santiago Díaz (1910–1982), political activist; barber of Pedro Albizu Campos and uncle of the novelist Esmeralda Santiago; made Puerto Rican media history when numerous police officers and National Guardsmen attacked him at his barbershop during the 1950 Nationalist Revolt; this was the first time in Puerto Rican history that such an attack was transmitted via radio to the public<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Griselio Torresola (1925–1950), political activist; Nationalist who died in an attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman in 1950
  • Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff (1907–2005), political activist, former President of the New York chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in the 1930s; in the 1990s was among the pro-independence activists who protested against the United States Navy's use of his birthplace, Vieques, as a bombing range<ref name="CVR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Olga Viscal Garriga (1929–1995), political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; in the late 1940s became a student leader at the University of Puerto Rico and spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party's branch in Río Piedras<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Clergy, religion

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Painting of Alejo de Arizmendi

Pre–20th century

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Composers, singers, musicians and opera performers

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Chayanne
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Marc Anthony, singer
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José Feliciano, singer and composer of "Feliz Navidad"
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Felipe Rose, Village People
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Jim Jones, rapper
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Bruno Mars
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Ricky Martin, singer
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Melanie Martinez, singer
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Elsa Miranda, singer
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Yolandita Monge, singer
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Carli Muñoz, pianist
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Nedra Talley
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Rubén Colón Tarrats, orchestra conductor

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  • Jazz Hamilton (born 1965), recording artist, arranger, composer, saxophonist, producer
  • Edward W. Hardy (born 1992), composer, violinist, violist, producer, and actor, known for his off-Broadway musical The Woodsman<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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  • Florencio Morales Ramos (1915–1989), a.k.a. "Ramito", composer of plenas and one of the foremost singers of música jíbara; composed "Que Bonita Bandera", which, on March 19, 2009, served as the wake-up call for Puerto Rican astronaut Joseph M. Acaba and the crew aboard the Discovery Space Shuttle<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rafael Muñoz (1900–1961), orchestra leader; in 1934, he composed the musical score for Romance Tropical, the first Puerto Rican movie with sound and the second Spanish movie with sound in the world<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ednita Nazario (born 1955), singer
  • Rafael Nazario (born 1952), pianist, composer and arranger, actor, chef, author<ref name="Staff writers; no byline">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Daniel Rodríguez (born 1964), former police officer turned operatic tenor
  • Felipe Rodríguez (1926–1999), a.k.a. "La Voz", singer of boleros
  • Julito Rodríguez (1925–2013), singer and leader of one of the most important tríos
  • Lalo Rodríguez (1958–2022), salsa singer; was part of the first two records to win the first two Latin Grammy Awards; first artist to sell over one million salsa records in Spain
  • Pellin Rodríguez (1926–1984), salsa singer; member of the musical group El Gran Combo<ref name="PR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Fernando and Nefty Sallaberry (born 1964, born 1965), singers; former members of Menudo
  • Bobby Sanabria (born 1957), Latin jazz musician, drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, 8X Grammy nominee as a leader, educator, documentary film producer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Manoella Torres (born 1954), singer
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Opera

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Criminals and outlaws

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Antonio Correa Cotto

Pre-20th century

  • Roberto Cofresí (1791–1825), a.k.a. '"El Pirata Cofresí"' (Cofresí the Pirate); his exploits as a pirate are part of Puerto Rico's folklore

20th century

  • Salvador Agrón (1943–1986), a.k.a. "The Capeman", criminal and poet
  • Antonio Correa Cotto (1916–1952), bandit/outlaw<ref>"Wanted Dead or Alive, $10,000 reward for the capture of the escaped convict Correa Cotto"; Newspaper "El Imparcial"; May 3, 1952.</ref>
  • Jose Garcia Cosme (1957–2019), a.k.a. "Papo Cachete", drug kingpin<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Antonio García López (1943–1995), a.k.a. "Toño Bicicleta", outlaw
  • Raymond Márquez (born 1930), a.k.a. "Spanish Raymond", Harlem numbers kingpin<ref>"Gambling Kingpin is Acquitted"; New York Daily News; July 3, 2001</ref><ref>"Longtime Numbers King of New York Goes Public to Clear His Name"; New York Times; July 6, 1997; by: Selwyn Raab.</ref>
  • Isabel la Negra (1901–1974), madam of a brothel
  • Edsel Torres Gómez, a.k.a. "Negri", drug kingpin
  • Tony Tursi (1901–1989), mobster

21st century

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  • Alex Trujillo (born 1983), drug dealer and preacher<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Diplomats

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21st century

Educators

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Rafael Cordero
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Eugenio María de Hostos
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Angel M. Ramos
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Drawing of Angelo Falcón
  • Ursula Acosta, educator; one of the founding members of the Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía (Puerto Rican Genealogical Society)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Alfredo M. Aguayo, educator and writer; established the first laboratory of child psychology at the University of Havana<ref>"Personajes Ilustres", salonhogar.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
  • Carlos Albizu Miranda, psychologist, educator; first Hispanic educator to have a North American university renamed in his honor and one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in psychology in the US<ref name="Carlos Albizu University">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Margot Arce de Vázquez, educator; founder of the department of Hispanic studies in the University of Puerto Rico
  • Rosario Bellber González, educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; initiator, vice president and one of the founders of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association (Spanish: Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico); Bellber is also one of the founders of the Children's Hospital of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Hospital del Niño de Puerto Rico) and president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico (Spanish: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico); In 1944, Bellber founded the House of Health and Convalescence for Children with Tuberculosis (Spanish: Sanatorio para Niños con Tuberculosis) in the mountain town of Aibonito<ref name="Lassalle 149, 158"/><ref name="Quién es Quién en Puerto Rico"/><ref name="Revista Cruce"/><ref name="Krüger Torres 1975 273–274"/>
  • Jaime Benítez, former resident commissioner; longest-serving chancellor and president of the University of Puerto Rico
  • Frank Bonilla, educator; academic who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican studies<ref name=Quach>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Eugenio María de Hostos, educator; in Peru, he helped to develop that country's educational system and spoke against the harsh treatment given to the Chinese who lived there. He stayed in Chile from 1870 to 1873. During his stay there, he taught at the University of Chile and gave a speech titled "The Scientific Education of Women;" he proposed that governments permit women in their colleges; soon after, Chile allowed women to enter its college educational system (see also "Politicians" and "Authors).
  • Angelo Falcón, political scientist; author of Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans (2004); co-editor of Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City (2004)
  • José Ferrer Canales, educator, writer and activist<ref name="Canales">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Antonio Miró Montilla, architect, educator; first architect appointed head of a government agency, the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, 1969–71; first dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, 1971–78; chancellor of the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, 1978–85<ref name="estudios.universia.net"/>
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  • Ana Roque, educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico<ref name="Colon">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lolita Tizol, early 1900s educator; at a time when most people in Ponce, as most of Puerto Rico, did not know how to read and write, and when teachers were paid only $50 per month, even in the large cities, Tizol took it upon herself to overcome all challenges to help others<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Nilita Vientós Gastón, educator; first female lawyer to work for the Department of Justice of Puerto Rico; defended the use of the Spanish language in the courts of Puerto Rico, before the Supreme Court, and won
  • Mariano Villaronga Toro, educator and public servant; first commissioner of public instruction after the creation of the Estado Libre Asociado; instituted the use of Spanish as the official language of instruction in the Puerto Rico public education system, displacing English, which had been pushed by the US-appointed colonial governors<ref>"Mariano Villaronga Toro" profileTemplate:Dead link, enciclopediapr1.org; accessed April 4, 2016. Template:In lang</ref>

Governors of Puerto Rico

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Juan Ponce de León II

Pre-20th century

20th century

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First Ladies of Puerto Rico

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First Gentleman of Puerto Rico

Historians

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Salvador Brau
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Tony Santiago Rodríguez, a.k.a. Tony "the Marine" Santiago
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  • Delma S. Arrigoitia, historian, author; first person in the University of Puerto Rico to earn a master's degree in the field of history; in 2010, her book, Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barceló, 1868–1938, was recognized among the best in the category of "research and criticism" and awarded a first place prize by the Ateneo Puertorriqueño<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Journalists

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  • Carmen Jovet, journalist, first Puerto Rican woman named a news anchor in Puerto Rico<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Geraldo Rivera, attorney, journalist, writer, reporter and former talk show host; hosts the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large, and appears regularly on Fox News Channel<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ray Suárez, Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Judges, law enforcement and firefighters

Judges

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  • Federico Hernández Denton, former Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court; Puerto Rico's first Consumer Affairs Secretary
  • Erick Kolthoff, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; first Puerto Rican of African descent to be named Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jaime Rios (judge) In 1995, Rios was elected to the State Supreme Court. In 2001 he became associate justice of the Appellate Term of the State Supreme Court, a position he currently holds. He is the only judge from Queens that make up the term. As an appellate judge, Rios reviews all the appeals taken from the courts throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
  • Sonia Sotomayor, first Puerto Rican woman to serve as an (2nd Cir.) U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge and first Hispanic to be nominated and confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • José Trías Monge, former Chief Justice, Attorney General of Puerto Rico, author
  • Marilyn Zayas, first Latina and Puerto Rican judge elected to an Ohio State Court of Appeals<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Roberto Feliberti Cintrón, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; former Commissioned Officer U.S. Navy (1985–1989)

Laws in the U.S. inspired by Puerto Ricans

  • Briana's Law – Briana Ojeda was an 11-year-old girl who died in the summer of 2010 when a police officer did not perform CPR on her after she suffered from an asthma attack. Briana's Law, which requires that every police officer and member of the State Police, including police officer trainees and state police cadets, receive CPR training prior to employment as well as during employment every two years, was named in her honor.<ref name="APL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ariel Rios On February 5, 1985, the block-long federal building at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., that used to house the ATF Headquarters was renamed the Ariel Rios Federal Building in his honor.
  • Nicholas Estavillo, NYPD Chief of Patrol (Ret.); in 2002, became first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic in the history of the NYPD to reach the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol<ref name="CPtR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Benito Romano, United States Attorney in New York; first Puerto Rican to hold the United States Attorney's post in New York on an interim basis<ref name="NYT 1-11-89">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Joe Sánchez, former New York City police officer and author whose books give an insight as to the corruption within the department<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Pedro Toledo, retired FBI senior agent and longest-serving state police superintendent
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Firefighters

  • Raúl Gándara Cartagena, first and longest-serving Commonwealth fire chief in Puerto Rico, 1942–1972<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Military

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Demetrio O'Daly
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Manuel Rojas
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Augusto Rodríguez
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Juan Ríus Rivera
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José Semidei Rodríguez
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Ángel Rivero Méndez
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Mihiel Gilormini
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Carmen Dumler
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Virgil R. Miller
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Pedro del Valle
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José Antonio Muñiz
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Modesto Cartagena
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Rose Franco
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Fernando Luis García
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Carlos James Lozada
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Antonio Maldonado
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Angel Mendez
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Héctor Santiago-Colón
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Lizbeth Robles
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Frances M. Vega
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Rafael O'Ferrall
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Maritza Sáenz Ryan
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Brigadier General Irene M. Zoppi

16th century

17th century

  • Juan de Amézqueta, Captain, Puerto Rican Militia; defeated Captain Balduino Enrico (Boudewijn Hendricksz), who in 1625 was ordered by the Dutch to capture Puerto Rico<ref name="Miller">Historias de Puerto Rico by Paul G. Miller (1947), pp. 221–37.</ref>

18th century

  • Rafael Conti, Colonel, Spanish Army; in 1790, captured 11 enemy ships involved in smuggling stolen goods. In 1797, he helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in his hometown, Aguadilla. In 1809, he organized a military expedition fight with the aim of returning Hispaniola, which now comprise the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, back to Spanish rule.<ref>"Historia de Puerto Rico" de Paul G. Miller, Rand McNally, editor, 1947, p. 237.</ref>
  • Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Captain, Spanish Army; Puerto Rican hero who defended the town Arecibo in 1702 from an invasion by defeating the British; was awarded La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie (The Gold Medal of the Royal Image), by King Philip V of Spain and given the title "Captain of Infantry"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • José and Francisco Díaz, Sergeants, Puerto Rican militia; cousins in the Toa Baja Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797<ref name="AS">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Miguel Henríquez, Captain, Spanish Navy; in 1713, defeated the British in Vieques and was awarded the La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie (The Gold Medal of the Royal Effigy)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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19th century

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  • Demetrio O'Daly, first Puerto Rican to reach the rank of Field Marshal in the Spanish Army; first Puerto Rican to be awarded the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando (Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand – Spain's version of the Medal of Honor); elected as delegate to the Spanish Courts in representation of Puerto Rico<ref name="BHN">Eduardo Neumann Gandia, Benefactores y Hombres Notables de Puerto Rico, published 1896, National Library of Spain.</ref>
  • Luis Padial, Brigadier General, Spanish Army; in 1863, his battalion was deployed with the intention of "squashing" a pro-independence rebellion in the Dominican Republic, in which he was wounded; played an essential role in the abolishment of slavery in Puerto Rico
  • Ramón Power y Giralt, Captain, Spanish Navy; distinguished naval officer who from 1808 to 1809 led the defense of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) against an invasion from Napoleon's French forces by enforcing a blockade in support of the Spanish ground troops<ref name="BB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ángel Rivero Méndez, Captain, Spanish Army; fired the first shot against the United States in the Spanish–American War in Puerto Rico; later invented Kola Champagne, a soft drink<ref name="SARB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rafael Celestino Benítez, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; a highly decorated submarine commander who led the rescue effort of the crew members of the Template:USS, which was involved in the first American undersea spy mission of the Cold War<ref name="Sontag">Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff.</ref>
  • Carlos Betances Ramírez, Colonel, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to command a battalion in the Korean War; in 1952, he assumed the command of the 2nd Battalion, 65th Infantry Regiment<ref name="PRS">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • José M. Cabanillas, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; in World War II he was Executive Officer of the Template:USS and participated in the invasions of Africa and Normandy (D-Day)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Tech4, U.S. Women's Army Corps; first Hispanic to serve in the U.S. Women's Army Corps; served as an interpreter and in numerous administrative positions during World War II<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Virgilio N. Cordero Jr., Brigadier General, U.S. Army; a Battalion Commander of the 31st Infantry Regiment who documented his experiences as a prisoner of war and his participation in the infamous Bataan Death March of World War II.<ref name="TN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Juan César Cordero Dávila, Major General, U.S. Army; commanding officer of the 65th Infantry Regiment during the Korean War, thus becoming one of the highest ranking ethnic officers in the Army<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Alberto Díaz Jr., Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic to become the Director of the San Diego Naval Medical District<ref name="NN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Luis R. Esteves, Major General, U.S. Army; in 1915, became the first Puerto Rican and therefore the first Hispanic to graduate from the United States Military Academy; organized the Puerto Rican National Guard<ref name="Esteves">Luis R. Esteves profile Template:Webarchive, Bellsouthpwp.net; retrieved November 6, 2007.</ref>
  • Salvador E. Felices, Major General, U.S. Air Force; first Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force; in 1953, he flew in 19 combat missions over North Korea during the Korean War; in 1957, he participated in a historic project that was given to Fifteenth Air Force by the Strategic Air Command headquarters known as "Operation Power Flite", the first around the world non-stop flight by all-jet aircraft<ref name="Jan16">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Edmund Ernest García, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; during World War II he was commander of the destroyer Template:USS and saw action in the invasions of Africa, Sicily, and France<ref name="USSS">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Fernando Luis García, Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps; first Puerto Rican awarded the Medal of Honor; posthumously awarded the medal for his actions against enemy aggressor forces in the Korean War on September 5, 1952.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Linda Garcia Cubero, Captain, U.S. Air Force; of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage; in 1980 became the first female Hispanic graduate of any of the U.S. military academies when she graduated from the United States Air Force Academy<ref name="Latina Style Magazine">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • Carmen García Rosado, Private First Class, U.S. Women's Army Corps; was among the first 200 Puerto Rican women to be recruited into the WAC's during World War II; author of Las WACS-Participacion de la Mujer Boricua en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (The WACs – The participation of the Puerto Rican women in the Second World War), the first book which documents the experiences of the first 200 Puerto Rican women to participate in said conflict as members of the armed forces of the United States<ref>Carmen García Rosado, "Las WACS"-Participacion de la Mujer Boricua en la Seginda Guerra Mundial, p. 60; 1ra. Edicion publicada en Octubre de 2006; 2da Edicion revisada 2007; Regitro tro Propiedad Intectual ELA (Government of Puerto Rico) #06-13P-)1A-399</ref>
  • Mihiel Gilormini, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; World War II hero, recipient of 5 Distinguished Flying Crosses; together with Brig. General Alberto A. Nido and Lt. Col. Jose Antonio Muñiz, founded the Puerto Rico Air National Guard; previously flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force (1941) and the Royal Air Force (1941–1942)<ref>Negroni, Héctor Andrés. Historia Militar de Puerto Rico (A Military History of Puerto Rico), Turner Publishing. 1992; Template:ISBN. p. 486.</ref>
  • Manuel Goded Llopis, General, Spanish Army; a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Army; one of the first generales to join General Francisco Franco in the revolt against the Spanish Republican government (also known as Spanish loyalists) in the Spanish Civil War; previously distinguished himself in the Battle of Alhucemas of the Rif War<ref name="History">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • César Luis González, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Force; first Puerto Rican pilot in the United States Army Air Force; first Puerto Rican pilot to die in World War II.<ref name="TA">"Un tributo a los precursores de la aviacion en la Isla"; El Mundo; May 21, 1944</ref>
  • Diego E. Hernández, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic to be named Vice Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; flew two combat tours in Vietnam during the Vietnam War; in 1980, took command of the aircraft carrier Template:USS<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Haydee Javier Kimmich, Captain, U.S. Navy; highest ranking Hispanic female in the Navy; Chief of Orthopedics at the Navy Medical Center in Bethesda and she reorganized Reservist Department of the medical center during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm<ref name="womensmemorial.org">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Orlando Llenza, Major General, U.S. Air Force; second Puerto Rican to reach the rank of Major General (two-star General) in the United States Air Force; Adjutant General of the Puerto Rico National Guard<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carlos Lozada, Private First Class, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 20, 1967, at Dak To in the Republic of Vietnam<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carmen Lozano Dumler, 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Women's Army Corps; one of the first Puerto Rican women Army officers; in 1944, she was sworn in as a 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to the 161st General Hospital in San Juan<ref name="womensmemorial.org"/>
  • Antonio Maldonado, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; in 1965, became the youngest person to pilot a B-52 aircraft; his active participation in the Vietnam War included 183 air combat missions<ref name="López">Ildelfonso López, Tras las Huellas de Nuestro Paso, p. 34, AEELA, 1998; retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref>
  • Joseph (José) R. Martínez, Private First Class, U.S. Army; destroyed a German Infantry unit and tank in Tuniz by providing heavy artillery fire, saving his platoon from being attacked in the process; received the Distinguished Service Cross from General George S. Patton, becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lester Martínez López, MPH, Major General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic to head the Army Medical and Research Command<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Gilberto José Marxuach, Colonel, U.S. Army<ref name="GMA">"Gilberto Marxauch Acosta profile", El Mundo, June 7, 1957.</ref>
  • Teófilo Marxuach, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army; fired a hostile shot from a cannon located at the Santa Rosa battery of El Morro fort, in what is considered to be the first shot of World War I fired by the regular armed forces of the United States against any ship flying the colors of the Central Powers,<ref name="USNI">Lt. Isaiah Olch, US Navy, US Naval Institute Proceedings ("A Breach of Neutrality"), Vol. 62; July–December 1936.</ref> forcing the Odenwald to stop and to return to port where its supplies were confiscated<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • George E. Mayer, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic Commander of the Naval Safety Center; led an international naval exercise known as Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2003 from his flagship, the Template:USS; this was the first time in the 31-year history of BALTOPS that the exercise included combined ground troops from Russia, Poland, Denmark and the United States<ref>George E. Mayer profile Template:Webarchive, BALTOPS (2003), eucom.mil; retrieved July 5, 2007.</ref>
  • Angel Mendez, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps; of Puerto Rican descent; was awarded the Navy Cross in Vietnam and is being considered for the Medal of Honor; saved the life of his lieutenant, Ronald D. Castille, who went on to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania<ref name="AM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Enrique Méndez Jr., Major General, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to assume the positions of Army Deputy Surgeon General, Commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • José Antonio Muñiz Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force; together with then-Colonels Alberto A. Nido and Mihiel Gilormini, founded the Puerto Rico Air National Guard; in 1963, the Air National Guard Base, at the San Juan International airport in Puerto Rico, was renamed "Muñiz Air National Guard Base" in his honor<ref name="EM">El Mundo; "La carrera de Jose Antonio Muñiz en las fuerzas aéreas de los EEUU; April 26, 1944; Number 9986 (in Spanish)</ref>
  • William A. Navas Jr., Major General, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican named Assistant Secretary of the Navy; a veteran of the Vietnam War; nominated in 2001 by President George W. Bush to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Juan E. Negrón, Master Sergeant, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014, for courageous actions while serving as a member of Company L, 65th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Kalma-Eri, Korea, on April 28, 1951<ref name="BOMoH"/>
  • Héctor Andrés Negroni, Colonel, U.S. Air Force; first Puerto Rican graduate of the United States Air Force Academy; a veteran of the Vietnam War; was awarded the Aeronautical Merit Cross, Spai'ns highest Air Force peacetime award for his contributions to the successful implementation of the United States-Spain Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation<ref name="NF">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Alberto A. Nido, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; a World War II war hero who together with Lt. Col. Jose Antonio Muñiz, co-founded the Puerto Rico Air National Guard and served as its commander for many years; served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the British Royal Air Force and in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II<ref name="EM 2">El Mundo; "La carrera de Alberto A. Nido en las fuerzas aéreas de los EEUU; April 26, 1944; No. 9986.</ref>
  • Jorge Otero Barreto, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; with 38 decorations, which includes 2 Silver Star Medals, 5 Bronze Star Medals with Valor, 4 Army Commendation medals, 5 Purple Heart Medals and 5 Air Medals, has been called the most decorated Puerto Rican soldier of the Vietnam War.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Dolores Piñero, U.S. Army Medical Corps; despite the fact that she was not an active member of the military, she was the first Puerto Rican woman doctor to serve in the Army under contract during World War I; at first she was turned down, but after writing a letter to the Army Surgeon General in Washington, D.C. she was ordered to report to Camp Las Casas in Santurce, Puerto Rico; in October 1918, she signed her contract with the Army.<ref>Women Doctors in War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series); by: Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Herrera Graf; Publisher: Texas A&M University Press; Template:ISBN</ref>
  • José M. Portela, Brigadier General U.S. Air Force; served in the position of Assistant Adjutant General for Air while also serving as commander of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard; in 1972, became the youngest C-141 Starlifter aircraft commander and captain at age 22; the only reservist ever to serve as director of mobility forces for Bosnia<ref name="NGB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Antonio J. Ramos, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; first Hispanic to serve as commander, Air Force Security Assistance Center, Air Force Materiel Command, and dual-hatted as Assistant to the Commander for International Affairs, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command<ref name="USAF BIO Ramos">Antonio J. Ramos profile, af.mil; accessed February 16, 2008.</ref>
  • Agustín Ramos Calero, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; with 22 military decorations, was the most decorated soldier in all of the United States during World War II<ref name="PRS"/>
  • Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, Major, U.S. Air Force; one of the pilots who participated in the Libyan air raid as member of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing; his F-111F was shot down in action over the disputed Gulf of Sidra off the Libyan coast. Ribas-Dominicci and his weapons systems officer, Capt. Paul Lorence, were the only U.S. casualties of Operation El Dorado Canyon<ref name="Time">Profile, Time.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
  • Frederick Lois Riefkohl, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; born Luis Federico Riefkohl Jaimieson; one of the first Puerto Ricans to graduate from the United States Naval Academy; in World War I became the first Puerto Rican to be awarded the Navy Cross<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rudolph W. Riefkohl, Colonel, U.S. Army; played an instrumental role in helping the people of Poland overcome the 1919 typhus epidemic<ref>Alfred E. Cornebise, "Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition, 1919–1921", pp. 23, 25, 119–20. Template:ISBN?</ref>
  • Demensio Rivera, Private, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014, for his courageous actions while serving as an automatic rifleman with 2d Platoon, Company G, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Changyong-ni, Korea on May 23, 1951<ref name="BOMoH"/>
  • Manuel Rivera Jr., Captain, U.S. Marine Corps; of Puerto Rican descent; first U.S. serviceman to die in Operation Desert Shield<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Pedro N. Rivera, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; in 1994, became the first Hispanic to be named medical commander in the Air Force; responsible for the provision of health care to more than 50,000 patients<ref>Ildelfonso López, Tras las Huellas de Nuestro Paso, p. 40, Publisher: AEELA, 1998. Retrieved June 25, 2007.</ref>
  • Horacio Rivero, Admiral, U.S. Navy; in 1964, became the first Puerto Rican and second Hispanic Admiral (four-star) in the U.S. Navy; participated in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War; commander in 1962 of the American fleet sent by President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis to set up a quarantine (blockade) of the Soviet ships in an effort to stop the Cold War from escalating into World War III<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Pedro Rodríguez, Master Sergeant, U.S. Army; member of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry; earned two Silver Stars within a seven-day period during the Korean War<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Antulio Segarra, Colonel, U.S. Army; in 1943, became the first Puerto Rican Regular Army officer to command a Regular Army Regiment when he assumed the command of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment, which was conducting security missions in the jungles of Panama<ref name="FCO">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carmen Vazquez Rivera, First Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force. Vazquez was an early Puerto Rican female officer of the United States Army and Air Force who served in both World War II and the Korean War.<ref name="Biscayne Bay Tribune">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Miguel A. Vera, Private, U.S. Army; was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his courageous actions while serving as an automatic rifleman with Company F, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division in Chorwon, Korea, on September 21, 1952<ref name="BOMoH"/>
  • Humbert Roque Versace, Captain, U.S. Army; of Italian and Puerto Rican descent; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions while a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War; first member of the U.S. Army to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions performed in Southeast Asia while in captivity<ref name=MOH_PresidentRemarks>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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21st century

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  • Rafael O'Ferrall, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic and person of Puerto Rican descent to become the Deputy Commanding General for the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo, Cuba while simultaneously serving as Assistant Adjutant General (Army) and Deputy Commanding General of the Joint Force Headquarters at San Juan, Puerto Rico<ref name="USAL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Maritza Sáenz Ryan, Colonel, U.S. Army; of Puerto Ricana and Spanish descent; head of the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy; first woman and first Hispanic (Puerto Rican and Spanish heritage) West Point graduate to serve as an academic department head; the most senior ranking Hispanic Judge Advocate<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Marc H. Sasseville, Major General, U.S. Air Force; Puerto Rican mother; on September 11, 2001,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Noel Zamot, Colonel, U.S. Air Force, a native of Rio Piedras, was the first Hispanic commandant of the Air Force's elite Test Pilot School. He is also a former combat and test aviator with over 1900 hours in B-52, B-1B, B-2A, F-16D and over 20 other aircraft.<ref>Strategy and Technology Executive www.linkedin.com/in/noelzamot</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Irene M. Zoppi, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican woman to reach the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Army; Deputy Commanding General – Support under the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade, Maryland; Bronze Star Medal recipient<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Physicians, scientists and inventors

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Agustin Stahl
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Fermín Tangüis
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Joseph Acaba
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Antonia Novello – Surgeon General of the United States
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Joxel García – Assistant Secretary of Health for President George W. Bush
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Olga D. González-Sanabria – member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame

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  • Rafael L. Bras, former chair of Civil Engineering at MIT; leading expert on hydrometeorology and global warming<ref name="gt">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Anthony M. Busquets, electronic engineer, aerospace technologist; involved in the development and application of multifunction control/display switch technology in 1983 and development and application of a microprocessor-based I/O system for simulator use in 1984<ref name="autogenerated1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carlos E. Chardón, a.k.a. the "father of mycology in Puerto Rico"; first Puerto Rican mycologist; discovered the aphid "Aphis maidis", the vector of the mosaic of sugar cane, in 1922; author of the Chardón Plan; first Puerto Rican to hold the position of Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico<ref name="MN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Milagros J. Cordero, pediatrician; founder and President of Team Therapy Services For Children
  • María Cordero Hardy, physiologist, educator and scientist; did important research on vitamin E<ref name="SPR">Mary Ellen Verheyden-Hilliard, "Scientist from Puerto Rico, Maria Cordero Hardy (American Women in Science Biography)", Equity Institute; 1st edition (1985); Template:ISBN</ref>
  • Juan R. Correa-Pérez, scientist; first clinical andrologist and embryologist in Puerto Rico
  • Juan R. Cruz, NASA scientist, played an instrumental role in the design and development of the Mars Exploration Rover parachute<ref name="Lineberry-1">Langley is 'All Systems Go' to Make History on Mars, NASA, 07.16.12 (Accessed November 13, 2012)</ref>
  • Carlos Del Castillo, NASA scientist; Program Scientist for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program at NASA; recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Manuel de la Pila Iglesias, multi-faceted physician; introduced the first EKG and X-ray machines into Puerto Rico; founded a medical clinic which today houses a respected medical center in Ponce<ref name="galenusrevista.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rurico Diaz Rivera, cardiologist; first Chief of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine; leader in United States research for dengue fever <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Alfonso Eaton, mechanical engineer, aerospace technologist; first Puerto Rican to work for NASA<ref name="RUM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, astronaut applicant and astrophysicist with NASA; pioneered the development of position-sensitive detectors
  • Orlando Figueroa, mechanical engineer at NASA; former Director for Mars Exploration and the Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science; now Director, Applied Engineering & Technology at the NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center; as Director of Engineering he manages the full scope of engineering activities at Goddard<ref name="NM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Adolfo Figueroa Viñas, first Puerto Rican astrophysicist at NASA working in solar plasma physics; senior research scientist; involved in many NASA missions such as Wind, SOHO, Cluster and MMS projects<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rosa A. González, registered nurse; founded the Association of Registered Nurses of Puerto Rico; wrote various books related to her field in which she denounced the discrimination against women and nurses in Puerto Rico.<ref name="SPM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Olga D. González-Sanabria, NASA engineer; highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center; member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame<ref name="Latina Women">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Amri Hernández-Pellerano, NASA engineer; designs, builds and tests the electronics that regulate the solar array power at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Gloria Hernandez, physical scientist, aerospace technologist; Science Manager for the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment at NASA Langley Research Center; her supersonic aerodynamic research has resulted in economic advances in supersonic flight<ref>Gloria Hernandez profile Template:Webarchive, latinawomen.nasa.gov; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
  • Lucas G. Hortas, aerospace engineer and technologist; author and or co-author of over 35 technical papers<ref name="Hep@Nasa Larc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Chris Kubecka (full name Christina Kubecka de Medina), a Computer Scientist specialist in cyberwarfare, established international business operations for Saudi Aramco after the world's most devastating Shamoon cyber warfare attacks. Detected and helped halt the second wave of July 2009 cyberattacks cyberwar attacks against South Korea.<ref name="PSU EDU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ramón E. López, physicist; professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington; Fellow of the American Physical Society; recipient of the 2002 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service; co-authored a book on space weather, Storms from the Sun<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Fernando López Tuero, agricultural scientist and agronomist; discovered the bug (believed at first to be a germ) which was destroying Puerto Rico's sugar canes<ref name="CPR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Carlos A. Liceaga, electronic engineer, aerospace technologist; leads the development of proposal guidelines, and the technical, management, and cost evaluation of the proposals For the Explorer Program<ref name="Hep@Nasa Larc"/>
  • Ariel Lugo, scientist and ecologist; Director of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, based in Puerto Rico; founding member of the Society for Ecological Restoration; member-at-large of the Board of the Ecological Society of America<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist, author, and science communicator<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Debbie Martínez, computer engineer, aerospace technologist; Flight Systems and Software Branch software manager for the Cockpit Motion Facility at NASA Langley Research Center<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lissette Martinez, electronic engineer, rocket scientist; lead electrical engineer for the Space Experiment Module program at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
  • Manuel Martínez Maldonado, nephrologist, educator; author of numerous scientific publications; discovered a natriuretic hormone<ref name="Fm">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Miriam Rodón Naveira, NASA scientist; first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
  • Miguel Rodríguez, mechanical engineer; Chief of the Integration Office of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Management Office<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Pedro Rodriguez, inventor, mechanical engineer; director of a test laboratory at NASA; invented a portable, battery-operated lift seat for people suffering from knee arthritis<ref name="nasa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Politicians

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José de Diego – the "father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement"
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Juan Cancel Ríos - was a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the 7th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
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Federico Degetau – writer, author, and resident commissioner
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Pedro Albizu Campos – President and principal leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Nydia Velázquez – Congresswoman from New York City
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Luis Gutiérrez – Congressman from Chicago
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Kenneth McClintock – Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
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José Coll y Cuchí – founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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  • Federico Degetau, first resident commissioner to the U.S.
  • José María Marxuach Echavarría, the only Puerto Rican to serve as the mayor of San Juan under both Spanish and American rule; served in 1897 for the Liberal Reformista Party and 1900–01 for the Puerto Rican Republican Party<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Antonio Mattei Lluberas, leader of the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico in the Intentona de Yauco of 1897; mayor of Yauco 1904–1906<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, political leader; in his early political career favored Puerto Rican statehood and later became an advocate for Puerto Rico's independence and founder of the Independence Party of Puerto Rico<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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20th century

  • Baltasar Corrada del Río, former Resident Commissioner 1977–1985; Mayor of San Juan 1985–1989; 1988 NPP gubernatorial candidate, Secretary of State 1992–1995; Supreme Court Justice 1995–2005
  • Juan Cancel Ríos; was a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the 7th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
  • Héctor Luis Acevedo; former Mayor of San Juan; 1996 PDP gubernatorial candidate
  • Pedro Albizu Campos, President and principal leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
  • José S. Alegría, poet, writer, lawyer and politician; a founding member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and its president from 1928 to 1930<ref name="LJ">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Santos P. Amadeo, "champion of hábeas corpus"; former Senator in the Puerto Rico legislature<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • María Luisa Arcelay, first woman in Puerto Rico elected to a government legislative body<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • José Enrique Arrarás, politician, educator, attorney, public servant and sports leader<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Maurice Ferre, former Mayor of Miami, Florida
  • Fernando Ferrer, former Bronx (New York City) borough president and New York City mayoral candidate
  • Rogelio Figueroa, 2008 gubernatorial candidate and founder of Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Oscar García Rivera Sr., former New York State Assemblyman; in 1937 became the first Puerto Rican elected to public office in the continental U.S.; in 1956, became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Justice of the City Court<ref name="EHN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Miguel A. García Méndez, youngest Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico's history; the Mayagüez General Post Office was named after him<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Santiago Iglesias, founder of the first Puerto Rico Socialist Party, labor activist and former Resident Commissioner
  • Margarita López, former New York City Council member and political activist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Félix Ortiz, New York State Assemblyman, author of nation's first cellphone driving ban<ref name="Daily Eagle">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • José E. Serrano, most senior Puerto Rican congressman, Chair of House Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Gloria Tristani, first Hispanic woman appointed as one of the commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Nydia Velázquez, first Puerto Rican congresswoman, Chair of House Small Business Committee<ref name="HAC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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21st century

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  • Kenneth McClintock, 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate; 22nd Secretary of State/Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Hiram Monserrate, former New York State Senator<ref name="nytimes_expel">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Antonia Novello, 14th Surgeon General of the U.S.; Vice Admiral, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps<ref name="Achieve">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Sports

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Santos "Sandy" Alomar – Cleveland Indians baseball player
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Orlando Cepeda – MLB first baseman, second Puerto Rican in Baseball Hall of Fame
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J. J. Barea – professional basketball player with the Dallas Mavericks
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Carlos Delgado – MLB player, New York Mets
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Reggie Jackson – Major League Baseball right fielder
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Maritza Correia
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Edgar Martínez – MLB player with the Seattle Mariners
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Jorge Posada – New York Yankees catcher
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Iván Rodríguez – MLB catcher for the Washington Nationals
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Alfredo L. Escalera – Kansas City Royals outfielder; youngest player ever drafted
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Monica Puig – Olympic gold medalist
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Juan Evangelista Venegas – Olympic medalist

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  • Iván Calderón, baseball player
  • Iván Calderón, boxer, world champion
  • Hector 'Macho' Camacho, boxer, former world champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
  • Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, hurdles, won Puerto Rico's second Olympic gold medal in the Women's 100m Hurdles in the Olympic games which were celebrated in Tokyo, Japan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Rafael Campos, professional golfer known for his achievements on the PGA Tour
  • Fernando J. Canales, swimmer, first Puerto Rican to reach final championships
  • Pedro Miguel Caratini, baseball player; born in Puerto Rico, "the father of Dominican baseball"
  • Orlando Cepeda, baseball player, member of Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Pedro Anibal Cepeda, a.k.a. "Perucho" and "The Bull", baseball player; father of Orlando Cepeda; known as "the Babe Ruth of Puerto Rico"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Nero Chen, Puerto Rico's first professional boxer<ref>"Pioneros Puertorriqueños en Nueva York"; by Joaquin Colon Lopez; pp. 229–30; Arte Publico Press (2001); Template:ISBN</ref>
  • Julie Chu, Olympic ice hockey player; forward on the U.S. women's ice hockey team; of Chinese and Puerto Rican descent<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Alex Cintrón, former professional baseball infielder and current hitting coach for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball
  • Conchita Cintrón, bullfighter (Puerto Rican father)
  • Kermit Cintrón, boxer, former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion (2006–08)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Roberto Clemente, 3,000-hit baseball player, first Puerto Rican member of Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Rebekah Colberg, known as "the mother of Puerto Rican women's sports"; participated in various athletic competitions in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama, where she won gold medals in discus and javelin throw
  • Carlitos Colon, former professional wrestler and member of the WWE Hall of Fame
  • Carlito Colón, professional wrestler
  • Primo Colón, professional wrestler
  • Alex Cora, became the first Puerto Rican to manage a World Series winning team when the Boston Red Sox defeated the LA Dodgers in 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Miguel Cotto, professional boxer, former light welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight world champion
  • Eva Cruz, volleyball player
  • José "Cheo" Cruz, baseball player whose number was retired by the Astros
  • Orlando Cruz, boxer; first professional boxer to publicly announce he is gay
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  • Gigi Fernández, tennis player, in 1992 became the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico win an Olympic gold medal; first female athlete from Puerto Rico to turn professional;<ref>Hispanic Magazine, 1988</ref> first Puerto Rican woman inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lisa Fernandez, softball player, Olympic gold medalist (Puerto Rican mother)
  • Orlando Fernández, a.k.a. "the Puerto Rican Aquaman"; swimmer; first Puerto Rican to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Laurie Hernandez, Olympic gold and silver medalist; member of the United States women's gymnastics team<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Reggie Jackson, baseball player, member of Baseball Hall of Fame (Puerto Rican father)

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  • Anita Lallande, former Olympic swimmer; holds the island record for most medals won at CAC Games: 17 and 10 gold<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Luis Olmo, first Puerto Rican to hit a home run in the World Series
  • Fres Oquendo, professional boxer
  • John Orozco, Olympic gymnast
  • Carlos Ortiz, boxer, former, junior welterweight and lightweight champion; member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
  • José Ortiz, former basketball player, PDP candidate for elective office in 2008
  • Luis Ortiz, boxer, first Puerto Rican to win a silver Olympic medal

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  • Carlos Quintana, professional boxer, former World Boxing Organization's welterweight champion

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  • Natasha Sagardia, bodyboarding athlete; first Puerto Rican to win a gold medal at the ISA World Surfing Games<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Taínos

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Agüeybaná II (The Brave)

Visual artists

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José Campeche
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Francisco Oller

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  • Javier Cambre, sculptor, photographer, video artist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sofía Córdova, Puerto Rican mixed media artist<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Daniel Lind-Ramos (born 1953), conceptual sculptor and painter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Miscellaneous

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Félix Rigau Carrera

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  • Teodoro Vidal, government official, art historian, and folklorist who collected Puerto Rican art<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See also

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