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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.
García was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Spanish parents and later relocated to Mexico. [1] He was the son of Spanish exiles from the Spanish Civil War who received refuge in the country during the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. His father was a Spanish Republican combat aviator named Andrés García La Calle. [2]
Kathleen Teresa Martínez Berry (born 1966) is a Dominican lawyer, archaeologist, and diplomat, best known for her work since 2005 in the search for the tomb of Cleopatra in the Taposiris Magna temple in Egypt. She heads the Egyptian-Dominican mission in Alexandria and is currently minister counselor in charge of cultural affairs at the ...
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.
Born in Santa Lucía, [3] El Seibo, to a Dominican father (of Russian, Serbian, Montenegrin, French and Spanish ancestry [4] [7]), and a Spaniard mother (her mother was an attorney from Asturias, Spain who found herself exiled during the regime of Francisco Franco). At an early age, her mother took her and her sister to Spain after breaking up ...
Firelei Báez (born 1981), Dominican-born American artist known for intricate works on paper and canvas, as well as large scale sculpture; born in Santiago de los Caballeros and lives in New York City. Sonia Báez-Hernández (born 1958), Dominican-born Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist.
She is of Dominican and Lebanese descent (Gilmore Girls, That's So Raven). Tina Aumont (1946–2006) – actress; Lourdes Benedicto – actress of Filipino/Dominican Republic descent; Elvis Nolasco – American actor of Dominican descent, American Crime; Vladimir Caamaño – Dominican-American actor and stand-up comedian
Flag of the Dominican Republic. This is an alphabetical list of notable baseball players from the Dominican Republic who have played in Major League Baseball since 1950 . Players in bold are still active in MLB, as of 2022.