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1. (US and Mexico) an (Dark Skinned Person] (used by Hispanics)

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list of notable and famous Hispanic people. In alphabetical order within categories.

Actors

*20px|Peru 20px|U.S.A. Benjamin Bratt (b. 1963)
*20px|Spain Victoria Abril (b. 1959)
*20px|Argentina Norma Aleandro (b. 1936)
*20px|Argentina Héctor Alterio (b. 1929)
*20px|Spain Elena Anaya (b. 1975)
*20px|Argentina 20px|Spain Imperio Argentina (1906–2003)
*20px|Mexico Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963)
*20px|Mexico Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (b. 1940)
*20px|Cuba Desi Arnaz (1917-1986)
*20px|Spain Antonio Banderas (b. 1960)
*20px|Spain Javier Bardem (b. 1969)
*20px|Philippines Lourdes Jacqueline Blanco (b. 1964)
*20px|Argentina 20px|Spain Juan Diego Botto (b. 1975)
*20px|Mexico Cantinflas (1911–1993)
*20px|Mexico Verónica Castro (b. 1952)
*20px|Peru 20px|Scotland Henry Ian Cusick (b. 1969)
*20px|Spain Mark Consuelos (b. 1970)
*20px|Spain Penélope Cruz (b. 1974)
*20px|U.S.A. Cameron Díaz (b. 1972)
*20px|Panama 20px|U.S.A. Melissa De Souza
*20px|Spain Fernando Fernán Gómez (b. 1921)
*20px|Cuba Andy García (b. 1956)
*20px|Mexico Gael García Bernal (b. 1978)
*20px|Spain Sancho Gracia (b. 1936)
*20px|Mexico Salma Hayek (b. 1966)
*20px|U.S.A. Rita Hayworth (1918–1987)
*20px|Mexico Pedro Infante (1917–1957)
*20px|Puerto Rico Raúl Juliá (1940–1994)
*20px|Mexico Katy Jurado (1924–2002)
*20px|Argentina 20px|Mexico Libertad Lamarque (1908–2000)
*20px|Colombia 20px|Puerto Rico John Leguizamo (b. 1964)
*20px|U.S.A. Eva Longoria (b. 1975)
*20px|U.S.A. George López (b. 1961)
*20px|U.S.A. Jennifer López (b. 1969)
*20px|Mexico Diego Luna (b. 1979)
*20px|Argentina Federico Luppi (b. 1936)
*20px|U.S.A. Christina Milian (b. 1981)
*20px|Spain Jordi Mollá (b. 1968)
*20px|Mexico Ricardo Montalbán (b. 1920)
*20px|Spain Sara Montiel (b. 1928)
*20px|Puerto Rico Rita Moreno (b. 1931)
*20px|Spain Paul Naschy (b. 1934)
*20px|Mexico Jorge Negrete (1911–1953)
*20px|U.S.A. Edward James Olmos (b. 1947)
*20px|U.S.A. Freddie Prinze (1954-1977)
*20px|Mexico 20px|U.S.A. Anthony Quinn (1915–2001)
*20px|Spain Francisco Rabal (1926–2001)
*20px|Spain Fernando Rey (1917–1994)
*20px|Mexico Dolores del Río (1905–1983)
*20px|U.S.A. Gilbert Roland (1905–1994)
*20px|U.S.A. César Romero (1907–1994)
*20px|Spain Fernando Sancho (1916–1990)
*20px|Chile Horatio Sanz (b. 1969)
*20px|U.S.A. Martin Sheen (b. 1940)
*20px|U.S.A. Brooke Shields (b. 1965) (See http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/genealogists-discover-royal-roots-for/20060701201109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001)
*20px|Puerto Rico Benicio del Toro (b. 1967)
*20px|Spain Paz Vega (b. 1976)
*20px|Argentina 20px|Spain Natalia Verbeke (b. 1975)
*20px|Colombia Sofía Vergara (b. 1972)
*20px|Peru Santiago Magill (b. 1977)

Artists

*20px|Chile Roberto Matta (b. 1911), painter.
*20px|Colombia Fernando Botero (b. 1932), painter and sculptor.
*20px|Puerto Rico José Campeche (1751-1809), painter.
*20px|Spain Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), surrealist painter.
*20px|Spain Francisco de Goya (1746–1828), painter and engraver.
*20px|Spain El Greco (1541–1614), painter and sculptor.
*20px|Spain Juan Gris (1887–1927), cubist painter.
*20px|Mexico Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), realist and symbolist painter.
*20px|Spain Jesús Mari Lazkano (b. 1960), painter.
*20px|Spain Joan Miró (1893–1983), painter, sculptor and ceramist.
*20px|Spain Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618–1682), painter.
*20px|Puerto Rico Francisco Oller (1833–1917), impressionist painter.
*20px|Mexico José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), mural painter and lithographer.
*20px|Spain Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), painter and sculptor, co-founder of cubism.
*20px|Mexico Diego Rivera (1886–1957), muralist.
*20px|Peru Carlos Enrique Polanco, impressionist-expressionist painter.
*20px|Mexico Veronica Ruiz de Velasco (1968–), painter.
*20px|Mexico David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974), social realist painter and muralist.
*20px|Spain Antoni Tàpies (1923), abstract expressionist painter.
*20px|Mexico 20px|U.S.A. Jesse Treviño (b. 1946), painter.
*20px|Spain Darío Urzay (b. 1958), painter, graphic artist.
*20px|Spain Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), baroque painter.
*20px|Spain Ignacio Zuloaga (1870–1945), painter.
*20px|Spain Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1644), painter.

Architects

*20px|Mexico Luis Barragán (1902–1988), 1980 Pritzker Prize Laureate.
*20px|Spain Ricardo Bofill (b. 1939), one of the main representatives of postmodern architecture.
*20px|Spain Santiago Calatrava (b. 1951), 2005 AIA Gold Medal Laureate.
*20px|Spain Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), known for his unfinished masterwork La Sagrada Familia.
*20px|Mexico Ricardo Legorreta (b. 1931).
*20px|Spain Enric Miralles (1955–2000), built the Scottish Parliament (finished in 2004, after his death).
*20px|Spain Rafael Moneo (b. 1937), 1996 Pritzker Prize Laureate.
*20px|Argentina 20px|U.S.A. César Pelli (b. 1926), 1995 AIA Gold Medal Laureate, Petronas Towers architect.
*20px|Mexico Antonio Rivas Mercado (1853–1927).
*20px|Spain Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983), designed the former U.S. embassy building in Baghdad (1955-1960) and several buildings in the Harvard University campus.
*20px|Venezuela Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900–1975), designed the Ciudad Universitaria of Caracas declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 2000.
*20px|Peru Juan Del Corral (Early Seventeenth Century), built a number of bridges throughout Peru and Colombia.

Explorers

*20px|Spain Lope de Aguirre (1511–1561), soldier, adventurer, killer and traitor, explored the Amazon river looking for El Dorado.
*20px|Spain Diego de Almagro (1475–1538), explorer and conquistador, first European arriving Chile.
*20px|Spain Juan Bautista de Anza (1736–1788), soldier and explorer, founded San Francisco, California.
*20px|Spain Fray Tomás de Berlanga (1487–1551), bishop of Panama, discovered the Galápagos Islands.
*20px|Spain Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, first European exploring southwestern United States (1527–1536), also explored South America (1540–1542).
*20px|Spain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499–1543), explorer, founded the city of San Diego, California.
*20px|Spain Cosme Damián Churruca (1761–1805), explorer, astronomer and naval officer, mapped the Strait of Magellan (1788–1789).
*20px|Spain Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), conquistador of old Mexico, explorer of Baja California Peninsula.
*20px|Spain Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476–1526), explorer and sailor, first man circumnavigating the World.
*20px|Spain Gaspar de Espinosa (1467/77?–1537), soldier and explorer, first European reaching the coast of Nicaragua, co-founder of Panama City.
*20px|Spain Miguel López de Legazpi (1502–1572), explored and conquered the Philippine Islands in 1565.
*20px|Spain Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), first to sight the Pacific Ocean, founding Darién.
*20px|Spain Juan de Oñate
*20px|Spain Francisco de Orellana, first European exploring the Amazonas river.
*Pedrarias Dávila (Pedro Arias de Ávila, 1440–1531), conquistador, founder of Panama and governor of Nicaragua.
*20px|Spain Martín Alonso Pinzón
*20px|Spain Francisco Pizarro (1471–1541), conqueror of the Inca Empire in Peru.
*20px|Spain Juan Ponce de León (1460–1521), first European exploring Florida (1513); he founded the first settlement in Puerto Rico (1508).
*20px|Spain Gaspar de Portolà (~1717–aft. 1784), explorer, founder of Monterey (California).
*20px|Spain Fray Junípero Serra — Priest and Explorer
*20px|Spain Hernando de Soto (1500–1542), explorer and conquistador, first European exploring the plains of eastern North America, discovered the Mississippi river and the Ohio river.
*20px|Spain Pedro de Valdivia

Film directors

*20px|Spain Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1949)
*20px|Chile 20px|Spain Alejandro Amenábar (b. 1972)
*20px|Mexico Alfonso Arau (b. 1932)
*20px|Argentina Adolfo Aristarain (b. 1943)
*20px|Argentina Eliseo Subiela (b. 1944)
*20px|Spain 20px|Mexico Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)
*20px|Spain Isabel Coixet (b. 1962)
*20px|Mexico Alfonso Cuarón (b. 1961)
*20px|Colombia Sergio Cabrera (b. 1950)
*20px|Colombia Victor Gaviria (b. 1955)
*20px|Colombia Felipe Aljure
*20px|Chile Juan Downey (1940–1993)
*20px|Spain Víctor Erice (b. 1940)
*20px|Spain José Luis Garci (b. 1944)
*20px|Spain Luis García Berlanga (b. 1921)
*20px|Mexico Alejandro González Iñárritu (b. 1963)
*20px|Chile Alexandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929)
*20px|Argentina León Klimovsky (1906–1996)
*20px|Spain Julio Medem (b. 1958)
*20px|Spain Paul Naschy (b. 1934)
*20px|Venezuela Franco de Peña (b. 1966)
*20px|Mexico Arturo Ripstein (b. 1943)
*20px|U.S.A. Robert Rodríguez (b. 1968)
*20px|Spain Carlos Saura (b. 1932)
*20px|Mexico Guillermo del Toro (b. 1964)
*20px|Peru Luis Llosa

Leaders and politicians

*20px|Costa Rica Óscar Arias Sánchez (b. 1940), statesman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1987).
*20px|Venezuela Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), Libertador and statesman, leader of the South American Wars of Independence.
*20px|Mexico Anastasio Bustamante (1780-1853), President of Mexico (1830–1832; 1837–1841).
*20px|Puerto Rico Pedro Albizu Campos (1891-1965 Orator, founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
*20px|Mexico Plutarco Elías Calles (1877–1945), founder of the PRI (1929); President of Mexico (1924–1928).
*20px|Cuba Fidel Castro (b. 1926), marxist revolutionary and Cuba's state ruler since 1959.
*20px|U.S.A. César Chávez (1927–1993) labor rights activist, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) trade union.
*20px|Spain Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517), cardinal, statesman, and regent of Spain.
*20px|Mexico Alfonso García Robles (1911–1991), diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1982).
*20px|Panama 20px|U.S.A. [[Charles Patrick Garcia|Charles Patrick
Garcia]] (b. 1961), Hispanic education leader, activist, author, businessman.
*20px|Argentina 20px|Cuba Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967), marxist revolutionary.
*20px|Spain Hadrian (76–138), Roman Emperor (117–138), under his orders Hadrian's Wall was built in Britannia.
*20px|Mexico Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811), cleric and statesman, chief instigator of Mexico's war of independence against Spain.
*20px|Spain Isabella of Castile (1451–1504), Queen of Spain.
*20px|Mexico Benito Juárez (1806–1872), President of Mexico (1961–1963; 1867–1872).
*20px|Spain Juan Carlos I (b. 1938), King of Spain (since 1975).
*20px|Spain Marcus Aurelius (121–180), Roman Emperor (161–180), the last one of the Five Good Emperors.
*20px|Cuba José Martí (1853–1895), writer and leader of the Cuban Independence movement.
*20px|Guatemala Rigoberta Menchú (b. 1959), activist, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1992).
*20px|U.S.A. Edward James Olmos (b. 1947), Hispanic causes activist.
*20px|U.S.A. Joe Ortega (b. 1949), Candidate for United States Congress from Ohio.
*20px|Peru Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (b. 1920), diplomat, United Nations Secretary-General (1982–1991).
*20px|Argentina Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (b. 1931), activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1980).
*20px|Argentina Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974), President of Argentina (1946–1952; 1952–1955; 1973–1974).
*20px|Argentina Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878–1959), academic and politician, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1936).
*20px|Argentina José de San Martín (1778–1850), Libertador and statesman, leader of the South American Wars of Independence.
*20px|Spain Trajan (53–117), Roman Emperor (98–117), under his rule the Empire reached its greatest territorial extent.
*20px|Mexico Pancho Villa (1878–1923), guerrilla leader of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917).
*20px|Mexico Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), leading figure of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917).

Literature

:See also List of Spanish language authors

A-D

*20px|Mexico 20px|Spain Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581?-1639), dramatist.
*20px|Spain Rafael Alberti (1902-1999), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1983).
*20px|Peru Ciro Alegría (1909-1967), novelist, journalist and politician.
*20px|Spain Vicente Aleixandre (1888–1984), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1977).
*20px|Chile 20px|U.S.A. Isabel Allende (b. 1942), best selling novelist.
*20px|Spain Dámaso Alonso (1898-1990), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1978).
*20px|U.S.A. Julia Álvarez (b. 1951), poet and novelist.
*20px|U.S.A. Rudolfo Anaya (b. 1937), novelist and playwright.
*20px|Peru José María Arguedas (1911-1969), novelist.
*20px|Argentina Roberto Arlt (1900–1942), short-story writer, novelist, and playwright.
*20px|Guatemala Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), Nobel Prize Laureate (1967).
*20px|Spain Francisco Ayala (b. 1906), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1991).
*20px|Spain Azorín (José Martínez Ruiz) (1863–1967), journalist, poet, novelist and essayist.
*20px|Spain Pío Baroja (1872-1956), novelist.
*20px|Peru Jaime Bayly (b. 1965), novelist and journalist.
*20px|Spain Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), romantic poet and tale writer.
*20px|Spain Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1922).
*20px|Uruguay Mario Benedetti (b. 1920), novelist and poet.
*20px|Argentina Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1990).
*20px|Spain Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), best-selling novelist, wrote The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916).
*20px|Chile Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1999).
*20px|Argentina Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979).
*20px|Peru Alfredo Bryce Echenique (b. 1939), novelist and short stories writer.
*20px|Spain Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000), playwright.
*20px|Cuba Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), novelist, essayist, translator, and critic, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1997).
*20px|Spain Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), playwright and poet.
*20px|Cuba Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1977).
*20px|Spain Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), poet.
*20px|Spain Camilo José Cela (1916–2002), novelist, Nobel Prize (1989) and Cervantes Prize Laureate (1995).
*20px|Spain Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), novelist, playwright and poet, author of Don Quixote (1605 and 1615).
*20px|U.S.A. Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), novelist and poet.
*20px|Argentina Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), novelist and short stories writer.
*20px|Mexico 20px|Spain Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/1651-1695), poet and dramatist.
*20px|Nicaragua Rubén Darío (1867-1916), modernist poet.
*20px|Puerto Rico Virgilio Dávila (1869-1943), poet.
*20px|Spain Miguel Delibes (b. 1920), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1993).
*20px|Spain Gerardo Diego (1896-1987), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1979).

E-H

*20px|Spain José Echegaray (1832–1916), dramatist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1904).
*20px|Chile Jorge Edwards (b. 1931), Cervantes Prize Laureate (1999).
*20px|Mexico Laura Esquivel (b. 1950), novelist.
*20px|Spain Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760–1828), dramatist and neoclassical poet.
*20px|Puerto Rico Rosario Ferré (b. 1938), poet and essayist.
*20px|Mexico Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928), novelist and essayist, Rómulo Gallegos (1977), Cervantes (1987) and Prince of Asturias (1994) awards Laureate.
*20px|Spain Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), novelist.
*20px|Venezuela Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969), novelist.
*20px|Spain Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), poet and dramatist.
*20px|Colombia Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1982).
*20px|Spain José García Nieto (1914-1999), poet and playwright, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1996).
*20px|Spain Luis de Góngora (1561-1627), lyric poet.
*20px|Spain Jorge Guillén (1893-1984), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1976).
*20px|Cuba Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989), poet.
*20px|Argentina José Hernández (1834–1886), poet and journalist, author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
*20px|Chile Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), poet, initiator of the Creacionismo movement.

I-L

*20px|Spain Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1956).
*20px|Spain John of the Cross (1542-1591), mystic poet.
*20px|Spain Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837), literary journalist.
*20px|Cuba José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), novelist.
*20px|Puerto Rico Luis Llorens Torres (1878-1944), poet.
*20px|Puerto Rico Luis López Nieves (b. 1950), best-selling novelist and tale writer.
*20px|Cuba Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1992).
*20px|Argentina Leopoldo Lugones (1874–1938), poet.
*20px|Spain Fray Luis de León (1527-1591), poet of the Spanish Golden Age.

M-P

*20px|Spain Antonio Machado (1875–1939), poet.
*20px|Uruguay Jorge Majfud (1969-2004), novelist and essayist.
*20px|Spain Javier Marías (b. 1951), novelist and translator, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1995).
*20px|Cuba José Martí (1853-1895), poet and essayist.
*20px|Spain Joanot Martorell (1413–1468), author of the first modern novel, Tirant lo Blanc (1490).
*20px|Chile Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1945).
*20px|Guatemala Augusto Monterroso (1921-2003), short stories writer, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (2000).
*20px|Spain Agustín Moreto y Cavana (1618–1661), dramatist and playwright.
*20px|Argentina Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1984), novelist, essayist, journalist and short stories writer; author of Bomarzo (1962).
*20px|Colombia Álvaro Mutis (b. 1923), Cervantes Prize (2001) and Prince of Asturias Awards Laureate (1997).
*20px|Chile Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (1971).
*20px|Mexico Amado Nervo (1870–1919), modernist poet.
*20px|Uruguay Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994), novelist and short-story writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1980).
*20px|Spain José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), essayist.
*20px|Mexico Fernando del Paso (b. 1935), novelist, essayist and poet, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (1982).
*20px|Mexico Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Cervantes Prize (1981) and Nobel Prize (1990) Laureate.
*20px|Spain Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. 1951), best-selling novelist and journalist.
*20px|Mexico Sergio Pitol (b. 1933), novelist, short stories writer and translator, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2005).
*20px|Mexico Elena Poniatowska (b. 1932), novelist.
*20px|Argentina Manuel Puig (1932-1990), novelist, author of The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976).

Q-T

*20px|Spain Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), novelist, essayist and poet, master of Conceptism.
*20px|Uruguay Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), short story writer.
*20px|Colombia José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928), poet and novelist.
*20px|Philippines José Rizal (1861–1896), poet, novelist and essayist.
*20px|Paraguay Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), novelist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1989).
*20px|Spain Fernando de Rojas (1465–1541), novelist, author of La Celestina (1499).
*20px|Chile Gonzalo Rojas (b. 1917), poet, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2003).
*20px|Spain Juan Ruiz (c.1283-c.1350), author of the epic poem Book of Good Love.
*20px|Mexico Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1983).
*20px|Argentina Ernesto Sabato (b. 1911), novelist and essay writer, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1984).
*20px|Mexico Jaime Sabines (1926–1999), poet.
*20px|Spain Pedro Salinas, (1891–1951), poet.
*20px|Argentina Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938), postmodernist poet.
*20px|Puerto Rico Piri Thomas (b. 1928), poet, influential in the Nuyorican Movement.
*20px|Spain Tirso de Molina (1571–1648), playwright.

U-Z

*20px|Spain Francisco Umbral (b. 1935), novelist, biographer and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (2000).
*20px|Spain Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1931), existentialist author and essayist.
*20px|Venezuela Arturo Uslar-Pietri (1906-2001), novelist, Prince of Asturias Award Laureate (1990).
*20px|Spain Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936), dramatist, novelist and member of the Generation of 98.
*20px|Peru César Vallejo (1892-1938), poet.
*20px|Colombia Fernando Vallejo (b. 1942), novelist, Rómulo Gallegos Prize Laureate (2003).
*20px|Peru Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), novelist and essayist, Cervantes Prize Laureate (1994).
*20px|Spain Garcilaso de la Vega (1501–1586), poet.
*20px|Peru 20px|Spain "El Inca" Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), first mestizo author in Spanish language.
*20px|Spain Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635), poet and playwright.
*20px|Mexico Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950), poet.
*20px|Mexico Gabriel Zaid (b. 1934), poet and essayist.
*20px|Spain María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1660), novelist.
*20px|Spain José Zorrilla y Moral (1817–1893), poet and dramatist, author of Don Juan Tenorio (1844).

Military

*20px|Spain Duke of Alba (Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 1507–1582), general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1567–1573).
*20px|Spain Don John of Austria (1547–1578), general and admiral; he defeated Ali Pacha in the Battle of Lepanto (1571).
*20px|Venezuela Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), military leader of the South American Wars of Independence.
*20px|Spain El Cid (Rodrigo 'Ruy' Díaz de Vivar, c.1045–1099), knight and hero.
*20px|U.S.A. David Farragut (1801–1870), admiral, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War.
*20px|Spain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, "El Gran Capitán" (1453–1515), general and strategist of Early modern warfare.
*20px|Spain Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786), Field Marshal and governor of Louisiana, Spanish hero of the American Revolution.
*20px|Peru Miguel Grau Seminario (1834–1879), admiral, hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos (1879) during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884).
*20px|U.S.A. Juan Ortega, U.S. military.
*20px|Chile Arturo Prat Chacón (1848–1879), Frigate Captain, hero of the Battle of Iquique (1879) during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884).
*20px|U.S.A. Angela Salinas, Brigadier General,U.S. Marine Corps, first Hispanic female general in the Marine Corps, first female commanding general of MCRD San Diego.
*20px|U.S.A. Ricardo S. Sánchez (b. 1953), Lieutenant General, former commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, commander of the U.S. V Corps and the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army.
*20px|Puerto Rico Pedro del Valle (1893–1978), first Hispanic in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps to reach the rank of Lieutenant General; served in WWI and WWII.

Musicians

*20px|Puerto Rico Raymond "Daddy Yankee" Ayala (b. 1977), successful reggaeton recording artist
*20px|U.S.A. Joan Baez (b. 1941), folk musician.
*20px|Puerto Rico 20px|U.S.A.Christopher "Big Punisher" Rios (1971-2001), successful Hip Hop artist
*20px|Puerto Rico Tego Calderon (b. 1972), successful reggaeton recording artist
*20px|U.S.A. Cedric Bixler-Zavala (b. 1974), rock musician.
*20px|U.S.A.Joesph "Fat Joe" Cartegena (b. 1970), successful Hip Hop recording artist
*20px|Spain 20px|U.S.A. Charo (b. 1941), singer, dancer and guitarist.
*20px|Spain Xavier Cugat (1900–1990), bandleader.
*20px|Puerto Rico Rafael Hernández (1892–1965), composer.
*20px|Mexico Agustín Lara (1900–1970), composer.
*20px|Cuba Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963), composer, pianist and conductor.
*20px|Spain Paco de Lucía (b. 1947), guitarist.
*20px|Mexico 20px|U.S.A.
Rudy (?) Martinez Lead singer of ? and the Mysterians
*20px|Argentina Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992), tango composer.
*20px|Puerto Rico Tito Puente (1923–2000), Latin jazz and mambo musician.
*20px|Puerto Rico Omar Rodríguez-López (b. 1975), guitarist.

*20px|Mexico 20px|U.S.A. Carlos Santana (b. 1947), composer, songwriter and guitarist.
*20px|Peru Alex Acuña (b. 1944), drummer and percussionist.
*20px|Argentina Lalo Schifrin (b. 1932), composer and pianist.
*20px|Argentina Lito Vitale (b. 1961), composer and performer.
*20px|Argentina Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908–1992), folk musician.

Classical

*20px|Spain Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), composer and pianist.
*20px|Chile 20px|U.S.A. Claudio Arrau (1903–1991), pianist.
*20px|Argentina Daniel Barenboim (b. 1942), pianist and conductor.
*20px|Spain 20px|Puerto RicoPablo Casals (1876–1973), cello player and conductor.
*20px|Spain Manuel de Falla (1876–1946), composer.
*20px|Spain Enrique Granados (1867–1916), composer.
*20px|Venezuela Eduardo Marturet (b. 1953), conductor and composer.
*20px|Mexico Eduardo Mata (1942–1995), conductor and composer.
*20px|Spain Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999), composer and pianist.
*20px|Spain Andrés Segovia (1893–1987), guitarist.
*20px|Spain Antonio Soler (1729–1783), composer.
*20px|Spain Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909), composer and guitarist.
*20px|Spain Joaquín Turina (1882–1949), composer.
*20px|Spain Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611), Renaissance musician.

*Opera singers
*20px|Peru Luigi Alva (b. 1927), tenor.
*20px|Spain Victoria de los Ángeles (born 1923), soprano.
*20px|Puerto Rico Antonio Barasorda, tenor.
*20px|Spain Teresa Berganza (born 1935), mezzo-soprano.
*20px|Argentina Fabiana Bravo, soprano.
*20px|Spain Montserrat Caballé (born 1933), soprano.
*20px|Spain Emma Calvé (1858-1942), soprano.
*20px|Spain José Carreras (born 1946), one of The Three Tenors.
*20px|Argentina José Cura (b. 1962), tenor.
*20px|Puerto Rico Justino Diaz, tenor.
*20px|Spain Plácido Domingo (born 1941), one of The Three Tenors.
*20px|Peru Juan Diego Flórez (born 1973), tenor.
*20px|Spain Manuel del Popolo García (1775–1832), tenor.
*20px|Spain María Gay (1879–1943), mezzo-soprano.
*20px|Spain Alfredo Kraus (1927–1999), tenor.
*20px|Puerto Rico Antonio Paoli (1871-1947, tenor.
*20px|Spain Adelina Patti (1843-1919), coloratura soprano.
*20px|Mexico David Portilla (1933–2006), tenor.
*20px|Puerto Rico Ana Maria Martinez, soprano

Singers

*20px|U.S.A. Christina Aguilera (b. 1980), pop singer-songwriter
*20px|Philippines Pilita Corrales (b. 1939) Folk music singer.
*20px|Peru Yma Súmac (b. 1922), Exotica singer.
*20px|Puerto Rico Lucecita Benitez (b. 1940), singer-songwriter.
*20px|Spain Miguel Bosé (b. 1956), pop singer.
*20px|Puerto Rico Nydia Caro (b. 1955)
*20px|Cuba Celia Cruz (1924–2003), salsa singer.
*20px|Puerto Rico José Feliciano (b. 1945), singer-songwriter.
*20px|Puerto Rico Luis Fonsi (b. 1978)
*20px|Mexico Juan Gabriel (born 1950), ranchera and ballad singer-songwriter.
*20px|Spain Manolo García (b. 1955), singer-songwriter.
*20px|Argentina Carlos Gardel (1890–1935), tango singer.
*20px|Spain 20px|Philippines Enrique Iglesias (born 1975), pop singer.
*20px|Spain Julio Iglesias (born 1943), pop singer.
*20px|Mexico Pedro Infante (1917–1957)
*20px|Chile Víctor Jara (1932–1973), singer-songwriter.
*20px|Colombia Juanes (b. 1972), singer-songwriter.
*20px|U.S.A. Jennifer López (b. 1969)
*20px|Puerto Rico Marc Anthony (b. 1969), singer-songwriter.
*20px|Puerto Rico Ricky Martin (b. 1971)
*Menudo|Menudo, world famous boy band, all members are Hispanics.
*20px|U.S.A. Christina Milian (b. 1981)
*20px|Puerto Rico Ednita Nazario (b. 1955)
*20px|Mexico Jorge Negrete (1911–1953)
*20px|Spain Nino Bravo (1944–1973)
*20px|Spain Raphael (b. 1943), pop singer.
*20px|Spain Joaquín Sabina (b. 1949), singer-songwriter.
*20px|Spain Alejandro Sanz (b. 1968), pop/ballad singer.
*20px|U.S.A. 20px|Mexico Selena (1971–1995), pop singer.
*20px|Spain Joan Manuel Serrat (b. 1943), Catalan singer-songwriter.
*20px|Colombia Shakira (b. 1977), Latin Pop singer and songwriter.
*20px|Peru Eva Ayllón (b. 1956), Afro peruvian singer and composer.
*20px|Spain Enrique Urquijo (1960–1999), New Wave music singer.
*20px|Puerto Rico Eric West (b. 1982), pop singer and actor.
*20px|Peru Gianmarco Zignago (b. 1970), pop singer and composer.

Philosophers and humanists

*20px|Argentina Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810–1884), political theorist.
*20px|Spain Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284), El Sabio ("The Learned").
*20px|Spain Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126–1198), philosopher, tried to reconcile Aristotle's system of thought with Islam (see Averroism).
*20px|Venezuela 20px|Chile Andrés Bello (1781–1865), humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist.
*20px|Argentina Mario Bunge (b. 1919), philosopher, author of the Treatise on Basic Philosophy (8 volumes, 1974–1989).
*20px|Colombia Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), humanist, linguist and politician.
*20px|Colombia Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911), philologist and linguist.
*20px|Spain Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658), author of El Criticón, influenced European philosophers such as Schopenhauer.
*20px|Peru Gustavo Gutiérrez (b. 1928), theologian and dominican priest, founder of the Liberation theology.
*20px|Puerto Rico Eugenio Maria de Hostos, philosopher, writer.
*20px|Argentina José Ingenieros (1877–1925), philosopher, sociologist and science theoretician.
*20px|Spain Isidore of Seville (560–636), major scholar of the early Middle Ages, wrote Etymologiae, first encyclopedia known to be compiled in western civilization.
*20px|Mexico Enrique Krauze (b. 1947), historian, political and social essayist and publisher.
*20px|Mexico Manuel de Landa (b. 1952), philosopher, professor at Columbia University.
*20px|Spain Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566), humanist, advocate of the rights of Native Americans.
*20px|Spain Ramón Llull (1235–1315), philosopher, writer and theologian; author of Ars magna (1305), a system of logic that influenced Leibniz.
*20px|Spain Ignatius of Loyola (1491?–1556), theologian, founder of the Society of Jesus.
*20px|Spain Maimónides (1135-1204), the most influential figure in medieval Jewish philosophy.
*20px|Spain Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher, author of History of Philosophy
*20px|Chile Humberto Maturana (b. 1928), major proponent of the embodied philosophy.
*20px|Spain Antonio de Nebrija (1441-1522), scholar, published the first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática Castellana, 1492), which was the first grammar produced of any Romance language.
*20px|Mexico Edmundo O'Gorman (1906–1995), philosopher.
*20px|Spain José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), philosopher, social and political theorist, author of The Revolt of the Masses (1930).
*20px|Spain George Santayana (1863–1952), philosopher, taught at Harvard, author of The Sense of Beauty (1896) and The Life of Reason (1905-6).
*20px|Spain Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC–AD 65), one of the main stoic philosophers.
*20px|Spain Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), one of the most influential scholastics after Thomas Aquinas.
*20px|Spain Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), existentialist writer and literary theoretician.
*20px|Chile Francisco Varela (1946–2001), major proponent of the embodied philosophy.
*20px|Mexico José Vasconcelos (1882–1959), thinker, educator and essayist.
*20px|Spain Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540), prominent figure of Renaissance humanism, taught at Leuven and Oxford (while tutor to Mary Tudor).

Science and technology

*20px|Puerto Rico Joseph M. Acaba ( b. 1967), First Puerto Rican astronaut
*20px|Spain José de Acosta (1540–1600), one of the first naturalists and anthropologists of the Americas.
*20px|Argentina Luis Agote (1868–1954), physician and researcher, first doctor in Latin America to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant.
*20px|Puerto Rico Ricardo Alegría (b. 1921), physical anthropologist, pioneer in the anthropolic studies of the Taino culture.
*20px|Spain José María Algué (1856–1930), meteorologist, inventor of the barocyclometer, the nephoscope, and the microseismograph.
*20px|U.S.A. Luis Álvarez (1911–1988), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate (1968).
*20px|Spain Arzachel (1028–1087), mathematician and the foremost astronomer of his time; contributed to the famous Tables of Toledo.
*20px|Spain Avenzoar (1090?–1162), physician, he was teacher of Averroes.
*20px|Venezuela 20px|U.S.A. Baruj Benacerraf (b. 1920), immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1980).
*20px|Peru Carlos Bustamante (b. 1951), named one of the best scientists in the United States by Time Magazine, winner of several awards.
*20px|Spain Ángel Cabrera (1879–1960), naturalist, investigated the South-American fauna.
*20px|Spain Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), physicist, did important work on the theories of crystal growth and the oxidisation of metals.
*20px|Argentina 20px|U.S.A. Fernando Caldeiro (b. 1958), NASA astronaut.
*20px|Mexico Nabor Carrillo Flores (1911-1967), nuclear physicist.
*20px|Spain Juan de la Cierva (1895–1936), aeronautical engineer, pioneer of rotary flight, inventor of the autogyro.
*20px|Puerto Rico Nitza Margarita Cintron (b. 1950), chief of NASA's (JSC) Space and Health Care Systems Office.
*20px|Spain Josep Comas i Solá (1868–1937), astronomer, discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solá and 11 asteroids; in 1907 observed limb darkening of Saturn's moon Titan (the first evidence that the body had an atmosphere).
*20px|Venezuela Jacinto Convit (b. 1913), medical scientist, discoverer of vaccines against leprosy and leishmaniasis.
*20px|Costa Rica 20px|the United States Franklin Chang-Diaz ( b.1950), NASA astronaut who flown seven spaceflights
*20px|Spain Pedro Duque (b. 1963), Spanish astronaut who flown two spaceflights.
*20px|Spain Fausto de Elhúyar (1755–1833), chemist, joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Juan José de Elhúyar in 1783.
*20px|Argentina René Favaloro (1923–2000), cardiologist, he created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (1967).
*20px|Spain Jaime Ferrán (1852–1929), doctor and researcher, discovered several vaccines.
*20px|Puerto Rico Orlando Figueroa (b. 1955), Director for Mars Exploration and Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters.
*20px|Cuba Carlos Finlay (1833–1915), medical scientist, prominent researcher on the yellow fever disease.
*20px|Mexico Guillermo González Camarena (1917–1965), inventor of an early color television transmission system.
*20px|Cuba Juan Gundlach (1810–1896), naturalist and taxonomist; over sixty species were named after him.
*20px|Mexico Guillermo Haro (1913–1988), astrophysicist, made many important contributions to observational Astronomy.
*20px|U.S.A. Sidney Gutierrez (b. 1951), NASA astronaut.
*20px|Spain Francisco Hernández (1517–1587), botanicist, carried out important research about the Mexican flora.
*20px|U.S.A. Jose Hernandez (b. 1962), NASA astronaut.
*20px|Argentina Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1947).
*20px|Mexico Miguel de Icaza (b. 1972), free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
*20px|Spain Carlos Jiménez Díaz (1898–1967), doctor and researcher, leading figure in pathology.
*20px|Argentina Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate (1970).
*20px|Spain 20px|U.S.A Michael Lopez-Alegria (b. 1958), NASA astronaut.
*20px|Chile Humberto Maturana (b. 1928), biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis.
*20px|Argentina César Milstein (1927–2002), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1984).
*20px|Mexico Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), chemist, co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive (1951).
*20px|Mexico Mario J. Molina (b. 1943), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate (1995).
*20px|Spain Narcís Monturiol (1818–1885), physicist and inventor, pioneer of underwater navigation and first machine powered submarine.
*20px|Spain José Celestino Bruno Mutis (1732–1808), botanicist, doctor, philosopher and mathematician, carried out relevant research about the American flora, founded one of the first astronomic observatories in America (1762).
*20px|Mexico Rodolfo Neri Vela (b. 1952), Ph.D., NASA payload specialist and astronaut.
*20px|Peru 20px|U.S.A. Carlos I. Noriega (b. 1959), NASA astronaut.
*20px|Spain 20px|U.S.A. Severo Ochoa (1905–1993), doctor and biochemist, achieved the synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1959).
*20px|U.S.A. Ellen Ochoa (b. 1958), Ph.D., deputy director of flight crew operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
*20px|Spain 20px|France Mateu Orfila (1787–1853), doctor and chemist, father of modern toxicology, leading figure in forensic toxicology.
*20px|Spain Joan Oró (1923–2004), biochemist, carried out important research about the origin of life, he worked with NASA on the Viking missions.
*20px|Colombia Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (b. 1947), pathologist, works on improving a vaccine for malaria.
*20px|Spain Isaac Peral (1851–1895), engineer and sailor, designer of the first fully operative military submarine.
*20px|Cuba Felipe Poey (1799–1891), zoologist, specialist in ichthyology.
*20px|Spain Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), father of Neuroscience, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1906).
*20px|Spain Julio Rey Pastor (1888–1962), mathematician, leading figure in geometry.
*20px|Spain 20px|Mexico Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), geologist and chemist, discovered vanadium (as vanadinite) in 1801.
*20px|Spain Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945), neuroscientist, discoverer of the microglia or Hortega cell.
*20px|Puerto Rico Wilfredo Santa-Gómez, psychiatrist.
*20px|Spain Miguel Servet (1511–1553), scientist, surgeon and humanist; first European to describe pulmonary circulation.
*20px|Cuba Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez ( b. 1942), First Cuban cosmonaut
*20px|Peru Julio C. Tello ( b. 1988), archaeologists, pioneer in the studies of the Inca an Chavín culture
*20px|Spain Esteban Terradas i Illa (1883–1950), mathematician, physicist and engineer.
*20px|Spain Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852–1936), engineer and mathematician, pioneer of automated calculation machines, inventor of the automatic chess, pioneer of remote control, designer of the funicular over the Niagara Falls.
*20px|Spain Josep Trueta (1897–1977), doctor, his new method for treatment of open wounds and fractures helped save a great number of lives during WW2.
*20px|Spain Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795), scientist, soldier and author; joint discoverer of element platinum with Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773).
*20px|Chile Francisco Varela (1946–2001), biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis.
*20px|Chile Klaus von Storch (b. 1962), Chilean aerospace engineer.

Social scientists

*20px|Spain Manuel Castells (b. 1942), sociologist, author of the well-known trilogy The Information Age.
*20px|United Kingdom Felipe Fernández-Armesto (b. 1950), historian, professor at Oxford, QMUL and Tufts, author of several popular works of history such as Millennium (1995).
*20px|Spain Salvador Giner (b. 1934), sociologist, he had researched on social theory, sociology of culture and modern industrial society.
*20px|Argentina Tulio Halperin (b. 1926), historian.
*20px|Puerto Rico Eugenio María de Hostos (1839–1903), educator and sociologist.
*20px|Spain Jesús Huerta de Soto (b. 1956), major Austrian School economist.
*20px|Mexico Miguel León-Portilla (b. 1926), anthropologist and historian, prime authority on Nahuatl thought and literature.
*20px|Spain Juan José Linz (b. 1926), Sterling Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale; Prince of Asturias Award (1987) and Johan Skytte Prize (1996) Laureate.
*20px|Spain Xavier Sala-i-Martín (b. 1963), economist, professor at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.
*20px|Spain Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (1893–1984), historian, prominent specialist in medieval Spanish history.
*20px|Peru Hernando de Soto (b. 1941), economist, known for his work on the informal economy.
*20px|Spain Joseph de la Vega (1650–1692), businessman, wrote Confusion of Confusions (1688), first book on stock markets.

Sports

*Athletics
**20px|Spain Fermín Cacho Ruiz (b. 1969), 1,500m Gold (1992 Olympics) and Silver (1996 Olympics) medalist.
**20px|Cuba Iván Pedroso (b. 1972), long jump Gold medalist: 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001 World Champion, and 2000 Olympic Champion.
**20px|Cuba Javier Sotomayor (b. 1967), high jump Gold (1992 Olympics) and Silver (2000 Olympics) medalist; World Recordman (since July 23, 1993).

*Baseball
**20px|Venezuela Luis Aparicio (b. 1934), Major League shortstop; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
**20px|Puerto Rico Roberto Clemente (1934–1972), Major League right fielder, NL MVP Award winner (1966).
**20px|Dominican Republic José Reyes (b. 1983), Major League shortstop.
**20px|U.S.A. Alex Rodríguez (b. 1975), Major League shortstop-third baseman.
**20px|Mexico Fernando Valenzuela (b. 1960), Major League pitcher.

*Basketball
**20px|Puerto Rico Carlos Alberto Arroyo (b. 1979), Detroit Pistons point guard.
**20px|Spain Pau Gasol (b. 1980), Memphis Grizzlies player, 2001-02 NBA Rookie of the Year Award winner.
**20px|Argentina Emanuel "Manu" Ginóbili (b. 1977), NBA Champion (with San Antonio Spurs, 2003 and 2005) and Olympic Champion (with Argentina, 2004).

*Boxing
**20px|Puerto Rico 20px|U.S.A. Wilfred Benítez (b. 1958), World Champion in three separate weight divisions, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame since 1996.
**20px|Spain Pedro Carrasco (1943–2001), 1971 WBC's World Lightweight Champion.
**20px|Spain Javier Castillejo (b. 1968), six-time WBC's World Jr. Middleweight Champion.
**20px|Argentina Jorge Castro (b. 1967), World middleweight Champion.
**20px|Mexico Julio César Chávez (b. 1962), World Champion (5 titles in 3 different divisions).
**20px|Argentina Juan Martin Coggi (b. 1961), three time WBA's World Jr. Welterweight Champion.
**20px|Panama Roberto Durán (b. 1951), World Champion (6 titles in 4 different divisions); first hispanic to be four time World Champion.
**20px|Argentina Víctor Galíndez (1948-1980), World light heavyweight Champion.
**20px|Puerto Rico Wilfredo Gómez (1956), three time World Champion.
**20px|U.S.A. Óscar de la Hoya (b. 1973), six time World Champion; Gold medalist at the 1992 Olympics.
**20px|Argentina Carlos Monzón (1942-1995), World middleweight Champion.
**20px|Peru Orlando Romero (b. 1960), one of South America's top ranked Lightweights during the 1980s.
**20px|Puerto Rico John Ruiz (b. 1972), two-time WBA's World Heavyweight Champion.
**20px|Puerto Rico Félix Trinidad (b. 1973), World Champion.

*Chess
**20px|Peru Esteban Canal (1896–1981), his most famous game is called the Peruvian Immortal.
**20px|Cuba José Raúl Capablanca (1888–1942), International Grandmaster, World Champion (1921–1927).
**20px|Spain Ruy López de Segura (1530–1580).

*Cycling
**20px|Spain Federico Martín Bahamontes (b. 1928), 1959 Tour de France winner.
**20px|Colombia Luis "Lucho" Herrera (b. 1961), 1987 Vuelta a España winner.

**20px|Colombia Santiago Botero (b. 1972), 2002 World Time-Trial Champion.
**20px|Spain Pedro Delgado (b. 1960), 1988 Tour de France winner.
**20px|Spain Óscar Freire (b. 1976), 3 times World Cycling Champion (1999, 2001, 2004).
**20px|Spain Roberto Heras (b. 1974), 4 times Vuelta a España winner (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005).
**20px|Spain Miguel Indurain (b. 1964), 5 consecutive times Tour de France winner (1991-1995).
**20px|Spain Luis Ocaña (1945–1994), 1973 Tour de France winner.
**20px|Spain Joane Somarriba (b. 1972), 3 times Grande Boucle winner (2000, 2001, 2003).

*Football (Soccer)
**20px|Philippines Paulino Alcántara (1896 - 1964), former FC Barcelona Footballer.
**20px|Peru Héctor Chumpitaz (b. 1944), named to the list of best World Cup players of all time.
**20px|Argentina 20px|Spain Alfredo Di Stéfano (b. 1926), 5 consecutive times European Champion (with Real Madrid, 1956–1960; scored 49 goals).
**20px|Argentina Diego Armando Maradona (b. 1960), FIFA best football player of the century (people's choice in 2000).
**20px|Spain Raúl González (b. 1977), all-time leading goal scorer in UEFA Champions League.
**20px|Peru Nolberto "Nobby" Solano (b. 1974), plays for Newcastle United

*Golf
**20px|Spain Severiano Ballesteros (b. 1957), 5 Major Championships winner; World Golf Hall of Famer (1997).
**20px|Puerto Rico Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez (b. 1935), 8 PGA Tour and 22 Champions Tour titles winner; World Golf Hall of Famer (1992).
**20px|Spain Sergio García (b. 1980), 6 PGA Tour and 6 European Tour titles winner.
**20px|Spain José María Olazábal (b. 1966), 2 Masters Tournaments winner.
**20px|U.S.A. Lee Treviño (b. 1939), 6 Major Championships winner; World Golf Hall of Famer (1981).

*Motor sports
**20px|Spain Fernando Alonso (b. 1981), 2005 Formula One World Champion.
**20px|Spain Álex Crivillé (b. 1970), 500cc GP motorcycle racing World Champion (1999).
**20px|Argentina Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995), five times Formula One World Champion.
**20px|Venezuela Carlos Lavado (b. 1956), 250cc GP motorcycle racing World Champion (1983 and 1986).
**20px|Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya (b. 1975), Formula One driver.
**20px|Spain Ángel Nieto (b. 1947), GP motorcycle racing rider, 12+1 times World Champion.
**20px|Spain Daniel Pedrosa (b. 1985), youngest GP motorcycle racing World Champion of 125cc and 250cc.
**20px|Spain Carlos Sainz (b. 1962), 1990 and 1992 World Rally Champion.

*Tennis
**20px|Spain Sergi Bruguera (b. 1971), 1993 and 1994 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Spain Álex Corretja (b. 1974), 1998 ATP Tour World Champion.
**20px|Spain Álbert Costa (b. 1975), 2002 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Spain Juan Carlos Ferrero (b. 1980), 2003 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Argentina Gastón Gaudio (b. 1978), 2004 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Spain Andrés Gimeno (b. 1937), 1972 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Ecuador Andrés Gómez (b. 1960), 1990 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|U.S.A. Pancho Gonzales (1928–1995), 4 Grand Slam titles winner (2 singles, 2 doubles).
**20px|Spain Conchita Martínez (b. 1972), 1994 Wimbledon Women's Singles Champion.
**20px|Spain Carlos Moyà (b. 1976), 1998 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Argentina David Nalbandian (b. 1982), 2005 Tennis Masters Cup Champion.
**20px|Spain Rafael Nadal (b. 1986), 2005 and 2006 French Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Peru 20px|U.S.A. Alex Olmedo (b. 1936), 3 Grand Slam titles winner (2 singles, 1 doubles).
**20px|Spain Manuel Orantes (b. 1949), 1975 U.S. Open Men's Singles Champion.
**20px|Mexico Rafael Osuna (1938–1969), 4 Grand Slam titles winner (1 singles, 3 doubles).
**20px|Spain Virginia Ruano (b. 1973), 8 Grand Slam Doubles titles winner.
**20px|Argentina Gabriela Sabatini (b. 1970), 1990 US Open Women's Singles and 1988 Wimbledon Women's Doubles Champion.
**20px|Spain Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario (b. 1971), 10 Grand Slam titles winner (4 singles, 6 doubles).
**20px|Spain Manuel Santana (b. 1938), 5 Grand Slam titles winner (4 singles, 1 doubles).
**20px|Argentina Paola Suárez (b. 1976), 8 Grand Slam Doubles titles winner.
**20px|Argentina Guillermo Vilas (b. 1952), 4 Grand Slam Singles titles winner.

Others

*20px|Peru 20px|U.S.A. Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998), New Age and Shamanism author.
*20px|U.S.A. Jesús Chavarría, Founder & CEO of Hispanic Business-a multimedia company that caters to people of Latin heritage and successful Hispanics/Latinos in various career fields
*20px|Spain Joaquín Cortés (b. 1969), dancer.
*20px|Argentina Enrique Gratas, television journalist.
*20px|Peru María Julia Mantilla García (b. 1983), Miss World 2004.
*20px|Peru Gladys Zender (b.1940), first Hispanic Miss Universe 1957.
*20px|Spain Juan Pujol, alias Garbo (1912–1988), double-agent who played a key role in the success of D-Day towards the end of WW2.
*20px|Puerto Rico Denise Quiñones (b. 1980), Miss Universe 2001.
*20px|Puerto Rico 20px|U.S.A. Geraldo Rivera (b. 1943), television journalist.
*20px|Mexico Ricardo Salinas Pliego (b. 1956), businessman.
*20px|U.S.A. María Elena Salinas, television journalist.
*20px|Spain Juan Sánchez Vidal (b. 1958), renowned collector.
*20px|Mexico Carlos Slim Helú (b. 1940), businessman, Latin America's richest man and #3 in the world (according to Forbes 2006 ranking).
*20px|Spain Saint Teresa of Avila (1515–1582), Roman Catholic mystic and monastic reformer.
*20px|Spain Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), Grand Inquisitor.

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*20px|Bolivia Bolivians
*20px|Chile Chileans
*20px|Colombia Colombians
*20px|Costa Rica Costa Ricans

*20px|Cuba Cubans
*20px|Dominican Republic Dominicans
*20px|Ecuador Ecuadorians
*20px|Guatemala Guatemalans
*20px|Honduras Hondurans

*20px|Mexico Mexicans
*20px|Nicaragua Nicaraguans
*20px|Panama Panamanians
*20px|Paraguay Paraguayans
*20px|Peru Peruvians

*20px|Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans
*20px|El Salvador Salvadorans
*20px|Spain Spaniards
*20px|U.S.A. U.S.A. Hispanics
*20px|Uruguay Uruguayans

*20px|Venezuela Venezuelans
*20px|United Nations List of people by nationality


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