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Many Portuguese Americans may include descendants of Portuguese settlers born in Africa (like Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique) and Asia (mostly Macanese people), as well Oceania (Timor-Leste). There were around one million Portuguese Americans in the United States by 2000.
José Joaquim Almeida (1777–1832) Portuguese-born American naturalized corsair who fought in the Anglo-American War of 1812 and the War of Independence of Argentina. Cheryl Ann Araujo (1961–1986) Portuguese-American rape survivor whose case became national news, and was the basis of the 1988 film The Accused.
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States of Portuguese ethnic or national origin or descent, whether partial or full. The main article for this category is Portuguese Americans .
[193] [194] [195] Her mother was born in Zambia to an English diplomat father, David Joy, and a Spanish mother from Barcelona. [196] Hispanic Americans, like many immigrant groups before them, are out-marrying at high rates. Out-marriages comprised 17.4% of all existing Hispanic marriages in 2008. [197]
Hispanus was the Latin name given to a person from Hispania during Roman rule.The ancient Roman Hispania, which roughly comprised what is currently called the Iberian Peninsula, included the contemporary states of Spain, Portugal, and Andorra, and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar but excluding the Spanish and Portuguese overseas territories of Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Açores ...
American emigrants to Portugal (6 P) Pages in category "Portuguese people of American descent" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
International speakers of English generally refer to people from the United States as Americans while equivalent translations of American are used in many other languages, namely Italian (americano), Dutch (Amerikaan), Afrikaans (Amerikaner), Japanese (アメリカ人, rōmaji: amerika-jin), Filipino (Amerikano), Hebrew (אמריקני or אמריקאי), Arabic (أمريكي), Portuguese ...
José Marti Ceda Marte, Dominican-born Americanbaseball player; José Dimas Cedeño Delgado, Panamanian Catholic bishop, Bishop of Veraguas, then Archbishop of Panamá; Juan C. Centeno, Puerto Rican-born American baseball player; José Domingo Cervantes Padilla, Mexican professional football player