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This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Latin America or Spain. [1] The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": [2] Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American ...
This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is ...
Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher; wrote the History of Philosophy Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), philologist, historian and erudite member of Generation of '98 Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522), scholar, published the first grammar of the Spanish language ( Gramática Castellana , 1492), which was the first grammar produced of ...
Pío Pico (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) – last Governor of Alta California (now the State of California) under Mexican rule; Margarita Prentice (1931–2019) – former member of the Washington Senate and the Washington House of Representatives; Miguel A. Pulido (born 1956) – Mayor of Santa Ana, California
The history of Hispanics and Latinos in the United States is wide-ranging, spanning more than four hundred years of American colonial and post-colonial history. Hispanics (whether criollo, mulatto, afro-mestizo or mestizo) became the first American citizens in the newly acquired Southwest territory after the Mexican–American War , and ...
Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba (1795–1874) – Wealthy New Orleans-born aristocrat, businesswoman and real estate developer, and one of the most dynamic personalities of that city's history. John Arrillaga (1937–2022) – real estate businessman; John Casablancas (1942–2013) – American modeling agent and scout. He is credited ...
Amado Nervo José Clemente Orozco Diego Rivera David Alfaro Siqueiros Rufino Tamayo. Mauricio Alejo, artist-photographs and videos [1]; Manuel Álvarez Bravo, photographer; recipient, 1984 Hasselblad Award
These Hispanics make up 12,579,626 people or 3.8% of the population. Over 42% of Hispanic Americans identify as "some other race". [81] Of all Americans who checked the box "Some Other Race", 97 percent were Hispanic. [82] These Hispanics make up 26,225,882 people or 42.2% of the Hispanic population.