List of Afro-Latinos

This list is incomplete;

Many Brazilians, Dominicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Panamanians, Hondurans, Mexicans, and other Latinos can fall under this label. 95% of the Africans who came into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade were scattered about Latin America and the Caribbean. The very first Africans to reach the New World arrived on the island of Hispaniola, which is the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Dominicans and Haitians are descendants of the first African slaves in the New World, yet the majority of Africans to inhabit any North American nation inhabited Brazil. Only 5% of the Africans to arrive in the Americas went to North America, who are the African Americans, descendants of the last and the fewest Africans to reach the New World.

Pop Smoke – American rapper of Afro-Panamanian descent

40 Cal (stage name) – Calvin Alan Byrd, is an American rapper. A member of Harlem-based hip-hop group The Diplomats.

Elizabeth Acevedo – poet

David Ortiz – Dominican baseball player

Miguel Algarín – poet

Tatyana Ali – American actress and singer. Known for her role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Roberto Alomar – former Major League Baseball player, regarded highly as a second baseman.

Laz Alonso – American film and television actor. Known for playing Tsu’tey in James Cameron’s science fiction film Avatar and Fenix Calderon in the film Fast & Furious.

Anitta (stage name) – Larissa de Macedo Machado, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, businesswoman.

Carmelo Anthony – American professional basketball player, lasted played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. Was named an NBA All-Star ten times and an All-NBA Team member six times.

La La Anthony – disc jockey, television personality and actress

Karamo Brown

Taís Araújo – Brazilian actress and model

Eva Ayllón – composer and singer

AZ – rapper

Cardi B – rapper

Josefina Báez – performance artist, theater director, poet, educator, and writer

Lloyd Banks – rapper

Ivan Barias – Dominican music producer and songwriter

Jean-Michel Basquiat – artist, musician

Swizz Beatz – rapper, producer

Aloe Blacc – American singer and songwriter

Elijah Blake – singer-songwriter

Ariana Brown – poet

Julia de Burgos – poet and activist for Puerto Rican independence

Ursula Burns – business executive

Miguel Cabrera – Venezuelan baseball player

Ilia Calderón – journalist

Tego Calderón – reggaeton singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor

Mariah Carey – vocalist and actor

John Carlos – former track and field champion, famous for his 1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Matt Cedeño – actor and former model

Orlando Cepeda – former Puerto Rican baseball player

Hugo Chavez – former Venezuelan President

Roberto Clemente – former Puerto Rican baseball player

Jesús Colón – author, founder of Nuyorican movement

Kid Cudi – musician

Celia Cruz – Cuban-American salsa singer and performer

Victor Cruz – football player, former NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants

Wilson Cruz – actor

Sammy Davis, Jr. – entertainer

Rosario Dawson – actress, singer and writer

Melissa De Sousa – actress

Sylvia del Villard – actress, dancer, choreographer and activist

Carlos Delgado – former Puerto Rican baseball player

Kat Deluna – musician

Graciela Dixon – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Panama[1]

Rudy Duthil – advertising executive

Lil Pump – rapper

Dave East – rapper

Alfred Enoch – actor

Adriano Espaillat – New York congressman

Sandra María Esteves – poet

Fabolous – rapper

Antonio Fargas – actor

Cheo Feliciano – Puerto Rican singer of salsa and bolero music

Leonel Fernández – former President of the Dominican Republic

Tony Fernández – former Dominican baseball player

Juan Flores – historian, professor, Afro-Latino Studies scholar

Shaggy Flores – poet and writer

Arian Foster – football player, NFL running back for the Houston Texans

Antonio Fresco – disc jockey, record producer and radio personality

Kevin Gates – rapper

Gilberto Gil – Brazilian singer, political activist and former Minister of Culture

Aracelis Girmay – poet

Renée Elise Goldsberry – actress

Meagan Good – actress and director

Herizen Guardiola – actress and singer

Gunplay – rapper

Edward W. Hardy – composer and musician

Severiano de Heredia – Cuban-born French politician, president of the municipal council of Paris from 1879 to 1880, first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital

Gwen Ifill – journalist, television newscaster and author

Ro James – singer

Erick Kolthoff – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Lisa Lopes – member of R&B girl group TLC

Amara La Negra – singer

Toña la Negra – singer

Tato Laviera – poet

Jorge Lendeborg Jr.;– actor

Selenis Leyva – actress

Sessilee Lopez – model

Faizon Love – actor and comedian

Héritier Lumumba – Australian footballer of Afro-Brazilian descent

La Lupe – singer

Maluca Mala – singer and rapper

EJ Manuel – NFL quarterback

Juan Marichal – former Dominican baseball pitcher

Pedro Martínez – former Dominican baseball pitcher

Tony Medina – poet and songwriter

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez – poet

Miguel – singer-songwriter

Christina Milian – singer and actress

Ethelbert Miller – writer and poet

Minnie Miñoso – former Cuban baseball player

Carlos Moore – Cuban writer, journalist and activist

Aja Monet – poet

Benny Moré – Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter

Nancy Morejón – Cuban poet, critic, essayist

Lamorne Morris;– Actor

Rico Nasty – rapper

N.O.R.E. – rapper

Amaury Nolasco – actor

Soledad O’Brien – broadcast journalist, executive producer and philanthropist

Don Omar – reggaeton singer-songwriter and actor

Ozuna (surname) – Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado is a Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin Trap singer

Johnny Pacheco – Dominican musician, creator of the Fania All-Stars, coined the term “Salsa”

Peedi Peedi – rapper

Tony Peña – former Dominican baseball player

Willie Perdomo – writer and poet

Rosie Perez – actress, dancer, choreographer, director and community activist

Miguel Piñero – playwright and poet, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café

Dascha Polanco – actress

Albert Pujols – Dominican baseball player

Dania Ramirez – actress

Manny Ramirez – Dominican baseball player

Charles Rangel – former New York congressman

Judy Reyes – actress

Lais Ribeiro – model

Mychal Rivera – football player, tight end, Oakland Raiders

Naya Rivera – actress

Alex Rodriguez – Dominican-American baseball player

Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez – Puerto Rican salsa singer

Zoe Saldana – actress

Manny Sanguillén – former Panamanian baseball player

Juelz Santana – rapper

Mayra Santos-Febres – poet

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg – Puerto Rican historian, writer, and Afro-Latino activist in the United States; founder of the Schomberg Center for Black Research

Luis Guillermo Solís – Costa Rican president and mulatto

Arlenis Sosa – model

Sammy Sosa – former Dominican baseball player

Vince Staples – rapper

Cecilia Tait – politician and former volleyball player

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez – Cuban cosmonaut

Lorenzo Thomas – poet

Piri Thomas – creative writer

Tessa Thompson – American actress

Melody Thornton – singer-songwriter and dancer

Luis Tiant – former MLB starting pitcher, Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox

Gina Torres – actress

Trina – rapper (Dominican father)

María Urrutia – former weightlifter, athlete and politician

Salvador Valdés Mesa – First Vice President of Cuba, former trade union leader, Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba

Amirah Vann – actress

Lauren Velez – actress

Tristan Wilds – actor and singer

Juan Williams – journalist and political analyst

Joaquín Zihuatanejo – poet

Jose Acevedo -Venezuelan Track Athlete