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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 people|Puerto Rican]] descent. It should be noted that 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">[http://www.estado.gobierno.pr/Ciudadania_PR_offline.htm]{{dead link|date=October 2016}}</ref><ref name="terra.com.pr">{{cite web |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20070625160754/http://www.terra.com.pr/noticias/articulo/html/act823791.htm |archivedate=2007-06-25 |url=http://www.terra.com.pr/noticias/articulo/html/act823791.htm |website=www.terra.com.pr |title=Departamento de Estado expedira certificados de ciudadania puertorriqueña {{!}} terra}}</ref> Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents and/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 he/she is most noted.

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==Actors, actresses, comedians and directors==
[[File:Auli'i Cravalho December 2016.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Auli'i Cravalho]]]]
[[File:Henry Darrow.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Henry Darrow]]]][[File:Joaquin Cannes 20002 cropped.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Joaquin Phoenix]]]][[File:Benicio Del Toro - Guardians of the Galaxy premiere - July 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Benicio del Toro]]]][[File:Erik Estrada.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Erik Estrada]]]]
[[File:Jose Ferrer in Caine Mutiny.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[José Ferrer]]]][[File:Juano hernandez in intruder in the dust.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Juano Hernández]]]]
[[File:Jennifer Lopez 2, 2012.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Jennifer Lopez]]]]
[[File:Rita Moreno5.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Rita Moreno]]]]
[[File:Lymari Nadal.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Lymari Nadal]]]]
[[File:Lin-Manuel Miranda WH.png|thumb|209x209px|[[Lin-Manuel Miranda]]]]
[[File:Rosie Perez 2012.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Rosie Perez]]]]
[[File:Marquita Rivera 3.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Marquita Rivera]]]]
[[File:Jon Seda.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Jon Seda]]]]
[[File:JimmySmits07TIFF.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Jimmy Smits]]]][[File:Liz Torres 94.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Liz Torres]]]]
[[File:David Zayas.jpg|thumb|140px|[[David Zayas]]]]
[[File:Paul Bouche.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Paul Bouche]]]]
[[File:Hector_Camacho_2009.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Hector Camacho]]]]
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'''A'''
* [[Kirk Acevedo]]
* [[José Miguel Agrelot]] (a.k.a. "Don Cholito"), comedian
* [[Jorge Alberti]], actor
* [[Trini Alvarado]], actress
* [[Miguel Ángel Álvarez]], actor and comedian
* [[La La Anthony]], actress, MTV VJ
* [[Marc Anthony]], singer and actor
* [[Victor Argo|Víctor Argo]], actor
* [[Yancey Arias]], actor
* [[Raymond Arrieta]], comedian and television host
* [[Miguel Arteta]], film/television director<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/filmstudies/video-arteta.html |title=Miguel Arteta - Wesleyan University |website=Wesleyan.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-10-21}}</ref>
* [[Rick Aviles|Rick Avilés]], actor and comedian
* [[Charlotte Ayanna]], actress
{{colend}}

'''B'''
* [[Ivonne Belén]], documentary director and producer
* [[Rosa Blasi]], theatrical actress
* [[Giselle Blondet]], actress and television host
* [[Diego Boneta]], actor, singer-songwriter (Puerto Rican grandfather)
* [[Lucy Boscana]], television and theatrical actress
* [[Paul Bouche]], television and radio host
{{colend}}

'''C'''
* [[Paul Calderón]], actor
* [[Armando Calvo]], actor
* [[Norma Candal]], actress and comedian
* [[Irene Cara]], actress and singer
* [[Awilda Carbia]], actress and comedian<ref>[http://www.elnuevodia.com/fallece_awilda_carbia/548014.html Awilda Carbia obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325044509/http://www.elnuevodia.com/fallece_awilda_carbia/548014.html |date=March 25, 2009 }}, elnuevodia.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Braulio Castillo]], actor
* [[Braulio Castillo, hijo]], actor
* [[David Castro (actor)|David Castro]], actor (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Raquel Castro]], actress (Puerto Rican father)<ref name="award">[http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms26.htm 26th Annual Young Artist Awards – Nominations/Special Awards: Raquel Castro] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304222052/http://www.youngartistawards.org/noms26.htm |date=March 4, 2008 }}, youngartistawards.org; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Melwin Cedeño]], comedian
* [[Iris Chacón]], singer and dancer
* [[Abdiel Colberg (director)|Abdiel Colberg]], film director and television producer
* [[Ivonne Coll]], actress
* [[Míriam Colón|Miriam Colón Edgar]], actress and founder of the [[Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre]]
* [[Liza Colón-Zayas|Liza Colón Zayas]], film and theatrical actress
* [[Paquito Cordero]], comedian and television producer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=13003&ArticleId=338270|title=Latin American Herald Tribune - Puerto Rican TV Pioneer Paquito Cordero Dies|website=Laht.com|date=1965-01-11|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Mapita Cortés]], actress
* [[Mapy Cortés]], actress
* [[Auli'i Cravalho]], actress and singer<ref name="Wang">{{cite news|last1=Wang|first1=Frances Kai-Hwa|title=The Next Disney Princess is Native Hawaiian AuliCravalho|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/next-disney-princess-native-hawaiian-aulii-cravalho-n440131|accessdate=27 February 2017|work=NBC News|publisher=NBCUniversal|date=7 October 2015|location=New York}}</ref>
* [[Mara Croatto]], actress
* [[Alexis Cruz]], actor
* [[Wilson Cruz]], actor
* [[Ismael Cruz Cordova|Ismael Cruz Córdova]], actor<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/new-sesame-street-character_n_3253712.html "Sesame Street Announces New Latino Character 'Mando' played By Ismael Cruz Córdova"], HuffingtonPost.com, May 10, 2013; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Monique Gabriela Curnen]], film and television actress<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/county-fare-on-international-womens-day-a-look-at-berkshire-based-women-making-their-mark,500476|title=County Fare: On International Women's Day, a look at Berkshire-based women making their mark|work=The Berkshire Eagle|access-date=2018-01-22|language=en}}</ref>
{{colend}}

'''D'''
* [[Dagmar (Puerto Rico entertainer)|Dagmar]], actress, singer and television host
* [[Henry Darrow]], actor
* [[Raúl Dávila]], actor
* [[Rosario Dawson]], actress
* [[Blanca de Castejón]], actress
* [[Kamar de los Reyes]], actor
* [[Joey Dedio]], actor, writer, producer<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/movies/joey-dedio-stars-as-tio-papi.html?_r=0 A Surprise at the Door, Joey Dedio Stars as 'Tio Papi'], nytimes.com, September 6, 2013; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/international-puerto-rican-heritage-film-festival-set-kick-nov-13-article-1.1510023 New York's International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival set to kick off Nov. 13], nydailynews.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Idalis DeLeón]], actress, former MTV [[VJ (media personality)|VJ]], singer ([[Seduction (band)|Seduction]])
* [[Benicio del Toro]], Academy Award-winning actor
* [[Sylvia del Villard]], actress, choreographer and dancer
* [[Michael DeLorenzo]], actor
* [[Alba Nydia Díaz]], actress
* [[Melonie Diaz|Melonie Díaz]], actress<ref>[http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=3381 "Melodie Diaz"], ''[[Paper (magazine)|Paper]]'', September 11, 2009.</ref>

'''E'''
{{div col}}
* [[Lydia Echevarría]], actress (convicted for her role in the death of producer Luis Vigoreaux)
* [[Héctor Elizondo]], actor
* [[Erik Estrada]], actor
{{colend}}

'''F'''
{{div col}}
* [[Antonio Fargas]], actor
* [[José Ferrer]], first Hispanic actor to win an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]
* [[Miguel Ferrer]], actor
* [[Rafael Ferrer (actor)|Rafael Ferrer]], actor
* [[Nina Flowers]], female impersonator and singer
{{colend}}

'''G'''
{{div col}}
* [[Gloria Garayua|Gloria Garayúa]], actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.g-pop.net/dickjane.htm|title=Hot New Actress Has Fun With Dick and Jane|website=G-pop.net|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Aimee Garcia|Aimée García]], actress
* [[Mayte Garcia|Mayte García]], actress, dancer
* [[Luis Gatica]], actor
* [[Marilyn Ghigliotti]], actress
* [[Julián Gil]], television and film actor, model
* [[Joyce Giraud]], actress, former [[Miss Puerto Rico Universe]] titleholder
* [[Ian Gómez]], actor
* [[Marga Gomez|Marga Gómez]], actress, playwright
* [[Reagan Gomez-Preston|Reagan Gómez-Preston]], actress
* [[Rick Gonzalez|Rick González]], actor
* [[Meagan Good]], actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/26/Meagan-Good.html|title=Meagan Good profile|website=Filmreference.com|date=1981-08-08|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Javier Grillo-Marxuach|Javier Grillo Marxuach]], television and film producer
* [[Luis Guzmán]], actor
* [[Luis Roberto Guzmán]], television and film actor
{{colend}}

'''H'''
* [[April Lee Hernández]], actress
* [[Juano Hernández]], actor
* [[William Hernández]], actor
* [[Lillian Hurst]], comedian, actress (television series ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'')

'''I'''
* [[Mark Indelicato]], actor
* [[Vincent Irizarry]], actor

'''J'''
* [[Shar Jackson]], actress/singer (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Raúl Juliá]], actor
* [[Victoria Justice]], singer, television actress (''[[Victorious]]'') (Puerto Rican mother)

'''L'''
* [[Eva LaRue]], actress
* [[Sunshine Logroño]], comedian
* [[Adamari López]], actress
* [[Jennifer Lopez|Jennifer López]], singer, actress, and dancer
* [[Priscilla Lopez|Priscilla López]], actress, singer, and dancer<ref>{{cite web|author=Tim Farrell|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2008/02/from_priscilla_lopez_the_lowdo.html|title=From Priscilla Lopez, the lowdown on 'In the Heights'|website=NJ.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
'''M'''
{{div col}}
* [[Justina Machado]], actress
* [[Sonia Manzano]], actress
* [[Eddie Marrero]], actor
* [[Tony Martínez (actor)|Tony Martínez]] (1920–2002) actor, singer, and [[bandleader]];remembered for having played Pepino Garcia in ''[[The Real McCoys]]'' television series<ref name=martinez>{{cite web|url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cine/tony-martinez.htm|title=Tony Martínez, 'Pepino' on 'Real McCoys', Dies at 82|publisher=latinamericanstudies.org|accessdate=September 2, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Alexis Mateo]], female impersonator, reality television personality
* [[Claribel Medina]], actress
* [[Jorge Merced]], theatre actor and director<ref>La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. "Entre boleros, travestismos y migraciones translocales: Manuel Ramos Otero, Jorge Merced y ''El bolero fue mi ruina'' del Teatro Pregones del Bronx." ''Revista Iberoamericana'' 71.212 (July–September 2005): pp. 887–907.</ref>
* [[Ángela Meyer]], actress, comedian and producer
* [[Ari Meyers]], actress
* [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]], actor, composer, rapper and writer, best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'' and ''[[In the Heights]]''; has won a [[Pulitzer Prize]], two [[Grammy Award|Grammys]], an [[Emmy Award|Emmy]], a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius" Award]], and three [[Tony Award|Tony awards]]<ref>[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7453586/lin-manuel-miranda-puerto-rico-pokemon Lin-Manuel Miranda Visits Puerto Rico, Compares Himself To A 'Weird Pokémon']</ref>
* [[René Monclova]], actor and comedian
* [[Mario Montez]], female impersonator; actor; member of [[Warhol Superstar]]s
* [[Esai Morales|Esaí Morales]], actor
* [[Jacobo Morales]], comedian,director, and actor
* [[Alicia Moreda]], actress, comedian
* [[Rita Moreno]], actress, first Hispanic woman to win the following four major awards: an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]], a [[Tony Award]], an [[Emmy Award]] and a [[Grammy Award]]
* [[Frankie Muniz|Frankie Muñiz]], actor (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Tommy Muñiz]], television producer, comedian
* [[Rafo Muñiz]], comedian and producer
{{div col end}}

'''N'''
* [[Lymari Nadal]], actress
* [[Taylor Negron|Taylor Negrón]], actor/comedian
* [[Frances Negrón-Muntaner|Frances Negrón Muntaner]], filmmaker, writer, and scholar<ref>Rodríguez-Matos, Carlos. "Frances Negrón-Muntaner" In David William Foster, ed., ''Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes'' (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994): pp. 288-90; {{ISBN|0-313-28479-2}}</ref>
* [[Micaela Nevárez]], actress; first Puerto Rican to win a [[Goya Awards|Goya Award]]
* [[Amaury Nolasco]], actor

'''O'''
* [[Tony Oliver]], voice actor
* [[Ana Ortiz]], actress
* [[Claudette Ortiz]], singer and model
* [[Elin Ortiz|Elín Ortiz]], actor, television producer
* [[John Ortiz]], actor
* [[Karen Olivo]], actress (Puerto Rican father); winner of 2009 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress<ref>{{cite web|last=Arreola|first=Cristina|url=http://www.latina.com/entertainment/arts/video-karen-olivo-david-alvarez-take-top-honors-tony-awards|title=Entertainment News|publisher=Latina|accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref>

'''P'''
* [[Marian Pabón]], actress, singer and comedian
* [[Antonio Pantojas]], [[drag queen]]
* [[Lana Parrilla]], actress (Puerto Rican father)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc.go.com/shows/once-upon-a-time/cast/evil-queen|title=Lana Parrilla as The Evil Queen - Once Upon A Time|website=Abc.go.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Rosie Perez|Rosie Pérez]], actress
* [[Joaquin Phoenix]], actor<ref name="Google Books">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icv_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=jodean+bottom+joaquin&source=bl&ots=iaG7ddnHoj&sig=EkYSEly5JFwpcvPAXIaIQs9LOKU&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOp7SIz8PUAhVBG5oKHfulDc04FBDoAQg5MAM#v=onepage&q=jodean%20bottom%20joaquin&f=false| title=He's Still Here: The Biography of Joaquin Phoenix| publisher=''Google Books''| accessdate=17 June 2017}}</ref><ref>[http://americareadsspanish.org/amigos-del-espanol/10221-joaquin-phoenix-like-cameron-diaz-joaquin-phoenix-is-of-hispanic-roots-born-in-puerto-rico-the-actor-who-constantly-visits-his-father-who-now-lives-in-costa-rica-claims-to-feel-identified-with-the-culture-of-his-ancestors.html Like Cameron Diaz, Joaquin Phoenix is of Hispanic roots. Born in Puerto Rico]</ref>
* [[Aubrey Plaza]], actress
* [[Freddie Prinze, Jr.]], actor (Puerto Rican grandmother)
* [[Freddie Prinze]], comedian, actor (Puerto Rican mother)

'''Q'''
* [[Adolfo Quiñones]], actor, dancer, choreographer

'''R'''
{{div col}}
* [[Luis Antonio Ramos]], actor
* [[Gina Ravera]], actress
* [[Carmen Belen Richardson|Carmen Belén Richardson]], comedian/actress
* [[Armando Riesco]], actor
* [[Osvaldo Ríos]], actor and singer
* [[Chita Rivera]], actress, singer and dancer; winner of two [[Tony Award]]s
* [[José Rivera (playwright)|José Rivera]], playwright; first Puerto Rican nominated for an Oscar in "Best Adapted Screenplay" category
* [[Luis Antonio Rivera]], a.k.a. "Yoyo Boing", comedian
* [[Marquita Rivera]], first Puerto Rican actress to appear in a major Hollywood motion picture
* [[Naya Rivera]], actress<ref>[http://www.latina.com/blogs/vivo-por-tivo/glee-star-naya-rivera-singing-love-songs-costar-mark-salling Is 'Glee' Star Naya Rivera Singing Love Songs to Costar Mark Salling?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323114006/http://latina.com/blogs/vivo-por-tivo/glee-star-naya-rivera-singing-love-songs-costar-mark-salling |date=March 23, 2010 }} from ''[[Latina (magazine)|Latina]]'', March 19, 2010.</ref> (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Ramón Rivero]], also known as "Diplo", comedian; organized the world's first known [[walkathon|Walk-A-Thon]] in 1953{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
* [[Adalberto Rodríguez]], a.k.a. "Machuchal", comedian
* [[Adam Rodríguez]], actor
* [[Freddy Rodríguez (actor)|Freddy Rodríguez]], actor
* [[Gina Rodriguez (actress)|Gina Rodríguez]], actress
* [[Gladys Rodríguez]], comedian, actress
* [[Jai Rodríguez]], television personality (''[[Queer Eye for the Straight Guy]]'')
* [[Michelle Rodriguez]], actress
* [[Ramón Rodríguez (actor)|Ramón Rodríguez]]
* [[Marta Romero]], actress and singer
* [[Robi "Draco" Rosa]], singer
* [[Johanna Rosaly]], actress
{{div col end}}

'''S'''
{{div col}}
* [[Zoe Saldana|Zoé Saldaña]], actress (Puerto Rican mother)<ref name="pope">{{cite web|url=http://www.popentertainment.com/saldana.htm |title=Zoe Saldaña finds creative shelter in making Haven |first=Brad |last=Balfour |accessdate=July 7, 2009 |year=2008 |publisher=PopEntertainment |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710051143/http://www.popentertainment.com/saldana.htm |archivedate=July 10, 2009 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[Olga San Juan]], film actress and dancer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/musica/flash/fallece_la_actriz_boricua_olga_san_juan|title=Archived copy|accessdate=January 7, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222110848/http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/musica/flash/fallece_la_actriz_boricua_olga_san_juan|archivedate=December 22, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Jaime Sánchez (actor)|Jaime Sánchez]], actor (musical ''[[West Side Story]]'', film ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'')
* [[Kiele Sanchez|Kiele Sánchez]], actress
* [[Marcelino Sánchez]], actor
* [[Roselyn Sánchez]], actress
* [[Esther Sandoval]], actress
* [[Renoly Santiago]], actor
* [[Saundra Santiago]], actress
* [[Ruben Santiago-Hudson|Rubén Santiago-Hudson]], actor and playwright
* [[Jon Seda]], actor
* [[Jimmy Smits]], actor (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Yara Sofia|Yara Sofía]], female impersonator, reality television personality
* [[Luis F. Soto]], director<ref>[http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC38folder/NYricanFilm.html Puerto Rican cinema in New York; From the margin to the center]</ref>
* [[Talisa Soto]], actress, model
* [[Miguel Ángel Suárez]], actor, playwright, stage director
{{div col end}}

'''T'''
* [[Rachel Ticotin]], actress
* [[Liz Torres]], actress
* [[Rose Troche]], film/television director<ref name="glbtq">{{Cite news|last=Smith |first=Patricia Juliana |title=Troche, Rose |url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/troche_r.html |periodical=glbtq.com |year=2002 |accessdate=2007-08-19 |ref=harv |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814122128/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/troche_r.html |archivedate=August 14, 2007 |df= }}</ref><ref>La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. ''Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora.'' Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. {{ISBN|0816640920}}</ref>

'''U'''
* [[Alanna Ubach]], actress (Puerto Rican mother)

'''V'''
* [[Joseph Vásquez]], film director, screenwriter
* [[Nadine Velazquez|Nadine Velázquez]], actress
* [[Eddie Velez|Eddie Vélez]], actor, ''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]'', ''[[White Chicks]]''<ref>"Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s"; by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen; Page 275; Publisher: McFarland; ASIN: B00N21C9IU</ref>
* [[Lauren Vélez]], actress
* [[Loraine Vélez]], actress
* [[Christina Vidal]], actress and singer
* [[Lisa Vidal]], actress
* [[Juan Emilio Viguié]], pioneer movie producer; produced ''Romance Tropical'', the first Puerto Rican film with sound<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.preb.com/devisita/marisel.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=October 1, 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023062238/http://www.preb.com/devisita/marisel.htm|archivedate=October 23, 2007}}</ref>

'''W'''
* [[Otilio Warrington]], also known as "Bizcocho", comedian
* [[Jessica Wild]], female impersonator, reality television personality
* [[Holly Woodlawn]], female impersonator, actor
{{colend}}

'''Z'''
* [[David Zayas]], actor
* [[Marcos Zurinaga]], film director/screenwriter
{{colend}}

===Adult film entertainers===
* [[Vanessa del Rio|Vanessa del Río]], adult film actress<ref>{{cite web|last=Barnard|first=Christopher|url=http://www.papermag.com/2010/06/her_name_is_rio.php|title=Her Name is Rio|publisher=Papermag|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Gina Lynn]], adult film actress<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=16335 |title=Gina Lynn Take a Bite Out of the Big Apple |date=May 8, 2006 |publisher=AdultFYI |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808174612/http://adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=16335 |archivedate=August 8, 2011 |df= }}</ref>

===Hosts/presenters===
* [[Paul Bouche]], television host, TV producer, ''[[A Oscuras Pero Encendidos]]''
* [[Monti Carlo|Mairym Monti Carlo]], television host, chef<ref>http://www.foodnetwork.com/profiles/talent/monti-carlo</ref>
* [[Alfred D. Herger]], television host, psychologist
* [[Daisy Martinez|Daisy Martínez]], host of [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] cooking show ''Daisy Cooks!''
* [[John Melendez|John Meléndez]], once known as "Stuttering John" (''[[Howard Stern|Howard Stern Show]]'' and ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'')
* [[Rogelio Mills]], television host, author and recording artist
* [[Eddie Miró]], television host, comedian; hosted ''El Show de las 12'' (''The 12&nbsp;pm Show'') for over 40 years
* [[Silverio Pérez]], show host, musician and author
* [[Antonio Sánchez (Puerto Rican host)|Antonio Sánchez]], radio and television personality
* [[La La Anthony|Alani Vázquez]], also known as "La La"; MTV veejay
* [[Luis Vigoreaux]], created ''¡Sube, Nene, Sube!'' (''Go up, Man, Go up!'') and ''¡Pa'rriba, Papi, Pa'rriba!'' (''Higher, Daddy, Higher!'')
* [[Luisito Vigoreaux]], hosted ''Sábado en Grande'' (''Big Saturday'', also with Roberto), ''El Show del Mediodía'' (''The Midday Show'') and ''De Magazin''
* [[Roberto Vigoreaux]], hosted ''Parejo, Doble y Triple'' (''Square, Double and Triple'')

==Architects==
[[File:Andres Mignucci.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Andrés Mignucci]], architect]]
* [[Jesús Eduardo Amaral]], architect, educator; first director of the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
* [[Félix Benítez Rexach]], architect and [[engineer]]; designed the [[Normandie Hotel]], located in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]
* [[Segundo Cardona]] FAIA (1950, San Juan, PR), architect, developer; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects since 2006<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rivera Marrero|first1=Mildred|title=Distinguen el Paseo Puerta de Tierra|url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/distinguenelpaseopuertadetierra-2381060/|accessdate=14 February 2018|work=El Nuevo Día|publisher=El Nuevo Dia|date=10 December 2017|quote=Arquitecto Segundo Cardona destaca la importancia de la obra y la necesidad de que gobierno y ciudadanos la cuiden}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Connell|first1=Sandra|title=Winners of the 2017 Edition of the "UIA Friendly and Inclusive Spaces Awards"|url=http://www.uia-architectes.org/en/participer/concours/10736#.WoRkN6inFaQ|website=UIA Architectes|accessdate=14 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215024025/http://www.uia-architectes.org/en/participer/concours/10736#.WoRkN6inFaQ|archive-date=February 15, 2018|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Adolfo de Castro|Pedro Adolfo de Castro y Besosa]], architect; first Puerto Rican to graduate from an American architecture university; work highlights include Casa de España, [[Castillo Serrallés]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.miramarpr.org/arqalgunosarq.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=22 July 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310170343/http://www.miramarpr.org/arqalgunosarq.htm |archivedate=March 10, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.periferia.org/architecture/tf1.html |title=Toro Ferrer y Torregrosa 1945–1955 |publisher=Periferia |date= |accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref>
* [[Henry Klumb]], German-born architect responsible for many Puerto Rico designs from 1944 to 1984; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects<ref>see Enrique Vivoni "Klumb: An Architecture of Social Concern, 2006.</ref>
* [[Andrés Mignucci]], 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. 28 February 2005. Retrieved on 8 October 2007.</ref>
* [[Antonio Miró Montilla]], 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">{{cite web|title=Universidad de Puerto Rico-Recinto de Río Piedras |url=http://estudios.universia.net/puerto-rico/institucion/universidad-puerto-rico-recinto-rio-piedras/ver/historia |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414212329/http://estudios.universia.net/puerto-rico/institucion/universidad-puerto-rico-recinto-rio-piedras/ver/historia |archivedate=April 14, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[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.</ref>
* [[Francisco Porrata-Doria]], designed the [[Ponce Cathedral]], [[Banco de Ponce (building)|Banco de Ponce]], and [[Banco Crédito y Ahorro Ponceño (building)|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) 27 April 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, Page 3. Listing Reference Number 87001002. June 25, 1987.</ref>
* [[Jorge Rigau]], architect, educator; first dean of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
* [[Blas Silva]], creator of the [[Ponce Creole]] architectural style; designed, among many others, the [[Casa de la Masacre]], [[Font-Ubides House]], and the [[Residencia Subirá|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.) Page 3. Listing Reference Number 87001826: Residencia Subira/Residencia Frau. October 29, 1987.</ref>
* [[Alfredo Wiechers Pieretti]], early 20th-century architect from [[Ponce, Puerto Rico|Ponce]]; designed many historical buildings now listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]], including his own home (the [[Casa Wiechers-Villaronga|Wiechers-Villaronga Residence]]) in the [[Ponce Historic Zone]], which today is home to the [[Casa Wiechers-Villaronga|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.) Page 3. Listing Reference Number 84003151. 24 August 1984.</ref>

==Authors, playwrights and poets==
[[File:ATapia2.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Alejandro Tapia y Rivera]]]][[File:Nelson Denis.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Nelson Denis]]]][[File:Jose Rivera playwright.jpg|thumb|140px|[[José Rivera (playwright)|José Rivera]], playwright]]

'''A'''
* [[Jack Agüeros]], author, playwright, poet and translator<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.martinespada.net/Jack%20Agueros.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090812021128/http://www.martinespada.net/Jack%20Agueros.htm|archivedate=August 12, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]], author, playwright; wrote the book for the Broadway musical ''[[In the Heights (musical)|In the Heights]]''; winner of 2012 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Drama; her play, ''Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue'', was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 and has been performed around the country and in Romania and Brazil<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hedgebrook.org/news.php|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 7, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721091900/http://www.hedgebrook.org/news.php |archivedate=July 21, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Miguel Algarín]], poet, writer, co-founder of the [[Nuyorican Poets Café]]<ref name="MA">{{cite web|url=http://miguelalgarin.com|title=Miguel Algarín|website=Miguelalgarin|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Manuel A. Alonso]], poet and author, considered by many to be the first Puerto Rican writer of notable importance<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.topuertorico.org/culture/famousprA-C.shtml |title=Puerto Rico's Culture: Famous Puerto Ricans: A-C |website=Topuertorico.org |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329114815/http://www.topuertorico.org/culture/famousprA-C.shtml |archivedate=March 29, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* Alba Ambert, novelist; in 1996 became the first Hispanic author to win the Carey McWilliams Award for Multicultural Literature, presented by the Multicultural Review, for her novel ''A Perfect Silence''<ref name="HF">Nicolas Kanellos, "Hispanic Firsts", Visible Ink Press; {{ISBN|0-7876-0519-0}}; p. 40</ref>''
* [[Francisco Arriví]], writer, poet, and playwright ; known as "the father of the Puerto Rican theater"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biblioteca.uprh.edu/cultural/biografias/letra%20a/Francisco%20Arrivi.htm|title=Con su pluma y desde su gestión como titular del Programa de Fomento Teatral del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Francisco Arriví impulsó el teatro del patio|website=Biblioteca.uprh.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214407/http://biblioteca.uprh.edu/cultural/biografias/letra%20a/Francisco%20Arrivi.htm|archivedate=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Rane Arroyo]], poet, playwright and scholar<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranearroyo.com/press%20kit%20pg%202.htm|title=Welcome ranearroyo.com|website=Ranearroyo.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

'''B'''
* [[Pura Belpré]], 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 Beniquez|Samuel Beníquez]], 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 20 January 2012. "[http://www.primerahora.com/pruebadeadnparalidermita-604429.html Newspaper "Primera Hora"]</ref>
* [[María Bibiana Benítez]], playwright, poet<ref name="MVC">{{cite web|url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=08112102|title=Language and Literature: Benítez, María Bibiana|website=Enciclopediapr.org|date=2014-09-15|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233048/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=08112102|archivedate=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Alejandrina Benítez de Gautier]], poet whose collaboration with the "Aguinaldo Puertorriqueño" (collection of Puerto Rican poetry) gave her recognition as a great poet<ref name="AL">[http://artesliberales.bc.inter.edu/jquintana/TodoWeb/Todo%20PR/Biograf%EDas/Bb.htm]{{dead link|date=April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Tomás Blanco (writer)|Tomás Blanco]], writer and historian; author of ''Prontuario Historico de Puerto Rico'' and ''El Prejuicio Racial en Puerto Rico'' (''Racial Prejudice in Puerto Rico'')<ref name="ENDI">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1201/blanco.asp |title=Biografías - Tomás Blanco Géigel |accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927073549/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1201/blanco.asp|archivedate=September 27, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Juan Boria]], Afro-Caribbean poet, also known as the Negro Verse Pharaoh; known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
* [[Giannina Braschi]], a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellow; author of the bestselling [[Spanglish]] classic ''[[Yo-Yo Boing!]]'' and ''[[United States of Banana]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=D'Amore, Anna Maria|title=Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts: Fidelity to Alterity|quote="In the stakes of literary acclaim and respectability is [[Giannina Braschi]], considered by many to be Puerto Rico's premier poet."|publisher=Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics|place=New York|page=104|date=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|authors=Gonzalez, Madelena and Laplace-Claverie, Helene|title=Minority Theater on the Global Stage: Challenging Paradigms from the Margins|quote="Puerto Rico's premier poet and novelist Giannina Braschi"|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|place=Cambridge, UK|page=104|date=2012|url=http://blogs.univ-avignon.fr/ictt/files/2010/04/minority-introduction.pdf|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725074120/http://blogs.univ-avignon.fr/ictt/files/2010/04/minority-introduction.pdf|archivedate=July 25, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=PEN: Free Expression/Literature|url=https://www.pen.org/giannina-braschi|website=PEN American Center|quote=Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today, wrote the postmodern poetry classic EMPIRE OF DREAMS|date=November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/giannina_braschi|title=Giannina Braschi|work=National Book Festival|publisher=Library of Congress|year=2012|quote=Braschi, one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today is the author of Empire of Dreams.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Giannina Braschi: Book Fest 12|publisher=Library of Congress|date=September 2012|url=https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5804|quote=Giannina Braschi, a poet, essayist and novelist often described as cutting-edge, influential and even revolutionary|work=National Book Festival Transcript and Webcast|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>

'''C'''
* [[María Cadilla|María Cadilla Colón de Martínez]], writer, educator and women's rights activist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/esp/article.cfm?ref=10042903|title=Lengua y Literatura: Cadilla de Martínez, María|website=Enciclopediapr.org|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120208/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/esp/article.cfm?ref=10042903|archivedate=March 4, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Zenobia Camprubí]], writer/poet (Puerto Rican mother); wife of Nobel Prize winning author [[Juan Ramón Jiménez]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccgediciones.com/Sala_de_Estar/Biografias/ZenobiaCA.htm|title=Zenobia Camprubí Aymar|language=es|website=Ccgediciones.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>''
* [[Nemesio Canales]], essayist and poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1201/index.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=4 February 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074144/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1201/index.asp|archivedate=September 27, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Jesús Colón]], writer; "father of the [[Nuyorican Movement]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~rouzie/569A/benington/bios.htm |title=Bios |accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608065941/http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~rouzie/569A/benington/bios.htm |archivedate=June 8, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Corchado y Juarbe]], poet, journalist and politician; defended the abolition of slavery and the establishment of a University in Puerto Rico<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isabelapr.org/manuel_corchado.htm|title=Manuel Corchado|website=Isabelapr.org|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Juan Antonio Corretjer]], poet, journalist and pro-independence political activist (member of the Nationalist Party) who opposed United States rule in Puerto Rico<ref name="PRCC">{{cite web|url=http://www.prcc-chgo.org|title=Puerto Rican Cultural Center|website=Prcc-chgo.org|date=2007-03-27|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

'''D'''
* [[Nicholas Dante]], '[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Pulitzer Prize]] and [[Tony Award]]-winning playwright who is best known for the worldwide musical hit ''[[A Chorus Line]]''<ref>{{cite news|first=Natalie|last=Crohn Schmitt|title=Complicates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRL-8cD6n5oC&pg=PA85&dq=nicholas+dante+puerto&ei=Y8tBSq-zF6GeygTqyJhO|publication-date=1990|isbn=0-8101-0836-4|publisher=Northwestern University Press|page =85}}</ref>
* [[José Antonio Dávila]], well-known poet during Puerto Rico's postmodern era of poetry
* [[Virgilio Dávila]], poet, considered by many to be one of Puerto Rico's greatest representatives of the modern literary era<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0101/josecampeche.asp |title=José Campeche |accessdate=October 7, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074034/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0101/josecampeche.asp |archivedate=September 27, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Julia de Burgos]], poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jstheater.blogspot.com/2005/04/poem-julia-de-burgoss-to-julia-de.html|title=J'S THEATER: Poem: Julia de Burgos's "To Julia de Burgos"|website=Jstheater.blogspot.com|accessdate=5 April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Eugenio María de Hostos]], wrote ''La Peregrinación de Bayoán'', the founding text of Puerto Rican literature (see also "Educators" and "Politicians")<ref name="hostos.cuny.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/LIBRARY/Hostos%20Page/Chronology/CHRONOLOGY_by_Diaz_eng.htm|title=Just another Hostos Social Network DEV site|website=Hostos.cuny.edu|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/LIBRARY/Hostos%20Page/Biography/PDF/history_full.pdf|title=Just another Hostos Social Network DEV Sites site|website=Hostos.cuny.edu|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Caridad de la Luz]] a.k.a. "La Bruja", poet; writer/actor of ''Boogie Rican Blvd''<ref name="LP">[http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId=26&id=1098418 El Diario/La Prensa – Caridad de la Luz] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103235455/http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId=26&id=1098418 |date=3 January 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Nelson Denis]], author, novelist; Editorial Director of ''[[El Diario La Prensa]]''; New York State Assemblyman
* [[Jaquira Díaz]], writer, journalist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://therumpus.net/2016/08/visible-women-writers-of-color-4-jaquira-diaz/|title=VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Jaquira Díaz|website=TheRumpus.com|accessdate=June 3, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Abelardo Díaz Alfaro]], writer<ref>{{cite news|last=Honan|first=William H.|author-link=William H. Honan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/26/books/abelardo-diaz-alfaro-81-author-of-puerto-rican-stories.html|title=Abelardo Diaz Alfaro, 81 - Author of Puerto Rican Stories|website=NYTimes.com|date=July 26, 1999|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>

'''E'''
* [[Sandra María Esteves|Sandra María Estéves]], 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; {{ISBN|0-684-31295-6}}</ref>

'''F'''
* [[Héctor Feliciano]], author; his book ''The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art'' has shed light on an estimated 20,000 looted works; each one is owned by a museum or a collector somewhere<ref>[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/stolen-art.html "A Bulldog on the Heels of Lost Nazi Loot"], ''[[The New York Times]]''; November 4, 1997.</ref>
* [[Isabel Freire de Matos]], writer, educator and advocate of Puerto Rican independence<ref name="IFM">{{cite web|author=Esther Rivera Torres|url=http://www.angelfire.com/ny/conexion/freire_de_matos_isabel.html|title=Isabel Freire de Matos profile|website=Angelfire.com|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Rosario Ferré]], writer<ref name=ensayistas>{{cite web|url=http://www.ensayistas.org/filosofos/puertorico/ferre/introd.htm|title=Rosario Ferré|language=es|website=Ensayistas.org|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Shaggy Flores]], Nuyorican writer, poet; African diaspora scholar; founder of Voices for the Voiceless<ref>{{cite web|url=http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37718201.pdf|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205191705/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37718201.pdf|archivedate=February 5, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Félix Franco-Oppenheimer|Félix Franco Oppenheimer]], poet and writer; works include ''Contornos'', ''Imagen y visión edénica de Puerto Rico'', and ''Antología poética''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=4|title=Municipalities: Ponce|website=Enciclopediapr.org|accessdate=April 5, 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190352/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09012901&page=4|archivedate=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

'''G'''
* [[Magali García Ramis]], writer<ref>[http://www.wikilearning.com/capitulo.php?id_contenido=1507&order=1 "Magali García Ramis."] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130209122616/http://www.wikilearning.com/capitulo.php?id_contenido=1507&order=1 |date=February 9, 2013 }} ''WikiLearning'', originally from ''Biografías y vidas'', November 30, 1999; retrieved January 15, 2010. {{es icon}}</ref>
* [[José Gautier Benítez]], leading Puerto Rican poet of the Romantic Era<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0401/index.asp|title=Biografías - Miguel A. Hernández Agosto |accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074050/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0401/index.asp |archivedate=September 27, 2011}}</ref>
* [[José Luis González (writer)|José Luis González]], 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>
* [[Migene González-Wippler|Migene González Wippler]], [[new-age]] author, [[Santería]] researcher<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=11044|title=Llewellyn Worldwide by Migene González-Wippler|website=Llewellyn.com|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>

'''H'''
* [[Victor Hernández Cruz|Víctor Hernández Cruz]], 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. [http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/cruz_vi.html "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"/>''

'''L'''
* [[Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes]], 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; {{ISBN|978-0-295-98824-5}}</ref>
* [[Enrique A. Laguerre]], writer; nominated in 1998, for the Nobel Prize in literature<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/e_bios/enrique_laguerre.shtml|title=Enrique Laguerre profile – Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular|website=Prpop.org|date=June 25, 2014|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Tato Laviera]], poet; author of ''AmeRícan''<ref>{{Harvnb|Luis|1992|p=1022}}</ref>
* [[Georgina Lázaro]], children's poet<ref name="Leon">{{cite web|url=http://www.hitn.tv/noticia_es.php?id%3D605|title=Georgina Lázaro León |accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307030023/http://www.hitn.tv/noticia_es.php?id=605|archivedate=March 7, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Muna Lee (writer)|Muna Lee]], [[Mississippi]]-born writer; first wife of [[Luis Muñoz Marín]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/muna.html|title=Muna Lee: A Pan-American Life|website=Uhmc.sunysb.edu|accessdate=5 April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Aurora Levins Morales]], 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. [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/morales_aurora_levins.php "Aurora Levins Morales"], ''Voices from the Gaps'', University of Minnesota, 2005. [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ http://voices.cla.umn.edu/]</ref>
* [[Puerto Rican literature#Historians|Teresita A. Levy]], author of ''The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1898–1940'', a study of the tobacco-growing regions in the eastern and western highlands of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1940<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UF3MH2-HErsC&pg=PR4&lpg=PR4&dq=TERESITA+A.+LEVY+Puerto+Rican&source=bl&ots=aRqs9Lf2jY&sig=Jsn5rP2qVPYRg3CXLhpwNyGdw7Q&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UMF_VJuPLJKPyATFooCQBA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=TERESITA%20A.%20LEVY%20Puerto%20Rican&f=false|title=The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1899-1940|website=Books.google.com|accessdate=5 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Levy|first=Teresita|url=http://www.interfaithfamily.com/relationships/marriage_and_relationships/Tostones_and_Matzoh_A_Puerto_Rican-Jewish_Journey.shtml|title=Tostones and Matzoh, A Puerto Rican-Jewish Journey|publisher=InterfaithFamily|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Luis Lloréns Torres]], poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0501/index.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074102/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0501/index.asp|archivedate=September 27, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Washington Lloréns]], journalist, writer, [[linguistics|linguist]], and scholar<ref>Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. [http://www.enciclopediapr1.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=10011901 "Llorens Llorens, Washington"]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''Puerto Rico Encyclopedia''; retrieved September 9, 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitponce.com/culturaIlustres.aspx |title=Ponce - Ciudad Señorial - Personajes Ilustres |website=Visitponce.com |accessdate=April 5, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204015110/http://www.visitponce.com/culturaIlustres.aspx |archivedate=February 4, 2014 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Luis López Nieves]], writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciudadseva.com/datos/index.htm|title=Datos personales y biográficos - Luis López Nieves profile|publisher=Ciudad Seva|date=April 8, 2014|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>

'''M'''
* [[Hugo Margenat]], poet; founder of the political youth pro-independence organizations Acción Juventud Independentista and Federación de Universitarios Pro Independencia<ref name="EPR">{{cite web|url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=06100601&page=5|title=Language and Literature: Brief History of Puerto Rican Literature|website=Enciclopediapr.org|accessdate=April 5, 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113133453/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=06100601&page=5|archivedate=January 13, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[René Marqués]], playwright; wrote ''La Carreta'' (''The Oxcart''), which helped secure his reputation as a leading literary figure in Puerto Rico<ref name="A">{{cite web|url=https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/latr/article/viewFile/63/38|format=PDF|title=Rene Marques' La muerte no entrara en Palacio: Analysis|website=Journals.ku.edu|accessdate=5 April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Nemir Matos-Cintrón|Nemir Matos Cintrón]], poet, novelist<ref>Rodríguez-Matos, Carlos Antonio. "Matos-Cintrón, Nemir." In ''Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes'', ed. David William Foster, pp. 216–17. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>
* [[Francisco Matos Paoli]], poet, critic, and essayist; nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in literature]] in 1977; a Secretary General of the [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]]<ref name="PC">{{cite web|author=Daniel B. Zwickel|url=http://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/eng-matos.html|title=Francisco Matos Paoli profile|website=Peacehost.net|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Concha Meléndez]], poet, writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/bge/bge_concha.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205072531/http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/bge/bge_concha.htm|archivedate=February 5, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Méndez Ballester]], writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.agproxy.inter.edu/cai/salamuseo_mmb.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 17, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040409043649/http://agproxy.inter.edu/cai/salamuseo_mmb.htm|archivedate=April 9, 2004 }}</ref>
* [[Nancy Mercado]], poet, playwright; author of ''It Concerns the Madness'', seven theatre plays, and a number of essays; her work has been extensively anthologized<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/arts/literature/sbwire-116151.htm|title=phati'tude Literary Magazine Announces Guest Editor|publisher=Sbwire.com|date=2011-11-28|accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref>''
* [[Pedro Mir]], former Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic (Puerto Rican mother)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ariskelvyn.com/post/520614870/hijos-de-inmigrantes-en-republica-dominicana|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707161616/http://ariskelvyn.com/post/520614870/hijos-de-inmigrantes-en-republica-dominicana|dead-url=yes|archive-date=July 7, 2011|title=Archived copy|accessdate=July 6, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Nicholasa Mohr]], writer; her works, among which is the novel ''Nilda'', tell of growing up in the [[Bronx]] and [[Spanish Harlem|El Barrio]] and of the difficulties Puerto Rican women face in the United States;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/nicholasa-mohr-dlb|title=Nicholasa Mohr Biography|website=Bookrags.com|date=2010-11-02|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/mohr_ni.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=12 March 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807171843/http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/mohr_ni.html|archivedate=August 7, 2008 }}</ref> in 1973, became the first Hispanic woman in modern times to have her literary works published by the major commercial publishing houses; has had the longest career as a creative writer for these publishing houses of any Hispanic female writer<ref name="HF"/>
* [[Rosario Morales]], author; co-author of ''Getting Home Alive'' (1986) with her daughter [[Aurora Levins Morales]]<ref>Anderson, Kelly. [http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/Morales.pdf ''Rosario Morales'' (Interview).] ''Voices of Feminism Oral History Project.'' Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; accessed December 15, 2014.</ref>

'''N'''
* [[Mercedes Negrón Muñoz]], a.k.a. "[[Clara Lair]]"; poet whose work dealt with the everyday struggles of the common Puerto Rican<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b65NtSSss3cC&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=mercedes+negron+munoz&source=web&ots=ZuXi3y4kUo&sig=2XKHwVClOxIt6kIcyPfsgBf5mUg|title=Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia|author1=Ronald Fernandez|author2=Serafín Mendez Mendez|author3=Gail Cueto|page=234|website=Books.google.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

'''O'''
* [[Judith Ortiz Cofer]], 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/cofer.html|title=Georgia Writers Hall of Fame|website=Libs.uga.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>''
* [[Micol Ostow]], author of ''Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane'' and ''Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/children/festival/2007AuthorsAttending.htm |title=Princeton Library |accessdate=April 6, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226235452/http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/children/festival/2007AuthorsAttending.htm |archivedate=February 26, 2010}}</ref>

'''P'''
* [[José Gualberto Padilla]] a.k.a. "El Caribe", poet, physician, journalist and politician; advocate for [[Puerto Rican independence movement|Puerto Rico's independence]]; was imprisoned for his role in the [[El Grito de Lares]] revolt<ref name="ELPR">{{cite web|url=http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/elibros/LibroPR/LPR_Esp/Capitulo%20_XVIII_HOMBRE_DEL_PASADO.pdf |title=Archived copy|accessdate=July 10, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425080044/http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/elibros/LibroPR/LPR_Esp/Capitulo%20_XVIII_HOMBRE_DEL_PASADO.pdf|archivedate=April 25, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Luis Palés Matos]], poet of Afro-Caribbean themes<ref name="El Nuevo Dia">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0301/matos.asp |title=Luis Palés Matos: Poeta |work=Estudiantes Al Dia |date=March 2001 |publisher=Zonai.com |language=Spanish |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074159/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0301/matos.asp |archivedate=September 27, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Antonio S. Pedreira]], writer and educator whose most important book was ''Insularismo'', in which he explores the meaning of being Puerto Rican<ref name="END">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0601/pedreira.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614051008/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0601/pedreira.asp|archivedate=June 14, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Pietri]], poet, playwright; co-founder of the [[Nuyorican Poets Café]]<ref name="Pietri">{{cite web|last=Pietri|first=Pedro|url=http://www.monthlyreview.org/0604pietri.htm|title=Pedro Pietri obituary at|website=Monthlyreview.org|date=2004-03-03|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Miguel Piñero]], playwright, writer; co-founder of the [[Nuyorican Poets Café]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Leslie|last=Bennets|title=Miguel Pinero, Whose Plays Dealt With Life in Prison, Is Dead at 41|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/18/obituaries/miguel-pinero-whose-plays-dealt-with-life-in-prison-is-dead-at-41.html|work=The New York Times|date=June 18, 1988|accessdate=October 26, 2008}}</ref>

'''R'''
* [[Manuel Ramos Otero]], 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; {{ISBN|0-415-30687-6}}.</ref>
* [[Evaristo Ribera Chevremont]], poet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/collections/rarebooks/hispanic/lit_caribbean.shtml|title=Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame|website=Library.nd.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[José Rivera (playwright)|José Rivera]], playwright; first [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] screenwriter to be nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1433580/awards Jose Rivera awards and nominations], IMDb.com; retrieved August 1, 2009.</ref>
* [[Marie Teresa Ríos]], author of the novel ''The Fifteenth Pelican'', which was the basis for the popular 1960s television sitcom ''[[The Flying Nun]]''<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Robert Patterson|url=http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mtrversace.htm |title=Marie Teresa Rios Versace, Military Spouse & Author|website=Arlingtoncemetery.net|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Lola Rodríguez de Tió]], poet; wrote the lyrics to the revolutionary "[[La Borinqueña]]"
* [[Francisco Rojas Tollinchi]], poet, civic leader and journalist<ref name="JDLOFRT">"JUSTIPRECIACIÓN DE LA OBRADE FRANCISCO ROJAS TOLLINCHI"; by Ada Hilda Martínez de Alicea; Dept. Estudios Hispánicos Pontificia Universidad Católica de PR.</ref>

'''S'''
* [[Luis Rafael Sánchez]], novelist, playwright<ref name="FNC">{{cite web|url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/l_bios/luis_rafael_sanchez.shtml|title=Luis Rafael Sánchez – Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular|website=Prpop.org|date=2014-06-27|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Wilfredo Santa-Gómez|Wilfredo Santa Gómez]], writer, journalist{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}
* [[Esmeralda Santiago]], author<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_santiago.html|title=Masterpiece Theatre - American Collection - Almost a Woman - Essays + Interviews|website=Pbs.org|date=2016-03-14|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Mayra Santos-Febres|Mayra Santos Febres]], poet, novelist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16676-mayra-santos-febres |title=Mayra Santos-Febres - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=March 12, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103234451/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16676-mayra-santos-febres |archivedate=January 3, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Juan Soto]], writer/novelist; father of slain independence activist [[Carlos Soto Arriví]]<ref name="TIME">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916768,00.html|title=Nation: Death at Cerro Maravilla|publisher=TIME|date=1979-05-14|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Clemente Soto Vélez]], poet and pro-independence activist (member of the Nationalist Party)<ref name="CSV">{{cite web|url=http://www.centropr.org/faids/velezb.html|title=Guide to the Clemente Soto Vélez and Amanda Vélez Papers 1924-1996 (Bulk 1960s-1994) 1999-03 Processed by Ismael García with the assistance of Izzy De Moya, Damary González, Thencasti Paulino, Mario H. Ramírez, March 2003 |accessdate=March 17, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227101005/http://www.centropr.org/faids/velezb.html|archivedate=February 27, 2012}}</ref>

'''T'''
* [[Alejandro Tapia y Rivera]], writer and poet; "the father of Puerto Rican literature"<ref name="Z">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1101/tapia.asp|title=Biografías - Emilio S. Belaval Maldonado|accessdate=March 17, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808152201/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1101/tapia.asp|archivedate=August 8, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Piri Thomas]], writer, poet whose autobiography ''[[Down These Mean Streets]]'' was a best-seller<ref name="Thomas">{{cite web|url=http://www.cheverote.com/bio.html |title=Piri Thomas' Life and Flows |website=Cheverote.com |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321022258/http://www.cheverote.com/bio.html |archivedate=March 21, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Edwin Torres (Poet)|Edwin Torres]], [[Nuyorican Movement]] poet<ref name="aloud">''Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café'' Holt; {{ISBN|0-8050-3257-6}}.</ref>
* Judge [[Edwin Torres (Judge)|Edwin Torres]], writer; New York Supreme Court Justice; wrote ''[[Carlito's Way]]''<ref name="herald">{{cite news|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n48/ProfTorres-en.html |title=Puerto Rico Profile: Judge Edwin Torres |date=December 1, 2000 |publisher=Puerto Rico Herald |accessdate=November 2, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106172450/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n48/ProfTorres-en.html |archivedate=January 6, 2008 |df= }}</ref>

'''U'''
* [[Luz María Umpierre]], poet, scholar<ref>Rivera, Carmen Haydée. [http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37720102.pdf "'Language is our only homeland': An Interview with Luz María Umpierre"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406175256/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37720102.pdf |date=April 6, 2012 }}, ''CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies'' 20.1 (Spring 2008): pp. 13–21.</ref>

'''V'''
* [[Lourdes Vázquez]], writer and poet<ref>Chew, Selfa. "Un punto de vista diferente: entrevista de Lourdes Vázquez".[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25745872?uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101905127371] [[Bilingual Review]] 28(3) (September–December 2004–2007):265-268.</ref>
* [[Edgardo Vega Yunqué]], novelist, also known as Ed Vega<ref>Weber, Bruce (September 9, 2008). [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/books/09vegayunque.html Edgardo Vega Yunqué, Novelist of the Puerto Rican Experience in New York, Dies at 72], ''[[The New York Times]]''; accessed September 13, 2016.</ref>
* [[Irene Vilar]], author and literary agent; granddaughter of independence activist [[Lolita Lebrón]]<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-abortion-memoir13-2009oct13,0,7832320.story "Memoir of a former abortion addict"] from the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', October 13, 2009.</ref>

'''W'''
* [[William Carlos Williams]] (Puerto Rican mother), [[Modernism|Modernist poet]]<ref>Colgan, Richard (2009) ''Advice to the Young Physician: On the Art of Medicine''. Springer Press. pg. 120<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>

'''X'''
* [[Emanuel Xavier]] (Puerto Rican father), poet and author

'''Z'''
* [[Manuel Zeno Gandía]], writer; wrote ''La Charca'', the first Puerto Rican novel<ref name="Charca">{{cite web|url=http://ponce.inter.edu/cai/bv/Charca.htm|title=La Charca, de Manuel Zeno Gandía: Pathfinder|website=Ponce.inter.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

==Beauty queens and fashion models==
[[File:Susie Castillo headshot 2.png|thumb|140px|[[Susie Castillo]], [[Miss USA]]]] [[File:Zuleyka Rivera, Red Dress Collection 2007.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Zuleyka Rivera]], [[Miss Universe]]]]
* [[Deborah Carthy-Deu]], [[Miss Universe]] 1985
* [[Susie Castillo]], [[Miss USA]] 2003 (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Vanessa De Roide]], Nuestra Belleza Latina 2012
* [[Stephanie Del Valle]], second Puerto Rican Miss World, 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/592931/lifestyle/puerto-rico-s-stephanie-del-valle-crowned-miss-world-2016|title=Puerto Rico's Stephanie Del Valle crowned Miss World 2016|publisher=GMA Network|date=18 December 2016}}</ref>
* [[Taina (model)|Noris Díaz ("La Taína")]], model
* [[Valerie Hernandez|Valerie Hernández]], [[Miss International 2014]]
* [[Stella Díaz]], fashion model
* [[Jaslene Gonzalez|Jaslene González]], fashion model, winner of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'', Cycle 8
* [[Marisol Malaret]], first Puerto Rican Miss Universe, 1970
* [[Marisol Maldonado]], fashion model
* [[Melissa Marty]], Nuestra Belleza Latina 2008
* [[Wilnelia Merced]], first Puerto Rican Miss World, 1975
* [[Astrid Muñoz]], fashion model
* [[Cynthia Olavarría]], [[Miss Puerto Rico]] 2005
* [[Aleyda Ortiz]], Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014
* [[Miriam Pabón]], beauty queen, first contestant in half a century to represent Puerto Rico in the [[Miss America]] pageant<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_miss_america |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124055153/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_miss_america |archivedate=24 January 2011 |website=news.yahoo.com |title=Youth wins as Nebraskan takes Miss America crown - Yahoo! News |others=At the [[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref>
* [[Ada Perkins]], Miss Puerto Rico 1978
* [[Denise Quiñones]], Miss Universe 2001
* [[Ingrid Marie Rivera]], [[Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico|Miss Puerto Rico World]] 2005
* [[Zuleyka Rivera]], [[Miss Universe 2006]]
* [[Chay Santini]], fashion model
* [[Laurie Tamara Simpson]], [[Miss International 1987]]
* [[Joan Smalls]], fashion model and host of [[MTV]]'s series ''[[House of Style]]''
* [[Dayanara Torres]], Miss Universe 1993
* [[Irma Nydia Vázquez]], first Miss Puerto Rico in the [[Miss America]] pageant, breaking the color barrier, 1948

==Business people and industrialists==
[[File:Jose Ramon Fernandez.jpg|140px|thumb|José Ramon Fernández, "Marqués de La Esperanza"]]
[[File:Juan Serralles Colon.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Juan Serrallés]], industrialist, founder of [[Destilería Serralles]], makers of [[Don Q]] rum]]
[[File:Eduardo Georgetti.jpg|thumb|140px|Eduardo Georgetti, wealthy sugar baron]]

* [[Carlota Alfaro]], fashion designer
* [[Aída Álvarez]], 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]], youngest president of PR Government Development Bank; annual scholarships are awarded in his memory
* [[Rafael Carrión, Sr.]], 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/97/sp019-97.html |title=Press Release Archives #019-97 Largest Hispanic Bank Remains in NYC |website=Nyc.gov |date=1997-01-10 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Arturo L. Carrión Muñoz]] -Former executive vice president of the Puerto Rico Bankers Association
* [[Richard Carrión]], Chairman of the Board [[Banco Popular]]; chairman [[International Olympic Committee]]'s finance committee
* [[Kimberly Casiano]], member of the Board of Directors of the [[Ford Motor Company]]
* [[Ramiro L. Colón]], first administrator of Cooperativa de Cafeteros de Puerto Rico, Café Rico (official coffee of the [[Vatican City|Vatican]])
* [[Francisco J. Collazo]], founder of COLSA Corporation, a first-rate provider of engineering and support services in Huntsville, Alabama<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colsa.com/about.html |title=COLSA Corporation |website=Colsa.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504231159/http://www.colsa.com/about.html |archivedate=May 4, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
*[[Deirdre Connelly]], President of North America Pharmaceuticals for [[GlaxoSmithKline]], member of the global Corporate Executive Team and co-chairs the Portfolio Management Board, along with the Chairman of Research and Development.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deirdre P. Connelly|url=http://latinojustice.org/support/events/DeirdreConnelly.pdf|website=LatinoJustice|publisher=LatinoJustice PRLDEF|accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref>
* [[Atilano Cordero Badillo]], founder of Supermercados Grande
* [[Carmen Ana Culpeper]], former SBA Regional Director; first female PR Treasury Secretary and PR Telephone Company President
* [[Oscar de la Renta|Óscar de la Renta]], fashion designer (Puerto Rican father, scion of a prominent aristocratic family from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico)
* [[Fernando Fernández (distiller)|Fernando Fernández]], founder of [[Ron del Barrilito]] and Alcoholado Santa Ana
* [[José Ramon Fernández|José Ramón Fernández]], "Marqués de La Esperanza", the wealthiest sugar baron in Puerto Rico in the 19th century; considered one of the most powerful men of the entire Spanish Caribbean<ref name="HLE">{{cite web|url=http://www.manati.info/biografias/marqu/marques_esperanza.htm|title=manati.info|website=Manati.info|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120426010850/http://www.manati.info/biografias/marqu/marques_esperanza.htm|archivedate=April 26, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Luis Ferré]], owner of the Ferré-Rangel media emporium
* [[Jaime Fonalledas]], 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n38/ProfileFonalledas-en.html |title=Profile: Jaime Fonalledas |publisher=Puerto Rico Herald |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212730/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n38/ProfileFonalledas-en.html |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[José Juan García]], founder of Hogares Crea
* [[Eduardo Georgetti]], agriculturist, businessman, philanthropist, politician and sugar baron<ref>"Eduardo Giorgetti Y Su Mundo: La Aparente Paradoja De Un Millonario Genio Empresarial Y Su Noble Humanismo"; by Delma S. Arrigoitia; Publisher: Ediciones Puerto; {{ISBN|0-942347-52-8}}; {{ISBN|978-0-942347-52-4}}</ref>
*[[Victoria Hernández]], music entrepreneur and businesswoman; in 1927, she opened the [[Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez|first Latin music store in New York City]], one of only sixteen businesses owned by Puerto Rican migrant women; sister of [[Rafael Hernández Marín]]{{sfn|Martínez|2016}}{{sfn|U. S. Census|1910|pp=10A-10B}}{{sfn|Serrano|2015|pp=49–55, 75–76}}
* [[María Elena Holly]], widow of rock legend [[Buddy Holly]]; owns the rights to Buddy's name, image, trademarks, and other intellectual property
*[[Teófilo José Jaime María Le Guillou]], a.k.a. the "Father of Vieques"; founder of the [[municipality]] of [[Vieques, Puerto Rico|Vieques]]; one of the wealthiest sugar barons in Puerto Rico<ref name="USDI">[http://www2.pr.gov/oech/oech/Documents/Propiedades%20en%20el%20Registro%20Nacional/Vieques/Las%20Tumbas%20de%20J.J.%20Maria%20Le%20Guillou.pdf United States Department of the Interior National Park Service]</ref>
* [[Ramón López Irizarry]], inventor of [[Coco López]]
* [[Héctor Maisonave]], organized 7,000 salsa concerts; owned the Casa Blanca dance club; managed [[Héctor Lavoe]] and other salsa artists
* [[Miguel A. García Méndez]], founder of Western Federal Savings Bank, which later became the [[Westernbank]] Puerto Rico (now defunct)
* [[Gildo Massó]], founder of Massó Enterprises and Casa's Massó
* [[Ralph Mercado]], founder of [[RMM Records]] and music producer<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/arts/music/12mercado.html ''Ralph Mercado, Impresario, Dies at 67''], ''[[The New York Times]]'' March 11, 2009.</ref>
* [[Luis Miranda Casañas]], CEO of the multi-state Universal insurance emporium
* [[Lisette Nieves]], founder of ATREVETE
*[[Rafael Nazario|Rafael Antonio Nazario]] is a pianist, composer and arranger and actor who is the Co-founder of [[Guzman y Gomez]], an Australian licensed, casual-dining restaurant chain specialising in authentic [[Mexican dishes]] and other specialty items. It is a franchised business with 107 restaurants in operation throughout Australia,<ref>[https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/mexican-wave-20071113-gdrktv.html The Sydney Morning Herald]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.guzmanygomez.com/all-locations/|title=All Locations|publisher=www.guzmanygomez.com|date= |accessdate=28 January 2016}}</ref> Singapore <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gyg.com.sg/locations/index.html#nsw|title=Singapore Locations|publisher=www.gyg.com.sg|date= |accessdate=28 January 2016}}</ref> and Japan. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://gyg.jp/#titlelocations|title=Locations|publisher=www.gyg.jp|date= |accessdate=28 January 2016}}</ref> The company continues to expand with new stores around Australia. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/guzman-y-gomez-plots-hitech-drivethrough-mexican-wave/news-story/19f753475f98448fd6501aff2e7bf74b|title=Guzman y Gomez plots hi-tech drive-through Mexican wave|website=www.news.com.au}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Staff writer(s); no byline|title=Sand In Your Shoes|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL6046004W/Sand_In_Your_Shoes|date=December 28, 2011|publisher=Open Library|accessdate=8 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sand in Your Shoes|url=https://www.amazon.com/books/dp/9685547009|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=8 June 2013}}</ref> and occasional wine writer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vino Veracity|url=http://vinoveracity.com/|publisher=Vino Veracity|accessdate=8 June 2013}}</ref>
* [[Luis D. Ortiz]], real estate broker and reality television personality (series ''[[Million Dollar Listing New York]]'')
* [[Wilbert Parkhurst]], in 1921, founded Empresas La Famosa, Inc., a fruit processing company that by 1971 consisted of Frozen Fruits Concentrates, Inc., Toa Canning Co., La Concentradora de Puerto Rico and Bayamón Can Company
* [[Rafael Pérez Perry]], in 1960 founded television channel 11, also known as Telecadena Pérez Perry, and became known as Tele Once in 1986<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=08100103&page=6|title=Media and Communication: Three Centuries of Communications: Media, Technology, and Narratives in Puerto Rico|website=Enciclopediapr.org|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232740/http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=08100103&page=6|archivedate=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Samuel A. Ramirez, Sr.|Samuel A. Ramírez, Sr.]], President and founder of Ramirez and Co., an investment banking firm on [[Wall Street]]
* [[Ángel Ramos (industrialist)|Ángel Ramos]], founder of the [[Telemundo]] television network
* [[Gaspar Roca]], founder of newspaper ''[[El Vocero]]''
* [[Miguel Ruiz (businessman)|Miguel Ruíz]], founder of Café Yaucono
* [[Herb Scannell]], former Chairman of [[MTV Networks]] and president of [[Nickelodeon]]
* [[Juan Serrallés]], founder of Don Q rum
* [[Nina Tassler]], President of [[CBS]] Entertainment; the highest profile Latina in network television and one of the few executives who has the power to greenlight series<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latingossip.com/eva-longoria/thrs-latino-power-50.html|title=THR's Latino Power 50|publisher=Latin Gossip|date=2007-07-31|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Joseph A. Unanue]], former president and CEO of [[Goya Foods]]; son of the company's founder
* [[Alfonso Valdés Cobián]], co-founder of [[Cervecería India]], Inc. and the Puerto Rican winter baseball league; owner of the [[Indios de Mayagüez]] (Mayagüez Indians)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1800beisbol.com/baseball/Deportes/Beisbol_Puerto_Rico/Historia_Beisbol_de_Puerto_Rico|title=Historia Beisbol de Puerto Rico {{!}} 1-800-BEISBOL {{!}} Béisbol, Puerto, Equipo, Campeonato, Jugadores|accessdate=13 January 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219224908/http://www.1800beisbol.com/baseball/Deportes/Beisbol_Puerto_Rico/Historia_Beisbol_de_Puerto_Rico|archivedate=February 19, 2009 }}/</ref>
* [[Camalia Valdés]], President and CEO of Cerveceria India, Inc., Puerto Rico's largest brewery<ref name="CVB">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbonlinepr.com/puerto_rico/business_economy/40under40/forty_camalia_valdes.pdf|title=Archived copy|accessdate=January 17, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319214617/http://www.cbonlinepr.com/puerto_rico/business_economy/40under40/forty_camalia_valdes.pdf|archivedate=March 19, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Salvador Vassallo (businessman)|Salvador Vassallo]], founder of Vassallo Industries Inc. and subsidiaries<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n15/CBVassallo-en.shtml|title=PUERTO RICO HERALD: Vassallo Expands Products, Wins Substantial Contracts|accessdate=May 5, 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112225902/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n15/CBVassallo-en.shtml|archivedate=January 12, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Richard Velazquez|Richard Velázquez]], businessman and community leader; former President of NSHMBA Puerto Rico; co-founder and former President of NSHMBA Seattle;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://seattle.nshmba.org |title=Welcome to the Seattle Chapter Web Page |accessdate=March 12, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114001459/http://seattle.nshmba.org/ |archivedate=January 14, 2009 |df= }}</ref> first Puerto Rican automotive designer for [[Porsche]],<ref>El Nuevo Dia, October 2000</ref> first Puerto Rican product planner for [[Xbox 360]]{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}
* [[Maria Vizcarrondo-De Soto|María Vizcarrondo-De Soto]], first woman and Latina to become the President and CEO of the United Way of Essex and West Hudson<ref name="EDLP">{{cite web |url=http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId%3D26%26id%3D1101363 |title=el diario / LA PRENSA OnLine |accessdate=December 27, 2005 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103204303/http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId=26&id=1101363 |archivedate=January 3, 2006}}</ref>

==Cartoonists==
[[File:John Rivas.jpg|thumb|140px|[[John Rivas]]]]
* [[David Álvarez (artist)|David Álvarez]], creator of the comic strip ''Yenny'', illustrator and storyboard artist for DC Comics' ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' series<ref name="Alvarez">{{cite web|url=http://www.toptwothreefilms.com/films/aidc/bts/interviews/f20050401/index.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=May 18, 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060604204325/http://www.toptwothreefilms.com/films/aidc/bts/interviews/f20050401/index.html|archivedate=June 4, 2006 }}</ref>
* [[Ricardo Álvarez-Rivón]], creator of the comic ''[[Turey]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/trri/tunis.htm |title=Archived copy|accessdate=February 27, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706150724/http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/trri/tunis.htm|archivedate=July 6, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Carmelo Filardi]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Antonio Sotomayor|title=The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wnA1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT156|date=February 2016|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-8538-5|page=156}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jack Delano|title=Así Es la Vida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zuSGq50CFQC&pg=PA168|year=1996|publisher=La Editorial, UPR|isbn=978-0-8477-0247-3|page=168}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cabrera Collazo |first1=R. |title=Medios y resistencia en la era muñocista: el periódico El Mundo y la caricatura de Filardi ante el proyecto histórico del Partido Popular Democrático |url=http://www.academia.edu/12441504/Medios_y_resistencia_en_la_era_mu%C3%B1ocista_el_peri%C3%B3dico_El_Mundo_y_la_caricatura_de_Filardi_ante_el_proyecto_hist%C3%B3rico_del_Partido_Popular_Democr%C3%A1tico |website=academia.edu |publisher=academia.edu |accessdate=11 October 2018}}</ref>
* [[Rags Morales]], comic book artist; co-creator, along with [[Brian Augustyn]], of the 1990s version of ''[[Black Condor]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=475|title=Rags Morales - 'Ralph Morales'|publisher=Comic Book DB|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[George Pérez]], [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] and [[DC Comics]] comic book artist<ref name="TitansArchives">"Contributors: George Pérez", ''The New Teen Titans Archives, Volume 1'' (DC Comics, 1999).</ref>
* [[John Rivas]], creator of the comic strip ''Bonzzo''<ref name="HHP">{{cite web|url=http://www.hispaniconline.com/hh04/culture/building_character.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=1 September 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222170151/http://www.hispaniconline.com/hh04/culture/building_character.html |archivedate=December 22, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Kenneth Rocafort]], [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] and [[DC Comics]] comic book artist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicvine.com/kenneth-rocafort/26-43123/ |title=Kenneth Rocafort (Person) |publisher=Comic Vine |date=1977-01-29 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[José Vega Santana]], creator of the ''Remi'' comic and impersonator of "Remi, The Clown"<ref name="HPOS">{{cite web|url=http://haciendopunto.com |title=Haciendo Punto en Otro Son |website=Haciendopunto.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Alex Schomburg]], comic book cover artist
* [[Angelo Torres]], ''Mad'' magazine artist

==Civil rights and/or political activists==
[[File:Maria de las Mercedes Barbudo, Independence Leader from Ponce, Puerto Rico, circa 1815 (6607177617).jpg|thumb|140px|[[María de las Mercedes Barbudo]]]][[File:Aguila Blanca.JPG|140px|thumb|[[José Maldonado Román]]]][[File:Helen Rodriguez-Trias.JPG|thumb|140px|[[Helen Rodriguez-Trias]], women's rights activist and recipient of the [[Presidential Citizen's Medal]]]]<!-- [[WP:NFCC]] violation: [[File:Sylvia Rae Rivera.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Sylvia Rivera|Sylvia Rae Rivera]]]] -->[[File:Sylvia Mendez in the Green Room.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Sylvia Mendez]]]][[File:Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Arturo Alfonso Schomburg]]]][[File:Elias Beauchamp (1936).jpg|thumb|140px| [[Elías Beauchamp]]]][[File:Olga Viscal Garriga.JPG|140px|thumb|[[Olga Viscal Garriga]]]]
* [[Mariana Bracetti]] 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]], 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]], women's rights activist; one of the first women in Puerto Rico to earn a doctoral degree
* [[Luisa Capetillo]], 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]], activist and community organizer<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=sfmPmrL0N3kC&pg=PA429 |title=Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics: Hispanic Americans and Native Americans |page=429 |last=Schultz |first=Jeffrey D |year=2000 |ISBN=1573561495}}</ref>
* [[Tito Kayak]], 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>[http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=525 Socialism and Liberation: Planted Flag] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107032129/http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=525 |date=2007-11-07 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.metrosanjuan.com/features_14_02.php |title=Metro San Juan: Planted Flag |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902135054/http://www.metrosanjuan.com/features_14_02.php |archive-date=September 2, 2009 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>[http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2009/04/16/puerto-rican-activist-denied-entry Trinidad and Tobago Guardian News: Planted Flag]</ref><ref>[http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/stli/adhi1.htm US National Park Service: Planted Flag]</ref><ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/small_axe/v008/8.2wilkinson.html Project Muse: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Inspiration: Planted Flag]</ref><ref>[http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/solnews/solyah110700.htm Letter to From Vieques Mayor to Pres. Bill Clinton: Planted Flag] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716000941/http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/solnews/solyah110700.htm |date=2009-07-16 }}</ref><ref>[http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/703/60/ Upside Down World-Planted Flag]</ref>
* [[Sylvia del Villard]], 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]], civil rights activist; young Puerto Rican mother who paved the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jaeh/27.4/erman.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=September 9, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930173240/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jaeh/27.4/erman.html|archivedate=September 30, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Lillian López]], librarian and labor activist; founder of the [[New York Public Library]] South Bronx Project; advocate for library and education services for Spanish-speaking communities<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ruiz|first1=Vicki|last2=Sanchez Korrol|first2=Virginia|title=Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia|date=2006|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253111692|pages=401–02}}</ref>
* [[Oscar López Rivera|Óscar López Rivera]], pro-independence activist; the longest incarcerated [[Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña|FALN]] member<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E5DA163DF93BA3575AC0A96F958260|title=12 Imprisoned Puerto Ricans Accept Clemency Conditions|accessdate=September 17, 2008|work=The New York Times|date=November 8, 1999|author=John M. Broder}}</ref>
* [[José Maldonado Román]], a.k.a. "Aguila Blanca" (White Eagle), revolutionary<ref name="LG">Fernando Pico. "1898-La Guerra Despues de la Guerra". Ediciones Huracan; {{ISBN|0-940238-25-X}}</ref>
* [[Rosa Martínez and Eliana Martínez|Eliana Martínez]], AIDS activist; was in a notable Florida court case regarding the rights of HIV+ children in public schools<ref>{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Mother to Appeal 'Glass Cage' Ruling|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7D81E38F930A1575BC0A96E948260|work=New York Times|date=1988-08-23}}</ref>
* [[Felicitas Mendez|Felícitas Méndez]] (née Gómez), activist; with her husband, in 1946, led a community battle which set an important legal precedent for ending ''[[de jure]]'' segregation in the United States (see ''[[Mendez v. Westminster]]'');<ref>{{cite news|accessdate=2007-04-05 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20060911/ai_n16721150 |title=Mendez case paved way for Brown v. Board |work=Topeka Capital-Journal |date=September 11, 2006 |author=Geisler, Lindsey |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809133956/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20060911/ai_n16721150/ |archivedate=August 9, 2011 |df= }}</ref> credited with paving the way for [[Racial integration|integration]] and the [[American civil rights movement]]<ref name="Sauceda">"{{cite journal|journal=People en Español|title=Cambio Historico (Historic Change)|date=March 28, 2007|author=Sauceda, Isis|pages=111–12|language=Spanish|ref=harv}}</ref>
* [[María de las Mercedes Barbudo]], political activist; often called the first female Puerto Rican "Independentista"<ref name="MIP">[http://www.80grados.net/2011/04/mercedes-la-primera-independentista-puertorriquena/ Mercedes – La primera Independentista Puertorriquena] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110421060705/http://www.80grados.net/2011/04/mercedes-la-primera-independentista-puertorriquena/ |date=April 21, 2011 }}, 80grados.net; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Ana María O'Neill]], women's rights activist and educator; in 1929, became the first female professor in the field of commerce in the University of Puerto Rico, which she taught until 1951; urged women to participate in every aspect of civic life and to defend their right to vote<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0301/ana_oneill.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=August 15, 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718221412/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0301/ana_oneill.asp|archivedate=July 18, 2006 }}</ref>
* [[Manuel Olivieri Sanchez|Manuel Olivieri Sánchez]], 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>{{cite web|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/12/23/news/story11.html|title=Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News|publisher=Archives.starbulletin.com|date=1999-12-23|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Cesar A. Perales|César A. Perales]], 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.dos.ny.gov/about/sos/sosmain.html|title=New York State Department of State|website=Dos.ny.gov|date=2014-11-07|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Sylvia Rivera|Sylvia Rae Rivera]], transgender activist; veteran of the 1969 [[Stonewall riots]]<ref>Gan, Jessi. [http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37719107.pdf "'Still at the Back of the Bus': Sylvia Rivera's Struggle"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406175345/http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/377/37719107.pdf |date=April 6, 2012 }}, ''CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies'' 19.1 (Spring 2007): pp. 124–39.</ref>
* [[Anthony Romero]], civil rights leader; executive director of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aclu.org/about/staff/13279res20030205.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 18, 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321091810/http://www.aclu.org/about/staff/13279res20030205.html|archivedate=March 21, 2007}}</ref>
* [[Helen Rodriguez-Trias|Helen Rodríguez Trías]], 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">{{cite web|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_273.html|title=Changing the Face of Medicine|website=Nlm.nih.gov|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref> (see also "Educators" and "Scientists")
* [[Ana Roque]], women's rights activist, educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/9328/ Ana Roque] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070917141157/http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/9328/ |date=September 17, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Arturo Alfonso Schomburg]], civil rights and pro-independence activist; pioneer in black history who helped raise awareness of the contributions by Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans to society<ref name="AB">[http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/schomburg.html Robert Knight, "Arthur Alfonso 'Afroborinqueno' Schomburg"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928000142/http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/schomburg.html |date=September 28, 2007 }}, History Notes, Global African Community, accessed February 2, 2009.</ref>
* [[Pedro Julio Serrano]], human rights activist; President of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, which strives for inclusion of LGBT community and for social justice for all in Puerto Rico; Communication Manager at the [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pedrojulioserrano.com/bio|title=Archived copy|accessdate=23 November 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114221343/http://pedrojulioserrano.com/bio|archivedate=November 14, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[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; {{ISBN|1-55876-463-1}}; {{ISBN|978-1-55876-463-7}}</ref>

===Nationalists===
Political activists who were members of the [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]]:

* [[Elías Beauchamp]], 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 (April 7, 2015); {{ISBN|978-1568585017}}.</ref>
* [[Blanca Canales]], political activist; nationalist leader who led the [[Jayuya Uprising]] in 1950 against US colonial rule of Puerto Rico
* [[Rafael Cancel Miranda]], 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
* [[Oscar Collazo|Óscar Collazo]], political activist; one of two nationalists who attempted to assassinate [[Harry Truman|President Harry S. Truman]]
* [[Rosa Collazo]] 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; Page 164; {{ISBN|0-253-34680-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-253-34680-3}}</ref>
* [[Raimundo Díaz Pacheco]], political activist; Commander-in-Chief of the [[Cadets of the Republic (Puerto Rico)|Cadets of the Republic]] (Cadetes de la República, also known as the Ejército Libertador de Puerto Rico, or The Liberation Army of Puerto Rico), a quasi-military organization and official youth organization within the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party<ref name="FBI">[http://www.pr-secretfiles.net/binders/SJ-100-3_23_023_157.pdf "FBI Files"; "Puerto Rico Nationalist Party"; SJ 100-3; Vol. 23; pp. 104-34] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101090251/http://www.pr-secretfiles.net/binders/SJ-100-3_23_023_157.pdf |date=November 1, 2013 }}, pr-secretfiles.net; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Andres Figueroa Cordero|Andrés Figueroa Cordero]], political activist; member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; one of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/08/archives/pardoned-activist-dies-in-puerto-rico-andres-figueroa-cordero-54.html?_r=0 New York Times]</ref>
* [[Irvin Flores|Irvin Flores Ramírez]], political activist; Nationalist leader and activist; one of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954<ref name= "LAT">[http://articles.latimes.com/1994-03-21/news/mn-36666_1_puerto-rican-nationalist-leaders Los Angeles Times]</ref>
* [[Lolita Lebrón]], 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]], 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">[http://www.alianzabolivariana.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7757 "¡Atención, firmes, de frente, marchen!"- Tomás López de Victoria – Por José Manuel Dávila Marichal] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130112163313/http://www.alianzabolivariana.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7757 |date=January 12, 2013 }}</ref>''
* [[Isolina Rondón]], 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">{{cite book|last= Bosque Pérez|first=Ramón|title=Puerto Rico Under Colonial Rule|publisher=SUNY Press|year=2006|page=71|url=https://books.google.com/?id=te1cUiXUweYC&pg=PA71&dq=R%C3%ADo+Piedras+massacre|accessdate=March 17, 2009|isbn=978-0-7914-6417-5}}</ref>
* [[Hiram Rosado]], 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"/>
* [[Isabel Rosado]], political activist; imprisoned multiple times<ref name="ER">{{cite web|url=http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/Isabel_Rosado_Morales|title=Isabel Rosado Morales profile|website=Ecured.cu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Vidal Santiago Díaz]], 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>{{cite web|url=http://writetofight.wordpress.com/the-nationalist-insurrection-of-1950|title=The Nationalist Insurrection of 1950 (2011)|website=Writetofight.wordpress.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Griselio Torresola]], political activist; Nationalist who died in an attempt to assassinate [[Harry Truman|President Harry S. Truman]] in 1950
* [[Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff]], 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">{{cite web|author=Daniel B. Zwickel|url=http://www.peacehost.net/WhiteStar/Voices/eng-velez.html|title=Gutiérrez del Arroyo Sisters|website=Peacehost.net|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Olga Viscal Garriga]], 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>[http://larespuestamedia.com/resisting-the-colonial-design/ Puerto Rico, the Diaspora, and the Nationalist Insurrection of 1950]</ref>

==Clergy==
[[File:Juan Alejo de Arizmendi2.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Painting of Alejo de Arizmendi]]
'''Pre-20th century'''
* [[Juan Alejo de Arizmendi]], first Puerto Rican Roman Catholic bishop
* [[Francisco Ayerra de Santa María]], priest and poet
* [[Diego de Torres Vargas]], first priest to write about the history of Puerto Rico<ref>[https://puertoricoentresiglos.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/puerto-rico-1646-diego-de-torres-vargas/ Puerto Rico en 1646: Diego de Torres Vargas]</ref>

'''20th century'''
* [[David Andrés Álvarez-Velázquez|David Andrés Álvarez Velázquez]], second native Puerto Rican to serve as bishop of the Diocese of Puerto Rico of the Episcopal Church
* [[Luis Aponte Martínez]], Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan; the only Puerto Rican cleric to date to be named cardinal
* [[Yiye Ávila]], Pentecostal leader
* [[Nicky Cruz]], former gangster turned minister
* Sor [[Isolina Ferré| Isolina Ferré Aguayo]], Roman Catholic nun awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]; sister of former governor Luis Ferré Aguayo
* [[Juanita García Peraza]], founder of the "Mita" religion {{clarify|date=June 2016}}
* [[Roberto González Nieves]], Archbishop of San Juan
* [[Jorge Raschke]], outspoken Pentecostal pastor
* [[Francisco Reus-Froylan|Francisco Reus Froylán]], first native Puerto Rican bishop of the Episcopal Church
* [[Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago]], beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001; first Puerto Rican and first Caribbean-born layperson to be beatified<ref name=VaticanList>{{cite web|accessdate=June 4, 2007|url=http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20010429_rodriguez-santiago_en.html|title=Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago (1918–1963)|work=Blesseds: Table of the Beatifications during the Pontificate of His Holiness John Paul II|publisher=The Holy See}}</ref>''

'''21st century'''
* [[José Luis de Jesús Miranda]], controversial religious leader
* [[Bavi Edna Rivera]], 12th woman and first Hispanic woman to become a bishop of the Episcopal Church<ref>[http://www.ecww.org/files/5/BishopRiveraBiography.pdf Episcopal Diocese of Olympia website]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ecww.org; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>

==Composers, singers, musicians and opera==
[[File:Chayannemn.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Chayanne]]]]
[[File:José Feliciano.jpg|thumb|180px|[[José Feliciano]], singer and composer of "[[Feliz Navidad (song)|Feliz Navidad]]"]][[File:Marc Anthony 2009 White House.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Marc Anthony]], singer]]
[[File:Village People-Indian.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Felipe Rose]], [[Village People]]]][[File:Jim Jones at the 5th Annual Hip-Hop Summit Action Network's Action Awards.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Jim Jones (rapper)|Jim Jones]], rapper]]
[[File:yolandita monge.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Yolandita Monge]], singer]]
[[File:Ricky Martin 2013.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Ricky Martin]], singer]]
[[File:Carli-Muñoz.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Carli Muñoz]], pianist]]
[[File:Melanie_Martinez_-_House_of_Blues_(April_4,_2016)_(2).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Melanie Martinez (singer)|Melanie Martinez]], singer]]
[[File:BrunoMars24KMagicWorldTourLive.jpg|thumb|140px|Bruno Mars]][[File:Elsa_Miranda.jpg|thumb|[[Elsa Miranda]], singer]]
[[File:Rubén Colón Tarrats.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Rubén Colón Tarrats]], orchestra conductor]]


'''A'''
* [[Anuel AA]], rapper and singer-songwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2018/07/anuel-aa-prison-cardi-b-interview/|title=Anuel AA Feels Prison Was a Blessing, Wants to Work With Cardi B|last=|first=|date=2018-07-24|website=XXL Mag|language=en|access-date=2018-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://remezcla.com/lists/music/anuel-aa-billboard-trap-kingz-interview-entrevista/|title=Anuel AA Opens Up About His Time in Prison in First Interviews After His Release|last=Herrera|first=Isabelia|date=2018-07-18|work=Remezcla|access-date=2018-09-11}}</ref>
* [[Mary Ann Acevedo Rivera]], singer, songwriter
* [[Juan F. Acosta]], danza composer
* [[Agallah]], rapper and producer
* [[Johnny Albino]], singer
* [[Natalie and Nicole Albino]], members of R&B duo [[Nina Sky]]
* [[Rafael Alers]], dance composer; first Puerto Rican to compose a Hollywood musical score
* [[Carlos Alomar]], guitarist, composer, arranger, producer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://carlosalomar.com/bio.html|title=Carlos Alomar bio|website=Carlosalomar.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Zayra Alvarez]], rock singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico.com/blog/zayra-reaching-for-the-stars|title=Puerto Rico.com: Zayra-Reaching for the Stars}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/10/entertainment/et-zayra10|title=She's determined to be heard, man|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Josh Kun}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alborde.com/musica-section/noticias-musica/revealing-zayras-poetic-heart/|title=Revealing Zayra's Poetic Heart|work=Al Borde|author=Mary Montoro}}</ref>
* [[Miguel Angel Amadeo]], composer<ref name=SalsaPeople>{{cite book|last1=Rendell|first1=Matt|title=Salsa for People Who Probably Shouldn't|date=2011|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781780571706|url=https://books.google.com/?id=_HmV4WMkf4AC&pg=PT20&dq=mike+Amadeo#v=onepage&q=mike%20Amadeo&f=false|accessdate=26 December 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Marc Anthony]], singer
* [[Henry Arana]], composer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/XStatic/endi/template/content.aspx?se%3Dnotaandid%3D371652 |title=™ El Nuevo Día |accessdate=March 20, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512064057/http://www.elnuevodia.com/XStatic/endi/template/content.aspx?se=notaandid%3D371652 |archivedate=May 12, 2008 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Chucho Avellanet]], singer
* [[Corina Katt Ayala|Corina]], singer, actress

'''B'''
* [[Bad Bunny]], rapper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://remezcla.com/features/music/bad-bunny-profile|title=How Bad Bunny Became the Poster Boy of Trap en Español }}</ref>
* [[Manolo Badrena]], percussionist
* [[Adrienne Bailon]], singer, actress, songwriter; part of the former girl group trio 3LW, and of [[The Cheetah Girls (band)|The Cheetah Girls]]
* [[Puchi Balseiro]], composer
* [[Lloyd Banks]], rapper (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Ray Barretto]], percussionist, jazz and salsa leader
* [[Eddie Benitez]], guitarist
* [[John Benitez]], a.k.a. "Jellybean Benítez", music producer and remixer
* [[Lucecita Benítez]], a.k.a. "Lucecita", singer
* [[Samuel Beniquez]], music producer, composer and musician
* [[Obie Bermúdez]], singer and composer
* [[Big Pun]], rapper
* [[Willie Bobo]], [[Latin jazz]] and [[boogaloo]] musician and band leader
* [[Angela Bofill]], singer
* [[Americo Boschetti]], singer and composer
* [[Roy Brown (Puerto Rican musician)|Roy Brown]], folklore singer, composer

'''C'''
* [[Antonio Cabán Vale]], a.k.a. "El Topo", folklore singer, composer
* [[Tego Calderón]], rapper, reggaeton artist
* [[Juan Morel Campos]], composer of [[Music of Puerto Rico|danzas]]
* [[Héctor Campos-Parsi]], singer, composer
* [[Bobby Capó]], singer, composer
* [[Nydia Caro]], singer
* [[Vicente Carattini]], singer and composer; composed many of Puerto Rico's Christmas themes
* [[Fat Joe|Joseph Cartagena]], a.k.a. "Fat Joe", rapper
* [[Marta Casals Istomin]], cellist; former President of [[Manhattan School of Music]]
* [[Pablo Casals]], cellist (Puerto Rican mother), classical musician
* [[Kevin Ceballo]], salsa music singer
* [[Rafael Cepeda]], composer; "patriarch of the bomba and plena"
* [[Iris Chacón]], singer and vedette
* [[Keshia Chanté]], R&B and pop singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/3126/keshia-chante.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=February 16, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715143934/http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/3126/keshia-chante.htm|archivedate=July 15, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Arístides Chavier Arévalo]], pianist and composer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ELM4068&CISOPTR=1386&CISOBOX=1&REC=11 |title=Gobernador Muñoz Marín dirigiéndose al público en inauguración caserío Arístides Chavier en Ponce :: Fotos El Mundo 40-68 |website=Bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-09-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n44/CBPRGrieves-en.html |title=Puerto Rico Grieves Over The Loss Of Its Premier Statesman Four Months Short Of His 100th Birthday |newspaper=Puerto Rico Herald |date= |accessdate=2016-09-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113170514/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n44/CBPRGrieves-en.html |archivedate=November 13, 2013 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Chelo]], singer
* [[Choco Orta]], salsa singer
* [[José Miguel Class]], a.k.a. "El Gallito de Manatí", singer
* [[Angel Clivillés]], singer, member of [[The Cover Girls]]
* [[Robert Clivillés]], freestyle producer; founder and member of [[C + C Music Factory]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dancemusic.about.com/od/remixersproducers/a/RobClivillesInt_5.htm|format=PDF|title=Clivilles|website=Dancemusic.about.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Javier Colon]], singer and winner of the [[The Voice (U.S. season 1)|first season]] of U.S. reality series ''[[The Voice (U.S. TV series)|The Voice]]''
* [[Santos Colon]], singer<ref>Max Salazar ''Mambo kingdom: Latin music in New York'' 2002 "Santitos Colón - On Saturday, February 21, 1998, the renowned balladeer Santos Colón, known as Santitos, died in Puerto Rico. ... Born Angel Santos Vega Colón in Mayaguez on November 1, 1922, he began singing with the orchestra of Frank Madera..."</ref>
* [[Willie Colón]], salsa composer
* [[Rubén Colón Tarrats]], band director<ref>[http://www.periodicolaperla.com/colon-tarrats-dice-adios-a-eternos-amores/ ''Se despide Rubén Colón Tarrats.''] Reinaldo Millán. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1 March 2018.</ref>
* [[César Concepción]], orchestra leader
* [[Ernesto Cordero (musician)|Ernesto Cordero]], composer and classical guitarist<ref>Peter G. Davis, "Music: Cordero Plays Guitar", ''New York Times'', January 30, 1978.</ref>
* [[Federico A. Cordero]], composer and classical guitarist
* [[Millie Corretjer]], singer
* [[Rafael Cortijo]], salsa band leader
* [[Cosculluela|José Cosculluela]], hip hop and reggaeton artist
* [[Elvis Crespo]], merengue singer
* [[Tony Croatto]], singer/composer of Puerto Rican folk songs
* [[Bobby Cruz]], salsa singer, bandleader
* [[Joe Cuba]], bandleader, considered "the father of the boogaloo"
* [[Tite Curet Alonso]], ballad and salsa composer<ref name="MPR">{{cite web|author=S. Moraza|url=http://www.salsaclasica.com/titecuretalonso|title=Tite Curet Alonso profile|website=Salsaclasica.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

'''D'''
* [[Christian Daniel]], singer-songwriter<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8006554/latin-amas-2017-performers-farruko-ozuna|title=Farruko and Ozuna Added to Final Latin AMAs Performer Lineup|work=Billboard|access-date=2018-05-11}}</ref>
* [[Hector El Father|Héctor Delgado]], a.k.a. "El Father", reggaeton singer
* [[Rafael José|Rafael José Díaz]], a.k.a. "Rafael José", singer and television host
* [[Carmen Delia Dipini]], bolero singer
* [[Edgardo Díaz]], founder of the boy band [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.primerahora.com/entretenimiento/farandula/nota/edgardodiazconfirmacreaciondeparquemenudo-952398|title=Edgardo DÃaz confirma creación de Parque Menudo|website=Primerahora.com|date=2013-02-13|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Braulio Dueño Colón]], composer of "Canciones Escolares"
* [[Huey Dunbar]], singer, member of [[Dark Latin Groove|DLG]] (Puerto Rican mother)

'''E'''
* [[Rafi Escudero]], musician, singer, composer
* [[Tego Calderón|Many Espinal]], known as "Tego Calderón", reggaeton singer
* [[Noel Estrada]], composer of "[[En Mi Viejo San Juan]]"
* [[Cano Estremera]], singer, composer and poet

'''F'''
* [[Lucy Fabery]], singer
* [[Rene Farrait]], singer; former member of [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]]
* [[Cheo Feliciano]], salsa singer; singer for Joe Cuba Sextet
* [[José Feliciano]], singer, composed "[[Feliz Navidad (song)|Feliz Navidad]]"
* [[Ruth Fernández]], singer
* [[Chayanne|Elmer Figueroa]], known as "Chayanne", singer
* [[Jose "Pepito" Figueroa]], violinist one of the few Hispanic violinists to reach international status<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/23/arts/jose-figueroa-94-a-violinist-with-the-puerto-rico-symphony.html Jose Figueroa, 94, a Violinist With the Puerto Rico Symphony]</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jose-figueroa-1184309.html Obituary]</ref>
* [[Narciso Figueroa]], composer
* [[Pedro Flores (composer)|Pedro Flores]], composer
* [[Hector Fonseca]], producer, musician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themovementz.com/content/view/43/29|title=Archived copy|accessdate=September 18, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716232312/http://www.themovementz.com/content/view/43/29|archivedate=July 16, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Luis Fonsi]], singer

'''G'''
* [[Angelo Garcia]], singer; former member of [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]]
* [[Kany García]], singer-songwriter
* [[Jenilca Giusti]], singer, songwriter, actress, model<ref>{{cite web|title=Jenilca|language=Spanish|publisher=PrimeraHora.com|url=http://www.primerahora.com/XStatic/primerahora/template/contenido.aspx?id=137071}}</ref>
* [[Eddie Gómez (musician)|Eddie Gómez]], jazz musician and composer
* [[Tito Gómez (Puerto Rican singer)|Tito Gómez]], composer
* [[Kenny "Dope" Gonzales]], producer, musician; member of [[Masters At Work]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mundovibe.com/kennydope.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=July 31, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429080439/http://www.mundovibe.com/kennydope.htm|archivedate=April 29, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Odilio González]], singer

'''H'''
* [[Jazz Hamilton]], recording artist, arranger, composer, saxophonist, producer
* [[Hex Hector]], Grammy Award-winning remixer and producer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.djtimes.com/original/djmag/jun01/hector.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=June 20, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618162205/http://djtimes.com/original/djmag/jun01/hector.htm|archivedate=June 18, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Manny Manuel|Cruz Manuel Hernández]], a.k.a. "Manny Manuel", singer
* [[Oscar Hernández (musician)|Oscar Hernández]], salsa musician; composed the musical theme for the television series ''[[Sex and the City]]''
* [[Rafael Hernández Marín]], composer
* [[Giovanni Hidalgo]], percussionist
* [[Lee Holdridge]], television and film score composer

'''I'''
* [[Rafael Ithier]], musician; founder of [[El Gran Combo]] orchestra

'''J'''
* [[Nicky Jam]], singer-songwriter
* [[Janid]], singer, songwriter, reality TV personality
* [[Plan B (duo)|Orlando Javier Valle Vega]], a.k.a. "Chencho", singer, producer
* [[Carmita Jiménez]], a.k.a. "La Dama de la Canción", singer
* [[Jim Jones (rapper)|Jim Jones]], rapper

'''K'''
* [[Kane & Abel (group)|Kane & Abel]], rap duo
* [[Kaydean]], record and TV producer, composer
* [[Tori Kelly]], singer (father is half Puerto Rican)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=168s&v=vZwmsx4YLQk|title=Tori Kelly Discusses the BET Awards, Not Being White + Dreaming of a Grammy on Ebro in the AM (2:48)|accessdate=July 1, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Kurious Jorge]], rapper

'''L'''
* [[La India]], salsa singer
* [[George Lamond]], pop/salsa singer
* [[Don Omar|William Landrón]], a.k.a. "Don Omar", reggaeton singer
* [[Tito Lara]], singer
* [[Héctor Lavoe]], salsa singer
* [[Raphy Leavitt]], composer, musical director
* [[Manny Lehman (disc jockey)|Manny Lehman]], music producer, DJ
* [[Lisa M]], rapper
* [[Jennifer Lopez]], singer (both parents are Puerto Rican)
* [[Cheka (artist)|David "Cheka" Lozada]], reggaeton artist
* [[Johnny Lozada]], singer
* [[Vico C|Luis Lozada]], rapper
* [[Papo Lucca]], pianist
* [[Lunna]], singer

'''M'''
* [[Víctor Manuelle]], singer
* [[Bruno Mars]], singer and songwriter (father is Puerto Rican)<ref>[https://www.vibe.com/2017/01/bruno-mars-latina-mag-interview/ Bruno Mars Sets The Record Straight About His Puerto Rican Heritage]</ref>
* [[Ricky Martin]], singer; former member of Menudo<ref>{{cite book|last=Keeling|first=Stephen|title=The Rough Guide to Puerto Rico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bKWIc9uQd_cC&pg=PA374|year=2008|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-354-8|page=374}}</ref>
* [[Angie Martínez]], singer, actress, radio personality
* [[Ladislao Martínez]], cuatro player
* [[Melanie Martinez (singer)|Melanie Martinez]], Puerto Rican-Dominican singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pop-buzz.com/pop-culture/facts-every-melanie-martinez-fan-must-know/|title=Facts About Melanie Martinez Every Superfan Should Know|publisher=Pop Buzz|accessdate=27 August 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829162833/http://www.pop-buzz.com/pop-culture/facts-every-melanie-martinez-fan-must-know/|archivedate=August 29, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Carolyne Mas]], singer-songwriter, musician, and performer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carolynemas.com/images/BirthCert_resized.jpg |format=JPG |title=Photographic image of birth certificate |website=Carolynemas.com |accessdate=2016-09-15}}</ref>
* [[Charlie Masso]], singer; former member of Menudo
* [[Paul Masvidal]], guitarist, singer, and songwriter with international recording artists [[Cynic (band)|Cynic]]
* [[Maxwell (musician)|Maxwell]], R&B and neo-soul singer (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Lisette Melendez]], freestyle/Latin-pop singer
* [[Ricky Meléndez]], singer; former member of "Menudo
* [[Syesha Mercado]], singer and finalist on ''[[American Idol]]'' (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Luis Miguel]], a.k.a. "sol de Mexico", singer and songwriter
* [[Elsa Miranda]], singer who was featured on radio and television in the United States during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1940s<ref>''Life Magazine'' December 1, 1946 p. 122 [https://books.google.com/books?id=oE0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA121&dq=Radio+Jingles+Elsa+Miranda&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT1qii5OfZAhWBjVkKHfVBCf4Q6wEIODAD#v=onepage&q=Radio%20Jingles%20Elsa%20Miranda&f=false ''Life - Radio Jingles'' - Elsa Miranda photographed in performance in "Chiquita Banana" song]</ref>
* [[Ismael Miranda]], "El Niño Bonito de la Salsa", singer and composer, Fania All-Star
* [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]], Grammy-, Tony-, and [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius" Award]]-winning composer, lyricist, and actor, known for his Broadway musicals ''[[In the Heights]]'' and ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]''<ref name="conc">{{cite web|url=http://www.intheheightsthemusical.com/story_lin.html |title=The Conceiver |publisher=In the Heights |accessdate=26 August 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20080208111408/http://www.intheheightsthemusical.com/story_lin.html |archivedate=February 8, 2008 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Ángel Mislan]], composer of danzas
* [[José Luis Moneró]], composer and band leader
* [[Yolandita Monge]], singer, television host and theatrical actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/musica/espectaculos_asi/ahora_es_mala/236210|title=Ahora es "Mala"|work=Primera Hora|language=Spanish|date=October 6, 2008|accessdate=October 11, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208192013/http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/musica/espectaculos_asi/ahora_es_mala/236210|archivedate=December 8, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Gilberto Monroig]], bolero singer
* [[Glenn Monroig]], composer, singer; sang the first [[rapping|rap]] song in Spanish
* [[Andy Montañez]], salsa singer
* [[David Morales (musician)|David Morales]], deejay, composer, and music producer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/David-Morales.html|title=David Morales Biography|website=OLDIES.com |date=1961-08-21|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Florencio Morales Ramos]], a.k.a. "Ramito", bolero and plena composer and singer; 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/no_suena_aqui,_pero_si_en_el_universo/547090.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=March 30, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104184724/http://www.elnuevodia.com/no_suena_aqui%2C_pero_si_en_el_universo/547090.html |archivedate=January 4, 2014 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Prince Markie Dee|Mark Morales]], a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee", rapper, and producer
* [[Noro Morales]], pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader
* [[Carli Muñoz]], pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and producer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://carlimunoz.com/bio.html|title=Bio: Carli Muñoz|website=Carlimunoz.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Rafael Muñoz (musician)|Rafael Muñoz]], orchestra leader

'''N'''
* [[Ednita Nazario]], singer
* [[Rafael Nazario]] , pianist, composer and arranger and actor. He has had a parallel career as chef, author<ref>{{cite web|last=Staff writer(s); no byline|title=Sand In Your Shoes|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL6046004W/Sand_In_Your_Shoes|date=December 28, 2011|publisher=Open Library|accessdate=8 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sand in Your Shoes|url=https://www.amazon.com/books/dp/9685547009|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=8 June 2013}}</ref> and occasional wine writer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vino Veracity|url=http://vinoveracity.com/|publisher=Vino Veracity|accessdate=8 June 2013}}</ref>
* [[Chuck Negron]], singer
* [[Joe Negroni]], [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]r, member of [[The Teenagers]]
* [[Tito Nieves]], salsa singer; his version of "I Like it Like That" was part of a national Burger King commercial
* [[Noelia]], singer, songwriter and actress
* [[Nova y Jory]], reggaeton duo

'''O'''
* [[Tommy Olivencia]], salsa bandleader, trumpet player, singer
* [[Tony Orlando]], singer (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Jeannie Ortega]], R&B and reggaeton singer
* [[Claudette Ortiz]], singer, R&B group City High
* [[Joell Ortiz]], rapper
* [[Luis "Perico" Ortiz]], salsa singer, musician, composer, musical arranger and producer
* [[Shalim Ortiz]], a.k.a. "Shalim", singer, actor
* [[Pedro Ortiz Davila]], a.k.a. "Davilita", [[music of Puerto Rico|bolero]] singer

'''P'''
* [[Charlie Palmieri]], pianist, bandleader
* [[Eddie Palmieri]], pianist, composer, bandleader; 2013 National Endowment of Arts Jazz Master; nine-time Grammy Award winner
* [[José Enrique Pedreira]], danza composer
* [[Ángel "Cuco" Peña]], musician, composer and producer
* [[René Pérez]], singer, member of [[Calle 13 (band)|Calle 13]]
* [[Lourdes Pérez]], singer, songwriter; folk, [[nueva canción]], and [[nueva trova]] singer<ref>Usher, Craig. [http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/perez.html "Lourdes Pérez Interview"], Rootsworld.com; retrieved February 14, 2009.</ref>
* [[Ivy Queen|Martha Pesante]], a.k.a. "Ivy Queen" and "The Queen of Reggaeton", reggaeton singer
* [[Plan B (duo)|Plan B]], reggaeton duo
* [[Carlos Ponce]], singer
* [[Rebeca Pous Del Toro]], Spanish pop singer; cousin of Benicio del Toro
* [[Miguel Poventud]], a.k.a. "El Nino Prodigio de Guayama" and "Miguelito"; musician, singer and composer of boleros<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n93-117763 |title=Feliz navidad|website=Orlabs.oclc.org|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Tito Puente]], musician, composer and producer, called the "King of Latin Music" or "the Mambo King"

'''Q'''
* [[Domingo Quiñones]], singer, actor
* [[Luciano Quiñones]], danza composer
* [[Ismael Quintana]], salsa singer, member of the Eddie Palmeri Band
* [[José Ignacio Quintón]], pianist and composer of danzas

'''R'''
* [[Chamaco Ramirez]], salsa singer
* [[Val Ramos]], international flamenco guitarist
* [[Richie Ray]], a.k.a. "The King of Salsa", singer, composer
* [[Sylvia Rexach]], singer, composer
* [[Ray Reyes]], singer, former member of [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]] and Proyecto M
* [[Ron Reyes]], singer for [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]], 1979–1980
* [[Juan Ríos Ovalle]], composer of danzas, musician and orchestra director<ref>[http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/juan_rios_ovalle ''Juan Ríos Ovalle.''] Music of Puerto Rico. 2015. Accessed 1 March 2018.</ref>
* [[Gabriel Ríos]], musician
* [[Danny Rivera]], singer
* [[Ismael Rivera]], "El Sonero Mayor", salsa singer
* [[Jerry Rivera]], salsa singer; first salsa artist to perform on ''The Tonight Show''
* [[Mon Rivera]], trombonist and singer
* [[Tomás Rivera Morales]] a.k.a. "Maso" Rivera, composer; child music prodigy who composed over 1,000 instrumental compositions for the cuatro, among which he treasured the waltz
* [[Augusto Rodríguez (musician)|Augusto Rodríguez]], composer and chorus director; founder of the choir of the University of Puerto Rico
* [[Chino Rodriguez]], salsa musician, trombonist, composer, artist manager, producer, talent agent; founder of Oriente Music Group and Latin Music Booking (Puerto Rican mother, Chinese father)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.passiondiscs.co.uk/articles/chino_rodriguez.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=January 21, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301105743/http://www.passiondiscs.co.uk/articles/chino_rodriguez.htm|archivedate=March 1, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Rodríguez (tenor)|Daniel Rodríguez]], former police officer turned operatic tenor
* [[Felipe Rodríguez (singer)|Felipe Rodríguez]], a.k.a. "La Voz", singer of [[music of Puerto Rico|boleros]]
* [[Julito Rodríguez]], singer
* [[Lalo Rodríguez]], 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]], salsa singer; member of the musical group El Gran Combo; toured with the group all over Europe and Latin America<ref name="PR">{{cite web|url=http://www.herencialatina.com/Pellin_Rodriguez/Pellin_Rodriguez.htm|title=Recordando a PELLÍN RODRÍGUEZ a 22 años de su partida|website=Herencialatina.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Tito Rodríguez]], singer and bandleader
* [[Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez]], salsa singer, Fania All-Star
* [[Omar Rodríguez-López]], composer and guitarist
* [[Roberto Roena]], percussionist and band leader
* [[Kelis Rogers]], singer and television host ([[Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico|Chinese-Puerto Rican]] mother)
* [[Tito Rojas]], salsa singer
* [[Marta Romero]], singer and actress
* [[Draco Rosa]], singer, composer
* [[Ralphi Rosario]], producer, DJ, musician
* [[Willie Rosario]], composer, timbalero, bandleader
* [[Felipe Rose]], singer
* [[Julita Ross]], singer of danzas
* [[Roy Rosselló]], singer, former member of Menudo
* [[Frankie Ruiz]], salsa singer
* [[Hilton Ruiz]], jazz composer/musician

'''S'''
* [[Jimmy Sabater, Sr.]], musician; three-time winner of the ACE Awards<ref>{{cite web|author=Evan Bailyn|url=http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/jimmy_sabater|title=Jimmy Sabater profile|publisher=Music of Puerto Rico|date=1936-04-11|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Sa-Fire]], singer
* [[Fernando and Nefty Sallaberry]], singers; former members of [[Menudo (band)|Menudo]]
* [[Bobby Sanabria]], Latin jazz musician, drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, 7X Grammy nominee as a leader, educator, documentary film producer<ref>[https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bobby-sanabria-afro-cuban-storyteller-bobby-sanabria-by-jason-crane.php?width=1024 Bobby Sanabria: Afro-Cuban Storyteller]</ref>
* [[Claudio Sanchez]], singer; lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of [[Coheed and Cambria]]
* [[Jesús María Sanromá]], composer; first person ever to be named official pianist of the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]]
* [[Gilberto Santa Rosa]], salsa singer
* [[Daniel Santos (singer)|Daniel Santos]], composer, singer of [[music of Puerto Rico|boleros]] and Cuban [[guaracha]]s
* [[Ray Santos]], arranger and composer, saxophonist, Grammy winner, [[The Mambo Kings]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latingrammy.com/en/press/213-recipients-of-the-2011-special-awards|title=16a Entrega Anual del Latin GRAMMY|website=Latingrammy.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Romeo Santos]], bachata singer; former member of [[Aventura (band)|Aventura]] (Puerto Rican mother)<ref>{{cite web|author=Leila Cobo|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/465564/romeo-santos-finds-his-own-formula-after-aventura-success|title=Romeo Santos Finds His Own 'Formula' After Aventura Success|publisher=Billboard|date=2011-10-21|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-11-20/entertainment/chi-interview-romeo-santos-aventura-20111120_1_romeo-santos-bachata-anthony-santos|title=Heard of Romeo Santos? Will Smith and Usher could change that|website=chicagotribune.com|date=2011-11-20|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Quintana|first=Carlos|url=http://latinmusic.about.com/od/romeo_santos/a/Romeo-Santos-Biography-And-Artist-Profile.htm|title=Romeo Santos - Biography and Artist Profile|website=Latinmusic.about.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Adalberto Santiago]], salsa singer
* [[Eddie Santiago]], salsa singer
* [[Herman Santiago]], rock n roll singer; composed song "[[Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)|Why Do Fools Fall in Love]]"
* [[Marvin Santiago]], salsa singer
* Dr. [[Zoraida Santiago]], singer and composer
* [[Nino Segarra]], salsa singer
* [[Ray Sepúlveda]], salsa singer
* [[Xavier Serbiá]], singer; former member of "[[Menudo (band)|Menudo]]
* [[Roberto Sierra]], classical music composer, famous for his ''[[Missa Latina]]''<ref>http://www.robertosierra.com/</ref>
* [[Myrta Silva]], or "La Gorda de Oro" and "Madame Chencha", singer, composer
* [[Arturo Somohano]], composer; symphony orchestra conductor
* [[Ivette Sosa]], singer; member of [[Eden's Crush]]
* [[Brenda K. Starr]], salsa singer (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Michael Stuart]], salsa singer
* [[Sweet Sensation (trio)|Sweet Sensation]], freestyle trio

'''T'''
* [[Olga Tañón]], singer, composer
* [[Manuel Gregorio Tavárez]], composer; "the father of the Puerto Rican danzas
* [[Gerardo Teissonniere]], classical pianist and teacher
* [[Sahaj (musician)|Daniel Ticotin]], singer and musician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antimusic.com/dayinrock/08/oct/27|title=Day in Rock for 10/27|website=Antimusic.com|date=2008-10-27|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Juan Tizol]], jazz musician and composer, extended period with [[Duke Ellington]]
* [[TKA]], freestyle trio
* [[Ray Toro]], lead guitarist ([[My Chemical Romance]])
* [[Yomo Toro]], musician, guitarist, and "cuatrista"
* [[Manoella Torres]], singer
* [[Eladio Torres]], musician, singer and composer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladanza.com/eladio.htm|title=Eladio Torres profilewebsite=Ladanza.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Néstor Torres]], musician; Latin Grammy Award-winning preeminent flautist in the Latin jazz genre<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/entry/537474|title=Nestor Torres - MusicWorld|website=BMI.com|date=2008-11-13|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Tommy Torres]], singer, composer, musician
* [[Tony Touch]], singer

'''V'''
* [[Yolanda Vadiz]], gospel singer
* [[Gary Valenciano]], Filipino musician (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Bobby Valentín]], musician, bandleader
* [[Mario Vázquez]], pop and R&B singer; 2005 ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant<ref>{{cite web|last=Lamb|first=Bill|url=http://top40.about.com/od/artistspz/p/mariovazquez.htm|title=Profile of Nuyorican pop singer Mario Vazquez|website=Top40.about.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Alan Vega]], rock singer
* [[Little Louie Vega]], producer, musician; member of [[Masters At Work]]
* [[Tony Vega]], salsa singer
* [[Lisa Velez]], singer of [[Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam]]
* [[Wilkins Vélez]], known as "Wilkins", singer and composer
* [[Veronica (singer)|Veronica]], dance singer and actress

'''W'''
* [[Wisin & Yandel]], reggaeton duo, known as "El Duo de la Historia"

'''Y'''
* [[Yaga y Mackie]], reggaeton duo
* [[Daddy Yankee]] (born Ramón Ayala), reggaeton singer
* [[Yomo]], reggaeton artist

'''Z'''
* [[Zabdiel de Jesus]], Singer
* [[Miguel Zenón]], jazz saxophonist
* [[Zion y Lennox]], reggaeton duo

===Opera===
[[File:Antoniopaolino2.jpg|150px|thumb|Antonio Paolí]]
*[[Martina Arroyo]], is an [[opera]]tic [[soprano]]; part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success<ref name="KCH">[http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history.cfm Kennedy-Center.org website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209052332/http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history.cfm |date=2008-12-09 }}</ref>
* [[Justino Díaz]], opera singer
* [[Pablo Elvira]], baritone, opera singer
* Cesar Hernández, tenor, opera singer<ref>{{cite web|author=Evan Bailyn|url=http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/en/cesar_hernandez.html|title=Cesar Hernández profile|publisher=Music of Puerto Rico|date=October 13, 1970|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Benjamín Marcantoni]], operatic [[countertenor]]
* [[Ana María Martínez]], soprano<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hispaniconline.com/HispanicMag/2008_03/Feature-OperaLady.html |title=Hispanic Magazine |accessdate=22 September 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307013937/http://www.hispaniconline.com/HispanicMag/2008_03/Feature-OperaLady.html |archivedate=March 7, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Julia Migenes]], soprano
* [[Amalia Paoli]], soprano
* [[Antonio Paolí]], tenor
* [[Melliangee Pérez]], opera soprano; awarded Soprano of the Year by [[UNESCO]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spainclassical.com/TLE_LaBoheme.pdf|title=Archived copy|accessdate=December 9, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426041754/http://spainclassical.com/TLE_LaBoheme.pdf|archivedate=April 26, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Graciela Rivera]], soprano; first Puerto Rican to sing a lead role in the [[Metropolitan Opera]]<ref name="PRPC">{{cite web|url=http://www.prpop.org/biografias/g_bios/graciela_rivera.shtml |title=Graciela Rivera – Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular - San Juan, Puerto Rico |website=Prpop.org |date=2014-06-26 |accessdate=2016-10-21}}</ref>

==Criminals and outlaws==
[[File:Antonio Correa Cotto (reward poster).jpg|150px|thumb|Antonio Correa Cotto]]
'''Pre-20th century'''
* [[Roberto Cofresí]], a.k.a. '"El Pirata Cofresí"' (Cofresí the Pirate), his exploits as a pirate are part of Puerto Rico's folklore

'''20th century'''
* [[Salvador Agron|Salvador Agrón]], a.k.a. "The Capeman", criminal and poet
* [[Antonio Correa Cotto]], bandit/outlaw
* [[Antonio García López (criminal)|Antonio García López]], a.k.a. "Toño Bicicleta", outlaw
* [[Raymond Márquez]], a.k.a. "Spanish Raymond", Harlem numbers kingpin<ref name="NYDN">[https://web.archive.org/web/20180122103641/http://www.unitus.it/robots.txt] </ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Raab|first=Selwyn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/nyregion/longtime-numbers-king-of-new-york-goes-public-to-clear-his-name.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Longtime Numbers King of New York Goes Public to Clear His Name|location=New York State; New York City; Harlem (Nyc); East Harlem|website=NYTimes.com|date=1997-07-06|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Isabel la Negra]], [[madam]] of a [[brothel]]
* [[Edsel Torres Gomez|Edsel Torres Gómez]], a.k.a. "Negri", drug kingpin
* [[Tony Tursi]], mobster

'''21st century'''
* [[José "Junior Cápsula" Figueroa Agosto]], drug kingpin;<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news03.php?nt_id=45681&ct_id=1 |title=Caribbean Business |publisher=Caribbeanbusinesspr.com |date=31 December 1969 |accessdate=27 September 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104072103/http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/news03.php?nt_id=45681&ct_id=1 |archivedate=January 4, 2014 |df= }}</ref> and porn star<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2011778,00.html |magazine=Time|title=The Caribbean Drug Kingpin Turned Porn Star|date=18 August 2010}}</ref> known as "the [[Pablo Escobar]] of the Caribbean"
* [[Ariel Castro]], kidnapper<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/US/cleveland-kidnapping-survivors-escapes-ariel-castros-terror/story?id=30647235 Cleveland Kidnapping Survivors' Near Escapes From Ariel Castro's Terror]</ref>
* [[José Padilla (prisoner)|José Padilla]], convicted [[Al-Qaeda]] operative<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7203276.stm |title=Americas - Padilla given long jail sentence |publisher=BBC News |date=2008-01-23 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Esteban Santiago]], Fort Lauderdale shooter<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/10/fort-lauderdale-shooting-suspect-used-muslim-name/ Fort Lauderdale Shooting Suspect Esteban Santiago Used a Muslim Name?]</ref>

==Diplomats==
[[File:Hertell amb dom republic.jpg|thumb|140px|Hans Hertell]]
'''20th century'''
* [[Adrian A. Basora]], former U.S. Ambassador to the [[Czech Republic]]<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-pioneras-785837.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=16 December 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221223502/http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-pioneras-785837.html |archivedate=December 21, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón]], former U.S. Ambassador to [[Chile]]
* [[Luis Guinot]], former U.S. Ambassador to [[Costa Rica]]
* [[Victor Marrero]], former U.S. Ambassador to the [[Organization of American States|OAS]]<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* [[Spencer Matthews King]], former U.S. Ambassador to [[Guyana]]
* [[Edward G. Miller, Jr.]], lawyer who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1949 to 1952<ref>"Edward G. Miller, Jr., 56, Dies' Acheson's Latin America Aide", ''[[The New York Times]]'', 16 April 1968.</ref>
* [[Teodoro Moscoso]], former U.S. Ambassador to [[Venezuela]] and head of [[Alliance for Progress]] (see also "Politicians")
* [[Horacio Rivero]], Admiral (Ret.), former U.S. Ambassador to Spain (see also "Military")

'''21st century'''
* [[Mari Carmen Aponte]], U.S. Ambassador to [[El Salvador]]
* [[César Benito Cabrera]], former U.S. Ambassador to [[Mauritius]] and the [[Seychelles]]
* [[Hans Hertell]], former U.S. Ambassador to the [[Dominican Republic]]

==Educators==
[[File:Rafael Cordero.JPG|150px|thumb|Rafael Cordero]]
[[File:Retrato de EMdeHostos por Francisco Oller.jpg|thumb|150px|Eugenio María de Hostos]]
[[File:Ramos, Angel M. (MC1971).jpg|thumb|150px|Angel M. Ramos]]
[[File:Angelo Falcon.png|thumb|150px|Drawing of Angelo Falcón]]
* [[Ursula Acosta]], educator; one of the founding members of the Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía (Puerto Rican Genealogical Society)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eogen.com/SPG|title=Encyclopedia of Genealogy - Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía|website=Eogen.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Alfredo M. Aguayo]], educator and writer; established the first laboratory of child psychology at the University of Havana<ref>[http://www.salonhogar.com/est_soc/pr/pueblos/ponce/index.htm "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">{{cite web|url=http://www.mia.albizu.edu/web/about_cau/carlos_albizu_founder_of_cau.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=October 19, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010173929/http://mia.albizu.edu/web/about_cau/carlos_albizu_founder_of_cau.asp|archivedate=October 10, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Margot Arce de Vázquez]], educator; founder of the Department of Hispanic Studies in the University of Puerto Rico
* [[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>{{cite web|accessdate=May 17, 2007 |url=http://utopia.utexas.edu/explore/latino/narratives/08bonilla_frank.html |title=Frank Bonilla became major figure in Puerto Rican studies |work=US Latinos and Latinas & World War II |publisher=University of Texas |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901114525/http://utopia.utexas.edu/explore/latino/narratives/08bonilla_frank.html |archivedate=September 1, 2006 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Carlos E. Chardón Palacios]], first Puerto Rican mycologist and first Puerto Rican appointed as Chancellor of the [[University of Puerto Rico]]
* [[Carlos A. Chardón López]], educator and public administrator; the only Puerto Rican to serve twice as Puerto Rico Secretary of Education
* [[Edna Coll]], educator and author; President of the Society of Puerto Rican Authors in San Juan; founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico<ref name="ReferenceB">"Tras las Huellas de Nuestro Paso"; by: Ildelfonso López; Publisher: AEELA, 1998.</ref>
* [[Celestina Cordero]], educator; in 1820, founded the first school for girls in Puerto Rico<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zulmarie-alverio.lacoctelera.net/post/2011/05/12/biografia-celestina-cordero-molina|title=Archived copy|accessdate=October 5, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006174142/http://zulmarie-alverio.lacoctelera.net/post/2011/05/12/biografia-celestina-cordero-molina|archivedate=October 6, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Rafael Cordero(Educator)|Rafael Cordero]], educator; declared Venerable in 2004 by Pope John Paul II; the process for beatification is now in motion with Benedictine Fr. Oscar Rivera as Procurator of the Cause
* [[Waded Cruzado]], first Hispanic president of [[Montana State University – Bozeman|Montana State University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2009/11/29/news/000cruzado.txt|title=Cruzado off to promising start as MSU's next president|publisher=The Bozeman Daily Chronicle|accessdate=27 September 2013}}</ref>
* [[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 1870-73. 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.monografias.com/trabajos14/ferrercanalesy/ferrercanalesy.shtml|title=José Ferrer Canales y Roberto González Echevarría|website=Monografias.com|date=1998-02-18|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Megh R. Goyal]], professor, historian, scientist; "father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico"; Professor in Agricultural & Biomedical Engineering at [[University of Puerto Rico]]<ref name="findarticles.com">[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5409/is_/ai_n21382637 Puerto Rico Section Honors Megh R. Goyal as Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226143850/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5409/is_/ai_n21382637 |date=December 26, 2008 }}, findarticles.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Felix V. Matos Rodriguez]], educator; president of Queens College, [[City University of New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/administration/president/Pages/Welcome.aspx|title=Office of the President|website=Qc.cuny.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Concha Meléndez]], educator, writer poet
* [[Ana G. Méndez]], educator; founder of the [[Ana G. Méndez University System]]
* [[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"/>
* [[Antonia Pantoja]], educator; founder of ASPIRA; awarded the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]
* [[Ángel Ramos (educator)|Ángel Ramos]], educator; Superintendent of the Sequoia Schools for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; one of the few deaf Hispanics to earn a doctorate from [[Gallaudet University]]<ref name="DeafLifeV8">{{cite journal|accessdate=17 January 2006|url=http://www.deaflife.com/back_issue/listing/056.html|title=Angel Ramos: The life and times of a leading deaf Hispanic advocate|journal=DeafLife|volume=V|issue=8|date=February 1993|publisher=MSM Productions, Ltd}}</ref>
* Dr. [[Juan A. Rivero]], educator; founded the [[Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo]] in Mayagüez; discovered numerous animal species and has written several books
* [[Havidan Rodriguez]], educator and scholar; President of the [[University at Albany, SUNY]], 2017-present<ref>https://www.albany.edu/president/about-the-president.php</ref>; first Latino/Hispanic President of any four-year SUNY institution<ref>https://www.timesunion.com/7day-breaking/article/Watch-live-at-1-30-p-m-SUNY-trustees-appoint-11232768.php</ref>
* [[Ana Roque]], educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico<ref name="Colon">{{cite web|url=http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/9328|title=Archived copy|accessdate=15 November 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070917141157/http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/9328|archivedate=September 17, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Carlos E. Santiago]], economist and educator; Chancellor of the [[University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www4.uwm.edu/chancellor/biography.cfm|title=Office of the Chancellor|website=Uwm.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Ninfa Segarra]], New York City Council member; president of the New York City Board of Education, 2000–02<ref>{{cite news|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/nyregion/woman-in-the-news-ideological-wanderer-ninfa-segarra.html|title=Woman in the News - Ideological Wanderer - Ninfa Segarra|website=NYTimes.com|date=2001-04-05|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Victoria Leigh Soto]], educator who emerged as a hero in the tragic shooting at [[Sandy Hook Elementary School]] in [[Newtown, Connecticut]] when she hid students and died trying to protect them from alleged shooter [[Adam Lanza]]; her father is Puerto Rican<ref name="VS">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/victoria-soto-newtown-tea_n_2311762.html|title=Victoria Soto, Newtown Teacher, Emerges As Hero After Shooting|website=Huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2119008080011291959hLQRuv|title=Webshots - A Young Lamb, North Yorkshire, England|website=Travel.webshots.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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>[http://www.enciclopediapr1.org/ing/print_version.cfm?ref=10021903 "Mariano Villaronga Toro" profile]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, enciclopediapr1.org; accessed April 4, 2016. {{es icon}}</ref>

==Governors of Puerto Rico==
{{See also|List of Governors of Puerto Rico}}
[[File:Juan_Ponce_de_Leon_II.JPG|150px|thumb|Juan Ponce de León II]]
'''Pre-20th century'''
* [[Juan Ponce de León]], lived with his family in Puerto Rico; [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[explorer]] and [[conquistador]]; became the first [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] by appointment of the [[Monarchy of Spain|Spanish crown]]; led the first European expedition to [[Florida]], which he named;<ref>Robert Greenberger. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ov7PNM3NcC0C&pg=PA18 ''Juan Ponce de León: the exploration of Florida and the search for the Fountain of Youth''], Rosen Publishing Group, New York. 2003, pg. 18<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref><ref>Morison, pp. 502, 515, 529. Traditionally a birthdate of 1460 has been used but more recent evidence points to 1474.</ref> his remains are buried in a crypt in the [[Cathedral of San Juan Bautista]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]
* [[Juan Ponce de León II]], first Puerto Rican acting governor (1579)

'''20th century'''
* [[Luis A. Ferré]], third elected governor of Puerto Rico (1969–1973); [[philanthropist]] who donated [[Museo de Arte de Ponce]] to the people of Puerto Rico; [[industrialist]] who founded the Puerto Rico Cement Company and [[Ponce Cement, Inc.]], and developed [[Puerto Rico Iron Works]] into a successful foundry
* [[Rafael Hernández Colón]], fourth elected governor of Puerto Rico (1973–1977 and 1985–1993)
* [[Juan Bernardo Huyke]], second Puerto Rican native to serve as temporary Governor of Puerto Rico; in 1923, he served as interim governor between the administrations of [[Emmet Montgomery Reily]] and [[Horace Mann Towner]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/BiografiasPr/juan_huyke.htm |title=Juan B. Huyke |website=Proyectosalonhogar.com |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000743/http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/BiografiasPr/juan_huyke.htm |archivedate=March 4, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Luis Muñoz Marín]], first elected governor of Puerto Rico (1949–1965)
* [[Jesús T. Piñero]], first Puerto Rican to be named governor of the Island by a U.S. President (1946–1949)
* [[Carlos Romero Barceló]], fifth elected governor of Puerto Rico (1977–1985)
* [[Pedro Rosselló]], sixth elected governor of Puerto Rico (1993–2001)
* [[Roberto Sánchez Vilella]], second elected governor of Puerto Rico (1965–1969)

'''21st century'''
* [[Aníbal Acevedo Vilá]], eighth elected governor of Puerto Rico (2005–2009)
* [[Sila Calderón]], seventh elected and first female governor of Puerto Rico (2001–2005)
* [[Luis Fortuño]], ninth elected governor of Puerto Rico (2009–2013)
* [[Alejandro García Padilla]], tenth elected governor of Puerto Rico (2013&ndash;2017)
* [[Ricky Rosselló]], 11th elected governor of Puerto Rico (2017&ndash;)

===First Ladies of Puerto Rico===
* [[Conchita Dapena]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (1965–1966)
* [[Kate Donnelly]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (1977–1985); Trustee of the [[Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico]]
* [[Luisa Gándara]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (2005–2009)
* [[Lila Mayoral Wirshing]], youngest First Lady of Puerto Rico (1973–1977, 1985–1992)
* [[Inés Mendoza]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (1949–1965); revered teacher and cultural leader
* [[Jeannette Ramos]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (1967–1969)
* [[Lucé Vela]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (2009–2013)
* [[Wilma Pastrana]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (2013&ndash;2017)
* [[Beatriz Areizaga]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (2017&ndash;)
* [[Irma Margarita Neváres|Irma Margarita "Maga" Neváres]], First Lady of Puerto Rico (1993–2001)

==Historians==
[[File:Salvador Brau.jpg|140px|thumb|Salvador Brau]][[File:Tony Santiago "Tony The Marine"-9853.jpg|140px|thumb|Antonio Santiago Rodríguez]]
* [[Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra]], first historian (Spanish) to extensively document Puerto Rico's history, nationality and culture
* [[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>{{cite web |url=http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Best-books-recognized-by-Ateneo |title=- Puerto Rico Daily Sun - Timely news about Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the world |accessdate=March 14, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009105014/http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Best-books-recognized-by-Ateneo |archivedate=October 9, 2011}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=December 2017}}
* [[Pilar Barbosa]], [[University of Puerto Rico]] professor; author; first modern-day [[Official Historian of Puerto Rico]]
* [[Salvador Brau]], historian, first Official Historian of Puerto Rico
* [[Cayetano Coll y Toste]], writer
* [[Adolfo de Hostos]], historian
* [[Luis González Vale]], historian
* [[Francisco Lluch Mora]], known for his legendary book ''Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce y Otras Noticias Relativas a su Desarrollo Urbano, Demográfico y Cultural (Siglos XVI-XIX)''<ref>[http://www.pucpr.edu/alianzas/ateneodeponce/comenta07.htm ''RESOLUCIÓN''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314120315/http://www.pucpr.edu/alianzas/ateneodeponce/comenta07.htm |date=March 14, 2012 }}, Senate of Puerto Rico. Government of Puerto Rico, November 1, 2011; retrieved January 22, 2012.</ref>
* [[Eduardo Neumann Gandía]], historian, known for his 19th-century ''History of Ponce''<ref>[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2243453M/Verdadera-y-auténtica-historia-de-la-ciudad-de-Ponce Verdadera y autentica Historia de Ponce]</ref>
* [[Francisco Mariano Quiñones]], historian; first Official Historian of Puerto Rico<ref name="BIO A">[http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/panthera/301/Protagonistas15.htm Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509025814/http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/panthera/301/Protagonistas15.htm |date=May 9, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Antonio Mirabal]], historian, poet and writer
* [[Andres Ramos Mattei]], historian<ref>Francisco L. Scarano. [http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/wshn/number12.html Andres A. Ramos Mattei profile], University of Connecticut. World Sugar History Newsletter. Number 12, June 1988; retrieved November 30, 2011.</ref>
* [[Antonio Santiago Rodríguez]], military historian<ref name="somos primos">[http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2010/spsep10/spsep10.htm ''Antonio "the Marine" Santiago Recognized as Puerto Rico's Foremost Military Historian''], SomosPrimos.com, August 2010; retrieved May 15, 2013.</ref>

==Journalists==
[[File:GeraldoRiveraSept2010.jpg|thumb|140px|Geraldo Rivera]]
* [[José Julián Acosta]], journalist and advocate of the abolition of slavery
* [[José Andino y Amezquita]], first Puerto Rican journalist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://escuelajoseandino.blogspot.com|title=Escuela José Andino y Amézquita|website=Escuelajoseandino.blogspot.com|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[María Celeste Arrarás]], anchor for ''Al Rojo Vivo''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-18-2007/0004568392&EDATE=|title=KENA to Launch in April|website=Prnewswire.com|date=13 April 2006|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Isabel Cuchí Coll]], journalist and author; granddaughter of [[Cayetano Coll y Toste]] and niece of [[José Coll y Cuchí]]; served as Director of the "Sociedad de Autores Puertorriqueños<ref name="ReferenceB"/>
* [[Lynda Baquero]], reporter, [[WNBC]] in New York City<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comitenoviembre.org/English/LyndaBaquero.html|title=Comité Noviembre - 2006 Honoree - Lynda Baquero|website=Comitenoviembre.org|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Bárbara Bermudo]], journalist; co-host of [[Univision]]'s ''Primer Impacto''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.yahoo.com/group/televisiondivas/ |title=Yahoo! Groups |website=Groups.yahoo.com|accessdate=2016-09-15}}</ref>
* [[Marysol Castro]], co-host of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Good Morning America]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video?id%3D3168258|title=What Marysol Castro Learned From Mom {{!}} Video - ABC News|accessdate=March 16, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104034339/http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video?id=3168258|archivedate=January 4, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Crommett]], Atlanta-based Executive Vice President of CNN en Español
* [[Carmen Dominicci]], co-host of [[Univision]]'s ''Primer Impacto''
* [[Malín Falú]], Spanish language radio and television host<ref>{{cite web |url=https://prpop.org/biografias/malin-falu/ |title=Malín Falú |publisher=Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular |language=es |date=July 27, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Fernández Juncos]], journalist; lyricist who wrote the lyrics to "[[La Borinqueña]]"
* [[Juan Gonzalez (journalist)|Juan González]], New York City investigative journalist
* [[Aníbal González Irizarry]], former newscaster for ''Telenoticias en acción''
* [[Jackie Guerrido]], journalist and meteorologist for [[Univision]]s ''Despierta América''
* [[Kimberly Guilfoyle]], [[Court TV]] journalist; former First Lady of San Francisco (Puerto Rican mother)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/sf/a/002413.html |title=Rugged Elegance: San Francisco: Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom: San Francisco's First Lady Pursues Her Career In New York |accessdate=June 23, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131182230/http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/sf/a/002413.html |archivedate=January 31, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Taina Hernández]], former [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] News television journalist<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070218104607/http://www.abcmedianet.com/shows05/news/correspondents/hernandez.shtml "Profile: Taina Hernandez"], ABC Media Net. via archive.org (archived 2007)</ref>
* [[César Andreu Iglesias]], founding editor of ''[[Claridad]]'' newspaper; novelist/political activist
* [[Carmen Jovet]], journalist, first Puerto Rican woman named a news anchor in Puerto Rico<ref>{{cite web|last=Anand |first=Geeta |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/898706/Carmen-Jovet |title=Movies - The New York Times |website=Movies.nytimes.com |date=2016-09-30 |accessdate=2016-10-21}}</ref>
* [[Michele LaFountain]], anchor for the Spanish version of ''[[ESPN|ESPN Sports Center]]''<ref>[http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/index.aspx?EspecialId=26 El Diario] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051225054615/http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/index.aspx?EspecialId=26 |date=December 25, 2005 }}</ref>
* [[Alycia Lane]], journalist and news anchor on [[KYW-TV]] in [[Philadelphia]]<ref name = bio>{{cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20071217_Alycia_Lane_bio.html
|title=Alycia Lane Biography|author=|date=|publisher=Philly.com|accessdate=2008-03-11 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071219083103/http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20071217_Alycia_Lane_bio.html |archivedate = 2007-12-19}}</ref>
* [[Lynda López]], New York City television news personality; sister of [[Jennifer Lopez]]<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/03/30/2007-03-30_tv_watchdog_is_barking_up_the_wrong_tree.html "Tube Talk: TV watchdog is barking up the wrong tree".] ''New York Daily News''. 2007-03-30.</ref>
* [[Natalie Morales (journalist)|Natalie Morales]], journalist and news anchor on [[NBC]]'s ''[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Romano|first1=Allison|title=Natalie Morales: Fast Riser|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6503803.html|publisher=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|accessdate=October 7, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420053642/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6503803.html|archivedate=April 20, 2008 |date=November 19, 2007}}</ref>
* [[Denisse Oller]], Emmy Award-winning New York City television news anchor<ref>[http://www.univision.net/corp/en/pr/New_York_28042003-1.html ''Denisse Oller in Week-Long "Noticias 41" Follow To Emmy, Murrow, Ap - Winning Vieques Coverage As Navy Leaves Island For Good''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923134631/http://www.univision.net/corp/en/pr/New_York_28042003-1.html |date=September 23, 2006 }} from ''[[Univision]]'', date April 28, 2003.</ref>
* [[Audrey Puente]], 'New York City meteorologist; daughter of [[Tito Puente]]
* [[Carlos D. Ramirez]], publisher of ''[[El Diario La Prensa]]'', New York City's largest Spanish-language newspaper<ref name=NYTObit>Ravo, Nick. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/13/nyregion/carlos-d-ramirez-52-publisher-of-el-diario.html "Carlos D. Ramirez, 52, Publisher of El Diario"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 13 July 1999; retrieved 9 October 2009.</ref>
* [[Jorge L. Ramos]], Emmy Award-winning New York City television news anchor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telemundo47.com/noticias/2837132/detail.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=23 June 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928091450/http://www.telemundo47.com/noticias/2837132/detail.html|archivedate=September 28, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web | url = http://www.biography.com/people/geraldo-rivera-9459468 | title = Geraldo Rivera Biography | publisher = [[Biography Channel|Biography.com]]| accessdate = July 21, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Darlene Rodriguez]], New York City television news anchor<ref>[http://www.heartsmartwomenbook.com/bookforeword.html ''Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas'' (foreword by Darlene Rodriguez, co-anchor, ''Today in New York'', WNBC-TV], heartsmartwomenbook.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Rubén Sánchez]], radio and television journalist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid%3D10825andschid%3D10827andsecid%3D10850andcid%3D537618 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=20 March 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006194150/http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?chid=10825andschid%3D10827andsecid%3D10850andcid%3D537618 |archivedate=October 6, 2008 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Edna Schmidt]], anchor for ''Telefutura''<ref name="Univision">{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711171338/http://hispanicprwire.com/news.php?cha=12&id=4909&l=in&id=903&cha=7 |archivedate=2011-07-11 |url=http://hispanicprwire.com/news.php?cha=12&id=4909&l=in&id=903&cha=7 |website=hispanicprwire.com |title=COORS BREWING COMPANY AND MANÁ TO SUPPORT HISPANIC COLLEGE STUDENTS THROUGH HACU's CLASE SCHOLARSHIP FUND}}</ref>
* [[Ray Suarez]], Senior Correspondent for ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer''<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130121154547/http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6495828/Ray_Suarez |archivedate=2013-01-21 |title=Ray_Suarez |url=http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6495828/Ray_Suarez |website=www.docstoc.com}}</ref>
* [[Guillermo José Torres]], journalist and news anchor for [[WAPA-TV]]
* [[Elizabeth Vargas]], television journalist; former co-anchor of ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]''<ref>{{cite web|last=White|first=Deborah|url=http://usliberals.about.com/od/thepressandjournalist1/p/EVargas.htm|title=Profile of Elizabeth Vargas|website=Usliberals.about.com|accessdate=April 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Vélez Alvarado]], journalist; "father of the Puerto Rican flag"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manati.info/biografias/velez/velez_alvarado.htm|title=manati.info|website=manati.info|accessdate=5 April 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426010927/http://www.manati.info/biografias/velez/velez_alvarado.htm|archivedate=April 26, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Jane Velez-Mitchell]], anchor for the [[HLN (TV network)|HLN]] news network (Puerto Rican mother)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id%3D98258 |title=Anchored Woman - Advance - Advocate.com |accessdate=21 February 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418065024/http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=98258 |archivedate=April 18, 2012 }}</ref>

==Judges, law enforcement and firefighters==
'''Judges'''
[[File:Sonia Sotomayor in SCOTUS robe.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sonia Sotomayor]], Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court]]
* [[Cathy Bissoon]], judge for the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania]]; first Hispanic female Article III judge in Pennsylvania<ref>Making History: President Obama's Female Judicial Nominees</ref>
* [[José Andreu García]], former PR Chief Justice and sports official
* [[José A. Cabranes]], [[2nd Circuit Court of Appeals]] Judge; first Puerto Rican to serve as a federal judge in the continental United States
* Jose A. Diaz, Administrative Law Judge, N.Y.S.D.M.V. (1985–2001)
* [[Albert Diaz (judge)|Albert Diaz]], Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit]]; first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic Judge to serve the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; former Appellate Judge for the [[Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals]]
* [[Luis Estrella Martínez]], youngest [[Associate Justice]], at 39, of the current 9-member Puerto Rico Supreme Court
* [[Julio M. Fuentes]], Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]]; first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic judge to serve the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
* [[Gustavo Gelpí]], Judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico]] (2006–present)
* [[Angel G. Hermida]], Superior Court Judge, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1976–1997); visiting professor in Comparative Law at Boston University (1984); Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1974–1976); Physics professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (1964–1966); author of ''[[Miriam Ramírez|MIRIAM J. RAMÍREZ DE FERRER]] Recurrente Vs. [[Juan Mari Brás|JUAN MARI BRAS]]'', which decided that citizens of Puerto Rico have a right to vote in Puerto Rican elections, whether or not they are citizens of the United States<ref>[http://www.academiajurisprudenciapr.org/la-sentencia-de-la-ciudadania-puertorriquena/ La sentencia de la ciudadania Puertorriquena]</ref>
* [[Federico Hernández Denton]], former Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court; Puerto Rico's first Consumer Affairs Secretary
* [[Dora Irizarry]], Chief Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York]]; first female Hispanic state judge in New York
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/con_experiencia_judicial_los_nominados_al_supremo/527731 |title=Home – El Nuevo Día |publisher=Elnuevodia.com |date=2010-03-31 |accessdate=2013-09-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002044856/http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/con_experiencia_judicial_los_nominados_al_supremo/527731 |archivedate=October 2, 2013 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Victor Marrero]], Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid%3D2836 |title=Judges of the United States Courts |accessdate=23 October 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920150318/http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=2836 |archivedate=September 20, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro]], Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]; first lesbian Latina ever to be nominated by a U.S. President, in this case President Obama, to serve as a federal judge<ref>{{cite web|last=Chibbaro |first=Lou |url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/27/obama-nominates-lesbian-latina-judge-to-pa-court/ |title=Obama nominates lesbian Latina judge to Pa. court |website=Washingtonblade.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Roberto Rivera-Soto]], first Puerto Rican and Latino New Jersey State Supreme Court Justice
* [[Clemente Ruiz Nazario]], first Puerto Rican U.S. Federal Judge of Puerto Rico
* [[Vanessa Ruiz]], Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest court for the [[District of Columbia]]
* [[A. Cecil Snyder]], controversial Chief Justice and U.S. attorney in Puerto Rico
* [[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
* [[Juan R. Torruella]], first Puerto Rican to serve as Chief Judge of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]]
* [[Edgardo Ramos]], United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York since 2011.
* [[José Trías Monge]], former Chief Justice, Attorney General of Puerto Rico, author
* [[Carmen Consuelo Cerezo]], first female Puerto Rican federal district judge and Chief Judge
* [[Marilyn Zayas]], first Latina and Puerto Rican judge elected to an Ohio State Court of Appeals<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hamiltoncountyohio.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=6254867&pageId=6786838|title=Ohio First Appellate District Court Website}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wvxu.org/term/judge-marilyn-zayas#stream/0|title=Ohio First Elected Latina Judge Installed|date=2017-01-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/marilyn-zayas-davis-makes-state-history-with-judge-seat-win-in-hamilton-county|title=Marilyn Zayas Makes History with Judge Seat Win in Hamilton County|date=2017-01-18}}</ref>

'''Law enforcement'''
[[File:Nick Estavillo.JPG|thumb|150px|Nick Estavillo]]
* [[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">[http://www.vosizneias.com/9325/2007/05/21/new-york-ny-veteran-nypd-chief-of/ New York – Veteran NYPD Chief Of Patrol To Retire]</ref>
* [[Faith Evans (U.S. Marshal)|Faith Evans]], Hawaiian-Puerto Rican, first woman to be named U.S. Marshal<ref name="PRH">{{cite news |url=http://starbulletin.com/1999/12/23/news/story11.html |title=Puerto Ricans in Hawaii begin centennial celebration |author=Susan Kreifels |work=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |date=December 23, 1999 |accessdate=2008-01-27}}</ref>
* [[Alejandro González Malavé]], controversial undercover police officer
* [[Irma Lozada]], New York City transit police; first female police officer to die in the line of duty in New York City<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/nyregion/22slain.html?_r%3D1 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=9 October 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926164021/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/nyregion/22slain.html?_r=1 |archivedate=September 26, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[José Meléndez-Pérez]], [[Immigration and Naturalization Service|INS]] officer who was named in 9/11 Commission Report; denied entry to terrorist in August 2001<ref>[http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing7/witness_melendez.htm Official Testimony of José Meléndez-Pérez to the 9/11 Commission]</ref>
* [[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">[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4D81F3AF932A25752C0A96F948260, ''[[The New York Times]]'', "Interim U.S. Attorney: 'Street Smart' and Fair"; By DENNIS HEVESI; Published: 11 January 1989]</ref>
* [[Joe Sánchez]], former New York City police officer and author whose books give an insight as to the corruption within the department<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_fired_nypd_cop_writes_gritty_book_to_set.html|title=Fired cop pens gritty book to set record straight|publisher=NY Daily News|date=2008-07-16|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Toledo]], retired [[FBI]] senior agent and longest-serving state police superintendent

'''Firefighters'''
* [[Raúl Gándara-Cartagena]], first and longest-serving Commonwealth fire chief in Puerto Rico, 1942–1972<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bomberos.gobierno.pr/historia.htm|title=Historia|website=Web.archive.org|date=2005-12-15|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=unfit|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215172947/http://www.bomberos.gobierno.pr/historia.htm|archivedate=December 15, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Carlos M. Rivera]], former Fire Commissioner of the City of New York; first [[Hispanic]] commissioner in the New York City Fire Department's 127-year history<ref>{{cite news|last=Barron|first=James|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/26/nyregion/rivera-to-quit-top-position-in-fire-dept.html|title=Rivera to Quit Top Position In Fire Dept.|location=New York City|website=NYTimes.com|date=1992-11-26|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

==Military==
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[[File:Miguel Enriquez.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Miguel Enríquez (privateer)|Miguel Enríquez]]]] [[File:Demetrio O'Daly.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Demetrio O'Daly]]]] [[File:Antonio Valero Bernabe.gif|100px|thumb|[[Antonio Valero de Bernabé]]]] [[File:Manuel Rojas drawing.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Manuel Rojas (independence leader)|Manuel Rojas]]]] [[File:Augusto Rodriquez.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Augusto Rodríguez (soldier)|Augusto Rodríguez]]]] [[File:General Juan Ríus Rivera.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Juan Ríus Rivera]]]] [[File:José Semidei Rodríguez (1920).jpg|x150px|thumb|[[José Semidei Rodríguez]]]] [[File:AngelRiveroMendez.png|x150px|thumb|[[Ángel Rivero Méndez]]]] [[File:EstevesWP.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Luis R. Esteves]]]] [[File:Teofilo Marxuach.jpg|x100px|thumb|[[Teófilo Marxuach]]]] [[File:Major Fernando E. Rodriguez.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas]]]][[File:Mihiel Gilormini.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Mihiel Gilormini]]]] [[File:FRiefkolh4.JPG|x150px|thumb|[[Frederick Lois Riefkohl]]]] [[File:JosephBAviles.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Joseph B. Aviles, Sr.]]]] [[File:CarmenLozanoDurnier.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Carmen Dumler]]]] [[File:Virgil R. Miller.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Virgil R. Miller]]]] [[File:Pedro del Valle.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Pedro del Valle]]]] [[File:Agustin Ramos Calero.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Agustin Ramos Calero]]]] [[File:De Arellano with awards cropped.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano]]]] [[File:Carmen Conteras Bozak.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Carmen Contreras-Bozak]]]] [[File:Jose A. Muniz.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[José Antonio Muñiz]]]] [[File:ModestoCartagena3.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Modesto Cartagena]]]] [[File:RoseFranco.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Rose Franco]]]] [[File:Fernando Luis Garcia, USMC.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Fernando Luis García]]]] [[File:Horacio Rivero Jr.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Horacio Rivero, Jr.]]]]
[[File:Carlos Lozada.JPG|x150px|thumb|[[Carlos James Lozada]]]] [[File:AngelMendez2.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Angel Mendez]]]] [[File:F86 1copy.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Héctor Andrés Negroni]]]] [[File:HectorSantiagoColon.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Héctor Santiago-Colón]]]] [[File:J Otero jpg.jpg|x125px|thumb|[[Jorge Otero Barreto]]]] [[File:MOH Versace.jpg|x150px|thumb|[[Humbert Roque Versace|Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace]]]] [[File:Euripides Rubio.jpg|x95px|thumb|[[Eurípides Rubio]]]] [[File:Lizbeth Robles.JPG|x160px|thumb|[[Lizbeth Robles]]]] [[File:FrancesM.Vega.JPG|x140px|thumb|[[Frances M. Vega]]]][[File:Maritza Ryan.jpg|x120px|thumb|[[Maritza Sáenz Ryan]]]][[File:Marta Carcana (2).jpg|thumb|95px|Brigadier General Marta Carcana]][[File:Irene M. Zoppi, Brigadier General.JPG|thumb|95px|Brigadier General Irene M. Zoppi]]

'''16th century'''
* [[Agüeybaná II]], Cacique of "Borikén" (Puerto Rico); led the [[Taíno]]s in the fight against [[Juan Ponce de León]] and the conquistadores in the Taíno Rebellion of 1511.<ref name="c">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120206012148/http://www.pcmle.org/EM/article.php3?id_article=258 ''La Rebelión del Cacique Agüeybaná II.''] En Marcha: Organo del Comite Central del Partido Comunista Maxista Leninista de Ecuador. Seccion: Testimonio y Dialéctica. 8 May 2006. Page 1. Retrieved 14 July 2011.</ref>

'''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>{{cite web|url=http://welcome.topuertorico.org/city/arecibo.shtml |title=Arecibo, Puerto Rico |website=Welcome.topuertorico.org|date=1947-03-31|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/saju/14.html |title=National Park Service - San Juan National Historic Site |accessdate=8 November 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223145906/http://www.nps.gov/archive/saju/14.html |archivedate=December 23, 2008}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://puertorico-guide.info/past.and.present/history/developing.trade/index.html |title=Developing Trade - Caribya! |website=Puertorico-guide.info |date=2015-02-22 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>

'''19th century'''
* [[Ramón Acha Caamaño]], Brigadier General, Spanish Army; defended the city of San Juan against the U.S. attack of Puerto Rico during the [[Spanish–American War]]; awarded the Cruz de la Orden de Merito Naval 1ra clase ([[Orders, decorations, and medals of Spain#Military Decorations|The Cross of the Order of the Naval Merit 1st class]]) by the Spanish government for his role in the rescue of the cargo of the Spanish transoceanic steamer ''[[Antonio López (shipwreck)|SS Antonio López]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.coqui.net/sarrasin/pers1.htm |title=pers1.htm |website=Home.coqui.net |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Juan Alonso Zayas]], 2nd Lieutenant, Spanish Army; commander of the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion of the [[Spanish Army]] stationed in [[Baler, Aurora|Baler]] which fought in the [[Siege of Baler]] in the [[Philippines]]<ref name="heroe">{{cite web|url=http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/churchmews/1216/AlonsoZayas.htm |title=Juan Alonso Zayas: Un héroe puertorriqueño desconocido |accessdate=10 October 2006 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020185600/http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/churchmews/1216/AlonsoZayas.htm |archivedate=October 20, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Francisco Gonzalo Marín]], Lieutenant, Cuban Liberation Army; considered by many as the designer of the [[Flag of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican flag]]; a poet and journalist; fought alongside [[José Martí]] for Cuba's independence<ref name="RB">{{cite web|url=http://www.redbetances.com|title=Información sobre Puerto Rico y sus luchas |website=Redbetances.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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 1808–1809 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/Enciclopedia_Ilustrada/Ramon_Power_Giralt.htm |title=Ramón Power y Giralt |website=Proyectosalonhogar.com |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418142245/http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/enciclopedia_ilustrada/Ramon_Power_Giralt.htm |archivedate=April 18, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/padron/rivero|title=Angel RIVERO. Crónica de la Guerra Hispanoamericana en Puerto Rico.|accessdate=January 3, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111061510/http://perso.wanadoo.es/padron/rivero|archivedate=January 11, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Juan Ríus Rivera]], Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army; fought in [[El Grito de Lares]] under the command of [[Mathias Brugman]]; fought in Cuba's [[Ten Years' War]] (1868–1878) against Spain under the command of General [[Máximo Gómez]] and became the General of the Cuban Liberation Army of the West upon the death of General [[Antonio Maceo Grajales]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redbetances.com |title=Información sobre Puerto Rico y sus luchas|website=Redbetances.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Augusto Rodríguez (soldier)|Augusto Rodríguez]], Lieutenant, United States Union Army; member of the 15th Connecticut Regiment (a.k.a. Lyon Regiment); served in the defenses of Washington, D.C.; led his men in the Battles of [[Battle of Fredericksburg|Fredericksburg]] and [[Battle of Wyse Fork|Wyse Fork]] in the [[American Civil War]]<ref name="CW">Carmen Teresa Whalen/Víctor Vázquez-Hernández, "The Puerto Rican diaspora: historical perspectives", p. 176; Temple University Press; {{ISBN|978-1-59213-413-7}}; {{ISBN|1-59213-413-0}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Rojas (independence leader)|Manuel Rojas]], Commander in Chief of the Puerto Rican Liberation Army; on September 28, 1868, he led 800 men and women in a revolt against Spanish rule and took the town of Lares in the [[Grito de Lares]]<ref name="PRI">[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/puertorico/bras5.htmlIn Search of a National Identity: Nineteeth [sic] and Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico], lcweb2.loc.gov; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[José Semidei Rodríguez]], Brigadier General, Cuban Liberation Army; fought in Cuba's [[Cuban War of Independence|War of Independence]] (1895–1898); after Cuba gained its independence he continued to serve there as a diplomat<ref>"Historia militar de Puerto Rico"; by [[Héctor Andrés Negroni]] (author); p. 476; Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario (1992; in Spanish); {{ISBN|84-7844-138-7}}; {{ISBN|978-84-7844-138-9}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Valero de Bernabé]], Brigadier General in the [[Latin American wars of independence]]; fought against the forces of [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] at the [[Siege of Saragossa (1808)|Siege of Saragossa]]; joined the Mexican Revolutionary Army headed by [[Agustín de Iturbide]] and was named Chief of Staff; successfully fought for Mexico's independence from Spain; fought alongside [[Simón Bolívar]] and helped liberate South America from Spanish Colonial rule; known as the "Puerto Rican Liberator"<ref name="EN">{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1001/index.asp|title=Biografías - Nemesio R. Canales|accessdate=August 15, 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820181048/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1001/index.asp|archivedate=August 20, 2006}}</ref>

'''20th century'''
* [[Humberto Acosta-Rosario]], Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army; a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry (Mechanized); 25th Infantry Division, [[United States Army]]; currently the only Puerto Rican [[Missing In Action|MIA]] whose body has never been recovered<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1-5th-m-25th-inf-1966.com/page18.html |title=The 1st Battalion (M) 5th Infantry 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division CU CHI Vietnam|website=1-5th-m-25th-inf-1966.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Ricardo Aponte]], Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; former Director of the Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, [[United States Southern Command]]; first Puerto Rican to hold this position<ref>[http://arpc.afrc.af.mil/bios/aponte.asp]{{dead link|date=April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Félix Arenas Gaspar]], Captain, Spanish Army; posthumously awarded the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando ([[Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand]] – Spain's version of the Medal of Honor) for his actions in the [[Rif War (1920)|Rif War]]<ref name="FAG">Pando Despierto, Juan (1999). Historia secreta de Annual. Madrid: Ediciones Temas de Hoy. Colección: Historia, 424 p. {{ISBN|978-84-7880-971-4}}. (Spanish)</ref>
* [[Domingo Arroyo, Jr.]], Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps; first American serviceman to be killed in [[Operation Restore Hope]] during the [[Somalian Civil War]]<ref name=Nieves>Nieves, ''New York Times'', 1993.</ref>
* [[Joseph B. Aviles, Sr.|Joseph (José) B. Aviles, Sr.]], CWO2, U.S. Coast Guard; on 28 September 1925, became the first Hispanic Chief Petty Officer in the [[United States Coast Guard]]; during World War II received a wartime promotion to Chief Warrant Officer, becoming the first Hispanic to reach that level as well<ref name="HA">[https://archive.is/20120805221243/http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/HispanicAmericansChronology.asp site United States Coast Guard-Hispanic Americans Chronology]</ref>
* [[Rafael Celestino Benítez]], Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; a highly decorated submarine commander who led the rescue effort of the crew members of the {{USS|Cochino}}, 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.prsoldier.com/soldier.html|title=The Puerto Rican Soldier: Soldiers |accessdate=March 18, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210022737/http://www.prsoldier.com/soldier.html|archivedate=February 10, 2007}}</ref>
* [[José M. Cabanillas]], Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; in World War II he was Executive Officer of the {{USS|Texas|BB-35}} and participated in the invasions of Africa and Normandy ([[D-Day]])<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=18 March 2007|url=http://www.ansomil.org/home/USNAofficers.html|title=USNA graduates of Hispanic descent for the Class of 1911, 1915, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1935, 1939, 1943, 1947|publisher=Association of Naval Service Officers|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927095022/http://www.ansomil.org/home/USNAofficers.html|archivedate=September 27, 2007}}</ref>
* [[Richard Carmona]], Vice Admiral, [[United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps|Public Health Service Commissioned Corps]]; served as the 17th [[Surgeon General of the United States]] under President [[George W. Bush]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul L.|last=Allen|title=Tucson proud Richard Carmona one of its own|url=http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/21262.php|publisher=Tucson Citizen|date=August 3, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Modesto Cartagena]], Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; the most decorated Hispanic soldier in history; distinguished himself in combat during the Korean War as a member of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry and is being considered for the Medal of Honor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.floortimeatlanta.com/team.htm|title=Floortime Atlanta|accessdate=October 5, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927065738/http://www.floortimeatlanta.com/team.htm |archivedate=September 27, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Fernando Chardón]], Major General, Puerto Rico National Guard; [[Secretary of State of Puerto Rico]] 1969–73; [[Puerto Rico Adjutant General]] 1973–75<ref name="Graces2">[http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/galeria/archivogeneral/documentos/index.htm Archivo General de Puerto Rico: Documentos] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018040916/http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/galeria/archivogeneral/documentos/index.htm |date=October 18, 2007 }}, Retrieved August 3, 2007</ref>
* [[Felix M. Conde-Falcon]], Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014 for his courageous actions while serving as an acting Platoon Leader in Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment, 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Ap Tan Hoa, Republic of Vietnam on April 4, 1969<ref name="BOMoH">{{cite web|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/feb/21/medal-of-honor-recipients-obama|title=Obama to award Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans|website=utsandiego.com|date=2014-02-21|accessdate=2016-04-05}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>''
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.hispaniconline.com/hh02/history_did_you_know_sidebar.html |title=HispanicOnline - Hispanic Heritage Plaza 2002 |accessdate=July 22, 2006 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505040449/http://www.hispaniconline.com/hh02/history_did_you_know_sidebar.html |archivedate=May 5, 2006 |df=mdy}}</ref>
* [[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">[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19800609&id=_UVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FwMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5820,4011495 Toledo Blade - Jun 9, 1980]</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.ausa.org/webpub/DeptArmyMagazine.nsf/byid/CCRN-6CCRYR|title=Association of the United States Army: From Glory to Disaster and Back|accessdate=January 1, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624071905/http://www.ausa.org/webpub/DeptArmyMagazine.nsf/byid/CCRN-6CCRYR|archivedate=June 24, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Puerto Ricans in World War I|Encarnación Correa]], Sergeant, U.S. Army; the person who fired the first warning shots in World War I on behalf of the United States against a ship flying the colors of the Central Powers, when on March 21, 1915, under the orders of then-Lieutenant Teófilo Marxuach, he manned a machine gun and opened fire on the ''Odenwald'', an armed German supply ship trying to force its way out of the San Juan Bay<ref name="HMPR">"Historia Militar de Puerto Rico"; by [[Héctor Andrés Negroni]]; pg. 370; {{ISBN|84-7888-138-7}}</ref>
* [[Ruben A. Cubero]], Brigadier General U.S. Air Force; of Puerto Rican descent; highly decorated member of the [[United States Air Force]]; in 1991 became the first Hispanic graduate of the [[United States Air Force Academy]] to be named Dean of the Faculty of the Academy<ref name="AF">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040208020718/http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5128 Brigadier General Ruben A. Cubero], Official biography, United States Air Force; retrieved November 1, 2006.</ref>
* [[Pedro del Valle]], Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps; first Hispanic three-star Marine general; his military career included service in World War I, [[Haiti]] and [[Nicaragua]] during the so-called [[The Banana Wars|Banana Wars]] of the 1920s, and in the seizure of [[Guadalcanal]] and later as Commanding General of the [[1st Marine Division (United States)|U.S. 1st Marine Division]] during World War II played an instrumental role in the defeat of the Japanese forces in [[Okinawa]]<ref>{{cite book|accessdate=October 17, 2007|url=https://books.google.com/?id=3KDc3WketMcC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=Books+by+Pedro+del+Valle|author=Renda, Mary|title=Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2000|page=61|isbn=9780807849385}}</ref>
* [[Carmelo Delgado Delgado]], Lieutenant, [[Abraham Lincoln Brigade|Abraham Lincoln International Brigade]]; first Puerto Rican and one of the first U.S. citizens to fight and to die in the [[Spanish Civil War]] against General [[Francisco Franco]] and the Spanish Nationalists<ref name="Carmelo">{{cite web|url=http://www.nodo50.org/age/carmelodelg.htm |title=Carmelo Delgado Delgado|website=Nodo50.org|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Alberto Díaz, Jr.]], Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic to become the Director of the San Diego Naval Medical District<ref name="NN">{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/news/mednews/med99/med99026.txt|format=TXT|title=Navy & Marine Corps Medical News|website=Navy.mil|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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">[http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/u/ruiz_b/LuisRaulEsteves/Luis_Raul_Esteves.htm Luis R. Esteves profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127022626/http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/u/ruiz_b/LuisRaulEsteves/luis_raul_esteves.htm |date=January 27, 2010 }}, 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">{{cite web|url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/user/fact_jan.htm |title=Aviation History Facts |accessdate=June 18, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080628014959/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/user/fact_jan.htm |archivedate=June 28, 2008 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Michelle Fraley]] (née Hernández), Colonel, U.S. Army; became in 1984 the first [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] woman to graduate from [[West Point Military Academy]]; former [[chief of staff]] of the [[Army Network Enterprise Technology Command]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/tullerdesignaacoronelaretiradacomoayudanteespecial-1717507.html|title=Tuller designa a coronela retirada como ayudante especial|publisher=Elnuevodia.com|date=February 22, 2014|accessdate=April 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/yovengodeunaculturamachista-1719846.html|title=Yo vengo de una cultura machista|newspaper=[[El Nuevo Día]]|language=Spanish|date=February 25, 2014|accessdate=April 4, 2016}}</ref>''
* [[Rose Franco]], CWO3, U.S. Marine Corps; first female Hispanic Chief Warrant Officer in the Marine Corps; in 1965 was named Administrative Assistant to the [[Secretary of the Navy]], [[Paul Henry Nitze]] by the administration of [[Lyndon B. Johnson|President Lyndon B. Johnson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dianasuniquedesigns.com/latinasinthemilitary.php|title=Welcome to DianasUniqueDesigns.com|accessdate=July 6, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207002658/http://www.dianasuniquedesigns.com/latinasinthemilitary.php|archivedate=December 7, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Edmund Ernest García]], Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; during World War II he was commander of the destroyer {{USS|Sloat|DE-245}} and saw action in the invasions of Africa, [[Sicily]], and France<ref name="USSS">{{cite web|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/245.htm|title=Destroyer Escort Photo Index DE- 245 USS SLOAT|website=Navsource.org|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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 5 September 1952.<ref>[http://www.koreanwar2.org/kwp2/usmckorea/PDF_Monographs/KoreanWar.Stalemate.pdf Marine Corps History and Museum Division, Korean War Commemorative Series, 2001, Dept. of Defense-50th Anniversary of Korean War- "Stalemate, U.S. Marines from Bunker Hill to Hook" by Bernard Nalty]</ref>
* [[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">{{cite magazine|first=Linda|last=Garcia Cubero|title=Punto Final!|magazine=Latina Style|accessdate=March 24, 2009|url=http://www.latinastyle.com/currentissue/v10-5/punto.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303163232/http://www.latinastyle.com/currentissue/v10-5/punto.html|archivedate=March 3, 2009}}</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 [[Women's Army Corps|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; {{ISBN|84-7844-138-7}}. p 486.</ref>
* [[Manuel Goded Llopis]], General, Spanish Army; a [[Puerto Rican people|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 (1920)|Rif War]]<ref name="History">{{cite web|url=http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/historia/personajes/7314.htm |title=ARTEHISTORIA - Protagonistas de la Historia - Ficha Goded Llopis, Manuel |accessdate=11 November 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126190657/http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/historia/personajes/7314.htm |archivedate=November 26, 2010}}</ref>
* [[César Luis González (Aviator)|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="THNP"/><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 {{USS|John F. Kennedy|CV-67}}<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040224213911/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/j3/john_f_kennedy.htm |archivedate=2004-02-24 |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/j3/john_f_kennedy.htm |title=John F}}</ref>
* [[Puerto Rican women in the military#Currently|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 [[Gulf War|Desert Shield]] and [[Gulf War|Desert Storm]]<ref name="womensmemorial.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.womensmemorial.org/Education/PRHistory.html |title=Women In Military Service For America Memorial |website=Womensmemorial.org |date=1944-08-21 |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205715/http://www.womensmemorial.org/Education/PRHistory.html |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n31/PRVideo0631-en.shtml|title=PUERTO RICO HERALD: Orlando Llenza speaks out on Puerto Rico self-determination|accessdate=August 17, 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060109040536/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n31/PRVideo0631-en.shtml|archivedate=January 9, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Lozada]], Private First Class, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on 20 November 1967, at [[Dak To]] in the [[South Vietnam|Republic of Vietnam]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Doug Sterner|url=http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1960_vn/lozada_carlos.html|title=MOH Citation for Carlos Lozada|website=Homeofheroes.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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'', Pg. 34, AEELA, 1998; retrieved 6 June 2007.</ref>
* [[Puerto Rican recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross|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>{{cite web |url=http://www.homeofheroes.com/members/02_DSC/citatons/03_wwii-dsc/army_m.html |title=World War II Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross - Citations |website=Homeofheroes.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721113134/http://www.homeofheroes.com/members/02_DSC/citatons/03_wwii-dsc/army_m.html |archive-date=July 21, 2009 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Lester Martínez López]], MPH, Major General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic to head the Army Medical and Research Command<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.govexec.com/features/0702/HSpublichealth.htm|title=Public Health - Magazine|website=GovExec.com|date=2002-07-15|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite news|title=CALLS ODENWALD AFFAIR AN ATTACK; Fired On Without Warning Shot, Germany Asserts, Contradicting San Juan Commander. SAYS SHE WAS UNDULY HELD Violated Clearance to Elude Enemy Cruisers That Had Been Warned She Was About to Sail.|date=April 7, 1915|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00EFDA1E3EE033A25754C0A9629C946496D6CF|accessdate=10 August 2008}}</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 {{USS|Vella Gulf|CG-72}}; 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>[http://www.eucom.mil/english/FullStory.asp?art=237 George E. Mayer profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711051004/http://www.eucom.mil/english/FullStory.asp?art=237 |date=July 11, 2007 }}, BALTOPS (2003), eucom.mil; retrieved 5 July 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">{{cite web|accessdate=20 December 2007 |url=http://www.virtualwall.org/dm/MendezAx01a.htm |title=Angel Mendez |publisher=VirtualWall.org |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024140820/http://www.virtualwall.org/dm/MendezAx01a.htm |archivedate=October 24, 2007 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/aproducts/aoralhistories/mendez.pdf |format=PDF |title=DR. ENRIQUE MENDEZ, JR. ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY : ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM |website=Web.archive.org|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=unfit|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011222137/http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/aproducts/aoralhistories/mendez.pdf |archivedate=October 11, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Virgil R. Miller]], Colonel, U.S. Army; Regimental Commander of the [[442nd Regimental Combat Team (United States)|442d Regimental Combat Team]] (RCT), a unit which was composed of "[[Nisei]]" (second generation Americans of Japanese descent), during World War II; led the 442nd in its rescue of the [[Lost Battalion (World War II)|Lost Texas Battalion]] of the [[36th Infantry Division (United States)|36th Infantry Division]], in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France<ref name=Education>{{cite web|url=http://newdeal.feri.org/pr/pr07.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000707230231/http://newdeal.feri.org/pr/pr07.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2000-07-07|title=Education|work=Puerto Rico: A Guide to the Island of Boriquén|author=|year=1940|publisher=The University Society, Inc.|location=New York}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/navas_wa.htm|title=Major General William A. Navas Jr.|accessdate=November 16, 2006|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004121252/http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/navas_wa.htm|archivedate=October 4, 2006}}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/~blueflower/Negroni1.htm|title=Negroni Family |website=Members.tripod.com|date=1938-01-30|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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; 26 April 1944; No. 9986.</ref>
* [[Ramón Núñez-Juárez]], Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps; listed as Missing in Action during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, the second highest medal after the Medal of Honor, that can be awarded by the Department of the Navy; the only Puerto Rican member of the United States Marine Corps whose remains have never been recovered and who was listed as [[Missing in Action]] during the [[Korean War]]<ref name="TOW">Lee Ballenger, THE OUTPOST WAR: US Marines in Korea, Vol. 1 1952 (reprinted 2000), Brassey's, p. 107; {{ISBN|1-57488-373-9}}</ref>
* [[Jorge Otero Barreto]], Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; with 38 decorations, which includes 3 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 U.S. soldier of the Vietnam War<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml;jsessionid=VC1MTHIRJBNKCCWIABJSFFQKZAADWIWC?cid%3D1688017 |title=Sargento Jorge Otero Barreto |accessdate=March 5, 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606063218/http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml%3Bjsessionid%3DVC1MTHIRJBNKCCWIABJSFFQKZAADWIWC?cid=1688017 |archivedate=June 6, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Dolores Piñero]], [[Army Medical Department (United States)|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; {{ISBN|1603441468}}; {{ISBN|978-1603441469}}</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">{{cite web|url=http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/1787.htm|title=Brigadier General Jose M. Portela|accessdate=November 29, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406170916/http://www.ngb.army.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/1787.htm|archivedate=April 6, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano]], Captain, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic [[submarine]] commander; awarded two [[Silver Star]]s and a [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] for his actions against the [[Japanese Imperial Navy]] during World War II<ref>"The Submarine Forces Diversity Trailblazer – Capt. Marion Frederick Ramirez de Arellano" (Summer 2007), ''Undersea Warfare'' magazine; pg. 31</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/summer_07/summer_07/diversity.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=February 28, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706002028/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/summer_07/summer_07/diversity.html|archivedate=July 6, 2009}}</ref>
* [[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">[http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/105868/brigadier-general-antonio-j-ramos.aspx 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">[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961284-4,00.html 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.cohrs.de/gene/riefkohl/pedigrees/2a.html|format=PDF|title=Descendants of Otto Julius Riefkohl|website=Cohrs.de|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BNaHDbvpfuEC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=rudolph+w+riefkohl&source=web&ots=Ij6xTpCnb4&sig=V_mZQmF0iLYqxUaPqnJs-oNk_JQ#PPA51,M1 "Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition, 1919–1921", pp. 23, 25, 119-20.<!-- publisher needed, ISSN/ISBN needed (if any) -->]</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 (Gulf War)|Operation Desert Shield]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Nadine|last=Brozan|title=Chronicle|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4D6103EF932A2575BC0A964958260|work=New York Times|date=August 11, 1992|accessdate=January 2, 2008}}</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'', pg. 40, Publisher: AEELA, 1998. Retrieved 25 June 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n08/ProfileRivero-es.shtml |title=Profile of Horacio Rivero |work=Puerto Rico Herald |date=25 February 2000 |accessdate=3 October 2006 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051102081121/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n08/ProfileRivero-es.shtml |archivedate=November 2, 2005 |df= }}</ref><ref>Barlow, ''NHC'' 2003.</ref>
* [[Pedro Rodriguez (soldier)|Pedro Rodríguez]], Master Sergeant, U.S. Army; member of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry; earned two [[Silver Star]]s within a seven-day period during the [[Korean War]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n26/Profile65th-en.html |title=Profile: The 65th Infantry Regiment in Korea |publisher=Puerto Rico Herald |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214018/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n26/Profile65th-en.html |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Antonio Rodríguez Balinas]], Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first commander of the Office of the First U.S. Army Deputy Command; during the Korean War he fought with Puerto Rico's [[65th Infantry Regiment]] and was awarded the [[Silver Star]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/silver_star/index.htm#Citations|accessdate=16 December 2006|title=Silver Star Citations|publisher=Korean War Educator}}</ref>
* Maria Rodriguez Denton, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy; first woman from Puerto Rico who became an officer in the United States Navy as member of the [[WAVES]]; forwarded the news (through channels) to President [[Harry S. Truman]] that the war had ended<ref name="Women's Memorial">{{cite web|url=http://www.womensmemorial.org/H&C/History/historypr.html |title=Women In Military Service For America Memorial |publisher=Womensmemorial.org |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200216/http://www.womensmemorial.org/H%26C/History/historypr.html |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas]], Major, U.S. Army; [[Dentist|odontologist]] (dentist), scientist and a Major in the [[U.S. Army]] who in 1921 discovered the bacteria which causes [[dental caries]]<ref>Highlights in the History of U.S. Army Dentistry (see "16 March 1940" entry).</ref><ref name="SFCD"/>
* [[Eurípides Rubio]], Captain, U.S. Army; [[posthumous recognition|posthumously]] awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at [[Tây Ninh Province]] in the [[South Vietnam|Republic of Vietnam]] on 8 November 1966<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mishalov.com/Rubio.html |title=Euripides Rubio |website=Mishalov.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Jaime Sabater, Sr.]], Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; commanded the [[1st Battalion 9th Marines]] during the [[Bougainville Campaign|Bougainville]] amphibious operations in World War II<ref name=Rentz1946_X>{{cite book|accessdate=9 April 2007|chapterurl=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-NSols/USMC-M-NSol-X.html|chapter=Appendix X: Commands and Staff|title=Bougainville and the Northern Solomons|first=Major John N., USMCR|last=Rentz|publisher=Historical Branch, U.S. Marine Corps|year=1946|series=USMC Historical Monograph}}</ref>
* [[José L. Santiago]], Sergeant Major, U.S. Marine Corps; the [[2nd Battalion 9th Marines]]' first Hispanic Sergeant Major and its first Sergeant Major since its reactivation on 13 July 2007<ref name="Santiago">{{cite web|accessdate=1 January 2008 |url=http://www.iimefpublic.usmc.mil/Public/InfolineMarines.nsf/(ArticlesRead)/E10E2F81C1A777258525732800093610 |title=Sergeant Major José L. Santiago – Sergeant Major, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines |publisher=II MEF, United States Marine Corps |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423062708/http://www.iimefpublic.usmc.mil/Public/InfolineMarines.nsf/%28ArticlesRead%29/E10E2F81C1A777258525732800093610 |archivedate=April 23, 2008 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[Héctor Santiago-Colón]], Specialist Four, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at [[Quảng Trị Province]], Vietnam as member of Company B of the 5th Battalion, [[7th Cavalry Regiment|7th Cavalry]], 1st Cavalry Division<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol3n45/ProfileSantColon-es.html |title=Perfil: Hector Santiago-Colón |publisher=Puerto Rico Herald |date=2006-12-20 |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194555/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol3n45/ProfileSantColon-es.html |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.valerosos.com/65thintro2.html |title=page 2 |publisher=Valerosos.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Frankie Segarra]], Master Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps; first Puerto Rican to reach the grade of Master Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps within his MOS<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n42/MakingDifference.shtml |title=PUERTO RICO HERALD: "Making A Difference In Our Communities And Our Nation" |publisher=Web.archive.org |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041128060935/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n42/MakingDifference.shtml |archivedate=November 28, 2004 }}</ref>
* [[Rafel Toro]], Private, U.S. Marine Corps; posthumously awarded the [[Navy Cross]] for his "extraordinary heroism in battle"<ref name="NCcitation">Toro Navy Cross citation.</ref> while [[History of Nicaragua#United States involvement (1909–1933)|fighting in Nicaragua]] during the second Nicaragua campaign in 1927
* [[Miguel A. Vera]], Private, U.S. Army; will receive 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.mishalov.com/Versace.html|title=President Awards Posthumous Medal of Honor to Vietnam War Hero|date=8 July 2002}} Remarks by the President Bush at the Presentation of the Medal of Honor in the East Room of the White House.</ref>
* [[Raúl G. Villaronga]], Colonel, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to be elected as Mayor of a Texas city ([[Killeen, Texas|Killeen]])<ref>[http://classof1959.aggienetwork.com/newsletter.html Raúl G. Villaronga Newsletter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327182610/http://classof1959.aggienetwork.com/newsletter.html |date=March 27, 2008 }}, classof1959.aggienetwork.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>

'''21st century'''
* [[Marta Carcana]], Major General, U.S. Army; in 2015, became the first woman to be named Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard<ref>[http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/nota/designannuevamenteamarthacarcanaparadirigirlaguardianacional-1096456/ Designan nuevamente a Martha Carcana para dirigir la Guardia Nacional], primerahora.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Iván Castro]], Captain, U.S. Army; of Puerto Rican descent; one of three blind active-duty officers who serves in the US Army; the only blind officer serving in the [[United States Army Special Forces]]<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,373592,00.html "Special Forces Soldier, Blinded in Battle, Determined to Keep Serving"], foxnews.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Ramón Colón-López]], Chief Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force; a pararescueman; on 13 June 2007, was the first and only Hispanic among the first six airmen to be awarded the [[Air Force Combat Action Medal]]; Commandant of the Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer School<ref>{{cite web|last=Burgess |first=Lisa |url=http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=46650 |title=Officials honor first recipients of Air Force Combat Action Medal - News |publisher=Stripes |date=2007-06-13 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Hilda Clayton]], U.S. Army [[combat photographer]] killed in 2013 when a mortar exploded during an Afghan training exercise; she captured the explosion that killed her and four Afghan soldiers<ref name="CBS">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-army-specialist-hilda-clayton-takes-image-her-own-death-military-exercise/|title=Army combat photographer's last picture is of her own death|last=Martin|first=David|date=May 3, 2017|work=[[CBS News]]|access-date=May 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/augustachronicle/obituary.aspx?n=hilda-clayton&pid=165890345&fhid=5436|title=Hilda Clayton's Obituary on The Augusta Chronicle|website=The Augusta Chronicle}}</ref>
* [[Olga E. Custodio]], Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force; first female Hispanic U.S. military pilot; first Latina to complete U.S. Air Force military pilot training; after retiring, became the first [[Latina]] commercial airline captain<ref name="FLMP">[http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/community/2012/05/28/our-american-dream-meet-first-latina-us-military-pilot/?test=latestnews "Our American Dream: Meet the First Latina US Military Pilot"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416113828/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/community/2012/05/28/our-american-dream-meet-first-latina-us-military-pilot/?test=latestnews |date=April 16, 2016 }}, latino.foxnews.com, 28 May 2012; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Emilio Díaz Colón]], Major General, U.S. Army; PRNG; first Superintendent of the Puerto Rican Police; served as the Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard<ref name="MSNBC">[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43657273/ns/world_news-americas/t/puerto-rico-chooses-soldier-next-police-chief "Puerto Rico chooses soldier for next police chief"]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, msnbc.msn.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref><ref name="NC">{{cite web|url=http://www.noticel.com/noticia/106958/fortuno-designa-al-nuevo-superintendente.html |title=Fortuño designa al nuevo Superintendente - NotiCel™ |website=Noticel.com |date=2016-03-31 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Hila Levy]], Captain, U.S. Air Force; in 2007, became the first Puerto Rican [[Rhodes scholar]]<ref name="MH">{{cite web|url=http://www.usafa.af.mil/uploads/temp/rhodesScholar2008/levyRhodesScholarship.html|title=Rhodes Scholar|accessdate=April 1, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113154055/http://www.usafa.af.mil/uploads/temp/rhodesScholar2008/levyRhodesScholarship.html|archivedate=January 13, 2009}}</ref><ref name="FPR">{{cite web|url=http://www.topix.com/world/puerto-rico/2007/11/afa-cadet-first-puerto-rican-rhodes-scholar|title=Puerto Rico News|publisher=Topix|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Rafael O'Ferrall]], Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic and person of [[Puerto Rican people|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">{{cite web|url=http://www.ng.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/2095.htm |title=Brigadier General Rafael O'Ferrall|accessdate=August 24, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730024554/http://www.ng.mil/ngbgomo/library/bio/2095.htm|archivedate=July 30, 2009}}</ref>
* [[María Inés Ortiz]], Captain, U.S. Army; of Puerto Rican descent; first [[United States Army]] nurse to die in combat during [[Iraq War|Operation Iraqi Freedom]] and the first to die in combat since the Vietnam War<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Robert Patterson|url=http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/miotriz.htm|title=Maria Ines Ortiz, Captain, United States Army |website=Arlingtoncemetery.net|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Evelio Otero, Jr.]], Colonel. U.S. Air Force; led the establishment of the first ever U.S. Central Command Headquarters in [[Qatar]]; founded the [[Polish people|Polish]] and [[Colombian people|Colombian]] Joint Special Operations Commands while assigned to [[United States Special Operations Command]]<ref name="EJ">{{cite web|url=http://combatveteransforcongress.org/cand/2771|format=PDF|title=Combat Veterans for Congress: Homepage|website=Combateveteransforcongress.org|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Hector E. Pagan]], Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent to become Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army [[John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]] at [[Fort Bragg (North Carolina)|Fort Bragg, North Carolina]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soc.mil/swcs/Pagan%20bio.pdf|title=Archived copy|accessdate=June 5, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319214618/http://www.soc.mil/swcs/Pagan%20bio.pdf|archivedate=March 19, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Lizbeth Robles]], U.S. Army; in 2005, was the first female soldier born in Puerto Rico to die in combat as an active soldier during Operation Iraqi Freedom<ref>[http://www.fallenheroesmemorial.com/oif/profiles/robleslizbeth.html Fallen Heroes Memorial: Lizbeth Robles], fallenheroesmemorial.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.usma.edu/PublicAffairs/PV/060106/ryanlaw.htm |title=Public Affairs - Home |website=Usma.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref name="MSR">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/marketing/women/ryan.authcheckdam.pdf |format=PDF |title=Maritza S. Ryan |website=Americanbar.org |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Marc H. Sasseville]], Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; Puerto Rican mother; on 11 September 2001,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/n/Jaime-Montilla/GENE8-0019.html#CHILD196 |title=Jaime-Montilla - User Trees - Genealogy.com |website=Familytreemaker.genealogy.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref> was acting operations group commander under the 113th Wing of the DC Air National Guard; one of four fighter pilots commissioned with finding and destroying [[United Flight 93]] by any means necessary, including ramming the aircraft in midair<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035704/9-11-anniversary-Heather-Penneys-suicide-mission-United-93.html Marc H. Sasseville reference], dailymail.co.uk; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=marc_sasseville Marc Sasseville profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030727/http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=marc_sasseville |date=September 24, 2015 }}, historycommons.org; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Frances M. Vega]], SPC, U.S. Army; on 2 November 2003, became the first female soldier of Puerto Rican descent to die in a combat zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom<ref>Griffith, Frank. "Puerto Rican soldier killed in Chinook helicopter downing buried with full military honors". [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/memorial/20031110-1217-puerto-rico-soldier-funeral.html Frances M. Vega profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314015130/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/memorial/20031110-1217-puerto-rico-soldier-funeral.html |date=March 14, 2007 }}, [[Associated Press]], 10 November 2003.</ref>
*'''[[Noel Zamot]]''', Colonel, U.S. Air Force, a native of Rio Piedras, was the first Hispanic [[Commandants of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|Commandant]] of the Air Force's elite [[U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School|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>[https://caribbeanbusiness.com/puerto-rico-fiscal-board-announces-appointment-of-revitalization-coordinator/ Puerto Rico fiscal board announces appointment of revitalization coordinator, By Caribbean Business on July 24, 2017]</ref>
*[[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>[https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=70585 nbc learn K-12]</ref><ref>[http://www.usar.army.mil/Leadership/Article-View/Article/1381876/brigadier-general-irene-zoppi/ Brigadier General Irene Zoppi]</ref>

==Physicians, scientists and inventors==
[[File:Agustin stahl.jpg|thumb|200px|Agustin Stahl]][[File:Fermín Tangüis.jpg|thumb|150px|Fermín Tangüis]][[File:Joseph Acaba v2.jpg|thumb|140px|Joseph Acaba]][[File:VADM Antonia Novello.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Antonia Novello]] – Surgeon General of the United States]][[File:ADM Joxel Garcia.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Joxel García]] – Assistant Secretary of Health for President [[George W. Bush]]]][[File:Gonzalez Sanabria.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Olga D. González-Sanabria]] – member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame]]
* [[Joseph M. Acaba]], scientist, educator, first Puerto Rican astronaut
* José Ramón Alcalá, anatomist; appointed assistant professor in 1972 in the Wayne School of Medicine; expert on cell makeup of the human eye lens; developed laboratory methods to study the histology of ocular tissue, which ultimately helped explain the development of cataracts, among other maladies of the eye<ref name="HF"/><ref>{{cite journal|url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006291X87910072 | doi=10.1016/0006-291X(87)91007-2 | volume=147 | title=Limited proteolysis of gap junction protein is intrinsic in mammlian lens fiber-cell plasma membranes | year=1987 | journal=Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | pages=846–853 | last1 = Alcala | first1 = Jose}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Albizu Miranda]], [[psychologist]]; first Hispanic educator to have a North American university renamed in his honor; one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in psychology in the U.S.<ref name="Carlos Albizu University"/>
* [[Ricardo Alegría]], [[anthropologist]], [[archaeologist]] and educator; "father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology"
* [[List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors#Inventors|Jorge N. Amely Vélez]], electrical engineer and inventor; holds various patents in the field of [[medical technology]]<ref>[http://patents.justia.com/inventor/JORGENAMELYVELEZ.html Patents By Inventor Jorge N. Amely-Velez profile], patents.justia.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Bailey Ashford|Bailey K. Ashford]], author, physician, soldier, and [[parasitology|parasitologist]]; Colonel in the U.S. Army, arrived in Puerto Rico during the [[Spanish–American War]] and made the island his home; organized and conducted a parasite treatment campaign which cured approximately 300,000 people (one-third of the Puerto Rico population) and reduced the death rate from this anemia by 90 percent<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ashford&GSfn=Bailey+&GSiman=1&GScid=109435&GRid=27762542&|title=Col Bailey Kelly Ashford (1873-1934) memorial|website=Findagrave.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref name="PRET">[[Delma S. Arrigoitia]], ''Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barceló, 1868–1938''; Ediciones Puerto (January 2008); {{ISBN|978-1-934461-69-3}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Beauchamp]], surgeon; first Puerto Rican specialist certified by the American Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Board; performed the first in vitro fertilization technique on the island in 1985<ref name="GC">{{cite web|url=http://gyncare.net/editores.htm|title=Archived copy|accessdate=5 October 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208034627/http://gyncare.net/editores.htm|archivedate=December 8, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Víctor Manuel Blanco]], astronomer; in 1959, discovered a "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster;<ref name="EG">[http://www.surastronomico.com/exotico_cielo_profundo.php?id=9 "El Escultor de las Galaxias"], surastronomico.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref> second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in [[Chile]], which has the largest 4-m telescope in the [[Southern Hemisphere]];<ref name="NOAO">{{cite web|url=http://www.tuc.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/dec95/art4.html|title=The Victor M. Blanco Telescope (December 1, 1995)|website=Tuc.noao.edu|date=1995-09-08|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203346/http://www.tuc.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/dec95/art4.html|archivedate=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> in 1995, the telescope was dedicated in his honor as the "Víctor M. Blanco Telescope", also known as the "Blanco 4m"<ref name="BH">[http://www.ctio.noao.edu/diroff/ctio_history.htm Brief History of THE CERRO TOLOLO INTER-AMERICAN OBSERVATORY] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907001245/http://www.ctio.noao.edu/diroff/ctio_history.htm |date=September 7, 2008 }}, ctio.noao.edu; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Rafael L. Bras]], former chair of Civil Engineering at [[MIT]]; leading expert on [[hydrometeorology]] and [[global warming]]<ref name="gt">{{cite news|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=59917|title=Rafael Bras Named Georgia Tech Provost|publisher=[[Georgia Institute of Technology]]|date=2010-07-07|accessdate=2011-07-10}}</ref>
* [[Puerto Rican scientists and inventors|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">{{cite web|url=http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/hep-bios.html |title=Anthony M. Busquets profile |website=Oeop.larc.nasa.gov |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524031122/http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/hep-bios.html |archivedate=May 24, 2015 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=https://msafungi.org/wp-content/uploads/Inoculum/58(2).pdf |title=Inoc 58(2) |website=Webcache.googleusercontent.com |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912030931/http://msafungi.org/wp-content/uploads/Inoculum/58%282%29.pdf |archivedate=September 12, 2015 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[Nitza Margarita Cintron]], scientist; Chief of [[NASA]]'s (JSC) Space and Health Care Systems Office
* [[Pablo Clemente-Colon]], first Puerto Rican Chief Scientist of the National Ice Center (2005–present)
* [[Antonia Coello Novello]], physician; first Hispanic and first woman U.S. Surgeon General (1990–93)
* [[Martín Corchado]] (born 1839), physician, medical researcher, and president of the [[Autonomist Party (Puerto Rico)|Autonomist Party of Puerto Rico]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050108103331/http://biblioteca.uprrp.edu/Colecci%C3%B3n%20Jaime%20Bagu%C3%A9.pdf ''COLECCIÓN JAIME BAGUÉ RAMÍREZ.''] Page 130. Retrieved 2 December 2011</ref>
* [[José F. Cordero]], pediatrician; founding director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]]<ref name="JC">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/about/organization/advisorycommittee/roster/Pages/j_cordero.aspx |title=National Children's Study (NCS) |website=Nationalchildrensstudy.gov |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104142011/http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/about/organization/advisorycommittee/roster/Pages/j_cordero.aspx |archivedate=January 4, 2014 |df= }}</ref>
* [[List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors#Medicine|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 (June 1985); {{ISBN|0-932469-02-7}}/{{ISBN|978-0-93246-902-1}}</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">[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_LangleyMSL.html Langley is 'All Systems Go' to Make History on Mars], NASA, 07.16.12 (Accessed Nov. 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 [[United States government|U.S. government]] on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/sep/HQ_04308_feature_castillo_prt.htm|title=NASA - NASA Scientist Recognized As Innovator|website=Nasa.gov|date=2004-09-22|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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, Puerto Rico|Ponce]]<ref name="galenusrevista.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.galenusrevista.com/El-Dr-Manuel-de-la-Pila-Iglesias|title=El Dr. Manuel de la Pila Iglesias: - Revista Galenus|website=Galenusrevista.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program|Alfonso Eaton]], mechanical engineer, aerospace technologist; first Puerto Rican to work for NASA<ref name="RUM">{{cite web|url=http://www.uprm.edu/news/articles/as0842003.html|title=Noticias y Eventos|publisher=Uprm.edu|accessdate=2015-07-10}}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=http://askmagazine.nasa.gov/issues/22/22_profile_figueroa.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=September 18, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050202/http://askmagazine.nasa.gov/issues/22/22_profile_figueroa.html|archivedate=July 21, 2011}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://hsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/staff/bios/cs/Adolfo_Figueroa_Vinas.htm|title=Home Page - Heliophysics Science Division - 670|website=Hsd.gsfc.nasa.gov|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[José N. Gándara]], lead physician attending to the wounded of the [[Ponce Massacre]] and later an expert witness at the trials of the "[[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party|Nacionalistas]]" as well as before the Hays Commission; held numerous government positions, including Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico; co-founded the [[Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico]]<ref>[http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/abstract/s1-25/3/271 Chemotherapy of Human Filariasis by the Administration of Neostibosan]</ref><ref>[https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/biblioteca_jngandara/Historia.htm&date=2009-10-25+13:32:40 Historia del "Dr. José N. Gándara y de la escuela que lleva su nombre"], Geocities.com; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Joxel García]], first Puerto Rican [[United States Assistant Secretary for Health|Assistant Secretary for Health]], [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]; Admiral in the [[United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps]]<ref>[https://www.hhs.gov/ophs/assistantsecretaryhealth/index.html Admiral Joxel García's biodata], Hhs.gov; accessed 4 April 2016.</ref>
* [[Mario García Palmieri]], cardiologist; first Hispanic to be designated a "Master" by the American College of Cardiology<ref name="E">Rosa Rivera Medina, [http://www.rcm.upr.edu/rcm/Noticias/84/Dr%20Garc%C3%ADa%20Palmieri.pdf "Dr. Mario R. García Palmieri recibe distinción prestigiosa"; Especial para ESCENARIO] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927105943/http://www.rcm.upr.edu/rcm/Noticias/84/Dr%20Garc%C3%ADa%20Palmieri.pdf |date=September 27, 2011 }}, rcm.upr.edu; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Sixto González]], scientist; first Puerto Rican Director of the [[Arecibo Observatory]], with the world's largest single dish radio telescope<ref name="CR">[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2003-10-31/html/CREC-2003-10-31-pt1-PgE2181.htm THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY, Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 156 (Friday, October 31, 2003), pg. E2181]</ref>
* [[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{{clarify|date=June 2016}}<ref name="SPM">{{cite web|url=http://saludpromujer.md.rcm.upr.edu/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D247%26Itemid%3D240|title=Archived copy|accessdate=3 November 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824110035/http://saludpromujer.md.rcm.upr.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=247&Itemid=240|archivedate=August 24, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Isaac González Martínez]], [[urology|urologist]]; first Puerto Rican [[urology|urologist]]; pioneer in the fight against cancer in the island<ref>[http://www.galenusrevista.com/dr-isaac-gonzalez-martinez Dr. Isaac González Martínez, investigador, epidemiólogo y radioterapeuta]</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/grc-OGonzalezSanabria.html |title=Welcome to Latina Women of NASA home page |website=Latinawomen.nasa.gov |date=2001-02-28 |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127190051/http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/grc-OGonzalezSanabria.html |archivedate=January 27, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/gsfc-AHernandez-Pellerano.html |title=Welcome to Latina Women of NASA home page |website=Latinawomen.nasa.gov |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130824/http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/gsfc-AHernandez-Pellerano.html |archivedate=March 4, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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>[http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/larc-GHernandez.html Gloria Hernandez profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127190051/http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/larc-GHernandez.html |date=January 27, 2016 }}, latinawomen.nasa.gov; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Puerto Rican scientists and inventors|Lucas G. Hortas]], aerospace engineer and technologist; author and or co-author of over 35 technical papers<ref name="Hep@Nasa Larc">{{cite web|url=http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/hep-bios.html |title=Hep@Nasa Larc |publisher=Oeop.larc.nasa.gov |accessdate=2015-07-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524031122/http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/hep-bios.html |archivedate=May 24, 2015 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web |url=http://www.hispanicphysicists.org/recognition/bioLopez |title=Ramon E. Lopez - NSHP - National Society of Hispanic Physicists |accessdate=November 28, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725192640/http://www.hispanicphysicists.org/recognition/bioLopez |archivedate=July 25, 2011}}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|accessdate=October 4, 2008 |url=http://www.cienciapr.org/history |title=Historia de la investigación científica en Puerto Rico |author=Rigau Pérez, José G. |publisher=CienciaPR |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930192644/http://www.cienciapr.org/history |archivedate=September 30, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Puerto Rican scientists and inventors|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>{{cite web|url=http://icte.umsl.edu/newsletter/may99.html|title=Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center: Newsletter: May 1999|website=Icte.umsl.edu|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program|Debbie Martínez]], computer engineer, aerospace technologist; Flight Systems and Software Branch software manager for the Cockpit Motion Facility at NASA Langley Research Center<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/larc-DMartinez.html |title=Welcome to Latina Women of NASA home page |publisher=Latinawomen.nasa.gov |date=2001-02-28 |accessdate=2015-07-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127190051/http://latinawomen.nasa.gov/hep/lwon/LWONbios/larc-DMartinez.html |archivedate=January 27, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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">{{cite web|url=http://medicine-opera.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/martines-founders-medal-presentation.pdf|format=PDF|title=Presentation of the Southern society for Clinical Investigation Founder's Medal to Dr. Manuel Martinez-Maldonado|website=Medicine-opera.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Mignucci]], marine biologist, oceanographer; founder of "Red Caribeña de Varamientos"
* [[List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors|Carlos Ortiz Longo]], mechanical engineer; Chief of Crew Health Care Systems and Exercise Countermeasures at NASA
* [[Joseph O. Prewitt Díaz]], [[psychologist]]; specialized in [[psychosocial]] theory; recipient of the [[American Psychological Association]]'s 2008 International Humanitarian Award<ref>{{cite journal|title=International humanitarian award: Joseph Orlando Prewitt Díaz|journal=American Psychologist|date=November 2008|pages=818–20|ref=harv|doi=10.1037/0003-066x.63.8.818|volume=63|pmid=19014254}}</ref>
* [[Mercedes Reaves]], research engineer and scientist; responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail and the development and testing of a scale model solar sail at NASA Langley Research Center<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/innovation/innovation94/5-aerotech2.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=September 4, 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001182727/http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/innovation/innovation94/5-aerotech2.html|archivedate=October 1, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Ron Rivera (public health)|Ron Rivera]], inventor and workshop organizer; invented life-saving water filters based on pottery<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/health/14rivera.html "Ron Rivera, Potter Devoted to Clean Water, Dies at 60"], Nytimes.com, September 14, 2008.</ref>
* [[Juan A. Rivero]], scientist and educator; founded the [[Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo]] in Mayagüez, has discovered numerous animal species; author of several books<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oslpr.org/LeyesPopUp.asp?pages=3&tipo=2&year=1998|title=Ley 32 del 19 de enero de 1998. Para disponer que el Zoológico de Mayagüez sea designado como "Zoológico Dr. Juan A. Rivero"|date=1998-01-19|accessdate=January 2, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504063304/http://www.oslpr.org/LeyesPopUp.asp?pages=3&tipo=2&year=1998|archivedate=May 4, 2012|df=mdy}}</ref>
* [[Miriam Rodon-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 (NASA)|Miguel Rodríguez]], mechanical engineer; Chief of the Integration Office of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Management Office<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/support/engineering|title=Behind the Scenes: Engineering|website=Spaceflight.nasa.gov|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Rodriguez (NASA)|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">{{cite web |url=http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/news/releases/2001/01-314.html |title=Marshall Space Flight Center News Release 01-314 (09-27-01) |accessdate=5 October 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916100322/http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/news/releases/2001/01-314.html |archivedate=September 16, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Helen Rodriguez-Trias]], physician and 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<ref name="FoM"/>
* [[Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas]], dental scientist; discovered the bacteria which causes dental cavities<ref name="PRH">{{cite news|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n36/LatinaScientist-en.html|title=Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas profile|newspaper=Puerto Rico Herald|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Monserrate Roman]], scientist, microbiologist; helped build the [[International Space Station]]<ref name="SFCD">{{cite web |url=http://sanfranciscocosmeticdentistry.blogspot.com/2003/05/dental-carie-causes.html |title=SAN FRANCISCO COSMETIC DENTISTRY: Dental Carie Causes |accessdate=October 5, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603232606/http://sanfranciscocosmeticdentistry.blogspot.com/2003/05/dental-carie-causes.html |archivedate=June 3, 2008}}</ref><ref>Highlights in the History of U.S. Army Dentistry. See "16 March 1940" entry.</ref>
* [[Gualberto Ruaño]], biotechnology pioneer and founder of Genomas, Inc.; pioneer in the field of personalized medicine; inventor of a system used worldwide for the management of viral diseases; President and founder of Genomas, a genetics-related company; director of genetics research at Hartford Hospital's Genetic Research Center<ref>[http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news11113.html "Genetic Roadmap Targets Drug Therapies"], Hartfordbusiness.com, November 30, 2009.</ref>
* [[José Francisco Salgado]], Emmy-nominated astronomer, visual artist, and science communicator; astronomer at the [[Adler Planetarium]] in Chicago; member of the audiovisual ensemble [[Bailey-Salgado Project]]<ref>[http://nbclatino.com/2012/07/03/an-astronomer-who-urges-not-to-have-limits José Francisco Salgado profile], Nbclatino.com, July 3, 2012; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Ulises Armand Sanabria]], of [[Puerto Ricans in the United States|Puerto Rican]] and [[French-American|French]] descent; developed mechanical televisions and early terrestrial television broadcasts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earlytelevision.org/u_a_sanabria.html |title=Ulises Armand Sanabria |website=Earlytelevision.org |date= |accessdate=2016-10-21}}</ref>
* [[Eduardo Santiago Delpín]], surgeon; wrote the first book in Spanish about organ transplants<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&q=Dr.+Eduardo+Santiago+Delpin&start=0&sa=N Dr. Eduardo Santiago Delpín profile], Google.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Yajaira Sierra Sastre]], astronaut; part of a NASA project on astronaut nutrition and health; She will live for four months isolated in a planetary module at a base in Hawaii to simulate life at a future base on Mars<ref name="HSN">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120717205915/http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/yajaira-sierra-one-step-closer-to-becoming-first-puerto-rican-woman-in-spac/17115/ "Yajaira Sierra One Step Closer to Becoming First Puerto Rican Woman in Space"] , hispanicallyspeakingnews.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref><ref name="FN">[http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/07/13/yajaira-sierra-dreams-being-1st-puerto-rican-woman-in-space "Yajaira Sierra dreams of being 1st Puerto Rican woman in space"], latino.foxnews.com, July 13, 2012.</ref>
* [[Diego R. Solís]], physician; performed the first simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant in Puerto Rico<ref name="TR">[http://doctoressolis.com/medicos Medicos: Diego R. Solís] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331105559/http://doctoressolis.com/medicos/ |date=March 31, 2012 }}, doctoressolis.com; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Félix Soto Toro]], electrical engineer, astronaut applicant; developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System (ASPTMS), an electronic 3D measuring system
* [[Agustín Stahl]], scientist in the fields of [[botany]], [[ethnology]] and [[zoology]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/PRFlora/Stahl/index.cfm|title=Flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands|accessdate= September 17, 2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901071918/http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/PRFlora/Stahl/index.cfm|archivedate=September 1, 2006 }}</ref>
* [[Ramón M. Suárez Calderon]], scientist, cardiologist, educator and hematologist; his investigations led to the identification of the proper and effective treatment of a type of [[anemia]] known as Tropical Espru, the application of complex methods, such as [[electrocardiography]] and [[radioisotope]], to be used in clinics and the identification and treatment of the disease which causes [[rheumatism|heart rheumatism]]<ref name="CPR"/>
* [[Fermín Tangüis]], scientist, agriculturist and entrepreneur; developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and saved that nation's cotton industry<ref name="MV">[http://www.ftanguis.edu.pe/modelodevida.html "Un Modelo de Vida"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512063013/http://www.ftanguis.edu.pe/modelodevida.html |date=May 12, 2008 }}, ftanguis.edu.pe; accessed April 4, 2016. {{es icon}}</ref>
* Dr. [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]], astrophysicist, television and radio host; Puerto Rican mother; director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City; host of the PBS series ''Cosmos: A Personal Voyage''<ref>[http://www.llanj.org/announcements/puerto-rican-astrophysicist-set-inspire-next-generation-reach-stars-new-science-show/0 Puerto Rican astrophysicist set to inspire next generation to reach for the stars with new science show] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502035618/http://www.llanj.org/announcements/puerto-rican-astrophysicist-set-inspire-next-generation-reach-stars-new-science-show/0 |date=May 2, 2014 }}, llanj.org; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>

==Politicians==
[[File:Jose de Diego 2.jpg|thumb|140px|José de Diego - the "father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement"]]
[[File:Federico Degetau y González.JPG|thumb|140px|[[Federico Degetau]] – writer, author, and resident commissioner]][[File:Albizu.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Pedro Albizu Campos]] – President and principal leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]]
[[File:Nydia Velázquez.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Nydia Velázquez]] – Congresswoman from New York City]]
[[File:luis gutierrez.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Luis Gutiérrez]] – Congressman from Chicago]][[File:McClontock.JPG|140px|thumb|Kenneth McClintock – Secretary of State of Puerto Rico]][[File:Jose Coll y Cuchi.jpg|140px|thumb| [[José Coll y Cuchí]] – founder of the [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]]]]

'''19th century'''
* [[Román Baldorioty de Castro]], "the father of Puerto Rico's autonomy"
* [[José Celso Barbosa]], "the father of Puerto Rico's statehood movement"
* [[Eugenio María de Hostos]] a.k.a. "El Ciudadano de las Américas" (the Citizen of the Americas), educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, and independence advocate
* [[José M. Dávila Monsanto]], senator, politician and lawyer; a co-founder of the Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico
* [[José de Diego]], "the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement"; elected to the House of Delegates, the only locally elected body of government allowed by the U.S.; presided 1904-1917<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1R2SKPB_enAE382&tbs=bks:1&q=Jos%C3%A9+de+Diego+Felipe+Diego+Elisa+Mart%C3%ADnez&rlz=1R2SKPB_enAE382&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=f46a8ee5cacb00ff|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 17, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317093950/https://www.google.com/|archivedate=March 17, 2012}}</ref>
* [[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, Puerto Rico|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>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~prsanjua/a-sj.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=June 24, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602173552/http://www.rootsweb.com/~prsanjua/a-sj.htm |archivedate=June 2, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[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 1904-06<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/Enciclopedia_Ilustrada/Documentos_historicos/Protagonistas/P12.htm |title=1898 La Guerra Hispano Americana |website=Proyectosalonhogar.com |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092737/http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/Enciclopedia_Ilustrada/Documentos_historicos/Protagonistas/P12.htm |archivedate=March 4, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0401/rosendo.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=June 14, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603005313/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/0401/rosendo.asp|archivedate=June 3, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Luis Muñoz Rivera]], former Resident Commissioner, journalist, politician (father of [[Luis Muñoz Marín]])
* [[Ramón Power y Giralt]], first Vice President of the [[Cortes de Cádiz]] (1810–1813)
* [[Francisco Mariano Quiñones]], first president of Puerto Rico's Autonomic Cabinet
* [[Francisco Ramírez Medina]], President of the Republic of Puerto Rico (23 September 1868) during the [[Grito de Lares]] revolt
* [[Segundo Ruiz Belvis]], leader of the Grito de Lares revolt
* [[Manuel Zeno Gandía]], leader of cooperative movement in Puerto Rico

'''20th century'''
* [[Baltasar Corrada del Rio]], 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
* [[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 1928-30<ref name="LJ">{{cite web|url=http://www.lexjuris.com/biografias/buscar/search.asp?rec_id%3D190|title=Archived copy|accessdate=December 20, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605074841/http://www.lexjuris.com/biografias/buscar/search.asp?rec_id=190|archivedate=June 5, 2012}}</ref>''
* [[Santos P. Amadeo]], "champion of hábeas corpus"; former Senator in the Puerto Rico legislature<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senadopr.us/Archivo_Digital/2009-2012/Interes_Publico/Senadores_PR%201917-2007.pdf|title=PR Senators|publisher=Senadopr.us|accessdate=January 13, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115160057/http://www.senadopr.us/Archivo_Digital/2009-2012/Interes_Publico/Senadores_PR%201917-2007.pdf|archivedate=January 15, 2009}}</ref>
* [[María Luisa Arcelay]], first woman in Puerto Rico elected to a government legislative body<ref>{{cite web |url=http://netdial.caribe.net/~josebru/biografia.htm |title=Datos Biograficos de las Srta |accessdate=June 22, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526001246/http://netdial.caribe.net/~josebru/biografia.htm |archivedate=May 26, 2010}}</ref>
* [[José Enrique Arrarás]], politician, educator, attorney, public servant and sports leader<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/mundocolor/id/805 |title=José Enrique Arrarás, representante por el Partido Popular Democrático en la Cámara de Representantes en una conferencia de prensa junto a otros funcionarios :: Fotos El Mundo (Color) |website=Bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Carmen E. Arroyo]], first Puerto Rican woman elected to any state assembly, chair New York Hispanic Legislative Caucus
* [[Herman Badillo]], first Puerto Rican to serve in U.S. Congress
* [[Joaquín Balaguer]], former president of [[Dominican Republic]] (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Antonio R. Barceló]], founder of the [[Puerto Rican Liberal Party]]; first president of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
* [[Josefina Barceló Bird de Romero]] (birth name: Maria Antonia Josefina Barceló Bird), elected president of the Liberal Party after her father died in 1938; first woman elected to lead a major political party in Puerto Rico<ref>[http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/CA/03/59/90/22/00287/00292.pdf "Don Antonio R. Barceló murió a las 8:11 de mañana ayer"] ''El Mundo'' (October 16, 1938): 1.</ref>
* [[Ángel O. Berríos]], former Mayor of [[Caguas, Puerto Rico|Caguas]]
* [[Rubén Berríos]], President of the [[Puerto Rican Independence Party]]
* [[Ramón Emeterio Betances]], "father of the Puerto Rican nation"; main leader of the [[Grito de Lares]] revolution
* [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]], former president of [[Dominican Republic]] (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Adolfo Carrión, Jr.]], former Bronx (New York City) borough president
* [[Adam Clayton Powell IV (politician)|Adam Clayton Powell IV]], former member of the New York State Assembly
* [[Severo Colberg Ramírez]], served as a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, and was the Speaker from 1982 to 1985
* [[Gilberto Concepción de Gracia]], founder of the Puerto Rican Independence Party
* [[Cayetano Coll y Cuchí]], first President of [[Puerto Rico House of Representatives]]
* [[José Coll y Cuchí]], founder of the [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]]
* [[Maria Colón Sánchez]], activist and politician; in 1988, became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly<ref name="GPRC">{{cite web |url=http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/HRJ/MariaSanchez.htm |title=www.ctheritage.org |website=Ctheritage.org |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430022941/http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/HRJ/MariaSanchez.htm |archivedate=April 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Rafael Cordero (mayor)|Rafael Cordero]], former Mayor of [[Ponce, Puerto Rico|Ponce]]
* [[Miguel del Valle]], Illinois State Senator; first Latino City Clerk of Chicago; 2011 mayoral candidate<ref>[http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=365848&CategoryId=14092 "Puerto Rican Vying to Be Chicago's First Hispanic Mayor"], ''[[Latin American Herald Tribune]]'' (laht.com), 11 September 2010.</ref>
* [[Nelson Antonio Denis]], former New York State Assemblyman
* [[Ruben Diaz Jr.|Rubén Díaz]], New York State Senator and religious leader
* [[Pedro Espada, Jr.]], New York State Senator
* [[Antonio Fernós-Isern]], first Puerto Rican cardiologist and Resident Commissioner
* [[Leopoldo Figueroa]], co-founder of the Independence Association, one of three political organizations which merged to form the [[Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]]; changed political ideals and in 1948 was a member of the Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Statehood Party); the only member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives that year who did not belong to the [[Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico]] PPD, who opposed the PPD's approval of the infamous Law 53, also known as "[[Puerto Rico's Gag Law]]" and "Ley de La Mordaza", which violated the civil rights of those who favor(ed) Puerto Rican independence<ref name="L">{{cite web|url=http://www.lexjuris.com/lexlex/leyes2006/lexl2006282.htm |title=Ley Núm. 282 de 2006 -Para declarar el día 21 de septiembre como el Día del Natalicio de Leopoldo Figueroa Carreras |website=Lexjuris.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.porpuertorico.com/rogeliogobernador/index.html |title=www.porpuertorico.com |website=Porpuertorico.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Bonnie García]], former California State Assemblywoman
* [[Robert Garcia (New York politician)|Robert Garcia]], former New York State Assemblyman, State Senator and U.S. Representative
* [[Oscar Garcia Rivera|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">{{cite web|url=http://www.east-harlem.com/mt/archives/cat_people_news.html |title=East Harlem News: People News Archives |website=East-harlem.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Miguel A. García Méndez]], youngest Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico's history; the Mayagüez General Post Office was named after him<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theorator.com/bills110/text/hr414.html|title=HR 414 - Miguel Angel Garcia Mendez Post Office Building Designation Act - U.S. House Bill, Public Law 110-29|publisher=Theorator.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[María Libertad Gómez Garriga]], the only woman in the Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico, formed in 1951; the only woman to sign the 1952 Constitution of Puerto Rico<ref>Yolanda Martínez Viruet, [https://addi.ehu.es/handle/10810/19589 ''María Libertad Gómez Garriga y el proceso de la Asamblea Constituyente del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico''] (PhD diss., Universidad del Pais Vasco 2016).</ref><ref>Glorimar Rodríguez González, [https://www.mujeresconvision.com/single-post/2016/12/01/Mar%C3%ADa-Libertad-G%C3%B3mez-Garriga-una-transgresora-en-la-pol%C3%ADtica-puertorrique%C3%B1a "María Libertad Gómez Garriga: una transgresora en la política puertorriqueña"] ''Mujeres con Visión'' (December 1, 2016).</ref>
* [[Luis Gutiérrez]], United States Representative from Illinois<ref name="La Voz 2">{{cite web|title=The Mastery of the Politics of Making the Impossible Possible |url=http://lavoz-prcc.org/2009/04/congressman-luis-v-gutierrez-the-mastery-of-the-politics-of-making-the-impossible-possible/|publisher=La Voz del Paseo Boricua|accessdate=July 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/downloads/pdf/Bio_Lopez.pdf |format=PDF |title=Biography of Margarita López |website=Nyc.gov |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109035906/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/downloads/pdf/Bio_Lopez.pdf |archivedate=November 9, 2015 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Juan Francisco Luis]], 24th [[List of U.S. Virgin Islands Governors|governor]] of the [[United States Virgin Islands]], 1978–1987<ref name="VI">{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid%3D3dc7ae3effb81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD%26vgnextchannel%3De449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD |title=Archived copy |accessdate=13 August 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223014240/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=3dc7ae3effb81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD |archivedate=February 23, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Martin Malave Dilan]], New York State Senator
* [[Evelyn Mantilla]], member of Connecticut House of Representatives
* [[Juan Mari Brás]], founder of the Movimiento Pro Independencia and the modern Puerto Rican Socialist Party
* [[Tony Méndez|Antonio "Tony" Méndez]], first native-born Puerto Rican to become a district leader of a major political party in New York City<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/10/obituaries/antonio-mendez-dead-at-80-east-harlem-political-leader.html New York Times; ANTONIO MENDEZ DEAD AT 80; EAST HARLEM POLITICAL LEADER]</ref>
* [[Olga A. Méndez]], first Puerto Rican New York State Senator
* [[Rosie Méndez]], New York City councilwoman and activist
* [[Teodoro Moscoso]], architect of [[Operation Bootstrap]]; former U.S. Ambassador to [[Venezuela]] (1961–1964)
* [[Victoria Muñoz Mendoza]], 1992 PDP candidate for governor (daughter of [[Luis Muñoz Marín]])<ref>[http://electionspuertorico.org/1992/summary.html "Summary of November 3, 1992 General Election Results"]. ''Elections in Puerto Rico''. Retrieved 2011-02-11.</ref>
* [[Luis Muñoz Rivera (senator)|Luis Muñoz Rivera]], Senator; last surviving drafter of the Puerto Rico Constitution<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ramajudicial.pr/Prensa/mensajes/2006/9-29-06.html |title=Mensajes |publisher=Ramajudicial.pr |date=2006-09-29 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Félix Ortiz]], New York State Assemblyman, author of nation's first cellphone driving ban<ref name="Daily Eagle">{{cite web | url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/2/9/ortiz-named-assistant-assembly-speaker | title=Ortiz named assistant assembly speaker | work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] | date=February 9, 2015 | accessdate=August 23, 2015 | author=Katinas, Paula}}</ref>
* [[George Pabey]], Mayor of [[East Chicago, Indiana]]<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20050903061315/http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=hayes011805 |url=http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=hayes011805 |archivedate=2005-09-03 |website=www.tnr.com |title=The New Republic Online: Do Over}}</ref>
* [[Hernán Padilla]], former Mayor of San Juan, founder of the Puerto Rican Renewal Party<ref>{{Citation|last=Hernández |first=Rosario |language=Spanish |publisher=[[House of Representatives of Puerto Rico]] |title=R. de la C. 1310 |page=2 |date=July 20, 1993 |url=http://www.oslpr.org/files/docs/%7BD9C45AFF-536D-4306-BC4B-213A816108A8%7D.pdf |accessdate=September 1, 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927122154/http://www.oslpr.org/files/docs/%7BD9C45AFF-536D-4306-BC4B-213A816108A8%7D.pdf |archivedate=September 27, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Antonio Pagán]], former New York City Council member<ref name="obit">Sewell Chan, [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/antonio-pagan-50-ex-councilman-is-dead/ "Antonio Pagán, 50, Ex-Councilman, Is Dead"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 26, 2009.</ref>
* [[Eddie Perez (politician)|Eddie Perez]], former Mayor of [[Hartford, Connecticut]]<ref name="hartfordinfo.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/government/htfd_courant_102807_1.asp |title=Mr. Perez For Mayor |website=HartfordInfo.org |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180238/http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/government/htfd_courant_102807_1.asp |archivedate=March 3, 2016 |df= }}</ref>
*[[María de Pérez Almiroty]], first woman to be elected senator in Puerto Rico<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9PnnCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA441&dq=Maria%20Perez%20Almiroty&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q=Maria%20Perez%20Almiroty&f=false "Feminism and Women's Rights"] in Serafín Méndez-Méndez and Ronald Fernandez, eds., ''Puerto Rico Past and Present: An Encyclopedia'' (ABC-Clio 2015): 158. {{ISBN|9781440828324}}</ref>
* [[Samuel R. Quiñones]], longest serving President of the Senate of Puerto Rico<ref>"Legisladores puertorriqueños 1900-1996", by Nestor Rigual</ref>
* [[Ernesto Ramos Antonini]], former Speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives<ref>[http://www.ramosantonini.com/biografia.htm ''Un Hombre para la Historia: Ernesto Ramos Antonini, Biografia.''] Ernesto Morales Ramos. 2005; retrieved December 20, 2011.</ref>
* [[Charles Rangel]], United States Congressman (Puerto Rican father)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/nyregion/11spanish.html? |title=Archived copy |accessdate=11 September 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210162439/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/nyregion/11spanish.html |archivedate=December 10, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Roberto Rexach Benítez]], former Senate President, educator; current columnist for the ''El Vocero'' newspaper<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senadopr.us/Cronologia/Discurso_ROBERTO%20REXACH%20BEN%C3%8DTEZ.pdf |format=PDF |title=DISCURSO INAUGURAL ROBERTO REXACH BENÍTEZ DÉCIMO PRESIDENTE DEL SENADO DE PUERTO RICO: 11 DE ENERO DE 1993-1996 |website=Senadopr.us |accessdate=2016-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403033426/http://www.senadopr.us/Cronologia/Discurso_ROBERTO%20REXACH%20BEN%C3%8DTEZ.pdf |archive-date=April 3, 2012 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Felisa Rincón de Gautier]], first woman to be elected Mayor of a capital city in the [[Americas]] ([[Western Hemisphere]])
* [[Ramón Luis Rivera]], Mayor of [[Bayamón]] 1977–2001
* [[Samuel Rivera]], Mayor of [[Passaic, New Jersey]]
* [[Manuela Santiago Collazo]], Mayor of [[Vieques]] (1985–2000)<ref>{{cite web|title=Punta Mulas, PR |url=http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1167 |work=Lighthouse Friends |accessdate=December 6, 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526195320/http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1167 |archivedate=May 26, 2011 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Jorge Santini]], former three-term Mayor of [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] and Vice President of the [[New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico|New Progressive Party]], former senator<ref>{{cite book|title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States George W. Bush 2002|page=2233|accessdate=March 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/niac/NIAC_MtgMinutes_Jul12-2005.pdf|title=National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Meeting Agendas|author=|date=|accessdate=March 7, 2016}}</ref>
* [[José E. Serrano]], most senior Puerto Rican congressman, Chair of House Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegetermpapers.com/TermPapers/Government_&_Politics/Political_Profile_of_Jose_Serrano.shtml |title=Political Profile of Jose Serrano, Government & Politics |website=CollegeTermPapers.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Gloria Tristani]], first Hispanic woman appointed as one of the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/370/000087109/ |title=Gloria Tristani |website=Nndb.com |date=2001-02-28 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Nydia Velázquez]], first Puerto Rican congresswoman, Chair of House Small Business Committee<ref name="HAC">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/congress/velazquez.html |title=Hispanic Americans in Congress - Velázquez |website=Loc.gov |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Raúl G. Villaronga]], first Puerto Rican elected mayor in Texas ([[Killeen, Texas|Killeen]])<ref name="Bat">[http://www.thebatt.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticleComments&display=all&&ustory_id=56156fa2-bac3-4319-bbfc-e27f31116ae5]{{dead link|date=April 2016}}</ref>

'''21st century'''
* [[Richard Carmona]], 17th Surgeon General of the United States
* [[Ruth Noemí Colón]], 66th Secretary of State of New York
* [[Pedro Cortés]], Pennsylvania's former Secretary of the Commonwealth; past President of National Association of Secretaries of State
* [[Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez]], former Secretary of State of New York
* [[Rubén Díaz, Jr.]], former New York State Assemblyman; Bronx Borough President (2009–present)
* [[Wilda Diaz]], first female mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey; first Puerto Rican, first woman, and first Latino elected mayor in New Jersey<ref>Adarlo, Sharon (July 1, 2008). [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/mayor_to_take_oath_in_perth_am_1.html "New mayor takes office in Perth Amboy"]. ''[[Newark Star Ledger]]''.</ref>
* [[Jenniffer González]], former Speaker of the [[Puerto Rico House of Representatives]]<ref name="elnuevodia.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/politica/noticias/sin_pompa_la_jura_en_la_legislatura/512901 |title=Home – El Nuevo Día |publisher=Elnuevodia.com |accessdate=4 April 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104184703/http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/politica/noticias/sin_pompa_la_jura_en_la_legislatura/512901 |archivedate=January 4, 2014 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Raúl Labrador]], Congressman representing [[Idaho's 1st congressional district]] in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]]<ref name=rl12>{{cite news |url=http://projects.wsj.com/campaign2012/candidates/view/raul-labrador--ID-H |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |title=Raul Labrador |agency=Election 2012 |date=November 2012 |accessdate=October 6, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Kenneth McClintock]], 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate; 22nd Secretary of State/Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/politica/noticias/mcclintock_a_la_secretaria_de_estado/488273 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=27 November 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420194746/http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/politica/noticias/mcclintock_a_la_secretaria_de_estado/488273 |archivedate=April 20, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Hiram Monserrate]],former New York State Senator<ref name="nytimes_expel">{{cite news | title=Lawmakers Expel N.Y. State Senator Over Assault | last=Peters | first=Jeremy | publisher=New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/nyregion/10hiram.html | date=2009-02-09}}</ref>
* [[Antonia Novello]],14th Surgeon General of the U.S.; Vice Admiral, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps<ref name="Achieve">{{cite web|url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/nov0bio-1|title=Antonia Novello Biography Academy of Achievement|accessdate=2009-01-27|work=[[Academy of Achievement]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131011634/http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/nov0bio-1|archivedate=January 31, 2009|deadurl=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], Democratic nominee for [[United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York,_2018#District_14|United States House of Representatives New York District 14]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html|title=A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist just ousted a powerful, 10-term congressman in New York|last=CNN|first=Gregory Krieg,|work=CNN|access-date=2018-07-03}}</ref>
* [[Cesar A. Perales]], 67th Secretary of State of New York
* [[Pedro Pierluisi]], former Attorney General of PR; [[Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico|Resident Commissioner]], 2008–present; [[New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico|NPP]] President, 2013–present<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/gobierno-politica/nota/buscaauxiliofederal-261641|title=Busca auxilio federal|date={{date|2009-01-07|mdy}} |newspaper=[[Primera Hora (Puerto Rico)|Primera Hora]] |language=Spanish |accessdate={{date|2013-09-02|mdy}} }}</ref>
* [[Roberto Prats]], co-chair of winning Hillary Clinton primary campaign; Democratic State Chair; former senator and PDP congressional candidate<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaboricua.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?LNG%3Den-US%26Screen%3DPROD%26Product_Code%3DAES-8474%26Category_Code%3DLibros|title=Archived copy|accessdate=October 13, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928055723/http://www.musicaboricua.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?LNG=en-US&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AES-8474&Category_Code=Libros|archivedate=September 28, 2011}}</ref>
* [[John Quiñones (politician)|John Quiñones]], first Republican Party candidate of Puerto Rican ancestry elected to Florida House of Representatives<ref>[http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2007/02/quinones_will_r.html House Official: Quiñones Will Run for Osceola Commission] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611071655/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2007/02/quinones_will_r.html |date=June 11, 2008 }} from ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'', February 1, 2007</ref>
* [[Thomas Rivera Schatz]], 14th President of the [[Senate of Puerto Rico]]<ref name="elnuevodia.com"/>
* [[Melinda Romero Donnelly]], three-term at-large legislator, two terms in House, one in Senate Senate;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/melindaromeroeslanuevasenadora-578266.html|title=Melinda Romero Donnelly profile|publisher=Elnuevodia.com|accessdate=April 4, 2016}}</ref> ''Caribbean Business'' journalist<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/prnt_ed/jobs-now-legislation-to-undergo-major-changes-8107.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130407215617/http://caribbeanbusinesspr.com/prnt_ed/jobs-now-legislation-to-undergo-major-changes-8107.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=April 7, 2013 |title=Jobs Now legislation to undergo major changes |publisher=Caribbeanbusinesspr.com |date=February 6, 2013 |accessdate=September 13, 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Pedro Segarra]], Mayor of [[Hartford, Connecticut]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wnpr.org/post/perez-convictions-overturned-what-happens-his-pension |title=With Perez Convictions Overturned, What Happens to His Pension?|website=Wnpr.org|date=2014-02-11|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Darren Soto]], Representative in Florida House of Representatives<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/29568134/state-sen-darren-soto-running-for-congress|title=Archived copy|accessdate=July 19, 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722021137/http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/29568134/state-sen-darren-soto-running-for-congress|archivedate=July 22, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Manuel A. Torres]], Puerto Rico's first Electoral Comptroller, and longest serving modern Secretary of the [[Senate of Puerto Rico]]<ref>[http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/torresnievestienedemasiadopoder-1327941/ El Nuevo Dia: Manuel A. Torres]</ref>
* [[Daryl Vaz]], Minister of Information and Telecommunication for [[Jamaica]] (Puerto Rican mother)<ref>[http://courtofappeal.gov.jm/sites/default/files/Dabdoub%20%28Abraham%29%20v.%20Vaz%20%28Daryl%29%20et%20al%20and%20Vaz%20%28Daryl%29%20v.%20Dabdoub%20%28Abraham%29.pdf ''Jamaica Court of Appeals: Dahdoub vs. Vaz – 2008 (Page 7)''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410072908/http://courtofappeal.gov.jm/sites/default/files/Dabdoub%20%28Abraham%29%20v.%20Vaz%20%28Daryl%29%20et%20al%20and%20Vaz%20%28Daryl%29%20v.%20Dabdoub%20%28Abraham%29.pdf |date=April 10, 2013 }}, ''[[Judiciary of Jamaica]]''; accessed April 4, 2016.</ref>

==U.S. laws inspired by Puerto Ricans==
*[[Briana's Law]] - [[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">[http://assembly.state.ny.us/Press/20140211a/ Assembly Passes Legislation Establishing "Briana's Law"]</ref>
*''[[Isabel González#United States Supreme Court: Gonzales v. Williams|Gonzales v. Williams]]'' - [[Isabel González]] was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship. González challenged the Government of the United States in the groundbreaking case ''Gonzales v. Williams'' (192 U.S. 1 (1904)). Her Supreme Court case is the first time that the Court confronted the citizenship status of inhabitants of territories acquired by the United States. González actively pursued the cause of U.S. citizenship for all Puerto Ricans by writing letters published in ''The New York Times''.<ref name="JAEH">{{cite journal
|accessdate=
|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jaeh/27.4/erman.html
|title=Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S. Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898 to 1905
|author=Erman, Sam
|journal=Journal of American Ethnic History
|volume=27
|issue=4
|date=Summer 2008
|deadurl=yes
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930173240/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jaeh/27.4/erman.html
|archivedate=2008-09-30
|df=
}}</ref>
*''[[Mendez v. Westminster]]'' - [[Felicitas Mendez|Felicitas Gomez Mendez]] was a pioneer of the [[American civil rights movement]]. In 1946, Mendez and her husband led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending ''[[de jure]]'' segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as ''[[Mendez v. Westminster]]'', paved the way for meaningful [[Racial integration|integration]], [[State School|public school]] reform, and the [[American civil rights movement]].<ref>{{cite news|accessdate=2007-04-05|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20060911/ai_n16721150|title=Mendez case paved way for Brown v. Board|work=Topeka Capital-Journal|date=September 11, 2006|author=Geisler, Lindsey}}</ref><ref name="Sauceda">"{{cite journal|journal=People en Espanol|title=Cambio Historico (Historic Change) |date=March 28, 2007|author=Sauceda, Isis|pages=111–112|language=Spanish}}</ref>

==Sports==
[[File:Sandy Alomar, Jr.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Sandy Alomar, Jr.|Santos "Sandy" Alomar]] – [[Cleveland Indians]] baseball player]][[File:Orlando Cepeda All Star Parade 2008.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Orlando Cepeda]] – MLB first baseman, second Puerto Rican in Baseball Hall of Fame]][[File:J.J. Barea Mavs.jpg|thumb|140px|[[José Juan Barea]] – professional basketball player with the [[Dallas Mavericks]]]]
[[File:Carlos Delgado.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Carlos Delgado]] – MLB player, [[New York Mets]]]]
[[File:Reggie Jackson at Dodger Stadium 2010.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Reggie Jackson]] – [[Major League Baseball]] right fielder]]
[[File:EdgarMartinez2009.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Edgar Martínez]] – MLB player with the [[Seattle Mariners]]]]
[[File:Jorge P.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Jorge Posada]] – [[New York Yankees]] catcher]]
[[File:Ivan Rodriguez on January 31, 2010.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Iván Rodríguez]] – MLB catcher for the [[Washington Nationals]]]]
[[File:Alfredo L. Escalera defensive Close-up pic.JPG|thumb|140px|[[Alfredo L. Escalera]] – [[Kansas City Royals]] outfielder; youngest player ever drafted]]
[[File:Monica Puig (27849192363) (cropped).jpg|thumb|140px|[[Monica Puig]] – Olympic gold medalist]]
[[File:Juan Evangelista Venegas.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Juan Evangelista Venegas]] – Olympic medalist]]

'''A'''
* [[Benjamin Agosto]], figure skater and Olympic medalist (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Roberto Alomar]], former baseball player, MLB All-Star, third Puerto Rican inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame (2011)
* [[Sandy Alomar, Jr.]], former baseball player
* [[Sandy Alomar, Sr.]], former baseball player
* [[Carmelo Anthony]], NBA player, [[Oklahoma City Thunder]] (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Orlando Antigua]], in 1995, the first Hispanic and first non-black in 52 years to play for the [[Harlem Globetrotters]] (Puerto Rican mother)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E3DD1239F93BA15751C1A963958260|title=SPORTS PEOPLE - BASKETBALL - A Non-Black Player Joins Globetrotters|location=Antigua and Barbuda|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1995-12-28|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Chris Armas]], soccer player (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Carlos Arroyo]], former NBA player, member and captain of the [[Puerto Rico national basketball team|Puerto Rican national basketball team]]
* [[Harry Arroyo]], boxer, former [[IBF]] Lightweight Champion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Harry_Arroyo|title=Harry Arroyo profile|publisher=BoxRec|date=2012-07-30|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Nolan Arenado]], baseball player, [[Colorado Rockies]] (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Jake Arrieta]], baseball player, [[Chicago Cubs]] (Puerto Rican grandfather)

'''B'''
* [[Javier Báez]], baseball player, [[Chicago Cubs]]
* [[Juan Báez]], former basketball player; recipient of Puerto Rico Olympic Medal of Honor
* [[José Juan Barea]], NBA player, [[Dallas Mavericks]]; first Puerto Rican to play for winning team in the NBA Finals
* [[María Elena Batista]], Olympic, PanAm and Central American games swimmer
* [[Bayley (wrestler)|Bayley]], WWE wrestler, real name Pamela Rose Martinez<ref>{{cite web|last=Namako|first=Jason|title=Recent WWE signee gets new ring name in NXT|url=http://www.wrestleview.com/wwe-news/39933-recent-wwe-signee-gets-new-ring-name-in-nxt|publisher=Wrestleview|accessdate=March 19, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Eddie Belmonte]], thoroughbred racing jockey<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hipodromo-camarero.com/history.htm |title=Hipodromo Camarero |publisher=Hipodromo Camarero |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Beltrán]], baseball player, outfielder/[[designated hitter]], [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]]
* [[Wilfred Benítez]], boxer, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[David "Kike" Bernier]], retired fencer, former Secretary of Sports and Recreation
* [[Hiram Bithorn]], baseball player, first Puerto Rican in Major League Baseball
* [[Devin Booker]], NBA player, [[Phoenix Suns]] (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Kristina Brandi]], tennis player

'''C'''
* [[Iván Calderón (baseball)|Iván Calderón]], baseball player
* [[Iván Calderón (boxer)|Iván Calderón]], boxer, world champion
* [[Hector 'Macho' Camacho]], boxer, former world champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[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 Cepeda|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>{{cite web|title=Perucho Cepeda|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Perucho_Cepeda|publisher=Baseball Reference.com|accessdate=September 12, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Nero Chen]], Puerto Rico's first professional boxer<ref>"Pioneros Puertorriqueños en Nueva York"; by Joaquin Colon Lopez; pp. 229-30; Arte Publico Press (November 2001); {{ISBN|1-55885-335-9}}; {{ISBN|978-1-55885-335-5}}</ref>''
* [[Julie Chu]], Olympic ice hockey player; forward on the U.S. women's ice hockey team; of Chinese and Puerto Rican descent<ref>{{cite news|author=John Blake |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/15/Olympic.preview/index.html |title=Vancouver welcomes the world|website=CNN.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Conchita Cintrón]], bullfighter (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Kermit Cintrón]], boxer, former [[International Boxing Federation]] welterweight champion (2006–08)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3134040|title=Welterweight titlist Cintron has severe ligament damage in right hand|publisher=Sports.espn.go.com|date=2007-11-29|accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref>
* [[Roberto Clemente]], 3,000-hit baseball player, first Puerto Rican member of Baseball Hall of Fame
* Abdiel Colberg, first Hispanic professional rollerblader
* [[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
* [[Carly 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>[http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25112018/mlb-david-price-steve-pearce-lead-boston-red-sox-world-series-win David Price, Steve Pearce lead Red Sox to World Series title]</ref>
* [[Ángel Cordero, Jr.]], jockey, member of Jockey Hall of Fame
* [[Carlos Correa]], first pick of the 2012 MLB Draft; 2015 [[Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award|AL Rookie of the Year]]
* [[Maritza Correia]], first black Puerto Rican woman on the U.S. Olympic swimming team
* [[Joe Cortez]], boxing referee; member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[Carla Cortijo]], basketball player, first Puerto Rican-born woman to play in the [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]]; guard for the [[Atlanta Dream]]<ref>[http://www.wnba.com/player/carla-cortijo/ WNBA]</ref>
* [[Miguel Cotto]], professional boxer, former light welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight world champion
* [[Eva Cruz]], volleyball player
* [[José Cruz|José "Cheo" Cruz]], baseball player whose number was retired by the Astros
* [[Orlando Cruz]], boxer; first professional boxer to publicly announce he is gay
* [[Teófilo Cruz]], basketball player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.endi.com/noticia/baloncesto/deportes/para_la_eternidad/171735 |title=Portada - El Nuevo Día |website=Endi.com |date= |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Victor Cruz (American football)|Victor Cruz]], NFL football player
* [[Javier Culson]], Olympic athlete; bronze medalist; specialises in the 400 metre hurdles

'''D'''
* [[Christian Dalmau]], [[Baloncesto Superior Nacional|BSN]] basketball player
* [[Raymond Dalmau]], basketball player
* [[Carlos De León]], first boxer to win cruiserweight world title four times
* [[Esteban De Jesús]], boxer, former world champion
* [[Madeline de Jesús]], athlete, runner short track, long-jump, triple jump, gold, silver and bronze medallist, participant in two Olympic Games
* [[Carlos Delgado]], former baseball player, [[New York Mets]]
* [[Edwin Díaz (pitcher)|Edwin Díaz]], baseball player, [[Seattle Mariners]]; by reaching his 50th strikeout in only 25 and a third innings, Díaz became the first pitcher to do so in at least 123 years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/mlb/seattle-mariners/mariners-insider-blog/article93616837.html|title=Mariners notebook: Closer Edwin Diaz is already making history|author=Bob Dutton|publisher=''[[The News Tribune]]''|date=2016-08-03|accessdate=2016-08-03}}</ref>

'''E'''
* [[Ivelisse Echevarría]], inducted into the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame (2003)
* [[Alfredo Escalera]], boxer, former world champion
* [[Alfredo L. Escalera]], baseball player, youngest player ever drafted by an MLB organization; drafted in 2012 by the [[Kansas City Royals]] franchise
* [[Nino Escalera]], baseball player, first Hispanic in the [[Cincinnati Reds]] franchise
* [[Sixto Escobar]], boxer, first Puerto Rican world champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[Ángel Espada]], boxer, former champion

'''F'''
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n22/PRSportsBeat0622-en.html |title=Gigi Fernández: "We Have A Mixed Identity" |publisher=Puerto Rico Herald |accessdate=17 May 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605165008/http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n22/PRSportsBeat0622-en.html |archivedate=June 5, 2011 |df= }}</ref>''
* [[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>{{cite web|url=http://www.primerahora.com/deportes/otros/nota/cruceanadoenlaplayadeponceesteseptiembre-540042|title=Cruce a Nado en la Playa de Ponce este septiembre |website=Primerahora.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Ed Figueroa]], baseball pitcher, first Puerto Rican to win 20 games in Major League
* [[Enrique Figueroa]], sailing

'''G'''
* [[Rubén Gómez (baseball)|Rubén Gómez]], first Puerto Rican to pitch and win a World Series game
* [[Wilfredo Gómez]], boxer, former world champion; member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[Arístides González]], boxer, first Olympic medalist under the flag of Puerto Rico, 1984 Summer Olympics
* [[Jorge González (runner)|Jorge González]], marathon runner
* [[Juan González (baseball)|Juan González]], former baseball player

'''H'''
* [[Herbert Lewis Hardwick]] a.k.a. "Cocoa Kid", boxer, inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/modern/kid_cocoa.html |title=Cocoa Kid |website=Ibhof.com |date=1914-05-02 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Ivonne Harrison]], track and field athlete
* [[Aaron Hernandez]], NFL football player and former member of the [[New England Patriots]]<ref name=pfrprofile>Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players, [https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HernAa00.htm Aaron Hernandez]. Retrieved 6 May 2011.</ref>''
* [[Enrique Hernández (baseball)|Enrique Hernandez]], baseball player, known colloquially as "Kiké"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21085355/los-angeles-dodgers-enrique-hernandez-hits-three-home-runs-clinch-world-series-berth|title=Dodgers' Enrique Hernandez joins exclusive club with 3-homer night}}</ref>
* [[James Chico Hernandez]], wrestling champion and member of the Latin-American Martial Arts Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/latin_americanma/hfame2002.html |title=LATIN-AMERICAN MARTIAL ARTS SOCIETY WORLD-WIDE HALL OF FAME : Hall of Fame 2002 |website=Webcitation.org |accessdate=2016-04-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5ko0tuTQe?url=http://www.geocities.com/latin_americanma/hfame2002.html |archivedate=October 26, 2009 |df=mdy }}</ref>
* [[Laurie Hernandez]], Olympic gold and silver medalist; member of the United States women's gymnastics team<ref>[http://remezcla.com/sports/laurie-hernandez-first-us-born-latina-make-womens-gymnastics-team-30-years/ Sports News: Laurie Hernández Is the Second Puerto Rican Gymnast to Represent Team USA at the Olympics]</ref>
* [[Ramón Hernández (pitcher)|Ramón Hernández]], former baseball player

'''J'''
* [[Reggie Jackson]], baseball player, member of Baseball Hall of Fame (Puerto Rican father)

'''K'''
* [[Julio Kaplan]], chess [[International Master]]; former World Junior Chess Champion
* [[Konnan]], professional wrestler

'''L'''
* [[Anita Lallande]], former Olympic swimmer; holds the island record for most medals won at CAC Games: 17 and 10 gold<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n48/PRSportsBeat0648-en.html|title=Puerto Rico Swimmers Make A Splash At CAC Games|publisher=Puerto Rico Herald|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[AJ Lee]], WWE Divas Champion<ref name="Homecoming">{{cite web|last=Monday|first=Michael|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/04/wrestlemania_29_homecoming_for.html|title=WrestleMania 29: Homecoming for Jersey's tiny 'Diva' AJ Lee|accessdate=September 1, 2013|date=April 3, 2013|publisher=NJ.com}}</ref><ref name="Jersey">{{cite web|last=Teodoro|first=Nick|title=AJ Lee, the WWE's 'Geek Goddess', talks triple-threat match and her NJ. homecoming|url=http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/WWE_Diva_AJ_Lee_No_Way_Out_Meadowlands_Female_World_Wrestling_.html|publisher=NorthJersey|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617173725/http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/WWE_Diva_AJ_Lee_No_Way_Out_Meadowlands_Female_World_Wrestling_.html|archivedate=June 17, 2012|accessdate=April 12, 2014|date=June 15, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Butch Lee|Alfred Lee]], basketball player; first Puerto Rican to play in [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] and to play on the NBA play-offs as a member of the 79-80 Los Angeles Lakers
* [[Angelita Lind]], track and field athlete
* [[Francisco Lindor]], baseball player, [[Cleveland Indians]]
* [[Laura Daniela Lloreda]], member of the Mexican national volleyball team
* [[Javy López]], baseball player, [[Atlanta Braves]]
* [[Mike Lowell]], baseball player, [[Boston Red Sox]]

'''M'''
* [[Felix Magath]], German soccer star and coach (Puerto Rican father)
*[[Mario Rivera Martino]], Boxing sports writer and eventual commissioner. Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame <ref>[https://www.badlefthook.com/2018/12/5/18127713/international-boxing-hall-of-fame-reveals-class-of-2019 2018 International Boxing Hall of Fame]</ref>
* [[Edgar Martínez]], former baseball player
* [[Denise Masino]], [[bodybuilder]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amg-lite.com/the_galleries/denise_masino|title=Archived copy|accessdate=August 2, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722152938/http://www.amg-lite.com/the_galleries/denise_masino|archivedate=July 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://femalemuscle.com/video/denise-masino-behind-the-muscle|title=Denise Masino: Behind the Muscle|website=Femalemuscle.com|date=2008-12-18|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Mark Medal]], boxer, former IBF Light Middleweight Champion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Mark_Medal|title=Mark Medal|website=BoxRec.com|date=2009-07-29|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Orlando Melendez]] a.k.a. "El Gato", in 2008, became the first Puerto Rican-born basketball player to play for the [[Harlem Globetrotters]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/hispanicheritage2008/news/story?id=3641638|title=Melendez adds a new country to Globetrotters' resume|website=Sports.espn.go.com|date=2008-10-14|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Alberto Mercado]], Olympian boxer
* [[Jerome Mincy]], basketball player
* [[Bengie Molina]], Major League Baseball catcher and [[Rawlings Gold Glove Award]] winner<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/molinbe01.shtml |title=Bengie Molina stats |work=Baseball-Reference.com |accessdate=September 22, 2017}}</ref>
* [[John John Molina]], boxer, former world champion
* [[José Molina (baseball)|José Molina]], Major League Baseball catcher<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/molinjo01.shtml |title=José Molina stats |work=Baseball-Reference.com |accessdate=September 22, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Yadier Molina]], Major League Baseball catcher, [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]], and Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner<ref name=GG6>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |last1=Skretta |first1=Dave |url=http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9900487/yadier-molina-st-louis-cardinals-wins-sixth-straight-gold-glove |title=Yadier Molina of St. Louis Cardinals wins sixth straight Gold Glove |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=October 29, 2013 |accessdate=October 29, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Pedro Montañez]], boxer and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[Mario Morales]], [[National Superior Basketball|BSN]] basketball player
* [[Pedro Morales]], wrestler, member of [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[WWE Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]]
* [[Jonny Moseley]], skier, first Puerto Rican member of the U.S. ski team

'''N'''
* [[Emilio Navarro]], first Puerto Rican to play in the [[Negro league baseball|Negro Leagues]]

'''O'''
* [[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 (basketball)|José Ortiz]], former basketball player, PDP candidate for elective office in 2008
* [[Luis Ortiz (boxer)|Luis Ortiz]], boxer, first Puerto Rican to win a silver Olympic medal

'''P'''
* [[Raúl Papaleo]], member of Puerto Rican national volleyball team
* [[Charlie Pasarell]], tennis player
* [[Ernesto Pastor]], bullfighter, only Puerto Rican member of the Bullfighting Hall of Fame
* [[Victor Pellot]], a.k.a. "Vic Power", baseball player, second black Puerto Rican in Major League Baseball
* [[Jorge Posada]], baseball player, [[New York Yankees]]
* [[Monica Puig]], tennis player; in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, won Puerto Rico's first-ever Olympic gold medal<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/08/12/monica-puig-petra-kvitova-will-play-for-puerto-rico-first-gold/88622512/ USA Today: Monica Puig tops Petra Kvitova, will play for Puerto Rico's first gold]</ref>

'''Q'''
* [[Carlos Quintana (boxer)|Carlos Quintana]], professional boxer, former World Boxing Organization's welterweight champion

'''R'''
* [[Peter John Ramos]], former NBA and international basketball player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/playerfile/peter_john_ramos|title=NBA.com/Stats|website=Nba.com|date=2015-02-05|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Rico Ramos]], professional boxer
* [[Héctor Ramos]], professional football player, [[Puerto Rico national football team]] captain and top scorer
* [[Germán Rieckehoff]], former president of Puerto Rican Olympic Committee
* [[Ramón Rivas]], NBA and International basketball player
* [[Antonio Rivera]], boxer, a.k.a. "El Gallo"; WBA Super Welterweight Champion
* [[Filiberto Rivera]], former UTEP star point guard and former point guard on Puerto Rico national basketball team
* [[Jorge Rivera (fighter)|Jorge Rivera]], [[Mixed martial arts|mixed martial artist]]
* [[Neftalí Rivera]], basketball player, record holder for most points scored in a game in the [[Baloncesto Superior Nacional]] league with 79 points.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fallece Neftali Rivera, leyenda del básquetbol boricua, a los 69 años (in Spanish) |url=http://espndeportes.espn.com/basquetbol/nota/_/id/3818714/fallece-neftali-rivera-leyenda-del-basquetbol-boricua-a-los-69-anos |publisher=espndeportes |accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Marco Rivera]], NFL football player, first Puerto Rican selected to [[Pro Bowl]]
* [[Ron Rivera]], NFL football player, first Puerto Rican in the [[National Football League]] and to coach an NFL team
* [[Iván Rodríguez]], baseball player, [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]]
* [[Rubén Rodríguez (basketball)|Rubén Rodríguez]], basketball player
* [[José "King" Roman]], boxer, first Puerto Rican to fight for the world heavyweight title
* [[Francisco Rosa Rivera]], "the trainer of stars"; personal trainer and self-made bodybuilding entrepreneur
* [[Edwin Rosario]], boxer, former lightweight and junior welterweight champion; member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame (2006)
* [[Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez]], golfer, member of Golf Hall of Fame
* [[John Ruiz]], a.k.a. "The Quietman", first Hispanic to become the heavyweight boxing champion of the world

'''S'''
* [[Natasha Sagardia]], bodyboarding athlete; first Puerto Rican to win a gold medal at the ISA World Surfing Games<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waterboony.com/wasp2.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=November 15, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714072556/http://waterboony.com/wasp2.html|archivedate=July 14, 2009}}</ref>
* [[Alex Sánchez (boxer)|Alex Sánchez]] a.k.a. "El Nene Sanchez", boxer, former champion
* [[Rey Sanchez]], baseball player
* [[Benito Santiago]], former MLB 1987 Rookie of the Year
* [[Daniel Santiago]], former NBA basketball player
* [[O. J. Santiago]], NFL player
* [[Samuel Serrano]], boxer, former world champion
* [[Jessica Steffens]], U.S. Olympic 2012 gold medal winner (Puerto Rican father)<ref name="espn.go.com">{{cite web|last=Rykoff|first=Amanda|url=http://espn.go.com/espnw/news/article/6769208/for-steffens-water-polo-family-affair|title=For the Steffens, water polo is a family affair|website=Espn.go.com |date=2011-07-15 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>''
* [[Maggie Steffens|Margaret "Maggie" Steffens]], U.S. Olympic 2012 gold medal winner; sister of Jessica Steffens<ref name="espn.go.com"/>''

'''T'''
* [[Julio Toro]], basketball coach
* [[Andrés Torres]], baseball player, [[San Francisco Giants]]
* [[Georgie Torres]], holds [[National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico|BSN]] scoring record
* [[José Torres]], boxer, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* [[Félix Trinidad|Félix "Tito" Trinidad]], boxer, former world champion. Member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame

'''V'''
* [[Lisa Marie Varon]], WWE wrestler
* [[Jesse Vassallo]], swimmer; current president of PR Swimming Federation; member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
* [[Javier Vázquez]], baseball player, active leader in strikeouts
* [[Wilfredo Vázquez]], boxer, former champion
* [[Savio Vega]], former WWF wrestler
* [[John R. Velazquez]], jockey, member of Jockey Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite web|last=McGee |first=Marty |url=http://test.drf.com/eclipse/2005/winners/jockey.html |title=35th Annual Eclipse Awards - 2005 - Daily Racing Form |publisher=drf.com |accessdate=2013-09-27 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002141549/http://test.drf.com/eclipse/2005/winners/jockey.html |archivedate=October 2, 2013 |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/story/_/id/7845780/john-velazquez-ghostzapper-head-racing-hall-class |title=John Velazquez, Ghostzapper head racing Hall class|publisher=Espn.go.com|date=2012-04-23|accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref>
* [[Ada Vélez]], first Puerto Rican female boxer to win a championship
* [[Juan Evangelista Venegas]], boxer; first Puerto Rican to win an Olympic medal
* [[Dick Versace]], first person of Puerto Rican descent to coach an NBA team
* [[Juan "Pachín" Vicéns]], basketball player, led the [[Ponce Lions (basketball)|Ponce Lions]] team to six championships

'''W'''
* [[Mark Watring]], equestrian
* [[Bernie Williams (born 1968)|Bernie Williams]], baseball player, [[New York Yankees]]
* [[Mary Pat Wilson]], Puerto Rico's first and only female Olympic skier; only woman in the Puerto Rican Ski Team in the [[1988 Winter Olympics]]<ref name="WO">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/in-88-games-two-virginians-skied-for-puerto-rico/2014/01/30/70aea924-7892-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html, "In '88 Games, two Virginians skied for Puerto Rico"], ''[[The Washington Post]]''; accessed September 13, 2016.</ref>

==Taínos==
[[File:Estatua de Agüeybaná II, El Bravo, en el Parque Monumento a Agüeybaná II, El Bravo, en Ponce, Puerto Rico (DSC02672C).jpg|150px|thumb|Agüeybaná II (The Brave)]]
* [[Agüeybaná (The Great Sun)|Agüeybaná]] (Great Sun), Supreme Taíno chief, Supreme Cacique of Puerto Rico who welcomed [[Juan Ponce de León]] to the island; based in [[Guayanilla, Puerto Rico|Guayanilla]]
* [[Agüeybaná II]] (The Brave), cacique and brother of Agueybaná; led the Taíno rebellion of 1511 against [[Juan Ponce de León]] and his men; based in [[Guayanilla, Puerto Rico|Guayanilla]]
* [[Arasibo]], cacique, area of [[Arecibo, Puerto Rico|Arecibo]]
* [[Caguax]], cacique, area of [[Caguas, Puerto Rico|Caguas]]
* [[Guarionex]], cacique, area of [[Utuado, Puerto Rico|Utuado]]
* [[Hayuya]], cacique, area of [[Jayuya, Puerto Rico|Jayuya]]
* [[Jumacao]], cacique, area of [[Humacao, Puerto Rico|Humacao]]
* [[Orocobix]], cacique, area of [[Orocovis, Puerto Rico|Orocovis]]
* [[Urayoán]], cacique, area that presently spans between [[Añasco, Puerto Rico|Añasco]] and [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico|Mayagüez]]; ordered the drowning of [[Diego Salcedo (soldier)|Diego Salcedo]]

==Visual artists==
[[File:José Campeche.JPG|thumb|150px|José Campeche]][[File:Francisco Oller.jpg|thumb|150px|Francisco Oller]]
* [[Alfonso Arana]], painter, founder of the ''Fundación Alfonso Arana''
* [[Imna Arroyo]], artist<ref>{{Cite book|title=Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas|last=Farris|first=Phoebe|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1999|isbn=0-313-30374-6|location=Westport, CT|pages=131}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], painter (Puerto Rican mother)
* [[Tomás Batista]], sculptor of "El Jibaro Puertorriqueño" monument and Zeno Gandía statue
* [[Ángel Botello]], painter and sculptor
* [[Antonio Broccoli Porto]], painter and sculptor from San Juan
* [[José Buscaglia Guillermety]], sculptor
* [[Luis Germán Cajiga]], painter most known for his silk screening technique<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prfaa.com/aboutpr.asp?id%3D98|title=Archived copy|accessdate=November 21, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220124742/http://www.prfaa.com/aboutpr.asp?id=98|archivedate=December 20, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Javier Cambre]], sculptor, photographer, video artist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artpremium.com/Content/ed09/cambre.asp|title=Archived copy|accessdate=March 5, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308094818/http://www.artpremium.com/Content/ed09/cambre.asp|archivedate=March 8, 2009}}</ref>
* [[José Campeche]], artist
* [[José Caraballo]], artist; President of Hispanic Art League, 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artid.com/members/hispanic_arts/blog/post/3965-tribute-to-puerto-rican-artist-jose-caraballo|title=Tribute To Puerto Rican Artist Jose Caraballo|publisher=Artid.com|accessdate=2013-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912095634/http://artid.com/members/hispanic_arts/blog/post/3965-tribute-to-puerto-rican-artist-jose-caraballo|archive-date=September 12, 2013|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Lindsay Daen]], New Zealand-born artist; sculptor of La Rogativa statue in San Juan
* [[Jan D'Esopo]], painter and sculptor
* [[Elizam Escobar]], painter and activist
* [[James De La Vega]], mural artist
* [[Ramón Frade]], artist and architect<ref name="AAA">{{cite web|url=http://www.antillania.com/PR_Arte_Pg1.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=24 December 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108032655/http://www.antillania.com/PR_Arte_Pg1.htm |archivedate=January 8, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Obed Gómez]], contemporary artist known as the "Puerto Rican Picasso"
* [[Vilma G. Holland]], painter<ref>{{cite book|last=Kruger Torres|first=Lola|title=Enciclopedia Grandes Mujeres de Puerto Rico Tomo IV|year=1975|publisher=Ramallo Bros. Printing, Inc.|location=Hato Rey, Puerto Rico|pages=59–60}}</ref>
* [[Lorenzo Homar]], graphic artist
* [[Antonio Lopez (illustrator)|Antonio López]], fashion illustrator<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schiro|first=Anne-Marie|title=Antonio López is dead at 44; was major fashion illustrator|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 18, 1987|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/18/obituaries/antonio-lopez-is-dead-at-44-was-major-fashion-illustrator.html|accessdate=December 4, 2009|ref=harv|postscript={{inconsistent citations}}}}</ref>
* [[Teresa López]] (born 1957), artist, graphic designer and art professor<ref name=TL1>{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.el-status.com/people.html|title=El Status - Independent Platform for Contemporary Puerto Rican Art|date=|accessdate=14 May 2018|work=El Status}}</ref><ref name=TL2>{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.uprm.edu/ac/optika/par.html|title=Optika Symposium on Visual Narration |year=2005|accessdate=14 May 2018|website=www.uprm.edu}}</ref>
* [[Soraida Martinez]], contemporary painter known for creating socially conscious [[Verdadism]] art since 1992
* [[Antonio Martorell]], painter and graphic artist
* [[Ralph Ortiz]], visual artist and founder of the [[El Museo del Barrio]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/arts/design/11sont.html ''Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains''], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 9, 2009.</ref>
* [[Francisco Oller]], impressionist artist and painter
* [[María de Mater O'Neill]], painter, educator, and graphic artist
* [[María Luisa Penne]], painter, educator, and graphic artist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.el-status.com/artists_list.php?name=&group_flag=&text_genre=&text_form=Textile&birth=&death=&search=submit+search|title=Independent Platform for Contemporary Puerto Rican Art|publisher=El Status|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Rivera-Ortiz]], photographer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rivera-ortiz.com|title=Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Photographer - Welcome|website=Rivera-ortiz.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Julio Rosado del Valle]], internationally known [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.puertoricanpainter.com/pages/history_of_puertoricanpainter.htm |title=Puerto Rican Painter, History of Puerto Rican Painting |accessdate=March 9, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215144907/http://www.puertoricanpainter.com/pages/history_of_puertoricanpainter.htm |archivedate=February 15, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Samuel E Vázquez]], abstract expressionist painter<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130703013008/http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/from-street-to-gallery-samuel-e-vazquez/Content?oid=2621418 "Samuel E Vázquez: From Street To Gallery"] Scott Shoger, "Nuvo", July 1, 2013</ref><ref>Karla D. Romero, [http://issuu.com/humanizemagazine/docs/humanize20/1?e=4518603/1824507 "Samuel E Vázquez: Graffiti Was Our Social Network"] ''Humanize Magazine'', No. 20, Spring 2013.</ref>
* [[Miriam Zamparelli]], sculptor<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/805159/language/en-US/Default.aspx |title=Escultura actual en Puerto Rico |trans-title=Current Sculpture in Puerto Rico |last=Pérez-Lizano |first=Manuel |work=Plástica |volume=2 |number=17 |location=San Juan |pages=80-87 |language=Spanish |date=September 1987 |registration=yes |via=International Center for the Arts of the Americas}}</ref>

==Miscellaneous==
[[File:Felix Rigau Carrera2.jpg|x120px|thumb|[[Félix Rigau Carrera]]]]
* [[Arthur Aviles]], dancer and choreographer
* [[Jose Baez (lawyer)|Jose Baez]], criminal defense attorney; notable for his defense of accused child murderer [[Caylee Anthony|Casey Anthony]]
* [[Marie Haydée Beltrán Torres]], nationalist and former [[political prisoner]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/24/archives/mrs-torres-gets-life-term-for-fatal-bombing-in-1977-linked-to-the.html Mrs. Torres Gets Life Term For Fatal Bombing in 1977], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 24 May 1980.</ref>
* [[Felipe Birriel]], "El Gigante de Carolina", the tallest Puerto Rican
* [[David Blaine]], illusionist, magician (Puerto Rican father)
* [[Elisa Colberg]], founder of the Puerto Rican Girl Scouts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.envision-technologies.com/elisacolberg/vida.html|title=Envision Technologies Inc|publisher=Envision-technologies.com|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.girlscouts.org/2012/04/celebrating-centenniel-in-puerto-rico.html|title=Girl Scout Blog: Celebrating the Centennial in Puerto Rico|publisher=Blog.girlscouts.org|date=2012-04-30|accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Inez García]], cause celebre of the feminist movement
* [[Juan Manuel García Passalacqua]], political commentator, lawyer
* [[Félix Rigau Carrera]], first Puerto Rican [[aviator|pilot]]; first pilot to fly on air mail carrying duties in Puerto Rico<ref name="FRC">{{cite web|url=http://joseosvaldo.freeyellow.com/Felix.html|title=Online Currency Exchange Rates|website=Joseosvaldo.freeyellow.com|accessdate=2016-04-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524215306/http://joseosvaldo.freeyellow.com/Felix.html|archivedate=May 24, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Crazy Legs (dancer)|Crazy Legs]], breakdancer, president of [[Rock Steady Crew]]
* [[Clara Livingston]], Puerto Rico's first female aviator<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theseasonedtraveler.com/episodes/ep211.htm|title=the seasoned traveler with george bauer|accessdate=August 7, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908093852/http://www.theseasonedtraveler.com/episodes/ep211.htm|archivedate=September 8, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Emiliano Mercado del Toro]], World's oldest living person from December 11, 2006 - January 24, 2007; oldest verified military veteran and Puerto Rican ever
* [[Filiberto Ojeda Ríos]], commander in chief ("Responsible General") of the [[Boricua Popular Army]]
* [[Richard Peña]], organizer of [[New York Film Festival]]; professor of film studies at [[Columbia University]]
* [[José Rodríguez (intelligence)|José Rodríguez]], head of [[CIA]] division (2004–2008)
* [[Kobbo Santarrosa|Antulio "Kobbo" Santarrosa]], "La Cháchara", "La Condesa", "La Comay"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sipiapa.org/pulications/report_puertorico2003.cfm|title=Inter American Press Association|accessdate=December 17, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019201552/http://www.sipiapa.org/pulications/report_puertorico2003.cfm|archivedate=October 19, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wapa.tv/programa.php?nid%3D47 |title=SuperXclusivo ::: Programación ::: Wapa.tv |accessdate=December 17, 2008|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217015538/http://www.wapa.tv/programa.php?nid=47|archivedate=December 17, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Jock Soto]], principal ballet dancer with the [[New York City Ballet]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vogue.com/article/legendary-new-york-city-ballet-principal-jock-soto-reveals-the-steps-that-led-him-to-a-life-in-dance|title=Legendary New York City Ballet Principal Jock Soto Reveals the Steps that Led Him to a Life in Dance|last=Allison|first=Chelsea|date=October 5, 2011|website=Vogue.com|access-date=}}</ref>
* [[Filipo Tirado]], nationalist and former [[political prisoner]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Torres|first=Andrés|title=The Puerto Rican movement: voices from the diaspora|publisher=Temple University Press|year=1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKJtYNvKKrgC&pg=PA147&dq=Alejandrina+Torres+no+defense#PPA149,M1|accessdate=March 19, 2009|isbn=978-1-56639-618-9}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Alberto Torres (Puerto Rican Nationalist)|Carlos Alberto Torres]], nationalist and former political prisoner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/678728042.html?dids=678728042:678728042&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+06%2C+1980&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=11+Arrested+as+Puerto+Rican+Terrorists&pqatl=google |title=Los Angeles Times: Archives - 11 Arrested as Puerto Rican Terrorists |website=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com|date=1980-04-06 |accessdate=2016-04-05}}</ref><ref name="Cnn">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9909/10/faln.clemency.01|title=FALN prisoners set free|date=10 September 1999|publisher=CNN|accessdate=August 7, 2009}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Lauren Vélez.jpg|[[Lauren Velez]]

File:TegoCalderon.jpg|[[Tego Calderón]]
File:Olga-tañon.jpg|[[Olga Tañón]]
File:AdrienneBailonMar2011.jpg|[[Adrienne Bailon]]
File:DaddyYankee.jpg|[[Daddy Yankee]]

File:Victor Manuelle.jpg|[[Victor Manuelle]]
File:Concierto de Gilberto Santa Rosa en Piñas.jpg|[[Gilberto Santa Rosa]]
File:Titonieves.jpg|[[Tito Nieves]]
File:Tito El Bambino 1.jpg|[[Tito El Bambino]]
File:Ivy Queen.jpg|[[Ivy Queen]]
File:Nobel Peace Price Concert 2009 Luis Fonsi3.jpg|[[Luis Fonsi]]
File:Concert de Ednita..!! 123.JPG|[[Ednita Nazario]]
File:Luis Guzman 2012.jpg|[[Luis Guzmán]]
File:Amaury Nolasco 10-13-2008.jpg|[[Amaury Nolasco]]
File:Carlosbeltranprofilepic.jpg|[[Carlos Beltrán]]
File:Bernie Williams at ESPN Weekend.jpg|[[Bernie Williams]]
File:DSC00636 Yadier Molina.jpg|[[Yadier Molina]]
File:Carlos Arroyo Celtics.jpg|[[Carlos Arroyo]]
File:Carmelo Anthony March 2012.jpg|[[Carmelo Anthony]]
File:Hector Camacho 2009.jpg|[[Héctor Camacho]]

File:Rosario Dawson Cannes 2013 2.jpg|[[Rosario Dawson]]
File:Noelia Cropped.jpg|[[Noelia]]
File:Carlos Ponce, Puerto Rican singer.jpg|[[Carlos Ponce]]
File:Dayanara Torres 2011.jpg|[[Dayanara Torres]]
File:Victor Cruz 2012 Shankbone.JPG|[[Victor Cruz (American football)|Victor Cruz]]
File:Eva LaRue, ROMY 2009.jpg|[[Eva LaRue]]
File:Shalim Jean Shirt.jpg|[[Shalim Ortiz]]
File:Ana Ortiz 2012.jpg|[[Ana Ortiz]]
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|Lists|Puerto Rico}}
{{Sidebar Puerto Rican people}}
* [[Lists of people by nationality]]
* [[List of Stateside Puerto Ricans]]
* [[List of Puerto Rican military personnel]]
* [[List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program]]
* [[List of Puerto Ricans of African descent]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico]]
* [[List of Puerto Rican boxing world champions]]
* [[List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors]]
* [[List of Puerto Rican Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients]]
* [[List of Puerto Rican Presidential Citizens Medal recipients]]
* [[History of women in Puerto Rico]]
* [[List of People from Ponce, Puerto Rico]]
* [[Cultural diversity in Puerto Rico]]
** [[Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico]]
** [[French immigration to Puerto Rico]]
** [[German immigration to Puerto Rico]]
** [[Irish immigration to Puerto Rico]]
** [[Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico]]
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}


{{Puerto Rican migrations}}
{{Lists of people by U.S. state}}

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List of notable people from Puerto Rico

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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. It should be noted that 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.[1][2] Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents and/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 he/she is most noted.

Actors, actresses, comedians and directors

Auli'i Cravalho
Henry Darrow
Joaquin Phoenix
Benicio del Toro
Erik Estrada
José Ferrer
Juano Hernández
Jennifer Lopez
Rita Moreno
Lymari Nadal
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Rosie Perez
Marquita Rivera
Jon Seda
Jimmy Smits
Liz Torres
David Zayas
Paul Bouche
Hector Camacho

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Adult film entertainers

Hosts/presenters

Architects

Andrés Mignucci, architect

Authors, playwrights and poets

Alejandro Tapia y Rivera
Nelson Denis
José Rivera, playwright

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  • Jack Agüeros, author, playwright, poet and translator[46]
  • Quiara Alegría Hudes, author, playwright; wrote the book for the Broadway musical In the Heights; winner of 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; her play, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 and has been performed around the country and in Romania and Brazil[47]
  • Miguel Algarín, poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café[48]
  • Manuel A. Alonso, poet and author, considered by many to be the first Puerto Rican writer of notable importance[49]
  • Alba Ambert, novelist; in 1996 became the first Hispanic author to win the Carey McWilliams Award for Multicultural Literature, presented by the Multicultural Review, for her novel A Perfect Silence[50]
  • Francisco Arriví, writer, poet, and playwright ; known as "the father of the Puerto Rican theater"[51]
  • Rane Arroyo, poet, playwright and scholar[52]

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  • Héctor Feliciano, author; his book The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art has shed light on an estimated 20,000 looted works; each one is owned by a museum or a collector somewhere[78]
  • Isabel Freire de Matos, writer, educator and advocate of Puerto Rican independence[79]
  • Rosario Ferré, writer[80]
  • Shaggy Flores, Nuyorican writer, poet; African diaspora scholar; founder of Voices for the Voiceless[81]
  • Félix Franco Oppenheimer, poet and writer; works include Contornos, Imagen y visión edénica de Puerto Rico, and Antología poética[82]

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  • Judith Ortiz Cofer, 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[50][112]
  • Micol Ostow, author of Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane and Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa[113]

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Beauty queens and fashion models

Susie Castillo, Miss USA
Zuleyka Rivera, Miss Universe

Business people and industrialists

José Ramon Fernández, "Marqués de La Esperanza"
Juan Serrallés, industrialist, founder of Destilería Serralles, makers of Don Q rum
Eduardo Georgetti, wealthy sugar baron

Cartoonists

John Rivas

Civil rights and/or political activists

María de las Mercedes Barbudo
José Maldonado Román
Helen Rodriguez-Trias, women's rights activist and recipient of the Presidential Citizen's Medal
Sylvia Mendez
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Elías Beauchamp
Olga Viscal Garriga
  • Mariana Bracetti 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, 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, women's rights activist; one of the first women in Puerto Rico to earn a doctoral degree
  • Luisa Capetillo, 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, activist and community organizer[178]
  • Tito Kayak, 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[179][180][181][182][183][184][185]
  • Sylvia del Villard, 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, civil rights activist; young Puerto Rican mother who paved the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship[186]
  • Lillian López, librarian and labor activist; founder of the New York Public Library South Bronx Project; advocate for library and education services for Spanish-speaking communities[187]
  • Óscar López Rivera, pro-independence activist; the longest incarcerated FALN member[188]
  • José Maldonado Román, a.k.a. "Aguila Blanca" (White Eagle), revolutionary[189]
  • Eliana Martínez, AIDS activist; was in a notable Florida court case regarding the rights of HIV+ children in public schools[190]
  • Felícitas Méndez (née Gómez), activist; with her husband, in 1946, led a community battle which set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States (see Mendez v. Westminster);[191] credited with paving the way for integration and the American civil rights movement[192]
  • María de las Mercedes Barbudo, political activist; often called the first female Puerto Rican "Independentista"[193]
  • Ana María O'Neill, women's rights activist and educator; in 1929, became the first female professor in the field of commerce in the University of Puerto Rico, which she taught until 1951; urged women to participate in every aspect of civic life and to defend their right to vote[194]
  • Manuel Olivieri Sánchez, 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[195]
  • César A. Perales, 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[196]
  • Sylvia Rae Rivera, transgender activist; veteran of the 1969 Stonewall riots[197]
  • Anthony Romero, civil rights leader; executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union[198]
  • Helen Rodríguez Trías, 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[199] (see also "Educators" and "Scientists")
  • Ana Roque, women's rights activist, educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico[200]
  • Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, civil rights and pro-independence activist; pioneer in black history who helped raise awareness of the contributions by Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans to society[201]
  • Pedro Julio Serrano, human rights activist; President of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, which strives for inclusion of LGBT community and for social justice for all in Puerto Rico; Communication Manager at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force[202]
  • 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[203]

Nationalists

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

  • Elías Beauchamp, 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[204]
  • Blanca Canales, political activist; nationalist leader who led the Jayuya Uprising in 1950 against US colonial rule of Puerto Rico
  • Rafael Cancel Miranda, 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, political activist; one of two nationalists who attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman
  • Rosa Collazo a.k.a. Rosa Cortéz Collazo, political activist and treasurer of the New York City branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party[205]
  • Raimundo Díaz Pacheco, political activist; Commander-in-Chief of the Cadets of the Republic (Cadetes de la República, also known as the Ejército Libertador de Puerto Rico, or The Liberation Army of Puerto Rico), a quasi-military organization and official youth organization within the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party[206]
  • Andrés Figueroa Cordero, political activist; member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; one of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954[207]
  • Irvin Flores Ramírez, political activist; Nationalist leader and activist; one of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954[208]
  • Lolita Lebrón, political activist; Nationalist leader and activist; the leader of four nationalists who attacked the United States House of Representatives in 1954[208]
  • Tomás López de Victoria, 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[209]
  • Isolina Rondón, 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[210]
  • Hiram Rosado, 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[204]
  • Isabel Rosado, political activist; imprisoned multiple times[211]
  • Vidal Santiago Díaz, 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[212]
  • Griselio Torresola, political activist; Nationalist who died in an attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman in 1950
  • Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff, 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[213]
  • Olga Viscal Garriga, 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[214]

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Painting of Alejo de Arizmendi

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Composers, singers, musicians and opera

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


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

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See also: List of Governors of Puerto Rico
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Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Law enforcement

Nick Estavillo
  • 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[347]
  • Faith Evans, Hawaiian-Puerto Rican, first woman to be named U.S. Marshal[348]
  • Alejandro González Malavé, controversial undercover police officer
  • Irma Lozada, New York City transit police; first female police officer to die in the line of duty in New York City[349]
  • José Meléndez-Pérez, INS officer who was named in 9/11 Commission Report; denied entry to terrorist in August 2001[350]
  • 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[351]
  • Joe Sánchez, former New York City police officer and author whose books give an insight as to the corruption within the department[352]
  • Pedro Toledo, retired FBI senior agent and longest-serving state police superintendent

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Miguel Enríquez
Demetrio O'Daly
Antonio Valero de Bernabé
Manuel Rojas
Augusto Rodríguez
Juan Ríus Rivera
José Semidei Rodríguez
Ángel Rivero Méndez
Luis R. Esteves
Teófilo Marxuach
Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas
Mihiel Gilormini
Frederick Lois Riefkohl
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Carmen Dumler
Virgil R. Miller
Pedro del Valle
Agustin Ramos Calero
Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano
Carmen Contreras-Bozak
José Antonio Muñiz
Modesto Cartagena
Rose Franco
Fernando Luis García
Horacio Rivero, Jr.
Carlos James Lozada
Angel Mendez
Héctor Andrés Negroni
Héctor Santiago-Colón
Jorge Otero Barreto
Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace
Eurípides Rubio
Lizbeth Robles
Frances M. Vega
Maritza Sáenz Ryan
Brigadier General Marta Carcana
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Brigadier General Irene M. Zoppi

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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[356]

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.[357]
  • 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"[358]
  • 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[359]
  • 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)[360]

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20th century

  • Humberto Acosta-Rosario, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army; a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry (Mechanized); 25th Infantry Division, United States Army; currently the only Puerto Rican MIA whose body has never been recovered[372]
  • Ricardo Aponte, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; former Director of the Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, United States Southern Command; first Puerto Rican to hold this position[373]
  • Félix Arenas Gaspar, Captain, Spanish Army; posthumously awarded the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando (Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand – Spain's version of the Medal of Honor) for his actions in the Rif War[374]
  • Domingo Arroyo, Jr., Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps; first American serviceman to be killed in Operation Restore Hope during the Somalian Civil War[375]
  • Joseph (José) B. Aviles, Sr., CWO2, U.S. Coast Guard; on 28 September 1925, became the first Hispanic Chief Petty Officer in the United States Coast Guard; during World War II received a wartime promotion to Chief Warrant Officer, becoming the first Hispanic to reach that level as well[376]
  • Rafael Celestino Benítez, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; a highly decorated submarine commander who led the rescue effort of the crew members of the USS Cochino, which was involved in the first American undersea spy mission of the Cold War[377]
  • 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[378]
  • José M. Cabanillas, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; in World War II he was Executive Officer of the USS Texas (BB-35) and participated in the invasions of Africa and Normandy (D-Day)[379]
  • Richard Carmona, Vice Admiral, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; served as the 17th Surgeon General of the United States under President George W. Bush[380]
  • Modesto Cartagena, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; the most decorated Hispanic soldier in history; distinguished himself in combat during the Korean War as a member of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry and is being considered for the Medal of Honor[381]
  • Carlos Fernando Chardón, Major General, Puerto Rico National Guard; Secretary of State of Puerto Rico 1969–73; Puerto Rico Adjutant General 1973–75[382]
  • Felix M. Conde-Falcon, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014 for his courageous actions while serving as an acting Platoon Leader in Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment, 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Ap Tan Hoa, Republic of Vietnam on April 4, 1969[383]
  • 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[384]
  • 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.[385]
  • 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[386]
  • Encarnación Correa, Sergeant, U.S. Army; the person who fired the first warning shots in World War I on behalf of the United States against a ship flying the colors of the Central Powers, when on March 21, 1915, under the orders of then-Lieutenant Teófilo Marxuach, he manned a machine gun and opened fire on the Odenwald, an armed German supply ship trying to force its way out of the San Juan Bay[387]
  • Ruben A. Cubero, Brigadier General U.S. Air Force; of Puerto Rican descent; highly decorated member of the United States Air Force; in 1991 became the first Hispanic graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to be named Dean of the Faculty of the Academy[388]
  • Pedro del Valle, Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps; first Hispanic three-star Marine general; his military career included service in World War I, Haiti and Nicaragua during the so-called Banana Wars of the 1920s, and in the seizure of Guadalcanal and later as Commanding General of the U.S. 1st Marine Division during World War II played an instrumental role in the defeat of the Japanese forces in Okinawa[389]
  • Carmelo Delgado Delgado, Lieutenant, Abraham Lincoln International Brigade; first Puerto Rican and one of the first U.S. citizens to fight and to die in the Spanish Civil War against General Francisco Franco and the Spanish Nationalists[390]
  • Alberto Díaz, Jr., Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic to become the Director of the San Diego Naval Medical District[391]
  • 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[392]
  • 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[393]
  • Michelle Fraley (née Hernández), Colonel, U.S. Army; became in 1984 the first Puerto Rican woman to graduate from West Point Military Academy; former chief of staff of the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command[394][395]
  • Rose Franco, CWO3, U.S. Marine Corps; first female Hispanic Chief Warrant Officer in the Marine Corps; in 1965 was named Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Paul Henry Nitze by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson[396]
  • Edmund Ernest García, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; during World War II he was commander of the destroyer USS Sloat (DE-245) and saw action in the invasions of Africa, Sicily, and France[397]
  • 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 5 September 1952.[398]
  • 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[399]
  • 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[400]
  • 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)[401]
  • 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[402]
  • 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.[403][404]
  • 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 USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)[405]
  • 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[406]
  • 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[407]
  • Carlos Lozada, Private First Class, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on 20 November 1967, at Dak To in the Republic of Vietnam[408]
  • 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[406]
  • 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[409]
  • 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[410]
  • Lester Martínez López, MPH, Major General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic to head the Army Medical and Research Command[411]
  • Gilberto José Marxuach, Colonel, U.S. Army[412]
  • 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,[413] forcing the Odenwald to stop and to return to port where its supplies were confiscated[414]
  • 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 USS Vella Gulf (CG-72); 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[415]
  • 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[416]
  • 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[417]
  • Virgil R. Miller, Colonel, U.S. Army; Regimental Commander of the 442d Regimental Combat Team (RCT), a unit which was composed of "Nisei" (second generation Americans of Japanese descent), during World War II; led the 442nd in its rescue of the Lost Texas Battalion of the 36th Infantry Division, in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France[418]
  • 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[419]
  • 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)[420]
  • 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[383]
  • 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[421]
  • 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[422]
  • Ramón Núñez-Juárez, Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps; listed as Missing in Action during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, the second highest medal after the Medal of Honor, that can be awarded by the Department of the Navy; the only Puerto Rican member of the United States Marine Corps whose remains have never been recovered and who was listed as Missing in Action during the Korean War[423]
  • Jorge Otero Barreto, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; with 38 decorations, which includes 3 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 U.S. soldier of the Vietnam War[424]
  • 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.[425]
  • 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[426]
  • Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano, Captain, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic submarine commander; awarded two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star for his actions against the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II[427][428]
  • 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[429]
  • 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[378]
  • 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[430]
  • 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[431]
  • Rudolph W. Riefkohl, Colonel, U.S. Army; played an instrumental role in helping the people of Poland overcome the 1919 typhus epidemic[432]
  • 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[383]
  • Manuel Rivera, Jr., Captain, U.S. Marine Corps; of Puerto Rican descent; first U.S. serviceman to die in Operation Desert Shield[433]
  • 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[434]
  • 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[435][436]
  • 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[437]
  • Antonio Rodríguez Balinas, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first commander of the Office of the First U.S. Army Deputy Command; during the Korean War he fought with Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment and was awarded the Silver Star[438]
  • Maria Rodriguez Denton, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy; first woman from Puerto Rico who became an officer in the United States Navy as member of the WAVES; forwarded the news (through channels) to President Harry S. Truman that the war had ended[439]
  • Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas, Major, U.S. Army; odontologist (dentist), scientist and a Major in the U.S. Army who in 1921 discovered the bacteria which causes dental caries[440][441]
  • Eurípides Rubio, Captain, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Tây Ninh Province in the Republic of Vietnam on 8 November 1966[442]
  • Jaime Sabater, Sr., Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; commanded the 1st Battalion 9th Marines during the Bougainville amphibious operations in World War II[443]
  • José L. Santiago, Sergeant Major, U.S. Marine Corps; the 2nd Battalion 9th Marines' first Hispanic Sergeant Major and its first Sergeant Major since its reactivation on 13 July 2007[444]
  • Héctor Santiago-Colón, Specialist Four, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam as member of Company B of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division[445]
  • 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[446]
  • Frankie Segarra, Master Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps; first Puerto Rican to reach the grade of Master Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps within his MOS[447]
  • Rafel Toro, Private, U.S. Marine Corps; posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his "extraordinary heroism in battle"[448] while fighting in Nicaragua during the second Nicaragua campaign in 1927
  • Miguel A. Vera, Private, U.S. Army; will receive 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[383]
  • 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[449]
  • Raúl G. Villaronga, Colonel, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to be elected as Mayor of a Texas city (Killeen)[450]

21st century

  • Marta Carcana, Major General, U.S. Army; in 2015, became the first woman to be named Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard[451]
  • Iván Castro, Captain, U.S. Army; of Puerto Rican descent; one of three blind active-duty officers who serves in the US Army; the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces[452]
  • Ramón Colón-López, Chief Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force; a pararescueman; on 13 June 2007, was the first and only Hispanic among the first six airmen to be awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal; Commandant of the Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer School[453]
  • Hilda Clayton, U.S. Army combat photographer killed in 2013 when a mortar exploded during an Afghan training exercise; she captured the explosion that killed her and four Afghan soldiers[454][235]
  • Olga E. Custodio, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force; first female Hispanic U.S. military pilot; first Latina to complete U.S. Air Force military pilot training; after retiring, became the first Latina commercial airline captain[455]
  • Emilio Díaz Colón, Major General, U.S. Army; PRNG; first Superintendent of the Puerto Rican Police; served as the Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard[456][457]
  • Hila Levy, Captain, U.S. Air Force; in 2007, became the first Puerto Rican Rhodes scholar[458][459]
  • 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[460]
  • María Inés Ortiz, Captain, U.S. Army; of Puerto Rican descent; first United States Army nurse to die in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first to die in combat since the Vietnam War[461]
  • Evelio Otero, Jr., Colonel. U.S. Air Force; led the establishment of the first ever U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Qatar; founded the Polish and Colombian Joint Special Operations Commands while assigned to United States Special Operations Command[462]
  • Hector E. Pagan, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent to become Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina[463]
  • Lizbeth Robles, U.S. Army; in 2005, was the first female soldier born in Puerto Rico to die in combat as an active soldier during Operation Iraqi Freedom[464]
  • 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[465][466]
  • Marc H. Sasseville, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; Puerto Rican mother; on 11 September 2001,[467] was acting operations group commander under the 113th Wing of the DC Air National Guard; one of four fighter pilots commissioned with finding and destroying United Flight 93 by any means necessary, including ramming the aircraft in midair[468][469]
  • Frances M. Vega, SPC, U.S. Army; on 2 November 2003, became the first female soldier of Puerto Rican descent to die in a combat zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom[470]
  • 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.[471][472]
  • 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[473][474]

Physicians, scientists and inventors

Agustin Stahl
Fermín Tangüis
Joseph Acaba
Antonia Novello – Surgeon General of the United States
Joxel García – Assistant Secretary of Health for President George W. Bush
Olga D. González-Sanabria – member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
  • Joseph M. Acaba, scientist, educator, first Puerto Rican astronaut
  • José Ramón Alcalá, anatomist; appointed assistant professor in 1972 in the Wayne School of Medicine; expert on cell makeup of the human eye lens; developed laboratory methods to study the histology of ocular tissue, which ultimately helped explain the development of cataracts, among other maladies of the eye[50][475]
  • Carlos Albizu Miranda, psychologist; first Hispanic educator to have a North American university renamed in his honor; one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in psychology in the U.S.[289]
  • Ricardo Alegría, anthropologist, archaeologist and educator; "father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology"
  • Jorge N. Amely Vélez, electrical engineer and inventor; holds various patents in the field of medical technology[476]
  • Bailey K. Ashford, author, physician, soldier, and parasitologist; Colonel in the U.S. Army, arrived in Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War and made the island his home; organized and conducted a parasite treatment campaign which cured approximately 300,000 people (one-third of the Puerto Rico population) and reduced the death rate from this anemia by 90 percent[477][478]
  • Pedro Beauchamp, surgeon; first Puerto Rican specialist certified by the American Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Board; performed the first in vitro fertilization technique on the island in 1985[479]
  • Víctor Manuel Blanco, astronomer; in 1959, discovered a "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster;[480] second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which has the largest 4-m telescope in the Southern Hemisphere;[481] in 1995, the telescope was dedicated in his honor as the "Víctor M. Blanco Telescope", also known as the "Blanco 4m"[482]
  • Rafael L. Bras, former chair of Civil Engineering at MIT; leading expert on hydrometeorology and global warming[483]
  • 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[484]
  • 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[485]
  • Nitza Margarita Cintron, scientist; Chief of NASA's (JSC) Space and Health Care Systems Office
  • Pablo Clemente-Colon, first Puerto Rican Chief Scientist of the National Ice Center (2005–present)
  • Antonia Coello Novello, physician; first Hispanic and first woman U.S. Surgeon General (1990–93)
  • Martín Corchado (born 1839), physician, medical researcher, and president of the Autonomist Party of Puerto Rico[486]
  • José F. Cordero, pediatrician; founding director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the CDC[487]
  • 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[488]
  • 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[489]
  • 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[490]
  • 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[491]
  • Alfonso Eaton, mechanical engineer, aerospace technologist; first Puerto Rican to work for NASA[492]
  • 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[493]
  • 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[494]
  • José N. Gándara, lead physician attending to the wounded of the Ponce Massacre and later an expert witness at the trials of the "Nacionalistas" as well as before the Hays Commission; held numerous government positions, including Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico; co-founded the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico[495][496]
  • Joxel García, first Puerto Rican Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps[497]
  • Mario García Palmieri, cardiologist; first Hispanic to be designated a "Master" by the American College of Cardiology[498]
  • Sixto González, scientist; first Puerto Rican Director of the Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single dish radio telescope[499]
  • 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[clarification needed][500]
  • Isaac González Martínez, urologist; first Puerto Rican urologist; pioneer in the fight against cancer in the island[501]
  • Olga D. González-Sanabria, NASA engineer; highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center; member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame[502]
  • Amri Hernández-Pellerano, NASA engineer; designs, builds and tests the electronics that regulate the solar array power at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center[503]
  • 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[504]
  • Lucas G. Hortas, aerospace engineer and technologist; author and or co-author of over 35 technical papers[505]
  • 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[506]
  • 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[507]
  • 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[505]
  • 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[508]
  • Debbie Martínez, computer engineer, aerospace technologist; Flight Systems and Software Branch software manager for the Cockpit Motion Facility at NASA Langley Research Center[509]
  • 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[510]
  • Antonio Mignucci, marine biologist, oceanographer; founder of "Red Caribeña de Varamientos"
  • Carlos Ortiz Longo, mechanical engineer; Chief of Crew Health Care Systems and Exercise Countermeasures at NASA
  • Joseph O. Prewitt Díaz, psychologist; specialized in psychosocial theory; recipient of the American Psychological Association's 2008 International Humanitarian Award[511]
  • Mercedes Reaves, research engineer and scientist; responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail and the development and testing of a scale model solar sail at NASA Langley Research Center[512]
  • Ron Rivera, inventor and workshop organizer; invented life-saving water filters based on pottery[513]
  • Juan A. Rivero, scientist and educator; founded the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in Mayagüez, has discovered numerous animal species; author of several books[514]
  • Miriam Rodon-Naveira, NASA scientist; first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory[484]
  • Miguel Rodríguez, mechanical engineer; Chief of the Integration Office of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Management Office[515]
  • 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[516]
  • Helen Rodriguez-Trias, physician and 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[199]
  • Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas, dental scientist; discovered the bacteria which causes dental cavities[348]
  • Monserrate Roman, scientist, microbiologist; helped build the International Space Station[441][517]
  • Gualberto Ruaño, biotechnology pioneer and founder of Genomas, Inc.; pioneer in the field of personalized medicine; inventor of a system used worldwide for the management of viral diseases; President and founder of Genomas, a genetics-related company; director of genetics research at Hartford Hospital's Genetic Research Center[518]
  • José Francisco Salgado, Emmy-nominated astronomer, visual artist, and science communicator; astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago; member of the audiovisual ensemble Bailey-Salgado Project[519]
  • Ulises Armand Sanabria, of Puerto Rican and French descent; developed mechanical televisions and early terrestrial television broadcasts[520]
  • Eduardo Santiago Delpín, surgeon; wrote the first book in Spanish about organ transplants[521]
  • Yajaira Sierra Sastre, astronaut; part of a NASA project on astronaut nutrition and health; She will live for four months isolated in a planetary module at a base in Hawaii to simulate life at a future base on Mars[522][523]
  • Diego R. Solís, physician; performed the first simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant in Puerto Rico[524]
  • Félix Soto Toro, electrical engineer, astronaut applicant; developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System (ASPTMS), an electronic 3D measuring system
  • Agustín Stahl, scientist in the fields of botany, ethnology and zoology[525]
  • Ramón M. Suárez Calderon, scientist, cardiologist, educator and hematologist; his investigations led to the identification of the proper and effective treatment of a type of anemia known as Tropical Espru, the application of complex methods, such as electrocardiography and radioisotope, to be used in clinics and the identification and treatment of the disease which causes heart rheumatism[507]
  • Fermín Tangüis, scientist, agriculturist and entrepreneur; developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and saved that nation's cotton industry[526]
  • Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, television and radio host; Puerto Rican mother; director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City; host of the PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage[527]

Politicians

José de Diego - the "father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement"
Federico Degetau – writer, author, and resident commissioner
Pedro Albizu Campos – President and principal leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Nydia Velázquez – Congresswoman from New York City
Luis Gutiérrez – Congressman from Chicago
Kenneth McClintock – Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
José Coll y Cuchí – founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party

19th century

20th century

21st century

U.S. laws 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.[584]
  • Gonzales v. Williams - Isabel González was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship. González challenged the Government of the United States in the groundbreaking case Gonzales v. Williams (192 U.S. 1 (1904)). Her Supreme Court case is the first time that the Court confronted the citizenship status of inhabitants of territories acquired by the United States. González actively pursued the cause of U.S. citizenship for all Puerto Ricans by writing letters published in The New York Times.[585]
  • Mendez v. Westminster - Felicitas Gomez Mendez was a pioneer of the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Mendez and her husband led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez v. Westminster, paved the way for meaningful integration, public school reform, and the American civil rights movement.[586][192]

Sports

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

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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;[599] first Puerto Rican woman inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame[600]
  • 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[601]
  • Ed Figueroa, baseball pitcher, first Puerto Rican to win 20 games in Major League
  • Enrique Figueroa, sailing

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

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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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Taínos

Agüeybaná II (The Brave)

Visual artists

José Campeche
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Francisco Oller

Miscellaneous

Félix Rigau Carrera

See also

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