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Brenda K. Starr (born 1966), salsa singer (Puerto Rican mother) Michael Stuart (born 1975), salsa singer. Sweet Sensation, freestyle trio. T. Nedra Talley (born 1946), singer, member of " The Ronettes ", who were inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 [ 305 ] Olga Tañón (born 1967), singer, composer.
List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors. Juan Ponce de León II, c. 1581, arguably the first Puerto Rican scientist. Orlando Figueroa. Amri Hernandez-Pellerano. Fermín Tangüis. Miriam Rodon-Naveira. This article is part of a series on the. Science and technology of the. United States of America.
Roberto Cofresí y Ramírez de Arellano [a] [b] (June 17, 1791 – March 29, 1825), better known as Pirata Cofresí, was a Puerto Rican pirate. He was born into a noble family, but the political and economic difficulties faced by the island as a possession of the Spanish Empire during the Latin American wars of independence meant that his household was poor.
Mariana Bracetti Cuevas (also spelled Bracety) (July 26, 1825 – February 25, 1903) was a patriot and leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement.In 1868, she knitted the Grito de Lares flag that was intended to be used as the national emblem of Puerto Rico in its first of two attempts to overthrow Spanish rule, and to establish the island as a sovereign republic.
The Taíno ("Taíno" means "peace", [2] were peaceful seafaring people and distant relatives of the Arawak people of South America. [3][1] Taíno society was divided into two classes: Nitaino (nobles) and the Naboria (commoners). Both were governed by chiefs known as caciques, who were the maximum authority in a Yucayeque (village).
Nationality. Puerto Rican. Occupation (s) cultural anthropologist and archeologist. Spouse. Carmen Pons. Children. 1. Ricardo E. Alegría Gallardo[a] (April 14, 1921 – July 7, 2011) was a Puerto Rican scholar, cultural anthropologist and archaeologist known as the "father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology ".
History of Puerto Rico. Map of the departments of Puerto Rico during Spanish provincial times (1886). The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the Ortoiroid people before 430 BC. At the time of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1493, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the Taínos.
The maximum estimates for Jamaica and Puerto Rico are 600,000 people. [22] A 2020 genetic analysis estimated the population to be no more than a few tens of thousands of people. [84] [85] Spanish priest and defender of the Taíno, Bartolomé de las Casas (who had lived in Santo Domingo), wrote in his 1561 multi-volume History of the Indies: [86]