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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 ...
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 ...
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) pays tribute to the contributions and culture of Latinx and Hispanic people. To commemorate the occasion, here are 54 of the most influential ...
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 ...
Chances are, your high school history teacher skipped right over this Hispanic hero, who played a big role in the Revolutionary War. Born in Spain in 1746, Gálvez had a successful career in the ...
José González Rubio (1804–1875) – Roman Catholic friar prominent in the early history of California. Peter Morales – President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, elected in 2009. Morales is the first Latino president. He is of Mexican and Spanish descent. David Arias Pérez – Spanish-born Recollect friar in the United States.
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we took a look at some of those influential figures who have brought important innovations to a variety of fields.
Mimi Lozano (born 1933) – co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research; Angel G. Luévano (born 1949) – labor leader and activist; Rueben Martinez (born 1940) – activist and businessman; Vilma Socorro Martínez (born 1943) – civil rights activist, lawyer and diplomat; Eliseo Medina (born 1946) – labor activist