List of Afro–Puerto Ricans

List

• Juan Boria - poet reciter of the Afro-Caribbean genre of poetry.
• Andres "Dres" Vargas Titus - lead rapper of the alternative hip hop duo Black Sheep
• Randy Ariel Ortiz Acevedo - reggaetón artist, member of the duo "Jowell y Randy"
• David Luciano Acosta - reggaetón artist, known as "Baby Ranks"
• Ángel Aguilar - rapper
• Carlos Alomar - guitarist
• Cayetano "Tite" Curet Alonso - composer of over 2,000 salsa songs
• Alani "La La" Anthony - entertainer and actress, MTV VJ
• Carmelo Anthony - former professional basketball player
• Rick Avilés - actor and comedian
• Lloyd Banks - rapper
• Dr. José Celso Barbosa - medical physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico, statehood advocate, first Puerto Rican with a US medical degree
• Dr. Pilar Barbosa - educator, historian and political activist
• Jean-Michel Basquiat - Neo-expressionist painter and artist
• Pura Belpré - first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City
• Wilfred Benítez - boxer; won world championships in three separate weight divisions; youngest world champion in boxing history
• Ángela Bofill - jazz and R&B singer
• Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances - doctor, abolitionist, revolutionary, poet, and independence advocate, regarded as "El Padre de la Patria" (Father of the Nation)
• Iván M. Calderón - boxer
• Iván P. Calderón - Major League Baseball player
• Tego Calderón - reggaetón artist
• Jasmine Camacho-Quinn - 110-meter hurdles record holder and Olympic gold medallist
• José Campeche - Puerto Rican rococo artist
• Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos - politician and former leader of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, which advocated for independence
• Juan Morel Campos - composer of danza
• Dr. José Ferrer Canales - educator, writer, pro-independence political activist
• Maidel Amador Canales - reggaetón artist, known as "La Sista"
• Irene Cara - singer and actress
• Ashley Ann Cariño - second black woman to compete in Miss Universe beauty pageant as Miss Puerto Rico
• Eladio Carrión - rapper
• Desiree Casado - former actress
• Orlando "Peruchín" Cepeda - baseball player, inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee
• Pedro "Perucho" Cepeda - baseball player, father of Orlando, considered one of the greatest players of his generation
• Rafael Cepeda - folk musician and composer; patriarch of the Cepeda family; Afro–Puerto Rican folk music, especially bomba. Related to Pedro and Orlando Cepeda
• Nero Chen - professional boxer
• Roberto Clemente Walker - baseball player, first Latin American to be selected and the only current Hall of Famer for whom the mandatory five-year waiting period was waived
• Roberto Clemente Jr. - baseball broadcaster and former baseball player.
• Carlos Colón - former WWE wrestler
• Carlito - WWE wrestler; son of Carlos Colon
• Jesús Colón - writer and politician, known as the "father of the Nuyorican Movement"
• Michelle Marie Colón - first black woman to compete in Miss Universe beauty pageant as Miss Puerto Rico
• Willie Colon - NFL player
• Willie Colón - salsa musician
• Celestina Cordero - educator, established the first school for girls in San Juan
• Rafael Cordero - known as the "father of public education in Puerto Rico"; self-educated man who provided free schooling to children regardless of race. Brother of Celestina Cordero
• Ismael Cruz Córdova - actor, played Mando on Sesame Street
• Maritza Correia - first Afro–Puerto Rican to be on the USA Olympic swimming team; first black US swimmer to set an American and world swimming record
• Rafael Cortijo - percussionist, bandleader, plena artist, and composer
• Caitlin Cosme - soccer player
• Eva Cruz - volleyball player
• Víctor Cruz - NFL wide receiver for New York Giants
• Wilson Cruz - actor and advocate for gay youth of color
• Javier Culson - track and field runner, Olympic bronze medalist who specializes in the 400 metre hurdles
• Eddie Dee - reggaetón artist
• Neil Degrasse Tyson - astrophysicist
• Carlos Delgado - baseball player, Major League Baseball first baseman
• Rubén Díaz Sr. - politician
• Rubén Díaz Jr. - politician, former NYC borough president for the Bronx
• Iann Dior - rapper
• Gloria Douglas – soccer player
• Thomas Dulorme - professional boxer
• Nino Escalera - baseball player, first Hispanic in the Reds franchise
• Ángel Espada - boxer; the WBA's world Welterweight champion in 1975–76
• Jaime Espinal - professional wrestler
• Lucy Fabery - jazz singer, known as "La Muñeca de Chocolate"
• Antonio Fargas - actor, known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation movies
• Justin Fargas - NFL running back, son of Afro Puerto Rican actor Antonio Fargas
• José "Cheo" Feliciano - New York-based composer and singer of "salsa" and bolero music
• Ruth Fernández - singer and actress; first Latina singer of romantic music to sing in the Scandinavian countries; first Latina to record with a North American band
• Dr. Loida Figueroa - historian, writer, educator, and one of the founders of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party’s Pro-Independence Movement (MPI)
• Rogelio Figueroa - engineer, politician, and president of the Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party
• Pedro Flores - composer of ballads and boleros
• Destiny Nicole Frasqueri - rapper, known as Princess Nokia
• Kevin Gates - rapper
• Rubén Gómez - Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher; first Puerto Rican to pitch in a World Series game
• Reagan Gómez-Preston - actress
• Herbert Lewis Hardwick, aka "Cocoa Kid" - boxer; won the world colored welterweight and world colored middleweight championships; inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012
• Yvonne Harrison - track and field runner
• Joseline Hernandez - known as "The Puerto Rican Princess" - television reality star, rapper, actress.
• Juano Hernández - actor; first Afro–Puerto Rican to become a major star in the US and among the "new style" black screen actors, who played straight dramatic roles
• Keylla Hernández - television reporter, former co-anchor of the station's morning news show ″Noticentro al Amanecer″
• Rafael Hernández Marín - musician, bandleader, and composer; wrote, among thousands of other songs, Lamento Borincano
• Aideliz Hidalgo - first black woman to compete in Miss International beauty pageant as Miss Puerto Rico
• Homicide - professional wrestler formerly for TNA.
• Rafael Ithier - salsa musician and the principal founder of the highly successful orchestra El Gran Combo
• Reginald Martínez Jackson - Hall of Fame baseball player, known as "Mr. October"
• Esteban De Jesús - boxer, first to defeat Roberto Durán
• Miriam Jiménez Román - author, activist, and scholar
• Rafael José - actor, singer, television host
• Erick Kolthoff - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
• Tato Laviera - poet
• Benjamín LaGuer - US soldier and convicted criminal
• Enrique A. Laguerre - novelist and newspaper columnist; "La llamarada" is considered to be his most important novel
• Alfred Lee - basketball player, first Puerto Rican to play in NBA and to win an NBA championship as a member of the 79-80 Los Angeles Lakers
• Isabel la Negra - known as "la Negra"; madame of a brothel
• Ryan López - soccer player
• Felipe Luciano - poet, radio personality, and pro-independence activist
• Young M.A - American hip hop artist
• Eddie Manso - politician, former mayor of Loíza and member of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico
• Jan Mateo - soccer player
• Sonia Manzano - actress
• Bruno Mars - singer and songwriter
• Alpo Martínez - convicted criminal, previously known as "Mayor of Harlem"
• Maxwell - singer
• Syesha Mercado - singer
• Rogelio Mills - television host
• Jerome Mincy - basketball player
• Bryant Myers - rapper
• Rico Nasty - rapper
• Emilio "Millito" Navarro - baseball player; first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the Negro leagues
• N.O.R.E. - rapper
• Osvaldo "Ossie" Ocasio - boxer
• Denise Oliver-Vélez - activist, community organizer, professor, feminist, and former member of the Young Lords and the Black Panther Party
• Don Omar - reggaetón artist
• Fres Oquendo - professional heavyweight boxer
• Anita Ortega - former athlete; UCLA, LAPD, Western States Police and Fire Games and Los Angeles City Section Halls of Fame
• Claudette Ortiz - model and R&B singer
• Joell Ortiz - rapper
• Ortiz - wrestler
• Ozuna - reggaetón artist
• Edwin Pellot - retired basketball player
• Víctor Pellot - baseball player; second black Puerto Rican to play in Major League Baseball; first Puerto Rican to play in the American League
• Willie Perdomo - poet, writer
• Mikey Perfecto - reggaetón artist
• Myke Towers - rapper and singer
• Miguel José Pérez Sr. - former wrestler, best known for 1/2 of the Tag Team with Antonio Rocca and World Wrestling Council
• Miguel José Pérez Jr. - current WWE wrestler, son of Miguel José Pérez Sr.
• Gabriel "Lennox" Pizarro - reggaetón artist, member of the duo 'Zion y Lennox'
• Reagan Gomez-Preston - American television film and voice actress
• Tito Puente - singer
• Robert Quinn - NFL football player
• Adolfo Quiñones - actor, dancer, and choreographer
• Ivy Queen - reggaetón artist
• Adolfo "OG Black" Ramírez - reggaetón artist, member of the duo "Master Joe & OG Black"
• Ernesto Ramos Antonini - President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico and co-founder of the "Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico" (Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico)
• Heliot Ramos - professional baseball player
• Henry Ramos - professional baseball player
• Héctor Ramos - soccer player
• Gina Ravera - actress
• Gabriela Rose Reagan - former actress, and daughter of Sonia Manzano
• Carmen Belén Richardson - actress and comedian; pioneer of Puerto Rican television
• Vanessa del Río - adult film actress
• Christopher Lee Rios Jr. - rapper, son of Big Pun
• Ismael Rivera - salsa artist and singer
• Lance Rivera - film director, film producer and record executive
• Mon Rivera - musician
• Naya Rivera - singer and actress
• Victor Rivera -wrestler
• Aida Rodríguez - comedian, actress
• Gloria Rodríguez - rapper, known as "Hurricane G"
• Johnny Rodríguez - wrestler
• Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez - salsa singer
• Pedro Rosa Nales - journalist, news anchor/reporter; has received over 200 awards
• Zoe Saldaña - actress
• Mike Santana - wrestler
• O. J. Santiago - NFL football player, tight end
• Manny Santiago - skateboarder
• Víctor Santiago Jr. - rapper, known by the stage name "N.O.R.E."
• Rubén Santiago-Hudson - actor and playwright, born and residing in the US
• Mayra Santos-Febres - writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and college professor
• Arturo Alfonso Schomburg - historian, writer and pro-Puerto Rican independence activist in New York City; researched and raised awareness of Afro-Latin American and African American history and contributions
• Brandon Servania - soccer player
• Jaden Servania - soccer player
• Rafael "Lito" Sierra - reggaetón artist, member of duo "Lito y Polaco"
• Rubén Sierra - former Major League Baseball player
• Tasha Steelz - professional wrestler
• Pedro Telemaco - first black actor featured as leading man in a Puerto Rican telenovela
• Piri Thomas - writer, author of Down These Mean Streets
• Georgie Torres - basketball player, played for the BSN league of Puerto Rico; holds scoring record
• José "Chegüi" Torres - boxer, light heavyweight champion; inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame
• Ritchie Torres – U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district
• Félix "Tito" Trinidad - professional boxer, world boxing champion
• Marcelo Trujillo - politician, former mayor of Humacao and member of the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico
• Rafael Tufiño - painter and printmaker, known locally as the "Painter of the People"
• JLo Varada - soccer player
• Daniel "Divino" Velázquez - reggaetón artist
• Idelys Vázquez – soccer player
• Lauren Vélez - actress
• Loraine Vélez - actress
• Savio Vega - former WWE wrestler
• Zelina Vega - WWE wrestler
• Juan Evangelista Venegas - boxer; first Puerto Rican to win an Olympic medal
• Christina Vidal - actress
• Lisa Vidal - actress
• Sylvia del Villard - actress, dancer, choreographer and political activist
• Otilio "Bizcocho" Warrington - comedian and actor, best known for roles of "Bizcocho" and "Cuca Gómez"
• Bernie Williams - former Major League Baseball outfielder; professional jazz musician
• Marcos Xiorro - slave; in 1821, planned and conspired to lead a slave revolt against the sugar plantation owners and the Spanish Colonial government in Puerto Rico
• Pedro Zayas - rapper and former member of State Property, known as "Peedi Crakk"

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