List of Afro-Latinos
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Many Brazilians, Dominicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Panamanians, Hondurans, Mexicans, and other Latinos can fall under this label. 95% of the Africans who came into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade were scattered about Latin America and the Caribbean. The very first Africans to reach the New World arrived on the island of Hispaniola, which is the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Dominicans and Haitians are descendants of the first African slaves in the New World, yet the majority of Africans to inhabit any US nation inhabited Brazil. Only 5% of the Africans to arrive in the Americas went to North America, who are the African Americans, descendants of the last and the fewest Africans to reach the New World.
- Pop Smoke – American rapper of Afro-Panamanian descent
- 40 Cal (stage name) – Calvin Alan Byrd, is an American rapper. A member of Harlem-based hip-hop group The Diplomats.
- Elizabeth Acevedo – poet
- David Ortiz – Dominican baseball player
- Miguel Algarín – poet
- Tatyana Ali – American actress and singer. Known for her role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- Roberto Alomar – former Major League Baseball player, regarded highly as a second baseman.
- Laz Alonso – American film and television actor. Known for playing Tsu'tey in James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar and Fenix Calderon in the film Fast & Furious.
- Fat Joe – rapper
- Anitta (stage name) – Larissa de Macedo Machado, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, businesswoman.
- Carmelo Anthony – American professional basketball player, lasted played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. Was named an NBA All-Star ten times and an All-NBA Team member six times.
- La La Anthony – disc jockey, television personality and actress
- Taís Araújo – Brazilian actress and model
- Eva Ayllón – composer and singer
- AZ – rapper
- Cardi B – rapper
- Josefina Báez – performance artist, theater director, poet, educator, and writer
- Lloyd Banks – rapper
- Ivan Barias – Dominican music producer and songwriter
- Jean-Michel Basquiat – artist, musician
- Swizz Beatz – rapper, producer
- Aloe Blacc – American singer and songwriter
- Elijah Blake – singer-songwriter
- Ariana Brown – poet
- Julia de Burgos – poet and activist for Puerto Rican independence
- Ursula Burns – business executive
- Miguel Cabrera – Venezuelan baseball player
- Ilia Calderón – journalist
- Tego Calderón – reggaeton singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor
- Mariah Carey – vocalist and actor
- John Carlos – former track and field champion, famous for his 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- Matt Cedeño – actor and former model
- Orlando Cepeda – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Hugo Chavez – former Venezuelan President
- Roberto Clemente – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Jesús Colón – author, founder of Nuyorican movement
- Kid Cudi – musician
- Celia Cruz – Cuban-American salsa singer and performer
- Victor Cruz – football player, former NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants
- Wilson Cruz – actor
- Sammy Davis, Jr. – entertainer
- Rosario Dawson – actress, singer and writer
- Melissa De Sousa – actress
- Sylvia del Villard – actress, dancer, choreographer and activist
- Carlos Delgado – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Kat Deluna – musician
- Graciela Dixon – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Panama[1]
- Rudy Duthil – advertising executive
- Lil Pump – rapper
- Dave East – rapper
- Alfred Enoch – actor
- Adriano Espaillat – New York congressman
- Sandra María Esteves – poet
- Fabolous – rapper
- Antonio Fargas – actor
- Cheo Feliciano – Puerto Rican singer of salsa and bolero music
- Leonel Fernández – former President of the Dominican Republic
- Tony Fernández – former Dominican baseball player
- Juan Flores – historian, professor, Afro-Latino Studies scholar
- Shaggy Flores – poet and writer
- Arian Foster – football player, NFL running back for the Houston Texans
- Antonio Fresco – disc jockey, record producer and radio personality
- Kevin Gates – rapper
- Gilberto Gil – Brazilian singer, political activist and former Minister of Culture
- Aracelis Girmay – poet
- Renée Elise Goldsberry – actress
- Meagan Good – actress and director
- Herizen Guardiola – actress and singer
- Gunplay – rapper
- Edward W. Hardy – composer and musician
- Severiano de Heredia – Cuban-born French politician, president of the municipal council of Paris from 1879 to 1880, first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital
- Gwen Ifill – journalist, television newscaster and author
- Ro James – singer
- Erick Kolthoff – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
- Lisa Lopes – member of R&B girl group TLC
- Amara La Negra – singer
- Toña la Negra – singer
- Tato Laviera – poet
- Jorge Lendeborg Jr.;– actor
- Selenis Leyva – actress
- Sessilee Lopez – model
- Faizon Love – actor and comedian
- La Lupe – singer
- Maluca Mala – singer and rapper
- EJ Manuel – NFL quarterback
- Juan Marichal – former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Pedro Martínez – former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Tony Medina – poet and songwriter
- Jesús Papoleto Meléndez – poet
- Miguel – singer-songwriter
- Christina Milian – singer and actress
- E. Ethelbert Miller – writer and poet
- Minnie Miñoso – former Cuban baseball player
- Carlos Moore – Cuban writer, journalist and activist
- Aja Monet – poet
- Benny Moré – Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter
- Nancy Morejón – Cuban poet, critic, essayist
- Lamorne Morris;– Actor
- Rico Nasty – rapper
- N.O.R.E. – rapper
- Amaury Nolasco – actor
- Soledad O'Brien – broadcast journalist, executive producer and philanthropist
- Don Omar – reggaeton singer-songwriter and actor
- Ozuna (surname) – Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado is a Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin Trap singer
- Johnny Pacheco – Dominican musician, creator of the Fania All-Stars, coined the term "Salsa"
- Peedi Peedi – rapper
- Tony Peña – former Dominican baseball player
- Willie Perdomo – writer and poet
- Rosie Perez – actress, dancer, choreographer, director and community activist
- Miguel Piñero – playwright and poet, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café
- Dascha Polanco – actress
- Albert Pujols – Dominican baseball player
- Dania Ramirez – actress
- Manny Ramirez – Dominican baseball player
- Charles Rangel – former New York congressman
- Judy Reyes – actress
- Lais Ribeiro – model
- Mychal Rivera – football player, tight end, Oakland Raiders
- Naya Rivera – actress
- Alex Rodriguez – Dominican-American baseball player
- Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez – Puerto Rican salsa singer
- Zoe Saldana – actress
- Manny Sanguillén – former Panamanian baseball player
- Juelz Santana – rapper
- Mayra Santos-Febres – poet
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg – Puerto Rican historian, writer, and Afro-Latino activist in the United States; founder of the Schomberg Center for Black Research
- Luis Guillermo Solís – Costa Rican president and mulatto
- Arlenis Sosa – model
- Sammy Sosa – former Dominican baseball player
- Vince Staples – rapper
- Cecilia Tait – politician and former volleyball player
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez – Cuban cosmonaut
- Lorenzo Thomas – poet
- Piri Thomas – creative writer
- Tessa Thompson – American actress
- Melody Thornton – singer-songwriter and dancer
- Luis Tiant – former MLB starting pitcher, Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox
- Gina Torres – actress
- Trina – rapper (Dominican father)
- María Urrutia – former weightlifter, athlete and politician
- Salvador Valdés Mesa - First Vice President of Cuba, former trade union leader, Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba
- Amirah Vann – actress
- Lauren Velez – actress
- Tristan Wilds – actor and singer
- Juan Williams – journalist and political analyst
- Joaquín Zihuatanejo – poet
- Jose Acevedo -Venezuelan Track Athlete
See also
- Lists of people:
- List of Afro-Argentines
- List of Afro-Bolivians
- List of Brazilians of Black African descent
- List of Afro-Cubans
- List of Afro-Chileans
- List of Afro-Colombians
- List of Afro-Dominicans
- List of Afro-Ecuadorians
- List of Afro-Mexicans
- List of Afro-Nicaraguans
- List of Afro-Panamanians
- List of Afro-Peruvians
- List of Afro-Puerto Ricans
- List of Afro-Uruguayans
- List of Afro-Venezuelans
- Afro-Latin Americans
- African diaspora
- African diaspora in the Americas
- List of topics related to Black and African people
References
- ^ Carrillo, Karen Juanita (22 March 2006). "Afro Latino leaders meet in D.C. to advance equality". New York Amsterdam News. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2010.