List of Hispanic and Latino Americans

This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Hispanic America or Spain. The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American, Panamanian American, Salvadoran American, Argentine American, Bolivian American, Chilean American, Colombian American, Ecuadorian American, Paraguayan American, Peruvian American, Spanish American, Uruguayan American, and Venezuelan American. However, Hispanic or Latino people can have any ancestry.

Architects

 * Monica Ponce de Leon - first Hispanic architect to receive the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian; has received over 12 Progressive Architecture Awards and the Design Award Medal from the Academy of Arts and Letters; first Hispanic dean at the University of Michigan

Baseball
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 * 🇲🇽 Jorge Cantú - MLB infielder
 * Johnny Estrada - MLB catcher
 * 🇲🇽 Brian Fuentes - MLB relief pitcher, three-time All-Star

Basketball

 * 🇺🇾 Esteban Batista, NBA player

Boxing

 * 🇲🇽 Bobby Chacon - boxer
 * 🇲🇽 Delia Gonzalez - boxer
 * 🇸🇻 Carlos Hernández - boxer
 * 🇲🇽 Sergio Mora - boxer

Football

 * Raul Allegre - NFL placekicker
 * Leo Barker - retired NFL linebacker
 * Tony Casillas - retired NFL defensive lineman
 * 🇲🇽Joe Kapp - retired NFL quarterback
 * 🇲🇽 J. P. Losman - NFL quarterback
 * Max Montoya - retired NFL guard
 * Zeke Moreno - former NFL linebacker
 * 🇲🇽 Anthony Muñoz - retired NFL offensive guard, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame

Gymnasts

 * 🇵🇷 John Orozco - bronze medal gymnast
 * 🇵🇷 Laurie Hernandez

Politics

 * Alex Blanco – politician, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey
 * Fernando Cabrera – New York City Council member
 * Nelson Castro – politician from the state of New York
 * Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez – 65th Secretary of State of New York, serving in the Cabinet of Governor David Paterson
 * Marcos Devers – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
 * Grace Diaz – politician, Democratic State Representative from Rhode Island representing District 11 in the city of Providence, Rhode Island
 * Adriano Espaillat – member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Rafael Espinal – politician who won the open 54th district seat in the New York State Assembly in a special election held on September 13, 2011
 * Julissa Ferreras – Democratic member of the New York City Council
 * William Lantigua – politician in Massachusetts, Dominican born and raised
 * Guillermo Linares – Dominican Democratic member of the New York State Assembly
 * Miguel Martinez – former New York City Council member from Council District 10 in Upper Manhattan in New York City
 * Joseline Peña-Melnyk – politician, represents District 21 in the Maryland House of Delegates
 * Geovanny Vicente Romero – Hispanic political analyst, Professor and international consultant based in Washington, D.C.
 * Cesar A. Perales – Secretary of State of New York currently serving in the Cabinet of Governor Andrew Cuomo
 * Thomas Perez – Democratic National Committee Chairman, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, US Secretary of Labor-designate; parents are Dominicans
 * Ydanis Rodríguez – currently a Democratic New York City Council member from the borough of Manhattan
 * Angel Taveras – lawyer and mayor of Providence, Rhode Island; of Dominican descent; first Hispanic mayor of the city
 * Carmen J Piñeyro - is the only Dominican elected official in Long Island. She is currently a Democratic Trustee in the Village of Freeport, New York.

Martial artists

 * 🇲🇽 Nick Diaz - UFC / mixed martial arts

Models

 * 🇵🇷 Melanie Iglesias
 * 🇨🇴 Sofia Vergara

Musicians

 * 🇲🇽/🇺🇸Baby Bash - rapper of Mexican and Anglo descent
 * 🇲🇽/🇺🇸Becky G - rapper of Mexican American descent
 * 🇨🇺/🇺🇸Gloria Estefan - Cuban-American singer
 * 🇲🇽/🇺🇸Kap G - hardcore rapper who performs trap music
 * 🇵🇷/🇺🇸Jennifer Lopez - international Puerto Rican singer
 * 🇨🇺/🇺🇸Pitbull - Cuban American hip hop musician from Miami, Florida
 * 🇩🇴/🇺🇸Prince Royce - Latin R&B singer born to Dominican parents
 * 🇲🇽/🇺🇸Selena (1971-1995) - Tejano singer
 * 🇨🇴Shakira - singer, known for single "Hips Don't Lie" which reached number 1 in the American Billboard Hot 100 and across the world; other singles include "Whenever, Wherever", "She Wolf" and "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)"
 * 🇨🇺/🇺🇸Lauren Jauregui - Cuban-American pop singer
 * 🇨🇺/🇲🇽/🇺🇸Camila Cabello - Mexican-Cuban-American pop singer
 * 🇲🇽/🇺🇸Ally Brooke - Mexican American pop singer

Scientists

 * Martha E. Bernal (1931-2001), Mexican-American clinical psychologist, first Latina to receive a psychology PhD in the United States
 * Antonia Novello (1944-), Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States, first woman and first Hispanic to hold the position
 * Sarah Stewart (1905-1976), Mexican-American microbiologist; discovered the Polyomavirus
 * Helen Rodríguez Trías (1929-2001), Puerto Rican American pediatrician, advocate for women's reproductive rights
 * Lydia Villa-Komaroff (1947-), Mexican-American cellular biologist; third Mexican American woman in the United States to receive a PhD in the sciences
 * Rodolfo Llinas (1934-) Colombian American neuroscientist.

Soccer

 * 🇲🇽 Ivan Becerra - soccer forward for Columbus Crew
 * 🇲🇽 Carlos Bocanegra - footballer who plays for Rangers

Writers

 * Miguel Algarín (1941-) - Puerto Rican author and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café
 * Rudolfo Anaya (1937-) - Mexican-American author of Bless Me, Ultima
 * Sandra Cisneros (1954-) - Mexican-American author of The House on Mango Street
 * Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-) - Puerto Rican author of Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
 * Angie Cruz (1972-) - Dominican-American author of Let It Rain Coffee
 * Alberto Rios (1952-) - Mexican-American poet, Arizona's first poet first state poet laureate
 * Benjamin Alire Sáenz (1954-) - Mexican-American author of Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
 * Sergio Troncoso (1961-) - Mexican-American author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays