A
list of notable Latinos
Alicia Alonso
1921-
Cuban ballerina
|
B ALO
|
Roberto Clemente
1934-1972
Baseball player
|
B CLE
|
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1928-2014
Columbian novelist
|
B GAR
|
Juan Felipe Herrera
1948-
artist and poet
|
B HER
|
Benito Juarez
1806-1872
Mexican president
|
B JUA
|
Gabriela Mistral
1889-1957
Chilean children’s author and poet who won Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1945
|
B MIS
|
Ellen Ochoa
first Hispanic American astronaut
|
B OCH
|
Pele
1940-
international soccer star from Brazil
|
B PEL
|
Selena Perez
1971-1995
Tejano musician
|
B PER
|
Tito Puente
April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000
Mambo musician
|
B Pue
|
Diego Rivera
1886-1957
Mexican painter known for his large wall murals
|
B RIV
|
Cristiano Ronaldo
1985
Portuguese soccer player
|
B RON
|
Sonia Sotomayor
1954-
US Supreme Court Justice
|
B SOT
|
Emma Tenayuca
1916-1999
fought for Mexican-American justice
|
B TEN
|
Pancho Villa
1878-1923
General in the Mexican Revolution
|
B VIL
|
