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This is a list of famous or notable people from the Dominican Republic. The list also includes individuals of Dominican ancestry who reside overseas. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The National Palace is the president's official workplace, the center of the administration, and a prominent symbol of the office.. Since independence in 1844, the Dominican Republic has counted 54 people in the presidential office, whether constitutional, provisional, or interim, divided into 66 periods of government.
The following list of painters from the Dominican Republic (in alphabetical order by last name) includes painters of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Dominican Republic, of Dominican descent, or who produce works that are primarily about the Dominican Republic.
It includes Dominican saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since the founder of the Dominicans, Dominic de Guzmán , was canonised in 1234, there have been 69 other Dominicans canonised and many more beatified.
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez (January 26, 1813 – July 15, 1876) [1] was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic and bears the title of Father of the Nation.
Sonia Báez-Hernández (born 1958), Dominican-born Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist. Ada Balcácer (born 1930), multidisciplinary visual artist, whose artistic production ranges from painted works, textile designs, murals, and printmaking; born in Santo Domingo
Since 1956 a large number of baseball players of Dominican origin have played in Major League Baseball in the United States, with the Dominican Republic being the second country in the world after the United States with the most current baseball players in MLB.
In 1944, she was named Goodwill Ambassador of Latin American countries to the United States in the so-called Good Neighbor policy. In 2009 the Santo Domingo metro in the Dominican Republic named their main terminus Station Maria Montez. Shortly after her death, a street in the city of Barahona, Montez's birthplace, was named in her honor. [61]