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First Puerto Rican female athlete to turn professional, [56] first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal, and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. [57] Lisa Fernández, softball player. Olympic gold medalist. Maritza Correia, athlete. First black Puerto Rican woman in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team.
She was the first Puerto Rican female doctor to serve under contract in the U.S. Army during World War I. During the war, Piñero helped establish a hospital in Puerto Rico which took care of the soldiers who had contracted the swine flu. [58] Many women also worked as nurses, bearing the burden of improving public health on the island.
María Bibiana Benítez (1783–1873), Puerto Rico's first female poet, playwright; Giannina Braschi (born 1953), novelist, poet, essayist, playwright; Julia de Burgos (1914–1953), acclaimed poet, activist
Amanda Serrano (born October 9, 1988) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and mixed martial artist. [2] As a boxer, she is the unified featherweight world champion, having held the WBO title since 2019, IBO title since 2021 and the WBA title since 2023.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (born 21 August 1996) [5] is a Puerto Rican [6] [7] [8] track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles.At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she became the first Puerto Rican of Afro-Latino descent and the second person representing Puerto Rico to win a gold medal.
As of July 2007, five Puerto Rican female soldiers have died while serving in the armed forces of the United States. Four deaths were combat-related and one was during a training exercise. They were: SPC Frances M. Vega (September 2, 1983 – November 2, 2003) was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from Antilles High School.
Nicholasa Mohr (born 1938), writer; her works, among which is the novel Nilda, tell of growing up in the Bronx and El Barrio and of the difficulties Puerto Rican women face in the United States; [124] [125] in 1973, became the first Hispanic woman in modern times to have her literary works published by the major commercial publishing houses ...
Danitza Fernanda Vázquez Maccarini (born April 25, 2000 in Caguas, Puerto Rico) [1] is a chess player from Puerto Rico.After winning the Central American and Caribbean U20 Girls Championship in El Salvador in 2013, [2] she was awarded by FIDE the title Woman International Master (WIM), becoming the youngest one in the world at the time.